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RERUN: Aurora Gaming vs BetBoom Team - IEM Cologne Major 2026 - Quarterfinal
08-20-2026 · 14h 40m
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Expectations of a brawl here today between these two.
The first time for nine players in that lancest arena. Who makes the exception?
A former champ leads his team from stage one to the big stage.
And it starts on Nuke.
He's going to be forced off half by one of these.
Yeah, okay, LaCardia.
Quick decisions to make.
He does try to push the bullets down range to the dares, deals with him all and down
the vent.
Dastard took to go for a vent drop on your t-pistol.
Offline's trying to cut him off with the pass here.
Okay, you're right. Sulflight at least there.
Flamus has got one on site.
He knows where Woxic was,
because he's found two on that P2K.
Down the vent. Sulflight's between rotations.
They don't know where the bomb's gone.
They've lost him.
We're now segregated.
Woxic's contributions have equalized what was
a heavy advantage for Betboom.
Has he got more? Oh, an opportunity.
Whistles one pass the ear.
This is how you gain your stage legs, winning rounds like these, that slow agonising mid
round pressure on the T side as that clock runs thin.
There should be a good bomb down here with these.
40 seconds, we'll hit the clock in a moment's time, they're not wary.
What's around the corner, door swings open, sound cue given, bomb gets punched in and
now the rotation is on, soul flight.
a rookie quick on the secret descent and walks it down the vent.
Boomage, stays proactive towards the decon door.
Partnered up, walks it in soft light, will announce their presence with a swing at the doors.
Okay, time continues to tick. Boomage getting cheeky.
Making his move, fires off a bullet and a warning shot. Flammus low HP.
This could get weird with the doors now closed.
They click it on that diffuser, don't forget, ten second.
forced to fake it out, trying to draw attention, Flamers playing that waiting game, he knows the glock's on their side
Oh, and that's the headshot to see, there it is, backburn, take pistol
So they've been struggling with all major, long, it hasn't cost them though
Stage one, stage two, stage three, and now the playoffs, who would have thought it?
Couldn't ask for a better start as well, kill distribution, teammates
And look, it got a little bit messy there, and Woxic double bringing the back of the contention
I did with event drop, but something that I think that they're a very good at, it's because they're a mix, is
playing out these mid rounds.
None of that seems a little bit crazy, but their responses are never set. They're having a piece, everything together.
The officials that these boys have with this five-man roster are only here in Cologne.
We've got a force fight back from Aurora. Woxic on the scalp. They're gonna take a tag or two in yard.
He can't be snappy on the sniper.
SMGs as well, so...
tucked in top, ready for a pop and it's just Maga towards ramp.
This week he door smoked a fade, here comes the Util.
Yes, MGS supports that pop, it's off like completely unprepared.
How quickly does the site force Lama's double entry, Maga!
Four Lobby!
He's got Boomish to contend with.
Does find damage but the support is there.
Attila does.
With double.
And this force by Getzavora nowhere nice pick up from Woxic from heaven but now his position noted
He's getting hunted from behind a magnitude
Sponsored on that fan perfect close remove everything away from Aurora. Okay, it'll be the eco now from the Turks
Right now for both teams. It's about overcoming the environment same game same maps different setting
I mean, I thought Aurora have struggled with these arena games.
Today would be the perfect time to overcome that.
Yes, an opportunity against Beppe.
Team of faces who you're familiar with, maybe you're not.
It's Burmese who leads the charge here.
Really big performance from him in stage three.
We've got some tables invested upon.
Let's see if Magic can find a head.
He does to live a nice find on to Zorty.
Heavy mirage back and an opportunity for more.
Magnetjes isn't playing scared, that's what you wanna see.
Noses an unarmored Deagle just takes the peek.
And he's been playing some great counter-strike
throughout the major run.
And then Flammez with lighting up the scoreboard.
What, six turn?
Rumble's off a shot and that boom.
They have to take the space as they're hoping for.
There's still grounds for this to get a bit uncomfortable.
Ryan of the Deagle headshot,
Just like that.
And suddenly he starts sweating.
Pressure amplified.
He's like May.
There's Dilladez, a claw back onto Zatarez.
Wow, Loxic.
His work on the side arm has been stunning.
Anticipates this close of the gap.
Boomish gives it a go.
Double manner, boom.
And Wakadia, swinging off.
Oh, he's hit the headshot necessary.
Can you do it, Wakadia?
He's got the aim.
He's got the opportunity up against the experience of Boomage.
Two bullets, sees him explode!
And we're caught here!
This is the fire!
This is the future of Turkish Counter Strike.
Getting started early.
Holy!
That's what you want to see.
That's a deco.
This man's been playing lights out.
That's a deco.
Desert Eagle finding the head.
The push through the smoke is so ambitious
and he walks in onto Boom.
Back in his aim, there's just two bullets.
Doesn't even worry about the reload, and Madge loves the way that one feels.
This is what you need to see, and this is the fire starter.
Money, not great for Bevin with the buyback.
Couple of AKs at Galeel and to just drop grades.
Ag-ag early.
Oxy's been able to get that sniper out, so you see him in combination
with Zintares on the yard holds.
It's half-light, the major rookie will be tested over towards ramp as the anchor.
We've got Madge and Wakadia in combination, locking down A bit yard.
The smoke falls on it in, it's supposed to be taken by Magnetjes and he has a tail here,
the bomb is part of his cross.
GATS, MAGNETJES, GARL LONG RANGE THROUGH THE TIP OF THE SMOKE!
So Flies rotated down to plug this gap.
As the supporters and Tarros who's rotated over as well, so too strong on B, to Wox
it's Orp that's repositioned. Flammus and Boomage have to breach this.
With the tech 9, if you miss that first, you can get run down Flammus.
He's got the movement, he's got some support and a miss shot from Woxic has to dip away, concedes the space.
There's plenty of it, isn't there? Look at this, they're all moving.
If they ever get up heaven, they might try and call the bomb back up the vent.
So still with plenty of time on the clock, there's an opportunity for these rotations.
Uh-oh, scary for Woxic now. He's only got one bullet and it's Orp, he's getting run out by those side-arms.
does peek on in. Boom goes down on the reload surely that's tempting to go for it. Flammus
does, finds him, removes him, Zintara is trapped on the dark corner and Flammus takes his head
off. I'm not a 1v2 but is he ready for another body up close? Fake. Wiccardia does swing
it open confirms he's off the bomb. Magic coming in should have an opportunity here
on the crouch and Flammus sees him behind the site. That's that. Magic bowls him
over. Team effort really. Wiccardia the only man that doesn't feature in that
round. Beautiful stuff there for him. Watzig picks the opener, gets the information on the
cross, the rotations well on and they do get the bomb down. I should see partial by territory
for them here. It was a good use of his last bullet. He stood his ground. Flanders gave
it a good go, sure, but of course Dillardes getting caught by some Torres. And that's
the nape that ended it. Flanders is actually bought in full right now with a Galil.
So he's just going to try and keep a bit of pressure on the finances or is there
follow through from the rest of that boom yep all right they're gone for the
force okay I thought they were gonna be holding on to hats here and taking a
save with the 2400 loss coming into the next but they're gonna shove this might
be a top hop or a ram brush okay another test for Aurora inbound Flamers
springing his steps strides forward they're eating me through the flames
magic as most outpouring you test this utility and you're left with nothing
you put all your pennies into this well should be able to get a plan that's
huge that's huge you do need a plan
Fletcher to cut him off here. He can plant back side.
Ooh, he's getting across.
He gets the bomb planted. 600...
Oh, no!
Didn't feel like he had the time, but no longer will you get the extra cash.
Madge is going to be loving that.
Multi-kill, they just run through the Nade and it's send the airy combo.
It's a good start for Aurora, all off the back of that Eco.
So now three consecutive rounds, that with no cash.
These bombs doesn't go down.
You know it has to be the Eco on the other side.
So Magnajez.
cancels the plant. They don't get that extra splash of cash. Imagine he's enjoying himself.
From the desk, that was having the most fun. Going to take home the W here today. We'll see
if that rings true. A couple of pistols invested upon four G-Gles and a P250. Some light smokes
for this. And once they just staunch outside, alongside a Zhentaris, they want to fight.
You can see that. You don't know he's a cross, I don't think. Oh! I got him shot!
Eyes wide through his entire eyes, why is that shot?
Outrageous.
He surprised himself with that one!
Pure reactions, just pure instinct kicks in.
I want to see that one in the replay.
Slow that one down.
A single bullet, quick switch, one bang.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Alright, just gonna mop this one up now.
One man defines, already goes down,
and Mad Joe on a bit of a run.
Ten and three for the big man.
Good signs, good signs and life.
I think that's really look at the smiles and turrets face right initially in these circumstances. He's the man who let's see that
We're gonna feel good moment
No, this is slow mo ready slow mo boss. What is he doing?
So spec you moments to kick things off for the Turks. All right comes back out. No sort to AWP rifle heavy
Taris making a move for yard control.
Emboldened by what he's just done to them on the eco.
Late smokewalk.
We know there's a rat in the system right now.
Moxican supports in Taris, but that smokewalk will remove the orb threat.
He can break this, so he might be able to find a pick regardless.
Magnujes made a step. Centares is on high alert.
That's clearing. Oh, the supportive flash is brilliant, but not the kill from Magnujes! Centares pulls it off.
Vision restored just in time. Boomitch does find the return.
Moxig will pivot into the topside. There's a lot of action towards Dilladez on squeak.
Trapped with the bomb now. With the orb on the angle, you are in trouble.
There's a 3 on 3.
Stand and it'll ad-dazz or put bomb!
Things twice about smoking it, that's the right decision.
He is kind of trapped, the Molly will make life miserable for him, he's gotta get out of there,
but that's the extinguished, that's why you hold on to your smoke.
Thanks again, might be their objective here, it's a good call.
And he gets down, boom drops, Zorty sticks around.
Should be an uncontestable plan, but Salflight is down there. Hang on, fighting, lobby, clears out, sortie.
Boom unable to plant now, Salflight, gotta get fast enough, controls the spray, does provide 3 HP for Boom.
Woxic making no secret of his stampeding feet in the vents.
Mitch, have you got anything left?
Is the bomb plant the silver lining, or can you do something obscene?
I'm just gonna stick it. They're just gonna stick it. No chance.
A bomb plan just the silver lining for that one.
Tough round, but they do salvage that plant, which is going to mean they can go into another
buy round. Wouldn't be too surprised to see a fierce tactical timeout now. And that
flash just in for this. I think the hop shot rattles off. Magnajez aware this is possible,
but catching that in the replay with how blinds and Torres was, it's a massive own of him
and Magnajez unable to find that frag. That boom on the back foot. Five to two, three
round gap, once back in him. More pressure on door. Okay, yeah, looks like it's quite
pacey. We can't find solace and safety in that smoke. This is hectic. Up close.
and the ones provide the opener, Flammus, caught out completely.
Dilladez just populated down to Mikardia.
He's got no territory whatsoever and you're just losing bodies.
Flammus and Dilladez sideline.
It's Magmajez with a forward position.
Magya down to Zorty.
That's a nice one back to the three on three.
They're not looking at him.
Moxik's safe as he drops off the round.
There's an off-dote.
It's the shot necessary.
So does Mikardia, but number three.
Just boom, it's again thrust into the clutch.
He's boxing down with him!
Boom! Boom!
He's back!
Saves back for him, puts the third on the board!
Snappy aim from Boomage!
Hell, this man, he knows what it takes in the big games.
He's the edge of champion of his own right.
He's been off our screens for a couple of years,
but making a statement there.
This one came from nowhere.
These rounds are crazy because Betbit were trying to...
go for these little ventrops.
Obviously for now it's just a 180 from Boomage firing the boys up with that one
But I think the comms are flowing quite nicely for Aurora on the other side
There's a few of these rounds where the rotations these vent drops have come in as a player who's always ready for that move
So can Aurora hold on after losing that one drop in the ball?
Let me just nap in it away
This does take that time out acted as a clutch means that the rounds
Not going as the way you would hope is the individuals having to bow you out of that one
still plenty of money for Aurora to come back in with a full buy but lost
bonus bottom of the barrel after that five round run that being win this they
can break them that conversation about saves if we get there yeah but will it
be another hectic one on something we'll let you up to find a convincing
Foothold in this round. You got Woxic to get past.
Wow, straight through the box. Sorted Humble to 44.
So a break and a flick from Sorted finds his counterpart, removes the orb.
Oop!
Full yard now, 4th Bat Boom.
Making it across, Magik relays that information.
He's locked out a breakable box, he's got the angle, he's got some...
Oop! Problems now, we have big problems!
Every frag flowing, keeping it clean, 5 alive through Bat Boom, just since our race to get past!
They've got plenty of time and now he's got the first finding the headshot on to Zorty precision on display
Second from Centares, but is there more should be a dead man
Yeah, from Heflin
And you already highlighted what that might mean Chad and the money's all over the place is in terms of ends of soul flight
They're the low end around 3.3 3.4
They could justify the buy here because they can bring up the all but it looks like
Everyone's to get on the mic with the time and discuss the purchasing power
By starting to settle in, Magic can drop the M4 to operate with the same
lighter to anchor over towards top and the same for Soulfly, so can they push
the pennies around to make this one look pretty. Really important frag from Zorty
as well, that's the most impactful we've seen from him. First opener of
this one so far. Fresh face for 28 years of age, bit of a journeyman as
far as the Russian scene is concerned.
So this is what's in that one.
So it's going to be a first for Zatarez.
Maybe there's a juggle out of spawn.
We'll swap that out with Majo. We'll see what the call offers up.
Because they don't have the utilt to block everywhere.
They only have one incendiary.
Where are you going to use that?
Well, right now it's on Soulflash, so likely for ramp.
I mean, it's nothing for heart, nothing for squeaky.
But Beppe, four rounds T side already.
They're putting in a shift.
Another one, Woxic concedes another opening death, this time at the hands of Magnages.
A great find, confident work, Zintara's on the AWP in Woxic's absence and able to
remove at least one.
How many more, the question, how close are they?
They're gunning for him, they can hear the retreat of Zintara, Dillardes relays.
Zintara's pivots.
Looks like they want to squeeze the Heaven Hell control again.
Zintarys is just blocked, he's about to get a root away, meh.
Now this could come as a bit of a shock.
Doesn't hit that flick, up the ladder for more,
but that space for Dillardes to continue to just hoover up.
Is that inaudible?
Yeah, they've heard him fall on the side,
but we're still in a lot of talking here.
60 second advantage could get better.
Wakadia trying to return to the ground side.
Can't find the headshot!
Dillardes, Wakadia able to do so.
Provides an equalizing frag.
It's all about that finish.
Zantara's found a good line for this.
Jiggle from Flamas, brilliant.
Fates the shot, triangulates the position, and Boom is the one to profit.
Salfly has taken that lobby space.
How aware is Flamas for this possibility?
Who's responsible?
Has he put pit to the perfect gap? Didn't spot the barrel.
Pushing on in. A jump scare for Flamas.
Anticipates. Soughty! Beautiful from Salfly!
But Boomstick alive and he's been clutching up a storm.
Can Boomitch do it once more?
Boom!
Ha ha ha!
Putting on a show in the arena is Boomitch.
Two out of three so far, we'll just keep a count of this man.
SoulFly reads the plate.
It feels like he's made the difference,
But they line up for Boomich and Wakadia can not adjust.
That one really will send echoes into the finances of Boomich.
He's enjoying his time under the sun.
He is playing his best counter strike.
That's in his fourth of the man right now.
We've seen Aurora win with Stiegel's before.
And Wakadia, he was the man to kick things off.
Yeah, he's got that hot hand on the designated eagle.
Even that one connects with the concrete.
They can't give him another one of these, but still, five rounds T side Nuke.
Talk about the confidence level of losing to Ecos.
Finish the point man outdoor as the bomboneys back to the left side.
Set up ready to crunch in towards Lobby.
Oh, he's so damn good.
Pits the cap.
Riccardia's Desert Eagle.
The unstoppable force on Nuke finally fell.
Damage inflicted.
Centaur is there to match the output.
Found one.
And there's a tag softened up.
They can't get past the Eagles.
The Royal's Desert Eagles lock it in again.
And Riccardia leads the charge.
Someone of a prodigy finds his staged legs
and pulls home a necessary sixth.
Well, it's nice this fine around the half go into the break with the lead and take a breath enjoy the moment take a look around
One of the signs for Aurora them liking here is the moves that are being made
Understand this is a tight game. Pimich has been clutching up the individuals even centares
They're not looking burdened by the pressure by the environment right now
Another 12 life broken the death move easy pickings centares well aware of the potential move from Dilip
But is he ready for another? They're popping top.
Already knocking on the door from main side.
He's been spotted though.
Removed by Centares for his second top.
Killed from the side. He's terminating.
They're all lost in the smoke. They're lost in the source.
Not how you wanted your half to end.
Just congregated sitting ducks getting plucked.
And sortie. He's not long for this.
This is only the beginning, folks.
Vast Quarterfinal in the Lancers.
And it's already delivered.
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with five and Pumich in his two clutches 1v3 1v2 keep that boot competitive map one of this quarter final
and he's loving it he is absolutely loving it you've seen Pumich find his feet immediately 14
frags keeps that boot in it to win it to you too through this gonna be top flash they're going
fast okay we got pace to retake top setup they're in the bumble go down okay oh wait they thought
I thought they had more space than they did, but they really need to retake this site and the pit is in heaven.
No plant still.
Loxy delays it.
Now the fight from the elevation, they boost up Zintale as he feasts on two.
You gotta keep hold of that kit. Now one magma jazz, scoops it up.
Not easy to get back into this.
Aurora, diligent on the setup. Headshot from the cardiac, yeah, his pistol work continues.
Blocked it on face, soft light, closes it down and a wall up. Take a fantastic start.
That's super meditated. They get into the topside, see nobody's home. And this is a scary sight.
Yes. Zintara has a massive smile on his face in an arena game. You are in for a world of hurt.
That shot he had, I know it was against an eco, was absolutely revolting from this man.
And if Zintara and Wakadia are both in form, you are in trouble.
But this is, okay, we're straight in the top, we boost heart, we're going to stuff the choke of heaven.
Let out that roar, the pride of Turkey.
Doing them proud right now.
Forced by back for Betbun.
Well, they're starting red pole.
They're going to have to concede the cross,
and Maja is making no secret of this.
Finish, they can event drop.
It's not be heavy for Aurora.
They're hoping to push the rotations.
Betbun, a high level puggin.
It's mixed.
Look at the shake in the stirred by the rotations right now.
Flamme says not rotated down to beat.
Top pop play is on.
Good pistol up close for Centauri's, you've got to hit that first bullet because he will
fight the opening kill.
The tempered with this, I don't know but they do have an awful lot of space, it's just
sort of upheavied with the scout.
So looking for the reroute, is this an overcook from Aurora?
Magic calls the boys back.
He stays on the roof to...
About some YouTube at the top heart.
So keeping the big plants that are at least interested.
Yeah, Mac and Jess has got that smoke. It's tempting.
With the 5.7 try to catch the timing on the push.
Is anybody watching that yet?
Unannounced.
Unaware.
Have a lot to worry about right now.
The Heaven and Hell wrapped a secret crawl.
They could still be in lobby. You know there's pressure there 30 seconds
They start to make the move and match ups take down Magnet Jess exactly what you wanted
Sure a scout bullet does find it, but he's alone
And you ain't going vents yours like the round might end here actually up the vents to finish
Okay, this should still be pretty calm
This one's been pretty convoluted from Aurora
But they'll still be out of confirm until it has Zortie and Flamme has to save what they brought in and nine rounds already
For Aurora on their opponent's map pick
No secret of the struggles that these guys have in games like this.
It's a great opportunity up against a team like Betbun for Aurora to make it to a major semi-final.
They've tasted the quarters before.
They've never taken that step past as far as the majors are concerned.
So today, history is in the making for Turkish Counter-Strike.
And there was concern about performances when the pressure really rises.
Now, they've got that mental coach now and it seems to be working.
So, if they can run this one home,
this whole fly will know that saves are off towards CT spawn.
There's nothing they can do about it.
Now confirmed.
Four-round gap, and we'll have the eco from Bethlehem.
Now they're just going to juggle the leftovers.
Let's see if this one is a little bit more
of a straight line for Aurora.
Now that 10 carried over.
Everyone has a little son and son to make this one interesting for Beppu. It's the call from Maja
So it's towards you. This time it's not him out there trying to sell the fake. It's entire is looking for space
He might put a bullet in your face
Up on the salty scout spots him on the jump spot there. It's a ramp spam from Wakadia
So opening pick found
And these are the gimmies these around you must convert your Aurora in this environment
Beppu had a tough time, but they bowed themselves out with clutches
Perhaps the gap they'll take the space since Haro's with a standoff outside that he doesn't
know is happening.
Magnet just being able to dip down into secret, so I'll dig in and tag him.
Oh, they still have a lot of you sort of finished out towards B. Molly's for the
window side means Magnet just shouldn't be able to play into this.
Now Molly's in, so Magnet just will have to respect it.
The bomb should get planted and this looks like it's going to have to be about
More damage with that boom.
More damage from Zorty, two tags on the scout.
They're gonna see if they can take this AK, so grouping up
to Rumble's Intara's yard.
Julladiers goes down, so two to find, Intara's looking on point 16. Let's make it 17, shall we? Nope.
We'll pick up that AK for the hunters on spring into action. Aurora want to rip this out of his hands.
That's surely good. Every bullet walks, it will find it.
Aurora up to 10 before we see the Bat-Boom with full guns.
If there is any fight in Bat-Boom, this is always going to be tough. The fact that they made it this far,
they run as far from a fluke. That's the threes in stage three and big scalps that they've taken.
They've been playing every stage, every day.
And then I look up top left and I see a Nubis next.
It does feel like Nuke might be necessary if Bat-Boom won a chance of seeing a semi.
Sure, it's at home turf for Aurora that pretty good history on that happen. It's haven't played in the major yet
Lobby sent you got this is hope wall all of a fake really want to keep that boom rotating
That boom have been down a couple of their new
Jorns route cologne so far and on the CT side. They've been able to bring it back. They're still believing
Magic is selling presents yard, it's Flamas' test for him.
Come against Intares, we'll dip back.
Does actually stick around for a little longer than you might have liked.
Safe passage to B.
Ramp secured.
Fight on yard.
Magic, a little versus the Zultia M4.
Provides an opening for Bet, boom.
A lot of pressure onto Flamas' hold here.
He's playing it up close, he's playing it this round.
to the main out does stabilize but we'll go down to the flame from the grave.
McCarty argued and another Magnige is able to just about get through.
It's not winnable there's a kit in play here but two of the three are very low.
Aurora could snatch this one away.
Here comes Boone. No secret about his descent charging towards salt flying opportunity for an easy headshot.
Made to the 2v2 that was the healthiest of the bunch.
Do you expect more? They kept it quiet. They subvert the expectation.
Oh, good cover from Woxic. He had the awareness by removing Magna Jazz. It falls to Sorty.
Got a kit. He has got the smoke and the kit combo, but surely not. They've got the HE, they could just spam him away, does...
...tuck in, finds it, isolates, goes for it again. Have you got him, Woxic? Have you got him? A stray bullet connects! Run now!
Oh no! He steals it away! Sorty, a second and two fast for the knife kill.
They really needed that.
Yeah, well, still in a rough spot with the buy.
That one on the pump, but on a nice edge.
Four-round gap, but is that the beginning of the way back in?
That boom going to be fueled by clutches in this map.
Number one.
You just did it in the first half, saw these turn in the second.
Aurora are really playing with these rotations.
So there's yard control smoke,
smoking off main, smoking over towards lockers.
They're showing that they wanted to take control
around towards heaven and hell.
Try to confuse these rotations about them.
Sure, they played this map an awful lot.
Five times, this is the sixth.
But they're only reps together.
Around the major.
They're not gonna be weaknesses.
He is well-drilled.
Now just trying to live in the moment right now,
but that one snatched away.
Thatcher has intentionally caught in with a Mach 10 here.
A 3.9k, could have had the 8k.
Very fast on yard control.
Accelerating.
Oh, salty catches wind of it.
Sessions in south-west.
There's another one from that Turkish Terminator.
This is rapid the pace.
They've used those same smokes, they're off the earlier timing.
And now they do have the control.
You're in a box right now, Beppu.
You're gonna have to push Lobby for some space or stick to your guns,
and you've got the weaker weapons.
Oh, this is really uncomfortable for Dillardez.
Not the range. You want to be taking this bite?
And yeah, Zintara says, good night, sweet friends.
Dillardez down and a huge disadvantage to overcome.
You're in so much trouble. He's in the heart lock here. Surrounded.
Nothing in MP9 can get done as a triple kill from Zintara.
Let's make it a quad kill.
He's not a fighter. He wants the axe.
He's having boys!
Magnet just cowering in the vents, just wants to bring his gun through.
Zataris is on the hunt.
Will you get away with anything?
Closing the gap is just enough time, Magnajez better hope, they don't find him, the whole
squad setting up the search party, and Magnajez denies him!
They were trying to give that to Zintares right there but regardless of the result of that
that's four massive kills, that's the 11th round confirmed and we'll have to get
the stats and his on this but I would say as far as arena playoff events of a scale
like this. This is the best I've seen Zintara's play. He is looking laser-focused, locked in,
and he's not missing a beat right now. This is the man you need. This is the man that Turkey
have had their hopes and dreams on. 21 kills deep, two rounds to go, and you take map number one
of this quarter final. He is a man determined. Now look at this buy. This might be forced
spying out the game for Pepin. Nothing else they can do. Los Berners in the mud. Not enough
rounds to work with. Can't get consecutive on the CT side. And the one round you do win
is just one player who got knifed. You talk forward nothing. He's coming for you. Uncrouch
at your own. Rear splammers down, continues to rack up scalps. 22 and counting for Centauris.
Let's keep going, teaching us how to count. Takes his 23rd and there's more where that came from.
You've only got MP9, smoked off on 1. Swing of the doors would be a death sentence trapped
by the flames. Flash connection, natural onto Magnajes. Sulfly stabilizes, catches the
to swing up the decon door and
is just boom.
Macardi has got it.
Tracks him.
Good one back.
Finding that headshot.
But here comes the trade.
The second half has really had
very few to celebrate.
Four bare boots.
12 to 6 it reads.
Can't stop singing the praises
right now.
This man is 7 and 0 in opening
opening Jules. Untouchable. It looks like they're overcoming those stage demons. Looks like they're
trying to put that behind them here Aurora. One round. Five kills. Matt one's in your
pocket it's your home turf Anubis up next. Can you get that clean clothes? It's
been karma collected up until this point even a couple of clutches from
boom it's haven't been able to unravel the mental Aurora looking battle-hardened.
CT bring a plate. And Ricardo is ready for it! He read them like a book and they're getting torn apart.
Just two to four and make him keep this one practically flawless. Turkish
Counter-Strike on the major stage.
Showing their capacity for destruction. One back shore. Now you have
the info now you've got the bomb site.
I'm shoring it up as well, plenty of U2 to double.
Zorty tagged up.
Chaturis wants a couple more hit from Magnus.
Yes, the whole opportunity for the double.
All does hit the head.
It's up to Zorty versus Salflight.
Will we see another round of play?
Oh, I'm HP off to the nade.
Come on, Salflight, what've you got?
The rookie to close.
Up against Zorty.
Locking horns to keep it clean.
And Salflight closes it down.
And Aurora are up, but an Uvis awaits.
Could it be the semi-final for Turkish Counter-Strike?
Aurora arrive in the arena with a point to prove
and a playoff stream to Peshu.
And they pass that first check with flying colors.
Might have been Betbus, Matik,
but the individuals on the Turkish side,
Jacob, they are red-hot right now.
Yeah, there was a strong performance
Coming out from Aurora, you know, pretty much from start to finish.
You'd argue the first couple of rounds, you know, were a little bit back and forth.
You think to yourself, okay, bedroom, there's something to work with after a decent T-side,
but moving into the second half, it was clear to everyone watching this game
that there was only one team on the server, and I could be also one player on the server
who made the difference in the form of Santeris, which I'm sure we'll dive into later.
So, speaking of the perfect start for Aurora, a team known to struggle a bit in the playoffs
will get to be seen here.
No, but exactly what I want to see out of Aurora.
I wanted them to play with that determination that they also showed throughout the group stage.
They come in, they take control of the game and yes, it was messy in the beginning, but that is what it was made for Jitters,
you know, playoff Jitters and I think both teams were very nervous in the beginning.
So you did see a lot of mistakes, a lot of gaps being abused, but in the end it seemed like a roar.
They found the group and they also found the confidence within the squad and they handled the pressure the most whenever it was hit at them.
So a very impressive showing from the likes of Urwa.
I do think that they were really good at just punishing mistakes. Just flat out
I'm gonna put it out there. Bed boom came with a certain plan that plan did not work at all and Aurora were always in a
position to capitalize on the mistakes that Bed Boom were doing pretty much every single round.
So it begs to differ what is going to change for the maps moving forward
But I'm going to be remaining hopeful that Bed Boom is going to turn us around.
Let's go back right to the beginning then Martin because round three the teams were really digging in this right?
It's a powerful Turkish Deagles as we know them always every Turkish people person and player is just good with his gun
And it all kind of turned the tide of this of this map because Mikekedia is able to finish off this massive 3k with the one
We want against boomage and it just sends the momentum back to Aurora's press
And they didn't really let go throughout that whole nuke and Mikekedia all my money for him
I do like how he played it all the shows were extremely difficult to hit
But at the same time it's just individual prowess that we were kind of questioning at the beginning of the segment and beginning of the map because
Well, the Gears are clearly there, but not for vikadia. Yeah, and that's fair enough
You know, it's a huge stage to be performing on and we get into the mid portion of that first half
We know how important outside control that's on the map of new Jacob. What have you got for us?
Yeah, I think stuco shoulders the first signs of Gears coming out from bedroom
I'm gonna show you this second one as well
We're round seven we're at a point again where every round is super important for bit going to get here
A perfect flash, perfect set out.
Magnetgy is not getting the kill, a little bit hesitant in that duel.
Boomage coming in, getting the reflight.
You find yourself in a 3v3 scenario.
Voxig in a great position, picks up another kill.
And again, you think to yourself, Boomage has to come in as the guy getting the revenge kill right here,
trying to stay it out, fails a bit of a molotov, doesn't really push Voxig into a losing position.
And at this point for Bedboom, they're just left in a very, very struggle-some position.
You have Bedboom, sorry, Boomage going down on the lower bomb side by himself with the bomb.
Even though he gets himself a 1v2 with 3 HP, with a position that is known to all the players from Aurora as well,
it's still working out for him.
And you know, I feel like we saw a couple of examples in this round where Magnus is supposed to get that kill in yard,
supposed to get a good opening for Bed Boom.
The idea is great, the opening is great, but it just didn't work out for you.
And then talking about Jiddus, the round 8 coming up right after, you know, it's again,
it looks like a bit of a game plan that they want to be sneaking down, but they can't find it.
They're just stuck inside the smoke. They can't get down vents, and the bombs get strapped onto the bomb side.
to the bomb side and at this point you may have nothing to work with so there's only one thing to do
and that is to brawl your way out and that's what boomage does at his best. He hits a massive shot
on to Voxik here then turns around for the second one and you know it's just a massive
you know showing that boomage regardless of how that round you know spiral out of control he
bounced it back but also showed what kind of player boomage is. He is a stage player and to
pull up these kind of things to know how to handle the situation that was very well done.
Kind of leaves you wonder where this map would go if it wasn't for this specific boomage clutch
Yeah, we have multiple clashes.
Obviously, and as you mentioned that Venn dive game plan was clearly there and Bed Boom were just not able to find that Venn multiple times in a row.
We have, this is round 8 obviously, we already talked about it, but it's just so weird.
I'm honestly thinking if they have even this radar bind that they see the Venn and they're able to go in, they always get tons of damage dealt to them.
They fell to find it, they just cannot go down and it happened multiple times to the point where Boomblum, in my opinion, just abandoned the game plan
and they actually went outside and grabbed under heaven where they actually won two rounds
But they had to go back to this again and this is for a unstructured team like BedBoom, a big deal if you're
This just doesn't... what is this, right?
Oh, you hate to see that.
You hate to see that and it happened over and over throughout this T-Side
So, Bed Boom were in a position where original gameplay clearly didn't work and they had to come up with the one on the spot and they failed to do that.
This is just not the half that you want to... It fizzled out, it fizzled out.
I think it's very important to conceptualize that because I think the idea of the gameplay was great.
We saw great openings, we saw great opportunities provided to Bed Boom, but the execution from the players, not going down the vents, from Magnetius,
not finding the kill and yard that we showed to dig around as well. This is not a boomage calling issue.
This is not a preparation issue coming in from BitBoom.
This is an issue and I'll cut the fat away where these players on stage right now clearly are feeling the nerves.
They did not play like this at any point neither on stage one, two or three. This is the first time we see BitBoom
really being applied to that kind of push it is playing inside the stage and they couldn't handle it this time around.
I'm sorry to say it cut the fat away.
That was an unacceptable performance from BitBoom.
If you want to have any aspiration any chance whatsoever making the semi-finals.
respect for getting straight to the point and it was almost the inverse story for Aurora which is amazing because it's not
Very often that we get to say that when these guys are performing on stage. Let's start off with wakadia
I believe that debris it was matter of saying in your podcast, right?
He is the best stage player at the moment and he approved that basically from from the get-go
I proved that already in round three, you know
It's a massive stream run to get the fire going in the Turkish squad and it is I think it was very important for
Roar to get that kind of round swing so early on the game
So it wouldn't spiral out of control and you know
So Vaikato just gets so much shot down, whether he's rotating, whether he's clutching, he's
just in my books the best player that they have in overall right now and also the best
target player out there.
And you know, it is just great to see that he, from where, when he was picked up to where
he is now, that he's actually over-checking Santaris in the guide to be looking out
for the squad.
I think it's very well deserved because he gets a lot done for this team and one
is getting sure on the stage, sure Santaris will probably get his spotlight coming into
this specific game because we know that he's been struggling.
But looking at the stats, you know, having 110 ADR and with five multi-kills, that's
very messy specifically because of the positioning plays on you and from the
clips we just same day he was always in the position to punish the mistakes of
bedroom all those when dice he was there and he was spamming them all those
Diggle kills I think five incredible headshots that actually swung the whole
half into into Aurora's favor he was there and he was present all those
impact kills were the reason why Aurora is leading 1-0 and you mentioned
the names and towers as well obviously he's been somebody we've been putting
a lot of pressure on for good reason like with great power comes great
responsibility and it's not something he's often been able to show on the stage today.
That was an exception to the trend that we've seen developing today.
It's the perfect start for Santeres. Even in this game, the first couple of rounds,
it was a little bit of a hidden miss. You think to yourself, okay, is he up for it?
Is he not? And then he just took over the server, going 7-for-7 in opening kills, 24-to-14
on the KD. He was just having a game for himself. And I gotta say, you know, Bedboom,
they offered a lot of mistakes, but it takes a good player and a good team to punish
every single one of them. And if anything, this is exactly what Santeres needed.
he's aware that he's been struggling in the playoffs, we are aware, his coach is aware,
his teammates is aware, so for him to get that out of the way, map one in the playoffs
like this against a weak playing Bed Boom, that's the perfect start, if you're major
you couldn't script this any better.
Exactly the point that I wanted to make, I tell Jero, because I think no matter the
opponent right now, I think St. Terras' worst enemy is himself when he's sitting
on that stage, and now he at least proved himself wrong that he can perform, and
just looking at the opening duels, that was the one thing that I highlighted was
very good from him in the first stages of the major, that he was looking, he would
have better stats in opening attempts and success than dunk. That kind of speaks
for a player that is that is feeling it right. But the fact that he gets to
show it on stage even though it's bedroom we won't take anything away from him.
That is a massive trait for him and to him moving forward and to hopefully
break that barrier that he's created within himself that he cannot perform as
well as he does in the other stages. I've seen all kill from Santair as I've seen everything.
Well maybe we haven't quite seen it all because Aurora's muck pic does
lay in wait. That is a new best. Stiko do you want to just maybe put
some context to why this has been brought in. Is this an issue for Batboom potentially?
It might be an issue, but it's also an interesting pick from Aurora because obviously the Bedboom
did not play at single time here. So they have literally zero data to work with and
they can only go and judge by the previous roster results, which they have been honestly
pretty good. But going into this confidently and picking it means that obviously Bedboom
is going to be having this luxury of starting on T side, which is obviously not known
by this pretty big deal. But there are certain concepts where I feel like Aurora
is really good at, specifically on this map. And there were a couple of moments where Voxigan,
Vaikadia on A-side is just unparallel on C-side. They're really, really good and vibing together,
locking down that side, because Antares therefore allows to be moved around as a piece
over to the B-side on the C-T side. So I've seen a couple of things where they're really good,
and in a really, really good synergy as well. When it comes to aggression, it's clearly a
team effort. Everyone has a spawn roll aside, and they're doing it, I don't want to say
flawlessly but they are doing it and they're rolling their way through
this in Ubi's and so far throughout this event it's been carrying them in a lot
of unfavorable best of threes. And legitimately like we can cut all the
bullshit here there's not been a better way for a role like they've paid the way
to make a semi-final for them right now the fact that they have and Ubi's
coming up for them you know they've set themselves up for this one and they
I mean at this point if they don't win this one out that's gonna sting them
and it's gonna potentially hurt them even more going forward I think this
is the best shot they've ever had you know you know making it this far
So I mean please make this one count if we're looking at the starting sides for each of us
You're gonna be starting on that CT side but that boom on the T side
What should they be doing to kind of throw Aurora a little bit off kilter on what is basically their hometown map?
That boom needs a strong T side
They need to get away with a lot around to need to set the presidents because I think when we speak of an Ubers
And you guys can disagree if you want
But I think the CT side of an Ubers arguably is the hardest or one of the hardest CT sides in the game of
Counter-Strike it takes so much synergy to be able to shut down a team like a raw when they get to that T side and
And we spoke about it. You know, boomers and the boys from BedBoom
theoretically are a team with us standing right now.
Limited practice, it takes an awful lot of practice in order to, you know,
adjust the finer details when it comes to a map like Anubis.
And I know historically speaking, BedBoom have been playing the map to a high degree,
but that's with a different lineup. It doesn't matter in this context.
So one argument would be that, okay, Aurora, you can't really prepare for BedBoom.
Another one would be the level of gameplay BedBoom can offer on the server on a map like Anubis.
It's going to be limited by the fact that Heaven had time to practice
one of the most important maps to get practice time on.
And just to add on to that as well, there have been times where it could have been in the map for
Betboom and they've deliberately gone away from it as well. So that kind of speaks volumes as to
how comfortable maybe the game plan is feeling on this one.
I actually checked Facet of these players because obviously we don't have any data to
work with so I went to Facet and checked what did they play while they were here
and Anubis was not one of the most played maps. Some of them had like played it four times,
five times. They clearly lacked the hours on this map. Obviously they practiced it,
obviously they prepped for it, they have a theory, they have positions, they have strats, they have tactics.
Obviously it's there, but the playtime is where it matters and Turkish side is going to be on the huge huge uptick here
because this is just their home turf and no better way how to clinch this one to go.
I just hope they've shaken off some of the jitters, right? You know that the first map of the quarterfinals,
that it's always a big one, right? Because they need to go in now and show that they can shake that off
and play a little bit more like fielder, you know, go in and actually go for the fight.
They need to go out and contest the areas and not fall back because if they just allow a role to play on their terms
I don't think they're gonna be standing a chance
So I wanted to go out and be a little bit more destructive and I want them to maybe
Throw on that game plan whatever they've made throw that a bit of it out the window
That's what I saw on a nuke
You know whenever they decided to go for the inexcused event types everything they seem flat
But as soon as they went outside they were playing off each other and it just went for the duals playing off the momentum
That's what I want to see and that's what I want to see in the new
If there's one thing that, to me, is a silver lining for BitBoom here, it's the calling of
Rumi, it's the fact that he's been able to, throughout the entire tournament, come up with
solutions on the fly. They have limited practice on certain maps, they're going to have limited
practice on Anubis, but if there's one thing Rumi has done throughout the entire tournament,
it's actually adjusting on the fly, so even if Plan A doesn't work out, sometimes Plan B,
Plan C has worked out, you know, something he's coming up mid-round, etc. etc. That's why
I think it deserves so much credit for how he's called so far in this tournament,
because it hasn't been calling out a spawn or relying on, you know,
a methodical practice leading into the tournament where everyone knows what they're doing.
He has to micro-manage a lot. And on a map like Anubis, to me that's the silver lining.
There's only so much he can do. We saw that on Nuke.
I think he called a great game on the Nuke T-side.
I think the players let him down. That cannot happen here on Anubis.
The players around him has to step up.
Well, either way, it has been an absolutely cutthroat start for Aurora here in the arena.
And now things may be looking even easier.
It's down to them. I picked their home turf.
from one way even team spirit have dubbed them as the best team in the world right now. It's going down on a new bus after this.
Anyway, you're miles away.
I can't read you.
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 your games.
The power of the holiday school keeps up,
and we are telling each other.
I'm just looking you guys don't have a head-to-head against pepper we don't fight against them okay, so first time yeah
Well, I guess that doesn't matter, right?
It doesn't matter, I think.
Like I told you, I think in the arena, the only issue is us, you know.
I'm not so curious.
If we're good, no problem.
What about, you know, the whole playoff thing?
Like, what has been the, in your own words, like,
what has been the biggest issue for you guys?
What have you done to actually try and get better at it,
other than just getting more reps?
Like, in my point of view with all the years I played,
I really feel that we're not individually playing the same way that we play on the stage 3, like Sey the Shawl, I think even the communication sometimes is not the same, like I don't have the same information coming to me, or maybe also me and maybe I'll talk faster in the arena, it can be possibility also, they told me I sometimes talk faster so we don't understand.
but also individually we're not doing the same move.
We talk with Rikete about this, I think we play more pussy, you know?
When you play like this, when you play more comfortable on the server,
it's not helping your teammates,
because when you do things that you have to do
and you take information in the right, in the left side,
so it's better for your teammate, because they understand what's happening in the map.
But if you just stay like this and you have no information,
you don't take your fate in your hand, you know, and you can't play.
And I think this is the main issue that we have,
but obviously talking about this and trying to fix that will help all of them.
Who's your best stage player so far that you've seen?
My best stage player?
You've seen yourself?
I think him.
Right, just because Antares isn't here, he'll never see this.
I think you're the best Turkish player in the world right now.
I remember when he first came in third ago
and you're just there mid on the stairs
and you're just like flash and just like a madman
And this guy's just running out wrecking everywhere.
I was like, he's the future.
He's going to be the man.
That's very intelligent.
He's very intelligent.
It's not because he's here.
I'm telling you.
Yeah, he's very intelligent.
He has to learn more things, obviously,
but he's very potential.
He has very high potential, very intelligent.
And hopefully he can have a bright future.
I wish him.
Thank you.
Oh.
Boxing's obviously got a lot of experience on the stage,
right?
Yes.
He loves it.
He loves the bright lights.
Yeah.
I think as a team, I will not point someone
who's playing very bad, or I think it's just as a team,
sometimes we have day off.
Also, we can add the bad games in playoff,
but I think it's more as a team, you know,
like what we bring as five people on the day.
But I'm not thinking too much about that,
because if we think too much and we talk too much
about that, it also not helping.
So just generally what we do every day in practice,
extra just play and just try to talk the same way
and do the same TTS, you know.
We get it, Skål!
Oh, I have proved it.
The
gates corn
I have proven that they get to play their game on the big stage.
Mikadia set him up. Zintara has knocked him down. Zintara is in top form, flawless in
his openings on Nuke. Does the Bat Boom journey end here? Fighting through every stage of the
Major to the iconic Lancest Arena. Is there anything Bat Boom can do to shake the confidence
of this Aurora roster.
They are flying high this afternoon.
Their pick of a new bus.
An opportunity to make history for Turkish counter-strike at the end of this map.
Let's get this party started shall we?
Nothing given so far.
The jiggles, soul flight, takes contact, managers take space.
He confirmed that they were advancing down that little jiggle.
Managers will charge forward to tuck in.
Two smokes in the molly, it will be a B-execute, so he's picked up the bomb.
His entire is to pick up the open and kill if he finds the head.
Glamours just runs in.
That's an easy pick for Wakadia. Catches him walking through the smoke.
I can't explain that.
Miss Karmor, not on the same page there.
Maybe not believing what's behind that smoke.
I think he just looked like an A-Split now.
The bombslayer transition, but he's trying to do it all on his own.
Yeah, he's trying to sell some things on Tarzan.
He saw the one and this boost.
Now I wrecked him. Now Spotted Gilligan.
Oh my god, he's actually hit the goosh.
Fair play.
Supposed to favor the CTs.
Magnages into the sidecatchers with Cardia and now this pivot to Temple. He's got the USP primed and ready
Soul flies undetected as he closes that gap on the plant's auto is gonna be caught off guard now. They know
Three on two. Thanks to Magnages chipping in for number three. There's one back from soul flight
He's got a lot to contend with casting to find the head. There's a double
Magnages has to ace clutch
It's not planted for him. You're absolutely right. He's got ten seconds to close the gap and find the kill
He's hoping he's praying match it over extends
Stands his ground pimpers in
The major lucky on the stage he closed it down on Luke and he starts it off
Here on a new business guys. I'm just shooting from Magnus. They show of a soul fly stay steady
That's what you need from your anchor. I know he was in transition. I know I'm not anchored his side right there
But still slips the gap
It's a couple of important ones
the
moment.
Magnet jazz. If he can heat up
might have a conversation.
Beth Boone.
Boone's that familiar face.
He's the experienced piece.
The rest of them, they're
learning on the job right now.
Sure, I haven't had the most
success in a setting like this,
but they've definitely had the
opportunity to play in front of
the crowds.
It is a good sign for Beth Boone
that Magnet jazz is feeling
himself.
So he needs to find output right now. They're gonna try and soften up this buy for the next round of play
Let the man work
Gonna boost him up
It's the strafe across a little bit more in there
Okay conversation being had up I
Was promised to boost and I think they're gonna get it so replenish there off the consmo
Woxic, overstepping the line and smoked off, so
not able to force the rotations as they were hoping for with that key PC utility. Woxic with a flash of the ready to set up Centares.
Centares calls it clear and the boost has been dismantled.
50 seconds as they now path back towards A. Abiflamis late middle, Wakadia and Woxic
to lock down this site.
Double W. Should be easy.
Shots down by Wakandia in combination.
Let's do some damage.
It's just the one rifle picked up by Zorty and nothing.
Zantairas is looking sharp right now.
The Lizard flick on Nuke, but he also had some massive rounds.
The open is where discussing Wakandia's been instrumental as well.
The two of them on finer form.
But they know that the guns are coming in short.
It's an AK invested there.
The Mitchell sacrificed his.
But down to the tech nine.
The rest of Batburn will be fully equipped.
The flexibility of this high level pug is going to be tested.
We have not seen them play this map throughout the major run.
Looks like Dillard has been picking up the responsibilities of Siren, at least on the T side.
still got a lot of admiration for how far they've managed to go with the roster stipulations
it does feel like they may have bitten off more than they can chew on arrival here to
the playoffs. Let's see if this T-side can change our mind.
As this controls the retake, the E-box vine fall by both sides, into it goes either way,
as the Tarres mid-player tuning towards B.
Heading now as Woksek will also shift into temple.
On outside of A, Wakadia playing somewhat retake.
We'll still put up some light resistance, but really tough to have a full commit to
this.
He's still in the air now, signifying the mid to A.
I think he's going to have a
flash away. He doesn't get
anything. We can't be a vote
perfect position. Flamas takes
down booms still able to provide
the necessary for this is a very
fast flank coming in. Sortie's
going to have a fashion his
face does get the way and be
not easy to track. And there's
the kills. There's gets that
bomb planted soft like however
overlooked is quick on the
high pressure on Bat Boomer. They will walk away with their first on this tee-hawk.
So a necessary sacrifice was Boomich.
And Aurora trying to hedge their bets with the stack, read the situation incorrectly.
1400 into the next, the buy will be the conversation.
He's looking to get out with that lives pet boom.
10-3, AK-47s.
So Captain himself is small, so I can buy an M4, because he want to keep it for himself
with his VDF alongside.
Imagine if you want to drop it to another member.
They're getting slowed right there.
First try now of course from Faber very early.
I like the timing.
I feel you run out of cash you take the eco, see if you can still buy it.
The economic control in the early stages.
So the fly's been able to get that M4.
There's a Famous for Wokali and Aja in with an MP9.
Moxig just down on a pistol, 5-7.
Looks like he's going to hold onto some residual caps to try and bring the all-power in a couple
of rounds if they can't turn this one around.
With limited U2 and limited weaponry, keep our eyes on like a bit more aggressive from
Aurora.
Either a gamble stack or an opening move, that's a unique consecutive, this knows that.
On top of the money you can start rolling with the rounds on the T side of this map.
Least played map of the Major so far, least played map of the year so far.
They're in the playoffs only 9-z banning this so we'll see how many times it rears its head.
3-1-1 for the style of the defence.
Sometimes Arras wants to make a play, he's already moved through the lurks most.
I've got to catch Flammeis not expecting this.
Oh my god, okay Flammeis lucky to be alive there.
live there. That's the opening move in the early stages. Very light on U2, a couple of
smokes left to block short. No rush for the T side. The amount of U2 got remaining. You
weighed up the early box smokes and then you've got all the advantages in the world.
And he didn't concede that opening kill.
The opening gambit from Zhentaris.
I'm able to provide.
Gap over the top of that, an audible note from Zhentaris.
I'll keep him at pressure, procedural and consistent.
Kamiya has the stars of smoke to block over towards A. Now there's pressure he'll release it.
Okay, it's baskets for now.
Tuck's in tight.
That's the last of the smokes.
That's just rotating over the long way through beach.
So I'll fly with all that info.
Here they come.
Cardia.
He's the first flash.
Still goes swing.
And Nesteela does on the entry.
Lovely.
Sintara provides the double and Maja matches it.
Galapsing now.
Boom.
Not yet to frag.
Needs one to get the juices flowing.
Orang game leader move.
Commit to the plant.
Get the extra cash.
Get run out.
Surrounded.
And overcome.
with three frags. His first three contributions and Aurora defend their
honor. It's at the heart of the coach favorite. Takes the time. It gives them a
chance to have the conversation. They have the opening move. They don't connect
on the frag, but the rotation was perfect. Madge at this time,
off the stack on the right side. Still this half of Rimsantara is a joy to
watch when he is on form. And then Madge are in with that mop and bucket.
In game leader on the SMG. It's mid to me to that.
So, if that firm is doing this tug of war, you mentioned the plant that is going to help
him out in the buy department.
A couple of glills to AKs and Tec-9 for MagnaJazz.
It's if this one has a bit more pace, the last few have definitely been feeling out
of the defensive Aurora.
Very consistent with this 3D star.
Taras starting very forward towards Jail.
Anticipating something eccentric, they nearly lost matchup.
He can't hang around, the U2 could do it, he's going to have to fight back his means.
Oh, boys, that's the boys!
Captain Taras activates the two!
Softlight can finish the job!
Magnet is in trouble, only attack nine up against the two of them on the site.
Good job, Bobbittsmo, get all work.
Gets away with his life and an AK-47.
Chasing the tower right now, Beppert.
Mccardia making a play.
It takes the space, he's on his side in his own mid to massive void and he tucks in tight.
The bomb outside B, you just feel like quite the condemnation.
So much uncertainty, have they pushed up?
Yeah, but look at the setup from Aurora right now.
The radar's all you need to see.
Softlight tucked in a retake from Maja.
Woxic is literally back in CT spawn.
They're aware of the gaps, they're giving them the space.
I don't know exactly where Betboom's up to right now, so bomb, picked up, E-Util, Donz, Soulfly, he could shot this down.
Is in a good position to do so.
Saving the flames, but not safe from the Zortia AK.
They may stop the plant, yes they can, Magnet just didn't find the cover, it was in the open, just get spam free, there's smoke and another all around.
Problems now for Betboom.
Lookin' comfortable out there, Aurora. Seriously.
You see the side with four rounds already under their belt, and they've done the hard part.
You've humbled the finances, you know that Puma gonna be in with the eco.
That setup, as soon as Magus low, Zintara has to move.
The conversation being, this is no longer short up.
We need to make a move out of this setup, as Zintara gets the output on two.
Seven and three right now.
It was sick as well, not only the first, but where most would get one, he's gotten two.
Commence to the spray, nails the head on the follow-up swing.
swing. They're going for a cheeky run boost in middle here. There's no U-Tilt for bad
boom in this one. Look at him sco's and Tara, these are the plays. I've just been
talking about just seeing his players make the same moves. And now as Tara is
ready for the multi, he can just take them all down. Easy pickings for two now
accelerating. Hey, Woxic ready? Doesn't hit it. Doesn't need to pass but got
it to lend a hand. Picks out for another double. Deadpan leaves with two. Make
Get three for Roxy.
Everyone taking a turn, putting on a multi right now.
Question marks about Aurora.
What is the stepping out on the stage?
Does the moment get the better of them?
Now look, when you consider some of the opponents
they lose them to, then the top names of Counter Strike,
Betbombe are not that.
We've got a hodgepodge piece to get the roster.
They didn't know that we're going
contending for the Cologne trophy with before they rocked up.
It's the fact that they're here. That's impressive in their
self. Right now in that pool and the playbook is starting to run
thin.
Running out of steam.
Well, it's made.
Dillardes fights an opening, but Zintara's just up in their
face, up in their grill.
Using that new hole. Dillardes double, but Zintara's
just sticking around. Exposed was boom.
He's flowing.
He is in that flow state. He's just gonna constrict this
So you go away you've got wanting to deal with centaura's gonna have to try and wrap back around
It's just how does he read this is he aware?
He is one step ahead of them right now. They'll be in the bomb will go down
But I'm not sure they'll be ready for him so quickly as the tires isn't full rocks it finish or smoked off
This guy's tough, but he has a hate you for the break. Oh, we get time as well
Have you choose to plant or tea?
Could determine the round
Let's watch it play first, walks off throw, doesn't use the HE, but Flammus able to adjust, didn't find the immediate accuracy necessary.
Boom for their second round, just got to get past this Southpaw Sniper.
There's a problem, that's the trade you want to see, Dillardes, four kills in the round.
We've been talking about Salflight, Dillardes the other rookie.
This is a brawl being taken to them.
last time you won a major he's gonna have a lot of work to do to have that
happen again but why not from boom it's let's see how far that boom can push
this but you know decided to take the fight in that scenario didn't roar right
they they took the brawl they pushed out they feel giving that boom what
they'd like they don't have to play out the mid-round that there's not
so much micromanaging required from boomage in those situations it's
on the crosshat, hit your shots and do it as well as they're on your screen or
through a smoke. Fantastic job, there's four huge contributions for their
second, again teetering with the money. Back and forth we go, 1,900 lost into the
next Aurora and there's extra 30 seconds of nicer favour as well. So
fierce, potentially doing the Turks a favour in this one. They stop that
boom from getting the consecutive. It's double AWP's. It's gonna lighten the
load of pressure for you to on this B site for Aurora.
Patrick can just post up, hold the line,
and they can channel these smokes elsewhere.
It's funny to see them both start-
Yeah, that is strange.
Set up for something on the cross, and I think for Woxic.
I'll take him water with the same pace,
and I'm going to catch them sleeping.
They walk straight across me, and this is where
Boone's going to have to do some of his best work,
not with the space taking, but the calling.
I'll be maneuvering them in this round,
at least in the early stages.
I mean, activity on Middles, or Woxic away.
Act of Team Disorty, yeah, Soulfly pokes his nose out B main.
Vlamis is close, he might want to look for a peek here.
That's not like he's on the wall path.
Soulfly can play a Jiggle Smoke defense here.
Do not regroups with this...
...firing middle.
Smoke and I erupt into the...
Ooh, okay, that's questions of this. They're gonna waltz him to the AWP.
Yeah.
Just boom.
Does he go wide enough? It's a tight angle from Woxic.
He's nailed it. Beautiful contribution and opening kill provided.
There's number two, Zorty caught crouching.
Woxic just pieced it together, one to buy, one.
Anyone else fancy it? Into his scope, a missed shot, he will get punished for.
Flamers accelerates, Centares responsible, there's Dillardes if they could just find Centares, but it's easier said than done.
Deadly is Centares.
You just walk into Waxxix AWP like that, he's going to hit the shots every day of the week, that was casual.
That was comfortable. A little bit of pressure on Centares at the end there, but he's been standing tall throughout.
You can't be doubting this man right now between the two of them.
This is the history of Turkish Counter-Strike, Wakati is the future and everyone's combining.
What is a solid shift in this quarterfinal looks like business out there now?
Comfort of getting home turf after already taking your opponent's map choice
It's the block so
Fast beats they're about to erupt with these pistols. They're gonna just go for a bit of a pace
Change straight pop through the smokes and some tall res gonna do his best to defend the site nice
I'm not just one for that boom. It's not enough. He's taking down boom
2-1-2. Awkward for Magnum Jazz. The Nade doesn't kill him.
Oh! Finds him onto Ricardia!
That kill. His third in the round. Now put up to the 1v2.
They're not looking at what's in. What's his in?
Has he got the first? Yes, he does.
Needs a rifle. Doesn't feel confident in the 1v1 versus Dilladez.
Full power, Utah.
Dillardes down, that's a solid connection, softened up, a P2K headshot might cut it, anticipates the reposition, smoke on the bomb, kit, present.
He wants to get on that bomb now, Dillardes knows it gets up close, found him down, important, again for Dillardes!
Closing down, bringing home rounds, necessary, rounds on the T side of Anubis.
That one's a bit scrappy right there, and the double-oaks into play. And Ajax have a tough time there when the pistol starts to scamper in.
Everyone getting lost in the sauce, caught in the smokes, Magnajez, catching the tail of Soulfly there, picks up the M4, takes down whoever's in his way.
And then this was never going to be easy on the retake for Woxy, using everything he had, but couldn't find that rifle.
Dillidesk impacting two of the rounds now, down to just pistols.
Aurora with six already on the CT side and that's the first real frustrations we have seen from Zintaris.
He knows what that round loss means.
Well, Wakandi is going to be dealing with his hands. We'll stay on board with him. He's been hitting some scorches.
Yeah, that's a good point.
Has he got another one in him?
Never mind, Zintaris has done it on the USP now. Wakandi are equipped with an AK. You better watch out.
You're missing shots. You're feeding the pressure.
You're going to get the bomb.
Mission to retrieve bomb successful.
How does it feel like pepping on the back foot up against what is just a couple of Desert Eagles now on AK?
Same boost from the pistol. It's an angle that they're not vulnerable for. Hang on, not just our boom.
Not good, just has to save him. In combination with Dila Des, they seize the site.
Taro is always does pull off the jiggle bait, salty. Paws the trigger prematurely.
He doesn't make that mistake twice, but he doesn't able to trade out of a Cardi, he's coming in with that AK, he's going to put it to good use.
Flamuses, Kalash, could be a crash and burn here, Dillard doesn't make the test on their ground.
Necessary again, threatening again.
For the first time we have seen Betburn with consecutive rounds on his T half.
floodgates could open at the tail end here before the half-time break walk in
second with tires up at six a piece that was a tough round even with the USP's
Aurora hitting the heads immediately so having to stay steady but the stress
we build and now Flamish on a shrug this one off
Big Molly, yes.
into round 11.
Unforced Arrow there on the break.
Resmoke in.
Through middle, Dillardas has been the hero so far,
we'll hope you fight.
And you provide more.
For your roster.
Now, where's the...
Oh, that's what a shot breaks Centauri's neck!
And you give it the bonds on Sunday, mate.
You've got 50 seconds. What's the plan?
Pushing B, mate, for info right now.
Sofla was considering a Dillardez.
Given the opportunity to take some space,
the bomb coming back to B through canals
has been spotted, maybe their intention more clear now.
Kali is rotating over this, just so many holes.
He has to be ready for this, and Dillardez again,
finding them on the back stab.
Double trouble, now awkward for Sofla.
So down awkward, an empty nine, just the one.
He's done it again.
How many rounds on this T side, we can contribute to Dillardez
and his contributions, just Wakadi to try and change the narrative.
It's a good one up to Sortie. Flamus is next victim!
Suddenly a 2v2, it has to all be Dilladez.
You got him in.
And your bail'em out as well.
Here's them coming, those where they're both approaching from.
Predictable post-plant position, lead precision.
Can't hit it, yes he can! Finding Loxic up to Wakadi!
Oh! Dilladez!
Announces his presence in this playoff game!
Another ball came for the man, till it does, till it does.
And right now, the money looking till it done.
A chance to tie this up before the break.
This is the fight you want to see from Pep Boom.
Got a couple of Cinderella's at the ball in this one.
9C, Furia, they're up next.
But it's great to see the fight.
It's great to see them fighting down.
And through this man, 15 and 7, making up for this, the Boom.
Pressure on B immediately, forcing out the light U2.
By is scuffed.
SMGs have plenty, a couple of famuses, not an M4 in sight.
Riccardia is committed to this.
It could be another one from Filadez.
Sees the shoulder, takes the head.
Cardiott taken out of the round.
Step closer to time this game up.
An unusual approach to the mid-hole.
They're gonna have to take a couple of risks in this one.
With the type of weaponry they have.
Lost his mid-control in a few rounds and that's going to pass.
Yeah, Flammas, he's not going to miss that one.
There's three more to find.
They're covering mission successful.
In to be their wall.
Nobody's home.
They're utiling the sky.
But due diligence, it's there.
Just going to get that bomb down in the 40 seconds.
We'll begin.
Getting better for them convincing from Flamastow's flight.
Moxie kicks up a bit of a stink, but Flamastow's here and Flamastow's here.
That's starting to look more like it. Taking the swings, taking the fights. Bat-Boom.
Starting to show themselves up here in Centauris, the last man to fight.
Out of a kill for his trombones and there's one, but he needs to get a move on right now.
I can't find the AK. Can't find the AK. Correct with his pistol out.
Six, six. Maybe we got a game here, folks. A run of form from Bat-Boom.
I
I'm going to go do it again!
Five of the last six rounds of the half go in the way of Bed Boom.
They stabilize and keep us apprehensive as to whether we're really going to do it in two.
It's their map of Nubis.
They're out to the favourite side of this tea-sided map.
And Zintares is in fighting form. 16 and 8. Top of the tables on Luke as well.
Any more twists and turns, or do Bad Boom just roll over and die?
Boomich, he has to get going here. 0 and 12.
On the defence, he will be necessary. Three-studding A-man, Boomich mid and Magnetges over towards E-box on his lonesome.
They're clamping down for an A-plane right now, and it's not what Aurora has set up for on this T-cycle at all.
All three congregating outside of middle to outside of B waiting for a push
Question is it's a mid-play is it into a split
Some be hijicks that's the back lines of temples. I climbed up
That's right split through temple here unless they go to their own smoke
Okay, Flash is perfectly timed. It removes Boomage's vision and they will accelerate towards his temple position.
He doesn't have help. It's just Boom.
Doesn't hit their headshots off like evasive maneuvers, as they flood into CT spawn.
Locks smoke, but they're actually pivoting, eh?
Two here.
Yeah, okay. Dillardes here. Is this who it is?
There it is.
I think they've got the crossfire.
Oh! Ouch! Bell wrong. Dillardes gooshed. Doesn't hit the first head. It's messy from Zorty.
A side vulnerable, needed that, Dillardes still manages to find the one but it's such
a well pieced together round. A page out of the Aurora Strapbook. Just leaves it up
to two of them. Damn it, she got anything? Get that party started, can't. MagnaJazz and
the 1v3. In the open, just taking fights on his terms and for a moment that got scary.
It's both pistols for Aurora in this one. That's a win condition right there.
Then we're going to have to fight hard to claw back into this in the second half of play.
Boomage still yet to get on the board. So they are going to take the eco into this one.
And the turfs looking like twinkle toes there, just pivoting around the map.
They put so much pressure once they get into the back line.
These are unusual fights for the CTs to have to take.
I'm sure their comms were super hectic.
Flash into the canal.
Now just going to get a face full of lead.
But the B site should be swarmed.
There goes the flash.
Oh, that's what Heather Leneid completely exposed books by Matcha.
Still, Dylacarze is able to find himself his 18th frag.
He really was the reason my competitive scoreline was reached.
And down to Santarze.
They put Marauders on their T-sides. That was on Nuke.
Santarze moving like a man on a mission.
It's just Flammeus to find.
Is that light upgrade into the 5-7?
I'm just hoping to get something out of this.
The gun carried through would be nice. Santarze is...
Here on his own. Let's see how diligent this man is on his clears. He's in the flow state and
well, he's got that one. So handles it. That was the eco. I know the guns are coming.
It's off his task yet to this second half.
That's my throw now.
It's my block as well to find media pressure.
B-star, Dillardes, Zorty, Magnazes.
So Flamme has to be taking Siren's job over towards A on this one.
Flash down looking for a fight.
Man, squids and tares.
Interesting, they've squiped the responsibilities of those two gentlemen, Dillardes and Flamme,
thinking of the slack of Siren on either side of the server.
This is tough, new position, new map.
Up against a very well-drilled and informal Maura.
With elimination on the line, the conversation was all about the pressure today.
That boomer found a little something, something, but it needs to continue now into the second half to make this competitive.
Yeah, it can't just be this one-man show.
Dillard airs, and admittedly, Magnajers have both found their impact so far.
I'm having a call on that T side, a lot more micromanagy required.
Now he's on the CT half. He has to start finding output.
Forget about the first if he shows up here.
And he's going to have to...
I found my spot because the A gives it to Talrez.
He didn't stand a chance and then with a wide swing, the Mag 10 draws the crosser
and now they collapse, they crush. One from Zorty.
Magnet has a dead man.
Spraying, finds a headshot onto Ricardia.
Oh, and he's done well. Catches Santarez, finishes what Boone started on that farmast.
25.
Match is flanking. They're ready for him.
Oh, but it's still DeLadez. Couldn't find him over the incandescent.
Swax, it closes it.
That's a big round.
That's a huge round, Mane.
It's in trouble for that Boone.
Lose the pistol.
Take an eco.
First rifle round, you're in partial territory again.
Double digits for Aurora on a silver platter right now.
Can't believe Matcha pulls that off with a Mac 10 there.
And you can see the desperation for Magma Jazz knowing that he needs to make a play.
McTenor range from Dillivase has been so good, so far.
But that one, that one was necessary.
That's a battle cry for whoever heard one in the Turks, letting out a roar of the history of the making right now.
Border finals a major short, semi-final, that's never been done before for the Turks.
Whoa, quick from Marjah!
Breaks a couple of necks in entry A.
Watches hurt this.
Yeah, he's already got Mako just dead to ride still on that swing.
Beautiful!
Nails it on that right full.
Not missing a beat right now.
This is a chance for Boone.
Stick break that Boone sec.
And he's done some!
And the crowd goes wild!
Yeah, he's enjoyed that one.
They're still in the moment.
He's off the troublesome score line now.
And what do we say is about having the fight as well.
You know, it hurt the guys discuss that, just being able to actually enjoy the moment on the big stage.
Not easy.
He's the only man that's been out here in the Lancest before.
The rest of them taken on this task for the very first time.
What's about the save?
So what do you improve?
It's looking to hold on to these.
Smoke off, a flash through and a fight coming.
Sortie.
Oh, the flash didn't pop it.
It didn't catch him.
He is getting run out by Wakadia.
They're going to try and play this.
Ooh, evasive.
Guts run down.
We'll lose it.
Boom to Prince Ford, the M4.
That would have gone a long way.
Boom, it's just going to have to drop Magnetjes now.
So rifles are across the board.
And they want to bring out the Zorty AWP.
So guns are being juggled.
Brush should end up with an M4 at the end of this.
Those are just field boom flags there.
All right, four-round gap.
Just to get away from you quick.
you're enjoying the moment, you want to extend it.
Aurora, don't.
Up on the line, Magus gonna take space,
Wompsick has been game-leader covered on the crawl.
This one goes further.
Is this thing on the second though,
until it gets removed in Zintara's,
Magus will find that immediate response.
Who makes the difference?
Oh, back and forth.
A main aggress cut down by the sniper.
They've identified the gap of middle right now,
and it's a big call.
There's a lot of room to take.
A lot of pressure onto Sorty.
He's aware of this possibility as well.
What's it going towards?
Aye, a nice split.
Up on the line, can't miss this.
Oh, what if he never was there?
Just fade away.
Temple flank coming in.
Oh, by the timing, could favor boom.
Oh, Soltry passing glance.
Sorty's got to find this.
Bacardi is sneaking in.
He has no idea just how close they are.
And here's the drop into sight. Should be a dead man now.
And Wokse can combine combination with Rokadia. Secures the 11th.
It's slipping away from Betbun's grasp.
I may have already slipped. The choice now, the timeout from FIAS.
It's a big conversation to be had.
You've got enough to bring out M4s, but you'd be light on U2.
You can take the sacrifice and bring in some SMGs, or you can partial buy.
You can hedge your bets.
would then be in a strong position to take 12, but we can see the bar is starting to take shape.
They're pushing, they're shoving, they're going all in.
So, light on the nades, prioritising the smokes.
One in sentry.
One HE.
Never mind, Flamuses.
Moffed in with a couple more of that, but it is still light on through out.
Zorsi will bring in a kit.
Got enough to defend their honor, but this will not be easy.
to break new ground in just
two rounds time. And this is
grouped up. This is an upper
cut. Pounce the pack roll
and just taking space till it
supports the info flows. Surely
that's got planters on high
alert. Thought he maybe
summoned over cautious about
smoke. It's more where that
came from. Off the back of
that's entire is for a mid push.
You box the same. Looks like
they're sticking to their guns
of this a play. Just looks for
the block is not successful.
All the info to be that just
means it's a longer rotation.
It's going to be a full exit
From Madger and Co.
412.
Here comes the Nades.
Flamas just needs some help, but on his MP9, he's done very well through the smoke, and with Burvich's contribution...
Now Aurora on the back foot!
All your Nades invested the bomb on the OTHER side of that smoke!
ActaJay is locking the door behind them.
That's all good for Flamas, able to get out just in time.
We've still got Santares though, nothing's impossible, doesn't find an immediate headshot.
Flamas should be easy, nice damage, walks in Santares, pull us back, Magnus is on to
match up.
Oh they're in trouble, he hasn't got the time for this, should get that bomb planted.
Magnajez going all the way round?
Filides needs help now!
They did damage.
Santana's up close, they partner up.
Playing off of one another.
Dilides on the spot, they know where he is.
Walking on in.
Magnajez in support though, just in time.
Grouped up.
Lined up.
Wapsick's there for the AWP.
Time to friend of Aurora.
Magnajez finds the first.
Can he come up clutch?
Give Betboot something to celebrate.
And Wapsick just peeks on in.
the second half from that boot.
All right, they put a stop to the run of five.
Aurora will not have the shut out on this T side.
They're going to be to work for this semi final.
But again, just like Luke put around on the board short.
So few members saying alive this time.
It's one man last time there was no man
They've up with his second time out once they get in before they run out of money as soon as the cash is gone
That boomer back in
Doesn't the success loss furnace is bottom of the barrel residual cash
It's not dead. He's found to be coming down to two or three players staying alive for Aurora
The chip through this quickly
Double AWP's.
If it does not have a grouped out fast play,
I'm sure I'm going to see how that boom,
I'm going to hold on to this unless individual heroics shut them down.
It's Famous's illu event force for two.
Just there's smoke off the rim.
Eve E-Box thrown out from Wakadia.
Foxy, Street AWP looking to shut things down.
very clear indication of a finished be here
because it's our circle active in this is under the smoke that might fault their
initial ambitions I got a fast window push from boomage on his be eruption
They're just going to let this smoke start to fade before they hit the rip.
Boom doesn't over-connect.
He needs to hang around though because B is so susceptible.
Everything's coming their way in a moment's time.
Mora already with a leg up on being planted. Finds a nice angle he can work with.
I know about the flank.
I know about Boom.
There's a flash in his face, turns it nicely, gracefully from Boomage.
Finding Soulflight.
Advantage up.
Who's gonna step up?
Could be Woxic on the smoke.
Here's that from Magnetjez on his clears.
Two off the taking. How's he done that?
Great sculptor's entourage.
There's Wicardia! There's Woxic!
And there's a 1v1! The Flammas prevails!
He needed them both, he needed them in quick succession!
Just enough time to pull home the defuse and Bad Boom showing a little resilience.
Amos has been quiet up to this point, and that one was touch and go.
They knew about the flank, the fact that Boomage turns this flash,
the fact that Magnetja shaves one off.
Is this kill right here? So much pressure in the box,
trying to make a play, trying to take some room,
pushed up, pressed up in the face,
and having to control that one there, Flanders.
keeps them in a extends plate.
The finances for Aurora.
See them now in with a partial.
That bomb that kills the pressure.
The fact that two players back to
backgrounds making it one of pieces.
Haven't been walking funny.
Their money's not great.
Sure, they've got the AWP.
They've got the rifles.
Boomages in with just an SMG.
Another beer option.
Didn't quite nail it.
Now Jihazen able to close the gap.
They're coming.
Pressure fast.
Good for Magnetjes, but there's the backstab!
Oh!
And the B-side collapses!
This round is for that semi-final point and a handful of them.
Made on the retake.
We got any more Flamas?
Jumping no Utah.
All laden with flame.
Barrel sticking out, Makaria extends.
Flammers pulls him back, spots the back pack,
knows about Zuntar, he's the only one with a rifle.
They can run him down.
It's good from Boon.
All good for Woxic.
Just match on that, tag nine.
He's doing so much work.
They got a stick in.
They have to stick in if they can just find a headshot.
Oh, right down to the wire.
Beppin extending play.
They're there just holding on right now.
three consecutive rounds where it's come down to the fuse, down to the wire.
And that one was just a partial.
The guns will come in fully invested now Aurora.
They know they are so close.
They're set up on the side.
It looked good.
Gunners chips away.
They break in.
And this, they just have to stick this.
There's no other way.
Boomish with the cover.
He's been quiet.
But now, back boomer believe in it.
Zordy's looking to make a play.
Already slipped.
And Torres ahead of the play.
Early ground in canals.
They want to boost up.
They do.
Magic to facilitate Zintara's around this smoke.
The image is in trouble here.
I don't know if you're ready for this kind of early timing.
You'll have to respect the smoke.
That's their only extinguish.
The CT smoke about to fail.
They're going to put pressure on me to give Zintara's a chance to make a move, and
the pitch is found in.
Starting to contribute.
An opening kill.
This burst.
One to Zintara's.
This is where those frustrations for Aurora really start to breed.
This is going to test the mental stack right now is in the right place.
It looks like they're starting to harmonize here, but just in the nick of time, 40.
Oh, he's missed it.
Good from soft like Desmond Cardio.
There's two on his screen. Flamers gets nothing.
Here's the comment.
Wox, it makes his position clear.
Dillard is down.
Another available miss shot from Magnus on this A.W.
Wox takes the scalp.
That's the response of all the needed.
Friends and family on their feet
as history for Turkish counter-strike is one round away.
They gave us some excitement.
They had to do it the hard way just to start scrapping rounds together, but this mechanical failure
Sack was in the right place.
Fella, you even had the timing.
Then you're scampering.
And that roll.
Just one round for the Turks.
Woxix made his presence abundantly clear here in the quarter-final.
Not going to be an easy shot if you seize the tip, but Softline's head is nasty angle well, that's enough.
There's what's up, dismounts and continues to push. Woxix on his way to try and lend a hand to Softline, no result.
Hard clear for Jyllides.
He's closing him down.
He's hit it!
Flies the headshot!
Straight from the sniper!
It's all up for the bait, folks.
Sources showing no pressure.
He can't miss another shot.
That booms hopes of extending play,
hinging on the AWP.
They boost their position well for this.
Did they clear him?
McNajer's well positioned.
He's swaddling.
He knows what's up.
Perfect headshot, that's Mkhardia!
Setting them up to succeed!
Woxicom to boom, it's all coming up Aurora!
Last two to four, Zorty's a dead man!
And it seems it's true, the furthest Turkish counter-strike
has ever been on a major stage!
Just one kill away!
Centaura's taking flak.
They're going to get that bomb planted on the back of what's it going to be.
Flamos-Sonza Centaures, he's not going down without a fight.
It should be a guarantee.
What can you do on 18 HP?
Just a hope and a prayer for Flamas and there it is folks.
Vindication in the Cathedral semi-final secure.
counter-strike. Today has taken a step that they have never before. They have
broken new ground. There was pressure in this matchup. They had everything to lose
coming in as the favorite up against Betburg. Stage one, stage two, stage three
they defied the odds. They made it all the way to the playoffs. This lineup
might be temporary but the major result is forever. But today the story is
about Aurora. Zintares, if he could continue that form throughout this playoff journey,
the sky is the limit for this team. This is the caliber of Counter-Strike they can play.
This is the caliber of Counter-Strike. We have seen them play in the group stages
and today it has been translated into a semi-final burr.
The bad boom right that high. Breeding the view.
your first look at the Lancest but Aurora emerged victorious first off
congratulations they made you work for it the end though first of all thank you
very much guys it was amazing thank you for that muster yeah it was a it was a
good match and I'm very happy that we won 2-0 yeah 2-0 what is it about
What's the new best that you love so much?
I don't know. Maybe they like it, I don't know. But we like it really much, yeah.
You're so dominant. Now let's talk about the fact that Turkish Counter-Strike has now gone further than anybody has ever gone before.
It's a semi-final back here on Saturday. What does that mean to you and what does it mean to the team?
Yeah, it's mean a lot. We break your records as a five Turkish and thank you very much.
and playing here in this arena is also very special.
So thank you very much, very happy.
Does it change the way you play?
When you get on and obviously you can't hear them,
but you can see these flags, you can see the fans,
you can see everyone around us.
Does it change how you experience it, how you play?
No, I didn't change at all today.
I'm very glad about it.
And it was a pleasure everyone to play here,
the atmosphere, like I really enjoy.
To be honest, I really enjoy it.
You got one day off, what do you do tomorrow?
We're gonna work hard and that's all and I want to thanks also my wife. She came Jeren
I say you cannot kiss the gene. I love you, baby
We'll she'll be back here on Saturday with you. Congratulations. It's a semi-final spot. Put your hands together for major at a roller gaming
16 brazilian counter strike hoisted a major trophy inside this arena
And in that moment a ferocious passion spread like wildfire through all
of South America. Uncontested Brazil has maintained their place at the top of the continent ever
since. Tonight's match is 10 years in the making because now neighboring nations have emerged
from the enormous shadow cast by Brazil and they're sharing a major playoff stage for
the very first time. It was Fallen himself who lit the fire and has carried the torch ever since.
This evening, Ninzee collectively attempts to take that flame from him.
Cologne! This one is for history! The clash of Latin America!
And the map pool could not be better.
Ninesie and Furia head-to-head in quarterfinals.
Both looking to break the curse.
Waste-o moment to the first duel.
You kindar turn from top mid
and fall in swift on that fallback.
Ooh, play with no fear.
That was the plan from all 10 players in the server.
Kachimali's looking at the sky.
No one's here to help you, Fallen.
No one beyond Kcerado.
You kindar down and spawn.
But they hit that pause button again with the smoke going up.
There's no one for the cross. They just got to take it dry.
Okay, headshots in abundance for 9Z as they suddenly take over that long control.
And we've got a bomb plant and we've got a message for fury a 9c came to play
Oh, they ran through that they bulldozed their way to the A site
No CT cross smoke
When they swung they were happy to take all those duals as soon as fallen went ahead, but that smoke originally
That was their way in
It's a dangerous game here for fury out we've seen 9c have spotty performances on dust too
but in my opinion at their best they can beat anybody.
Some of the CT setups they've used on Dust2,
I think are going to be adopted all the way to the top.
We know it gets real creative with the mid-round timings on T side as well.
Nainzi already used that to their benefit.
just love the timing of catching fallen like that
that smoke up on site didn't affect anything
kind of pushes 19 to a place where they've got to go for duals heads up
and heads are what they took insta kills with the pistols for 90 insta
force by a fury up
All the way loses his angle early that scouts got to go for the reposition
Middle of the map control here for 9z
No real contest being offered up furious still just lean back at spokes and hands across the board clearly looking to just kill some of
the time off this clock
We'll see whether 9z want to respect that but just decide to pounce in and again this death ball
As they've tapped into is so prepared to just go and storm this B site what they'll find a single Desert Eagle
They've got a great call here. You're kinder by himself
Clashing to the face a little spam through the smoke, but they don't actually push through and clear his bum tunnels
Luckily here for 90 the Desert Eagle gets away from him and luckily here for Furia
You can go ahead and save in the next one because nobody's got anything to stop 90 in this conversion of the pistol
That's a very star a very very strong call to kick off
They don't fall for that defensive smoke that gets thrown by Cacerado up on Cat.
No, they don't overthink it at all.
If we were going to see Nines he'd get nervous.
It might have been in a moment like that over thinking,
and that's what we're looking for here in this quarterfinal.
In a row of that boom, you saw nerves on display.
So many echoes, so many clutches.
But when you see an arena like this in front of you, who would be surprised?
I think you kind of showed some of the self-awareness of somebody who's not one, five quarter-finals
in the five times that he's tried.
And without that awareness, I think the energy's a little bit different.
If it's all your second, third attempt, whatever, and when we know about your kinder in finals,
but in a major quarter-finals, it's a bit of a curse for him.
But I think that's why he had a smile on his face, because this time does feel different.
We're hoping that's the case.
Conspiria themselves with a bit of a curse, right?
Super seeding expectations, surpassing stage 3, 3-0, it's been happening.
Left, right and center.
And yet those quarter-final fumbles keep on coming.
Cologne's meant to be where they changed that course.
PT, going to change Yuri's ideas.
Met together with Yukindar down into the lower push,
both players turn back around.
And so we are sat here watching the third round
of this quarter final and looking at a single kill thus far
for all of Furia combined.
Yeah, it's coming in quick here for 9-Z.
It's working very well.
The worry for Furia was, as the question was asked,
you know, you're very able to stage
you battle all these days off.
What does that mean for how you feel
And the kinder said what we had the time off the last couple of times now is an issue
We know how to pace ourselves a little bit better
They tried to play a ton of practice scrims in the previous majors that they played in
That formula wasn't successful. It may or may not have been about that
But we'll see if their new strategy has worked was so peak
It's another this one for free
Farewell fallen
And you're right. I mean no kill. So it's small doing case Arado
Anything making grab would be nice. You know you take down max. That's a couple grand
But even that's a start just to kind of get this game going as far as your own individual output goes
Oh, you're exactly right. It's the game is gonna get started
Whether they like it or not if they don't dent the economy then it only makes the half a lot harder
We are still looking at one frag
good as it gets here for 9 Z and the difference for them they come into this
quarter final and they have the you know two quarter finals in 2022 but it was
only Max and DG team yes it's a new team I think that's why the conversation
for 9 Z it just goes beyond the major cycles themselves and it goes back to
their previous quarter final outing getting on to the stage is still a
question mark for 90 watching them turn into a shell of themselves something we
do not want to grow accustomed to and they also need to break so first gun
round of the game and Mollardoy puts that off out middle but he still remains
passing there's been a lot of very safe jump spots going on through suicide so
far even here versus the pistols 90 doing the absolute best to try to keep
themselves as unlikely as dying to that scout to that off and I think what that
does is it recognize the offing ability that Mollidoy and Furia have in their
arsenal. Yeah for Mollidoy it's all about being ran into his rotations and
out of the way back.
And he again proved on Dust2. They know how to find that weaker sight with very
little information. Somehow Max knows to get Molodoy off his post in his rotation
back to A. Bomb though is going the opposite direction. Doesn't take too much
just a flash and a fire bomb and he's off of it. Which means no support for
middle. We've got the fangs of fury towards that B bomb site. It almost looks
like they've already done it again unless K Serrano and Yuri can combine
for a great hold. If somebody makes a move you can see you kind of are just testing the
The waters pop to get open, but still not believing that he needs to actually reposition closer towards middle.
He's smoking mid.
But the time being, it's just Luchov out mid.
Number is strong. Coming through this tunnel smoke in a moment.
Kasurado going through the sequence. It's nade after nade.
And he interrupts them nicely, but he kills none of them.
Flying Mac 10, denied. Yuri into the cover.
And that's where he's gonna get popped.
No rotations. Luchov has mid.
Luchov has mid. Fury again. One kill on this round.
And they save with three. It's a perfect call again for 9-Z.
And this time it's because they go for both mid control and a B hit.
But because they didn't have anybody come out on that split through middle,
the Kinder saw nothing, no reason to be alarmed.
They actually didn't know if it could have been a cap play, if it could have been late long.
They didn't have the information to use.
So far amazing again here for 9-Z.
We look at their match versus spirit.
It ends in overtime. It's an incredible attempt.
They can't close, but you saw so many great T rounds that looked just like this in that match.
It had Magic's speechless after the game.
Well, we'll be on our way to the first part of that if you don't get it together.
Because right now, Yuri's the only one with kills.
Yeah, Cacerotto lined up the damage on the two.
It felt like that spray was on point, but no headshots in it.
And the time to kill since the pistol from Ninzee
has been so incredibly crisp.
We're going Nate spam towards Long.
This is an early fight.
Chance for Furia to just straight up stuff it.
Mayer, one and done.
And as he keeps our dives back in,
the second serving is Wasso.
Pete gets the better of it.
Now there still remains pressure over here towards Long.
So Cacerotto pops the smoke, spots Wasso,
and takes this down to the even three.
It pulled it goalie though.
This is actually a B attack.
It was dressed up like an A hit,
but they're going to walk into an open site.
Bombs in the middle of all of that.
What more could you ask for here for 90?
I have no idea.
Silent as they need to be.
Slicing right through it.
Already luchoff over to the window.
Get it?
Oh, they late smoked that.
B doors.
They maulied to showcase Serato.
But now it's a retake.
At what point of this game did Furia start to get crazy?
Show the teeth.
Kcerato rounds that smoke.
Max right now with the Nade out, could have gotten jumped.
But now Yuri's dead.
Kcerato splits between the two.
One inside of the smoke, he's making noise
and Max comes back, still unkillable.
Molotow is on the retreat.
Done, Dustin!
Five, zero, 9-Z.
Five, zero for 9-Z.
As they call another fantastic round,
it's as if they started with a ton of conditioning.
They've already got 9z buying into their ideas immediately. It helps when you're shooting hard as well
Waso peak gets that instant trade outside of long
After they initially busted open so multi kills in response per furia
That's the key part even if they don't get tricked in their own heads
They have to respond to the fact that long control has been won
Okay, Serato blows up in the smoke on the corner gets a kill back, but they still don't have control of it
They're still a little bit too slow to the other side of the map.
And Ninzee know that they're going to be comfortable playing Lucid and B. They walk in, no telegraph,
easy round.
I'm very happy to see Ninzee picking Gus too.
speaking of picks, Mayern, posting that off through suicide, spots nothing down in mid.
And we get this Molodoy position. This is off of the Sid timeout of course for Furia.
It's around with limitations and low nades and Molodoy's hesitation to just give up
that angle means that he just walked around. DGT didn't approach with futility. He would
have been a sitting duck for this off had Molodoy remained posted.
He's completely missed this timing. Molodoy, he's also risking it by staying out here
because now they're losing the mid-control play but they just don't feel comfortable.
They're too scared about it.
Pushing both his own and Fallen's life in that hold.
They disintegrate the cat defense.
I'm not sure this works out that well for Furia.
I mean, they can go and reclaim long control.
But I'm pretty sure they were her dropping into CT.
No, you also peek is now going out towards Long, has fallen, rotates underneath them.
The problem for Furious, they just don't have anyone inside of mid so they have to respond.
They haven't had mid control once.
This is putting tons of subversive pressure on the Molodoy.
He's going to eat the flash, Lujov right there on the brink of it.
Lujov, a master of the entries.
Zack is coming in a few seconds. Molledoy has to hit.
Oh, and a miss is already.
As Molledoy is going to look to pop back up, now Mayeron's posted.
He's got fallen dead out towards middle. Molledoy, finally.
But it's way too late.
You give them an inch and Ninze will barrel down into that bomb site.
Take all the space you offered over with those missed off shots.
Is there any kind of recovery to be had here for Furia?
Ya Kindard thinks yes.
Keisarado slowly approaching the scene.
Will off shots miss both ways? No, because that off doesn't even get a chance.
advantage taken right back yet again. 9-Z remaining active, but now, oh, Max has been cleared out and you've got it.
It's Cacerotto and Yuri activated from over on that B-bomb side on the rotation for a retake and Furious first round win.
Ooh, that's a close call, but actually a fantastic retake.
Furia were in a very scary position. Molodoy missing those two shots, then taking over cat control.
That was not a position they wanted to be in, and I think even though they win that, they need to respond to the fact that they need eyes on middle.
Like, 90 are using it against them, even if they're not playing out into the mid-B situations.
They got to be grateful they grabbed that, but now it's time to evolve the game plan.
I'd like to see Furia playing for a little bit more information.
Oh! That's a flick! Flick through the door! Not even a wall bang!
Talk about quick. You've got to remain active here if you're Furia. You can't just shell up.
Maren takes the line. Kcerato yet to tiptoe into it, but there's a whole lot of presence over to his left side.
Fallen. He's dropping a smoke in front of this. What does he want to do here?
How does he want to help?
Flash over top of middle and Kcerato kills Max. That's the bomb dropped. MP9 pushed through.
Walsh was a dead man. Lutrov trades activation at a DGT from the middle of all these CTs.
And so what they have left is a smoked off AWPer and a cat player who's not quite sure what's actually back now on Long.
With Fallen unable to fall back, it opened the door.
Moldoy missed off shot didn't see that come out of 9z and so you kind of hail Mary moment down into the lower tunnels
It's the head shot
And that off is now online. Oh, it's it's not enough here for fury of man
They had a chance that Moldoy had a chance a real good chance of that off shot
Really changes the round because if you look at that you replay it again Moldoy put himself in that exact same spot
He went for the right pick this is a
They still almost bring back the 45, but a little too hasty trying to get that point.
Another pick!
Left side through the doorway, fallen skewered.
Fiora doomed.
The Kandars Desert Eagle toppled towards top middle.
And it's a fast moving 19 out.
Oh, they know how to play with momentum, huh?
They've been trying to weaponize this all major long.
We've seen it totally stuffed twice.
In their first outing versus spirit and then in that Aurora game after an incredible
Oh my goodness, single scope from that range.
That nail-biter versus spirit the second time around, we kind of just chopped the Aurora loss up to them
not being able to reset in the what, 15 hours they had between those games?
Man, I was looking at Marin's numbers coming into this game and he had his one great map versus Vitality
so I'm like how often do that happen? It's like one good map a series.
series. His numbers are overall not great but his pop-up potential has actually been pretty crazy
while he's finding a ceiling fast here in this quarter finals. To appreciate what he's put forward
right now in this 8-2 star just know Mayn has never finished an international LAN event with a
higher than a 1.0 rating in this career and we've watched him for years and we can talk about how
that off maybe is not where he belongs and that's what it has felt like at times
but tonight with these mid picks it's feeling like a whole different story
it's feeling like an evolution and the evolution in 90 in South American
Counter-Strike that is not Brazil well that's a conversation we can have all
night long so long as 90 keep these numbers up 7-1 over Furia and of course
7-1 had to come up in this match.
12 kills across there are five players, Viria, are really behind in that department.
I only bring it up because of the amount of money that 90 have saved
after this round win.
Bank accounts on infinite, everyone's smiling, and may or surely not again.
Not this time.
And all while his counterpart is gearing up round after round, getting these mid picks and winning 9s, he rounds out of the gate.
You've got a Molledoy who we've now already seen.
Miss multiple shots. Let's go back to Budapest.
Let's go to the last time he was playing on a major playoff stage.
And the visible frustrations that struck down Furia's momentum at that event as well.
Oh!
But maybe...
Maybe, timing. Maybe he just needs a few more rounds.
Internal ticker clicks.
Yeah, he's just got to trust himself. And in that quarterfinal at Budapest,
we saw him swinging for it.
Like, he kind of tried to fake it until he made it, but...
He couldn't overcome the nerves.
But we've seen Moldoi play too well for too long
to doubt him.
Even at Astana when they got eliminated, he was putting up Volu, the entire game.
Utility dump is good here for Furia, it hits its mark.
But we've seen Molotoy on this angle, we saw him miss the first two shots last time, and then only land the third.
Yukindar trying to get closer to CT if needed, there's still some concern that it's going to be that quintessential mid to B.
Molotoy confirms it, first off shot strikes.
And with Luchov down, it's looking all the easier.
5v3 here for Burial.
Molotov doing a good job of trying to dodge those blocks,
but they finally connect.
And as Ninjini punching the numbers,
you've got DGT still just set the catwalk ablaze.
They were very good at this retake last time.
Coming in from CT, they're holding on to long control.
Just trying to slide up silently.
Here's the P for Max.
It's the headshot to K Serato.
And he's doing a good job of dodging the follow up.
Oh, he gets it!
The second's right there.
He's going fishing.
He's catching everything.
Now it's man advantage.
They can just continue to lean back on the catwalk.
Fallen's down to hack.
He's also dead.
He already finally gets his.
Remember, Max low from the get-go, but DGT with cover.
And all that time Fallen can't get into the action.
It is Max to stand tall on that bomb site and rebound right back with another round
win.
That's an enormous shout out for Max to deny.
He knows exactly where they're coming from.
He sees it.
the one round that they were successful and he tries to counteract that.
He's been a smile on his face today and he said,
every time I show up to a big event like this, I just try to enjoy it.
I have a daughter at home. I've got no time to waste.
And Amir is what he preset on the desk.
When he wishes, when he was a younger player, he had the same attitude of being present.
Max Wise, beyond his years.
819-Z.
It's not too late. It's never too late for Furia, but they still have to prove that they can do it
Ninesie have already stared death in the face at this event
And I know they're not taking any rounds for granted either
Now not only it said after that spirit game
He said I feel like I lost all three maps
And then Ninesie went on to play a roar got stomp. They were in their heads, but they got to face it. Yes
Here you have it.
Face diversity!
And man!
He's got a magnet on this gun.
He's hit them every single time through that door.
Luchon could have capitalized on the momentum with the waso trade right behind him.
Spray goes a little wild, and that's a way to get this edge right back in hand.
They know they got him in the pit, so they try to keep the pressure up.
MP9 swing here from your kindon.
Now we're fighting fire with fire!
And Yuri on ferocious!
Oh my god.
On top of it.
They will jump on to that chance, that opportunity to just get messy.
Not letting these rounds slow down, not letting the squeeze come up catwalk, but throwing themselves
into the duels they know they could find and then this chance win.
Absolutely pivotal moment for Furia because they win on a half-bi, they have some money
after their full-bi, they'll get an up-and-play.
Nineteen did not want to let this one go of all of them and a chance, Fallen knows
a chance to get back back into this half.
Molotov is not shy about that off positioning.
Let's two bullets fly.
They've already lost this CT side badly, but they know that.
On stage here, it's going to be more mental than anything.
Anything the numbers will tell you about Dust2 in this head to head.
But they need something to leverage.
They need a few rounds this half
There's a few rounds can make a world of difference if that's what starts to burrow into your opponent's minds
One of the things that we saw with Thonsi and their inability to close versus spirit was two maps
With a huge advantage
Substantial chances to close out that series and still they failed double upper tunnels flushes perfect. No one's here
But with two here Moldova in the window, it's dead right followers that have to leave and they're
Coming in kind of slowly over towards A.
Kindar nade out right now alone.
They're coming in way too slowly.
There's a chance 9Z went on this.
Still concerned about those middoors.
Now just reclaiming a bit of vision.
They're still not crossing the door.
They need to get some movement.
Oshiz is now that catwalk smoke goes up.
Kcerado's not going to hide this.
Comes running over.
Flashbangs from long from falling.
You kindar peeks in.
Great cover out of Maynard.
But you did blind the riflers.
It at least caused the tempo shift.
But now as they've recovered vision, Max is recovering space,
spray down through the smoke with a fire right in front of it
and is yet another moment where Ninzy take control on their terms
and they do so convincingly.
They're winning the tempo game. They got up on Cat.
They came forward. They started organizing their exec,
which was pretty, it had a lot of utility involved,
so they took a second to do it while they were doing Sofuria work.
Ruminating on the idea that maybe this ends up being
a cancel into a mid-beast split they were hoping.
With Moldova still up in the window, K. Sarato ready to start to swing.
But no commitment, no early rotation. Firiatt not ahead once again.
They need to be way ahead of these rotations. They need to be in control of what the T's are doing.
But it's Max who is in control.
Domineering performance on this T's side.
The two rounds here you have one is the clash at long on a low by and the retake.
Not in a single time have they been in total control of a round.
One on the tactic or anything.
They'll shift it up for the final round.
Double off set up.
Fall in blind with that secondary off.
third kill of the half. Leans back and foregoes the door control. 90, I played one round really
with a trick up their sleeve. Other than that it's been straight forward. Here we'll go with
the commitment out through long. That's a perfect block. They'll have lines but 90
they aren't coming yet. Okay. It's time they will play games.
They tried all this very early into the round, 9-Z have options.
But this time, Furia are way more awake. They started to breach the T-Map control.
Moldova can see all of mid. They have Uri inside of tunnels.
This is more of a map that we were expecting to see, but Uri has got a lot of guys coming.
Man, he's gonna have his hands full. Luchov first. There's a bit of distance between him and the next one.
That gives Duria a good chance at a multi-flag, so good on him to get the double.
And now everyone can come. We've got an early warning system.
Oh yeah, big sprint in. Mayeron post it, and blocks.
And it's also been taken low down FIMAT, the third round secured by Duria.
It is mincemeat for the most part.
9C, what an outing in the first half of this quarter final.
A measly three-round defense out of the side of Fioria on Dust2.
With those three rounds, they will look to take over to the attack and turn things around
with Mayer being as hot-handed as he is coming into this first half.
I think expectations exceeded and then some.
It was insane.
I mean, how clean that he was picking the cross on his T side.
You know, the overall T side from 9-Z was A plus.
Everything was great, exactly where they played their best CS.
Even though they haven't won every Dust2 game, their peak on it, it's all on display.
Mayn standing up to the pressure, Fury on the other hand,
that was only 10% of what they can give us.
They know they need to rise to the occasion.
They at least pick up around at the end of the first half.
But they're going to be chewing on granite to be able to bring this back.
90 take to the easier side now.
Station 2 players in longdoor swiftly.
Shadow advantage is going to give VW a chance.
And he'll chase down you, Kindar for the kill.
Molodoye, good rebuttal.
Flashbang into the cat activation.
Mayer pops the support system and knows he's got Kcerato still stuck in this corner.
Dodges the flash.
Noster's assistance inbound, but he opts to stick around there.
They know someone was flashing here.
They've got DGT on long two.
Do they want to run it up now?
Pizza, Molly's coming.
Naxx will have to move.
Oh, he's got a dive and he doesn't get out of the position.
Fallen catching, Kelsie.
It is both for Fallen in that chase into the A-bomb site,
trying to siege an opportunity,
trying to have a grasp on this game
after a free fall in the first half.
Julia will respond with a T-side pistol win.
Excellent kills on a ball.
And I mean, let's make it a real match now.
chance for Fiora. Let's see if they can start out as cleanly as 9Z did on their conversions.
We're going through the checklist of things we need to see. We got Molo do a hitting a great
shot on Long, falling it, bringing up his score.
We have a fucking same T-Side, we'll effort on getting those 3, now it's focused, let's fucking go.
You'll always hear that teams want the T-Side map agnostic to make comeback happen, because that's where you can condition, that's where you can build up, slowly control the tempo, which you can't do on T-T-Side.
side. Alex since point there he says good focus to at least just get three rounds
there and they did right you trickle through with two of the last three
rounds of the half. And Paulin also mentions how easily off a pistol they can
even up. The kinder gets a spot.
But already I like it from 9z as soon as they want to try anything outside
in the mid it's denied and this is with a lean towards a already luchov waiting
for this five seven in hand and no support whatsoever this is all in the
middle oh my first one it's looking good until waso gets overwhelmed by
crawling they don't have a need to pop this open so it's a helmetary spray from
DGT with no B defense whatsoever. That is Furia to tip-throw their way to a fifth round win.
They get to put all their puzzle pieces together. They make a great call just like Nynzee did on their T side.
Path of least resistance. Mid B out. No help from the A guys. They're not there in time. It's perfect from Furia.
Still a scary sign. You get the insta 5-7 kill. You get a solid scout shot.
There was no point in that first half where we looked at a piece of Nynzee and said, oh mechanical failure.
Oh, individual fall-off. Not yet. That is going to take many more rounds for Furia before I think Ninesie starts to crumble in that regard.
Yeah, I mean, I don't think, you know, I don't think we're replicating what Ninesie did because I think Furia came in clammy.
I think they came in cold. They didn't really show what they could do.
But as far as getting the round together, the call overall, the macro of it, I think they'll be quite happy.
And even here they've only lost one.
Fallen survives that bomb on one health. Calculated.
Recycling what's left from last round.
Minds, he will not look to invest.
They're game playing round 15 hinges on this single MP7 hoping they've got a heroic moment.
We've got a flash though to set this up.
Luchoff gonna try to take the d- oh no excuse me smoke.
They're getting Molo-Doy to bite.
They think someone will come through, because of all that flash you will, Molotoy connects to it, DGT1 and done.
So again, just looking to get that SMG into the activation, they do so, they kill Molotoy and that's it.
They leave the bomb in the doorway, you'll go and recover that, you've got a minute to just get through a USB 5.7 on opposite sides of the map.
Chance to catch your breath really here if you are Furia, and this is exactly what they said in that halftime listening.
Guys get focused to get those three rounds now win pistol nine six and then we play our game
Here we are
It's a moment for Fallen to go
Are we gonna win this round guys because then we can start talking about the real calls versus the real setups
But that part of the job is done and again looking very successful
one death again
And Furia suddenly, even though they start slow, know they can bring this back.
Thing is for 9-Z, we saw a master class birdstaff, we saw not enough for Furia.
They slip pistols, that's great, but it's 9-Z's CT setups, that I think some of the
best.
Yeah, great tag here for Mollinoy though.
Almost knocks down a whole NAID set in the player in one shot.
We've seen Ninesies inability to close Dust2 versus Spirit once leading 11-6 in that map, and it still was not enough.
Here they are versus Furia, two rounds short of that quota, and still watching their opponents claw back.
first rifle of the second half.
Can Mayer tap into the ability he showed us on the attack because those doors had his name stamped across them.
Hell, not even the doors, just the gap. The one that Molodoy currently has the opposition within.
It smoked off in a minute and we're getting all this utility coming out of Ninesie. Fire to the catwalk, smoke into the doorway, check the nades they have left here.
Orshav would have been incendiary and that's it.
They're forcing them just to go for their exec now because they're failing to get that rotation.
The Info's getting the night inside of Middlet. They're gonna have to commit through something without knowing everything.
There's a lot of attention out towards this mid-crossfire though. DGT currently with a nade in hand.
If he throws it to Catwalk, he won't be able to help out in mid.
And also Beak is about to flank. This Maldoy coming in to look behind him, but has to turn around.
Time is low. They fought really well to earn this opportunity.
Now the punch. Middle holds. Max slams the door shot.
Crosshair's flank delivers a second and it is only Yukimura who has still slipped a snap with 20 seconds can't respond
Nizi's tap back just enough. I'm sorry, bud
Good this this round is exactly how furia needed to start the game. This is activity inside at middle
This is denying every little bit of map control that Nizi are looking for
That furia are looking for the waso peak flank is a given at that timing even though Molo do his game sense
is telling him to watch that flank at 36 seconds, he also has to help the exact
and hope that they are pushing. That's not gonna happen today versus 90, they're
showing their playing well in both halves. First gun rounds there's. It's on
Fury to find a gap.
90 can't come into this game and give them lessons about how to play CS. Fury
Touch top one last year. They're the ones with trophies. They're the ones with all the experience max looks up to fall in
But 9z are the ones playing better right now straight up
It's 9z that took this pause that just ended
Giving bit a chance to have a word from all the way on the cross
loss. Unable to find any value out of it as we go three players to long immediately here
for 9Z. She's starting to round off in the chance that Furia decided to try to blow those
doors off the hinges. It's very difficult to push team into time struggle on this map.
Nines he successfully did that by playing on to the top of it
This is the kind of pressure that pays off later on here is money's low egt looking at time is a cheese
Here we are ready to do anything quite yet
There's plenty more utility where those ones come from
Just juggling it over to the ramp. I see three frag grenades already.
Lost an incendiary extra.
They're waiting for the exact... I mean, they're not even trying to punish the default.
That might turn into a mid-beat. They're ready for an A-play.
Gotta write about it too.
This doesn't get popped, but Luchoff playing the crease.
Double Molly execute comes out from Furia. They're about to let those nades fly.
DGT's just gonna answer with utility of his own. It's a barrage!
It is a bloodbath!
there is no successful entry here for fury of the smoke soon to fade as they
fade out of this assault. Only until Maladoy connects with one on the AWP and you
kindar yes he's a little long but he's got to get this going it's Maladoy with a
second you kindar still so cautious we hit 15 seconds and that bomb still yet
to cross. Also now found out you can't go all the damn nearly drops the ball.
Another nade this one for Yuri and it barely barely chips away it in so it
It will be a healthy man advantage with eyes on the cross for Furia to somehow have reclaimed control of that site.
And they're able to pause, and that's what they needed.
Heroic moment for Molodoy.
In the middle of that messiness, the perfect call to answer via utility and he lands both these shots.
Yeah, absolutely. Clutch out of Molodoy.
That's very scary though all those bits of utility moving into the right spot
before the cat exactly even started. It's still worrying, it's still worrying
but it's a round on the board for Furia.
When you're playing against a team that's really good sometimes you got to
windows losing situations.
Let's go guys.
Stay on the game.
Stay on the game.
Only one more round.
Let's get more.
That's it.
That's it.
It's not just Cologne, it's not just a Major.
It's a Cologne Major and everyone can feel it.
I love this press though.
Ninty again.
Get active.
There's just no hesitation from this team.
Kindar's utile usage serves as an invitation. They'll swing and he finds the head shot a little quicker than his last duel in the previous round.
Mayeron's on the fallback. Moldodoy will not let DGT escape. That two-man forward mid-play costs 90 bodies.
It's an excellent pick-off. They've covered everything.
And now they have the right to chill a little bit. They can start the stage, whatever attack they want to.
See if another push happens.
See if someone's thirsty for a frag.
Oh don't walk into that, that's dangerous.
Mayer, a stick, perfect shot.
Now versus Molo-Domi.
Two duels picked up man, advantage earns.
Just the right amount of mayonnaise and here comes Max.
Max onto the flank caught out by Yuri.
At least his head shot's swift.
You're gonna know Mayer's got that up over towards the A site
and you know, damn well Wasso's off somewhere towards B.
What's your move, Yuri?
One player with a positive KD here on Furia,
looking for the one on two.
Interesting pathing.
Oh.
Through the smoke, he runs the risk
and encroaching ever closer.
If Mayer can't hold his nerve, if he gets caught off
by this unexpected proximity out of Yuri,
then the bomb plant's going to go uncontested.
And sure enough, he gets the head shot.
Found out the routing's perfect.
He gets that clamp down.
He's got a volley.
The amount of clutches Uri has won in 2026 is a statistical anomaly.
And in a year where we have seen his individual level taper off to that of which was a driving force in 2025,
now is a hell of a time for Uri to try to end this.
And he's playing a catch-all position.
Wasso's coming in expecting to clear this.
Uri's just got to hit the great shot.
Oh, does he expect it? Does he start to consider it?
Cross him in the right spot! It's a fast clear!
Lasso doesn't peek and instead Yuri sticks the landing 1v3.
What a moment for Yuri. Comes away with the off the clutch and makes it a two round game.
What a thing to do on stage.
The first clutch of the fifth quarter finals could not come any more critical moment.
With those flags, Yuri takes over as the top performing player on Furia right now.
Another full control situation for 9z.
Another one that Furia bring back.
And Sits coming in to say, okay, we've got all this pop-off potential.
That's excellent.
But let's start taking control of things with our game plan.
We should also have that to our advantage.
Nineteen are now in a moment where they realize, counting up the rounds they should have won.
The half-by, that clash at long, this clutch, this game could have been over.
How many more moments are they going to be gifted?
Battle of the Oppers in round 19 could be found.
through the doorway and then a second.
DGT flashed for the challenge.
Oh, perfect jump.
It flashed him.
They smoked him, Molly.
They see nothing else inside of middle as well.
There have been few rounds in the second half where
90 do not try to take an initiative.
We've seen it cost them with the double up towards top mid
this time by these four arms.
Very strong cat setups.
Last time they walked right into this,
they're going to test his medal again.
No difference, and it's supported by a duo of riflers right in front of it.
Luchov gets his, falls back, DGT sticks around, and a two versus five seems unthinkable.
Balladoy drops the bomb. He wants to take action.
Someway, two on five, but still a minute up.
That constant looming thread of Wasso beat towards Long, yeah,
Yuri feels preoccupied to hold it.
They're still a little bit weak towards me, but the bomb's not gotten picked up yet.
This could potentially be a long save, and it will be, it looks like, for Fury, they will simply give up in a leavened round.
Also gets active. Farns himself slain. 30 seconds. No, he's still gone. Not even trying.
But good to know that your intuition of holding those long doors is constant.
Also couldn't help himself. 5-2 goes for it.
There was value in trying to cancel out the Uri Malidoy save.
It looks like 9Z content to just let them have these two rifles in the next one.
You're never gonna have to police 9Z on how active they're being.
There hasn't been a round that hasn't had the right amount of activity.
Again, another full control situation.
This time it actually gets converted.
9Z closer to that finish line.
And it's such a classic conversation in Counter-Strike
that you can play this kind of counter-strike, this aggressive, confident, active, mobile CT side,
and then you hit the big stage and the nerves creep in, and the confidence dwindles.
And suddenly you're not making those moves that can make or break big moments, but tonight, Ninesie has.
Not looking at to let another stage game escape them.
Well, the streak will continue for one of these teams in the wrong direction.
There's only one winner tonight, and it feels like theory are painfully aware of that.
Lob this setup.
Two best riflers on 9Z sitting right in front.
They're also not flashing it.
I mean, the first time they ran into it, sure.
Molodoye back to the midpoint.
Only one cross. There's a weakness towards this B site and bombs heading that way.
Three players strong in the tunnels.
It takes a second, but Lujak joins forces alongside Max.
Okay, Serato's already through.
Ooh, they're limit testing now. Furia starting to get ahead of some of these timings.
Yep, there's a chance.
This is one of the most empty mid-plays we've had from 9CCT side, but it's also some of the most utility we've seen Fury a throw on this cat approach.
Not re-smoking middle, so I think Fury know they have a chance. Nade will come out.
Yep, it's gonna pop it open. Fistful's in front. Easy. Chew through the two of those, and now the three rifles will have to try and answer.
But now you've got a ton of bodies here in the CT spawn. And as they layer up, bomb has been dropped in the middle of all that because the pistol players pushed past.
And if these smokes fade, there is no chance that you can reclaim this.
Mollidoy, we can even further still, but oh, Quasso could have gotten caught if that smoke
fade, lucky to be alive.
That would have been nice.
They still haven't dealt with either player.
B-Max already pushing the tunnels.
Constant on the back line, R90.
He knows how to do the finishing move.
Like, when there's time on his side, like, he is...
He's the one taking the map control.
Maladoy so concerned about flank that they're not worried about lower tunnels, not this close.
At least he won't get away with the escape. That's what seniority's mind.
Another late-round moment here for Yuri to try to get impact.
But remember, still, no bomb.
This is just a fade-away walk-away moment from Furia.
Ninze are about to secure their 12.
Let's see if they can even walk away. Yuri's gonna walk right into his den.
One of the two players who saved last rounds.
That investment wasn't great, was it?
Something...oh, that's something awful.
Moledoy has to be the hero. This next round door, it's over.
They bought behind those two guns saved.
There is no op-multi or double entry to work with.
Perfect support from 90 on this CT side.
That's getting one back through the CT smoke,
but nobody peeled off of that B bomb site.
And the three remaining members of Furia just don't have the gas.
Oh, there's a wall bang at least on Luchov for Furia to try to hang on with.
We saw what two pistols turned into previous round.
Well, now you just got quadruple tech nines around this off.
Last round we did see them playing a bit more free, but they didn't have that much coming into it.
It felt like the right energy.
Double flash getting ready here for Wassopeak and he's putting himself in position to spam blind actually
Crosshairs in the perfect place. We'll see what comes up. Flash hits. He doesn't shoot immediately
And that's gonna leave you kindar with a chance not only for the kill but the upgrade
You put an AK and you kindar sands you get fury at just a slightly larger chance
Molodoy versus Mayeron in a moment flashbangs. Yeah, not only hits them, but they confirm he's stuck behind this car
At a minute though, there is still map control everywhere else for Furia.
Although I'm making sure Maeyern hasn't left.
Can't be certain about it.
Can 9Z keep up these ambitious moves? It's a quick peek into the cap play.
It's a fire bomb that gives them a path. It's DGT maybe ahead of what Furia may expect.
Sure enough, the King Mars down! Oh, but a good Tech 9 answer back by Yuri!
Mayer's still locked into this position. It's gonna have to be a looch off,
tagged through the doors at the start of the round to try and keep off this cap
pressure. Three players in their attempt to push through. Mayer doesn't have to worry
about long. Moldoi can't a skill on him either. 20 seconds. Moldoi's got his 50
into the clock. Kcerato open row but there's a fast flanking behind him. Here
comes Max. Never stopped him. Oh but the cover it's offered up from the
site. Now bomb planted. Max looking to close this and as he finds the head
Shot to Kcerato, he's diving in.
Nerve-stricken Moledoy on the other side, whiffs the runners.
That's a step for landing.
90 do not waste their chance to strike first.
Quarterfinals, map one secured.
It was anything but that tonight.
Yeah, it felt like the 9C we saw in the beginning of Stage 3,
to be completely honest, when they were taking Vitality
and beating them, when they were taking a fight against Spirit
and arguably could have beaten them.
This was a well-playing 9C who did everything in their own order
in order to get the best chances of winning this game.
I think, again, we spoke about how decisive they were
and how they opened up the rounds, speak of openings.
I think they went 15-6 in opening kills going their way,
or something along those lines.
So they gave themselves all the I guess all the space they needed in order to close out enough grounds because it was getting a
Big guys in here in the second half at times, but Jason. I'll be honest. That was a surprise to me
Dude, I think the first half it felt like they were a step. I had a fury and fall in the whole way
I thought that was actually a 60 half that they that they were able to call
How many times did we see like Maladoy left alone at real a case?
Serano could never figure out what he was supposed to be in middle for a mid to be split if he was supposed to
Shipped over to help with nades and utility
They could never get that coordinate then you add the slow starts from the individual players
But really I think a lot of this especially the comeback that 9z put down
I think that's a testament to the tough battles they had against vitality and spirit in stage three
I think the fact that they got taken so close in such a grindy atmosphere
That's I think what gave them the confidence and the ability to stay in that game. It actually persevered. That was phenomenal
For 9z the way they played just the approach. They were in furious phase the entire time
But it happens again for fury a come playoff time
Everyone goes missing and it's just a style of play like on that CT side just sit back let 9z execute
Where's the aggression? Where are the mid-round?
Information plays from your kinder. Why isn't he on short sometimes getting flashed in?
Why aren't they doing something they tried one round to go aggressive immediately?
You know at the start of the round it didn't work out
But for most of that we were talking about their CT side
This wasn't it like they're just sitting back getting executed on coming in for the retakes, right?
There was no proactive plays no taking the fight to 9z in a consistent way
And that's why they had a field day
It was the exact inverse of what you said could have to 90 off guard right if you're hurry
You want to get in their faces turns out the shoes on the other foot, which is insane
It felt like it felt like if you're a kind of a especially in the first like six seven rounds of that game
They had like the same reaction that yanko just had up just like oh, it's happening again
Like here we are in the quarterfinal here
We are struggling down zero to five and I felt like at some point during that game some of the plays from
I started the sense he like fell back out of that trap of trying to overextend to make plays
He I think he was probably frustrated. He was having a quiet game
He was probably frustrated. He wasn't having impact letting his team do better
I just got away from furious so far in the first session
Let's get into that and just a second though because we do need to go back to the first half. Yanko
What have you got for us?
Yeah, I think it's one of these rounds where you see like Jason pointed out falling into some of these old traps
For fury and trying to do too much even though you're losing you cannot panic here
Moldoi hits a great random shot to get the entry on to Myron, who was absolutely light south.
9Z after a while decides to just execute A. Again, they're just being executed on, but it's fine.
4-5 E3, he drops down the smoke and decides to play around it.
Dude, you do not need to put this in a 5 E3. Just save the smoke, fall back.
You have a two-man advantage. Let your teammates rotate in, buy some time.
Instead, he dies. That's one less player. Look at these angles that now 9Z is taking.
You can't do that if an AWP is along. He's going to take your head off.
Max, great ending to the game, had a great game throughout.
Some crispy shots here, and they shut down the retake.
And this is exactly the sort of thing that your teammates are going to get frustrated about.
You're struggling for your life here. You're trying to get back into the game.
You have a 5-0-3, and then you throw it away.
Yeah, I'm with you. I think that's beautifully explained.
They're the backing away from the AWP, and then you let your teammates clear mid.
Yeah, and those are the things that you seem like Fury had them at some point during Stage 3.
and they've just kind of, they've kind of fallen by the ways and have been forgotten.
And for Molodoy, their core of stars has been great every majoring groups.
Then come play-offs, no one shows up. And Molodoy has the biggest drop-off of them all, right?
And I don't know if it's the nerves at this point or what it is, but it just keeps happening.
And you can't have your best guys, especially the openers. That's the biggest problem
for Fury. You're going to watch this game or the stats and you're going to say,
case, Serato, where was he? What can he do when his openers are not getting any openings
and he's 3v5? Like there's not much really for you to do from that situation.
That's what it feels like for Molotov and that's what you said as well Jason, then it
comes into his own mind as well where he didn't try to overextend himself a little bit to
get back into the game and maybe that's the right thing to do at times but I think
for Molotov it's been a reoccurring issue that there's not really the way you get
back into a game. You've got to stick with the game plan, you've got to stick
with your style because we know that he's good for it if he positions himself right
But once you start to I guess panic a little bit in the way you approach the game
That's when a good team like Nancy will punish you
Can I just say too? I mean, you know if we're gonna stick on the molotov plant
Mayeron was looking more like molotov than molotov was Mayeron had a stick game with the adbp
And that's the crazy thing is like here
You win their first round in that first half and you think all right
Let's get it go and let's swing a couple together start feeling better
And then there hits a blinder on the cross and you're playing five on four immediately
And then the next round he does it again
So like right when you're in a position to get your momentum back
That's when a little bit a lot of maybe I'm not gonna say luck
But a little bit of fortune goes your way of nailing those two shots on the cross
And what are you supposed to do if you're fury backs against the wall again?
And this is why I was so crazy here and your kinders say that in the opening interview
It's like how is that on your mind when you say like oh we've gone to the quarterfinals and just kind of get upset
And it's like boys. I can't be the mindset. I can't be the thought running through your head here
Speaking of man, when was the last time you saw an AWP player hit that many shots through the crossing from Dawson?
I will.
Sivu, maybe I don't think he's done that many in one game.
Well, not that consistent. That was insane for man and
Coming into the player right he was the worst rated AWP player out of all the ops heading into the playoff
He'd been struggling a little bit in terms of struggling sure and still winning with 90
But he wasn't really the driving force of the catalyst
But in this game on the T side once you open up almost every single buy round with your op taking out one of the players from furrier
Through the double doors as well. There's different ways of dying encounters right and I bet you they were frustrated about it
Your round is six seconds old and you're already dead like that every single round. That's frustrating
I think one of the cool things about 9Z is they're still in that like little innocent naive phase
where like they're still like just so much trying to achieve this goal as a team
like they're so very well teamed too because if you look at you know the round you highlighted with
Molledoy sticking around at the bomb site, Mayen was playing more supportive style too
like he gets some of those opening picks right but you see them executing an A
and he's just sat back like holding goose for the peek and he's like I don't actually need to
make a play right now I'm just here to protect my teammates as they scale up into the bomb site
really intelligent all thing really intelligent team play from 9Z and that's what came out on top
It was so crazy because you know what was Mayer's first foray into Tier 1 Counter-Strike?
What's that?
It was MIBR, while Fallen was still on the team and the Brazilian lineup and he was a right for them.
I mean, he only recently turned to the AWP so it wasn't the best of stands.
Those six months in MIBR now he's come to collect.
That was a hard time to come into those Brazilian teams.
The player was always a little bit of a hot potato.
What are you talking about?
We move into that second half though and you think,
Do you think, okay, maybe some sides of the line from Ferrera, they win the pistol and they subsequently convert the next two rounds.
How do you 9Z start to put a stop to that though?
Just keep playing, great counter shot, keep playing as a team.
This is a default, alright, you chase the up of the angle, but we want to do a B split really from the side of Furia.
But you can see the reaction from 9Z, when that comes in, the B players, they're out front, so the plan is B fight for mid.
If they come mid to B, we're fighting for it.
The A rotator is there as well. If they come A, we retake, doesn't matter.
Kwasopik on the second wave of it pushes long now, catches Molodoy, and it's just a slaughter in mid
because they just make a call and stick with it, right? Like in the completely mowed down, just one player left alive
and this is the first gun round they're immediately back into.
Look at the breakdown of that too, when Molodoy falls, both the players in mid, one tries to push forward at the B bomb site,
the other backs away to try and handle the long push, but he's also got a teammate on Catwalk
whose responsibility is then handling the long push, so you actually could have doubled up and so tried to force your way forward.
And I think Fury just got a little bit lost in this game with how bad they were getting beaten.
I think the players just kind of lost a little bit of focus here and there and some things slipped.
That was the decisiveness we talked about from NIC coming into the game.
They stick to the plan, they go with the plan and it didn't work out and they were singing around.
There were a couple of blunders as well when NIC had a man up given they won so many intro kills in this game.
But they didn't really scare them, they didn't really change the way they would approach the following rounds.
So maybe as you said, maybe they're a bit naive, maybe they're a bit inexperienced in the sense that they don't realize the possible ramifications of their mistakes.
and that actually helps them in a game like this.
That's a fun time to be on a team, honestly.
Like, that's a really fun time to be in a team.
Like, when everyone is like actually just actually playing
for the game plan that you have at that moment
and it's because you're achieving your biggest success
for the first time in your career with this group.
So it's really easy to be alive.
It's when the difficulties come later
that that starts to fade away.
Yeah, potentially could come in the second map of this series
but to tie this one up in a nice, neat bow,
obviously the clutch for Max to kind of end things out,
that was beautiful to see.
But was there a kind of another finishing blow moment
for you, Janko?
I think like just the resilience right so fear I did win two rounds of 3v5 and a 1v2
So this is the final buy from 9z and again DGT with the aggressive play. Yeah, this is what you wanted to see
Yes, it is gets a 5v4 now. It's still a 4a setup three guys committed on short right man gets one
Lucho gets the second right and in a 5v2 the rest of the players just have to save right and then
And this was off the back of losing two rounds and as Jason pointed out kind of a silly way,
right?
And you still have, you know, the bravado to take the game to Fiora and this was the turning
point or actually the last nail in the coffin really in a way.
Yeah, I like that because it was actually around two rounds prior I think where they
also tried to go catwalk Fiora and again like didn't flash the corner.
Like how many times we've seen teams at this level not Molotov, not flashback the
AWPer, not forced the defenders back and then all of a sudden you're kind of
just dry walking into an up-crossing.
We're talking about it, FURIA T-Sides haven't been that great, you know, usually it's in
pistol convert and then one or two rounds is all you need, right?
And here the two gunners that they won are 3v5 and a 1v2 clutch from URI, like they weren't
getting themselves in that many good situations, right?
The score maybe, what was it, 13-8, didn't even feel that close.
It's gonna take a huge 1-80 from FURIA if they're going to avoid elimination.
considering when you're talking about the concerns on the T side, then
starting on that on Mirage, what's the expectation here for you, Janko? I mean
I think they just need a better performance from guys like Ikeender, they
need some openers, they need to make fall in life slightly easier, whether that's
going to be Ikeender calling around for himself or his own number, what sort
of openings, whether that's something you saw in your prep and you already
have round set for early on in the half, but if you're constantly playing
4v5s, 3v5s, that's not going to be a fun time on the T side.
I don't think the way 9C is going to play is going to change that much.
They're going to be proactive, they're going to be aggressive, they're going to try to look for those openings.
So if I'm furrier, if I'm your kinder, if I'm fallen, I want my teammates to punish that aggression.
Because it's going to be ramp peaks, it's going to be pushing apps,
it's going to be a B apps push at a certain timing as well.
And I would be surprised if 9C doesn't try to retake middle in the middle of a round as well.
When that happens and when you offer the opportunity to punish that aggression from 9C,
That's the first way and best way of stopping that if they don't do that
They'll continue to do it round after round after round as we saw in this too
They will see pretty early on what kind of a mood fury is in for this second map like in the first three gun rounds
If you look at the group stage that they've played you kinder was like he's always kind of testing some limits, right?
He's used he was playing so well
I think that he was feeling the game and reading it very well and so confident in it
He was doing his classic like take some risks and get the high end of the reward walk through a smoke here because you kind of
Sense the defense base up what's come if that is missing when we get into this and see their T side
It's an issue because he is such a critical part to this offense creating space for so many people
What I liked about this game is we also talked so much about the pressure the stage the arena the noise everything
And you'd think after winning that 3v5 and a 1v2, you know that gives the moment the moment to the side of fury
I like now all 9z is gonna start breaking but ultimately doesn't matter if
What you do on the server, you know, isn't that great and 9z had the sort of fortitude to keep taking the game to fear
And if you couldn't handle it they just couldn't handle the fights
They couldn't handle the aggression and until they can't figure out the way to switch that up on Mirage. They're done
We've just got a couple of seconds left, but I do just want to pose the question to you, Anko
Do you think it's possible that Nainzi actually do this actually make it to the center?
I think it's over
I think furious just choking again and they can't perform on the major playoff stage. That's it Nainzi taking it
Well, we've got hell of a lot to be desired from the side of Furia and fair play after that shambolic performance on Dust2
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I imagine first map you're starting over past the side crowd who grow hard I'm
not going to be hard so we've been there so what can we pick you guys have
ideas for us for you guys yeah I guess 98 yeah but we have any ideas but you
think our fairness good coated yeah your first pick inferno that was it
we were thinking as well in front of me I mean you cannot pick over pass you
No, they are picking overpass everywhere.
They are picking overpass in their faces.
They picked overpass four times.
I think new twice and in front of once.
They are picking overpass.
Ego pick overpass, bro.
That's the best overpass in South America.
Well, pick overpass.
They ban an overpass with bad ancients.
Then it's overpass.
Overpass new is going to be one of those third.
Because maybe they pick new minions.
They are going to pick this too.
They put this on her before.
They know that I know.
Is there maps which you would be afraid to play against Furia?
That's true.
You're discussing it now, so you didn't discuss what maps you had with a person yesterday.
No, we already know what maps.
Showed us?
No, actually we didn't discuss it.
Yanko understands.
He doesn't speak, but he understands.
Is there maps where you think about Furia and this map?
Yeah, which map do you think like fun has a big impact cities?
I think that's a nervous for sure. Yeah
Yeah, but I have new tricks on the watch out new tricks. No, don't don't no way
No, it's second up on the nervous
It's too easy for me. I don't help because it's too easy. Oh, we're still waiting a team that's gonna pick a nervous against us
They haven't played in officials in February or a month or so.
They shock the stage here in quarter finals. They do everything they need to
to show you that they can win this series and pull off the big upset of the
quarter finals. Some said the easier side of the bracket. Ninzee say they agree.
Are they going to be the threats to make it to Grands? And are Furia going to be
the ones to crumble underneath the pressure of this arena.
Follins won it before, but doing it twice,
doing it three times and setting a record.
That's amounting pressure maybe no one can stand.
But that's a reality they'll have to face now,
versus a team that deserves to be here.
play their game and then some back on dust to let's see what they've gotten
stored for us on Mirage 90 to the CT side to start it
Maladoy head tuck P250.
Ooh, missed chances.
Had a first kill.
BASOP confirms lower tunnels.
We've got Mayeron just trying to keep himself alive.
Gear support system looks good where there's one, there's more.
That's the case with Ninzee.
Uh-oh, that's scary already, man.
Sure, Fallon, you can take over the A site.
Sure, Yuri, you can take P.
What you don't have is the bomb.
That belongs to Mayeron.
How are you going to make this connection?
Luchov, he's in safety. He can get information. Will he leave a gap big enough that fallen can take advantage? That's the question
There are police everywhere
It is just in states
There's no punish pick in the series Connor
Mirage at the bottom of the map pool by the numbers here for 90
There's one
Hold your horses. We've got low HP mayor, and we've got half HP max
Surely not another clutch for Yuri. Look at that dink. Now DGT's down low. Oh
All they have to do is kill time until we can't get that bomb back. Will they be too nervous?
Tunnel's players gonna have to go really wide to get this angle. Yuri's halfway
He could dodge this threat behind him, but he's got a move and now he's got another 1v1 locked in
He doubles back. Max makes the brave move of getting back up connector. Will Yuri clear it?
He's gonna run in. Max to the left side Yuri.
Show us your teeth!
Come on, Yuri!
Bite deep!
Mayer moves fast in 12 health, Yuri.
This is just so instrumental!
Nizi thought they had this in the bag!
Yuri confirms.
How are you going to move this forward, Mayer?
You've got a flash, but don't you dare pull that out.
It's going to have to be the surgical headshot fourth kill on a silver platter.
He's going to get it!
low and beat hards!
Fiori are striked first!
The one they can count on the clutch
does it again, one-ups himself on Mirage.
A holy, impossible situation.
Sectioned off piece by piece.
A chance for a mayor, but the heart to back is too much.
We saw it back in the first map. Just a glimpse of his collectability. We thought maybe that could get furious game-coing
Well, how about starting a map with that instead?
There is no mountain of 9z rounds that you were meant to surpass
But there is a looming threat here in the second round of Mirage that a force by could rebound right back
Fallen sees the sandwich drop this keeps coming for you. Oh, no, he's gonna start shooting
It doesn't matter if they can't pull out the second round.
Max now hands to the Galil. Yikindar's going to wait for that bomb to arrive.
Mayeron's calling for help, right? No, sorry. Mayeron's going to window. Max isn't calling for help. He'll fall back.
MP7 doesn't instantly jump. Now that double market rotation comes in.
Nines, these bodies are throwing themselves to the B side as Max just keeps his head down low.
And there's the MP7 kill for Yikindar. 2v5 clawback is what's demanded of them.
50 to the clock, there's the second, Molledoy's now on the scene.
And with the Kingdawd putting fire to the feet, Molledoy pinched off from the catwalk
and they get it, 9-Z four-spy right back.
They know the clutch.
They know it entirely.
For the mental, 9-Z would replay this situation the exact same way.
If they knew that they denied the conversion, nothing feels better than that for them.
Nothing feels worse for Fyria.
Trying to buy back themselves instantly.
Are the lights too bright?
A-Cheese come cascading into the A-Sides, the right side smokes come out.
They look to make it a second tier exact to draw out any incendiaries if the CTs have
them.
They stay wide awake in mid with two on the A-Side, it's still a good looking setup
from the CT side.
Double smoke well tied.
Smoke to Palace and A-Ramp.
Oh, yeah.
Daunting effort now for Furia to get through.
The 9-0 are going to know they'll be desperate to try and puncture.
And so a Desert Eagle kill from Molledoy's,
all they've received.
Ross O'Pete's got the cover.
Good.
Mayhemhorn commitment.
Kacerotto fighting.
It'll be Majority standing at the end of round three.
It's 9-0.
Pull ahead.
Can we talk about how ready 9-ZR for every single move you're making back on Dust2 here on Mirage?
Again, so I was trying to say during the Euryclerch that shouldn't have happened.
From the bottom of their map pool, here is Mirage. They've lost 3 out of 4 games.
But one of those losses is to spirit in overtime.
The game they won was against Vitality.
They fixed up the place just in time for the Major.
You can think about that frag grenade for the little that this round will last.
Quick kills inside of the A site, your clocks mean nothing to a 90 rolling forward with now
what is massive momentum.
The gun rounds will keep on coming.
oncoming the tests will be thrown their way but you're painting a beautiful
picture about a 90 that can do this they have incredible I mean did just have
incredible rotations they have the whole spirit of Latin America in their
gameplay they still bring it fear you are you know a Frankenstein team in terms
of the styles they bring in and they they have a personality absolutely but
90 are more pure in terms of what we are used to seeing those original South
American lineups. They bring the frosty of their CT size. Oh, you kindar! Fasten through
the fire! And it's a Maldagoi first blood! Oh, this works out. And that ambition down
through underpass, well worth it for the 5v3. Max once again looks to just skate by this
threat. Now, bomb is deep inside apartment, so there's a little hesitation. And within
that timing, Max strikes one down. Oh, Ben! Oh, no! Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no.
Still alive bombs picked up
Max making a move off of the catwalk
At least the bomb isn't on K. Serato over there. They have to try to refocus
There's a chance to take him out mayor not watching this
Also from the bottom of connector and Moledoy low health with back a little top mid never really had a chance to get
Active he gives it a pause and he'll try to use the element of surprise
to win this 1v2.
Oh, but the trade's good.
The numbers make a difference.
Max goes up 5-2 with a 3k, and puts 9-Z comfortably,
leading 4-1.
Yeah, at the pause, at the pause and start
the South Cacerados game, crashed at a moment
where Max takes one out, and he's up there and be axed.
It's a tough thing to stomach.
That's sure as hell not the venue.
You want to deal with this and yet, professionals they are.
I've got to say Cologne, it's been ten years I've done this job.
It is Launders and I's first time having the privilege of casting in this cathedral
and from where I'm standing up here in the Rafters, this room is beautiful.
Yeah, it's all that.
It's an honor to be here with you guys tonight.
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An imposing presence from the upper deck in this arena.
And yet somehow, it doesn't shake 9-Z.
That's right, that's right.
And they had every right to it. If they did, it would be the least surprising thing.
Even Magic sent, you know, they play insane, but we'll just have to see if the
crowd affects them. Still waiting on that.
There were a lot of Furio fans here, naturally, but I think 9z will start to
win some back. They keep playing like this.
Stoffed. No contest with the Tech 9 up Catwalk and Warsaw just banking on his
teammate. I love the confidence. Let these pistols try their damndest. It's a
rock solid defense across the board. Not one death on the side of 9Z so far.
Fury continuing to get pieced up. Obviously an unfortunate disconnect.
Outside of that though, it's been the slow starts.
Domineering CT sides again. Just have to talk about how good they are
making connections. Tell me about a round where they didn't know where Furia
were going. I can't even think of a single round in this series where they
weren't aware of what Furia were going to do next, genuinely. And in the vast
majority of rounds that Furia won back on Dust2,
9Z still knew what they were doing. They just clutched up, they just
battled through a lot of CTs.
The rubber is beating the road here for 9Z, the flowers are bearing handed out.
And Maxis said it, they're trying to garner the respect of the tier one teams that they feel that they can compete against.
Fight for fallen lost, blue job hands on him, another duel just over the edge of it, and
you've got Molodoy low health on the answer, trying to get Yikindar into this mix.
As Wasupik turns his back, that's a safety net, four middle momentarily, Mayeron going
wide out through a site, he knows Yuri's locked in, this will be a high pressure shot
in a moment.
at that moment seemingly fleeting fury.
Oh!
Guilt, while Mayer's blind, we get the walk out from the ramp,
confirming the attack as Molodoys low HP
will remain a liability and get Mayer and still
just gives him a little more space, a little more time.
He was holding just wide enough to be able to hit that.
The lamp flash is perfect, but the kinder has a lead.
Flash comes out of the ramp,
rotations coming around CTs are slow to be.
There's a chance for Furia to pick this up.
There's a real chance.
Furia come into this beaten and bruised. They may not believe that they could find an empty
site because they have not been able to find them versus this team, but here it is. The
opportunity is granted. A three on two retake, but they have the site. Walking at the perfect
moment, Molledoy with Lutrop going top middle. Look how much he fell for this. And so a
smoke grenade offered up for Yikindar. X hasn't HG. Watch out for this. Yikindar's
got to stuff this side of the retake. Remember Molo-Doy's low HP you'd think you can't bank on this.
Are they both jumping cat? Nope. Mayer it's not.
Max slip move but by the time they arrive not wanting to deal with the smoke instead they've
got fire in front of them. There's a kid on Max, there's a kid on Mayer. And there's a smoke
on LuChop. He's trying to arrive from the apartments. He cannot just pick up the first
tool. There goes that low health of Molo-Doy. They're gonna dive it. They're gonna try to get all
hands on and Mayer just slips by. I don't think there's enough time here. It's really close
But they miss it!
Timing on the side of Furia, they'll sweep away those last two 9-Z members.
A hard-fought second round and one with a massive bright stag.
Hit those cat jumps.
Mayard by a hair. Can't get on that bomb in time.
Oh, he saw that shadow creep in, ready to shot.
But a moment here for Furia and again, I feel like they're almost scared of the thought
they believe they have an empty site, but they get it, they win another disadvantage
situations of two of the rounds they've gone so far.
If there's a world where Furia are going to fight in this quarter final, then a three
versus five like that sprinkled in at this moment could wind up being key.
getting the full change here of Cacerados BC.
Can you believe Mayern's form again?
You mentioned it at the start of this series. You said you go back to the vitality game. Great.
One good map, but only usually one good map in a series. 9 and 4 at the
moment with impact on that A site. That's what I was so curious about.
Mayern's just this, it's an aberration for that reason.
That's what we talk about the stage players.
Part of this 90 lineup the last two times, they had an opportunity at a major.
They saw something in him.
It's very impressive for me and I think they'll build on a praise for him after this.
It's important to see that evolution as well from somebody on 90's camp
because we go back to Dust2, you know the real driving force of this team,
The story of their run into playoffs was very much about Luchov's entry ability and then DGT being that secondary rifle right behind him.
Two strong riflers in different roles that drive 9Z to top 8 at a major.
That was not a part of Dust2, he had two opening frags.
And now we go over to Mirage, we've played far less rounds, seven rounds into this.
He's already got more entries this map than he did in the previous, from the CT side.
But his opening duels are now coming Luchov's way, which goes to tell you maybe this 90 second
map, even with Mayer at the top of the scoreboard, can bank on what has reliably won them games
before.
I'll tell you right now, it's communication that's holding Fiora back.
What they brought to this major in the last stage showed us, in my opinion, that they're
back to the top.
They actually had insane game plans.
They were not a question coming out of that last stage, they had everything.
What we're seeing here is just, they're just not bringing it in, or when they are it's
just too late.
Now they're going up against it all.
A lot of fans out here from Maladoy.
Tents in both Kazakhstan and Brazil.
Even Canada Connor. Even Canada.
The ESL player profile with Maladoy came out this event.
We take a deep dive into his journey, his just single handed decision making to leave behind everything he knew to chase a dream of Counter Strike.
One that he said relates to Fallen because they played both in cyber cafes.
And the interesting thing is we go, you know, cyber cafes in 2026.
It's not every country that that's your journey in.
And yet for Cossack Stan, it remains that way.
And so Mollidoy and Fulin find that commonality.
Their first tournaments were no money.
Fulin said he's been thinking about having children
and the thought of being a father
since bringing Mollidoy into this lost ring.
Going into that relationship, it's clearly very special.
Mollidoy saying, maybe I'm not,
There is no Volodoy. It's not for quality.
Now the two of them have to dig real deep in this moment.
It's a 90 tactical timeout to try to keep their hands on control of this game.
We'll see if the time to think helps.
We've got a full, the leal by here for Furia, which is not comfortable at all.
You're going up against a fully stocked 90, but using our utility very well.
Man.
All Galils, all utility.
What's the master plan here, Furia?
Looking like it could be a fast connector split.
They're up the ramp, instant offshot, and no one's dead.
Oh, good position for K. Serrano.
Fast move by Molotov, and it's gonna come up ninth in spades!
DGT, we two.
K. Serrano finally has a chance to catch you off with that forward Galil on catwalk.
Well, now what about his recovery?
It's insane off of that pause. They took attack after the tech
and they instantly are able to respond to Furia calling a fast game plan.
All those glows are gone. All the money, gone.
Great place to send the area and there's no support here for Max.
Oh no. He doesn't spread wide enough.
You'd think no world case Serato considers this and he's got a minute to try to work
together the clock. He'll give up the audio queue. Flash comes over.
never would you suspect this and so totally blindsided by match who gets away with it.
Yeah. Fireproof inside of the window sill 90 up 6-2.
Yeah, and he had the thought to get that Mali out too.
Another unfortunate moment here for Quesarado.
Saf is not beyond a reproach for Furia once again.
They know it. They've been here before.
They didn't get that early scare like Ninzeed, which I feel like has added so much resilience to them.
Otherwise, you know, otherwise, if not for that spirit game, I feel like what happened when they played against Aurora
could have been happening right here in the quarters.
This round thought it really felt like momentarily it had legs but you know it's in these messy
moments that sometimes you see the explosive rifle abilities of 90 across the board.
You're not just banking on one guy to drop that 3k.
And that was playing rounds at home you know that's that's the style of play that they
are used to.
share of responsibility they wear well. And one that right now has got fury up
against the ropes. We get the Yukindar AK hero by this time. And sure enough, down in the first duel.
They take top mid control, get denied at the bottom. And also though, smart move already.
They've got a ramp smoke smoking off connector. It's like they know what's
happening every single time. And with wasso in this position, Mayer has
open lines towards connector.
Fury are going to have to get extra creative here.
This is all about freeing mayor and up.
Almost fully pushed on both sides of the map, but at that point,
you can get too spread out.
Okay, Fallen emerges to the correct side.
And Marin will be fighting by himself for now.
Wasso is coming around the ramp.
Flashback's gonna let him know it's inbound, and luckily for Marin, he's a lay-out to just
stick on this line, but he misses his shot.
It's Coretta's out.
A flood of Furia players take to this A site, and now there'll be no question about this
bomb plant either.
No contest, authored up.
Yeah, and they're worried about the right things.
They plant default, they know that they haven't killed a second player on A.
He put the AWP in Molledoy's hands and wasso peek a rival out through re-
Oh!
And now with that AWP or dead,
pendulum swings momentarily back 90's way.
Kaserado's position's been found out with a quick headshot on Max.
He gets his revenge inside that window.
DGT though still trying to push this retake forward.
We're talking about kits on the side of 90.
But with flashes up and over, Yuri's gonna go for the swing.
Oh and he misses his chance!
Up down to the final liar!
Isurano's got him cleared!
They got it.
Late on top of it, it's yet again so close!
So close!
Oh!
Given their Hail Mary moments,
at least secure their third.
Isurano said, just let me play.
Gets that last kill just in time.
Keeps this half alive, it's off tech nines.
Virial win.
Finally around where they actually get vacant space.
space, no contact until ticket booth. How many times have we watched players die?
Top mid, off-cat connector or stairs?
Furious slip connect, come out with a fish. Trying to remain slippery from here
on out to get this move from 90 back out middle to just try to reapply the
pressure. Fallen trying to bring in the audacious plays. A lot more pressure,
A lot more active. That's what you love to see. Maxed down to MP9.
Finally, getting through the money. That's step one.
One final real test. Because that's a 1v1, it's expensive for Fury as well.
Fallen, yet to frag so far on Mirage. Has a bit of a team though.
I mean, Luchov flashes, they're gonna see this.
All these are coming down, he pulls his gun out.
Sun's out.
Also back into cover two. It's a quick attempt out of Yuri's now. He's just gonna grab the grenades and we've got Max and B9 in hand.
Spotted out by K-Sirano, both will swim through and that BD Bench does not hang strong.
They will at the very least deal with Yuri and do it fast enough that they can still get this line as the Bench Cross occurs.
You know there's one player back there. There's still a good amount of utility here for Furia to secure a bit of space,
but it's numbers advantage 9Z on this retake.
This is actually a difficult decision. If they go for this, they risk all their money.
They probably have a better chance next round, but they're 4v3.
They're thinking about it still.
The retakes have been solid.
Flashbang here for Luchov, and that's going to be when they suddenly just burst down through this doorway.
You keep not forced to turn. As he goes back, he gets himself a kill and a half,
fall in there to help him.
And now you're fighting up against the disadvantage, and yet Luchov still takes a look.
Player over to the bench, they'll still know about.
From the beginning, they spotted that, and the crossback didn't happen.
But Mayern gives this up, hard fought battle here for Furia to play catch up versus 9Z.
Absolute best case situation here for Furia.
They get 9Z to participate in a very scary situation, but they can't get that one kill towards E-Box.
Furia keep two alive, they win the round, they got through the money, they're still in up here on Mayern.
But now they've given themselves a real chance.
That's Fallen's first kill of the game, and if he doesn't get it, I guarantee you they
lose that retake.
It's perfect to flash dodge the frag and the cohesion there in the setup.
That's really a moment too where they didn't get the value out of that double ramp push
that they were hoping for, right?
Caceroto dies instantly, Yuri gets a flash off the wall and then dies almost near
seconds later.
They're doing what they need to do to get that open sight, which is good.
It was Molledoy and Yuri, but still, point remains.
You know, 90 also had to face a Furia that was clawing back a few rounds in Dust 2,
but they had a stockpile in the reserves to close out that game.
Ample chances.
This is Furia nipping at your heels.
Two rounds away from tying out this half and your force to come into this one with a buy like this.
It's guns in the hands of the best performing 9-Z players on Mirage.
Mayor makes it up into latter room again. The good gun to watch in this round.
Also has got an M4.
He immediately evacuates his position.
Traum inside of the connector. Oh, the headshot he survives.
Max's USP up next will finish the job. Unfortunately can't get damage in the next one, so that'll take the likelihood of Luchov getting anything and throw it out the window.
I missed off shot, could have been. Luchov finds a door here and it's a great distraction for Wasebite.
And the AWP is still in CT. They've got to get this bomb back. They need control of everything.
It's on top of stairs, I think. The bomb is stuck.
It was falling. He was watching it. They'll go ahead and grab it. Now it's got to be a clutch.
Maren in the middle of all this, AWP tries to go over top of Ticket.
And when the Kindar comes off of this bomb play, he is still very much stuck behind Triple.
There's no trade possibility here, so great damage on you, Kindar.
He wins his duel and puts this one round from a tied up half.
Ha! This is not just a comeback, it's turning into a good half now for Piria.
They've had a battle through it all to get this chance.
Because now they're actually in control of some rounds, which is a huge change of pace.
Before only converting losing situations.
Let's see if they can stick the landing.
Max doesn't want to regret going for too much information this time, but it's still
a furio who put him as the apple of their eye.
I can't he punish
Misses golden chance that the Molly separates them. I don't can they exact through this fallen loses the dual doesn't even get any damage out
Now Lucho versus your kinder next to go in that one too
Single handedly holding off towards the ladder max perfectly in behind Yuri slays him with the MP9 and just what it felt like fury
We're gonna have a tight half
It's going to fall to this 2v5 recovery instead you've got three players layered towards the market
Molledoy strikes one off and at a hundred health in 25 seconds
He's also got this bomb. He's looking for his moment, but you won't be able to fake plant too many times here
That's what he wants to deliver a moment of truth
As he's now got DGT down to 47 is up back up. Oh, but DGT slips by
He's starting to read this correctly. Yep
He's got wind of this and eye for it and now a chance to react as the first
bullet sail right by scoped in on the Hines and at the other side goes his
opposition and he will stick it to them and tie. Six all as Furia find four straight.
Save Luminosity with the o-play!
For the second time in this quarter final, Furia find momentum at the very end of a half.
It was not nearly as convincing on Dust2 as it was here on Mirage.
Four straight, five of the last six.
A turning in the tide after Ninzey stuffed them with that round two force by,
and we thought that Yuri's clutch was all in vain.
This formula for Furia on Mirage looks like it could still win,
And then it's gloves off on overpass.
Oh, definitely.
It feels like we could get there.
Furia will have to take us there.
But they've done what they need to do to lay the foundation
for a comeback.
Great house.
Great house, let's go.
Let's increase our communication on the site, guys.
We need to go to the activity, ok? The bridge is looking.
And calmly, let's go.
9z is they're just going to look to take control of the A site and Max will indeed get that bomb down on defaults
Yeah, he has one priority. Careful here with these beaks
Waso's got a flash to throw up over the ramp and this is going to force a redirection out of Furio
We see two players layered up for spawn, but Yikindar is also on a ramp flank. There goes that flash
Now they throw that out and check this out. 9z getting off site. This is the right play, but Yikindar coming in on the flank
I mean this should be the end of it. Waso maybe takes one with them before he goes. Remember, bomb is blanked at default
These connector post plans, they're gonna have to stop the cross.
You can't do it!
Oh my goodness!
No!
No!
Oh!
It's all gone wrong!
It's all gone wrong!
He couldn't find the head.
The entire cycle lapses.
Pressure right back on!
Oh no.
A crouching, I mean, wassup just...
Oh, he turns into it.
Two kills there for DGT.
Stomps him out like a bug.
So a miss chance in the pistol to pull ahead.
How are we gonna get Finals, your kinder, if we can't get out of corners?
I'll tell you this much though, 9Z lost that pistol, I wouldn't break them at all in the
second half compared to Furia's CT side.
I think them winning this pistol only means there's now a chance that 9Z can close the
map but Furia know it's still going to be fine, it's just going to be harder.
I'll start with an attempt to try to deny the conversion, just like Ninze did to them.
Oh, look at the damage on the 5-7 shot!
Okay, Latin, Nick.
Yeah, why not?
Listen, you gotta dig deep.
Drop this one.
Be careful.
Desert Eagle's ready to roar!
You've got low health on three!
They can do this!
Falling right back into the action!
Oh!
And now it's a couple of galils, but the bomb at least still control that DGT can open connector
Then that bomb could run over to this A site and sure enough he gets there, but it's very costly
So do you bank on DGT's 12 health?
This is very tough because you can't get out of connector knowing the TAC guys could come over top of you
So what if he stays B?
Yeah
Yeah, okay, he's lost his teammate
He'll send that flash back in and Mayeron's gonna try to bank on his full HP versus the two on site
It is yet again damage from the Deagle, but you've got falling right behind you
Math time for the first by win!
Fioria haven't touched the lead since the first round of this game, but they are back in a position to do so
That's right. They stole it away. Again, just like 9z, give it up to the first half
I'm seeing Mollah doing getting locked in for the first time in this game. Wait too many misses on Dust 2
I don't care how many shots he hit he wasn't himself
At this event your kinder has a fantastic rating. Moldova has been getting pure volume
And I want to say Yuri's got them chances now to take the easy route
But just enough time to wake up
It officially gets scary for the first time this series for 9Z.
Full strength.
Furia hasn't reared its head.
And they know that.
But fleeting control of the game is something we've seen 9Z have to stomach, have to handle.
And ultimately, they lose to Spirit in two of those situations.
On a stage like this when the pressure is undeniably mounted, you can't let those doubts
begin to creep in regardless of Curious Fight back.
You have wounded this animal.
Don't be surprised when it lashes out and right now, Fury would do so.
With a real advantage here in the 15th round, Rifle's on their side, a Galil for Luchov.
How is he meant to get those oh so important entries?
Wide swing lines up, easy damage for Molodoy, but the wasp peak window challenge almost
cost the young AWP his head.
Ends up being a team kill.
utility into the window sill to try to make it awkward. Malu though he just wants to get the hell out of here
and he's got support on the other side of that smoke to do so. Waso's gonna jump on this
or rather just get the kill. Tries to reload in the cover. That's where you kindar gets him.
We go 4v8, frag grenades, fantastic.
Spray control for Kcerado into the second pistol player and now that Luchov-Galil into the action, but it's all a little too late.
Enter Luchov, someone who we haven't had to discuss. Ninesi have been great because of Mayer today.
Wasso here on Mirage, but Luchov has been the for a lot of people the reason that 9z are making this run as spectacular
as it has been
Some incredible maps out of this man
And I see another situation that should be no problem here eight seconds they can run at this
Let's just make sure no bomb plant happens right there all good
Game goes to one round, they don't get that plan.
Fyria has the lead.
Hell of a battle to get here, but they re-secure it.
And with the lead should come the freebie.
So, 9-Z, this will be nothing more than an active desperation.
And it's nice to see Furio with their foot on the throat a little.
We go back to Dust2.
There was this constant lack of activity on a CT side.
Why not send Molledoy on this expedition with the Mac 10?
There was a moment in this quarterfinal where it felt like Furio weren't going
to bring their game to the table.
You start to feel it. You start to come alive. You start to deal with this very real 9-Z challenge tonight.
And as you'd expect, the block shredded. 9-7, Burial lead.
the ball.
All the way in the positive.
You kinder in the positive.
It's looking up here now for
fury. A quick change up.
Whoa, we got the part time
offer and the full time offer
working together father and son
here both on the double off.
Last time they played here at Cologne,
Fallen also called in to come along with him and Koltzera.
Great spam, you kind of are from the window
into top middle and Luchov's dead.
No entry afforded to 9-Z this time.
And even while they trail Furia,
they are still holding on
to more successful opening duels than Furia.
This is a really interesting-looking map,
and I'd love to see it more creative.
We got the ops on mid-NB,
but kind of both B players in the moment,
falling, banking on walkouts
so they can lean a little bit more mobile towards A
and have heavy presence at mid at the same time.
This is the kind of map that's harder to read.
The no one in CT spawn,
it's their one sore spot.
Kikinder moves to the position.
Molotov pops in the middle of the site.
Everybody for 9Z out through that ramp.
And they're running out of utility.
Death ball attempt, flashbang.
At least that flash stops the M4s
from trying to get the damage on the cross.
Yes it does.
Wassobeat jumps and now confirms
gets Kikinder active who's gonna
offer a clean headshot to DGT.
Molodoy on the scene.
You've cut down half of what remained of 9Z
and now it's open lines.
That lackluster amount of utility
He puts them exposed but still back to the even keel!
And now that all the remains in this retake is the double lob stay late patiently and it pays off.
Fallen collects his utility source forward but with this bomb planted in front of Max, he has to hold his nerve.
Yes, and Max has a daughter at home and Fallen has a son in the server.
And that son burns bright.
Molodoys on the angle, Fallen's gonna take up responsibility of this defuse.
They've got all the tools for the job, smoke on top of it, hit for the 5 second stick.
Molodoys, pistol out, he tries the challenge. Max gets the first, but the defuse founds.
Molodoys sacrifices himself.
They kill the clock, they win the round, and Furya hit 10.
But again, just another warning sign to Furia, to how much you need to nail down 90.
That was a lorry of kills out of nowhere.
Back to make that round suddenly feel alive.
That was the one thing they had to be scared of, having the two ops over towards B, that
they had to retake together, and they still managed it.
and then the big difference.
Three players jumbled down bottom middle.
Just asking to have this NAID dunked on their heads,
but it's actually a bad bounce from Quesarado.
Already thought they would have gotten over the bench.
They scale slowly, but they move beyond that damaging utility.
It's going to be Max's responsibility to climb up.
him they earned in TGT, the ones with guns.
Oh, just making so much noise.
Will they think that Max is actually in here?
Blue job kills Yuri over towards Khan.
Kasurado still, yes, very nervous that Max is indeed on this line.
Kasurado will take damage.
That's well fought. That's a hard duel for the CTs.
Kasurado played it confidently.
Dropping the bomb onto the ground as well, just reconfirming.
And there's still some sort of presence here, fallen operating on his own over towards that
B-Site.
Joe is the case, Serato gets the tail end of the setup.
I'd like to see Furia ahead of things.
Finally.
Luchov trying to run that Tech 9 over towards the ramp.
DGT's the bomb here, can't lose it like this.
Now K-Serato's going to sit on top of it, you think, you Kingdor?
Yes.
Gets that trade back, has health, Luchov tags the Tech 9 and Marlodoye over top.
Furia starting to see the finish line on their map pick up Mirage.
They're starting to believe they're starting to look good.
They've been through it all. They could have suffered
the greatest embarrassment getting 2-0ed here on stage.
It looks like they might have stayed that off.
The double off persists.
Again, when Fallen played here, the last time Matt Cologne
with Coldzera, he had the second off.
Now they've got an even better offer to abuse this setup
on CT side.
9-Z for once of the ones who look a little bit confused, but maybe not this round, this
round's fast.
Yeah, it's falling to eat a flash, trying to capitalize on the blind over 5-3, hyper-aggressive
entries come out from 9-Z.
Oh, forgive me, what a call.
Why not just change up that tempo, slam your head into the B site.
The problem that was the problem for the retake on the A site and now the two players that die first they run right into them
But if you know where the ops are you want a full exact into them
You want to use your flashes you don't want to do contact plays and fury or hoping for more of those
That's what got fury the lead but 9z learned fast enough
Instead of trying to be fast enough handle case or auto towards the window instead of dealing with ball of the way on ticket
They hit that B bomb site hard, fallen, flashed the damn near entire time.
They'll vacate the site, four players up here for 19, and just before Furia can secure that
12.
This is actually really interesting.
I think this one, this is them surviving the nerves a little bit, actually thinking
about what to do next, and not just crumbling after seeing that they've given up that
second conversion. The call is very pragmatic. They get the off blind inside
a B. They're right. This is the weaker site. This is where Fallen came from when
they retook that last round. They deal with that problem, but still money here
for Fury. One off coming in now. And the question is where do Ninesie take it
Next
Here you have done really well keeping eyes on me
Again, it's a
through
He's got the entry and all the way misses it shot. He'll get ballied back
Test the bench and mayors cover perfect now. I'll enjoy another missed one. That's the full punish
Fallen will try to find an evacuation route. Let them have that A site. It is a foregone
conclusion. Back-to-back electric momentum 490. Those are not easy shots, but you just
needed to hit one. Whoa. That changes things. It's the hard A play. Three save for Furia
not the end of the world I think they'd be really worried they lost majority here lost grip of that off
they might not see that next round
and actually even though there's still a little bit of a lead here for furia I feel like there's
some pressure alleviated for 9z they avoid trying to split it down the middle it's two-sided execs
a fast B and a fast A
And that's suddenly got Feria talking
And this opens up the game plan now for 9z
And also shakes off that mounting pressure if not being able to win consecutive rounds not since the fifth and sixth rounds of this map
It's just finding where the edges of the cards are now for 9z.
The thing that's really scary is that where do you make your aggressive move next round
if you don't know if 9z are going to move out quickly on either side.
Great cover.
They want to take board aggressive control inside of middle and hope it's not an early play
And then going for a retake if they have to, but give themselves a big flank chance.
Ninzee again, they want to keep the tempo up.
They're going back to two rounds ago.
Okay, Serato gets wind of that top mid cross, but he's not able to get the kill on Luchov.
And this one's actually underpass play.
They got fallen, jump spotting and throwing utility.
They have kind of established inside of middle, and so a third.
A new round here for Ninzee.
Money is teetering now for Furia.
This is the kind of round you grind out the time and the utility
and you can easily influence Furia to save.
I've already shown us a willingness to do it in the last round.
What would they have if not for the three survivors?
And the longer this round goes on, without enough information,
they will just fall into a stack.
That all the offer is queued up, but Maladoy bends the knee.
Yuri, watching the ramp for him. Palace has smoked.
DGT gonna try to torment Yuri. Yuri's gonna try to do his best to get Molledoy a chance to fight connector.
Marin has slowly just taken over these angles, one by one, piece by piece, now waiting for that ticket peek.
I just want to, I don't know if DGT's gonna take this risk, but right now Yuri's not necessarily watching for his swing.
Here it comes, Molledoy. Oh, just missed it by a second. Bomb confirmed.
Max's dead, Lutroff scoops up the bomb, you reduce that cover over towards the palace, still Lutroff will try to entry.
25 seconds on this clock and third supportive piece, now from the middle.
Molodoy hits the headshot, and this off-rock solid from within the sense.
It's going to deliver that 12.
That's cold.
Five alive for Furia!
Three map points!
Perfect playoff to set up.
Right read on the situation.
A new game plan for 9Z.
But once they open up that angle from the side of default and he gets the first kill, Yuri swings.
Takes out DGT, allows Molledoy to farm even further.
And that was a Molledoy who was being hunted by Mary.
We saw him post up on those mid angles.
And what felt like space being afforded over to 9Z is just them playing Molledoy's game.
noise game, but it hinges on him hitting them, which he will, as does the Kindar, again with
an opening kill out through that mid window.
There were moments in this match where I felt like Burial were never going to find this
major form.
A recovery was demanded of them, and they have damn near delivered, hanging on to
the man advantage here in the 22nd round.
Oh, he walks forward and dies.
Pressing into them.
This could be a curtain call now for 9-Z.
It's Mayerner-Max to somehow get back this 2v4.
Somehow, some way, when at the moment,
Thuria's numbers do remain split, it's a free beyond falling.
And that, you'd think, would draw somebody off
of the opposite site where the bomb actually is.
There's going to be a critical fight here
between Max and Yikindar, and Yikindars played it far more patiently than Max expects.
Bomb down at 45 seconds.
And while Mayer and May has superseded all expectations in the first map,
a clutch in this moment seems damn impossible.
How could you imagine him piecing this together?
A smoke to maybe get him up the catwalk,
but an AK to fluster him from that A site.
Okay, maybe something like that.
Oh my goodness.
his second shot to Kindar presses in.
Fiorio will not waste this moment.
They will continue to attempt to lift this course.
MUSIC
Finally, a response from Fiorio.
And finally, it feels like we actually have a game on our hands.
by no means, the cleanest counter-strike we've ever seen from Fulin and Ko,
but some crucial clutches going in their favour, and some crazy moments too.
This is the kind of CS we wanted to see, a little bit more poorly, Jakob,
and finally from Furia, a response, a sign of life.
Yeah, a sign of life, I think that's the best way to encapsulate this game.
It wasn't necessarily as you said, the prettiest of counters right coming out from either team,
but oh my, what's this important for Furia to stay alive in this matchup?
Sure, they needed to win Mirage, but also the fashion they did it in,
I feel like they're outplayed in the first half once more, somehow some way they get away with six rounds and there's hope for the second and then finally Molo-Dai shows up, you know, a little bit more composed, hitting his shots, playing a bit more mature, they say it in the play-off and seemingly a furrier that is back alive.
Yeah, I think, I'm with you. I think Nancy looked like the better team in the first half, but you got like some of the strength and fury in terms of their individuals, like with the kind of players stepping up, I mean what, there's like the 1v3, the 1v3 in the pistol, 1v3, 1v4 from Molo-Dai.
Yeah, whatever they were and then like two last second if you like they barely held on in that first half
But the difference from dust two is at least those like small wins
Let them wake up like kept them close enough to keep it within striking distance
And then yeah, you switch sides you get Molly Roy popping off with the AWP and now it all pans out well
I mean five out of the six rounds that's fury I want there was either one of their players left alive or none
Like that was the hardest fought a six rounds on T side that I have ever seen but most importantly
They got them they got six doesn't matter how they got them
They gave them enough of a buffer in the second half to be able to close things out
Yeah, I think we should go back to some of those moments because I don't want to say maybe there was a little bit of an angel looking over them in some
Of these situations, but just about for we got some of these rounds over the line
That's what it felt like the rounds we were referring to is first and foremost round seven again
As Janko said, you know, they weren't able to keep a lot of people alive this time around
It's a 2v3 scenario bomb goes down you have Molotov to 13 HP
You have an IC at this point up five to one having played a great beginning to the first half
Very composed seemed to be in control of the game and the way they approach this retake as well
Seem to be alright waiting for the Molotov sticking together flashing for each other
Maybe here the spacing was a little bit off Lutschoff gets a kill and then it's just you came to left
But unfortunately then there's no time left to diffuse the bomb at this point
We're talking 0.05 seconds unfortunate, you know that can happen once in a while it to happen two times in a half
We're moving fast into round nine right here Jason. It's happening one more time this time around the buy from Furia as well
They are on the ropes if they lose this I'm willing to say it's game over
This is one of those rounds against a low by where I feel like 9z did that whole thing where they got a little bit
Too cute on the map like a double push in towards the b-hauls
You have a lot of resources on the other side of the map against this low by your opera doesn't have anyone to
Keep the spacing between you and those tech nines get way too close from to do anything with it and they slip
What is this plan from Fallen as well?
I've never seen this, but in the end it made all the difference because the ABS guy couldn't cover his teammate, but yeah, they just kept coming, these clutches, and even in the final round.
That's wild.
In all the way cup, it was a 4k with a 1v2, just masterfully played really in the end, but it was by the skin of their teeth that Furia was able to rack up these six rounds.
Their best round was probably that half-bite that they called out of a timeout to sort of keep the minute, because for the economy it was important that they could keep buying from that point on.
I think there was a cool difference too in their CT side when they switched halves
because I felt like it was kind of similar to Dust2's in the sense that it was kind of like play a little bit further back
They didn't seem to want to be too aggressive in this one
They were clearing out some ramps and they're not really pushing up mid
But the difference is Mollador hitting his shots
If you're gonna play that far back, the AWPer's got to hit a shot
We're looking back on this
We've got it at the end, like back to back rounds
He misses a couple of shots, save
It's, um, hitting a couple of shots, winning
But just going back to those early moments, like, I don't want to be too critical for her
Because as you said, Janko, a win is a win, but like
Critical
We know they have more of a capacity to be at least done way cleaner and maybe even more of them on their side.
No, like, are we allowed to critique even if they still won?
Yes, we are, and we should, but we also shouldn't forget that they ended up winning in the extended series.
But that's not going to mean much unless they improve going into Overpass.
Like, so far what I've seen on the server, I trust INZ more.
I mean, even the first round that Jacob pointed out, that's Lucha sort of pushing Cat to go T spawn to flank when he has two teammates on A.
Like, and there's no need to go for that play if he just stays on B, maybe it doesn't happen.
But most important as you can see here is, Jekinder and Moldova are having better games.
And having between the two of them, you know, seven out of the eight opening kills that
Furia managed to get, they're still losing in that department by a large margin.
And that's really important for Furia moving forward.
You mentioned it after Dust2.
Look how well K-Sorado, look at his frags as well, when you start having those
guys finding openings for you.
All of a sudden the space opens up for K-Sorado to slot in and makes some plays happen.
So, this time it took a little bit, but the Fury team just kind of woke up
and then you started seeing it all kind of fall into place the way it should, the way we expected it to.
Finally, finally it seems that they're working up on this stage.
Let's move on to the second half there, because 90, they win the pistol,
out of Fury, I stalled them in their tracks.
Just one of those things where maybe your prep has ruined you, right?
Like, because you need to be, you need to really trust this round
if you're going to go B in an anti-force, right?
You obviously know what can happen with the pistols being in play.
That was a weak fake from DGT towards A,
but fear I just had four players here from the start pretty much they just decided to stack maybe just something
You know in the mid-round they said that they were going to do
But this was what enabled the comeback to start happening right because after you lose that
Second round you know your money is in the bin
And it becomes much more difficult to play the T side
You just got bottlenecked man like you if you're gonna if you're gonna execute that like you have to get out
Like you just have to even if you're jumping to your death like you have to create that space
So there's no chance that anyone following up can actually do anything
But yeah, for me, I can't get away from the AWP in the second half.
I think that was the save in Grice with Molotoway.
Lovely in the second round, that's huge to get you started,
but that AWP started really heating up
and started making every kind of move that 9-Z was trying to do,
Molotoway picked one off, right? Shaved it a little bit thinner.
I think it's also an example of where we get to see the limitations of 9-Z.
That T-side, you know, we had this round in the second half
where they trust a call out of spawn.
Every time they try to run a default on the T-side, they got smacked down.
Then they went two rounds in a row.
that's a fast B execute, it's a fast A execute, out of spawn calling.
The players don't have to make individual decision making,
they just have to follow the plan that was laid out coming into the game,
but I think that's the limitation for Nynze in this game.
The more this game becomes a default game,
the more, I guess, individual decision making that has to be taken,
that's what players like Yikinda, Keisarado fall for that matter,
they'll eat your life.
So, I think this was a game that, you know,
successfully sold by Freya was slowed down to a point
where Nynzee had to try to default a bit more, didn't work out.
On that case, there's bad news for Nynzee fans,
because the decided it's going to be an overpass.
Not much you can do on that map or on your T-side outside of default.
They did have success on it in this tournament,
but yeah, I agree that it's going to be a clash of styles.
We were joking in the podcast with Furia.
It's like against them, when you play T-side overpass,
it actually is like it is in scrims
because the kinder is just balloons every round
and although he is there supporting him.
So that's going to be, for me, the name of the game.
You know, can you find a way to deal with that aggression early on?
Punish it if you can then you can have something going. I'm glad you mentioned that because that's the way I feel going into this third map
Is it all for me? It all falls on your kinder and how he does it how effective he is because this map is huge
There's going to be plenty of gaps. He can test there's going to be plenty of space
He can challenge walking through smoke getting through bathrooms trying to gain an advantage off a risky play
That's the kind of stuff he loves and fallen is specifically referenced this map and said this isn't that where we kind of lost
Side like we lost our tempo like teams started figuring us out and we can't get back into it
And that was one of the big priorities as he said specifically.
Yikinder came in with fresh ideas, new ideas, a few little details to change, a few adaptations.
And that's actually gotten this overpass back under control for them where they're really, really confident on this map.
And now that it's the decider, you better live up to those words.
Yeah, I mean, it was so crucial in terms of the success in the latter part of 2025 as well.
It's great to see them refining their form, but I guess to play devil's advocate for a moment, Yanko,
are you confident that Yikinder is going to be showing up in that classic aggressive style to be starting this off?
I'm confident he's going to be aggressive but how much success he's going to have I'm not sure
and they have to have success on the CT side because if there's one thing I still don't trust
their T side like even after Mirage I know they got six but it wasn't pretty and a couple of those
was just 9-Z maybe doing a little bit too much when you didn't need to and obviously the clutches
right so I think it has to be a nine round CT side for Furia if they're going to win this.
How poetic is it though to a certain extent? We've talked so much before the series began about this being like kind of Fallen's last hurrah
He's announced his retirement at the end of the year
He's like the OG master of overpass like when the Brazilians burst onto the scene in LG and SK
This was the map where everyone was like they have such a god-tier understanding of how to do this that nobody can match them
So now here we are with a chance for them to finally win a playoff series at a major for the first time since we were playing
Global offensive. Yeah, yeah, like five years four years. So, you know, if you're coming back to this map
I think there's something cool about that and Fallen better have a masterclass because as Yanko said the T sides today are looking absolutely rough
If anything you got to speak to Molotov as well
I know Molotov stepped up in the later stage of Mirage had three or four good rounds overall
But he's also been inconsistent so far in this series and I feel like on a map like overpass CT side
Yikinda is going to be aggressive as Yanko said he's never going to change the way he's playing regardless of in finding success or not
It's just a question whether or not this guy has to clean up after the mess that Yikinda is going to make
Sometimes he's needed a lot because your kinder is maybe not finding too much success
Sometimes he gets away with a little bit less but for more of that to play consistently well on the all-pass
I think that's a massive win connection. He has to keep his cool. I remember around against mouse
It was against a half-by and your kinder died
He got one kill he fell back to bank and waited for his teammates and they came
Overrotated and they wander around cleanly, you know, it can't change here
And now in those situations you're just going to keep fighting keep repaking because you think you need to win it
like for your team you want to win it for your team like you need to stay
patient and play together that has been the strength of fury I in this
tournament just to put the script for a second to look at the side of 90 a lot
of times played on this map but just looking at their mentality right correct
me if I'm wrong yanko it still felt like they had that aggressive mentality
on Mara sure maybe it didn't always go their way but it seems like they're
not scared no doubt the mentality is there like we're taking the fight to
fury out no matter what time and time again it's just tricky you need to
understand and at which moment in the round sort of you've done enough and just
take a step back like you pressured them you made things uncomfortable for them
they they need to figure out what to do now you can just take a step back and
maybe a couple of times they did a little bit too much and sort of the
round resolved itself in furious favor so that balance finding it is not easy
but if they can do it they have a good chance of winning. In a game where
there's been a lot of question marks in terms of players performing or not I
feel like one thing that has been consistent is the 9c decides to play
their version of the game if they were to lose an overpass, at least they go out in their
own terms.
I don't expect them to change that proactive aggressiveness we've seen on the CT side that's
going to continue.
It's overpass a map that's really fitted for that.
It can be to some degree, but it's hard to do it over and over and over.
And even more so, as we discussed on the T side, you have to have a certain amount
of default or a certain amount of gating map control using utility, otherwise guys
like Yikinda and Molotov will pick you apart and that's going to be an issue.
This is where we get back to Lucia, right?
He put himself on the map really with that game against Paravision.
I know Paralyzm was out 0-3 but you know he had they had 11 rounds on T side overpass and he was just having a field day
So I don't want to say he's been quiet, but that didn't have you know many memorable moments so far in this game
This would be a great moment for him to step up
I don't often ask some predictions
But this has been a way more competitive fair than I was going to give it credit for right Jason
Where are you learning cards in this one? He's going to the semis. I know I just feel
It's crazy for me to even say it myself because I feel like 9z has been the better team certainly on map 1 certainly for the
the first half of Mirage, but I'm taking Fury. This is where I lean towards that experience
and those individuals that have already shown us they can kind of seal these, not at majors
but we've seen them in playoffs, so big events being able to seal things out. So I'm taking
Fury. I have to put faith in him now.
I'm going to stick with 9-Z. They played better Counter-Strike for the most part of
the series, right? The clutches really ruined their chances. On Mirage, I think they'll
do a better job on Overpass and win.
I think 9-Z has been the better team tonight so far. I want to present, but
I do think that they had the one opportunity Henry Ross to close it out. It's not going to happen.
It's going to be a very negative scenario.
Well, either way, it's a prediction of that. Who do you got?
I don't know.
It's not to hedge his bets on either side of the equation.
It doesn't like being wrong.
I just wanted to hear it.
Either way, we do need the third map to decide who is going through to the semi-finals
in the South American showdown.
Will the clock strike midnight on 90's Cinderella run?
Only time and overpass will tell.
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Darko
Pardon my ignorance, but you speak Spanish as a team, right?
I had the same thing, I guess they speak in Spanish, I don't know, so you speak in Spanish
with the coach?
Sometimes because he speaks Spanish, but we all speak Portuguese better than he speaks
Spanish.
So sometimes we speak Portuguese with him, and when we are in-game we speak Spanish.
pretty funny though so he's listening to you guys communicating in Spanish but then in the
timeouts speaking Portuguese. Yes. Wow. He throwed the enemies. For us the Argentinian
players is more normal to speak Portuguese. Really? The server is in Brazil. When we
started to play, always you play against and with Brazilians so it's kind of a similar
We learn the language, so it's kind of easy for us to speak Portuguese, but it's more difficult for the Brazilians to speak Spanish.
I'm interested in watching the reels on Instagram, and there are people who talk in chat, you know, like searching for language practicing.
And there are a lot of people who speak Portuguese, they don't understand people who speak Spanish.
Spanish and I mean like and Byron said that it's easy to adapt because its language is
kind of similar but for some reason why is people speaking it that it's kind of different.
Yeah, yeah, interesting. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's that for me is kind of mind-boggling
though that you'd you change like I can barely speak English properly right so the fact
that you guys do multiple languages and now you're doing this with us in English
It's it's it's really impressive.
I'm very grateful to be here to have the team I have.
I'm very happy with the guys, the coach, the analyst, the CEO.
It's here with us.
So, yeah, a lot of people from Argentina, it's cheering for us
and wait this moment for four years
because our last major was in 2022, so yeah, I'm very excited to be here.
And the best moment in my career, it was definitely my qualification to the Antwerp
major. That was a legendary for the South America team, because who never decided as a team from
South America, not Brazil one, like Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and the rest of South America,
qualify for the major. So yeah, it was historic for all directions. So yeah, that will be with me all my life.
I think the person who inspires me more, I will say Foden and he's the obviously one, but I want to say
another one and he's with me in the team right now, who is BIT. He's a legendary player from
from Brazil and now it's our coach again so yeah I'm very happy to work with him.
I want to achieve a lot of more majors but I will say a playoff from
major yeah that's my goal my real goal because yeah I want to win a major but I want to be
realistic at the same time so I will say yeah playoff or from major.
Well, have it, we laid the foundation for a perfect end.
9z picking up the first map and Fyria, who we didn't know if they could, responding.
And now, from the top of their map pool, Overpass, a series with no punish picks whatsoever,
we can have the very best map to end it.
An entire decade Cologne, you have waited to cheer for this event as a major.
An entire decade Cologne, the fallen has sat here waiting for a chance to touch that trophy
as a major.
So one final chance Cologne.
Let me hear you roar!
Thank goodness we get a chance to see you overpass.
Fyria may have overcome their demons.
Now, we put a microscope to every pistol, every mistake,
every punish, and every rotation.
As Ninzee, run this out long to get ahead
of a very difficult T side.
I love the tempo, gotta be honest.
Ninzee once again, right back at it.
Straight into the furnace.
And Molodoy's gonna give Mayer
something to think about in the backdrop.
You've got three sets of feet on site though.
If Ninzee wanted to pump wet,
They've got that at least. Now hang on for dear life.
If Nines are you have DGT babysitting stairs, there's no one coming up there.
Everyone rotating in from CT, they could run into a crossfire,
get clothes lined on their way in, that's the dream situation for Nines.
Look at the bodies, though.
All these players about to just fly out through that dumpster
and that constant threat as well of the bank bush.
Fallen's clean with the first one,
dropped by Luchoff inside the corner, he starts to rack them up.
Again, it is explosiveness, but what's for Molotov?
From the first kill now, back into it.
Reload needed, bomb takes quick and there's no cap for him to scoop up fast enough, he's got to go!
There's no time?
It's so close, surely!
That thing's gonna blow!
Fun!
A hell of an effort!
Had to be the last bullet before the reload.
He couldn't nail him there.
And the crossfire is king.
They take out Max, but where there's Max, there's Luchov.
First kill to Fury up, but a swift bomb plant.
And again, every round is gold here for 9-Z.
It had to be that shot.
Everybody's looking forward to their CT side on Overpass.
Both these teams massively overperform on the defense.
The pistol is just the easiest way to take the pressure off of the second half.
Flash in for Quesarado, P250 versus blinded people forces the team kill.
But luckily there's utility for 9Z as well.
On top of that one they will just cop right through this B defense, nothing else to hold
them back.
Now you kind of are a heaven USP, I don't think so.
And even then we see 9Z played appropriately, dropped their smokes and make sure that
They don't make mistakes. Both of these teams lost to round 2-4 spies in the previous map.
Yeah, but if that doesn't happen now, then it doesn't seem like it will.
Molotov pushing in. Chance to see the side. New job takes him down.
Calm situation now for 90.
They gave themselves a very small chance by buying barely anything.
A couple of P250s in that flash we saw K. Serroto try to capitalize on.
This exit will come towards Erie. He knows it, but now he gets spotted.
Ah, no chance to get the jump on them.
It's a massive chance.
Jump on this major, Fyria have played overpass twice, 13-6, 13-7.
Versus Bat-Boom and Maus respectively over on the other side.
9-Z have played it four times this major, 13-8 to the Mongols.
16-12 to Spirit, 13-1 to ParaVision, and 13-10 to Tyloo, that's an incredible resume, undefeated so far on the map.
Oh, I love that. And they played that pistol with that kind of tempo.
tempo. I thought you only spoke French. Like it's the last game of our lives. Always presence,
always enjoying the moment. Something he has specifically tried to work on coming into
this major having to wait four years to return after their Antwerp outing.
That's a long time to think about your dreams and aspirations.
And now Lucho will be thinking about what he can offer in the next one, because it's
opening kill here for Fury, a body's on the site, flashbang misses, two targets and
monster.
Kacerotto from behind the pillar is still yet to activate, Max is leaning in on this.
And as Kacerotto finds a small sanctuary behind this pillar, it feels like it's the
kind of spot that could go unnoticed.
or not he swings and he tethers nicely off of Yuri who now has another and with that
furious first gun round sucks the life out of 90. Yeah one of them one of the dome there for
Mayern he's about to go down they'll try to escape here at 39 seconds really uncomfortable
spot for 90 spending all their money being able to save an AK and a glill but just a
Mali extra for Mayern and Furia and what's really important here on vertigo or on vertigo
on overpass is the verticality is going for the boost within the site timing that
up perfectly with your case orado and for 90 the T side on this map is very
B centric when they get the opportunity they show variety because
they're a good team but leaning towards monster whenever it's not being heavily
covered is something they're gonna try a lot late rounds ending B early
rounds where there aren't double ups outside a monster with a crossfire.
Feria have to protect it. They're very good on those entries.
The O3 start for Feria would have been a complete nightmare.
Because how many maps in a row can you start from behind?
Here comes a fully loaded
Furia the op-on Maladoy
With those two saves they know that a buys coming in but they also know that that buy is a skeleton buy
And 9z they they won't have the capacity to go and sell fakes to go for a thorough default to bring an op to respond
I'm a little bit worried seeing Feria playing this far back because if they
give up all the space they create a situation where it's one missed off shot
and the site gets overrun it's extra pressure on Molladoi no inside bathroom
setup he puts himself in a must-hit position no rotations over I'm not
liking this right now for Feria I mean I know Molladoi's on form but it was
There's a communication on that one that I was concerned about.
Keeping the ideas moving to get information, that's what won them these rounds.
Oh, but he nails it!
What if that form goes supernova?
Cause he nails the first shot, Luchov right into it with the peak.
Good entry out of Luchov.
Tuck's head, Del gets popped by Yuri.
More bodies, where the first one comes from.
He commits to the spray!
And Yuri won!
Got the slack!
Just like that!
Throwing himself.
Fast forward past Mollardoy's point of contact, catching a multi-kill moments.
And that doesn't matter, just take your breath away by Yuri, beautiful rightful work.
You cannot talk about the success of Furia in 2025 without talking about the success of Yuri.
Ten seconds and DGT is going to hope he dies on time, there hope go.
Three up and three down for Yuri as they close this round.
And as small as it seems the ball comes up with this first shot. That's just so key
Again playing that far back is inviting a lot of danger
But this is a moment where the shoulders can come down a bit, you know that you're now going up against a save
And it's time to make some money early
Even if the spray is a bit wild it's just such better cover on that side of the truck than standing in the open stairs.
It's a gut wrenching feeling for 9Z to come crashing back to reality. You are in the mud on the T side of Overpass.
This third map was never meant to be easy.
Domestically, great record for 9-Z on overpass.
At this major, great record for 9-Z on overpass.
Blue chop, galak headshot, all of a sudden there's a spanner in the works.
What an oddity of a situation we've got here.
4v5 still, no, excuse me, 4v4 now.
No way to grab that off.
Why are the T's playing this like they have a chance to win this round?
this round they've got a kill from that far away they can't go back and get the
gun four in four situation I mean just do it again and just yeah and again it
comes down to well right now you've got Yuri in place holding the line I hate
even entertaining the thought oh no it's down AK's in hand
Kick Serato's M4 tries to recover. This was Glock's from the top of the bottom.
There's nothing coming into this. Just Glock's.
Try to grab the bomb. Luchov has got it. And now an AK in hand.
Mayeron's concerned about giving cover.
And with Luchov as low as he is, he fails or falls back.
Ain't you nothing? Mayeron gets a gun.
Now there's AK's for both.
Can't be tripping over your feet now, Furia.
Fallen looking timid on the approach.
Oh, good reaction for Fallen and they've got it.
But never, never, in a million years
Should this round have gotten this close? A warning sign for Furia. Maybe a slap upside the head that'll keep them sharp moving forward
But tell me that doesn't have 9z confidence starting to hit the boiling point
Why does it even look like they have a chance at entire time and it's
It's again because of the position. It's so dangerous when you let them get that close and apparently doesn't matter
What kind of guns you have. It's ridiculous. The locks. Oh
Man
They need to do more on A. But they're winning the round. They have the lead. They lose a little bit of money with it coming so close.
That's not a way to fall. I don't know what will be.
This round starts with a more forward opening move. Furio throwing his Jindar down into connector.
I actually made through. I do I do really like to read again like early rounds and everything
9z will always default back to take it over monster. I like that fear thinking about that
they really left the A site entirely vacant. It'd be scary.
This off catches you off but it's only for 30 damage. Goes back in and Max is gonna find
the headshot. The repeat comes in, Molledoy goes down. And because they're playing open
roads, there's not this instant count from 90. They don't feel the need to rush that forward
and so they're not going to get tripped up by the fact that Furia had so many bodies
here. That's the other part of it. They don't actually just full exec. They test
monster. They'll try to walk out in the middle of a timing. But man, how is there no
No response at all here for Fyria.
The fog of war is complete and total towards A.
And it's the walk up.
It's the dead silent move.
The kinder is going to try to cause some interference.
No one's here at balloons and Eagle is watched.
You release that M4 forward, careful because Mayer's on this exact line but Mayer's
also got to give this up to go and push the bomb in and that opens the door for
the two fury riflemen to start to claw back significantly. Maynard's low cleaned up by Kcerado.
The two of them, a double kill apiece, Yuri and Kcerado slipping into what was all of
90 on that bomb site.
Just got to give it up to Yuri, man.
It's daily critical kills of 90 on that bomb site. Maynard was holding for that
exact Uri push Mohan but he had to move that bomb in and when he does Uri finds
the perfect moment to push the opposite side of the site that Keisarados
distracting from. They're getting insane form out of Uri.
Hell of a day to do it. Still another moment where it's very scary. 9-Z
pulling that call out. They go into a timeout now. Max has got the one AK they
invest behind it. But it's a tapered buy only some money going in.
And this flank got washed, I mean.
Again, like, the fact that Yuri even gets the kill towards Long, he would never have stood there if he was worried about that.
Assist on the third as well.
High efficacy on that grenade, huh?
Low health mayor, one of the pistols in the play.
Gear flashbangs finding their targets, but the kinder not getting his kills just yet.
It's okay, it can be recovered.
The real chance to gun him down, monster pipe held, and that one's convincing.
Fury up, with a flurry of kills, go up to a 5-2 CT lead on Overpass,
and yet all of them still seem laser focused.
Surely with how 9Z have tested them in rounds they're not supposed to.
This does not feel safe still.
I mean, it's Fallen's Overpass that invented the forward A aggression from balloons.
It used to be him using fur in this position to get space pushed back and then phase for
the team that adopted that use rain in that position but he's the one who invented it.
And it hasn't fallen out of meta.
There are so many aggressive CT options to implore.
You just have to make the call.
punish. And now it's the utility from safety here from the CT side.
Wow, what a crazy position after a CT bush going for a boost like this.
This would be such an insane read, like the thought that he would even go back to do this.
And look, they're covering this correctly.
Right, both off chase. Oh! Nice! Oh, what? Oh my goodness. And you can't
They pushed off a short and they knew he was going to do that.
So many layers to this short play this round between the teams.
It's crazy because the kill comes up for Furia to actually give themselves a chance.
But they still knew what was going to happen on both ends of that push.
Molodo is going to have to be instrumental yet again.
45 on this clock.
Yuri's the support system once more.
Tries to get into position but as this smoke remains up, it's just Molodo.
He's worried about the bathroom's door.
And now that it's faded, he could chop Max.
But there comes the shots and the confirmation on that jump up.
Nobody's wrong. And down goes Yuri. Down goes Molotoy!
Ferasi!
He's in the A site yet again!
The piercing attack, crushing everything.
Spotting a kinder who now has no chance to even go for this.
Bomb gets planted, and Ninesie close it.
There is no holding them back once they come knocking on the front of this A bomb site.
Glock's ore guns.
And Ninesie show us a real depth in this round.
the amount of setups they had, an anticipation of moves from Furia outside of the B site.
That isn't just them getting lucky with the A hit.
Oh, they got unlucky with the fallen's boost.
They were watching for it, he still got the kill, and then they got two back.
Shout-out Hwaso Peek for the wallbang headshot return.
And your Kinders push-offs are short, even though it sneaks by,
because they have to call their player in blue to now refrag it Hwaso Peek.
The rotation to A is still not enough.
Again, I would just like to see a little bit more bathrooms control out of FURIA, but in a realm like that, I can understand.
There's more of a heavy emphasis towards B from the CT side.
But these early positions are looking more competitive.
High-level overpass.
Chicking in, Maynern is on the off. He had two good maps in this series, but starting this one zero and five.
Getting away with this unreal battle.
And to be fair, that stand back was also pretty fortunate. But my goodness, what an attack.
Here come those Luchov entries.
It's one of the specialties all major long that 9Z have been able to bank on.
He's kind of an untapped secret weapon right now.
A scary 6-gear for 9Z, needing damage on the approach, but it does go both directions.
And again we're going to play this game of cat and mouse outside of the B bomb site,
DGT to the top of the boost.
damage on K-Sorado and fallen. A kind of light-hearted spam comes through and doesn't find its target
at a fury of, but Yuri will just keep trying these different angles. Nice made this time
out of 90, that'll get K-Sorado dangerously low.
It becomes a game of battleship, you know, between short and inside the site. You can
alert them of your presence, there's still no ceiling over the site. You might as well
of use the fact that you can go with spams. So, some damage dealt both ways. A lot of it
unconfirmed. But the last few rounds, I see have started to lean and end towards a which
I think is a little bit unexpected. This flash for Yuri to set up falling into the
and back into the cover but they're closing the gap. Now he's a little more concerned about the short side.
Fallen holds his arms! What a long bang!
Max has got the one answer back, careful in these 2vx situations.
K-Syroto is going to clamp down on it this time around. Mayeron can't get that deep angle.
Good on Fallen to catch those two kills. He has the second most amount of kills
on Fiora at the moment.
At the moment, what a time to come alive. On overpass, of course.
That's a little moment that he gets those. He gets full blinded, has to fall back.
And not just that, but it felt like for a second he goes into the short side,
where he was about to find a duel, still kind of blind, has second guesses,
goes into a more awkward position and still delivers two on the walk-up.
That was not an easy position for Fallen to get one, let alone both.
I thought he was flustered, this kind of indecision for a second.
And he knows that. They know where he is. Not much room to fall back.
It's a good CT angle that he takes, but he just straight up has to deliver.
Knows he has to fight to the death.
And he says class is in session.
Slight limitations for 90 and around 10.
This elusive fourth-round win on the T side.
And a total change up in the tempo. A completely unannounced move. Look out the mercenary!
He's not being respected, but they don't get the kill.
Oh, he's all agonized!
You don't get the kill, and there's enough CTs here.
Recovers it back, Flash finds them, setting up. Because you'd think, of course, he's not going to do that entirely alone.
It doesn't matter how good the setup is in the approach. If they don't get that open and kill, it's all for naught.
Feria will take their position, doesn't matter about the damage here on Yuri,
against Rona, watch for the lie on the boost.
Always ready.
Flash comes through, takes fall, and blinds you, still to cover!
Max can't clamp down on it if I'm not mistaken,
the player with the Mac 10 in the middle of all that,
so economic limitations show
why 90 are up against a wall at the moment,
and Mayer in the backdrop.
There was no need to discuss his shortcomings as an offer
at this event or events prior in this quarterfinal until now.
He has had real glorious moments in both Dust2 and Mirage,
but a difficult side in this time
swarmed in the final 30 seconds.
His second kill just now collected
and they want to rip that off from his hand
so that it's not an option here for 90.
He'll get a chance to play on CT side.
There won't be too much T side-off impact.
But again, this is about getting rounds. They didn't want to have to start on the T side on this map.
But they knew that it was coming.
Again, we looked back and see how important those pistol and conversions were.
You can actually snapshot a lot of these rounds and see the position for 9Z is so good.
But Yuri comes up clutch with Maltese. Molladoi's hitting his first shot.
This is what made Mirage possible in the second half for Furia.
This is what we expected from Furia coming into the series on map 1.
But now none of that matters. All that matters is closing overpass, and they're showing themselves they can do it.
But if I'm 90, I'm still confident I can pick up one or two.
It's a weird one, but those nades well placed.
The Kindar has been floating around this opening.
And Molodoy will welcome this challenge.
Miss times the off shot as the Kindar jumps in front of him, gets killed out through that smoke.
Now Molodoy really feels like he's got to get something, because he can't really control this gun.
They just have to hide for long enough that he gets scared, because now his rifle support is gone.
Does he want to take the risk?
I love that he's staying here.
He's getting that rotation in from Yuri, and he holds onto space, doesn't immediately evacuate.
really just leaves that gun on a book.
This is actually a crazy lurk position out of Luchov.
Like, look at where this round is actually going.
You'll stick here for the time being.
And remember, there's only two guns, and Luchov holds one of them.
So they're actually allocating him to the other side of the site.
And now Luchov's dead.
And so when he goes down, this becomes far less likely.
Nindsy Bank on a half health Watto peak.
They're going towards short.
50 seconds.
Oh, what a move, actually.
I mean, Paul is not going to be able to see this.
Just trying to chase K-Sorado playing with grenades.
I mean reloading behind the pillar. He doesn't feel ready.
And Fallen's caught out in the open.
But remember, they just don't have the hardware.
AK's last at bat.
And so they'll sweep him under the rug.
Furia secure an eight.
Yeah, this half goes from good to stellar here for Furia.
This is eight without a pistol and a conversion.
It's time to lock in.
What a daunting task lies ahead for 9Z once we switch sides.
It's one they should have always known they'd have to deal with floating overpass versus
fury up, but now it feels real, and that electric tempo that they began this t-side
with, flying down long with pistols, it is slowly receded into playing the map and
keeping options and waiting for furious tests, struggling to defend against those
first kills, getting nose for themselves.
Inside bathrooms control, one thing they've been doing so well is just pressure on absolute
opposite sides of the map.
Ykinder trying to play his advantage here, Moldova protects him on the outside of bathrooms.
How will this get cleared?
Oh!
Perfectly tied from Ykinder!
Oh!
Clean versus Luchov!
Take it three!
Come on!
Max will deny that still a solid multi-kill out of your front bathroom's defender
Molladoi gonna be just locking in on this angle now knowing their support standing behind him fire pops
And he will still offer half his health running back through it a two versus four an uncomfortable place
Especially when you still need to pick up that bomb and yet this is what's left of 90s G side
Stellar defense put forward by fury at at times push to its limits
Molodoy Stoik sits back, relaxes, and knows that him and his team have indeed done enough.
Done enough to put doubts in the minds of 90.
A massive ask of them, lies ahead on the other side of halftime.
A pistol and conversion have Ninzee's hopes high out of the gate here on map 3, but Brazil
has been given real reasons to celebrate at the moment.
A second pistol victory here for Ninzee in the middle of the cathedral would suddenly
make this place electric as their hopes could once again return to new heights.
GLOBED! WHO WANTS TO SEE A COMEBACK!
They want FURIA FORGE TO THE FIRE!
9Z wins 70% of their pistol rounds on this map.
But this one, they need 100%.
Oh, what?
The flash is perfect.
Luchoff hits his shot.
Mayor and eyes wide open.
The P250 is deadly from a distance.
Oh, but they take this out.
They don't see the bomb.
That again, come around.
Headshots in the pistols.
We go back to Dust 2.
It's been this way since the first round of this series.
It feels like they just win.
They just so solid on these pistols.
Just instant headshots.
So, Furia.
Yuri's still alive so you never know right
Should have been another in the 90 back pocket
I'm so interested in this CT side just with the amount of kind of jostling and
Out positioning that was going on outside of that B bomb site on 90s approach
Even if it only came up as three rounds on that T side
It felt like they were really trying to just warm their way through. I thought you were in control of a lot of those T positions
They're still here.
It's my recovery, though.
You think it's impossible.
Down to your Kindar.
All four players here.
Surely they all just swing.
That was one of the tack pauses to talk more in these versus clutch situations.
Come on.
And they make it happen.
Last one's the hardest.
They make a meal out of it, but they win that pistol.
They win both pistols on this map.
And look how excited they are at this chance.
Wow.
Let's go, stay composed, keep talking, keep talking to each other, keep making plans,
keep understanding.
Situations, in situations make it difficult for them.
Kai, get good positions, help, help.
The reminder to communicate has been huge, it's been a through line at this major.
It has made the difference on these tack bosses.
It feels like the most obvious thing to say, but when the pressure's on, that's when the communication falls off, and that's when you lose everything.
That's why Sid wants even from the dead players, right? All hands on deck.
And that's what's been so impressive about 90. Like, through all their difficult games, they have kept the communication high.
They haven't come through with very, like, boring setups without map control. They always bring that.
But that's a reminder for a future round.
Fiora coming into this one with Glocks a couple of flashes, hoping to score a plant.
It would be an abject failure if they somehow lost this.
One in a million rounds.
Probably inspired by Ninzee's attempt with a similar buy.
Last half.
No plant off the pistol, that's what this means.
There's three kills in a bomb plant for Ninzee's Glocks on the attack.
Fiora's knocked so much.
On for the ace
Wasso peek right there with Yuri on the other end of it
And he got it all five just an ace for the road or is it an ace on the foundation of
9z's extension into the playoffs. That's the question that will only have answered in some time
It's also a moment. No kills. No bomb planted in the second rounds
Money is the scariest thing to go up against on overpass, but it comes to CT side
If you can get six mollies every round you buy them.
That op instantly onto mayor, and tech nines though, here for Furia.
That's kind of what my interest was peaked by, right?
These outer setups on the peace lines.
Incendiaries gonna burn Molledoy out, Waso in the middle of that smoke supported by
The rifle gets a little awkward.
Casterotto and Yuri trying to reclaim this one again.
And there, yeah, he'll find it over top.
So that really sucks the momentum out of the hands of Furia,
because now Casterotto, the one with the low health,
also bumps smoke, dangerous cross.
He'll still hit two takes.
Luchov kills him in the middle of all that,
but just a reminder that things can change quickly
with the talent that Furia have.
Aferia did a fantastic job in that first half of taking very scary positions, but hitting their first shot, denying the opening entry, and then taking full control.
90 will have that responsibility now for themselves. They close out. We're going to get a strong game client on this T side of Aferia. They're comfortable being here. They just know that this lead isn't as big as it might seem to the untrained eye.
They know to take every T-Round dead serious.
If you 90 win this round, I would literally rather be dead than Urea in this match.
Oh!
First and second kill!
This is massive out of case, Serrano!
It's playing games through the monster pipe and it's lethal.
There's still a second half of this map to figure out for Furia, but you've got Mayern in a tough spot, dropping his smoke on bathroom.
Furia never made this mistake in the first half. This is...
This will take a quick adjustment if, ever, Yori tiptoes his way out from the top of connector.
And Bomb's gonna be Molladoi's responsibility.
This sends you kindar and fallen in front of that bomb with their smokes out ready to blank at this A site
Can Mayurn adjust the scope fast enough and slam the shot to Yuri because as those grenades begin popping inside of the
Side of this now a sudden rush up from Luchoff a
Leg shot and there's that pinch Yuri perfectly times it to tether into the A site and the double kill from K
Serato worth its weight in gold
Honestly mayor into the spot where it's time to get out of there, right if you wanted to have a chance of
of taking this off and in the next round, they have money to buy it again, but
you wouldn't want to do that. And again, this is a moment where we see 90 make mistakes,
make a mistake,
that Fury did not on their CT side. Two kills through the smoke on Monster.
All the advantages that you may have, have nothing to do with that.
Oh, one more punish here.
Make it really expensive. Get through this money quickly is what
Fury are gonna try to do.
We're trying to hang it on for dear life, but it's feeling less and less likely.
Right off the thread of K Serato, who will collect a triple kill this round.
Attribute this one to K Serato, as Furia now have 10.
This could be a write-off for 9Z, we'll see.
They still get their money for virtually everything they need.
One of these drones doesn't just put themselves with them in a good position. He just wins the round with those two kills.
It's impossible to call around.
The stakes are high.
You want to tell yourself you don't want to be passive you just want to be making the right play
And sometimes that means shooting back through a smoke, but as soon as you die you realize
You're taking risks playing at this level versus players of this caliber. There's never an easy choice to make
And he didn't get to this position
By playing as a tier two team and pretending they're playing against tier one teams
They played as if they had the same amount of top 20 players as all of their competition.
That's what got them here.
They can't turn their back on that.
But that also means they have to rise up to the challenge of more, a new set of top 20 players.
And continue to impress on a level that you could never precipitate for their run coming into this major.
You can walk that tightrope all you want, but don't be surprised if Keisarotto shoves you off it.
You can already see the change up in Ninzey, not a single player extending down that ramp towards Monster.
I don't doubt that Ninzey have other defensive options, but I know damn well that left a mark on them.
This one working out a little bit towards 9Z, holding onto utility more, not burning it early, not anticipating a fast move from Furia, which they're right about.
Furia are coming into this very slowly and actually not willing themselves to risk any kind of forward mount control.
Now those smokes start to come out to the CT side.
Pgt down here still has his smoke and his incendiary Max is playing flex here
and you know he just wants to make the right move do I lean and reinforce B or
do I stay towards a where they're coming in late well it is a B play
Holy for short. K. Serato is the one to go through. Flash finds its target. Second player back there is Woso. Now low HP.
Max is also wounded. Your Kindar is going to kill the Luchak on top. The monster Clive is still slow to the play.
But Max, what are you going to do here? You have no health to work.
So Maynard on the scene as Max burnt to a crisp in front of him. Looks for the upshot. Drops run, but the bomb plant is still secured.
It has to be a 1 on 4 and I don't know if that's going to happen.
They deny him swing wide through it. It's a team effort here from Curia in the face of the utility late grenades out of 9z
But it's all for naught their money's gone and Curia on the brink of victory
They're here to take 12 now. That was the chance for 9z to respond in the second half
Their most comfortable half in their entire map pool
They get the pistol and conversion they're looking for but as soon as they hit the money and the full rifles
they fall the fury up.
Cacerado once again open and kill out in front of that Molotov on short
That's what opens up the site
No hesitation for Cacerado one of the three players in that pack met by the flames doesn't give a damn it dives right through it
So not only do you feel his wrath when he spans a smoke
You just had a great and great point about having to go up and play those risks
But a guy like Keisarotto can also just storm your castle and he did that.
An unexpected move, Katz 9-Z off. Did they do anything wrong?
Or do they just get caught by a world-class player?
And 9-Z are playing now for overtime.
They will not bring anything into this round.
A sinking feeling hits as 9-Z after their two pistols in this series thought,
It's our time. We know how to do this.
Well, that chance may have vanished at the hands of Kcerado.
This is a game that in many ways, for all of Furia, feels like a curse.
You kindar's inability to win quarterfinals at majors,
Molladoys, performance in Budapest,
leaving him looking like a shell of himself.
And this constant 3-0, stage 3 start that fizzles out at majors.
You lose the opening map, it all feels like it's becoming a reality again.
And yet in the back of your minds you just know if we can fight,
If we can claw our way back into these halves as Furia have, then you can get to Overpass.
We've fallen, changed the world of Counter-Strike on this map.
We've fallen, inspired all the nations where every player from 9Z hailed from.
And so you give him that comfort zone, and he'll give you six rounds to try to fight it off.
to battle for your dreams, 90.
Furia, map, match, semi-finals points.
And so they step onto the tightrope,
and they have to see what can they get away with.
Who's going to make the first move?
Can they stick to their CT game plan that they know works?
Or is this just a bridge too far as the confidence boiled over for Furia?
Have they finally ascended to the form that we saw last stage?
That's certainly what it feels like.
one more mistake, K. Serato. Punish them twice already.
It's been a demon for this B-site defense.
A millimeter from the kill. Another mistake.
He will catch Basso and this time it looks like they're just going to bounce.
At times Furia sat back and let things stew. This time they want in.
And as they try to get into it, it's K. Serato to catch another.
DGT looks to be the hero, drops that bomb.
And now it's K. Serato on the scene. He's the reason this momentum rolled forward.
It's built up by Molotoy.
And the leech off on the recovery from K. Serato.
And he's been more than one. Another multi-kill from K. Serato.
Max says he has a daughter now and the time is limited. Do not waste these chances, but it's taken from him.
This cathedral
will see more of Brazil's Guardian Angel.
Fallen stomps on the deep purple embers.
We've seen burning slowly throughout this major.
9Z are no more.
This is a team that deserve the praise.
Surviving a map, pushing Fyria to their limit.
We saw that they could stand on stage
and still play their best CS.
But they gave Fyria enough time to reach their form.
trying to be the top team in the world. The team they were six months ago. With the
player that's won here, ten years ago looking to do it again on a side of a
bracket where he knows his hardest test might have been right now.
Ten years he has chased the thought of hoisting this trophy as a major
Victor again and he's not doing it with an entire roster of Brazilians by his side
because Fallen's story and Fallen's influence goes beyond just his nation's
borders not only to that of South America but to Kazakhstan and beyond
Fioria secure semi-finals. They certainly do a semi-finals secured a
very popular winner here as well. First off congratulations to another
semi-final here in the cathedral. Thank you very much guys. Amazing to play here every
time. Very happy we went through. Thank you so much for being here. What about 9C? They've
had this Cinderella run. What is it like to play them? When you don't know a lot about
team, when they seem to have beat everyone, what is it like to take them on? They played
very good. It was our hardest match so far. I think they could have gone through.
They played very good all series. They played on this tournament. And it's just that
at some point we kept believing that we could come back. Mirage, we did a very
good defense and overpass a very good defense so I guess sometimes our T-Hofs doesn't work
and that's what they can out of the tournament. What is it like to play here? I was I was
talking about this when we opened it earlier on if we look on that trophy the last time
the major was here was 10 years ago the team you were with at the time is embazed and
on it you lifted that trophy what is it like to play here? It's amazing guys Lexus is
a place where I feel everyone is coming from around the world to celebrate counter
You can see this game through NINZ, completely different continent and still full arena.
So yeah, this is probably one of the best places to play Counter-Strike if not the best.
If we talk about book ends to careers, what is the difference between the person I speak to right now,
who is, you say, on a retirement tour last time you play here,
and the player who lifted that trophy ten years ago, what is the difference?
The difference is that at that time I feel like I was still trying to prove myself,
prove myself to try to win a lot and I was trying to put the first group on the
top of the world and now I'm trying to do it again with a different group and I
know the lifting this major trophy is part of the piece so maybe I can do it one
more time so the difference is I'm going for my second turn this time. What do
you think is going to happen in that semi-fun? What are you bringing? It's
going to be a crazy match. A lot of people have big respect for those guys
they're very friendly very good players they also have some struggles on
playoffs like we have been having lately so it's going to be a crazy
It's going to be a pleasure to play them and hopefully the best going to win.
Let's see.
We love watching you play.
We love watching you win.
Congratulations, Fulham.
Furia through to a semi-final.
These individuals have climbed to the top of the Counter-Strike world, but some still
have dreams to catch.
Niko reuniting with Karrigan still chasing his first major title, Apex on a hunt for his
faith.
Vitality looking to turn an era into an Eon.
A server full of highlights in human form.
They can conjure clutches that are barely believable.
Give us moments we will never forget.
They are some of the greatest players who have ever played this game.
And we have been blessed with this quarterfinal on Counter-Strike's holiest site.
The world's eyes are fixed on the Lanceless Arena.
May this be a match worthy of this cathedral.
We're going to be getting into the things in the quarterfinal.
Vitality and Falcons trying to take that next step towards their dream, towards their
goals.
I knew this was going to be that first map, but we're going to get a little bit delayed.
We had a drop out of the server, so we're going to give you a pause just to increase
that tension just a little bit more.
Unfortunately, this game has plenty of stories to touch on, Jason.
So many, it's tough to know which direction to go in, but for Vitality, I like that Yankee
was talking about the pressure.
They have everything to lose, right?
They're on the path to try and get the three P majors back to back to back.
Apex trying to tie up with Dupri and get his fifth.
Niko, all the pressure.
Every time we come into a major, is this the one he finally wins?
I mean it's absolutely crazy what we've got inside the server. There's only over a hundred and eighty trophies combined amongst these players.
It's absolutely mental what these guys have been able to do inside their career.
Rup's coming into this and saying his goal to win this trophy, it's the only trophy he hasn't won two of.
That's an insane statement to make. One of the best players we have in Counter-Strike and he just wants a second Cologne trophy lift.
And this one would be a major. This one would establish that legacy they've been hunting after.
Now this vitality team for a year and a half constantly setting goals.
When we don't believe there's another one they can strive for, another one they can reach towards, Apex comes up with something.
And it's all about now leaving no doubt in anyone's mind that this is the best team of all time, the greatest team of all time at Counter-Strike.
In the last series we're talking about the coaches as well, Jason.
The fact that we've got Sonic and Xtas as well, go back, go coach conversation, putting themselves in the hat.
We'll see how this one goes down is finally we are ready to get into the action cologne
We'll kick this one off Falcons versus team vitality a new bus up first and let's get this on the way
Everybody start now with Falcons on that CT side vitality going to be attacking into them
This is Falcons map pitch after some success in stage three against Novi
They felt the confidence to bring it here. They sense the weakness of vitality on this map
Karrigan is going to get an early peek towards the B-Bomb site, a little bit of information
spotted.
Ziru inflames outside of that B-Bomb site and Karrigan is going to delay that, make it
a little bit disjointed.
So much conversation about Karrigan's individual level.
He's going to be tested soon with his first flight going down between Apex and Kyosuke.
You can see the other one actually wants that battle whatsoever.
Kyosuke just wanted to see what's happening over in the middle.
Oh, he's got the headshot on Apex.
on four provided. First blood drawn by the youngster. Carrigan holding that
cross out. Flames gets into the site. Nezzy looking to join. He's got the
bomb on his back but Robs is waiting for this push-out. Oh they're both dead!
Modesty and Nico down within seconds. Flames getting the shot inside of
this B-bomb site. They've got Tessness and Kyosuke. They happen to come in
clutch immediately here for the Falcons. Trying to get back into this
Retake, Burki is okay! Welcome to the stage young man!
That's a 4k in the Cathedral!
He just shrugs it off, look at him!
Another day in the office!
He's got Karrigan next to him!
Who's here to activate this young star for Falcons!
And what a sequence of events!
What a way to kick off this quarterfinal!
Now one of the big things you're going to be thinking about
for the Falcons as well, committing to this game is
is this new guy's Kusuke. We know how much skill he's got,
especially going to break him as he's going to crack him.
Boy, he's starved for him to cool the nerves.
Well, Superstar has come in all shapes and sizes
and ever since Kerrigan joined this team,
Kyusuke has been on that upward trajectory.
Carrying the bombsite with Kerrigan here on Anubis
and delivers a stunning pistol round.
Vitality bind back immediately.
The wheel for Robs, tech 9's on the rest.
Niko now looked at a commit whatsoever, just wants to see a body, just wants to see the
presence.
The sole defender in middle, he's going to back off and give him the space.
Modesty and test is to defend the A-bomb site, Niko slides over, Shizuka and Kere get at
the B-bomb site.
And Vitality yet to make their first play.
Apex has utility lined up to start activating rups.
And looking towards the split into that heavily defended A site.
Tassas moving up through main, smoke is still up.
Roms on the other side.
Smoke starts to ran in on vitality in towards this A site.
Camera on heaven going to be smoked, Tassas is starting to move forward, solo fighting
towards Roms, will drop some utility.
Here come Vitality, right through camera, right towards Montesey!
And it's Niko and Montesey shutting down the play.
Vitality can't get through this four-spy.
Yeah, so well prepared, really well done from Tess's as well.
Pushed up behind the smoke, dropped some Molotov, makes this very disjointed.
Rops and Apex stalled out, unable to be involved.
And now it's a matter of an easy mop-up.
Only Rops remains against five, and Falcons are going to get started.
Two in a row on the right foot.
10 seconds here, Robs doesn't want to jump 150 dollars, he has to hold on to this
Galileo, make sure no one finds him. Good start here from the Falcons. I mean a
lovely start, this is exactly what you dream of. You have your superstar, one
of your superstars, your young one popping off from the pistol round. Now in
this second round you handle it with ease, no problems, no issue, not
dropping anyone or having to rebuy any weapons. All five defenders survive.
I heard of this quarterfinal, Nico was asked, you know, you look at Karrigan and you see how he's underperforming inside of the server.
But is that a problem for you guys? He said no, we noticed it, we definitely take it on board.
We think it's going to get better, but we brought him in to activate the other parts of the team, to get Kiyosuke online, to teach him and get him to this level.
And he's been so good in the playoffs recently, back-to-back events now.
Four Falcons, the monesties stepping out and catching the sideworld early on.
I like to get a little bit aggressive get a little bit in their face and around where you have such overwhelming advantage in weaponry
So putting vitality on notice that you're gonna be more than happy to disrupt what they want to do
I'm speaking into the bomb site defensive smoke from Keregan is gonna block them off and props will have to look elsewhere
Really good job from Falcons using utility to slow down this map slow down the pacing the tempo that vitality want to operate with
A little bit of utility for this T-side, 3 vs 5. Again at this point, Wynn probably out of reach for vitality.
But looking to take some of these weapons away from Falcon, start to dent this economy that would be building up.
Niko mentioned coming into this playoff series after beating Navi on this map to come back to Karrigan reference from 6 to 11.
So happy that it paid off picking Anubis into that they'd practiced it that worked on it
But the officials are different the high pressure matches are different and that win over Navi gave them some confidence here on Anubis
As well as the 13 to 4 drubbing vitality took against foot back in stage three
Tessa speaking out from heaven spotting the pack of vitality trying to move through what can Rob's really do with this Khalil
You know Tessus is in heaven, but he hasn't given up his position, but now he will
Robs goes in, knee grabbing a step out, here's the flight, BK2K and just flames!
The Falcons do recover it.
It's a little scary that for a couple of seconds, couple of kills in Robs, a bomb plant, Vitality gets some extra cash,
and we're getting into the real rounds of this game now.
Yeah, Robs will do that you from time to time, some beautiful shooting out of Robs for that double kill.
They're gonna be very pleased, two kills in a bomb plant for Vitality.
And you're dead on the AK47s, come out, Zai Wu gonna be on an AK as well, up not in the field of play yet.
except for monosy falcons bring it out on the CT side he snatches one right at
the end of free time when he alive in around four and see what vitality's
game plan looks like can vitality stop shaking up start shaking off the cobwebs
that we saw on stage three very simple out of the gate looking like they want
We're gonna attack into Keregana, Kiyosuke.
We're gonna back off initially as slow progression as Rocks just hangs out outside of the A bomb site.
Tess is once intel. Mid aggression. Falcons now know what's happening.
They know mid is clear. They know outside the A bomb site is wide open.
So they stall out the beach out point.
Tess has a blight pressure to rock. It's a rock's vitality.
The call to go is in. Zon we're getting in the first. Mezhy on the second.
But Niko's a rock to defend this bomb site.
It's two for Niko. Mezhy in flames. Cast aside.
And the grenade just rubs the smoke. Apex moves in. He hasn't been spotted. Apex, up he goes, down he goes, Tessas comes swatching in and Rops has been watched for. Monace's got him as well.
The first gun round falls in favour of Falcons and they dominate the information flow.
Yeah they really do. No stress and you're exactly right. The aggressive push in towards Canals. Rops was the only player playing over towards Rops to spot that out to do anything about it.
about it. Falcons put together this entire map, they knew exactly what was coming, what
was happening. Silla decent enough to execute, but Niko as he's been doing all tournament
long, showing up at the perfect moment. So fast moving around the map to make sure he's
always at the point of attack. Vitality relentless with these purchases. 2H is coming out, early
kill from Monosy, the returns on the AWP coming through. Oh, I think we're gonna
get a timeout after this from Vitality, they need to settle this game down. Right
and now Falcons is dictating everything, the pacing, the peaks.
They're doing it all from the CT side, modesty with an opening kill
and now a 4v5 to convert.
And the rifle is in the hands of Apex,
he's following up flames towards middle.
Mitality seem off their feet right now.
Niko's got to be cognizant of this,
he is going to peek back behind him, tests,
trussing him with A main, and there's the spot.
Apex is crossing over, but where does Apex go now?
So it's into the temple trying to get towards the beach, two guns not out, but still in time.
Kerrigan able to make the most out of it.
Frank's trying to chase after Kerrigan.
Churrugin finish him off with the tech nine, he does, but again the trace through.
Rops is doing some more messy, deagle topples, and so does the bomb.
So Rops with 49 seconds left, makes the long path towards middle.
You gotta love this look from Falcon so far.
Putting vitality on the back foot, they're not shying away from any kind of fight.
They're not scared of swinging into anything.
The communication is flowing. You can just tell by the way they move around the map and
ropes once again left it an impossible scenario. And his only option is to save this AK-47.
What a blistering opening from Falcons as they've dominated the first five rounds.
And we heard in those three game check-ins from both players right there. We're talking
about the fact that they had to wait so long coming into this game right there
in the hallways behind the stage playing football trying to warm up.
That game with Spirit and G2 just continued to burn on and that is going to create a sort of stagnation as you sit there on side
But why now was Falcons that are coming way harder?
Yeah, they got to love it 61 days since Kerrigan joined this roster not a whole lot of time
But you bring someone in with Kerrigan's experience
The way he likes to call and play on the stage what he's got and he's already boosted their level
I mean, we thought there was no carry game for the first time in Colombo, but he found
a way to get here every single Colombo he has attended.
And that means there's a chance for some more nature magic.
Well, this time up from Vitality is all about slowing down the pace and not getting picked
off.
Apex hasn't had a whole lot of rounds to play with where he's had his entire team
alive.
And he's been able to have a full play, a full playbook that he can dive into.
It's been a really rough opening, monosy.
Deacon in towards Canals, grab inside Wu.
Really, really tough loss to take early on.
And Vitality need to settle that down.
Find an opening on this map.
Let's see what Apex can bring to the table.
Round six.
Vitality pull themselves together.
2-Tec 9 still in play.
3-A-Kip, 47 for Vitality.
They've gone for a boost here. Monacy on top of Niko's head, but to spot anybody just yet from Vitality, they're crossing under the wall.
This is a much more straightforward call from Vitality from Apex. He hasn't went the messing around with defaults and getting picked off. This is much more attack, right up the gun.
Right into us, Kiyosuke. Sprays a little bit off, still gets one.
The trade from Zywoo. Karagin's got the Org. He's trying to buy time of utility because he desperately needs teammates.
Oh, they've done great work. A third Molotov as well. This hit can never get started.
Slowing it right down from Vitality. This is meant to be a quick recall.
Carrigan's dead, but then he's dead. You've got Niko, you've got Monosy, but they're dropping.
And Vitality finally breaking through this B-Bomb site.
The covering fire through the smoke from Flames is the difference.
They could never find a clean look. The Molotov streamlined towards Khan,
but while Mait has smoked off, they still can't find a way to decimate that half of attack.
And Vitality break through.
And Tess is going to come in towards the tail end, tuck himself into a corner and save this M4.
Vitality is going to get on the board, the Goose egg is gone.
And they do it relatively clean. A scrappy battle at that B bomb site.
Falcons couldn't find the flights they wanted.
Apex trying to simplify things.
Wanting to right hit to split to try and get into the site.
It's okay. It's a quick 132 guys. You deserve the stars.
All good guys. We circle time. Okay?
Yep.
And we fuck them up.
Yep.
Come on, my people.
Alright, I'll call them in the vitality front, despite going down big early.
The sheer confidence built up over a year and a half of not never-ending trophies.
Confidence and belief, right?
Belief in the player sitting next to you on your left and right.
And that's something that Falcons haven't had, right?
The fact that they've had so many finals where they should be winning it,
or big games, or they should be progressing
and they lose a ridiculous round here and there.
It's hard to have faith and confidence and belief
in your team, but that game you mentioned versus Navi,
surely that's the matchup that has given them
the essential belief they need going into a game
against Vitality at the Major.
Not just that one, that's where they've been singing
Carragate's praises since he joined,
back to back finals, back to back second places,
but some incredible games, incredible comebacks.
And all of those performances turn in the corner
into the Intel Extreme Masters here
at the Lancis in Cologne.
That's where the confidence is built up.
Monacee spots the head.
Apex tends to pull it, so Monacee gets out of there.
He doesn't want to do anything against Apex in that position.
But do Falcons continue to move forward?
Look at how bold this is, up the pushing through middle.
Absolutely crazy, but they found a perfect timing for it.
Now talk about confidence.
The Flames turns, Kess has trades, but now they know what's up.
How do Falcons react once they realize it isn't working?
Yeah, Vitality is trying to lean on this B bomb site.
The Kerrigan affects Kyosuke there as well. Kerrigan's going to try and delay again. Holding onto that smoke as long as possible.
And they give up a little bit of space.
Monosy and Tess is other side of the map. With Niko gone, that critical piece of the rotation of support is not here.
Kerrigan put under so much pressure. His teammate going, it's going to be Kerrigan! He gets nothing!
There's B bombsite falls again
And an impossible retake
You can see there's no chance so Marcy's off saving the test that's trying to back away
So that'll be a second run for vitality really leaning on this B bombsite
Yeah, I mean it makes perfect sense the struggles of Kerrigan well documented and while they bring so much in different areas of the game
Certainly they're gonna test them. He's gonna get tested each and every time each and every map
They're gonna see if he can stand up to the task
This time Himakiya-suke split between Kahn and in the bomb site, unable to work together, unable to work in tandem.
And with Niko dropped earlier, there were no reinforcements arriving.
So after a hot start, Vitality has made this look pretty seamless out of the timeout.
Two in a row, marching to back-to-back around wins, but still money on the Falcon's side.
and a timeout called their firsts to try and stop the bleeding, stop this from
getting worse and unraveling out of control.
We'll see how Karrigan and Kyosuke play it, but you can tell the philosophy, you
can see what they're trying to do whenever they come to the B-Bomb site,
Disjoining the attack.
And Zonic is having a little chat with the guys.
Kyosuke had a great start, 9-3 so far for him. Calm down a little bit.
Golden Hornets out supporting Vitality.
There's so many fan bases here in Cologne and some of the Lancers.
and they've had a lot to celebrate recently haven't they?
We have some information for you guys.
Unfortunately, we're going to have a PC swap out here for Apex.
Hopefully, we get this one resolved as quickly as possible.
We got the best admins in the business here.
Absolutely, happening as well now, early on in the game.
So, we'll get it underway.
I mentioned all the experience inside the server.
You touched on a briefly.
Karrigan and Apex both competing at the very first Counter-Strike major,
way, way back in 2013.
find themselves in another one here back in 2013. Neither of them made it out of the group stage.
Here looking to build upon the legacies they've constructed since then.
13 years later and both still competing at the highest level admirable careers from both.
And now surrounded by star players that were merely children at that time. It's crazy to think
about the journey they have been on but the coaching story on this team is really interesting
for me too because X-Tas was the vitality coach before Zonik came in and took that spot away
and it felt like there was a lot that X-Tas could have done with that team. Apex obviously
sad to see him going. We like working with him at the time but the Danes came in,
you had the two pre-matches and Zonik coming into the vitality squad. They went on to win a
matrix. They did some great work but Zonik leaves vitality to go to the Falcons. They
bring X-Tas back and vitality of heights that no one has ever hit before. Well back
going into that Paris major that vitality won their first apex was the guy who
kind of said if we're gonna win this major I want to win this one it's in my
home country we got to do it my way we got to stop trying to blend this Danish
counter strike with French counter strike it's got to be me taking the
reins of the team and then bringing in the coach that he wanted ecstas he was
always very confident as soon as that change happens he's saying I want to get
a major for this guy I love the way he talks about counter strike love
working with him and look at what they built together look at this
empire that vitality is constructed in that time.
And now challenging. It's not going to go on the other side.
But the Falcons counter strike has been good enough to take down vitality multiple times this year already.
It's been impressive as in the way they've been able to construct it, the way they've been able to do it.
It's been one of their nemesis two times they've taken it down. Five series lost this year for vitality.
Two of them to Falcons, the only team to beat them twice.
And they've been able to get over those with ease because they're lifting trophies the whole time
Talk about the other partnerships that have been there Karrigan and Robs now going head-to-head on the other side of the server obviously
An incredibly successful pairing of their own back in phase
They combine for eight trophies together one of them the PGL Antwerp major championship and ESL Grand Slam
winning IEM Cologne 2022 together just completely dominant as a pairing and now
they've got to overcome one another here in these quarterfinals.
It's been so great to see just Kiyosuke's reaction to Karagin being in the squad.
You know, like him screaming when they get into overtime right into his face
and just seeing how he's handling it. And after that pistol and after that
Quad kill he just looked over a carry and gave a big smile
It is just a live in the dream at the moment and that's the kind of piss around
That lets you settle into a game
Let's you settle into a chaotic environment and forget all the noise around you and focus just on the screen ahead of you
This issue couldn't have come at a worse time for vitality
We're just one end of the game finally getting their feet wet and getting some rounds on this tea side
Well having to sit out and just let this go
I'll be fine when we get back into it. IAPEC is one of the strongest mentalities that he's
developed over the years since he stepped into the IGL role. They'll have no problem moving
past this and focusing back in on the game on this little bit of a streak that they're going on.
But for the rest of the players, the chance to sit in silence, soak in the moment on the
They're at the lengths of stage before things are set to begin back up again and they lose themselves inside the game.
The PAX is back in the server.
High five is coming in.
We'll get ready to get this quarterfinal back underway.
The Golden Hornets non-stop movement all through the games year after year here to support
vitality so much to cheer for over the past year and a half.
Look at it celebrate the establishment of that legacy of Apex and the rest of the
team as they look to overtake Astralis leave no doubt in the minds of anyone that's
a big thumbs up from Apex as well.
Please with the PC he's got up on stage
Beautiful piece as well entering into this game getting to see Zai Wu Niko look back on their former selves and things are a lot easier
You didn't have the stress
The goals of winning majors at that point. It was just make it into the top
Make it into the professional scene prove you a value prove that you're a great player
From the Lancest now they said look out at a massive crowd
This was once just a dream, but now reality as we're finally ready to get back into the action
five to two lead for the Falcons
Vitality started to come back into this first half. They've got a good buy Falcons have got everything they could want
They've got the upsteel from honesty and they've slowed down vitality. I'm losing opening picks
They've kind of concentrated a little bit more whether not a spread out not as exposed
Not in positions to get dropped down early on in these rounds, giving Apex a chance to call these rounds back to the B-Bomb site.
Play them a little bit, work this defense back and forth.
And if you're going to go at Robs, you better not miss. This kid is sharp.
You can know he's there, but dealing with him is a whole other problem.
Robs readies himself to the players on the other side!
Devastating! Robs is taken two out of the time-route.
As the monos he gone and that picks up the tempo towards middle flames going to lead the way with a pech since I rule behind him and
Carragad he's the guy have to make a player else this round is done one minute remaining as Carragad steps into me
And he misses his chance
So I will inflate following up, and it's just Nico now
Step out of the camera for the eyes are important and flames headshot will connect a third round for vitality a
A very strong start coming out of that pause.
Yeah, now we're going to see what Falcons are made of.
This will be an interesting round.
They burned a timeout just a couple ago.
I don't think Zonic wants to use his second one just yet.
So we'll see Kerrigan and Falcons dropped out into a small buy with pistols so they
can have weapons in the next.
They'll concede around a little bit easier over the Vitality.
But when they get the guns back in their hands, we're going to see what kind of
tenacity they've got.
What kind of plans and adaptations do they have to fall back on?
Because the first five rounds looked so damn smooth, but your new vitality was going to show up and arrive at some point.
And rattling off three straight is going to have this Falcons defense shaken.
Now you got Zai Wuzor.
I thought that weapon might do throughout this series.
No real threats from Falcons in this round and once again they're knocking on the A-bombs
side, Karagin knocked out.
And over in middle it's just the pistols going to start shifting over and rotating
over, but Apex is just holding this team back. They don't care whatsoever, they know they're
going to force a reaction, a response, and they're happy to just sit across the map and
see if anyone's going to be pushing forward. Vitality should be able to close this out
with no problem. Another smoke in towards BMA. Messi's just going to go for the spam.
And now the bomb is collected with 43 seconds left on the clock, and Vitality have complete
control of the situation complete control of the map but they're coming
towards this they're coming towards this stash there's a chance
monocled eagle first-hand shots good going again you got kids today up next
by monocled back he's got another but it's all gonna be monocled against
siren and it will be siren to put an end to the heroics so close from
Yeah, there's Deagle's to work. Great positioning from Falcons. Vitality not scouting anything out, going for the play in towards Khan.
Lovely shot from the Deagle. It was always going to be hard to get Zairu on that cross.
Kofi really swings into the angle. And that's a fourth. Vitality just one round away from tying up the scoreline.
I'm clueless of even these rounds can be deadly. Even these rounds can be flipped very quickly.
But the buy is back for Falcons
This game hasn't really broken open yet both teams testing each other both teams game plans going well at various points
First Falcons now vitality having ease marching two rounds in a row in sequence
All completely blind Cyro gets away. He gets away on one HP. Makes it around the corner.
Monosy holding middle. Plenty of forces on the other side. When does Flames make his
step forward?
Aniko's behind about the A bomb site as well. He's joined up with Tess's. Deals like
Falcons are assuming this is gonna be a day hit, but they're dead wrong. Other side of the map is where the play is being made
Where the bomb is heading. Oh, Monacee's cut off as well. Has a slow rotation back over it. It has to be a Kiyosuke and
Karagin to deliver again. And this is the bombsite that got vitality these four rounds. They've been leaning on this weakness
It's been a game plan of pure punishment towards this B bombsite defense
Utility slows them. But can the reinforcements, can the reinforcements of Falcons arrive in time?
Karrick and Flatton, Giyosuke, Elimin, Irundle, Wound, Ted at the hand of Mezzi, and Falcons are just so far away from this one.
Vitality once again through to the B-Bomb site.
Oh man, out of that timeout, Vitality have taken complete control.
Now the game plan is online, and Apex is working this map time and time again, and if you're Falcons now you're so concerned about that B-Bomb site.
You can likely no longer play three players towards A, you can no longer try and cheat that over.
over. You have to be able to stop the be-hits and it's just not happening. Apex is going
to know that, right? It's going to be warily around in this game. Our game plan is working
perfectly now. We've got it online. We know they're going to have to start committing
resources away from that A site and opens up so many options for this T side. Now, this
is looking way too simple on these last five rounds for Vitality. Not any kind of resistance
from the Falcons defense. It's disappeared here on Anubis. Five in a row to tie
things up going into round 11 and we're going to get that second time out of
his Sonic and Falcons. Once the talk things over, wants to figure out the
adaptations and this is the conversation of how you shore up that
B-Bomb site. You can't just do it out of the gate and park three players there. You
have to show some presence elsewhere and if you don't want to stack towards
the B-Bomb site, Falcons have a ton of plays towards Middles. Stacks with Niko
tough to the corner paired up with Malice's AWP. You can start there
dropped out of the canals for a fast flag. You can start there and try and
find an opening pick. Maybe some of that aggression we saw earlier on in this half.
But having a very tough time piecing these rounds together and now you're not
getting the benefit of opening kills. X-Daz and Apex have done a great job of
getting Vitality back in shape. Fixing those mistakes, fixing those errors and
Falcons have gone cold, ice cold here in the Langsess. The question is now
Can Zonik and Karrigan find a response?
Can they send anything back away from Vitality in the last couple of rounds in this first half?
No real deviation from this setup here for the CT, so I know aggression.
Yeah, I mean, here is one of those setups for Niko and Momos to kind of put a stop and encounter the attack over in middle,
but Vitality haven't really been opening up with any kind of place towards the middle of the map,
so I don't know if they're actually going to see anything.
the timings of when they want to shift away.
Showing mid control from vitality,
Flames and Mezzi working together
and just as Niko and Monosy back off
with their respective positions,
Flames, Apex and Mezzi make their move.
That's gonna pull Kerrigan back away from B.
Niko slides further into the A-bomb site,
sensing the split.
Smokes up.
Spam goes through.
Warning shot, the players still move forward, they still progress, they get past them.
They get to the temple, and now Karakin, better break and do something about this.
Dropping utility, Apex is already beyond it!
And then that ped up tool between Apex and Karakin, and then blind is robbed, it's Kesseth taking the frag.
And a 4v4, but 35 seconds left.
Monosy out from connector.
Nice fixed on temple, but utility forces him back.
That's gonna be fine vitality is just gonna bypass this entirely they realize they actually don't need to take this part of the
Bomb site whatsoever smoke it off molletub is down messy planted other side of the bomb site and
Valkins this is a very tough retake Nico is the solo man coming from CT spawn
Otherwise, you're all over in con bottlenecked got one a cheap grenade as well. No flashes. No smokes. No mollies
Surely no way for Falcons
Mezzy waits
AK-47 short to rip off the head of Tess S. Follow up from Flames. Nico comes through. Still doable. But very unlikely. Zywu shuts it down. Modesty alone! And he had the lineup. Just couldn't get it done. And it's Vitality 6-5 up.
Apex jumping right into his face as well, giving him no room to operate, no mercy whatsoever.
Vitality showing in these last six rounds.
What are the best team in the world?
And overcoming Falcons, they're just a step ahead.
Round after round, and it's this B-Bomb site that's been a weak point all map-long.
Round 12, final of the first half.
Oh, straight down into the water. Niko! It's going to be Kiyosuke on top of it!
Chaos to kick off the round.
But you know where it's coming next. You know exactly where it's coming.
It's always been. It always has been. But monosy this time. Not such an easy pushover.
Sairu will look at a respawn. The three heaviest hitters and Falcons wait down inside of the B site this time.
It'll be elsewhere, it'll be over towards mid, they go, Kerrigan ready and waiting, off angle
in the mid.
They find Kerrigan again, they find him again, this time he gets one.
But how many, how many rounds have we seen Robson and Zairu pull off together?
A minute on the clock.
There's almost no follow-up plan though, Niko is over in Kadao's, he could actually
stop them from dropping down.
So Zairu and Robson, they choose elsewhere, Niko's gonna wrap around, are they ready?
We've got the up-out, Gershap and Niko, doubles and up, that's the half.
Falcons made it to tie it up, but what a streak from vitality to get right back into the quarter-finals.
Welcome back to the quarterfinal clash of two of the greatest teams we have in Counter-Strike.
A hot start from Falcons cooled very quickly by a surgical T-side from Vitality, a clear
game plan of punishment towards that B-bombside defense, Team Karrigan and Kiyosuke.
One round grab at the end though from Falcons and we are all tied here on Anubis.
And Boyd did Vitality sense and just abuse that weakness, brought him right back into
the game.
So if you came here as Falcons thinking that you sent some weakness in the Vitality
side you're dead wrong as the score line is even as we begin the second half
pistol round Falcons gonna be on the attacking side and now we get to see what
Kerrigan brings to the table what kind of offense he calls how crazy does he
want to let him get trying to unleash these star players that he's got
Nico, Kiyosuke, Modesty seeing what they can bring to the table. Scrap
yourselves in it's gonna be a wild ride here with Kerrigan calling this
T side.
Well, Tessus is going to hold onto the bomb outside of the B bomb site.
Kerrigan going to activate his three players towards mid.
You got to feel like you're just going to drop out of the canals and wrap into the B bomb
site.
Nezzi and Apex to defend.
You know what Messi can do from this platform.
We said before, USB in hand this time, Kiyosuke going to be marching in.
Apex has got two headshots.
His teammate gone.
Apex tries to get a third out of it, but Kiyosuke, once again, back to back,
strong pistols, but goes in while reloading.
gone and Vitality have arrived.
So it's Monosy instead.
Electric 1v3 required, goes down into the beat belt
and Zywoo nails the headshot.
How fast is that flank?
What a well done defense at that beat bomb site
to hold them on long enough.
Apex with just a couple of kills,
take the teeth out of the attack,
prevent Falcons from settling things down
in a post-play at the beat bomb site
and buying time for everyone else to wrap around.
Absolutely perfect.
Kiyosuke gets caught completely off guard, tests his realises he can't plant, they can't do anything about it.
Invitality on a wild 7-1 run at the moment.
That 5-0 start seems so, so long ago all of a sudden.
And without the bomb plant fulcans, they choose not to buy here.
Back to Onomir Pistols, a D.G.G.L. I'm Kiyosuke.
A chance to talk, a chance for Kerrigan to reinforce the game plan.
He wants to bring in on this T side once the guns come out.
Yeah, the score line really doesn't tell you how one side of this game is felt.
Vitality in absolute control.
And a chance.
We're a very strong start here in the second half as well.
All it took was one time out. That slow start just disappeared.
Out of the timeout, it was immediate from Vitality.
Apex gonna tuck himself in behind the pillar, Mezzi's here with him, Zywou shifting over through temple
Niko, Monosik, Kiyosuke all coming in through Kanetsu, Apex gonna hear those steps
Goes out into the peak, he's got Mezzi's right full to back him up, and they clean up the round easily
No frag from the other side, 8 to 6, Vitality leading this way
Niko Falcons finally getting into a bar, it's gonna be AK-47 Zao, no sighting of that AWP
Okay guys, don't forget everything we have to do.
We need to fight for every round, but if we have an opportunity to make a good choice, play together, let's do that.
Looks good so far from Vitality, exactly what they're doing.
Falcon's up to the round, their first gun run up this second half.
Slow and measured for the moment Niko and Rugskyosuke gonna start attacking towards Kahn
Modesty and support test is in carrying it outside the B bomb site for vitality stacked up over in middle three defenders in that part of the map
Ready and waiting
Small fake smoke for Niko just to show that presence with rock steps in front of it
So it does absolutely nothing.
He's gonna negate that play from Nico,
negate that piece of utility,
so nobody on the defense has to budge.
Not yet at the very least.
Vitality's putting all their faith over in Mezzi,
the sole defender to play retake.
As soon as the set piece comes in,
drop the Molotov back away
and let the reinforcements come.
Once again, they could have that fast,
like that fast wraparound dropping out of the window.
The rotation already coming through, Zywul back to a CT, but Messi's back against the wall,
handles one, goes out again, Karagin blinded, Zywul sends himself through the smoke, flanks
around the back, that's the bomb, you've got to go back and get it, Tessa, it's always
up next!
And Vitality just arrived in rapid time, and Karagin can do nothing about this.
20 seconds and he's getting flanked out, he's getting pressure from all angles.
And Vitality just put the pressure on.
The tactical prowess from Vitality is wild. Just saying you can have the B-Bomb site.
Come attack into it, we want you to take it, because we don't care about the bomb site.
We're flanking around the B-Bomb site already. We're dropping down, we're flanking you in canals.
We've got support already arriving. They are just steps ahead of Falcons at the moment.
And this is a little bit of a bonus round. 2 SMGs are the hands of vitality. They don't even need all the rifles yet.
Absolute dominance.
Sending the Falcons down to Tech 9, Zywu ripping away Niko.
Where have they gone? Where has Falcons disappeared off to? This is no longer a game. It's no longer a contest.
Absolutely brutal. We talk about all the individual skill on this team. The superstars they've got.
One of them at least has to show up to try and get them back into base.
They're getting beaten by Vitality, brutally beaten.
This is where you look to guys like Niko, guys like Modesty.
There's incredible Stage 3 performances to get them into the playoffs.
This is where you look at those two guys and say, we need a moment.
We need a big play.
We need a clutch.
We need a great sequence out of you to get this team fired up.
Change the energy.
Change the mindset of this team.
The Monosiniko dead first in this round.
Vitality in pursuit of double figures.
And it feels like it's right there.
All three players outside of the smoke.
Zayu backtracking to see if they come through.
But they pass no mercy.
He's forgotten his manners.
A killer to carry him through the smoke.
Kiyosuke and Tessas.
They'll do what they can, but it's completely futile.
They're never gonna get a chance to do anything.
They're never gonna get a chance to play.
Vitality is just wrecking that movement across the map,
controlling the entire map every step they take.
And you don't have a whole lot of time left
to wake back up into this game.
This is where Falcons are gonna have to lean
on that comeback against Navi from stage three
and say, we've done it once before here at the Major.
We can do it again.
The pace is gonna be talking about keeping this
level of pressure up.
Keep our boots on their throat.
Up next is Inferno. We know how much of a weakness that has been for Falcons since the very beginning of this roster.
Well, Kerrigan and Kiyosuke were the weakness of the people, so here at Anubis they will be on that map as well.
Very, very tough series of Falcons cannot win this map.
A default spread for Falcons here in round 17. Kiyosuke delayed off by smoke blocking his choke point.
But really no pressure being applied to this offense now. We're gonna get a little bit of map control play
He go flashed in towards a man, but raps is playing passively
He's had a very very chill have so far raps. I've done a whole lot of attention set his way at all
And once again this mid stack vitality. This is game plan for Falcons and they're waiting for them to find it out
This is gonna be crushing
Vitality of so many players have to ready Kara gamma to fight on just to trade on flames
that got the info. But how do they ship these resources? The bomb has got to get over to
B. Man advantage and a time for Zairut to step up after smoking confates. Zairut gets the
one, molest he trades it out, the fight in middle goes the way of Niko and it's just
Rops. They know exactly where he is. They know he's the same player. He walks out
in the open. Niko can't handle him and so Rops steps up into the clutch. A long
way to go for Robs. He's got the money to go for it if he wants. Kind of slow
playing things at the moment. Looks like you might just concede this round.
Falcons finally respond. They're gonna get their 7th and AK-47 grabbed by Robs.
Or is he gonna come in late and go for a little bit of a sneak diffuse? It's way
too late the bomb timer for that Shirley. Yeah, just gonna park himself in
middle. 10-7. Falcons finally into it but nothing that feels certain. Nothing
It feels like they've gotten a grip on this game
Really need to keep that player a lot as well. Karrigan couldn't go down. They don't have a whole lot of money
They do not have that luxury for the Falcons who got 3,600 dollars here for Niko coming into this round
So he's loving the fact they can get a drop
But you got to see some of the individuals from Falcons actually play, right?
Kiyosuke after the smoke fades steps in towards Khan takes down Mezzi
Niko showing some presence over towards A main making rups pay attention to that side of the map as well
He's active in middle the whole time
And maybe that is something to come. Maybe we can see if they can build on that round.
Three rounds back and not out of the fight yet.
No, a lifeline has been thrown out here for the Falcons.
Let's see if they can swim back to shore.
A chance to drown them out here with vitality with a very strong buy still in their hands and plenty of cash left over.
Flames just checking, nice side of the smoke.
Falcon's trying to dare to attack towards this A site.
Yeah, they're showing that they want to gain a little bit of space in towards A main to
be able to do a set piece behind it.
So Roxx perhaps for the first time is going to have to call a teammate over, Apex inflames
over in middle.
Nico trying to find him through the smoke, a little bit of a duel, but no commitment
quite yet.
Montezer with the bomb now slides over towards A main as well.
There's the flash plate, activated in.
Now Robs, climbing his way up to the heavens.
They're not coming his way. They begin to backtrack for a second.
40 seconds left on this clock.
Where the Falcons want to go for the finishing move.
The utility, flying into the A side.
Kerrigan's faked him out. This works well, but Zywoo could still stop this.
25 seconds! Zywoo scopes up first!
Draws back, ready for the next fight. Zywoo turns, can't get the second shot to land.
Kerrigan comes in at the right time, but it's Mezzi off the platform. Can't do much.
And that bomb will get planted. Rops and Apex making their way over.
Kerrigan a little pack, but tucks himself into the corner. Rops tries to beat the smoke,
but it pops into space, so Apex plays, doesn't catch, and now Rops has to back away.
Falcons, they're going to string two together, calling themselves back into this map.
They're staying in it. It's exactly what you wanted to see in this quarterfinal.
They look like they've been knocked off their feet. Such a strong start, but Vitality were crushing them.
Last couple of rounds give Falcons a little bit of hope.
Yeah, well, you're getting a little bit more activity out of them. The whole play towards A-Main, that actually sells the state perfectly.
pulls flames, pulls Apex over when that follow-up utility comes out.
They sense that A-Hit because the pressure had been there round after round,
and it's an opening towards the P-Bomb site.
Trading out Zairu, trading out Mezzi, and finding their passage in,
forcing the second time out out of vitality.
Monty's gonna start getting grim for the CT side.
Zairu's gonna pick up an AWP, but rebuying all these rifles
is gonna chew into the money that they built up.
Falcons is getting closer to that point
where they can slingshot this streak
and to regaining the lead on this map.
10-8, no signs of panic from either squad just yet.
A swing round here towards the tail end, round 19.
Winner grabs a huge economic advantage over the other.
These are the moments that the point of the game for the individuals will really truly
make the big differences.
You can swing this game back in your favor.
You'll see no warp with doubt vitality, last legs on the money, Messi racing forward out
of the main aggressive with some confidence, he's got some help with him too.
Apex needed to be there because he gets the trade, trying to back away, trying
to get the safety and he does.
Plenty of defense behind him in the B bomb site if that was gonna go south as well
Falcon's not able to take too much space off of it gonna start crawling through middle as we speak here
Suke leading the way monosin test is in support even Niko coming over to join up with them all
Four members of Falcons playing grouped up at the moment looking to trade their way through middle apex defending
Flames and roughs at the A bomb site ready and waiting
That first half, provided it was an obvious weakness.
And you don't have that here on this CT side, but Kiyosuke fights forward, his strength chops
up one.
Robs trying to handle the pressure of multiple players coming at him from different angles.
And he just won't.
Tases swoops into the site, bomb plant secured, and the save is on.
Yeah, hard to read.
Kiyosuke had given all the freedom in the world to pick his own timing.
You gotta love seeing that. If you're Kerrigan, you're telling him right now,
I love everything you did there. Love your decision to take that moment,
that opportunity to speed things up. Since he had a timing and had the confidence to go for it,
provides the opening kill, and now Falcons is building into a streak.
This T side yet again another comeback. Three rounds in a row to bring them within one.
And the money's gonna be so grim for Vitality. The weapons they're saving are critical.
AK-47 on Apex, off in the hands of Sideward, it brings forward, other than that they have
nothing else to fight with.
It's exactly what the desk talked about.
Kerrigan coming into the seamen, his individual level be damned, look at the way he's able
to keep this Falcon Squad fighting back every time to recover inside this quarter final
series.
Head of this game, Niko was talking about how important Kiyosuke is to this T side. He's the space taker. He's the front man of the attacks.
You see him doing his job so effectively. Cricks the chaos, puts the pressure on Robs.
And Falgins with a great chance to tie up this game.
But coming up B.
What was that?
The operating cell, monocied dead first.
That's bold knowing the opposite still in play.
Surely they had the read of the economy that it was going to be a little bit punished.
The dry peek in. What a backfire.
And now you got to start sweating.
Man down against a low economy by.
Right when it felt like you gained control of this map, it might just slip out of your hands.
Carrigan making the play as he so often does for his teams on these two sides.
Yeah, but he's got to wait now. Look how far ahead he is of everyone.
He's calling them back.
back. Smokle to go down at camera. He's going to stab the information flow of flames. Apex
is hungry for info. Trying to find it inside of the water. Trying to flank in, not seeing
anybody towards A. Yeah, but you saw the AWP at that B bomb site and you're electing.
You're choosing to go at Zairu. Attain from Messi. P250 trying to outmatch the
rifle of Kerrigan. Look at that. You're kind of trapped. Falcons is in a really weird
place. Tess is at the bomb. He's kind of alone on stairs. Kerrigan is no HP.
They don't know where to go at the moment.
This round is in limbo, but they've made the decision.
They know where they're going, and they're coming at Robs.
The 5-7 waits in hand.
It's ready to pop out.
Robs is silent.
By deadly, but he's caught in the corner.
Nico moves in.
Now they're in the side.
Now Bournemouth is going to get planted,
but there's an main push coming in from Falcons.
They're going to be very cognizant of this
after the plant.
No utility, no smoke to block it off whatsoever.
Here's the peek.
Here's the fight.
Apex walks out.
It's Nico.
Nails it! Zai went back and shut down instantly!
It's gotta be Messi.
It's doable. And miss shot.
Messi moves in.
Look at it conquer this clutch, but he just can't do it.
Tess S sets him down. They tied it up.
Falcons have fought their way back into the game.
Ten apiece.
And Lukku's on top. Lukku's leading the way.
Kiyosuke 16 kills, 14 deaths.
Topping the charts for Falcons in this comeback.
In this streak this is absolutely excellent at a Falcons.
We didn't really know what to expect at a Kerrigan with such a short time.
Were these guys truly going to be trophy contenders? Was it too early to expect that out of them?
And look at the way he's got them geared up and fired up on this T-Side.
Challenging the best team in the world.
Aggression from Robs. He goes too far though, monesties ready. Ready to punish!
And that's exactly what he does! Robs is gone! Opening kill!
Coming through from Falcons! And now you can work the map. Now Kerrigan can slow things down.
Nico's gonna wait patiently over towards rugs. Everyone starts backing away from their position to see if there's gonna be any kind of a reaction.
Any sort of aggression out of Vitality trying to even things out.
And it's a shift towards middle for vitality, and this has been quite a nuisance at times in this half
This middle position that turns into such fast flanks whether it's through con whether it's wrapping around the B-Bomb site
Delay smoke goes down once again it looks like Zairuz number is gonna be called
Falcons now stepping in towards A main waiting behind this smoke. Apex gonna start shifting over in support
Just one player you want in this situation is I will
Here's the flag around the back flames red apex going in forward
Try to force them back 25 seconds 25 seconds get a move on Falcons get to that site the sites wide open
There's nobody home
Kerrigan's found the escape valve.
He's found his way yet.
He's got the team following it up.
And Mezzy's forced away with Nadenhand.
And it wasn't in the right position.
A-Pen's getting there, but Smoke is up.
He can't cancel that plant.
He can't do anything about this.
And Money is gone for vitality.
They have to concede.
They have to back away.
And that means their fall kids are into the lead.
Well, you were talking about confidence earlier.
The confidence you've got to have in Kerrigan built up
at this point.
And look at the way he's working these mid rounds.
Beautiful, beautiful calling from Kerrigan to keep Falcons in this game and not just that, but now taking a lead.
Exactly why they brought him into this team.
They missed the chances to lift trophies leading into the Cologne Major,
but they don't care whatsoever all the faith in the world of this captain that they brought in late in the season.
11-10 going into round 22, a lead for Falcons out of nowhere, now five rounds straight for
this offense.
At a blistering pace, a game of streaks back and forth, both teams struggling to recover
and adapt to put a stop to these and right now Vitality, you've got to do it quick.
Falcons two rounds away from taking this first map in the series.
Roms says aggression has been punished by Monsignor in this exact position before.
Three man set up here for vitality in middle.
Aivrem this set up so many times in this half.
This has got to be like the fourth time they put it in.
And they haven't come at them all that often.
I think it's only connected once when Falcons is actually moved in towards middle.
a clear game plan against this attack but has it fanned out the way by Talon would have liked
again some utility pressure towards robs but he has no idea all that smoke
often numbers in front of him
with that smoke that he tosses out he actually has to concede the flight
has to drop in behind it he has got quick rotations from his teammates in mid
but here they come his robs ready for the task
Smoke Blades, Kiyosuke and Karakut entering the feed and they are collapsing upon this vitality defense.
It's just Mezzi.
Vulcans have broken through.
Map points.
So much poise from this Falcons team.
Just in sequence taking small pieces of control until they're ready for the overwhelming attack
And Messi's going to desperately try and hang on to this but Falcons are hungry
They want to rip everything out of their hands easy as possible
They're sending everybody out of Nikos coming next the switch is down but Messi's gone vitality
Everything taken from their hands
And it was said that this task might be too tall for the Falcons this early
With Kerrigan only joining the team
But they are rising to the occasion
They were delivering in absolutely beautiful fashion, picking vitality apart, finding the
weakness, finding the weak bombsite in terms of defense.
So many times vitality have stacked middle, but Falcons is loving, punishing the extremities.
And a final chance, a final talk, a final time offer vitality spent.
Their first one got them started on a streak.
But they've disappeared now under this onslaught from Falcons, six rounds in a row, a team
effort out of Falcons, and two chances to close out this map, head into Inferno with
a one-map lead in the quarter-finals.
And it hasn't just been explosive star power, it's just been good, clean counter-strike
out of Falcons.
And that is something that is eluded them in the biggest of games.
It's always been a head scratcher watching some of the rounds that Falcons have lost
with the caliber of players within this squad.
Well, right now it's working exactly as designed.
Kyusuke leading the way, 17.
Modesty and Niko, 15 apiece.
The engine of Falcons as well, and truly working.
Karrigan wants to show some mid-presence.
Niko against Apex first.
Apex just won it.
Trap back in behind the smoke, Vitality hold the advantage for now.
I bet it looks like they want to go right back to this, they're saying okay maybe you
got this kill here, you saw this, maybe you start shifting someone away elsewhere.
Two to that presence in middle from Karrigan, maybe they look in that direction.
and this defense hold against the full force of the Vulcans.
It's Carrigan getting the kills done.
Gia Sukhe moving in.
Zai will keep vitality in this fight.
In fact, he gets from the edge.
35 seconds.
Ball moving in.
Yeah, well, you got the flank coming from Flames,
and that's been punishing you all half-long.
Vulcans going for the finish,
trying to end this map now.
Flames comes in.
Flanks successful.
It's Tess S, the unlikely hero, the 1v3, headshots clean, has he got another? No!
Vitality extend play!
Alive a little bit longer again, that drop down from Flames so fast to wrap around through canals in towards Khan.
They haven't been able to read that, they haven't been able to get the timing of it.
And Zairu just cleaned that one kills off, prevents Falcons from having the resources.
The player count needed to cover this with a lovely shot from Flames on a modesty
But you've got so much money if you're Falcons
The purchase is coming through. You got so much money, but not a whole lot of time one round remaining
Nice, I love the move guys, but please listen. Let's keep having patience if you get first kill
Let's keep being slow down this is the best call. Okay, let's best team. No, you place this round
Okay, unless it's really guys
It's not a call for them to play within themselves, play within the team.
After that first kill, don't try and do anything crazy.
Keep the pacing in check.
One chance to close it in regulation.
It's coming to the B bomb site all the way.
Tess is Niko and Kerrigan with the bomb outside B.
Kiyosuke and Monosie at the stairs.
A little bit of a pump fake.
A strong defense in place for Vitality.
The AWP brings out, and I think that might force Falcons away from this idea.
They start to pull away.
Paragon has been able to maneuver this squad and find the answers throughout this T-side.
They're putting a lot of this around in Tiyosuke's hands. They're more than happy to let him challenge over in Khan.
They're saying, when this smoke fades, look for your play. He got an opening kill for you earlier from this position.
If you can get it, they're ready to pounce the forces of Falcons arriving outside of this people's sight.
Here's the question, but Talon is gone!
Kiyosuke, the killer!
Apex and Messi both gone now.
Zairu's stepping forward, trying to be the difference.
This is the shot!
And Zairu's gone!
Oh!
Talon and Kiyosuke, the winner is on the big stage!
millions and millions of dollars spent for one goal one purpose but now they've
got the character magic they take the opening map of the quarter-final
every single round needed in this clash of Titans but Falcons break through
And finally, in regulation, we'll be diving into those T-sides in just a moment, but let's
just pass in the glory of Yankee, of what Kiyosuke was able to pull off in those final moments.
Finally having his moment on the big stage, Freya, that was the big difference since the
addition of Karagin.
His level in these playoff games has been what you would expect from a player as talented
as he is.
You can see the freedom he is playing with, and yes, this final round was absolutely
unbelievable by Kiyosuke.
This is not the fact that he's going for it, you know, that he's not shying away from it.
You kind of understand if he, in his current condition with the group stage that he had,
with the fact that it's 12-11, would play a bit more passive or would expose himself
a little bit less to the danger of being in connector, you know, exposed to the duels,
but Q-Ship he's going for it. He's never been away, afraid of staring away from that responsibility
and I guess the difference since Kerrigan came in is he's actually delivering more often than not.
The depth of the kills that he's got in this map specifically is that he's not only going
for the place, but he's punishing the place that are coming at him.
The last round clear example of that, he's just holding the perfect moment, and even
if something doesn't go their way, Monus is always close by to trade.
So there's like a vast difference in Kyosuke that yes, he's a playmaker, but he's also
capable of holding on his own.
That's the thing, you've got to be able to trust your own intuition, trust that
killer instinct, which is much easier said than done on a stage like this, right?
Yeah, and having four kills in the first round of the game does help.
I think that was a big moment for him. You could see how hyped the team was and Karrigan was for him
But yeah, I want to know how many kills did Karrigan have on this map?
I think that's the main talking point for people out there, but you can see in that second half
It's just a different team. How many times do you see Falcons before in games? They're up 4-0, 5-0
They start losing rounds, you know
They they give up that lead and then they just fall flat
They're just out of the game and you could see in the second half despite losing pistol and falling behind
There was none of that. Like they still had believed that they can come back, that they can win this game
And that's what Kerrigan has brought to the Falcons.
Adamson, you know, he called a great T-side. He also stepped up individually on the T-side.
I can tell you had four kills in the first half, didn't do much. He was also targeted a lot by Vitality.
I personally think he was a big part of the reason as why Vitality got back into the game as well, because he has a
bit of a liability on the CT side.
But I think you summarized it pretty well, Janko, saying if you were to evaluate Kerrigan within Falcons, is he a net positive so far?
I think here's there's no steering away from the fact that he is going to be a bit of a liability at times on the CT side
He's been throughout the entire the tournament saying anything else would be lying straight out
You know after watching the games
But is he a net positive with the way he was calling on the T side and also the fact that he stepped up in three
Byron's got a multi kill himself at that point you make it a positive
Let's dive into some examples of that then we go round 18 up first part of that a six round T side streak
I think this was the most important round for Falcons
It's the reset round after you win the first one on your T side and you can see how they're putting pressure towards a
We saw this in the pregame two in the examples right Niko here trying to draw out some utility
There was a lot of reactions from Vitality, you know, they were they were having this setup on mid
We saw the opening setups on mid, but then the late round fake
You can see monosie expending all of his utility keregan is already outside B and the rest are going up water and three
Vitality players on a this could have gotten dangerous with Zyber getting the first kill
but Kerrigan on that lurk, goes through the smoke, they trade the second player as well
and they get into a 3v3 scenario with closing out the round.
And this was just so important to win the round, first and foremost, but also the manner
in which they wanted being composed, not just finishing the round, how they initially
intended, but throwing that fake.
And there was a lot of that going on in the second half.
We have multiple slow, draggy rounds on the T side, both from Vitality and from
Falcons.
They are not like a shotcaller.
They're going to just pick a strat and they're going to do it from the spawn.
They are defaulting their gathering information. They're making educated guesses throughout that whole T side both apex and Kerrigan
We're doing it very well. You said that this was probably your favorite or most important round of the game for me
It was definitely round 20 and I can dive right into that that
Falcons basically were in a position where they had to take themselves out of the deep trouble because of losing this
Zybu molesty head to head Zybu was just there like a second earlier
and they have to go back and rethink the whole approach of the round.
Like, this is with Kixen, like, how many times are they gonna do this?
Like, they're going as a snowball towards middle and they craft the round
as it kind of is presented to them.
They tier-craft the B split, they try to go into the city spawn,
but here Kerrigan gets actually dinked, ridiculously by Mezzy.
Decide to fall back immediately, go back to that A hit,
which is, by the way, pretty much free.
Robbs is there by himself and this is another great call.
He has timing here, plays in favor of Falcons,
but what a beautiful call and fall back to recover the round where honestly Vitalik could get away with this map right there and then
Yeah, that thing was a blessing in disguise for Falcons
They might have just gone into Zywo again and these rounds are so tough to call against because you know
There's an open play as a saved rifle and the other players have pistols
So will the rifle play first will the pistol try something or how will they stack and yeah
They avoided the dodge the bullet there Falcons for sure speaking of dutching
I feel like they dodged Syruh for the vast majority of that T side as well.
We saw a couple of times where the bomb was played outside of the bomb side towards Syruh.
Then Kerrigan and one of the teammates would find out okay, Syruh is in place with the AWP.
We're going to change the approach a little bit.
He went back to take some mid control just to cause a bit of rotation on the side of Vitality.
And I will say whenever we saw Syruh's point of view, especially in the last couple of rounds,
he was heavily contested by smokes, heavily contested by flashes, heavily contested by molotovs.
And that's the number one thing you want to do when you're playing Syruh.
at least you don't want to give him the easy kills that you know he's going to hit 10 out of 10 times.
So they made the game tough for him, and as a result he didn't have as much impact.
And that's a very good point, they made that very complicated for ZywO and the other side of things.
Yeah, for ZywO and the rest of Vitality, I mean that's a really stressful game to play for Vitality, right?
Like for the players, because there's a lot of slow paced play, you're making moves,
but your moves aren't really being fruitful in terms of finding kills or taking significant map control.
And then in the last 20 to 30 seconds, you're just getting outplayed a little bit, right?
Like with rotations, you know, that second to last round, you're getting into an MTB bomb site as well.
So that's going to maybe linger a little bit in the heads of the Vitality.
You can at the last moments, at this particular map, let's dive into round 24 and see what a menace Kiyosuke was in this one as well.
Great showing from him.
Yeah, a fantastic showing, as I said. The fact that he's going for this play, the fact that he's not getting scared away by the grenade,
by the fact that it's 12-11.
You'd see a lot of players maybe take a little step back,
maybe not fully committing into this position,
but as Stiko said as well,
you have Monizzi next to you,
and he's punishing a progressive play
coming in from Vitality.
This was them trying to punish Falcons.
This was them trying to take Chaps of the round,
and Kyuushuuki with a fantastic spread transfer
gets two kills, makes the round almost unloosable,
and then he finishes it off in style
with the last kill as well.
I love to see from Kyuushuuki,
he's a main talking point naturally for Falcons,
because I feel like that's the one player
as we spoke about in the group stage, was not necessarily missing,
but we expected a little bit more.
But if he's playing like this in the playoffs,
that unlocks a complete new version.
And a new level of Falcons for Kerrigan
is maybe willing to say that they're not playing at 60%,
but more so 70, 80, 90.
Honestly, even Kyosuke playing at this level,
I don't think it can make a difference for what's coming.
This was still Falcons' pick.
Right, it went the distance, and they were able to close it out.
but on Inferno it feels like a massive mismatch, right?
Everyone who doesn't perm up and the map has been, you know,
targeting Falcons on it.
And the main reason is there be bombsite, right?
And banana control is just really shoddy.
And they really struggle to have a way to take some control.
Why is that such an issue?
What have you seen evident about that setup,
just not working for Falcons?
Just not being really necessarily on the same page,
right, with Kerrigan and Kyosuke.
Also Kyosuke hasn't had the best of games,
But you then feel this sort of pressure to lean over there if you're Niko, to open there if you're Monosy, right?
And all of a sudden, the weakness comes on the other side of the map.
So the one thing that was keeping them alive in some of these games has been Niko with some ridiculous rounds,
but that's not something you can rely on to happen here against Vitality.
Do you want a theory craft, perhaps, how to bend aid this fix on B-side Inferno?
Like, what are we going to see from Falcons that is needed to kind of push this over the edge?
Are we putting molesty on B side more with the north?
I'm more interested what we're going to see from Vitality because their plan on T side was just go to Kerrigan's bomb site.
Time and time again, and I think Falcons were overthinking on their CT side.
I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to just win around on A early on Inferno just to make it look like,
ah, I'm not going to do the same thing, but I think a lot of important rounds, that's where he's going to want to end.
And for Falcons, depending on how you start, I think you need to take some risks here, right?
Whether that's going to be some... I don't like blind gambles, even though it's inferno,
but lean an extra player towards B and then go and make a play, right?
Throw numbers at the problem, because if they just want to play default here,
I think Vitality has their number all day long.
I think it goes without saying that this B bomb side has been a little bit of a liability,
and I think the best defense in this occasion is an offense.
I agree with you, you know, maybe cheat an extra player over there, fight for banana control as well.
Maybe Karrigan, yes, from an individual point of view, is not going to win too many head-to-head duels,
but he can find himself in a position where he's going to set up Niko, set up Monosy,
and set up other players on banana to make it a little bit easier for him later into the round,
to maybe get the kill his need for him to shot.
I would say with the game Kyosuke is having just let him loose, you know, unleash him,
especially if you can win pistol and convert, like early on, just send him out.
Like be aggressive because if you can win rounds early by doing that now
There's so much pressure on vitality, right? Because that's what you're counting on
That's the big weakness for Falcons on this map
And if you can somehow turn it into a strength then vitality can really be in trouble
We heard obviously from Karagay earlier saying maybe they're playing at 60% 70%
Maybe if they're lucky obviously that's maybe a doctor a little bit after that first map of the new best
But I'm curious as to where you're reading vitality right now
What level was it on that first map for you?
I think it wasn't their A-game but I can't say they necessarily played bad.
They turtled up and went into their shell, a little bit being outplayed.
Maybe their players needed a bit more poise in some of these moments
not to over-rotate, but there's things like forced errors and unforced errors.
And I think the errors Vitality was making were forced by the good play from Falcos on T-side.
I do think that they ran away with it, especially at the beginning.
5-0 start is a big thing for Falcons, and the way they did it was extremely disruptive.
They didn't let Vitality play whatever they wanted to do, whatever call, whatever default it was,
and we've actually had a couple of insights from X-Tas in the timeouts, like,
guys just dragged around longer, like, we are going to be okay in the 5v5s if it's like 30 seconds left.
And that's exactly what happened, and that's where, why they actually came back into 6-6-2.
I don't want to make assumptions here, but it still sounds like we're favoring Vitality,
I think everything we know in terms of history on Inferno, what we've seen from Falcons in
the group stages as well on Inferno, yeah it should lean towards vitality, but I like
to say, especially in a playoff game like this, each game will live its own life and
I do think there's a realistic world where Falcons can do damage to vitality.
I remember you and I covering the Budapest Major as well, Falcons back then, yeah
that was a good time to know, you might be there for some reason, I'm sorry,
you should have been.
But it was one of those scenarios where the track record for Falcons coming into
the tournament, Uninferno was horrible. Then they beat Furia all of a sudden, Uninferno.
Then they lost to a team, you know, I can't even remember the name to them. Then the next
game they beat another team that was world-class on the map. So they've been vastly inconsistent
Uninferno and all I'm saying is there's a chance here for Q-Syke to be let loose
and hopefully give us a good game.
Well by talent, no doubt unknown quantities, we move on to this ground of Inferno.
But when you got Karagin at the helm on this stage, anything can happen. Falcons
1-0 are up. Let's see if they can take this one on their opponent's map,
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No!
That's all you see.
This is it.
And dignity for the ultimate delivery.
This is our history.
Embarrassing.
This is a high value target.
And no stranger to being inside.
He has had multiple stilts and will not go willingly.
Wait. If you won't go willingly, why are we bringing him out?
I spent some time in jail.
2015.
Two long years before I made it out.
Call. Give me some more info. What is this?
David Frozen Jananski. Our prime target.
Hold on. When you say target, what do you mean by that?
Don't you worry, my friend.
Nicole, you know it's just that special, right? A meme.
It's not actually in jail.
Not according to newly uncovered, classified information.
9th of April, face plans sign up to Harris County Jlan in Texas.
What?
These fuckers will do anything for a couple of VRS points.
By day, they farm the inmates.
By night, they're held in their cells.
Wait, what?
They're sleeping in the cells?
Equal accommodation.
What can I say?
Competitive integrity.
Right.
Makes perfect sense.
They paid the workers' buyout and got the all clear on a real estate.
Him out. This whole thing is gonna be a breeze.
David, man. Man's been eating good in jail.
You've got the connections. Respect.
Respect?
Fine yet.
Nikola, Nikola, Kovac. I always knew you would come back for me.
I want everyone I can do it today son's apple still back in the rain
We have been given one of the most difficult major playoff brackets imaginable
Falcons of taking the first map though versus vitality an opportunity opens for them to take down the toughest
opponent in the first round of games.
They moved to Inferno, which is infamously in such a difficult map for Falcons.
Vitality hope they will be able to deliver some punishment.
Even though Vitality didn't show their best game on map 1, they still took it all the
rounds to regulation.
But now this has to be their chance.
Vitality are in pursuit of greatness to go where no one can ever think of going.
Everyone else has to nearly dream of.
This could put an end to that now, to stop them, to stop their chances on the three-peat
and open up an opportunity of their own to move on and lift a major trophy.
It's only the quarter-finals, the Cologne is delivering already.
Tieshality vs. Valkyries continues here on Inferno, and it's time to get into the action.
and all eyes on this map center in on Nico for Falcons on this defense strong
performances by far the best player for Falcons and he's gonna have to be
absolutely everywhere on this map test is going for an early little
information place he's not really much nothing at all over an old bid so
vitality is gonna start scaling start moving up ropes towards halls flames in
alt mid Nezzy and apex starting to flirt over with banana where Nico
plays alone with no utility a retake set up at this B bomb site trusting in that
USP and Falcons want to make sure of vitality take brackets if they step
towards the A bomb site they're stacked up and ready. In the earlier stages of the
competition hero performances on this very map from Nico was still not enough
some of the times for Falcons to get the win on this map so won't be but
the first flight looks like it's gonna be up towards top middle and plenty
Plenty of players ready for Falcons if that is to be the case, but the bomb starts to drop back and so do the rest of the vitality players
Yeah, they don't sense any defense whatsoever and actually Falcons now shifting away because they don't sense an attack and Kerrigan's gonna start getting his
Hustle over to the B bombsite, but he's gonna be late and there's no flashes to activate Nico whatsoever
He'll be stuck behind smoke. He's gonna cross his fingers and hope he can land a headshot through this smoke blind shooting with the
USP it's got to be Nietzsche on his own tapping through
Karrigan's got another one
The start is strong is I will at least get a kill back here for vitality. He's out of commission
I'm gonna put that bomb down it's planted and so a 3v4 a retake required from Falcons
Is the other two rotate over through spawn they're gonna be very very difficult for vitality to hold on to this
So there's no flashbangs. There's no kit in play for Falcons. It's gonna have to be quick
Coming in from CT and ruins no one from banana
Now, time for his head check first.
Kiyosuke, gonna go down, Apex revealed,
Rups does what he can, but it's all on Apex.
Alphonsear, I shrouded in it, but Montes,
he's got the head shot.
Falcons have the great score, and the retake is delivered.
A team ace for Falcons, everybody gets one.
You absolutely love to see that,
and you gotta be loving the initiative
of someone like Kiyosuke, leading the charge
on that retake.
The first one to step in and grab a head shot,
and he's playing that exact same way we saw on Anubis.
And now with that sequence with that map beneath his belt, with the performance that he had,
that confidence can skyrocket.
And he's going to need it throughout this half.
We saw the way him and Kerrigan were targeted on Anubis, whether defending this B-Bomb site
together on Inferno, you have to imagine that's going to be in the game plan of Vitality
to come check that out.
Come see what they've got in this map.
Come see if they can actually hold you back.
One to nothing for Falcons.
They got a bomb blast, so Vitality can buy up.
It could be an AK for Zywil, a Flames, a Wheel and Sight.
The amount of damage to a Zywil and Messi.
Grenades continue to fly.
You can handle losing the pistol with your Vitality.
The conversation between maps would have been,
we can't get buried in that 0-5 hole.
As you mentioned, they didn't play their best game,
but still so, so close,
and they got to be looking at that start and saying,
if we didn't start slow, more of a fight.
As he sent forward by fire, Karagin and Kiyosuke able to stand strong for the time being and force away vitality.
It feels like those first two kills are enough to win this round.
It would take something ridiculous.
And if Zai was AK, he'd get them back into this.
Yeah, Bombs dropped all the way back at the base of T-Ramp,
but there's no reason even to think about it right now if you're vitality.
You need some kills before you can even think about the plant.
So Apex is going to come investigate.
He's got some utility, but they want to make this play with contact to catch the defense off guard.
An unexpected shift walk into the B bomb site.
Oh, there's one from Zywoo.
Plenty more of that came from the Kyosuke.
Karagin's still here.
A strong crossfire down into the side with Kyosuke.
Now dismounting off the boost.
Temporarily Karagin is left on his own with no support, no help.
We're gonna try and hunt him down.
Zywoo's got him in his sights.
He's got him in his crosshairs.
And that's the round back on.
Zywoo has done enough.
Both him and Robs have taken damage.
Edge and monosy, handles both, swipes them away with the M4
and a second round coming through from Falcons.
Not bad to battle your way back into the B bomb site though from Vitality
to at least get that bomb plant.
Well-constructed defense from Falcons with three players there,
double kill from Kyosuke.
Great work as they come through the Molotov,
just a lovely piece of utility to force the hand of Vitality,
force them to step forward before they're ready for the attack.
Another Plants, another decision for Vitality to invest into this round.
Coming back with a Vengeance, AK in the hands of Cyrove.
Tech 9's on Apex and Flames.
Galil unrups it and MP7 on Mezzi.
And you gotta do economic damage if you're gonna bring out this kind of a buy.
to chip away and get a good amount of kills and they're gonna try and surprise Falcons with this extra buy, this extra investment.
Well Falcons have an extra player towards B.
They barraged Apex sending him back on 6 health.
I think if you're Falcons you know exactly what they're gonna test too.
You mentioned the game plan of Vitality to test this B bomb site, well if you're Falcons you know that.
Few extra nades sent down to Banana early, it goes a long way to soften up Apex.
Bring Mezzi down to 67 HP.
Flames beyond the half wall.
Some space at least taken here for vitality.
Now it's going to be tossed out.
Pressure put towards Kyosuke. Grenade lands on top of him.
Still got enough health to happily play.
The car again. Now isolated, taken down.
Good strike from Kyosuke to get the response.
Bomb leaps in, vitality through once again to his B site.
Yeah, now you got utility for the retake although they're coming in quick.
And they're racing into this aren't they? Getting this retreat going as quickly as possible
Because Zaiwu's gonna handle it and will that decision for fuck it cost him?
Unless he's gonna kill right back. Being stabilized again
They pause in the action as they wait for Tess to rotate over. He's got the supportive utility
Send your forces in
Send Niko up
over the top
Sponsored his target, can't take him. Time to take him.
Houston-ing. Zai-woah! Into the open!
Twuple's two, no chance now for Monosy.
He's gonna back away, and no mercy. He can't fall away.
Finally, Vitality breaks through.
Lovely double kill from Zai-woah, getting aggressive,
stepping into the retake as soon as the utility rains in.
An unexpected fight, and that quick buy that forced up from Vitality pans out very, very well.
We're going to have one on the reverse angle also. Kyosuke couldn't find any kind of a fight through that smoke.
A scrappy battle on this retake decided by Zairu's double.
A little bit quiet on that first map with Zairu.
Impacts from him here on Inferno is going to go a long way for vitality.
See? Over the boost light shot onto Zairu.
Decent start to the round here for Falcons.
An absolutely brutal utility damage, again onto the attack, but blinded Apex has won!
Fantastic response, Karakin realizes a lot of pressure will be on him, so he actually moves forward, he takes the risk, he gets into the smoke, Karakin, oh you crazy, crazy guy!
Watch right towards Messi, and that AK is going to handle it.
That's a bit much, hard thing now is you're also concerned about the opt for monocy that he's invested in.
I think at this point, if your monocy in your test is, you might just want to slide over to the peepal site.
Join up with Niko and just save if they don't attack into the site that play from
Kerrigan means they have to prioritize keeping the AWP in the field of play so
it's got to be Niko again rotation is arriving oh that's an ugly smoke there's a
gap in that an ugly weapon but low HP so I will up first and still it does not
matter so I was got the second modesty dead no chance for that sniper to make
the difference. Unforced error, he sees the gap in that smoke and he loves it. He'll
step right through with no problem. Make mistakes like that. Zai-Wu is going to
punish. Vitality tie up the game two to two. More importantly, money's gone for
Falcons. That's a brutal turnaround if you're Falcons. To have a round slip away
like that, you feel like in this round you didn't even really get a chance to
fight. You're gonna kill from Tess's but you're never gonna have a chance
to actually contest this round and you won't even get away. Triple kill from
Zawu. Is this the map he takes over? He's activated them to respond immediately
with two straight. 9-3 soft for Zawu all coming out. It's gonna be on a right
foot on the other side. There's not gonna be a buy for Falcons coming up in
this next one. But how are you gonna take the lead here?
It's that same feeling as a Nubis though, isn't it? Back and forth to the B-bomb
sight seeing if the seat that's how frequently you can stop them testing it
each and every time the longer you hit it and more it is inevitably going to
break
game plan keeps up my telly moving to this round keeping themselves alert
there could be some threats thrown in Balkans are hoping it's gonna be this
apartment strap that pays off for them the only player in there is Robs
Waiting in the bedroom. AK in hand.
Most of his team move up through banana.
Yeah, they know the money situation. They're not going to do anything.
They're not going to commit to anything until they activate Flames to move forward and check things out for them.
So utility up towards Coffins, Molotov in the back of the bomb site.
Mac 10, if they want to step into this B site, Flames is going to lead the way.
They're off to the right of the AK, spraying them down, gets two, and some better weapon
picked up here from Niko, so at least a little steal away in the apartments, end of the site
though, Vitality will put that bomb down and confirm themselves the leader of this
game.
Yeah, take the lead early on.
Well if the newbis was somewhat of a punished pick from Falcons, same thing here in the
favor of Vitality, looking to bring it to a map that Falcons has struggled on
Even when Niko plays an excellent counter strike, they still have difficulty closing out wins.
I know we're still a long way away, Jason, but how fantastic would that Dust 2 decide to be between these two squads?
Oh, it gets spicy, wouldn't it? And once you get in there and it gets scrappy,
it's trying to get late into the evening here in Cologne, 11pm,
after the extended G2 Spirit Series earlier.
Bob goes off to give Vitality this lead. Nico brings an AK-47 forward.
They had the AWP out early on, Monosy, but not able to keep it in their favor, so timeout taken, because they'll have to fight in this round without the AWP.
Well, Sonic taking the timeout, looking to chime in. Had to play off some retalking to Sonic.
Learning about how it works inside the Falcons. Who's calling what? What does the structure look like?
On the CT side, Nico is the one that organizes the defenses.
He was saying he needs some help. He needs a step up from Monosy. He needs him to contribute and deliver some ideas for the CT side.
We've talked so much about legacy in this series between Apex chasing greatness as an IGL, Karrigan trying to build upon his greatness as an IGL.
Monosy, Nico, all the stars inside the servers. Iroh, Robs, Flames.
Sonic as a coach as well. Struggles in this falcon team as he stepped into the coaching position.
A win here, a deep run in these playoffs.
I imagine with everything he's done in his career,
there's something gonna be sweet
about this one considering the adversity
he's had to face that criticism
levied in his direction.
If he can make this project work.
Vitality this time dodging all the utility damage, streaming down banana from Kiyosuke and Kerrigan.
Here's the right block to let Kiyosuke into the open blind, everybody's blind.
What?
Kiyosuke will you check?
Behind you, Apex is right there, but he's blind again!
Kiyosuke!
How is he alive?
How is he getting away from there?
Hoho!
Way!
There's no way he should have got that!
What a wild sequence, nobody can hear anything, flashbangs are out the chaos.
And it's Kiyosuke to come in on top somehow, he doesn't even know how.
So Ropp steps forward, grabs a deep angle in towards the A-bomb site, hoping to catch
an offender snoozing that walks into his line of sight.
But what options does Vitality have now?
Lost control of Banana, 3 vs 5, and only 38 seconds left on the clock.
Such limited time as Vitality start to gather towards top middle.
I will in flames 30 seconds as they arrive now waiting for that robs push out of the apartments
He smoked for the time being but that smoke will now fade
Only whispers of cloud left
Want to see ready to deploy some utility to stop them knee kill that's the bomb
That's the big kill want to see now on top of the box flames gone robs last alive
No hope whatsoever backing away never got to activate in this round
Kiyosuke is double in banana, an absolute blinder in this round and that is around going the way of the Falcons.
Out of the timeout as well, calling for a little bit of banana aggression.
I think they've sensed all the utility damage they're doing and they wanted to actually get up in their face at that point as well,
trying to capitalize on the damage done, but even without the Nades landing on top of Vitali players,
Kiyosuke just comes out on top of a very weird, weird engagement in banana.
Steps past Apex.
He gets blind when he turns around as well.
Yeah, he doesn't even hear the shots.
Like, I mean, Apex isn't turning quite yet.
He doesn't realize what's happening in that moment.
And it's a little bit too late for him to react, but they're through the smoke.
Alright, hassles that pressure and that chaos very well.
I just salt in the wound.
All back in the hands of Modesty for the CT.
Side-side, Zyrus still has his.
His last two rounds, very conservative from Vitality towards Banana.
Banana not wanting to take that damage early on which gives monosy the space to slide into an off angle behind the smoke
So much responsibility at monosy shoulders in this round as his teammates shift away to stack up on the other side of the map
The alt must deliver and it will that's free messy. It was burning. He steps into the open steps into the scope
Oh, that grenade is going to land right on top of Flames as well. 53 HP.
Not a good start whatsoever from Vitality at this point.
Kiyosuke being sent up over the top of the smoke. Doesn't have vision. Not yet anyway.
But once more clear the cloud, but Zawu hits the shot on top.
Okay, what is that for some to do? They want to take that kill and shift away, see if you get the defense to move.
You're going to commit here thinking that you've softened up the defense.
There's still three more players here. Two to Modesty's off, they've stacked this up with four.
up with four so even that boss doesn't matter.
He's going right into the open.
Scott 1, good response from Flames.
I don't think he ever thought they were committed to that wrap play.
He wanted to go take the space that they were backing away from.
It's the time here for Vitality. Such limited time.
You've got to try and force Tessus out of pay.
Carrigan from the site. The Danes looking to deliver together.
It's Carrigan first.
Robb's dead. 10 seconds.
Side will out. Kill from Flames.
Into the side. Plant coming in just in a good time.
time. As Modesty want to come for this retake. You know he wants the opposite hands when he
turns this corner and sees the smoke his heart is going to sink. No chance to grab a pick in this
1v2 so now a decision to make. He's got somebody left in the bank but the same can't be said for
his teammates. They haven't pulled up as much as they would have liked but sometimes you need
to make the play. Sometimes you need to back yourself but the time is ticking on a little
a little bit too far now for Monacee to really truly do anything.
Yeah, it's too early and a half to go for this and risk the weapon, risk the economy as well.
So looking for an exit kill that's never gonna come.
So Monacee calls it off, backs away.
Fourth round for Vitality.
A late response towards the A-bomb site.
They trade their way in
and regain the lead.
Yeah, looks really worrying for Vitality in the final few seconds that
having to deal with the player in pit one in the still in the site as well.
And so much on Nico's shoulders as well.
This one, that mistake, that misread of the situation, stepping forward into no man's land,
taking options away from himself, out in the open, traded off.
Uh, Tess says as well, just extending himself, exposing himself to the off.
He's going to be frustrated about that peek.
Yeah, it's a peek he wants back.
He knew the time, he knew the pressure, though, I think, forced the move.
The situation, the circumstances.
The pressure is only going to continue to pile on to deeper and deeper into this game.
He's dead, Si-Woo!
Spots out, monocie!
The construction of the boost is not good enough.
Yeah, trying to get a little cute in these last couple rounds,
Falcon's here and paying for it.
Carri can under pressure, Kiyosuke, go on.
More pressure now for Carri again.
The rotation for Nico is coming back over.
The bomb's still all the way back on G-Stars.
They're going to send the forces back to get it.
Tesla tries to push forward,
but you know you're going to have to deal with Robson,
that lurk, but dealing with him is a whole different problem.
And Robson picked up the kill,
so down to two players here for Falcon's.
should be absolutely no chance of them to do anything.
Rops loves it when he's watching his team get too open and kills like that in the banana
because he knows it's going to force the eight defenders to make a decision
if they want to try and find him as a lurk,
if they want to try and flank really quickly to bring it back.
Well, he's not moving forward.
Rops is still going to maintain that position at the end of the hallway.
Yeah, he's the release valve.
Let's see how many players Vitality send into this B bomb site.
Four players are grouped up with 48 seconds.
Are they committed or are they going to kind of scout it out a little bit close
with Messi taking some spacing?
Well, missed piece of utility, but, you know, this is the only chance.
The only chance for Falco is to do something with this, but a miss shot from Karagin.
It's got him in E.K.O.
He's gone through the smoke! He's got a second here in E.K.O.
Or they just bail out. They run away. They know, okay, 30 seconds. We've got enough time.
We know exactly where he is. Let's get back to that site and Robs has moved up and taken to position.
Okay, and he sees Robs cross, and now he doesn't want to mess with it whatsoever.
So back to the B bomb site. Niko's thinking this whole time.
Let me try and scavenge this AWP in the back of the site.
Zairu will let him have it.
Bomb goes down and Vitality is going to get up to five to three, a two round advantage
and they've taken the money away.
They've taken away the economy of this Falcons defense and if they find Niko down the stretch,
because if you're Vitality you know he wants to pick up this up for monocene in the
late round.
And Zairu, the hunter, just lies in wait.
Go stepping forward ever closer to the scope, Niko trying to get away, but Zaru denies even that.
Money gone for Valkyne's vitality in control.
Up until this point, Valkyne's has been able to buy and contest and play back and reinvest in rounds, have a couple of saved weapons.
Now you're going to have to sit around back with upgraded pistols and that's it.
You're going to have to actually take the momentum away from vitality.
Rip it out of their hands, it's a different task.
So a conversation for the next gun rounds and how they want to play this with pistols 5-7s being invested in
a little bit of utility for Falcons but a chance now for vitality to really really grab control
This was the boost they want to get back to they didn't assemble it as cleanly as they would have liked
Modesty just popping up into the air and so are we ready to punish?
Any pressure?
I'm alleviated by Robs.
I think they called that kind of a boost up for Modesty
because in the previous two to three rounds, Vitality had stayed out of it early on.
They were noticing not doing as much utility damage as they were in the first three, four rounds of the half
so they wanted to take advantage of that and say,
alright, if you're going to come slow paced, we're going to have this boost up so Modesty can pick one off.
But Vitality changed that pace,
catch him off guard, same with Robs here with the aggressive piece.
and now it might force the hands of a bee.
And they go over the top.
They're gonna land right down on Messi.
You need something out of this world,
from the vehicle of Kiyosuke.
And the 5-7 of Karagin.
Kiyosuke gone.
Karagin's side of the smoke.
Vitality staying composed in this situation,
but the Nazis arrived to AK.
They're Boston now, too!
They are. Niko's down banana.
You can't fall away. You have to stay committed.
You either go back and you fight, and you get through Nikko, or you go into that B-bombsite,
and they're challenging, they're forcing Nikko down the stairs.
Well, this is a little bit awkward. How do you want to play this one?
Flames has gotten away, and actually it's forced the defense to shift.
That means Zairu and Mezzi, they've got a 2-on-1, a really easy 2-on-1 against Kerrigan's 5-7.
Flames is doing so much here. He's taking Nikko away.
He's pulled the two defenders back over the A site,
and Vitality's showing their class and how composed they're staying in this situation.
It gets weird in banana. Flames has been as loud as possible. He wants them. He wants to sell this play towards the 8 bomb site
He's on the balcony now. Can Flames get another?
Monos is out of game plates, and he's gonna be caught. Flames has even got him and now they're coming back
Okay, you've got Tessus. You've got one chance a single chance time is limited. He doesn't bite first
Discipline on the trigger! Tessus can't get two!
A real chance in that round for Falcons, almost pulled it together, but Flames, he found all
the openings, found all the ways to get vitality out of a sticky situation, forces that defense
to shift back, forces everyone to lose information on the map, lose the understanding of where
vitality is headed.
Don't give him even a single chance here, Mezzi sits down in the pit, Tsai Wu hasn't
even revealed himself yet, just waits inside the bomb site, and Mezzi's the one to
step out with the kill. A 6-3 lead for Team Vitality.
And a real sigh of relief for Vitality. That was looking very, very sketchy.
Monacy, this shot is so lovely. I don't think he expected the flight. He's just so fast to it.
But nobody else committed and now Monacy moving to the other side of the map is
trying to do everything with the only rifle. And they were just unsure of the
pacing that Flames used and you could see the frustration now.
Valkans feel like they're getting beat all around the map.
Apex taking heavy licks.
Sacred exchange of utility in Banana.
He's going to force Apex back. He can't stick around. 19 HP.
Sequence in response.
Smoking this down, Karrigan holds his ground.
Might actually have to test over towards Brackets at least a little bit.
Flam's going to check out some utilities if they want control.
Modesty and Reputtle. Niko spotted it. He wants that fight.
He saw open it was, but didn't expect it.
It's Modesty to find Rops as the first kill.
Usually he's such an elusive player on this side of the map, but Rops has been caught.
He takes his rounds to make some plays to go for something, to go for an open, to go for a challenge.
And this one, Modesty's just zoned in on his position.
response from Vitality. Can they find the answer? Three players up through Banana.
Going to challenge this defense again. Kerrigan and Kiyosuke. No one's rotating
yet. The first responder will be Monosy. Smoke deployed at the right time.
Step through. Shot lands. Flames down to 31. The bomb is coming back. Up through
middle it'll go. Oh God, Flames is turned at the right time. Nico wants that one back.
He wants that chance. And look at the pressure it puts on these two players. I'm at 15 seconds.
Glostrophobic in the site, but they've got one chance. They're trying to lay. Modesty
burning. Broken. And Tess S instead. But just enough time to put this bomb down.
Okay, Kerrigan's coming into the flank. He's gonna wrap around through middle.
Kiyosuke's gonna wait for this smoke to fade. You've got to handle this pit position from Apex.
No utility, no kits for the two CTs.
Apex keeps his head down.
Masi and Apex look at it be composed as Kiyosuke steps forward,
creeping into the crosshairs of Apex, and he can't get the kill!
Oh, Kiyosuke's starting on his own!
The star of power on display today!
as Kiyosuke has won another round for the Falkins.
Yeah, we've been waiting for these moments for Kiyosuke to look like he's putting it together
from map after map series after series, event to event.
First two times with Keregan, it started looking better and better.
In this quarter-final series, he's an absolute monster.
A lovely shot from Flames that opened it up, but what a save.
And a dangerous crawl along the wall into the bombsite handles the awkward beach.
Doubles up on that messe, what timing he's found, and what life he's given Falcons.
As Vitality called their first time out here on Inferno.
Not wanting to let this lead slip away, right at the tail end of the half, two rounds remain
in his first half of Inferno.
Round 11 and money in a precarious position for both sides.
Lose this and this last round is going to be a very difficult one to play without a
whole lot of weapons.
Zairu has his off and so does Monosie on the other side.
Grenade towards Kiyosuke.
Hot hand.
And this series in this quarter final.
Unleashes. Down banana.
Gets around the corner just in time.
Kiyosuke really wanting this, really wanting this!
Getting both down banana. Apex up next. And you talk about this site, you say it's a weakness.
Kiyosuke struggled on Inferno, but right now, he's their greatest strength.
Incredibly impactful double kill to start the round, but Niko and Kerrigan are going to set up a stack over here towards Sandbex.
Turn the corner, he's Apex. He's got one, but Niko's done better.
Yeah, Niko getting involved this time. And now it's just Rops left alone.
One versus three for Rops. We've been waiting for Rops' moments.
There's the first clean headshot under Tessness.
Blocked out inside of Banana.
We know how good he is in these situations, but how does he even get close to this one?
I wanna see if Nico waits.
Cut right beside each other.
They move forward.
Okay, a tinge.
I wanna see low, but 18 seconds. Robbs can't get to it.
get to it. Yeah, I think that dick also sent the message to just back away.
Modesty checks up with the clock when he takes all that damages and
realize there's no chance from the scale up banana. They back off and it's
going to be a loss for vitality. This AK 47 on rups is worth its weight. It
might be the only rifle they got moving forward. Six to five as
Falcons come back into Inferno two rounds in a row right at the tail
end of the half. I think this game is a perfect example for the Falcons
in terms of know your own weaknesses,
because they have just bolstered
this people on site defense to another level today,
knowing that Vitality are likely to try and punish
towards the weaker of the two sites.
Kiyosuka has delivered some massive movements.
You've got Niko waiting on top of the sandbags,
and you've forced Vitality down to weak weapons
going into the last round of this first half.
Oh, look at the attitude out of Niko as well,
pushing down middle, scaling behind the smoke.
Nate comes through a dangerous decision,
But it can have huge reward and it loses the fight.
And Robs able to get one through.
Kiyosuke again, another kill though.
It's even numbers thanks to him.
Hard thing is, Niko only spotted Robs.
There's no indication what's coming.
Flames is with him, Zairu following up.
Yeah, it's with the hallway but they're not ready.
They're not ready at all!
Tessets is gonna punish them!
Tessets picks up two.
And he's out of that, drops into the pit.
It's now Zairu and Mezi.
And we are not seeing that globally
dominant version of vitality today. This is Falcons rising to the occasion. 6-6 in
this quarterfinal and they're one map up already.
From Austin to Budapest, you can call yourself back-to-back major champions if you're going
vitality but if they want to equal the record of that Astralis team they've
got to do it here again in Cologne looking for the three-peak right now one
map down and Falcons playing with some form this could be the end of vitality
yeah that means vitality knew this was gonna be their toughest test we knew
Falcons could step up we weren't sure if they actually would but man they
they're looking good today 11 kills on Kiyosuke one more time leading the
scoreboard for Falcons. Monacee not far behind at 10. They're going to switch over to the
offensive side and we can see what they'll produce here on Inferno. Another half of
Kerrigan's calling. And Nico's going to lead the way up in Anna. He's got Monacee behind
him, Tess is in support.
Now 14-7 half there from Zaiwuz. He now switches over to the CT side. That's
how he's hoping that the Talisman player can turn the tides. Nico and Monacee
the half wall about to be unleashed. They go on silently into three defenders this
has been at a spawn. Vitality have set this up just perfectly apex flames and
rops to defend. A lot of sharp shooters at the ready to try and cut this one short.
Falcons running in through they go. Rops surgical on the first head shot but
blinded the responses of their friend Falcons. They're into the site they're
over the top and Zaiwu Mese here coming back with no hope. That
That second layer of utility is so effective, just destroys Rops when he's about to multi-kill
and now a tough retake, a near-impossible retake, two versus four.
So I can pull off, they're barely believable, but he needs to do it again.
He's missed out on his chance and that low HP player, the response is swift from Tess S.
And gone in the days, apparently, when Falcons will concede the ridiculous ones, it's gonna
be seven to six, a great lock in for the pistol here early.
Now both pistols here on this second map for Falcons
And if you want to challenge if you want to cause an upset here in a map that's been your weakness
What a great first step to take
Double pistols giving it good starts in both halves
And this one breaking through the stack of vitality
An unexpected third player gets absolutely sidelined by a flashbang
2 MP9s, 2 5 7s and a D-Gull for vitality.
The Falcons are coming at the B-Bomb side heavy.
The arrogant will be at the front.
They've got their goal of top banana control for now.
The response is going to be there, some utility.
Pulled out of Vitality's defenses.
Looks like a lot of it.
A great barrage of utility could be in store though for this Valken's attack.
They land right at their feet. Chocks, Q-suit, they're down.
They're still going to go. They're still going to go through.
But it's Messi's deagle. Flames fly seven.
S-Flames has ignited the round!
Apex is right there with a Nade!
And that is the round vitality so desperately needed!
Stone Cold stops them in their tracks, perfect for vitality.
Falcons try and break into the B-Bomb site.
Headbutt the defense and just hope Blue Force is gonna do it.
But God, are they executing in the chaos?
In the defense of smokes, defensive utility.
The 5-7's come out on top, Flames comes out on top, and Vitality right back in it, an advantage of both pistols, taken away immediately.
Unless you can respawn.
Carrying up through top mid, gonna be handled by Zywoo, going in again, Zawoo's got two.
Just monosy left and he's trying to challenge trying to give it a good go
Tassas has opened up his chance to equal in the meantime from Nico charming in
to see a world in which Falcons can get into this and with that kill from Rocks
there really isn't the world in which they get into this nice Nico's found a
chance he's opened up the side he's got his hands on an AK-47 only three
HP though what can he do with it he's got to hold on as long as monosy
travels over, chucks the AK-47 to him because it's not worth it in his hands.
And Vitality's not 100% convinced it's coming back to this B-Pomp site,
but they're going to find out soon enough.
Three on two, retake two kits, plenty of utility,
and an HP advantage.
A dreamlike duo encounter strike, Niko and Monosie.
Niko's deagle, storied in the majors.
Niko goes back into Banana, can't get it done.
Turns again, realizing Rops is keeping the pressure up.
He goes out into the open so it's all on Monacy.
Primes himself, he's ready, they're dropping like flies!
Monacy's got both!
Mezi up next and the Hedge-Troll will deny!
That was so close to some Monacy magic!
But around for Vitality, none the less.
You're lovin' that of your Falcons, though.
You're lovin' around like that.
Four kills, bomb plant as well.
You've just decimated whatever cash Vitality was able to build up.
For so many repys, a tough loss that would have been a miraculous victory.
But Mezzy's always been so, so reliable for Vitality.
Man, you're loving this. You got Zywil 17-9,
Monosy 16-8 going head to head.
On opposite sides of the server, it's Vitality at the moment in the lead,
but Zywil just charging down, grabbing that open and kill on Niko.
Monosy has been given the AK, hoping for a miracle.
Kerrigan's got smoke flash so you can block off either left or right side to
allow monosy to try and activate them. Left side it is from Kerrigan. Mezi and
Zywu, their line of sight will be taken away, no more vision for the AWP. So the
defense readjusts as information is taken away and now a flashbang is
could indicate brackets controlled but that's all the resources that Falcons had
in this round
the bomb gonna be positioning towards the apartments and attempted finish again
towards this a site and it's a fortress of defense of team vitality we're gonna
have to go contact sneak up so who's the danger man up from library looking
to silence them. We're in for that cross yet to come. Here they are, out into the open.
And it's easy from Vitality. Nine rounds getting into Kiyono in the second half.
They're going to be very tough to break through this Vitality defense without all the bells
and whistles of smokes, flashes, Molotovs. A desperate attempt. Balkans down by two
2 now. Really wishing they had that hot start back but Vitality took it away from him. So
Karrigan now after the hero AK-47 in Montezuma's last round, he'll drop back to the tech 9
to give rifles over to his stars.
It's going full of flames, that's spotted Niko trying to challenge Niko's got it!
A little bit too much from Flames and Niko loves that.
Yeah, very, very bold flight out of Flames.
Niko just rips his head off.
However, drops is the next danger man.
a boiler and cross out perfectly positioned.
Yasuji will step out to his death, back turn to Robs, his fatal mistake.
Great protocol as well, flashbang towards middle to activate Robs to go for that kind
of peek.
If Tessas was out in the open he would have been dead.
And you still don't know where Zywu's AWP is on the map just yet.
Yeah, flash again, trying to activate Robs, but he eats a flashbang in the south,
so he has to back away.
Then Zywu chimes through, Karrigan's tech 9 gone.
Masi now waits. Tess has to step in front of him. Shoulder shown. Masi, keeping the AK in hand. He knows he's got a side move behind him.
Yeah, and Tess has missed his battle. He missed his timing on that, so backs away, but oh my god, Vitality is just picking Falcons apart.
No clean looks for Falcons in this round. And Robson's really making him pay 14-9.
Kawhi it in the first half, trying to find his impact, trying to find plays he could make from the T side.
But now on the CT side well and truly activated
No matter how hard you try to run like this you just go and know why so just attempting this save
And sitting back and finding some sanctuary at least the mercy of that will be given
Vitality you're not gonna challenge you're not gonna hunt them down
Three round losing bonus so Falcons are gonna get 2900
a little over 3,000 bucks for two of their players.
So a decision to make if they want to force up around this,
get some pistols,
light armor, extra utility to try and get these AK-47s
activated and in the mix.
Problem right now for Falcons is on the other side
of the map, you have Zywu, 20 and nine.
And that AWP is starting to get mobile,
starting to get confident,
starting to maintain its presence on the map.
This is a five on four for vitality.
A 4v5 conversion.
He's just self-consistent, Zywoo, that you almost don't notice.
And he's dominating to this level.
20 kills, 9 deaths.
Just picking them apart systematically.
Just casual multi-kills round to round.
Such as Zywoo, half a play to end with 20.
That was a great kill from Apex.
It's monosy removed.
Through the banana smoke.
It's in a number of great b-holes from Falcons in that first half.
Now we're getting to see the same amount of vitality.
Flames turns away.
A little bit too late! No way!
Max seems right!
And it's definitely nice! He moves in, he crosses over,
and both defenders dead within a second!
Oh, Karrigan's got a raw smoke, it's broken open!
Barely makes it into the bomb site, bomb being planted.
Three versus four retake, and I don't think vitality want anything to do with it.
The hero from Anubis, Kiyosuke now putting together another phenomenal map.
It was sad heading into this map that even that star performance of Kiyosuke and Anubis was not going to be enough.
He's definitely testing the limits.
But they need this too. You can see some of the limitations of every senior Falcons.
You can see them kind of playing this tactical game and Vitality is going to be better at it.
You need those individual multi-kills. You need those plays those swings and he's got so much confidence at the moment
The desk wanted to see him unleashed here on inferno and hopefully this is just the beginning if you're a Falcons fan
Bring in Karrigan incident three and 13 at the moment
But I've all spoke it about how important he's been in making just to get feel comfortable in these big moments
these big games and since Karrigan's joined the team we've just seen the
potential we've been waiting for with Kiyosuke.
Just horrible timing as well for vitality on top of everything.
Just an absolutely beautiful double kill.
Round 19 has begun. Saewoo steps up to the plate, takes an angle in the middle.
How do you respond? Niko joined forward with utility.
Descends to death thanks to Flames. Yeah Karrigan was chucking up flashes.
He was the one who called that play for Niko to pick up the pace pick up the aggression extinguish the Molotov and use that flash bang
Not nearly as effective as he would have liked and now Falcons quickly fall back into an a-split two players at the end of holes already
Yeah, well that smoke's gonna break up that crossfire between Zywin and Robs. It leaves Robs alone for the time being
So I was trying to make up for it
Trying to deliver the difference again, but he smoked out
Utility lands and Falcons have got through to A.
And even with the man advantage, such a tough bomb site to retake.
Bomb going down.
Monosy up at halls, Tess is in pit, and Kerrigan will maintain presence inside the bomb site.
It may be tough.
Apex just got re-smoked as well.
The vitality of Shown for two years straight that they can pull anything off.
Time is ticking.
Monocy fighting, Tess has weights in pit, smoke is up, he just moves to the side of it instead.
Monocy firing, Monocy going for it out of the apartment, it's a second out of his rifle.
Sniper with Flames doing their best, but Monocy's got the triple and forces them away.
Monocy, Monocy, massive defense of that bomb plant, and he is hunting them down as well.
Flames goes down with a bomb, they're damaged from Monocys enough, and he's so fired up.
Falcons, nine rounds, one away from tying things up.
And look at the smiles from Falcons down the line as well.
First, the Kiyosuke double kill.
Now, Modesty's the man in the post-plant.
Up in Hall's triple kill, shuts it down
before they can even begin.
And now you really do start to believe if you're Falcons.
Pressure craped up a notch for vitality
as they take their second time out.
They've got money in the bank, but it's dwindling.
The opportunities running low now
the funds disappearing. Some really tough timing in these past two rounds between
Zairu's off giving up the angle just as they jump out. Just as Robs is forced
back like that. Horrifying if you're Zairu and Robs.
Vitality are running out of chances in every sense. Money on the line. Their
a major life on the line.
Man, it's down banana.
Zai Wu about to take some as well.
Trapinal towards the open.
Hulls again, they wanna test it.
Testes and Kyosuke take control.
Mezzi in flames, on the left side of mid, Robs moving up, towards balcony, Kiyosuke waiting for his moment.
A show of banana control from this offense and Modesty is going to activate these peeks and these fights.
Yeah, flashes go forward, have a little look around and here's the fight is short, but Kiyosuke's just going to take damage.
Here come the rest of the Dawkins. Under a minute left, Niko, Nipsey, and steals away the opening.
Oh, but they don't know about Mezi. He could actually get aggressive here if he wanted to try and find a timing.
Tessus is looking for that peek. Mezi doesn't budge.
Mezi knows he's just holding him, and it's back to Zywu. Who else but Zywu?
You need him. Vitality desperately need him.
And this defense can't budge. They're so concerned about the presence towards A towards middle.
Nobody wants to move just in case. Mezi's just now getting the information, but it's too late.
Time after time he has been their salvation once more they were acquired their savior
Zywoo back in a way
Tess S dead Zywoo out again this time a miss shot bomb is planted
Another retake, but they've got a fast flight from messy. They're not prepared here it goes down
I break out from messy a text goes through a modesty fighting all frauds
And the fuckers force cannot be stopped
We were all wondering after that North American stretch of vitality, that vacation stretch
they took, time off leading into the Major to prepare themselves to get some energy back.
Losing IEM Atlanta, getting eliminated there.
We all wondered if that was the proper person, the veneer of dominance, slipping away.
at the buy now for team vitality the city of the max seven three pecs and m4
for Zywil fucking have them on the ropes but a team like this you got to put
him away when you have that opportunity
surely not apex we've seen it before what a dirty time to bring it out
Falcon's staying poised, not trying to speed things up, not trying to win the
game too early, confident in the way they've been playing. A three-round
stretch.
Thanks guys, the glory! Nijo lands the headshot,
Robs ready, rifle out, Robs is got it on the FP9, fighting on his own.
Robs got another! Robs got another! Vitality not dead yet!
Kiyosuke made a play too soon, but how could you blame him with the game he's had?
Those are the kind of moves that have been winning you rounds. This time it backfires,
and Robs is still gonna move on forward.
Is that the opening though? Is that the opening they need? Robs has arrived.
Grenade landing towards Tessus and flashing his face. 30 seconds left, bomb dropped in mid.
And around we have weaker weapons. It's the strong right hand of Robs.
and delivers the reckoning to Falcons in this round.
He'll drop back into the site, playing this round, playing his life, because they know
you can't slip up.
Yeah, Rob's just reminding them that there's a whole slew of superstars on the Vitality
side as well who can turn rounds on their head.
An incredible triple kill.
Making sure Kiyosuke can't find any openings, spamming one down through smoke.
The desperate buy with Rika Weapons pans out for Vitality, they regain the lead
And they scavenge the bodies of Falcons in mid.
We've got two AKs coming into this, and M4 carried over as well.
They've got enough money, they can get a great buy.
So can Falcons.
This is a fight down the stretch on Inferno in this quarterfinal.
Yeah, well, that round went for Vitality, gave him a buffer as well,
with money in the bank after picking up some AKs.
A perfect round to win.
A must-needed round.
This right here from Robs is disgusting.
Even swinging through for one more character never expected it.
Run it back again, round 22.
All the rounds of regulation required on an U-Bus.
Looking for the same here on Inferno, Zywoo, Blyde.
As he robs you dead!
Zywoo's in the open!
We shall save them!
Falkid's running them down on the A-Sites!
They have to save, they have to hide.
And Falcons not shying away from the occasion.
Now the ball is on that call to go right back into the play where they had just gotten decimated.
Changing the timing, changing the pacing, and bringing the fight right back to Vitality's defense.
They have been assembling the greatest pieces in Counter-Strike that were available to them.
Falcons going out, grabbing Niko, the superstar signing, bringing over Monosy.
Then it was Kiyosuke, and then finally they brought together their final piece.
It was said they need one more superstar, just one more superstar.
They found a superstar IGL, 11 and 211.
And they want these weapons, they want them really bad, not gonna hunt down too much more.
They have to keep some cash and some weapons in their hands as well.
So content to let the two rifles make it into round 23.
And here's where that buffer comes into play this third time out.
Zairu brings the off out immediately and fours were pletished.
Let's not count vitality out just yet.
It hasn't been a trophy without their name on it all year long.
But this is the one they wanted the most.
Four out of the last five rounds in the favor of Falcons, Kerrigan's found rhythm.
Vitality. Have to dig deep and tap into that belief they have in one another. They've pulled off crazier comebacks.
Odyssey and Zywu go and blow for blow, matching each other with 22 kills.
Round 23 begins.
The last cannon for Zai Wu.
He got flustered in that last round.
Could it get comfortable? Could it set his feet?
And now it's even more punishing if you miss an opportunity.
Zai Wu was looking for his opportunity down mid. He's going to be smoked out.
Is he doing it again?
Oh no, no, no, surely not.
Okay, he says the pause.
He and Suke went for the challenge just at the side of the smoke.
I love the idea though.
Apply that pressure early, force out the counter utility.
Make him jittery.
The more you can force out now, the easier things will be down the stretch.
He's got tapping.
Trying to catch Apex.
Falcons moving into the site.
It's Apex in flames there to defend it.
The rotation of Xayah will arriving.
And the bomb's still a long way off.
Well, Falcons feels very committed here, they've gone silent, Apex and Zywer trading utility,
they're coming through the smoke, they're coming in right now.
This one's for serious point in the quarter finals, Flames, that's what he needed, the
killer teams up, the heads are being chopped and he's looking for a little bit more.
Flames kills again, but Monticey responds, Zywer's side of smoke, he's go dead and
Monacy again lightning striking upon this cathedral and the bomb is planted
I always got a back away got a plant safe with no armor for the moment
There's no kids through the low money. Oh look at Monacy. He wants to win it right here
Into the open it sets up Monacy
Just wait and there's the people
And Zywo, he's made the difference.
Vitality banned, but do not break.
They are staying in this.
They reached map point first.
One chance.
One chance.
One round is all it comes down to at the end.
And a third time out taken for Falcons.
A chance to breathe and talk things over,
sit on the nerves before you descend once more
into this final round.
That shot is so quick.
No chance for Modesty to respond.
Every single round required again.
Falcons and Vitality, an incredible quarter-final.
Greatness everywhere you look.
And they're going toe-to-toe in the home of Counter Strike.
You can see some of the philosophy in that last round,
Moving up and Anna wanted to pull into the B bomb site again, forcing utility out early.
They caught a really nice timing, but perhaps tunnel vision towards CT spawn.
And now the final play call for Kerrigan and Zonic out of the timeout.
Where will it lead them?
Everyone's got everything you can want.
So over time...
Oh, this is crazy.
We're just here.
Nades go forward up towards top middle.
A lot of bodies here. They want to press this.
They want to come through this smoke and wrap it in the bomb site.
Zawu is playing at the front of a up in hand.
Zawu shot connects.
Karagin gone.
Monosy responds.
Again, it's Zawu.
He is looking to beat the difference.
In this site, Mezzy makes his way out.
Zawu's still alive.
The duo you want in this situation.
They don't have to speed this up, they can take their time. Look at Flames.
He's wrapping around from brackets as we speak.
Trying to keep the composure under a minute left.
Niko pauses. No one dares to attempt to get right across him.
Oh, no, Niko! He's got Saewoo!
Now he's in the pit. It's Flames' turn.
Trying to get the headshot. Modesty and Niko aren't doing this, are they?
It's just Niko now.
Out he goes, but Apex will silence him!
Vitality will not be denied!
They still have their chance!
They draw blood on Inferno, and their series will settle on Dust 2.
He stepped up when he was needed the most, because he was needed in this game.
I think Falcons did... I could be a little bit better than a lot of us would have expected coming into Inferno.
I think we all sat back with the feeling that this was going to be a mismatch.
Janko set it up pretty well. There's been some issues for Falcons throughout the group stage.
Some of those issues were still evident here, but some of the individuals heroic from Monizzi, from Kyusuke,
kept the game alive long enough for us to need all 24 rounds.
And as you said, Saigou having another great showing and truly stepping up in a game where the man on the screen right here
Raps has been a little bit missing and maybe missed it a couple of times
So it's still not Vitality firing on all cylinders but enough to keep the series alive
I mean Vitality survived, that was one scrappy series
They had to win three pistol rounds, you know, force buys, hat buys, all sorts of things
To get back into the game, right? Because at the start it seemed like Yosuke was just going to do more of the same
like he did on an UBRA, so that potentially Falcons had a chance to close it out.
And ultimately, exactly what we spoke about before the game, it happened in the game.
The B side abuse just happened and Kipo happening and the buffer that it gave to Vitality
was actually enough for them to pull that CT side despite being scrappy.
Yes, but all in all we have to acknowledge that their game plan coming into this was that B side and it worked.
But considering the split down the middle of the half, is that not a little bit impressive
of what Falcons have been able to bolster as some of those adaptations, because we knew
that was going to be a target for Vitality.
The pressure would be maybe too strong of a compliment, but getting six after being down
six-three, I think it was a really good effort for them.
In the end, they had their opportunities even in the second half.
A couple of small mistakes ended up costing them the map, but not the series.
Let's go back to that first half then.
We've got round seven.
What are we looking at here?
Yeah, this was actually first round that Vitality decided to end not on B-side.
It starts with the crafty boost on Long.
Unfortunately, Kazuki is up, and he reveals himself and dies.
As a B player, now the correct call is to just go back and hit B.
But look at the time and look at the bomb.
It's stuck in apps.
They cannot go for a B split, they cannot go back,
so they decide to commit to this A split or a wrap.
And the scrappy trades actually go in a Vitality's favor.
It's really, really interesting how they're still deciding to go into the stack willingly,
despite them knowing that it is.
And there's a big overstep from Tessus right there.
Yeah, I feel Tess is unfortunately overplaying the scenario a little bit.
You have Saibu stuck on balcony with an AWP.
Tess's position in pit is already known, 10 seconds left, carrying and getting a vital kill on the bomb side.
All Tess's had to do in this scenario was wait for the play from Saibu.
He had to jump to Tess's. Tess didn't have to come to Saibu.
He overextends, he gets punished, Falcons lose the round, and that's how the cookie crumbles.
Stresses.
I think it was just the problem with Falcons in that round for example.
It was a five before you know, and then he also came and started shooting through that the Nico
Maybe feels pressure about that mid to be or doesn't want to let it go
So then he is walking out taking a one-way one-fight like that sort of things that Falcons want to avoid
But coming into this map, I know they I think they knew they were a little bit outmatch
Obviously you feel like you have your chances
But the fact that you were able to push vitality all the way I think is admirable considering 100%
They equalized and when we come into the first round of that second half,
obviously the pistol, they managed to convert, but how did Vitaly respond instantly?
First issue, because we can start to paint a picture of Falcons maybe losing grasp of the game.
I think in this position, you're about to win potentially the game.
If you can convert this one and then force Vitaly into a save,
they walk into a stack here, unfortunately.
There's still a minute and five seconds left to the round,
and I would have loved for Kerrigan to maybe call it off or find another timing.
Unfortunately, they run into a predetermined stack from Vitaly.
Nothing really goes their way, and it's just a showcase, you know, in a round like this,
yes, it seems silly that you only get one kill and you're going up against a bit of a weak
force buy. To me, that was the only calling mistake I saw in the second half from Kerrigan.
I feel like I would have waited a little bit. He walked into it blindly. There was plenty of
time to fall back, maybe do a different version of it. I know you invested utility into it,
and then you'll be maybe a little bit worse off in the second layer, so to speak,
but this was a big gamble, and it didn't pay off. So the problem is you just call yourself
into a corner, right? With something like this and sending all five players there.
So you have no information what's going on on the other side of the map. If you do get block
it's hard to abort because you have to go back into the unknown. You didn't put any pressure
towards A so the A guys will have their smokes. Like it's a tricky round and you only do it
because you saw something in prep where it's like they're never 3B, which also sounds kind of crazy
because it's inferno, right? So these are the ones that think they had one against legacy
on Mirage in the CAC final, right? So, yeah, when it goes wrong, it looks horribly wrong,
and in the end it might be just what made the difference on this map.
And coming from Kerrigan, this was another stinker in the form of T-Side that he had either zero
or one kills. I think it happened like six times this major already. Sure, individual
form is something we've brought up already numerous times. I don't want to repeat it again.
The calling wise, it was alright, and actually it's surprising that they pushed it so far
into 11-13 loss. This bad Kerrigan, again, not showing up on T-Side.
Was there a stand-up moment towards the tail end, Jacob, for your money that kind of displayed from Vitality?
Yeah, I feel round 21 is where it could have gone a different way again.
Another round for Vitality, Nico finds the opening, you think to yourself, great.
Look at the buy here, it's 10-10, it's Falcons getting into a good position.
We get the point of view from Robs, first kill is nice, second maybe a little bit lucky,
but that's where Robs stepped up massively.
I called him out to have been a bit absent from this game, but he came alive very much in round 21.
And he single-handedly would an MP9 in a round where you have two Deedleys, two pistols,
brought Vitality back to life. And I think we painted the picture pretty clear already for the viewer at home.
We pointed out three rounds where we all agree Falcons probably should have converted, should have won,
yet the game was still 13-11. So this was definitely wouldn't reach for Falcons.
They could have won this series, they could have closed out the game.
Unfortunately, they didn't capitalise on the moments they had.
There's three different rounds where Falcons are in a 5-4 and Kiosk just dies from that point on, right?
And he had an OK game.
We talked about it in Banana.
He was aggressive.
You like to see that.
And it's better to have him play loose and make some mistakes
rather than him to feel like, oh, he can't go for any sort of a move
because you don't want to be the reason why you lose the round.
It's just that once you have these advantages and then
always they're really needed to keep pushing there,
considering the buy for vitality
is when it looks a little bit bad.
I was just looking at the rating disparity between halfs
for K2K as well.
I mean past but pretty much flying cars on that CT side of things, but you're totally right
The T side was where he really felt short and a lot of those moments
Yeah, and that's what we just don't want to see in Falcons game overall like we highlighted it on an UBIS
This is where he was making place
He was a dissipating place and he was there to punish everyone here on inferno kind of like, you know non-factor
Should we take a little bit of a zoom out because this is a huge game with you know
Magnificent consequences for each side of the equation. Who is the pressure more and right now in your opinion?
I think still on Vitality and it shows obviously for Falcons it's such that you felt that you could have won at 2-0
Right now it's gonna go to a third
But we said that this is the best map to be the decider for these two teams right Vitality
Maybe the best team ever on Dust 2 and for Falcons early on this has been the map where they had the most success and looking at
Their players it definitely suits them right and for me the player to watch is gonna be Zywoo
Because in those losses that they've had in the group stages like he was looking a little bit out of sorts
in some moments, getting caught off-guard in some pretty straightforward rounds,
playing too aggressive and his team already had an advantage.
We saw it on the CT side, he was great on the T side, Inferno on the CT side,
a couple of misses, a couple of times, made a caught off-guard,
so he needs to be locked in for vitality on this decision.
That's what gets interesting, right?
Because on the opposite side you have Monizzi,
and Monizzi had a great, great showing here on Inferno as well.
Mainly with the rifle, to be completely honest, found an awful lot of impact,
kept Falcons alive in rounds where they shouldn't have been alive,
We really did a good job to make the game competitive.
Getting into Dust 2, we know Manassee is an aggressive opt-type.
We know he likes to re-aggress in the middle of the round. CT side.
You see in push-up catwalk, if he senses a timing of there's not enough pressure being applied by Vitality,
certain errors of the map, he will try to gain that gap.
And it's also one of the maps where I feel like, sure, you have an op-dual, you have Saaru going up against Manassee.
It's not often the duels are between the op-ups, right? It's the op-going up against the rifle.
However, on Dust 2, you have more on the head-to-head duels,
Which whoever plays them best, whoever gets the most out of them,
could be a massive win condition for the respective team.
At the scope out a little bit,
since the creation of this lineup for Vitality,
they are what, like 53 wins, 7 losses.
And in the end, those losses came not long ago, honestly,
and actually back-to-back losses.
So they're not untouchable despite these stats.
And I honestly think this is a great handshake
for a decider between a match like this.
I think you'll see, though, we have this discussion,
Rob Sneakall, greatest rifle and all that.
One of the reasons why Niko has been good on Inferno is he has an active role.
He's back in Banana, he's the point man there.
I think this is where you will see struggles from him on the T side, right?
In that upper B area, just sometimes left without much to do, being outside of the action
unless his team creates an opening and on the other side, Robb's played it all his
life and sort of knows the ins and outs of that position.
So keep an eye out for that one.
Considering just the pure magnitude of this moment as well, I want to get some
predictions up here.
Who are you guys siding with?
Janko first of all, who are you going with?
I think Vitality was there for the taking on Inferno.
I think they'll get some renewed confidence after that map
and I think they went with experience.
Sigh of relief for Vitality, I'm going to give it to them
and I'm thinking the sider will be theirs.
I think I've seen enough from Vitality throughout this tournament.
Yes, group stage was not looking pretty.
These two games here has not been looking pretty.
I am smelling a bit of an upset here.
I'm going with Falcons. They're going to hold it up.
Well, another three-mapper fair awaits us as a clock.
almost strikes midnight here in the Lancest.
It's dust two to decide who survives here in the cathedral
between falcons and vitality.
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What a day of counter-strike we've had here in Cologne.
Inside of this kit, Thedrault, the quarterfinals are delivering on every front, and this is going to be a historical day.
And history is exactly what both of these teams are trying to create, trying to make for themselves.
Vitality have already got so much greatness within their ranks, but they're looking to try and push it further so that nobody can even think about touching it.
The side of Falcons, we're looking at Nico, still trying to win his first major trophy that brought Karrigan into the team to try and make that possible.
I just think there's so many great players on the server today, so much potential, so much skill.
The line for this third map, why don't we just let the Counter-Strike do the talking?
Let's let the Counter-Strike tell the story.
As we get into the third and final map of this quarterfinal, Falcons versus Vitality, it just settles here on map 3.
And this might be the coming-out party for Kiyosuke, who's had a phenomenal quarter-final
series so far.
Modesty stepping up in that previous map.
Zayu stepping up in that previous map.
Neither team letting this go.
Fighting to the very end.
Belkin starting on the T side of Dust2, attacking into this vitality defense.
And we are under way to decide who moves on to the semi-finals to face off against Spirit.
Gertz and Elabin on both maps.
It feels like this is just getting to a boiling point now as we head into the pistol of map three.
I'll concede.
The three players in the tunnels.
Smoke gonna go down towards Xbox.
Another salvo of utility on the back of Tess's as well.
This smoke just covering the progression of Kyosuke and Monosie and lower, Niko towards
middle.
Still another smoke Molotov and Flashbang to place for Falcon's attack.
And for Vitality, moving their pieces on the board over towards short.
A mid-round piece of aggression.
Yeah, Flash goes in, so does Iwo.
You should be trying to get in behind the defences here. Pressure could be put on Robs.
It was out for the peek. Can't connect it. So I was actually slipped in secretly, very close to the whereabouts of the T.
It's going to be Monosian Tessas with the first two kills. A great opening here for Falcons.
With surprises, see them continue that piece of aggression. It was very telegraphed.
Another flashbang message. He's got a deliver on this. Sweeps out. One, two, going for a little bit more.
Drops off, but he's found vitality at three versus three.
This is three and four Falcons to consider their options and Kiyosuke again another bit of pistol impact today
It's Rob's dad as he tries to cross out and look at this from Apex just storming forward trying to put pressure on the young man
He's gonna handle it and not put himself in harm's way
Oh, I'm a tries to make it in the mezzyman or Merryman rather is landed the headshot
He's got a great kill on that cross three so far, but he's finally dead
They put him in the crown that's it gonna end up as a Falcons pistol win. They're just so good on pistols today
Yeah, Nasty shooting with the pistols from Kyosuke, these are some lovely shots.
I love the play from Apex as well, coming through that smoky nose.
If that smoke pops and they're stuck behind it, no chance Vitality have to win the pistol.
Has to make the desperate move.
Almost, almost able to claw it back with that peek.
One to nothing for Falcons.
Come on, Vitality buying a Jannon, it's gonna be Zaru out with the M4.
Pistols around him and we know what Robskin do with the MP9, we've seen that over on Inferno.
in the triad for it again smoke passed out towards the double doors and we'll see
how can start to move forward I want to see how efficient this t-side is going
to be and towards the end of inferno it felt like we started to see some of
that inexperience and the lack of time that this roster has had with
keregan at the helm the 61 days alone that they've been able to work with
felt like some ideas ran out towards the later stages of inferno but now
Now they get a fresh slate, a clean slate on Dust 2.
Short control now, you have flames over and pit. Apex at the rail, at the same bone site, gonna try and delay things, but with the cover of Smoke, Kiyosuke moves out.
Apex never spotted it.
Ooh, he's gone very deep hasn't he? Kiyosuke looking to be the playmaker.
Apex is gonna be revealed, a surprise.
Kiyosuke is way closer than you anticipated.
grenade's gonna land towards him some responses from vitality and that's
actually going to pull him back yeah he found the fight he wanted missed the
opportunity so they feel like there's gonna be a rotation to shift but they're
a little bit off on that three defenders at this people I'm sorry oh this is
exactly what vitality wants trying to get right through it's Niko stopping
messy trying to break it apart but inside was delivering towards the back
platform drops up next and he's done well with that MP9 he'll retreat into
the tunnels he'll play his life oh yeah and it's actually two isolated
individual players for Falcons here so they can deliver here. Can't get the first.
So it's got to be Carrigan. Not exactly known for his clutches but certainly
known for making the big play. The big moments causing the bullshad. We've got
him hiding behind the box. Galeel's down next and he nearly does it. Damn close
from Carrigan. The right-packs comes in sweeps him away and that's gonna
allow the scoreline to be tied up. Yeah the pistols might be great for
Falcons but now we've seen two second rounds failed to convert Haddon and
second half of Inferno as well. Disrupting the hot start that Falcons was hoping to get underway.
Lovely Roberto, lovely response. Great read and a great stack with the M4 in the back of the bomb site.
Falcons on the back foot immediately.
They have the opportunity. Kerrigan is 3800. He can drop an AK and have a hero AK just like
the last map, but this time maybe wanted to get the AWP out in the next buy round as well.
I'll pass that over to Modesty, so we're gonna sit back with blocks.
One Carragane will go around the corner and expected death from Mezzi, sent out towards Carragane.
Now stalled out over in middle behind this smoke.
And that next round by from Falcon is going to be very strong.
Have to imagine Kerrigan's dropping that up over immediately for monocle.
He was a beast on Inferno in that loss.
Get him started early with the AWP.
See what he can provide you.
Falcons make their last move into their deaths.
Rups, back of the bomb site, dinged up a little bit of pressure, but nothing he can't handle.
Mezzie here with him.
Another bomb plant at the very least for Falcons, and that's a win.
Get the extra cash coming out.
I want to see you get it back the way, maybe get a little bit more out of this M4.
Yeah, this M4 now provides the opportunity for economic damage, so one or two more kills
and Falcons is lapping all the way into round four.
But surely not the round win, right?
Surely shouldn't lead to victory.
Monace is going to give it a go.
It's got the first, it's a second.
It gets the dink out towards the door.
But good work from Zai.
We're cleaning up Monace and getting back into this retake.
Yeah, there might have been a world with Zai.
We're low HP, but just the clock on the other player.
Never able to recover another weapon.
Benzzi always played outside of the bomb site.
So only one rifle salvageable.
And now we get into that first gun rounds.
Two to one in the favor of vitality.
Gays being picked up for Falcons attack.
They've got long spawns if they want to take them.
But at least this time they don't.
Yeah, modesty spawned by the cross.
Only seen one.
I went down.
I went to a scope for now.
They're going to go to the tunnels to go to that early fight.
Kyosuke wins it.
Oh, that's really nice and being prepared for that.
Heads up.
That's a very late piece of aggression, trying to catch him off guard and he can always get the next.
Those two kills fall in favor of Falcons, there's another one.
Monosy with a wallbang, Apex dead, left side of the doors.
Yeah, Vitality might have had a preconceived timing if they wanted to pounce upon a trap this setup.
And the game plan at least in this round doesn't pan out. Monosy can be patient.
Spots to the head, falls prey to Zywoo.
And now he's got access to the AWP on the ground.
I don't even think Vitality's necessarily going to want to play for this too much.
But being able to pick up a free AWP in a round like this is really nice if Zywu falls
back into it.
Karigan just caught the timing to come out of the long.
He's actually got a backstab up here.
Could be taking everything away, but Zywu's going to turn at the right time.
Internal clock.
Catching the opportunity.
So Karigan going.
AWP recovered here for Zywu.
That's actually a huge seal from Vitality. I know it's a loss, but I think you're going
to be pretty pleased with how this all panned out. You've even taken the L here and letting
the scoreboard even up. You know Falcons has wasted the cash, the money on the AWP.
You get it for free and you get it in the hands of your best player, of the greatest
player of all time. A dangerous weapon for Zairu on the CT side. Falcons tie things
up. I feel it's just like the early stages of this third map in the quarterfinals. It
feels like we're going to get an absolute farm burner down the stretch. Hey, like
says we've made it past midnight. Are you with us? That's what I'm talking about, baby.
three underway semi-finals on the line and Falcons making vitality sweat in
this series
they're gonna go in behind here so guys gonna take some short control you go
Karrigan down to 10 HP.
Span going forward through the smoke from Mezzi.
Nico, confidently prowling down into that B site,
seeing if he can catch any of the CTs in the open.
But no one dare walk forward, no one challenging.
Yeah, but lurk smoke is going to apply a little bit of pressure.
Mezzi and Robs now a little bit on notice,
especially with the mid to B smoke open in place at the moment.
Falcon's not making the move just yet,
controlling the middle of the map.
A default spread for Vitality's defense.
Flames, I ruin Apex to defend this A-Bomb site.
And Kerrigan with that low HP will turn into a late long lurk.
Under 45 seconds, the utility goes to the sky.
Apex casts a side, and Saeho's stepping up in his stead.
He can't connect the shot.
They start moving in, and Saeho starts moving back.
30 seconds left in the round as they take over the bombsite, so I was worried about the long play.
Yeah, but with him still alive and back and away, Kerrigan knows not to make his moves.
Until there's some kind of pressure on the retake, no need for Kerrigan to do anything at all.
Lies in wait.
So tantalizing if you're Falcons to try and take these guns out of their hands.
So I was trying to pull Kerrigan into the peach.
but his discipline will stand.
He does not move, he does not bite.
He's carrying it, looking around the right shoot.
He's going to be flanged to walk in and remove him,
but the round will fall in favor of the Falcons.
They will retreat, they will try to get away.
Robbs is going to try to hunt down a couple of kills on the exit here.
He's going to want to test that, because that will be it.
The Falcons have taken the lead here on Dust2.
At this stage of the map as well, vitality is happy to give up rounds like that.
time out called. Four players alive. Four players keep their weapons in hand if
you're vitality. So plenty of money and plenty of resources to
fight back with as they talk things over.
Kyosuke again the initiator for Falcon stepping through the smoke on short
28 becks in the open. We've seen some of the early game plan of vitality not
play out the late pounce in middle that trap set up with the delayed strike
towards lower tunnels now this play apex out in the open smoke broken he said no
chance whatsoever missed shots from Zairu as well so a timeout I think more
to calm down the vitality side just to let them settle into this third map
assure them that there's no cause for panic
I see block 5 flames early on.
Smoke could go down as well.
This teammate's assisting with breakage.
Not the smoke itself, but not going to reveal a kill, not going to reveal a chance.
This will back into the default.
Yeah, Q-SRK playing the smoke-faded mid.
He stepped in front of the double doors onto the CT side.
Smoke broken.
a clever way to clear mid and now he's got great piece of map control to cut off the middle of the map
Cut off this defense from shifting from bomb site to bomb site
All that's left now with him in this position is for Karrigan to pick where they want to apply the pressure
Sure.
Hawkins move through the mid smoke.
All through the double doors.
Nate towards Karagin.
Zaiwu ready.
AWP, look at the stop in.
To the rightful taking first contact.
Not even having to reveal Zaiwu, but there's a grenade.
It's hunted out Karrigan. It's the final play now for Falcons towards this B-Bomb site.
The setup designed to deal with this is Rops and Messi.
It's by Kiyosuke.
It's found the key to open up this bomb site.
Messi's doing what he can, but it's not enough.
Niko has stopped him.
And the bomb plant will be coming through to this B-Bomb site.
It's vitality shift over the retake attempt.
And Falcons would love to take all these weapons away.
Are you gonna give them the chance to do it with the retake here?
They wanna go see if they can find anything.
Flush Niko out into the open.
That's the only utility they've got.
That's all they've got.
And they do trade out on Niko, but if you want to go for this, you've got to send in Zaewoo's AWP,
and Flames is AK.
You've got to risk losing them.
Tessa is dead!
It's got to be monosy!
He's looking for it, but Zaewoo responds!
Comes through, gets that defuse!
And it's the Zaewoo difference that gives Vitality the tie game.
Perfect coordination, perfect timing on that peek from Zaewoo.
As soon as his teammate falls, Modesty's quick and he's got no chance to back away.
They do just enough, a critical trade on Niko inside the flames.
But this right here, Shot taken and Zaru's prepared.
Vitality with that win, gonna continue fighting on M4s back in their hands.
It's Falcons, whose money is at the breaking point in round 7.
Seven and not bad yet though. They've got a mat 10 are going to go real sure those are the weaknesses
But at least you've got the AK's in the hands of the players you want them in
It's a very scary round like for Falcons walking out middle walking up to the B bombsite on a split. It happens so rarely
And now vitality they're gonna be nervous about that round after round
See the resources they've committed now to watch to those mid toys to play is that
Messi and Zawoo.
Oh, they're just going to go into the B-bomb site with bodies, with numbers attacking into
ropes.
Messi and Zawoo playing outside the site, so the reaction, the support is going to be
there quickly.
Falcons desperately need a knockout punch.
These opening kills need to go their way efficiently.
Messi.
Going to get up on top of the boxes just in time.
Here they come.
Utility charging in.
The Falcons moving forward.
He clips their wings straight away, it's Karagin dead.
Rob steps out just the one, but it's Messi from the back of the car.
He can't get a follow-up.
So, Zywul to step out, smoke broken.
And Zywul, hold at bay at the window for now.
That smoke goes too deep.
Zywul's close enough.
He doesn't want to step forward just yet.
He's waiting for his teammates to get closer.
He needs to pull it, but not a lot of damage.
Flash.
Smokes sent forward, trying to block them out in vitality this time.
Starting to back away, they're waiting.
It's not done yet. They're getting in position.
Yeah, this is all in the flight from Apex, but now actually he's smoked off as well.
There might not be an avenue in, but if Modesty goes down here,
maybe vitality come in real, real late on the bomb timers.
I ruin flames, take it back.
They've already conceded, they've already called it off.
Modesty is going to charge towards Apex, trying to flee the scene as that bomb goes off,
but on the end, Falcons getting through into the B site.
It's a very tough half though for Falcons. Everyone's going to go down. Money is in a terrible situation.
Vitality, even in round losses, able to preserve the weapons they're fighting with.
Falcons are never able to get that knockout blow that lets them get a grip on this map.
Vitality being very, very smart with their economy and their decision-making in these post-plats.
Zonic will be trying cool things down and Falcons haven't bought anything just yet.
And then figure out what they can even piece together.
It's going to be AK's coming out on Niko and Monosy.
At 10 for Tarragon.
Scraping together what they can.
Trying to build this lead up.
It's just so difficult every single time you play.
Zairu has an ult.
Haven't been able to take it away from him yet.
Really nice work trading into these bombsites.
These bombsites first two players go down, but Niko and Kiyosuke just there for the trades each and every time. Lovely work.
A single round lead for Falcons.
Money decimated for both sides, right on the edge.
But if you're vitality, at least you're keeping the AWP away from Monosy for as long as possible.
Giving Zai Wu that unrivaled match on the other side, Karagin climbing up on the Xbox,
headshot his instant kill from Apex and they retreat, they take advantage, then the reaction
Niko jumping out of the long doors right into Mezzi.
He saw them doubled up on Cat and that might be a signal that there's no long defense,
that he could actually gain a little bit of space there and boy was he wrong.
No chance whatsoever in all of a sudden Falcons in a critical round where money is on
line you know the two-man deficit but that's thinned out to just one and Kiyosuke
moves forward Sae will cut apart but look they've isolated Robs he's on his
own he's only got an MP9 if they come at this B bomb site what can Robs actually
do and how long is apex just gonna sit behind the smoke is he gonna try and
make a crazy play will you clear out the back of the bomb site and Robs keep
his cool he's under pressure MP9 and he tries to challenge Bethesda has
gotten rid of him Kiyosuke now looks down towards mid oh and he's made his
decision you can't change it from here. He's committed to this. Kiyosuke stands
in fights but it's just the one. The retake required of vitality. Once again
utility there for Falcons they hold them back. They hold them at the door.
A monosie. Ready to make a pipe with an all-in door. He goes to the window. Apex
is caught. Flames is up next. There's the trade-off, Montesiva Tessa has his back.
Finally, they've worked so hard for that. They finally take all the money away from Vitality.
All the weapons ripped out of their hands, and Vitality is going to have to sit back and save
a very tough economic battle for eight rounds straight, and Falcons come out on top.
And it's this guy once again, Kiyosuke. What a beastly performance he's having.
So much impact today, absolutely brilliant.
Every single map, he has bailed this team out of tough situations.
And his performance has not slowed down as the night has gone deeper.
We can finally believe the hype.
Apex, walk it up towards top middle.
Has a little peek into the lower tunnels, isn't going to come away with anything.
Alright, this time Niko gets out long safely.
Good piece of map control, especially when you know you're in an anti-eco.
The bomb on Montesey's back now joining up over towards Long as well.
Kiyosuke, excuse me, bringing up the flank.
And Kara again executing a small fake towards the B bomb site to make him nervous to keep as many players partier as possible.
They already came out long.
The pack of Falcons start to make their way forward.
The utility flying over towards the car, limiting the positions here of vitality, but no one's in any of those spots.
They're all rotating over now.
Strengthen numbers with the weaker guns.
And they got no- I think I've got one counter flash on flames that chuck through the smoke if they want to aggress here,
but they're gonna rely on Apex to find a headshot.
They're gonna rely upon a miracle.
Robbs as Deagle has chimed in.
Anything else? Anything else at all?
That's a nice apex. Moving up.
It's the flanked Karagin, the M10, Knitzen behind Zairu.
Now it's just Robs with that deak.
He'll climb up short and take down his former in-game leader,
but he's actually taking a Gush on board,
and Robs is finished off with a Grenade.
Karagin hunts him down, finishes off the kill,
and Falcons delivering a very solid star on this T side.
Oh, yeah, they're doing absolutely lovely work. Five of the last six in their favor.
They found bomb plants in six rounds so far, and there's half. They have access to these sites.
Very, very efficient Falcons is being right now.
Round ten.
And this time by Tality, they re-enter this defense with weapons, but the AWP is missing.
They had it so much in the early stages. Now they've got to play without...
And Malnissi gets to play with his.
He's looking to try and dominate the long corner.
Flames, we'll get the information, that's where the AWP is, Si will move forward, try to nip in towards me, but he doesn't spot anything, he realizes he can't stay there so he backs off.
Mid control there for Falcons.
He for tears, 2K, denied by Robs off the back of the platform.
This fight he was looking for might regret it a little bit right now.
Double dink from Robs.
There's four CTs on the map without head armor.
Kerrigans, Mk10 can chew them up.
It's meant to be splits have been dangerous.
Oh, Messi waiting for the right ball.
Kerrigans, Mk10 stood no chance.
Messi gonna be backtracking.
Send the utility out towards the tunnels.
I don't know, a minute left on the clock.
Where does the bomb decide to go?
I mean, you're on a 3v5.
How do you figure this one out if you're Falcons?
Feels like a round where Kerrigan gave the individuals
a lot of room in this round to make a play,
to try and create an opportunity,
and all of them fell by the wayside.
The peek from Kiyosuke, Kerrigan stepping up next with his Mk10.
Can they find another recovery in a deficit situation?
Honestly, leading the way with the AWP.
It would be ridiculous if they can pull this off now under 30 seconds left two players entrenched in that people on site
Smoke is gonna go down for this cross a backs tries to heat things up. He goes dead through the smoke
15 seconds left
I don't even think you have time even if you go for it
You got two minute defenders you got to go through so they'll just save these weapons
I we're gonna start coming for a hunch wants to try and find that adbp down the stretch
Tess is off to his left, shuts it down.
Well, they just plant their feet in shoring
with the hold onto the weapons, but, oh my god, Tess S.
Moves forward, he dies.
He's got $3,000 at least left over.
Didn't really need that.
A two-round lead now, though.
Invitality, call another timeout there, second.
This is where XTAS wants them to fire up
right at the tail end of the half script.
Together, these last two even things out yet again
as they switch sides.
We have that conversation of your vitality, you've been here so many times, Dust2 has been
your home ground.
So many times but I can't imagine they feel like they're playing like it's been all those
other times.
Falcons have really put them to a test and really knocked them off the ray game.
A scrappy affair, none of these maps ever getting blown out.
It would be a real testament to the greatness of vitality though if they are able
to prevail in the series today with all those caveats here, saying they aren't playing their
best counter-strike, seeing them look pretty weak at earlier stages in the competition
and still getting through Falcons.
Oh, Monacy making aggressive move.
Nice look at that opening, all eight backs is lost, dazed and confused, Monacy's got
the opener.
Trying to cross late, just never expected Monacy to have that angle that fast.
A little bit deeper, giving him a new move to the right side of the doors.
Beautiful shot, beautiful play and a man advantage for Falcons in a critical round.
I'm respecting the smoke for the time being here, Falcons at long, but it's fading soon.
Flames is aware of that.
We'll replenish with some fiery utility of his own.
No sound cue whatsoever.
Flames has no idea what's coming around that corner, but he prepares himself, sets himself
against the wall, calls Zaihu over to the corner.
Now they know.
And Zaihu will get a defend with him, but he pulls the initial attention.
He sets up Flames.
Can he make the most of it?
You better believe he can, the first is good.
Azalaga taking down and then Flings gets caught on a jump.
An awkward situation, exchange of kills, but it falls in favor of Falcons.
53 seconds left.
Look at the HP though, Modesty's gonna have to be involved at the moment he's playing middle.
He's cutting off the rotation, he's not letting Robs get involved in this round whatsoever.
But he gives that up to start bringing his forces AWP over to the A bomb site.
with tests is in Kyosuke this low he's got to have some influence with this AWP
be prepared to pounce at any moment
Mezzi has got to be a bastion of defense but he turns the wrong way had to worry
about the ramp the footsteps the footsteps sold him
now Robs drifting over through the mid-toes it doesn't seem winnable it
doesn't seem like there's even a chance for this at all
He's so far away from the action and further still he goes.
Man, Falcons is playing an absolutely phenomenal T-side at the moment.
They are running Vitality ragged on this map.
They've had success at both bomb sites.
They've had success coming out middle and splitting the B bomb site, coming up short.
Now long.
There are a lot of problems that Vitality have had to solve in this half and now
they're staring at a three round deficit.
No chance of tying the scoreline.
They'll scrape together what they can in this final round 12.
Robs will drop it and four over, but they're missing a lot of resources.
Apex can be so frustrated to give up that opening kill, I'm honestly able to punish
Messi not looking at him as well so both of the kills
Monacea gets in this round with her opponents with her backs turned to him
Oh ho ho! Monacea can!
You cannot pass, you cannot get into the site and immediately
Team Vitality have to play a player down
And it's so frustrating
It's so difficult when the AWPer on the other side of the map is picking you off on this cross
And there's nothing you can do about it, he's just fast
At least Vitality putting their pieces over towards short.
Kiyosuke and Niko lying in wait.
They have flames.
It's a FAMAS.
It'll have to do.
Can it to LB2.
Flames out first, dead.
Kiyosuke again!
His entry prowess on display today!
Zyle, Apex, and Mezzie, now the last remaining player.
An A to F lead.
Falcons, conquest inside the cathedral.
Looking like it's gonna continue.
This is such a strong lead on the third and final map.
Mezzie's got no chance on this one. 5 HP.
You have to do something crazy.
He's got no chance. Truly no chance.
He'll step up and give it a go.
This Falcons doesn't lose these kinds of routes, not anymore.
Not today, not today!
Messi's got the head shot, but MotherCy secures it!
8-4 lead, the Falcons are doing it!
Looking to fly into the semi-finals!
It's the birthday of the game we all love and we
We have been giving gifts on Counter-Strike matches today.
Both quarter-finals have delivered, and we'll see if Vitality can claw their way back into the second half.
And it's looking like Falcons are in full control, looking to continue their conquest in Cologne.
Looking to knock out the world number one, the most dominant team we've seen in Counter-Strike.
This team was put together for this purpose.
They found the biggest pieces that were around in Counter Strike and assembled them into one squad
And now they are looking to take down vitality on the home ground of Counter Strike on vitality's home ground of dust too
Let's kick this one off second half underway in Cologne
And vitality this is where you lean on that championship pedigree. They do not go down without a fight a year and a half of dominance
They're gonna rely on all of that experience, crossing over towards Long, but not fast enough.
Niko's got that headshot, the bullet, headflames name on it.
Bombs and B.
Towards the B bomb site, they've got him into the site, the plan's gonna be coming through.
Yeah, they faked him out entirely. The whole defense evacuated, the inexperience now.
Kiyosuke left the B bomb site off that one kill, off that pressure.
Now they're moving in. Kiyosuke looking to make up for it.
He's still guard today. He's going to give it again, but Rocks this time handling business.
Tessa sending one shot back. Apex controls himself in behind the big box.
He's got Zywoo, that French connection. Stylish inside of the site.
Here he comes. Modesty a long way off.
Getting spotted, early detected, and Zywoo drops back.
No time to pause. He's got no kit.
He's got to break the French. He's got to do it on his own.
And Apex denies that opportunity.
Vitality needed this pistol. They go out and they get it.
A lovely fake that Falcons bit on entirely the pressure of the footsteps of the utility out towards long way too late when they realize the hit was coming elsewhere.
Vitality firmly entrenched inside that B-bomb site, a lovely pistol round call.
And the first step in this half, pistol rounds have been difficult for Vitality to come by.
Vitality taking it very patiently in this round 14.
They've been able to counter-rack some Vulcan's pistol wins and don't want to fall prey to
the very same thing.
through the details of short control smoke down for that CT cross yeah but
it's negated by that defensive smoke inside the double doors so vitality
won't gain any ground won't take any space they'll sit back not wanting to
force the issue against pistols through a smoke not more utility to fall back
on gap in the side of the smoke it'll expand. Tess S moving closer to the
double doors on the other side waits mezzy with bomb on back. Feels like he's
gonna need a little bit more support this defense hasn't butch whatsoever the
stack is out towards Longin at the A bomb site. Oh they haven't checked him! Tess S gets away with it!
Two stolen away bomb spills carrying on the flank the pistols looking across chaos
The pistols, we're looking to cause calamity.
Apex doing what he can, but it's going to be disaster, but the victory!
How's he got that?
All still alive, and now Robs is in position.
I think that's the route, I think that's the danger averted.
Unless you can hit this shot on the cross, this is what you have left.
A little bit of madness there for Apex to steal that one away.
And Robs is in a perfect position, he doesn't let those rounds go.
Monosy steps up again giving it a go in an unlikely scenario
Rob for treats falls back into the site
They're not giving him a chance
Chaos inside of middle I
Hasn't led too much just yet
Once you're gonna try force off to the open now. It's just apex others on a side
Yeah, Apex has the time, a teammate in time, but Monosy looking for him, can't find him, Apex just hides away.
Monosy taps the deepfuse, but the fuse is too short. He can't get the round, but he certainly got the kills.
Monosy will try to fall away, the bomb's gonna go off, Monosy goes down with it.
And Apex saves this round for Vitality.
What do you do now with your Falcons though? You took all the weapons away.
That's a really, really tough, expensive loss for Vitality, or excuse me, victory for Vitality
to take.
Look at how difficult it was.
Not a clear in tests.
Late in the series, late in the evening, late in this quarterfinal, details are going to
be missed.
And now it's about the mentality.
It's about staying focused through those mistakes.
And that's where the champions step up.
It's Falcons to go for the investment here.
Kerrigan's dropped an M4 over to Montice.
A chance to create an opportunity out of nothing!
They have stacked the B site with three players, the bomb currently in the tunnels.
But Falcon show no sign of moving forward there just yet.
I tell you know they can't sustain any losses in this round because of the damage
It was inflicted upon their economy in the last round
So they're taking the time to be so methodical and controlled about this any death hurts
But they feels like they've gone past the end for here's okay again the five seven will get to be devastating
But nothing found this time
Jarragans steps out it's a lot. I was a god too old the USP is that gonna be enough?
Is it going to give them a chance to five seven down?
No way this is happening
The 1v3 with the AK, this would be devastating for Vitality.
Can Robs deliver some relief?
But the bomb is on the other side, the time isn't with him, and Robs backs away.
Falcanser found some fortune.
Well, they found a Kerrigan, a double kill with the USB.
He's not a superstar, but this guy knows how to find impacts.
That is an incredible sequence sliding through the smoke and again another missed detail,
and that'll be frustrating for Vitality.
You missed the clear on tests at Double Door and the round prior.
Now you miss Karrigan stepping around the smoke, and he's getting this arena fired
up.
Yeah, he's proven it wasn't just a face.
The bullshit lives and dies with him.
Here at the major a double USP kill into a round of victory
He had no shot no chance and no right in winning this round
But somehow some way he provides the opportunity the chaos for vitality unravels their attack
That's something Falcons about to get used to this close grindy grains. They care again has always been involved with
Loving it here this time modesty open his hand back of mid
and vitality invests everything back in this round to try and snatch it back in their favor.
Oh, Monosy has to be very careful how he plays this one. Good utility in mid, chokes down
flames, chokes down mezzy. Monosy looks to the door.
He got it! Even while he's blind, it doesn't matter!
Flames cut out of this attack!
He will sit and watch the four remaining screens of his teammates.
Three with Piscals.
A single player with a rifle.
And Robson's in that engagement towards the tunnels.
Well, mid to B-Snow coming in next for Vitality and Apex.
Mezzi just hoping for a peek on this left side once this tech 9 to do some work.
Nate reigns in. A strong set up here with Tessus and Kyosuke and Apex has got the
bomb on his back. This is surely going to get cut down and waits on the ledge,
waits on the edge, goes out. It's Nico Tessus combining.
Rops and Zywoo step out with the bomb is safely in possession.
Tarragon activates the flag, Zywul Gwon, Robs will step out on his own with 15 seconds left,
Robs also dies, there is no money for vitality, there is no life in vitality, and Falcons looking
to progress to 11 rounds. Because of the way the economy has played out in these first few
rounds, vitality is not going to have chances to get back into this map. Falcons going to be
up at 11 after this, vitality have to save. They've got to give every chance over to Falcons
to close out this series. There's nothing they can do about it. It's taken so long on
Dust2 but feels like Falcons have found a stranglehold on this map. It's taken so long
for Falcons to get into this position to find a composure.
Let's get you back right there, but the rest of the teammates are out there with them.
A shutdown from Falcon, they can taste it, they can feel it, the semi-finals ever closer.
We've waited so long to see this version of the Falcons.
Star after star added to this squad, but it was never enough for them to take that next step.
Well, they found that missing puzzle piece, the IGL they needed.
Kerrigan already producing improved results and just 61 days in the team.
Rops has been that missing puzzle piece for so many teams that he's stepped into that
he's created errors with.
And right now Kerrigan, establishing himself as a critical brains of the operation for Falcons.
And Vitality have to get this comeback started right now.
6-11, 5 rounds back.
A true test for the best.
This lineup not ever winning a match inside the Lanksys.
Might just as well be the same today.
It's written on the walls at the moment.
Falcons looking to seal their fate.
Utility ready to go for vitality.
The cross smoke thrown out towards Nijo.
He steps in front of it.
There he goes.
He's going to be flashed.
That's the fall away.
Vitality sent players through.
Niko blinded hell back running up the ramp, Tessa is trying to get there, Niko round the
back only the one, Kiyosuke trying to replenish that position, Tessa is down inside his site,
head shot, killed on site, will Tany get another no, Mezze overwhelms him, Scythe has been taking,
bomb is planted, what do Falcons do? This is where you might want to take a leaf out of Vitality's
book and really consider the save in this kind of a situation, still very early on in the
half your economy is extremely strong you don't need to risk this weaponry don't
need to lose the AWP and pass it over to vitality so they sit back they can seed
the round allow vitality to get the seven and they're a buttle from the
back-to-back major champions is in they're now just four rounds back after
this victory
And no round has looked easy for Vitality, that's the problem.
Even with USPs, Falcons are getting help put trying to hold on to a Q-Suke eventually getting
traded by Robs.
As you mentioned, so much money, no problem for Q-Suke to reinvest.
Great opportunity as well to just make it even more painful for Vitality, take more
and more money.
Zonac calls the time out now, a little bit of time to have a conversation before
this turns into a problem.
How many times has he been in this position at the Major and his old, the straw-less line-ups and vitality for some time?
And he knows what this feels like, settle the guys down because the victory is in sight, but it's not secured yet, job's not finished.
Two battle, once more.
We'll still have the ult for Monosy, as I will not have that luxury.
There's still been so much damage inflicted upon this vitality economy.
They've got a Khalil for Apex, 4 AKs on the rest.
Vitality would have had a play towards the long that Mezzi gives it up.
Flashman came out regardless. Mezzi didn't like coming through that smoke.
Commodity perched up in middle, boosted towards lower tunnels.
A timer on how long he can stay here.
Tests alone inside the B bomb site, Kyosuke in middle.
Vitality being very conservative with this opening, staying far back on the map.
Two smokes deployed towards Xbox and double doors.
Vitality not moving forward with a good flash. It's gonna keep Monosy busy, but he's staying in the spot
Eventually realizing he has to fall away initial damage done towards Kiyosuke
Well the double short break on short should tell Vitality that Falcons was looking to be aggressive on short so two players likely there a
Flash set up with Niko ready to be activated as soon as he gets a sense. They're turning the corner on short
Niko goes for the peek. Oh, it's a Richie.
He's found a path through the flames, into the kill!
Against that very name!
And Niko drops back in low HP. He's made it out.
He's stolen away the opening.
Yeah, low on HP though, so how do you position yourself?
You might want to swap spots with Kerrigan.
Monosy, the AWP has to deliver here.
He's ready to strike, and he will straight through Zywu.
Monosy ready for the rest, but he's burning.
And Apex moves up. Props has got to kill Monosy.
gone Apex the other and Kerrigan has to retreat he has to get away and that
bone plant is coming through Robs is gonna turn back catches Tessa his hands
busy with utility Robs has got the frag vitality starting to show some life
there's a pulse in this squad yet some vitality shown and Kerrigan chasing
after but they're gone they hide away and they will not let him into this
eight rounds of vitality one step at a time fearless leader out in front for
Vitality, Apex scaled into that A-bomb site that Monosy never saw the first one Apex
flip past his gaze he gets the second but that pressure applied by Apex the
Molotov as well and that defense crumbles underneath the damage that Niko took
earlier. It's not dominant Vitality hasn't completely hit their stride yet
but they're doing just enough to bring this back. I mean the mountain of
cash you have to get through though to come back into this game is gonna be
tough. Falcons have so much money. Monos is back on AWP. Niko still got the AK. Anything
still possible here for Falcons to try and just get Ceres point.
Yeah, look how frustrated it is. Look how much it means they can feel it so close yet
still so far away. This final gas from Vitality not easy to get through.
These final two rounds might just be the most difficult to find for Falcons.
That's a sleeping giant in Zaibu with 9 kills, 13 deaths, yet to deliver his trademark impact on the game.
Spent one of the big trademarks of Zaibu over these past two years of his dominance from Vitality
as he figured out how to come in with the attitude to take the win away to be the dominant force inside the server.
Haven't seen it yet here on Dust2, maybe it's still to come.
Vitality might need it.
Falcons sensing a hit in the direction of the B-Bomb site. They slide an additional player over.
It's Nico who's going to be that third member of this defense to bolster it, to strengthen it.
So on the other side of the map it's all about delaying and holding vitality off, trying to funnel them towards the defensive stack you have in place.
Two smokes deployed. That corridor of cover created here for Apex.
All the slots of the CTs are moving forward.
It's a big plight for Apex, putting pressure on Karrigan.
They scale forward, Vitality coming in.
It's gonna be Flam's first, minus the under pressure. Apex moving up.
Finishes him off.
Kyosuke and Niko on the race over.
They're so fearless right now as Apex.
He knows he's gotta do it for his team.
So Kyosuke, he slides up the ramp.
He's got a good angle.
He's got a good chance.
You've got to take down Zaiwu while you've got the opportunity.
Kiyosuke hasn't done that.
Zaiwu's going to punish.
Now it is just Niko.
Side of the smoke. Apex ready.
Picks up the AWP and from Pit delivers the round.
A battle of these two minds. Apex and Karagin going head to head.
And now Apex is delivering some frags inside the server.
17 kills on Apex.
leading inside the server in terms of going in first, in terms of being the courageous one to take space and delivering frags on top of it.
What a performance the man who just will not quit in pursuit of his own history.
He's accomplished every goal he set for himself and for this team.
He's got one more left in front of him. It's that trophy right there.
And we have reached the end of the money for Falcons.
That reserve cash that they sat on, that Tower of Gold that was keeping them in this, has
now been shipped away at.
They still have a decent enough buy, two MP9s, past the glaring weakness here, but
Vitality have managed to put Falcons on the line.
We have lost all semblance of fear or second guessings ever since their backs got put against the wall.
11-6 to 11-9, vitality's rattled off three straight.
Tassas walking up into the tunnels,
rops with an AK,
stands, waiting.
For any possible aggressive play that might come his way.
A chance for Monosy on short, but the Molotov is going to take away the angle.
Good utility work.
Still just two defenders here, Kerrigan at long with an MP9.
Monosy's up.
Going to be playing between the bombsite and Long A, now comes back, one shot at
that angle.
Can't land it at all.
And I'm honestly missing as this ends on by, he's still alive though.
Can still be a threat that he's already delaying them, taking a deep on board.
Here's the flight.
Kiyosuke, we're gonna be the difference again.
Inside of the small goal line-up stand, and Kiyosuke only gets one.
Mezzy responds, catch as low, he stands no chance.
Vitality have brought it back.
One round separates them.
Falcons, money in the bin.
Greatness does not go out easy.
No, you gotta earn it, you gotta take it from him.
One player inside the smoke stops Kyosuke's play, that could have been round winning.
He could never find his way through it.
And this AD fence has just been bombarded in these past few rounds.
This guy says walk it in, absolutely no mercy from Vitality.
Vitality is finding a soften defense at this bomb site though.
Falcons have not had that third player, they haven't had Niko in that position.
Monosy giving up the railing position so Vitality's able to turn that corner at Elbow
and get into the bomb site space for Zywoo to make a play as well.
11 to 10, four rounds in a row for the Reigning Champs.
Sairu gonna be looking at long, not gonna be able to connect. No one's stepping in. Flames. Now in the tunnels, one player committed.
It's Tessas down lower, Falcons gonna try crunch. In towards the upper tunnels, Tessas burns Tessas in the corner 2HP.
Russia's gonna kill out of it. Warton from Tessas, Montezi's got one too. A miraculous moment, Falcons stand a chance.
Yeah, but there's a clear runway into the A-Bomb site, Apex leads up short, Sairu in hot pursuit.
That's how they've got to go, but Zywul, he's been severed off in the pack, he's got the bomb, it's on his back, and he's gone!
It's Mezzie trying to step up!
And with the sheer power of will, he's found two kills right back!
Can they do it still? Fuck it!
Oh, what?! How has he got away with it again?!
There's no way they can fight!
He's just died to Molotov, impact!
Oh, it gets drilled by the bottle!
And now it's Mezzie.
That might have been the only way to take him down, what he did with 2 HP is filthy!
Messi against Monosy.
19 HP, first 15 HP.
Yeah, look at the health.
Monosy.
Is meant to be the star.
Meant to be the star of this show.
But it's Messi who is coming out the right time.
Monosy looks away!
William the Conqueror keeps it going, 12-10 comes up and that is going to be Falcons reaching
series point.
Oh, that's got to be a feeling of relief now, 12-10, you at least have overtime behind
you, pressure, drips away only slightly.
You still have to seal it.
You still have to take this 13th round.
got two chances and you've just experienced how hard it is to put these
guys away. Hard enough to just get to this point and look at the heroics out of
Tess's. Oh he truly does so much and then a Molotov bottle hits him up the head.
Tess's gets taken out by the bottle himself and Monosy comes around twice to
stop Mezzi in the corner but it looks the wrong way. And it's gonna be Falkins reaching
The series point for us, the semi-finals went on the line.
The vitality, that might just be the crushing moment, that might just break their hearts.
Dreams of trying to equal Astralis to try and get the three majors back to back.
To leave no doubt that they are the greatest of all time.
That's the goal of this major for vitality.
It's slipping out of their fingers.
Let's go forward, it's giving Eko into the open.
Flames has got the headshot. Advantage, vitality.
Kiyosuke catches Apex trying to get through that CT smoke.
Goes again, robs response.
Everybody just throwing their bodies on the line.
Under a minute left, it's Carrick and getting into the smoke.
He makes plays like this.
He is crazy enough to make plays like this.
This is Carrick and this is going to strike.
Carrick and gets away with it.
Zy-Woo and Robs, the only two that can stop this.
Falcons looking for the semi-finals.
Modesty waits.
Takes damage, on board the Swainsons.
So we're taking the kill.
Now it is Tessus, the young song hero, trying to deliver.
And he's on his own, but he's gone!
Oh my God!
Robs with three and Vitality do not give up.
For how well Modesty has played, what are the odds he's going to miss two shots in that
scenario?
Apex cannot believe they got away with that one.
Apex cannot believe they're still fighting in this map.
12-11.
Incredible heroics and risk-taking from Kerrigan pans out and they can get nothing else
done.
The championship pedigree still lives in vitality.
And look at the weapons from Falcons.
Their lights will not go out.
Vitality.
Making a stand in Cologne.
Overtime is right there.
Right there for the taking.
Oh, they're coming right up short though.
This time there's going to be no messing around.
No details. They're just going to attack into this.
Suke and Niko to defend.
Modesty's all out of position.
He's just way inside of the side.
They're going to send some utility forward.
They're going to get by.
Fight out and keep it up.
We're going to bring the pleasure of Kiyosuke trying
to hold up Niko and Kiyosuke.
Still in this for Falcons.
They are doing the unthinkable.
But they are making the impossible possible.
Look at your takedown.
The number one, the defending major champions.
If Robs wants to keep his flawless streak going, he has to do it.
But Falcons have taken down the world number one.
Falcons have done it in spectacular fashion.
Just two months ago, it was the lowest point in Carragans' career.
But now he is in the semi-finals of a major.
And for Vitality devastation, all the goals, all the path, it doesn't matter how much
you win, losing hurts all the same, Apex devastated on the stage.
Vitality had hopes of going beyond the stars and pushing their greatness out the heights
that no one could reach ever again, but Falcons, they were built for this, designed
for this to take down Team Vitality and now Niko has a chance.
Every major we come in and we ask that same question, is this the one for Nikola Kovac?
Well because of the team around him, because he's reunited with Kerrigan, he has that
chance in Cologne.
All the pieces for Falcons falling into place, the final puzzle piece, 61 days in
this roster, and Kerrigan has delivered them into the semifinals exactly as he planned.
And we're ready down on the stage to talk with OJ and the winners.
Well, it took three maps. It took almost every single round, bar one.
But you've done it. You've made it through to a semi-final. What work that was?
It was a huge fight. We knew what we were going up against Matalieti.
We could not expect an easy game.
And, yeah, it's been a very long day.
We fought like crazy the whole time and just super proud of the boys right now.
We kept composure throughout the whole time.
We were losing towards the end, some of the very close runs.
We stayed calm and we had some good rest towards the end.
And just a huge relief right now.
Just a question about staying calm.
We saw a couple of times towards the end.
You had a lead and you had to save.
How hard is it, the adrenaline's pumping?
You can see a win in the distance.
How hard is it to back off and save?
Yeah, I mean, there's not much else you can do, right?
You have a huge lead and if we have to gain every percentage we can get in those rounds, right?
And that meant just saving a couple of times.
Even like towards the end we obviously didn't have the best Bible when we won the last round.
But I think we can put a lot on those situations.
I think if you ask me like two or three months ago we probably lost three more guns in these rounds
and maybe even lost the game towards the end.
So yeah, we just kept it very good towards the end.
What has been the difference? What has changed to mean that you're winning these rounds?
Yeah, I mean, we have just huge belief right now, you know,
carrying it on from the group stage. We had a lot of tight games, you know, and we
came back a couple of times in the group stage as well, and we just wanted to kind of
try to repeat what we had done in the group stage, and we had done an amazing job of doing that
today. But yeah, I mean, just happy with the team right now, you know, if two months ago,
You know Finn was not supposed to be here and now we are you know beating the the favorites of the major
We are now getting to semi-finals of
It's been a crazy story line so far, but we are not we are not done yet
Absolutely not just a quick word about vitality
That is four series on the shot now that you've had their number four and zero
What code have you cracked that nobody else seems to be able to find in beating vitality?
And I'm not sure I don't think they're doing anything specific versus them. I think I
I think it's probably more now into their heads that you know we are maybe the only team that's kind of
are making it very competitive versus them and even winning most of the time.
I think maybe they respect us a lot you know and this is the reason why they
tend to me play a bit differently versus us but nothing crazy. I think ever since even in the
G2 times me and Ilya had always you know almost a good times versus them but the games were
always very enjoyable and exciting and just everything we won in the end now as well.
Well, it's going to be great to see you tomorrow here in the semifinals.
Just one last question, that's about Counter-Strike, 27th birthday today.
What a day we've had.
I mean, the match beforehand was a white-knuckle ride, it was all the overtimes.
With NCU, you take it to three maps, win like that, almost all the rounds.
This has got to be the greatest game of all time.
Ah, there's no doubt about it.
There's no doubt about it. Everyone knows that and we are just proving it by each major.
May, we'll see you tomorrow.
Congratulations, you're through to a semifinal.
Put your hands together for Nico and Falcons.
semi-finalists of the major. 16 Brazilian counter-strike hoisted a major trophy
inside this arena and in that moment a ferocious passion spread like wildfire
through all of South America. Uncontested Brazil has maintained their
place at the top of the continent ever since.
Tonight's match is 10 years in the making because now neighboring nations have emerged
from the enormous shadow cast by Brazil and they're sharing a major playoff stage for
the very first time.
It was Fallen himself who lit the fire and has carried the torch ever since.
This evening, Ninzee collectively attempts to take that flame from him.
Cologne!
This one is for history!
The clash of Latin America!
And a map pool could not be better.
Ninzee and Furia, head-to-head in quarterfinals.
Both looking to break the curse.
Waste no moment to the first duel.
You kindar turn from top mid.
And fallen swift on that fallback.
Play with no fear.
That was the plan.
From all ten players in the server, catch him while he's looking at the sky.
No one's here to help you, Fallen.
No one beyond K-Sirado.
You can dart down and spawn.
But they hit that pause button again with the smoke filling up.
There's no one for the cross.
They just got to take it dry.
And there's Wagon.
Okay.
Headshots in abundance for 9-Z.
as they suddenly take over that long control.
And we've got a bomb plant, and we've got a message for Furia.
9-Z came to play.
Oh, they ran through that.
They bulldozed their way to the A site.
No CT cross smoke when they swung.
They were happy to take all those duels.
As soon as Fallen went ahead, but that smoke originally,
that was their way in.
It's a dangerous game here for Furia.
We've seen 9Z have spotty performances on Dust2,
but in my opinion, at their best, they can beat anybody.
Some of the CT setups they've used on Dust2,
I think are gonna be adopted all the way to the top.
We know it gets real creative
with the mid-round timings on T-side as well.
9Z already used that to their benefit.
Just long the timing of catching fallen like that
Got that smoke up on site didn't affect anything
Kind of pushes 90 into a place where they've got to go for duals heads up
And the heads are what they took
Insta kills with the pistols for 90 insta force by at a fury up
Well, it loses his angle early that scouts got to go for the reposition.
Middle of the map control here for 9z.
No real contest being offered up, Furious still just leaned back, it smokes and hands
across the board. Clearly looking to just kill some of the time off this clock.
We'll see whether Ninesi want to respect that or just decide to pounce in and
again this death ball as they've tapped into is so prepared to just go and
storm this B site what they'll find a single Desert Eagle. They've got a great
call here. Yurkinder by himself. Flash into the face, little spam through the
smoke but they don't actually push through and clear him from tunnels.
Luckily here for Ninesi the Desert Eagle gets away from him and luckily
You can go ahead and save in the next one because nobody's got anything to stop
Ninzey in this conversion of the pistol.
That's a very good start.
A very strong call to kick off.
They don't fall for that defensive smoke that gets thrown by Kcerato up on Cat.
No, they don't overthink it at all.
We were going to see Ninzey get nervous.
It might have been in a moment like that overthinking and that's what we're
looking for here in this quarterfinal.
In a world where Betboom, you saw nerves on display.
So many eco, so many clutches.
But when you see an arena like this in front of you,
who would be surprised?
I think you kind of showed some of the self-awareness
of somebody who's not won in five quarter finals
in the five times that he's tried.
And without that awareness,
I think the energy's a little bit different.
If it's always your second, third attempt, whatever.
And when we know about your Kinder in finals,
but in the major quarter finals,
it's a bit of a curse for him.
But I think that's why he had a smile on his face,
because this time does feel different.
We'll be hoping that's the case,
because Spirio themselves with a bit of a curse, right?
Super seeding expectations,
surpassing stage three, three, zero,
it's been happening left, right, and center.
And yet those quarter final fumbles keep on coming.
Cologne's meant to be where they changed that course, and DGT gonna change Yuri's ideas.
Meant to tether with the Kindar down into the lower push, both players turn back around,
and so we are sat here watching the third round of this quarter final, and looking
at a single kill thus far for all of Furia combined.
Yeah, it's coming in quick here for 9z.
It's working very well.
And the worry for Furio was, as the question was asked, you know, you're thrilled to stage
you battle all these days off.
What does that mean for how you feel?
And the kinder said, well, we had the time off the last couple of times, and that was
an issue.
We know how to pace ourselves a little bit better.
They tried to play a ton of practice scrims in the previous majors that they played
in.
That formula wasn't successful.
It may or may not have been about that.
But we'll see if their new strategy has worked.
Wasso Peak.
It's another free.
It's another free.
It's behind this one for free.
Mm-hmm.
Farewell Fallen.
And you're right.
I mean, no kill.
So it's Molo-Do and Keisarado.
Anything they can grab would be nice.
You know, you take down Max, that's a couple grand, but even that's a start.
Just to kind of get this game going as far as your own individual output goes.
Oh, you're exactly right.
the game is going to get started.
Whether they like it or not,
if they don't dent the economy,
then it only makes the half a lot harder.
We are still looking at one frag.
Good as it gets here for 9Z.
And the difference for them,
they come into this quarterfinal
and they have the two quarterfinals in 2022,
but it was only Max and DGT.
Yes, it's a new team.
I think that's why the conversation for 9Z,
It just goes beyond the major cycles themselves and it goes back to their previous quarter
final outing.
Getting onto the stage is still a question mark for Ninzey.
Watching them turn into a shell of themselves.
Something we do not want to grow accustomed to and they also need to break.
So first gun round of the game and Molledoy puts that off out middle, but he still
remains passing.
There's been a lot of very safe jump spots going on through Suicide so far, even here versus the Pistols.
Nindee doing the absolute best to try to keep themselves as unlikely as dying to that scout, to that AWP.
And I think what that does is it recognizes the AWPing ability that Molodoy and Furia have in their arsenal.
Yeah, for Molodoy, it's all about being read into his rotations and how to avoid that.
I see again, proof on Dust2. They know how to find that weaker sight with very little
information. Somehow Max knows. They get Molodoy off this post in his rotation back to A. Bombe
though is going the opposite direction. Doesn't take too much, just a flash and a fire bomb
and he's off of it. Which means no support for middle. We've got the fangs of Furia
towards that B bomb site.
It almost looks like they've already done it again,
unless Keisarado and Yuri keep on buying for a great hold.
If somebody makes a move, you can see a kindar just testing the waters,
popping it open, but still not believing that he needs to actually reposition closer towards middle.
Three smoke in mid.
But the time being, it's just Luchov out mid.
Number is strong coming through this tunnel smoke in a moment.
Keisarado going through the sequence.
It's nade after nade, and he interrupts them nicely,
but he kills none of them.
Flying Mac 10, denied.
Yuri into the cover,
And that's where he's gonna get popped.
No rotations. Luchov has mid.
Luchov has mid.
Fury again. One kill on this round.
And they save with three. It's a perfect call, again, for 9-Z.
And this time it's because they go for both mid control and a B hit.
But because they didn't have anybody come out on that split through middle,
the Kinder saw nothing. No reason to be alarmed.
They actually didn't know if it could have been a cap play, if it could have been late long.
They didn't have the information to use.
So far, amazing again here for Nainzi.
We look at their match versus Spirit.
That ends in overtime.
It's an incredible attempt.
They can't close, but you saw so many great T rounds
that looked just like this in that match.
It had magic speechless after the game.
Well, we'll be on our way to the first part of that if Furya don't get it together.
Because right now, Fury is the only one with kills.
Yeah, Kcerotto lined up the damage on the two.
It felt like that spray was on point, but no headshots in it.
And the time to kill since the pistol from 9Z has been so incredibly crisp.
We're going NAID spam towards Long.
This is an early fight.
Chance for Furya to get straight up stuffing.
Mayer, one and done.
And as he keeps our dives back in, the second serving is wassup.
He gets the better of it.
Now there still remains pressure over here towards Long, so Kcerado blocks the smoke, spots Wasso, and takes this down to the even 3B.
They pulled it goalie though. This is actually a B attack. It was dressed up like an A hit, but they're going to walk into an open site.
Bombs in the middle of all of that. What more could you ask for?
They do still have no idea.
Silent as they need to be. Slicing right through it. Already Lucho over to the window.
He didn't. Oh, they late smoked that B doors. They mauling to show Quesarado that now it's a retake.
At what point of this game did Furia start to get crazy? Show the teeth.
Quesarado rounds that smoke. Max right now with the Nade out. Could have gotten jumped.
But now Yuri's dead. Quesarado splits between the two. One inside of the smoke.
He's making noise and Max comes back. Still unkillable.
All the noise on the retreat. Dust it. 5-0-9-Z.
5-0 for 9-Z, as they call another fantastic round.
As if they started with a ton of conditioning, they've already got 9-Z buying into their ideas immediately.
It helps when you're shooting hard as well.
Waso Peak gets that instant trade outside of Long after they initially busted open.
So multi-kills in response for Furia, that's the key part.
If they don't get tricked in their own heads, they have to respond to the fact that long
control has been won.
Keisarato blows up in the smoke on the corner, gets a kill back, but they still don't have
control of it.
They're still a little bit too slow to the other side of the map.
And 19-0 that they're going to be comfortable playing Lucid B. They walk in, no telegraph,
easy round.
I'm very happy to see Ninzee picking Dust2.
Speaking of picks, Mayn, posting that off through suicide, spots nothing down in mid.
And we get this Molodoy position.
This is off of the Sid timeout, of course, for Furia.
Surrounded with limitations and low nades and Molodoy's hesitation to just give
up that angle means that he just walked around.
DGT didn't approach with utility. He would have been a sitting duck for this off had Molo do it remain posted
It's completely missed this timing Molo do I he's also risking it by staying out here because now they're losing the mid control play
But they just don't feel comfortable. They're too scared about it
Resting both his own and Fallen's life in that hold they disintegrate the cat defense
I'm not sure this works out that well for fury. I mean they can go and reclaim long control
But I'm pretty sure they were her dropping into CT.
No, you also peek is now going out towards Long, has fallen, rotates underneath them.
The problem for Furious, they just don't have anyone inside of mid, so they have to respond.
I haven't had mid control once.
This is putting tons of subversive pressure onto Molotov.
He's gonna eat the flash, Luchov right there on the brink of it.
Luchov, a master of the entries.
the entries.
Exact is coming in a few seconds, Molledoy has to hit, oh and it misses already, as Molledoy
is going to look to pop back up, now Mayeron's posted, we've got Falling Deadout towards middle
Molledoy, finally, but it's way too late, you give them an engine, 90 will barrel down
into that bombsite, take all the space you offered over with those missed off shots.
Is there any kind of recovery to be had here for Furia, Yikindar thinks yes, Keisarado
slowly approaching the scene, will off shots miss both ways?
No, because that off doesn't even get a chance.
Man advantage taken right back yet again.
9-Z remaining active.
Now, oh, Max has been cleared out, and you've got it.
It's Kcerato and Yuri, activated from over on that B-bomb
side on the rotation for a retake,
and Furious first round away.
Ooh, that's a close call, but actually a fantastic retake.
Furia were in a very scary position.
Baldoid missing those two shots,
them taking over.
Cat control, that was not a position they wanted to be in.
And I think even though they win that,
They need to respond to the fact that they need eyes on middle.
Like, 9ZR are using it against them, even if they're not playing out into the mid-B situations.
They gotta be grateful they grabbed that, but now it's time to evolve the game plan.
I'd like to see Furia playing for a little bit more information.
Oh! That's a flick!
Alright, flick through the door, not even a wall bang!
Talk about quick and you've got to remain active here if you're Furia you can't just
shell up.
Maren takes a line.
Kcerado yet to tiptoe into it but there's a whole lot of presence over to his left side
falling.
Just dropping a smoke in front of this.
What does he want to do here?
How does he want to help?
Flash over top of middle and Kcerado kills Max.
That's the bomb drop.
MP9 pushed through.
Lasso's a dead man.
Lutron trades.
Activation at a DGT from the middle of all these CTs.
And so what they have left is a smoked-off AWPer and a cap player who's not quite sure what's actually back now on long
With fallen unable to fall back it opened up a missed, Moldoi missed off shot
Didn't see that come out of 9z and so you kind of are Hail Mary moment down into the lower tunnels hits the headshot
But clip by Mayard and that AWP is now online. Oh, it's it's not enough here for fury of that
They had a chance that Moldoi had a chance a real good chance at that off shot
really changes the round because if you look at that you replayed again Moldova
put himself in that exact same spot he went for the right pick this is a
game they still almost bring back the 4v5 but a little too hasty trying to get
that other pick left side through the doorway fallen skewered
Fiora doomed!
The Kandahar's Desert Eagle top looked towards top middle
and it's a fast-moving 9-Z now!
Oh, they know how to play with momentum, huh?
They've been trying to weaponize this all major long.
We've seen it totally stuffed twice
in their first outing versus Spirit
and then in that Aurora game after an incredible match.
Oh my goodness, single scope from that range.
that nail biter versus spirit the second time around we kind of just chalked the
Aurora loss up to them not being able to reset in the what 15 hours they had
between those games. I was looking at Marin's numbers coming into this game
and he had his one great mapper's vitality so I'm like how often that
happened it's like one good map a series his numbers are overall not
great but his pop-up potential has actually been pretty crazy while he's
Finding a ceiling fast here in this quarter finals.
To appreciate what he's put forward right now in this 8-2 star,
just know Mayn has never finished an international LAN event
with a higher than a 1.0 rating in this career.
And we've watched him for years, and we can talk about how that ought maybe is not where he belongs.
And that's what it has felt like at times.
But tonight with these mid-picks, it's feeling like a whole different story.
It's feeling like an evolution and the evolution in 90 in South American
Counter-Strike that is not Brazil. Well that's a conversation we can have all
night long. So long as 90 keep these numbers up. 7-1 over Furia. And of
course 7-1 had to come up in this match.
12 kills across there are five players here are really behind in that department
I only bring it up because the amount of money that 90 have saved after this round
win bank accounts on infinite everyone smiling the mayor truly not again not
this time. And all while his counterpart is gearing up round after round getting
these mid picks and winning 9s he rounds out of the gate. You've got a molodoy who
we've now already seen. Miss multiple shots. Let's go back to the test. Let's
go to the last time he was playing on a major playoff stage and the visible
frustrations that struck down Furia's momentum at that event as well.
Oh, but maybe, maybe he just needs a few more rounds.
That internal ticker clicks.
Yeah, he's just got to trust himself.
And in that quarterfinal of Budapest, we saw him swinging for it.
Like he kind of tried to fake it until he made it, but...
he couldn't overcome the nerves.
But we've seen Moldoi play too well for too long to doubt him.
Even at Astana when they got eliminated, he was putting up volume the entire game.
Utility dump is good here for Furia, it hits its mark, but we've seen Maladoy on this angle,
we saw him miss the first two shots last time and then only land the third.
You kindar trying to get closer to CT if needed, there's still some concern that
It's gonna be that quintessential mid to B.
Molotoway confirms it.
First off shot strikes.
And with Luchog down, it's looking all the easier.
5v3 here for Furia.
Molotoway doing a good job of trying to dodge those bullets,
but they finally connect.
And as 9G punching the numbers, you've got DGT
to still just set the catwalk ablaze.
They're very good at this retake last time.
Coming in for CT, they're holding on to long control.
Just trying to slide up silently.
Here's the P for Max.
into the head shot to K Serrano, and he's doing a good job of dodging the follow-up.
Oh, he gets it! The second's right there!
He's going fishing. He's catching everything.
Now it's man advantage. They can just continue to lean back on the catwalk.
Fallen's down to hack out Guarzo's dead.
Yuri finally gets his. Remember, Max low from the get-go, but DGT with cover.
And all that time Fallen can't get into the action.
It is Max to stand tall on that bomb site and to rebound right back with another round win.
That's an enormous shout out for Max to deny.
He knows exactly where they're coming from.
He sees it, the one round that they were successful
and he tries to counteract that.
It's been a smile on his face today.
He said, every time I show up to a big event like this,
I just try to enjoy it.
I have a daughter at home.
I've got no time to waste.
And Amir is with him preset on the desk.
When he wishes, when he was a younger player,
he had the same attitude of being present.
Max wise beyond his years.
819z.
It's not too late, it's never too late for Furia, but they still have to prove that they
can do it.
9z have already stared death in the face at this event, and I know they're not taking
any rounds for granted either.
But now Nautiljic said after they had Spirit game, he said I feel like I lost all three
maps.
And then 90 went on to play Aurora got stopped. They were in their heads, but they got to face it. Yes
Here you have it
He's got a magnet on this gun. He's hit them every single time through that door
We're job could capitalize on the momentum with the water trade right behind him
Spray goes a little wild and that's a way to get this edge right back in hand
But they know they've got him in the pit so they try to keep the pressure up MP9 swing here from your kindar
Now we're fighting fire with fire
On top of it, they will jump onto that chance, that opportunity to just get messy.
Not letting these rounds slow down, not letting the squeeze come up catwalk, but throwing themselves
into the duels they know they could find and then this chance, win.
Absolutely pivotal moment for Furia because they win on a half-buy, they have some money
after their full buy, they'll get an up-and-play.
90 did not want to let this one go, all of them, and a chance, Fallen knows it, a chance to get that back into this half.
Maladoy's not shy about that off positioning, let's two bullets fly.
They've already lost this CT side badly, but they know that. On stage here, it's going to be more mental than anything.
Anything the numbers will tell you about Dust2 in this head-to-head.
But they need something to leverage. They need a few rounds this half.
There's a few rounds that could make a world of difference if that's what starts the burrow into your opponent's minds.
One of the things that we saw with Dinesie and their inability to close versus Spirit was two maps
with a huge advantage. Substantial chances to close out that series and still they failed.
Double upper tunnels push is perfect. No one's here.
But with two here, Moldova in the window, it's there.
Rifleers that have to leave.
And they're coming in kind of slowly over towards A.
Kindar made out right now alone.
They're coming in way too slowly.
There's a chance 9Z went on this.
Still concerned about those middoors. Now just reclaiming a bit of vision.
They're still not crossing the door. They need to get some movement.
Oshis is now that catwalk smoke goes up. K. Serato's not gonna hide this.
comes running over, flashbangs from long, from falling, you can't get our peeks in, great cover out of Maynard.
But you did blind the riflers, it at least caused the tempo shift.
But now as they've recovered vision, Max is recovering space,
spray down through the smoke with a fire right in front of it.
It is yet another moment where Ninesie take control on their terms, and they do so convincingly.
They're winning the tempo game, they got up on Cat, they came forward,
they started organizing their exec, which was pretty, it had a lot of utility involved,
So they took a second to do it while they were doing so Furio work
Ruminating on the idea that maybe this ends up being a cancel into a mid-beast split
They were hoping with Mollidoi still up in the window K. Serato ready to start to swing
But no commitment no early rotation at Furio not ahead once again
They need to be way ahead of these rotations and you be in control of what the T's are doing
But it's Max who is in control
The domineering performance on this T-side.
The two rounds period of one is the clash at long on a low by and the retake.
Not a single time have they been in total control of a round.
One on the tactic or anything.
Shipped it up for the final round, devil off, set up, full, fall in blind with that secondary off.
His third kill of the half.
Leans back and forth goes to door control.
Ninesie have played one round really with a trick up their sleeve.
Other than that it's been straight forward hits.
Here we'll go with the commitment out through long.
That's a perfect block. They'll have lines, but Ninesie aren't coming yet.
Okay.
It's time they will play games.
They tried all this very early into the round. Ninesie have options.
But this time, Furia are way more awake.
They've started to breach the T-Map control.
Molotov can see all of mid. They have Yuri inside of tunnels.
This is more of a map that we were expecting to see, but Yuria's got a lot of guys coming.
And he's going to have his hands full, Luchoff first. There's a bit of distance between him and the next one.
That gives Yuria a good chance at a multi-frag, so good on him to get the double.
Now everyone can come. We've got an early warning system.
Oh yeah, big sprints in, Mayer posted, and blocked.
And as Wasil has been taken low, they'll find that.
The third round secured by Yuria. It is mincemeat for the most part.
9-Z, what an outing in the first half of this quarter final.
Final.
Oh my god! In the human reactions!
A measly three round defense out of the side of Fiora on Dust2.
And with those three rounds, they will look to take over to the attack and turn things around
with Mayern being as hot-handed as he is coming into this first half.
I think expectations exceeded and then some it was insane
I mean the how clean that he was picking the cross on his T side
You know the overall T side from 9z was a plus everything was great exactly where they played their best. Yes
Even though they haven't won every dust you again their peak on it
It's all on display may and standing up to the pressure fury on the other hand
That was only 10% of what they can give us
They know they need to rise to the occasion. They at least pick up a round at the end of the first half.
But they're going to be chewing on granite to be able to bring this back.
90 take to the easier side now.
Station 2 players in long doors swiftly.
Shadow advantage is going to get Blossom a chance.
They'll chase down you, Kingdome, for the kill. Molotoy, good rebuttal.
Flashbang into the cat activation. Mayor pops the support system
and knows he's got K-Zorado still stuck in this corner.
Dodges the flash, knows there's assistance inbound, but he opts to stick around there.
He knows someone was flashing here. They've got DGT on Long 2.
Do they want to run it up now? Pizza, Molly's coming, Max will have to move.
Oh, he's got a dive and he doesn't get out of the position.
Fallen catching K-Zor!
It is both for Fallen in that chase into the Abramsite,
trying to siege an opportunity, trying to have a grasp on this game
after a free fall in the first half, Julia will respond with a T-side pistol win.
Excellent kills on a fall in, I mean, let's make it a real match now, a chance for Furia.
Let's see if they can turn it out as cleanly as 9Z did on their conversions.
We're going through the checklist of things we need to see. We got Molo doing a great
shot on Long, falling it, bringing up his score.
Let's go, pistol, 9-12-9-6, one on the other side of the game.
Pistol down, go, go, go, go.
We have a fucking safety side.
Good effort on getting those three.
Now it's focus speed.
Let's fucking go.
Let's go, guys.
You'll always hear that teams want the T side map agnostic to make comeback happen,
because that's where you can condition,
that's where you can build up, slowly control the tempo, which you can't do on T side.
I like six point there he says good focus to at least just get three rounds there and they did right you trickle through with
two of the last three rounds of the half and fallen also mentions how easily off a
pistol they can even up the kinder gets a spot
but already I like it from 9z as soon as they want to try anything outside in a
It's denied and this is with a lean towards a
Already
Luchov
Waiting for this 5-7 in hand and no support whatsoever. This is all in the middle. Oh my with the first one
It's looking good until Hwaso gets overwhelmed by falling
They don't have a need to pop this open so it's a Hail Mary spray from DGT with no B defense
whatsoever. That is Furia to tip-throw their way to a fifth round win.
They get to put all their puzzle pieces together. They make a great call just like Nijid did on their T side.
Path of least resistance. Mid B out. No help from the A guys. They're not there in time. It's perfect from Furia.
Still a scary sign. You get the insta 5-7 kill. You get a solid scout shot.
There was no point in that first half where we looked at a piece of 9-Z and said,
oh, mechanical failure. Oh, individual falloff. Not yet. That is going to take many more rounds for Furia
Before I think 90 start to crumble in that regard. Yeah, I mean, I don't think you know
I don't think we're replicating what 90 did because I think curia
Came in climbing. I think they came in cold. They didn't really show what they can do
But as far as getting the round together the call overall the macro of it. I think they'll be quite happy
And even here they've only lost one
All in survives that palm on one health calculated
Recycling, what's left from last round?
90 will not look to invest.
Their game plan round 15 hinges on this single MP7.
Hopefully they've got a heroic moment.
We've got a flash though to set this up.
Lucho I'm going to try to take the d- oh no, excuse me, smoke.
They're getting Molotoy to bite.
They think someone will come through because of that flash you will.
Molotoy commits to it, DGT1 and done.
So again, just looking to get that SMG into the activation.
They do so, they kill Maladoy, and that's it.
They leave the bomb in the doorway,
you'll go and recover that,
you've got a minute to just get through a USB 5.7
on opposite sides of the map.
Chance to catch your breath really here if you are Furia,
and this is exactly what they said
in that half time listening.
Guys, good focus to get those three rounds.
Now win pistol, nine, six, and then we play our game.
Here we are.
It's a moment for Fallen to go.
Are we going to win this round, guys?
Because then we can start talking about the real calls
versus the real setups.
But that part of the job is done.
And again, looking very successful.
One death again.
And Furious suddenly, even though they start slow,
know they can bring this back.
The thing is for 9-Z, we saw a master class first half, we saw none enough for Furia.
They split pistols, that's great, but it's 9-Z's CT set-ups, kind of think some of the
best, especially towards Kat, great tag here for Molotov though.
Almost knocks down an old maidset and the player in one shot.
We've seen 9Z's inability to close Dust 2 versus Spirit once leading 11-6 in that map,
and it still was not enough.
Here they are versus Furia, two rounds short of that quota, and still watching their opponent's
claw back.
First rifle of the second half.
Can Mayeron tap into the ability he showed us on the attack because those doors had
his name stamped across them. Hell not even the door is just the gap. The one
that Bollardoy currently has the opposition within but smoked off in a
minute. We're getting all this utility coming out of Ninesie. Fired to the
catwalk. Smoked into the doorway. Checked the names they have left here.
More shot would have been sendiery and that's it. They're forcing them just
to go for their exact now because they're failing to get that rotation.
The info's getting denied inside of middle. They're gonna have to commit
through something without knowing everything. A lot of attention out
towards this mid-crossfire though DGT currently with a nade in hand if he throws
it to catwalk you won't be able to help them get in there.
Also Peek is about to flank this Maudoy coming in to look behind him but has to turn around time is low
they fought really well to earn this opportunity.
Now the crunch, middle holds, Max lands the door shot, Quasar's flank delivers a second
and it is only Yakindar who has still slipped a snap the 20 seconds can't respond.
Nines he's sat back just enough.
I'm sorry, but this round is exactly how Furia needed to start the game.
This is activity inside of middle.
This is the ninth entry.
Little bit of map control that Ninesie are looking for.
That Furia are looking for.
The Wasso Peak flank is a given at that timing.
Even though Molo-Doi's game sense is telling him to watch that flank at 36 seconds,
he also has to help the exact, and help them there on pushing.
That's not going to happen today versus Ninesie.
They're showing their playing well in both halves.
First gun rounds there's.
It's on Furia to find a gap.
19K come into this game and give them lessons about how to play CS.
Furia touched top one last year. They're the ones with trophies.
They're the ones with all the experience.
Max looks up to fall in.
But 9-Z are the ones playing better right now straight up, and it's 9-Z that took this
pause that just ended, giving BIT a chance to have a word.
Off from all the way on the cross, unable to find any value out of it.
We go three players for long, immediately here for Ninesie.
Just starting the round off, and the chance that Furia decided to try to blow those doors off the hinges.
It's very difficult to push the team into time-truple on this map.
Ninesie successfully did that by playing on- oh, jinxed the top of mid.
This is the kind of pressure that pays off later on
Here is money's low DGT looking at time as they cheese
Here you aren't ready to do anything quite yet
There's plenty more utility where those ones come from
Just juggling it over to the ramp. I see three frag grenades already
Plus an incendiary extra.
They're waiting for the exact...
I mean, they're not even trying to punish the default that might turn into a midfielder.
They're ready for an A-play.
Gotta write about it too.
This doesn't get popped, but Luchov playing the trick.
Pop that.
Double Molly execute comes out from Furia.
They're about to let those Nades fly.
DGT's just gonna answer with utility of his own.
It's a barrage!
It is a bloodbath!
There is no successful entry here for Furia.
The smoke soon to fade.
as they fade out of this assault. Only until Maladoy connects with one on the
AWP and you can't know yes he's a person wrong but he's got to get this going it's
Maladoy with a second you can't are still so cautious we hit 15 seconds and that
bomb still yet to cross. Losser now found out you can't go. Oh damn nearly drops the ball.
Another Nade. This one for Yuri and it barely barely chips away and so it will
be a healthy man advantage with eyes on the cross for Furia to somehow have
reclaimed control of that site and they were able to pause and that's what they
needed
heroic moment from Maladoy in the middle of that messiness the perfect call to
answer via utility and he lands both these shots yeah absolutely clutch out
of Maladoy
That's very scary though, all those bits of utility moving into the right spot before
the cat exact even started.
It's been fantastic.
It's still worrying.
It's still worrying.
But it's a round on the board for Furia.
When you're playing against a team that's really good, sometimes you've got to win those losing situations.
Let's go guys. Stand with the game, stand with the game.
Only one more round, let's get more.
That's right.
Let's go.
It's not just Cologne, it's not just a Major.
It's a Cologne Major and everyone can feel it.
I love this press though, 90 again. Get active, there's just no hesitation from this team.
And you kindar's utile usage serves as an invitation. They'll swing and he finds the head shot a little quicker than his last duel in the previous round.
Mayeron's on the fallback. Maldoy will not let DGT escape. That two man forward mid-play cost 9-Z bodies.
That's an excellent pickoff. They've covered everything.
And now they have the right to chill a little bit. They can start the stage, whatever attack they want to. See if another push happens.
See if someone's thirsty for a frag.
Oh, don't walk into that.
That's dangerous.
Mayer, a stick.
Perfect shot.
Now versus Molotov.
Two duels, picked up, man, advantage urns.
Just the right amount of mayors and here comes Max.
Max onto the flank, caught out by Yuri.
At least his head shot's swift.
You're going to know Mayer's got that up over towards the A site and you know
Damwell wassos off somewhere towards B.
your move Yuri. One player with a positive KD here on Furia looking for the one
on two. Interesting pathing.
Through the smoke he runs the risk and encroaching ever closer. If Mayer can't
hold his nerve if he gets caught off by this unexpected proximity out of Yuri
then the bomb plant is gonna go uncontested and show him off who gets the headshots.
The amount of clutches Yuri has won in 2026 is a statistical anomaly.
And in a year where we have seen this individual level taper off to that of which was a driving
force in 2025, now is a hell of a time for Yuri to try to end this.
And he's playing a catch-all position.
Wasso's coming in expecting to clear this.
Yuri's just got to hit the great shot.
Oh, does he expect it?
Did he start to consider it? Cross him in the right spot! It's a half-ass clear!
Losson doesn't peek and instead, Yori sticks the landing! 1v3!
What a moment for Yari. Comes away with the optic clutch and makes it a two-round game.
What a thing to do on stage.
The first clutch of this quarterfinals could not come anymore. Critical moment.
With those flags, Yuri takes over as the top performing player on Furia right now.
Another full control situation for Ninesie. Another one that Furia bring back.
And since coming in to say, okay, we've got all this pop-off potential, that's excellent.
But let's start taking control of things with our game plan.
We should also have that to our advantage.
90 are now in a moment where they realize, counting up the rounds, they should have won.
The half-by, that clash at long, this clutch, this game could have been over.
How many more moments are they going to be gifted?
That all the operas in round 19 could be found.
Smoke to the doorway and then a second.
DGT flashed for the challenge.
Oh, perfect jump!
It flashed him.
They smoked him only.
They see nothing else inside of middle as well.
There have been few rounds in the second half where 90 do not try to take an initiative.
We've seen it cost them with the double up towards top mid this time by these four herbs.
Very strong cat setups. Last time they walked right into this, they're gonna test this medal again.
No difference, and it's supported by a duo of rifles right in front of it.
Luchov gets his, falls back, DGT sticks around, and a two versus five seems unthinkable.
Volodoy drops the bomb. He wants to take action. Someway, two on five, but still a minute up.
That constant looming thread of Wasso Pete Cords long. Yeah, he already feels preoccupied to hold it
There's still a little bit weak towards me, but bombs not gotten picked up yet
It's potentially be a long save
And it will be it looks like for fearia
They will simply give up in 11th round
It's not even trying, but good to know that your intuition of holding those long doors
is constant.
Also couldn't help himself, 5v2 goes for it.
There was value in trying to cancel out the Uri Maladoy save.
It looks like 9Z content to just let them have these two rifles in the next one.
You're never going to have to police 9Z on how active they're being.
There hasn't been a round that hasn't had the right amount of activity.
Again, another full control situation.
This time, it actually gets converted 9Z closer to that finish line.
It's such a classic conversation in Counter-Strike.
You can play this kind of Counter-Strike, this aggressive, confident, active, mobile CT side,
And then you hit the big stage, and the nerves creep in,
and the confidence dwindles.
And suddenly you're not making those moves
that can make or break big moments,
but tonight, Ninze have.
Not looking at to let another stage game escape them.
Well, the streak will continue
for one of these teams in the wrong direction.
There's only one winner tonight,
It feels like Fury aren't painfully aware of that.
Locked this setup.
Two best riflelers on 9Z sitting right in front.
They're also not flashing it. I mean the first time they ran into it, sure.
All the way back to the midpoint.
Only one cross. There's a weakness towards this B site. Bomb's heading that way. Three players strong in the tunnels.
It takes a second, but Luchov joins forces alongside Max.
The case of auto is already through.
Ooh, they're limit testing now.
Furia starting to get ahead of some of these timings.
Yep, there is a chance.
This is one of the most empty mid plays we've had from 9CCT side,
but it's also some of the most utility we've seen Furia throw on this cat approach.
Not re-smoking middle, so I think Furia know they have a chance.
Nate will come out.
Yep, it's gonna pop it open.
Fistful's in front.
Easy.
Chew through the two of those.
And now the three rifles will have to try and answer, but now you've got a ton of bodies here in the CT spawn.
And as they layer up, bomb has been dropped in the middle of all that because the pistol players pushed past.
And if these smokes fade, there is no chance that you can reclaim this.
Molodoy, weakened even further still, but oh, Hwaso could have gotten caught as that smoke fade. Lucky to be alive.
That would have been nice if they still haven't dealt with either player or BMAC's already pushing the tunnels.
constant on the back line R9Z. He knows how to do the finishing move, like when
there's time on his side like he is he's the one taking the map control. Mollinoy
so concerned about flank that they're not worried about lower tunnels not this close.
Oh at least he won't get away with the escape that's what's in Yuri's mind.
Another late-round moment here for Yuri to try to get impact but remember
still no bomb. Yeah I mean it's just a fade away walk away moment from Furia
9Z are about to secure their 12. See if they can even walk away Yuri's
gonna walk right into his death. One of the two players who saved last rounds. That investment
wasn't great, was it? Something, oh that's something awful. Molledoy has to be the hero.
This next round or it's over. They bought behind those two guns saved. There is no
No op malty or double entry to work with.
Perfect support from 9Z on this CT side.
That's getting one back through the CT smoke, but nobody peeled off that E-bomb site.
And the three remaining members of Furia just don't have the gas.
There's a wall bang at least on Luchov for Furia to try to hang on with.
We saw what two pistols turned into previous round.
Now you've just got quadruple tech nines around this off.
Last round we did see them playing a bit more free,
but they didn't have that much coming into it.
It felt like the right energy.
Double flash getting ready here for Wassopeak.
He's putting himself in position to spam blind actually.
Crosshairs in the perfect place.
We'll see what comes up.
Flash hits.
He doesn't shoot immediately,
and that's going to leave you kindred with a chance,
Not only for the kill, but the upgrade.
You put an AK in your Kindar's hands, you get Furia just a slightly larger chance.
Maldoy versus Mayeron in a moment, flashbangs, yeah, not only hits him, but they confirm
he's stuck behind this car.
At a minute though, there is still map control everywhere else for Furia.
Maldoy making sure Mayeron hasn't left.
Can't be certain about it.
9z keep up these ambitious moves. It's a quick peek into the cat play. It's a firebomb that gives them a path
It's DGT maybe ahead of what fury you may expect. Sure enough, it kindars down. Oh, but a good tech 9 answer back by Uri
Mayurn still locked into this position. It's gonna have to be a luchoff tagged through the doors at the start of the round
To try and keep off this cat pressure
Three players in their attempt to push through. Mayurn doesn't have to worry about long. Moldoi can't a skill on him either
20 seconds!
Oh shot to this!
His shot, the cover, now Molladoy's got his 15 to the clock, Kcerato open road but there's a fast flank in behind him.
Here comes Max, never stopping.
Oh, but the cover, it's offered up from the site.
Now Bomb planted, Max looking to close this, and as he finds the headshots of Kcerato, he's diving in.
Nerve stricken Molladoy on the other side, whiffs the chance.
Max will spectre the landing, 90 do not waste their chance.
The strike first, quarter-finals, map one secured.
but that's not it.
Yeah, it felt like the 9C we saw in the beginning of Stage 3,
to be completely honest, when they were taking Vitality
and beating them, when they were taking a fight against Spurt
and arguably could have beat them.
This was a well-playing 9C who did everything in their own order
in order to get the best chances of winning this game.
I think, again, we spoke about how decisive they were
and how they opened up the rounds, speak of openings.
I think they went 15-6 in opening kills going their way,
or something along those lines.
So they gave themselves all the, I guess, all the space
space they needed in order to close out enough rounds because it was getting a
big dicey hand the second half at times but Jason I'll be honest that was a
surprise to me. Dude I think the first half it felt like they were a step ahead
of Fury and fall in the whole way. I thought that was actually a secty half
of that they were able to call. How many times did we see like Molledoy
left alone at Rella? Cacerotto could never figure out if he was supposed to
be in middle for a mid to B split if he was supposed to shift over to help
with nades and utility they could never get that coordinate then you add
the slow starts from the individual players but really I think a lot
especially the comeback that 9Z put down.
I think that's a testament to the tough battles
they had against Vitality and Spirit in Stage 3.
I think the fact that they got taken so close
in such a grindy atmosphere,
that's I think what gave them the confidence
and the ability to stay in that game
and actually persevere.
That was phenomenal for 9Z.
The way they played, just the approach
they were in Furia's face the entire time,
but it happens again for Furia.
Come play of time, everyone goes missing
and it's just the style of play.
Like on that CT side, just sit back, let 9z execute.
Where's the aggression?
Where are the mid-round information plays from your kinder?
Why isn't he on short sometimes getting flashed in?
Why aren't they doing something?
They tried one round to go aggressive immediately, you know.
At the start of the round, it didn't work out.
But for most of that, we were talking about their CT side.
This wasn't it.
Like they're just sitting back, getting executed on,
coming in for the retakes, right?
There was no proactive plays,
no taking the fight to 9z in a consistent way.
That's why they had the field day. It was the exact inverse of what you said. Could you 90 off guard?
Right if you're free you want to get in their faces turns out the shoe was on the other foot, which is insane
It felt like it felt like if you're a kind of a
Especially in the first like six seven rounds of that game
They had like the same reaction that ya go just out of just like oh, it's happening again
Like here. We are in the quarterfinal here
We are struggling down zero to five and I felt like at some point during that game some of the plays from
Mollidoli I
Sort of the sense he like fell back out of that trap of trying to overextend to make plays yet
I think he was probably frustrated he was having a quiet game, he was probably frustrated he wasn't having impact letting his team do better.
I just got away from Furious so far in the first half.
Let's get into that in just a second though, because we do need to go back to the first half, Janko. What have you got for us?
Yeah, I think it's one of these rounds where you see, like Jason pointed out, falling into some of these old traps for Furious.
I'm trying to do too much. Even though you're losing, you cannot panic here.
Molotovic hits a great random shot to get the entry on to Myron, who was absolutely
lights out.
9z after a while decides to just execute A. Again, they're just being executed on, but
it's fine.
5v4, 5v3.
He drops down the smoke and decides to play around it.
Dude, you do not need to put this in a 5v3.
Just save the smoke, fall back.
You have a two-man advantage.
Let your teammates rotate in by some time.
Instead, he dies.
That's one less player.
Look at these angles that now 9z is taking.
You can't do that if an op is on long.
is going to take your head off. Max, great ending to the game, had a great game throughout.
Some crispy shots here and they shut down the retake and this is exactly the sort of
thing that your teammates are going to get frustrated about. You're struggling for your
life here. You're trying to get back into the game. You have a 5v3 and then you throw
it away.
Yeah, I'm with you. I think that's beautifully explained. They're the backing away from
the AWP and then you let your teammates clear mid. And those are the things that
just seemed like Fury had them at some point during Stage 3 and they've just
They've kind of fallen by the ways and have been forgotten.
And for Molodoy, their core of stars has been great to every major in groups.
Then come playoffs, no one shows up.
And Molodoy has the biggest drop-off of them all, right?
And I don't know if it's the nerves at this point or what it is,
but it just keeps happening.
And you can't have your best guys, especially the openers.
That's the biggest problem for Fury.
You're gonna watch this game or the stats, and you say,
case you're out, where was he?
What can he do when his openers are not getting any openings?
and he's 3v5, like there's not much really for you to do from that situation.
That's what it feels like for Molotov, and that's what you said as well Jason,
then it comes into his own mind as well, where he didn't try to overextend himself a little bit
to get back into the game, and maybe that's the right thing to do at times,
but I think for Molotov it's been a reoccurring issue that
that's not really the way you get back into a game.
You've got to stick with the game plan, you've got to stick with your style,
because we know that he's good for it, if he positions himself right,
but once you start to, I guess, panic a little bit in the way you approach the game,
that's when a good team like Manzi will punish you.
I can't just say too, I mean, you know, if we're gonna stick on the Molledoy point, Mayer was looking more like Molledoy than Molledoy,
and Mayer had a sick game with the adbp, and that's the crazy thing, is like,
Furia win their first round in that first half, and you think, alright, let's get it going, let's swing a couple together, start feeling better,
and then Mayer hits a blinder on the cross, and you're playing 5-on-4 immediately, and then the next round he does it again.
So like, right when you're in a position to get your momentum back, that's when a little bit of luck,
maybe, I'm not gonna say luck, but a little bit of fortune goes your way of nailing those two shots on the cross,
on the cross and what are you supposed to do if your fury backs against the wall
again and this is why I was so crazy here and your kinders say that in the
opening interview it's like how is that on your mind when you say like oh we've
gone to the quarterfinals and just kind of get upset and it's like boys that
can't be the mindset I can't be the thought running through your head here
speaking of man when was the last time you saw an AWP player hit that many
shots through the crossing from Dawson I will say who maybe I don't think
he's done that many in one game that's well that was insane for man and
Coming into to the player right he was the worst rated AWP player out of all the ops heading into the playoff
He'd been struggling a little bit in terms of struggling sure and still winning with 90
But he wasn't really the driving force of the catalyst
But in this game on the T side once you open up almost every single
Byron would you all taking out one of the players from furrier through the double doors as well?
There's different ways of dying encounters like and I bet you they were frustrated about it
Your round is six seconds old and you already did like that every single round. That's frustrating
I think one of the cool things about 9Z is they're still not like the little innocent naive phase
where like they're still like just so much trying to achieve this goal as a team.
Like they're so very well team attuned because if you look at the round you highlighted with
Maladoy sticking around at the bomb site, Mayron was playing more supportive style too.
Like he gets some of those opening picks, right?
But you see them executing an A and he's just sat back like holding groups for the peak
and he's like, I don't actually need to make a play right now.
I'm just here to protect my teammates as they scale up into the bomb site.
Really intelligent AWPing, really intelligent team play from 9Z and that's what came out on top.
It was so crazy because you know what was Mayer in his first foray into tier one Counter-Strike?
What's that?
It was MIBR, while Fallen was still on the team and the Brazilian lineup and he was a rightfuler then.
I mean he only recently turned to the AWP so it wasn't the best of stands those six months in MIBR.
Now he's come to collect.
That was the hard time to come into those Brazilian teams.
The player was always a little bit of a hot potato, see?
What are you talking about?
We moved to that second half though and you think, okay maybe some signs of life from Fira.
They win the pistol and they subsequently convert the next two rounds. How do you 90s start to put a stop to that though?
Just keep playing great counter-strike and keep playing as a team
This is a default all right to chase the up off the angle
But we want to do a B split really from the side of furia
But you can see the reaction from 9z and when that comes in the B players
They're out front so the plan is B fight for mid if they come mid to B
We're fighting for it the a rotator is there as well as the guy come a we retake doesn't matter
who also peek on the second wave of it, pushes long now, catches Molotov, and it's just a slaughter in mid
because they just make a call and stick with it, right? Like, and they completely molotov down, just one player left alive
and this is the first gun round they're immediately back into it.
Look at the breakdown of that, too, when Molotov falls, both the players in mid,
one tries to push forward at the B bomb site, the other backs away to try and handle the long push,
but he's also got a teammate on Catwalk whose responsibility is then handling the long push.
So you actually could have doubled up and still tried to force your way forward,
I think Fury had just got a little bit lost in this game with how bad they were getting beaten.
I think the players just kind of lost a little bit of focus here and there and some things slipped.
That was the decisiveness we talked about from NIC coming into the game.
They stick to the plan, they go with the plan, and you know, it didn't work out in every single round.
There were a couple of blondes as well when NIC had a man up, you know,
given they won so many intro kills in this game, but they didn't really scare them.
They didn't really change the way they would approach the following round.
So maybe as you said, maybe they're a bit naive, you know,
maybe they're a bit inexperienced in the sense that they don't realize the possible ramification of their mistakes.
And that actually helps them in a game like this.
That's a fun time to be on a team, honestly.
Like, that's a really fun time to be in a team.
Like, when everyone is like actually just actually playing for the game plan that you have in that moment.
And it's because you're achieving your biggest success for the first time in your career with this group.
So it's really easy to be aligned.
It's when the difficulties come later that that starts to fade away.
Yeah, potentially could come in the second map of this series.
But to tie this one up in a nice neat bow, obviously the clutch from Max to kind of end things out.
That was beautiful to see.
But was there a kind of another finishing blow moment for you, Yanko?
Yeah, I think like just the resilience right so fear I did win two rounds of 3v5 and a 1v2
So this is the final buy from 9z and again DGT with the aggressive play
Yeah, this is what you wanted to see from yes
It is gets a 5v4 and now it's still a 4a setup three guys committed on short right mayor and gets one
Lucho gets the second right in a 5v2 the rest of the players just have to save right and then
This was off the back of losing two rounds and as Jason pointed out kind of a silly way
right and you still have you know the bravado to take the game to fury and
this was the the turning point or actually the last nail in the coffin
really in a way yeah I like that because there was actually around two rounds
prior I think where where they also try to go catwalk fury and again like didn't
flash the corner like how many times we've seen teams at this level not
Molotov not flashback the opera not forced the defenders back and then
all of a sudden you're kind of just dry walking into an off-crossing and
we're probably talking about it fury at tea sides haven't been that great
You know usually it's in pistol convert and then one or two rounds is all you need right and here the two governors that they won
Are 3v5 and a 1v2 clutch from Yuri like they weren't getting themselves in that many good situations
Rather than the score maybe what was it 13-8 didn't even feel that close like that
And it it's gonna take a huge 180 from Furia if they're going to avoid elimination
Especially considering when you're talking about the concerns on the T side them starting on that on Mirage
What's the expectation here for you Yanke?
I mean, I think they just need a better performance from guys like Ikeender, they need some openers,
they need to make their life slightly easier. Whether that's going to be Ikeender calling
around for himself or his own number, what sort of openings, whether that's something you saw
in your prep and you already have round set for early on in the half, but if you're constantly
playing 4v5s, 3v5s, that's not going to be a fun time on the T side.
If anything, I don't think the way 9C is going to play is going to change that much.
They're going to be proactive, they're going to be aggressive, they're going to try to
look for those openings so if I'm furrier, if I'm your kinder, if I'm fallen I want my teammates
to punish that aggression because it's going to be ramp peaks, it's going to be pushing apps,
it's going to be a B apps push at a certain timing as well and I would be surprised if
9C doesn't try to retake middle in the middle of a round as well. When that happens and when
you offer the opportunity to punish that aggression from 9C that's the first way and
best way of stopping that. If they don't do that they'll continue to do it round after
round after round as we saw in Dust2. I think we'll see pretty early on what kind of a mood
fury is in for this second map like in the first three gun rounds. If you look at the group
the group stage that they played, Giacindor was like he's always kind of testing some limits, right?
He was playing so well, I think, that he was feeling the game and reading it very well
and so confident in it. He was doing his classic, like, take some risks and get the high end of the reward.
Walk through a smoke here because you kind of sense the defense base up, let's calm.
If that is missing when we get into this and see their T side, it's an issue
because he is such a critical part to this offense creating space for so many people.
What I liked about this game is we also talk so much about the pressure, the stage, the arena, the noise, everything.
And you'd think after winning a 3v5 and a 1v2, you know, that gives the momentum over to the side of Furia.
Like now, oh, Nyanzee is going to start breaking.
But ultimately, it doesn't matter if what you do on the server, you know, isn't that great.
And Nyanzee had the sort of fortune to keep taking the game to Furia.
And Furia couldn't handle it. They just couldn't handle the fights.
They couldn't handle the aggression.
And until they can't figure out the way to switch that up on Mirage, they're done.
We've just got a couple of seconds left, but I do just want to pose a question to you, Anka.
Do you think it's possible that 90 actually do this actually make it to the center?
I think it's over. I think through us just choking again and perform on the major playoff stage. That's it 90 taking it
Well, we've got hell of a lot to be desired from the side of furia and fair play after that shambolic performance on dust
Do is it another major playoffs fumble from the side of furia? Those answers will be delivered on Marach
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Can I imagine first map you're starting over past T-Side?
Oh, bro, hard. I'm not lying. It's gonna be hard.
So we've been there.
So what do we pick?
You guys have any ideas for us?
Well, you guys, I guess not, Z.
Yeah, but we have a new idea, bro.
Inferno.
You think our friend is good? Go to it.
Yeah, yeah, first pick.
Inferno was a weird thing as well.
Inferno made.
I mean, you cannot pick our pass, you know.
Yeah, they're picking our.
They're picking overpassing your faces.
It is.
They picked overpass four times, and Nuke picked Nuke twice, and Inferno once.
Third map overpass, if you can.
Ego pick overpass, bro.
That's the best overpass of America.
Well, pick overpass, sir.
Makes sense, man.
They ban an obis, we ban ancients, then it's overpass.
Overpass Nuke is going to be one of those third.
Because maybe they pick Nuke again, so they're going to pick this too.
That's true.
You can put this on here before the people, so they know that I know.
Is there maps which you would be afraid to play against Furia?
Yanko understands. He doesn't speak, but he understands.
Is there maps where you think about Furia and this map? I don't want to play it.
Yeah, which map do you think Fawna has a big impact on CT?
The tree is already laughing, bro. He goes to kill me long every time.
I think that's a Nubus for sure, yeah.
Yeah, but I have new tricks on Nubus, bro.
Watch out, new tricks.
Hell don't, bro.
No way. No way. Second up on Nubus.
We're so...
No, no, no.
That would be too easy, bro.
That's too easy for me. I don't play up because it's too easy, bro.
Bro, we're still waiting on a team that's going to pick a Nubus against us.
Haven't played in officials in February or a month now.
They shock the stage here in quarterfinals.
They do everything they need to to show you
that they can win this series.
They pull off the big upset of the quarterfinals.
Some said the easier side of the bracket.
Ninzee say they agree.
Are they going to be the threats to make it to Grands?
and our fury are going to be the ones to crumble underneath the pressure of this arena.
Fall is what it before, but doing it twice, doing it three times instead of a record.
That's a mounting pressure, maybe no one can stand.
But that's a reality they'll have to face now.
First the team that deserves to be here!
Played their game and then some back on Dust2.
Let's see what they've got in store for us on Mirage.
9-0 to the CT side to start it.
Molodoy heads up P250.
Ooh, missed chances.
Had a first kill.
Wausau P confirms lower tunnels.
We've got Maeyern just trying to keep himself alive here.
Support system looks good, where there's one, there's four.
That's the case with 90.
Oh, that's scary already, man.
Sure, Fallen. You can take over the A site.
Sure, Yuri, you can take B.
What you don't have is the bomb.
That belongs to Maeyern.
How are you going to make this connection?
Luchov, he's in safety. He can get information. We'll leave a gap big enough that fallen can take advantage. That's the question
There are police everywhere
It is just in states
There's no punish pick in the series Connor
Mirage at the bottom of the map pool by the numbers here for 90
There's one
Hold your horses. We've got low HP mayor, and we've got half HP max
Surely not another clutch for Yuri. Look at that dink. Now DGT's down low. Oh
All they have to do is kill time until we can't get that bomb back. Will they be too nervous?
Tunnels players gonna have to go really wide to get this angle. Yuri's halfway
He could dodge this threat behind him, but he's got a move and now he's got another 1v1 locked in
He doubles back. Max makes the brave move of getting back up connector. Will Yuri clear it?
He's gonna run in. Max to the left side Yuri
Show us your teeth!
Come on Yuri, bite deep!
Maynern moves fast in 12 health Yuri.
This is just so instrumental!
Naisi thought they had this in the bag!
Yuri confirms.
How are you going to move this forward Maynern?
You've got a flash but don't you dare pull that out.
It's going to have to be the surgical headshot fourth kill on a silver bladder.
The one they can count on the clutch does it again one-ups himself on Mirage
a holy impossible situation sectioned off piece by piece a chance for Mayer and
But that helped to damage too much, and it's Uri.
We saw it back in the first map.
Just a glimpse of his clutch ability.
We thought maybe that could get Furious Game going.
Well, how about starting a map with that instead?
There is no mountain of 9Z rounds
that you were meant to surpass.
But there is a looming threat here in the second round
of Mirage that a force buy could rebound right back,
fall and seize the sandwich drop.
This keeps coming for you.
Oh, no.
He's going to start shooting.
Yeah, he gets that kill. Oh, it's all for naught. It doesn't matter if they can't pull out the second round.
Max now hands to the Galil. Yikindar's going to wait for that bomb to arrive.
Maynard's calling for help, right? Hey, no, sorry. Maynard's going to window. Max isn't calling for help. He'll fall back.
MP7 doesn't instantly jump. Now that double market rotation comes in. Nines, these bodies are throwing themselves to the B-side as Max just keeps his head down low.
And there's the mp7 kill for your kinder to be five clawback is what's demanded of them
If you to the clock there's the second Moledoy's now on the scene and with your kinder brings fire to the feet
Moledoy pinched off from the catwalk and they get it 90 force by right back
They know the clutch
They know it entirely
For the mental, 9-Z would replay this situation the exact same way if they knew that they
denied the conversion, nothing feels better than that for them, nothing feels worse for
Fiora.
Trying to buy back themselves instantly.
the lights to play
a cheese come cascading into the asides the right side smokes come out
They look to make it a second tier exact to draw any incendiaries if the CTs have them.
They stay wide awake in mid with two on the A site.
It's still a good looking setup from the CT side.
Double smoke well tied.
Oh, smoke took Palace and A ramp.
Oh yeah.
Taunting effort now for Furia to get through.
you're gonna know they'll be desperate to try and puncture and so a Desert Eagle
kill from all the boys all they've received also Pete's got the cover
good may earn hard commitment case or auto-fighting it'll be a majority standing
at the end of round three is 90 pull ahead can we talk about how ready 90 are
for every single move you're here making back on dust to hero Mirage
again so I was trying to say during the Euryclex that shouldn't have
happen from a bottom of their map pool here is Mirage they've lost three out of
four games but one of those losses is to spirit it over time the game they won
was against vitality they fixed up the place just in time for the major
You can think about that frag grenade for the little that this round will last.
Quick kills inside of the A site, your glocks mean nothing to a 9Z rolling forward with now
what is massive momentum.
The gun rounds will keep on coming, the tests will be thrown their way, but you're
painting a beautiful picture about a 9Z that can do this.
They have incredible, I mean, they just have incredible rotations.
They have the whole spirit of Latin America in their gameplay.
They still bring it.
Fiora are, you know, a Frankenstein team in terms of the styles they bring in,
and they have a personality, absolutely, but 9-Z are more pure in terms of
what we are used to seeing.
Those original South American lineups.
They bring the frosty to their city size.
Oh, you kindar! Fasten through the fire!
And it's a Molledoy first blood!
Oh, this works out.
And that ambition down through underpass, well worth it for the 5v3.
Max once again looks to just skate by this threat.
Now, Bomb is deep inside apartment, so there's a little hesitation.
And within that timing, Max strikes one down.
Oh, no! Oh, no!
Oh, no.
Round still live, Bomb's picked up.
Max making a move off of the catwalk.
At least the bomb isn't on Kcerado over there. They have to try to refocus.
There's a chance to take him out. Mayor, not watching this.
There's a moment.
Plosso from the bottom of connector and Molledoy in low health with back a little top mid.
Never really had a chance to get active. He gives it a pause.
And he'll try to use the element of surprise to win this 1v2 off, but the trades could.
The numbers make a difference Max goes up 5-2 with a 3k and
Puts 9z comfortably leading 4 to 1 at the pause at the pause and start the south case Rados game crashed
At a moment where Max takes one out and
He's up there and be asked
It's a tough thing to stomach
It's sure as hell not the venue you want to deal with this and yet
professionals they are
I've got to say cologne it's been ten years I've done this job
It is Launders and I's first time having the privilege of casting in this cathedral and from where I'm standing up here in the Rafters
This room is beautiful
Yeah, it's all that
It's an honor to be here with you guys tonight.
You're in for a treat with Counter-Strike all weekend long.
An imposing presence from the upper deck in this arena.
And yet somehow, it doesn't shake 9-Z.
Yeah, that's right. That's right.
And that's... and they had every right to it. If they did, it would be the least surprising thing.
Even Magic said, you know, they play insane.
But we'll just have to see if the crowd affects them.
Still waiting on that.
There were a lot of Furia fans here, naturally.
But I think 9Z will start to win some back.
They keep playing like this.
Stoffed.
No contest with the Tech 9 up Catwalk.
And Wasso just banking on his teammate.
I love the confidence.
Let these pistols try their damnedest.
It's a rock solid defense across the board not one death on the side of 9z so far
Fury are continuing to get pieced up obviously an unfortunate disconnect outside of that though. It's been the slow starts
Domineering CT sides again
Just have to talk about how good they are making connections
Tell me about a round where they didn't know where Fyria were going.
I can't even think of a single round in this series where they weren't aware of what Fyria
were going to do next, genuinely.
And in the vast majority of rounds that Fyria won back on Dust2, 9Z still knew what they
were doing.
They just clutched up.
They just battled through a lot of CTs.
The rubber is meeting the road here for 9Z.
The flowers are being handed out.
And Maxis said it.
They're trying to garner the respect of the tier one teams
that they feel that they can compete against.
The fight for Fallen lost, Luchov hands on him, another duel just over the edge of it,
and you've got Molo-Doi low health on the answer, trying to get your Kindar into this
mix.
As Wassupit turns his back, that's a safety net, four middle momentarily, Maynard going
wide up through a site, he knows Yuri's locked in, this will be a high pressure
shot in a moment, but that moment seemingly fleeting, Yuri, guilt, while Maynard's
He's blind, we get the walk out from the ramp, confirming the attack, as Molledoy's low HP will remain a liability,
and yet Mayeron still just gives him a little more space, a little more time.
He was holding just wide enough to be able to hit that.
The landflash is perfect, but the kinder has a lead.
Flash comes out of the ramp, rotations coming around CTs are slow to be.
There's a chance for Furia to pick this up.
There's a real chance.
Firae come into this beaten and bruised they may not believe that they could find an empty
site because they have not been able to find them versus this team but here it is the opportunities
granted a three on two retake but they have the site.
Walking at the perfect moment Molladoy with Luchop going top middle look how much he
fell for this and so a smoke grenade offered up for your kindar.
Max has an HE, watch out for this.
Kindar's got to stuff this side of the retake.
Remember, Molo-Doy's low HP, you'd think you can't bank on this.
Are they both jumping cat? Nope, maybe.
Mayer's not.
Max slick move, but by the time they arrive, not wanting to deal with the smoke,
instead they've got fire in front of them.
There's a kid on Max, there's a kid on Mayer.
And there's a smoke on Luchov.
Trying to arrive from the apartments,
Kindar just picks up the first duel.
There goes that low health of Molo-Doy.
He could dive it.
They're going to try to get all hands on, and Mayer just slips by.
There's enough time here.
It's really close, but they miss it.
Timing on the side of Furia, that's super way.
Those last two 90 members, a hard fought second round
and one with a massive bright stag.
Hit those cat jumps.
Mayard by a hair.
Can't get on that bomb in time.
Oh, and he saw that shadow creep in,
ready to shot.
But a moment here for Furia, and again, I feel like they're almost scared of a thought.
They believe they have an empty site, but they get it.
They went another disadvantage to two of the rounds they've got so far.
If there's a world where Furia are going to fight in this quarterfinal,
then a three versus five like that sprinkled in at this moment could wind up being key.
I'm getting a full change here of Cacerados, BC.
Can you believe Mayern's form again?
You mentioned it at the start of this series. You said you go back to the Vitality game.
Great. One good map, but only usually one good map in a series.
Nine and four at the moment with impact on that A-site.
That's what I was so curious about. Mayern's just this.
It's an aberration for that reason.
That's what we talk about the stage players.
He wasn't part of this 90 lineup the last two times. They had an opportunity at a major
They saw something in him
It's very impressive for me, and I think they'll
Don't be a lot of praise for him after this
Support to see that evolution as well from somebody on 90s camp because we go back to dust too
You know the real driving force of this team the story of their run into playoffs was very much about loot chops
Entryability and then DGT being that secondary rifle right behind him two strong rifles in different roles
That drive 90 to top 8 at a major that was not a part of dust to get to opening frags
And now we go over the mirage. We've played it far less rounds seven rounds into this
He's already got more entries this map than he did in the previous from the CT side Wow
But his opening duels are now coming Luchov's way, which goes to tell you maybe this 90 second map even with mayor at the top of the
scoreboard can bank on what has reliably won them games before.
I'll tell you right now it's communication that's holding the theory of back.
What they brought to this major in the last stage showed us in my opinion that they're they're back to the top.
They actually had insane game plans. They were not a question coming out of that last stage.
they they had everything what we're seeing here it's just they're just not
bringing it in or when they are exist too late
obviously now they're going up against it all
A lot of fans out here from Maladoy.
Fans in both Kazakhstan and Brazil.
Even Canada Connor.
Even Canada.
The ESL player profile with Maladoy came out this event.
We take a deep dive into his journey, his just single-handed decision making to
leave behind everything he knew to chase a dream of Counter-Strike, one that he said
relates to Fallen because they played both in cyber cafes. And the interesting thing is we go,
you know, cyber cafes in 2026. It's not every country that that's your journey in,
and yet for Kazakhstan it remains that way. And so Mollidoy and Fjord and Fallen find that
commonality. Their first tournaments were no money. Fallen said he's been thinking about
having children and the thought of being a father since bringing Mollidoy into this roster.
Going into that relationship, it's clearly very special. Mollidoy saying,
maybe I'm not, there is no Mollidoy if not for quality.
Another two of them have to dig real deep in this moment. It's a 90 tactical time out
to try to keep their hands on control of this game.
We'll see if the time to think helps.
Got a full Galeel buy here for Furia, which is not comfortable at all.
You're going up against the fully stocked 90, but using our utility very well.
Man. All Galeels, all utility.
What's the master plan here, Furia?
Looking like it could be a fast connector split.
They're up the ramp, instant off-shot, and they're once dead.
Good position from Keisarotto.
Fast move by Molotoy, and it's going to come up ninth in spades!
DGT with two.
Keisarotto finally has a chance to catch you off with that forward glil on Catwalk.
Well, now what about his recovery?
It's insane off of that pause.
They took attack after the tech,
and they instantly are able to respond to Furia calling a fast game plan.
glissar gone. All the money gone.
Great place to set the area and there's no support here for Max. Oh no!
It doesn't spread wide enough. You'd think no world case Serato considers this
and he's got a minute to try to work together the clutch, he'll give up the audio cue, flash comes over.
Never would you suspect this and so totally blindsided by Max who gets away with it.
Yeah, fireproof inside of the windowsill 90 up 62. Yeah, and he had to
Had the thought to get that molly out to
Another unfortunate moment here for K serato
Saf is not beyond reproach her fury up once again
They know it they've been here before
They didn't get that early scare like Ninzied, which I feel like has added so much resilience to them.
Otherwise, if not for that spirit game, I feel like what happened when they played against Aurora could have been happening right here in the quarters.
This round thought it really felt like momentarily it had legs, but you know it's in these messy
moments that sometimes you see the explosive rifle abilities of 9Z across the board.
You're not just banking on one guy to drop that 3K.
And that was playing rounds at home, you know, that's the style of play that they're
used to.
shared responsibility they wear well and one that right now has got fury up
against the ropes. We get the Kindar AK hero by this time and sure enough down in
the first duel. They take top mid control get denied at the bottom and also
the smart move already. They've got a ramp smoke smoking off connector it's
like they know what's happening every single time and with waso in this
This position may or has open lines towards connector.
Fury are going to have to get extra creative here.
This is all about freeing may or not.
Almost fully pushed on both sides of the map but at that point you can get too spread
out. Fallen emerges to the correct side. And Mayer will be fighting by himself for
now. Wasso's coming around the ramp. Flashbang's gonna let him know it's inbound and luckily
for Mayer and he's a layup to just stick on this line, but he misses his shot. It's
bred us out. A flood of Furia players take to this A site and now there'll be no question
about this bomb plant either. No contest offered up. And they're worried about the
right things. They plant default, they know that they haven't killed the second
player on A.
He put the AWP in Molledoy's hands, and wasso peak arrival out through...
Oh, it's Handstich!
And now with that AWP are dead,
pendulum swings momentarily back 90's way.
Cacerotto's position's been found out
with a quick headshot on Max.
He gets his revenge inside that window.
DGT though still trying to push this retake forward.
We're talking about kits on the side of 90.
But with flashes up and over,
Yuri's gonna go for the swing.
Oh, and he misses his chance.
Isurano's got him cleared!
They got him.
Laying on top of it, it's yet again so close!
So close!
Oh!
Oh!
Buria!
Given their Hail Mary moments, at least secure their third.
Isurano said, just let me play.
Gets that last kill just in time.
Keeps us half alive.
It's off tech nines.
Burial win.
Finally around where they actually get vacant space.
space no contact until ticket booth many times if we watch players dying top mid off cat connector or stairs
Try to remain slippery from here on out we get this move from 90 back out middle to just try to reapply the pressure
Fallen trying to bring in the audacious place
A lot more pressure, a lot more active.
That's what you love to see. Max down to an MP9.
Finally, getting through the money.
That's step one.
One final real test.
Because that's a 1v1, it's expensive for Fury as well.
Fall in, yet to frag so far on Mirage. Has a bit of a team though.
I mean, bluechop flashes, they're gonna see this.
Balls are coming down, he pulls his gun out.
Sun's out.
Also back into cover two
It's a quick attempt out of Yuri's now
He's just gonna grab the grenades and we've got max MP 9 in hands
spotted out by K-Shiwato, local swing through, and that BK Bench does not hang strong
They will at the very least deal with Yuri and do it fast enough that they could still get this line as the bench cross occurs
You know there's one player back there
There's still a good amount of utility here from Furia to secure a bit of space
But it's numbers advantage 9Z on this retake. This is actually a difficult decision
And if they go for this, they risk all their money.
They probably have a better chance next round, but they're 4v3.
They're thinking about it still.
The retakes have been solid.
Flashbang here for Luchov, and that's
going to be when they suddenly just burst down
through this doorway.
The Kingdom are forced to turn.
As he goes back, he gets himself a kill and a half.
They're crawling there to help him.
And now you're fighting up against the disadvantage,
and yet Luchov still takes a look.
Player over to the bench, they'll still know about.
From the beginning, they spotted that,
and the crossback didn't happen.
but Mayern gives this up hard-fought battle here for Furia to play catch-up versus 9z.
Absolute best-case situation here for Furia.
They get 9z to participate in a very scary situation,
but they can't get that one kill towards E-box.
Furia keep two alive.
They win the round.
They've got through the money. They're still in up here on Mayern.
But now they've given themselves a real chance.
That's Fallen's first kill in the game and if he doesn't get it, I guarantee you they
lose that retake.
It's perfect to flash dodge the frag and the cohesion there in the setup.
That's really a moment too where they didn't get the value out of that double ramp push
that they were hoping for, right?
Kcerotto dies instantly, Yuri gets a flash off the wall and then dies almost near
seconds later.
They're doing what they need to do to get the open sight, which is good.
It was smaller the way it was, but still, the point remains.
You know, Ninzy also had to face a Furia that was clawing back a few rounds in Dust 2,
but they had a stalk pile in the reserves to close out that game.
Ample chances.
This is Furia nipping at your heels.
Two rounds away from tying out this half and your force to come into this one with a buy like this.
It's guns in the hands of the best performing 9-Z players on Mirage.
Mayer makes it up into Ladderoom again. The good gun to watch in this round.
Also has got an M4.
He immediately evacuates his position.
Bomb inside of the connector.
Oh, the dead shot he survives.
Max's USP up next will finish the job.
Unfortunately can't get damage in the next one, so that'll take the likelihood of Luchov
getting anything and throw it up the window.
A missed off shot could have been.
Luchov finds a duel here and it's a great distraction for Wassobite.
Great up.
Kill case Serrano.
They've got to get this bomb back. They need control of everything.
It's on top of stairs, I think. The bomb is stuck.
It was fallen. Who was watching it? They'll go ahead and grab it. Now it's got to be a clutch.
Maynard in the middle of all this. Op tries to go over top of Ticket.
And when the Kindar comes off of this bomb play, he is still very much stuck behind Triple.
There's no trade possibility here, so great damage on you, Kindar.
He wins his duel and puts this one round from a tied up half.
This is not just to come back, it's turning into a good half now for Piria.
They've had a battle through it all to get this chance.
Because now they're actually in control of some rounds, which is a huge change of pace.
Before only converting losing situations.
Let's see if they can stick the landing.
Max doesn't want to regret going for too much information this time.
But it's still a furia who put him as the apple of their eye.
Molodoy, can he punish?
Oh, misses.
Golden chance.
chance that the Molly separates them I don't can they exact through this all it
loses the dual doesn't even get any damage out
now Lucho versus your kindar next to go in that one too single-handedly holding off
towards the ladder max perfectly in behind Yuri slays him of the MP9 and just
what it felt like fury we're gonna have a tight half it's gonna fall to this
2v5 recovery instead you've got three players layer towards the market
The Molotov strikes one off, and at 100 health in 25 seconds, he's also got this bomb.
He's looking for his moment, but he won't be able to fake plant too many times here.
That's what he wants to deliver.
A moment of truth!
As he's now got DGT down to 47, he's all back up.
Oh, but DGT slips by.
He's starting to read this correctly.
He's got wind of this, an eye for it, and now a chance to react.
It's the first pull, it's sail right by, scoped in on the hunt.
And at the other side goes his opposition, he will stick it to them and tie.
Six-all as Fury of Fine forestraight.
I
The second time in this quarter final, Fury of Final Momentum at the
very end of a half. It was not nearly as convincing on Dust2 as it was here on
Mirage. Four straight, five of the last six, a turning in the tide after 90, stuffed
them with that round two force by and we thought that Yuri's clutch was all in
vain. This formula for Furia on Mirage looks like it could still win and then
it's gloves off on Overpass. Oh definitely it feels like we could get
there. Furia will have to take us there but they've done what they need to do to lay the foundation
for a comeback.
If there's any notes for this team it's gotta be those they only need to die the big clutches.
OUCH! Open and kill Mayor, Molledoni's got the double. With that underpass belongs to Furia. With that, a CT side burst could bode well.
We got a Hail Mary moment here for 9Z. They're just going to look to take control of the A site and Max will indeed get that bomb down on defaults.
He has one priority. Careful here with these feats.
Also he's got a flash to throw up over to the ramp and this is going to force a redirection out of Furia.
out of fury obviously. Two players layered up for spawn, but Ykindor is also on a ramp flank.
There goes that flash. Now they throw that out and check this out. Ninesie getting off
site. This is the right play, but Ykindor coming in on the flank. I mean, this should
be the end of it. Also, maybe takes one with him before he goes. Remember, bomb is planted
default. These connector post plants, they're going to have to stop the cross. Ykindor
Oh my goodness! No!
No! No!
It's all gone wrong!
It's all gone wrong!
He couldn't find the head!
The entire cycle lapses!
Pressure right back on!
Oh no.
A crouching, I mean, wassup just...
Oh, it turns into...
Two kills there for DGT, stomps him out like a bug.
So a missed chance in the pistol to pull ahead.
How are we going to get finals, you kinder, if we can't get out of quarters?
I'll tell you this much though, 9Z lost that pistol, I wouldn't break them at all in the
second half compared to Furia's CT side.
I think them winning this pistol only means there's now a chance that 9Z can close the
map but Furia know it's still going to be fine, it's just going to be harder.
We'll start with an attempt to try to deny the conversion, just like 90 did to them.
Look at the damage, up a 5-7 shot.
Yeah, why not?
Listen, you gotta dig deep to rob this one.
Desert Eagle's ready to roar, you've got low health on 3, they can do this!
and right back into the action. Oh, Rolladoy's D-Gulax!
And now it's a couple of Galeels, but the bomb at least still controlled.
If DGT can open connector, then that bomb could run over to this A site.
And sure enough, he gets there, but it's very costly.
So do you bank on DGT's 12 health?
This is very tough, because you can't get out of connector knowing
the Cat guys could come over top of you.
So what if he stays B?
No, yeah.
Yeah, okay, he's lost his teammate. He'll send that flash back in.
and Mayeron's gonna try to bank on his full HP versus the two on site.
It is yet again damage from the Deagle, but you've got Followay behind you!
Math 10 for the first by win!
Zyria haven't touched the lead since the first round of this game,
but they are back in a position to do so.
That's right, they stole it away.
Again, just like 90, he did it under the first half.
I'm seeing Mollinoy getting locked in for the first time in this game.
Way too many misses on Dust 2.
I don't care how many shots he hit.
he wasn't himself. At this event your kinder has a fantastic rating. Moldova has been getting pure volume.
And I want to say Yuri's brought them chances now. Let's take the easy route.
But just enough time to wake up.
It officially gets scary for the first time in this series for 9z.
Full strength, Furia hasn't reared its head.
And they know that.
But fleeting control of a game is something we've seen 9Z half to stomach, half to handle.
And ultimately, they lose to Spirit in two of those situations.
On a stage like this when the pressure is undeniably mounted, you can't let those
doubts begin to creep in regardless of Furia's fight back. You have wounded this animal, don't
be surprised when it lashes out and right now Furia do so. With a real advantage here in
the 15th round, rifles on their side, a Galil for Luchov, how is he meant to get those
oh so important entries
wide swing lines up easy damage from all the way but the loss of peak
window challenge almost cost the young office head as a big a team kill
dropping utility of the windows to try to make it awkward more than just wants
to get the hell out of here and he's got support on the other side of that smoke to do so.
Hwaso's gonna jump on this, or rather just get the kill.
Tries to reload in the cover.
That's where your kindar gets him.
He goes 4v3, Fragnernake's fantastic.
Spray control for Kaseirado into the second pistol player and now that Luchov-Galil
into the action but it's all a little too late.
Enter Luchov, someone who we haven't had to discuss.
Ninesie have been great because of Mayer today.
Waso here on Mirage, but Luchov has been the for a lot of people the reason that 9-0 making this run as spectacular
as it has been
Some incredible maps out of this man
And I said no situation that should be no problem here eight seconds they can run at this
Okay, let's just make sure no bomb plant happens right there all good
Game goes to one round, they don't get that plan.
have the lead.
Hell of a battle to get here, but they
re-secure it.
And with the lead should come the freebie.
Glock's out.
Now I see this will be nothing more than an active desperation.
And it's nice to see Furia with their foot on the throat a little.
We go back to Dust2.
to Dust 2. There was this constant lack of activity on a CT side. Why not send
Maladoy on this expedition with the Mac 10? There was a moment in this quarter
final where it felt like Burial weren't gonna bring their game to the table.
You start to feel it. You start to come alive. You start to deal with this
very real 9-Z challenge tonight. As you'd expect, the Glocks shredded 9-7
Furia leading.
Molledoy in the positive, Yukinder in the positive.
It's looking up here now for Furia.
Quick change-up.
Whoa. We got the part-time offer and the full-time offer working together.
Father and son here both on the double-op.
The last time they played here at Cologne, Paulin also called it a double loss with him and Colterra.
Great spam, you kind of are from the window into top middle and Luchov's dead. No entry afforded to 9C this time.
time.
Even while they trail Furia, they are still holding on to more successful opening duels
than Furia.
This is a really interesting looking map and I'd love to see it more creative.
We got the ops on mid and B but kind of both B players at the moment, fallen banking
on walkouts so they can lean a little bit more mobile towards A and have heavy
presence at mid at the same time. This is the kind of map that's harder to read.
But no one in CT spawn, it's their one source spot, the kinder moves into position.
Molotov pops in the middle of the site, everybody for 9Z out through that ramp.
And they're running out of utility.
Death ball attempt, flashbang, at least that flash stops the M4s from trying to
to get the damage on the cross.
Yes, it does.
Wasophe jumps and now confirms, gets the Kindle active,
who's going to offer a clean head shot to DGT.
Molledoy on the scene.
You've cut down half of what remained of 90,
and now it's open lines.
That lackluster amount of utility puts them exposed,
but still, back to the even keel.
And now that all the remains in this retake
is the double ops, they wait patiently,
and it pays off.
Fallen collects his.
Utility soars forward, but with this bomb planted
in front of Max, he has to hold his nerve.
Yes.
And Max has a daughter at home,
and Fallon has a son in the server.
And that son burns bright.
Molodoys on the angle.
Fallon's gonna take up responsibility of this defuse.
They've got all the tools for the job.
Smoke on top of it.
Kick for the five second stick.
Molodoys, pistol out.
He tries to challenge.
Max gets the first, but the defuse founds.
Molodoys sacrifices himself.
They kill the clock, they win the round, and Feria hit 10.
But again, just another warning sign to Julia to how much you need to nail down 90.
That was a glory of Chills out of nowhere.
Back to make that round suddenly feel alive.
That was the one thing they had to be scared of
having the two ops over towards B
that they had to retake together
and they still managed it.
Utility and then the big difference.
This three player jumble down bottom middle
Just asking to have this Nade dunked on their heads, but it's actually a bad bounce from Quesarado.
Already thought they would have gotten over the bench.
They scale slowly, but they move beyond that damaging U-Till.
It's going to be Max's responsibility to climb up.
Remember, him, they earned in TGT, the ones with Khan.
Just making so much noise.
But will they think that Max is actually in here?
Low job kills Yuri over towards Khan.
Quesarado's still, yes, very nervous that Max is indeed on this line.
Quesarado will take damage.
That's well fought. That's a hard duel for the CTs.
Kcerato played it confidently.
Dropping the bomb onto the ground as well, just reconfirming.
That there's still some sort of presence here,
fallen operating on his own, over towards that B site.
Jaws, this Kcerato gets the tail end of the setup.
I'd like to see Fiora ahead of things. Finally.
Luchov trying to run that tech nine over towards the ramp.
DGT's the bomb here, can't lose it like this.
Now Kcerato's gonna sit on top of it, you think?
The Kingdor, yes! Gets that trade back, has those Luchov Tags, the Tech 9, and Mahler-Doy over the top.
Furia starting to see the finish line on their map pick up Mirage.
They're starting to believe they're starting to look good. They've been through it all.
They could have suffered the greatest embarrassment getting two out here on stage.
It looks like they might stay that off. The double off persists.
Again, it went fall in blade here at the last time. Matt Cologne with Coldzera.
He had the second off.
Now they've got an even better offer
to abuse this setup on CT's side.
9-Z for once of the ones who look a little bit confused.
Well, maybe not this round.
This round's fast.
Yeah, it's falling to eat a flash,
trying to capitalize on the blind over.
5-3, hyper-aggressive entries come out from 9-Z.
Oh, forgive me, what a call.
Why not just change up that tempo, slam your head into the B site?
Well, the problem that was the problem for the retake on the A site,
and now the two players that die first, they run right into them.
But if you know where the ops are, you want to full exact into them.
You want to use your flashes, you don't want to do contact plays,
and Fury are hoping for more of those.
That's what got Fury the lead, but 9-Z learned fast enough.
Instead of trying to...
Or maybe fast enough.
Handle case Serato towards the window instead of dealing with Molledoy on ticket
They hit that B bomb site hard fallen flashed the damn near entire time
They'll vacate the site four players up here for 90 and just before fury I can secure that 12
This is actually really interesting
But I think this one go
This is them surviving the nerves a little bit actually thinking about what to do next and not just crumbling
after seeing that they've given up that second conversion the call is very
pragmatic they get the off blind inside of B they're right this is the weaker
site this is where fall it came from when they retook that last round they
deal with that problem but still money here for Furiah one up coming in now and
the question is where do Ninesie take it next
Here you have done really well keeping eyes on me.
Cam is a...
Ah, shot through and PGT's got the entry.
And Molledoy misses a shot, he'll get Molly back as well.
This auto-tests the bench and Mayeron's cover perfect. Now Molledoy another missed one.
That's the full punish.
Fallen will try to find an evacuation route, let them have that A site.
It is a foregone conclusion. Back to back, electric momentum.
Those are not easy shots, but he just needed to hit one.
Whoa.
That changes things.
It's the hard A play.
Three save for Furia is not the end of the world.
I think they'd be really worried.
They lost majority here, lost grip of that off.
They might not see that next round.
And actually, even though there's still a little bit of a lead here for Furia, I feel like there's some pressure alleviated for 9-Z.
They avoid trying to split it down the middle. It's two-sided execs, a fast B and a fast A.
And that's suddenly got Furia talking.
And this opens up the game plan now for 9-Z.
And also shakes off that mounting pressure of not being able to win consecutive rounds,
not since the fifth and sixth rounds of this map.
It's just finding where the edge of the cards are now for 9-Z.
The thing that's really scary is that where do you make your aggressive move next round,
round if you don't know 9Z are gonna move out quickly on either side.
Great cover. They want to take board aggressive control inside of middle and hope it's not an early play.
And then going for a retake if they have to but give themselves a big flank chance.
9Z again they want to keep the tempo up. They're going back to two rounds ago.
Okay, Serato gets wind of that top mid-cross, but he's not able to get the kill on Luchov.
And this one's actually underpass play.
They got fallen, jump spotting and throwing utility.
They have kind of established inside of middle, and so a third, a new round here for Ninesi.
Money's teetering now for Furia.
This is the kind of round you grind out the time and the utility, and you can easily influence Furia to save.
They've already shown us a willingness to do it in the last round.
What would they have if not for the three survivors?
And the longer this round goes on, without enough information, they will just fall into a stack.
Battle of the Opera is queued up, but Molledoy bends the knee.
Yuri, watching the ramp for him. Palace is smoked.
DGT gonna try to torment Yuri. Yuri's gonna try to do his best to give Molledoy a chance to fight connector.
The mayor has slowly just taken over these angles one by one piece by piece now waiting for that ticket peak
I just want to I don't know if GGG is gonna take this risk right now. Yuri's not necessarily watching for his swing
Here it comes Molledoy. Oh just missed it by a second bomb concert shot Max's dad
Yuri gives that cover over towards the palace still do job will try to entry
25 seconds on this clock and third supportive piece now from
Oh, Maladoy hits the headshot, and this off-rock solid from within the safe zone is going to deliver that 12.
That's cold.
By the line for Furio, three map points.
Perfect playoff to set up.
Right read on the situation.
A new game plan for 9-Z.
But once they open up that angle from the side of default and he gets the first kill, Yuri swings.
takes out DGT, allows Molledoy to farm even further.
And that was a Molledoy who was being hunted by Mayor.
He saw him post up on those mid angles.
And what felt like space being afforded over to 9Z
is just them playing Molledoy's game,
but it hinges on him hitting them, which he will,
as does the Akin Dar, again with an opening kill,
out through that mid window.
There were moments in this match
It felt like Furio were never going to find this major form.
A recovery was demanded of them, and they have damn near delivered.
Hanging on to man advantage here in the 22nd round.
Oh, he lost, Florida dies.
Pressing into them.
This could be a curtain call now for 9-Z.
It's Mayerner-Max to somehow get back this 2v4.
Somehow, someway, when at the moment, Furious numbers do remain split.
It's a free beyond fallen and that you'd think would draw somebody off of the opposite site where the bomb actually is
There's going to be a critical fight here between Max and you kinder and you kinders played it far more patiently than Max expects
Bomb down at 45 seconds and while mayor may has superseded all expectations in the first map a clutch in this moment
seems damn
impossible
How could you imagine him piecing this together a smoke to maybe get him up the catwalk an AK to fluster him from that A site
Oh, hey, maybe something like that. Oh my goodness. This second shot the kingdom our presses in
It's your real will not waste this moment
They will continue to attempt to lift this curse
Finally a response from Furia and finally it feels like we actually have a game on our
hands by no means the cleanest counter strike we've ever seen from Fallen and Co.
But some crucial clutches going in their favor and some crazy moments too.
This is the kind of CS we wanted to see, a little bit more poorly Jacob.
And finally from Furia a response, a sign of life.
Yeah a sign of life, I think that's the best way to encapsulate this game.
wasn't necessarily as you said the prettiest of ganas right coming out for me the team but oh my
what's this important for for feria to stay alive in this match up sure they needed to win Mirage but
also the fashion they did it in i feel like they're outplayed in the first half once more somehow
some way they get away with six rounds and there's hope for the second and then finally
Molotov shows up you know a little bit more composed hitting his shots playing a bit more mature
there's it in the playoff and seemingly a feria that is back alive yeah i think i'm with you
i think manzi look like the better team in the first half but you got like some of the strength
the fury in terms of their individuals, like with the kind of players stepping up, I mean
what, there's the 1v3, the 1v3 in the pistol, 1v3, 1v4 from Maladoy, yeah, whatever they
were, and then like two last second defuse, like they barely held on in that first half,
but the difference from Dust 2 is at least those like small wins let them wake up, like
kept them close enough to keep it within striking distance, and then yeah, you
switch sides, you get Maladoy popping off with the AWP, and now it all pans
out well.
I mean, five out of the six rounds, it's purely a one, there was either one of
their players left alive or none.
Like that was the hardest fought,
there are six rounds on T side that I have ever seen,
but most importantly, they got them.
They got six, doesn't matter how they got them,
they did, and it gave them enough of a buffer
in the second half to be able to close things out.
Yeah, I think we should go back to some of those moments
because I don't want to say maybe there was a little bit
of an angel looking over them in some of these situations
but just about for real got some of these rounds
over the line.
That's what it felt like.
The rounds we were referring to
is first and foremost round seven.
And again, as Janko said, we're unable to keep a lot of people alive.
This time around it's a 2v3 scenario.
Bomb goes down, you have Molotov to 13 HP, you have Nancy at this point up, 5-1 having
played a great beginning to the first half.
Very composed, seemed to be in control of the game, and the way they approach this
retake as well, seemed to be alright, waiting for the Molotov sticking together, flashing
for each other.
Maybe here the spacing was a little bit off, Luchov gets a kill and then it's
just you can't lift, but unfortunately there's no time left to defuse the bomb, but
this point we're talking 0.05 seconds.
Unfortunate, you know, that can happen once in a while.
It's gonna happen two times in a half.
We're moving fast into round nine, right here, Jason?
It's happening one more time.
This time around, the buy from Furia as well,
they are under ropes.
If they lose this, I'm willing to say it's game over.
This is one of those rounds against the low-bi,
where I feel like 9Z did that whole thing
where they got a little bit too cute on the map,
like a double push in towards the B-hauls.
You have a lot of resources on the other side
of the map against this low-bi.
Your operator doesn't have anyone
to keep the spacing between you,
and those tech nines get way too close,
or do anything with it and they slip.
There's this plan from Fallen as well.
I've never seen this plan.
In the end, it made all the difference
because the Abz guy couldn't cover his teammate.
But yeah, they just kept coming, these clutches.
And even in the final round.
That's his wild team all the way up.
It was a 4K with a 1v2, just masterfully played really
in the end.
But it was by the skin of their teeth
that Furia was able to rack up these six rounds.
Their best round was probably that half-bite
that they called out of a timeout to sort of keep
a minute.
for the economy, it was important that they could keep buying from that point on.
I think there was a cool difference too in their CT side when they switched halves, because
I felt like it was kind of similar to Dust2's in the sense that it was kind of like play
a little bit further back.
They didn't seem to want to be too aggressive in this one.
They were clearing out some ramps and they're not really pushing up mid, but the difference
is Molotov hitting his shots.
If you're going to play that far back, the AWPer's got to hit his shots.
Literally, he got to the end, like back to back rounds.
He misses a couple of shots, save.
Hitting a couple of shots, winning.
going back to those early moments, like I don't want to be too critical of Fira
because as you said, Janko, a win is a win, but like we know they have more of a
capacity to be getting these done way cleaner and maybe even more of them on
that side. Now like are we allowed to critique even if they still won? Yes we
are and we should and but we also shouldn't forget that they ended up
winning in the extended the series but that's not gonna mean much unless they
improve going into Overpass. Like so far what I've seen on the server I
trust I and Zee more. I mean even the first round the Jayko pointed out
That's a lucho sort of pushing cat to go T spawn to flank when he has two teammates on A like in
There's no need to go for that play. He just stays on B. Maybe it doesn't happen
But most important as you can see here is the kinder and model it has better games and having between the two of them
You know seven out of the eight opening kills that fury I managed to get there's still losing in that department by a large
Margin and that's really important for fury moving forward you mention it after best to look out
Well, Casarotto look at his frags as well when you start having those guys finding openings for you all of a sudden the space opens up
For Casarotto to slaughter and it makes some plays happen
So this time it took a little bit
But the fury off that I mean the fury team just kind of woke up and then you started seeing it all kind of fall into place
The way it should the way we expected it to finally finally it seems that they work it up on this stage
Just move on to the second half there because 90 they win the pistol and a fury I stole them in their tracks
Just all those things or maybe your prep has ruined you right like because you need to be
You need to really trust this round if you're going to go B in an anti-force, right?
You obviously know what can happen with the pistols being in play.
That was a weak fake from DGT towards A, but fear I just had four players here from the start pretty much.
They just decided to stack maybe just something, you know, in the mid-round they said that they were going to do.
But this was what enabled the comeback to start happening, right?
Because after you lose that second round, you know, your money is in the bin and it becomes much more difficult to play the T side.
You just got bottlenecked man like if you're gonna if you're gonna execute that like you have to get out
Like you just have to even if you're jumping to your death like you have to create that space
So there's no chance that anyone following up can actually do anything, but yeah for me
I can't get away from the AWP in the second half. I think that was the saving grace with Molo do I lovely in the second round
That's huge to get you started
But that all started really heating up and started making every kind of move that 90 was trying to do
You Molo picked one off right shaved it a little bit thinner
I think it's also you know an example of what we get to see the limitations of 19 that he said
You know we had this round in this second round in the second half where they trust a call out of spawn every time
They tried to run a default on the T side they got smacked down then they went to rounds in the road
That's a fast B execute
It's a fast a execute out of spawn calling the players don't have to make individual decision making that just have to follow
The plan that was laid out coming into the game
But I think that's the limitation for 19 this game the more this game become a default game the more I guess
Individual decision-making that has to be taken that's what pairs like you can that case a rod or fall for that
matter they'll eat your life so I think this was a game that you know
successfully so by fear was slowed on to a point where 90 had to try to default a
bit more didn't work out on that case there's bad news for 90 fans because
the decide is gonna be an overpass and not much you can do on that map or on
your T side outside of default they did have success on it in this tournament
but yeah I agree that it's going to be a clash of styles we were joking in
the podcast with fury it's like against them when you play T side
overpass it actually is like it is in scrims because the kinder is just balloons
every round and although he is there supporting him so that's going to be
for me the name of the game you know can you deal can you find a way to deal
with that aggression early on punish it if you can then you can have something
going I'm glad you mentioned that because that's the way I feel going
into this third map is it all for me it all falls on your kinder and well he
does and how effective he is because this map is huge there's going to be
plenty of gaps he can test there's going to be plenty of space he can
challenge, walking through smoke, getting through bathrooms, trying to gain an advantage
off a risky play. That's the kind of stuff he loves. And Fallen has specifically referenced
this map and said, this is a map where we kind of lost our tempo, like teams started
figuring us out and we couldn't get back into it. And that was one of the big priorities
as he said specifically. Yikinder came in with fresh ideas, new ideas, a few little
details to change, a few adaptations. And that's actually gotten this overpass back
under control for them where they're really, really confident on this map. And now that
it's the decider, you better live up to those words.
Yeah, I mean it was so crucial in terms of the success in the latter part of 2025 as well as great to see them refining their form
But I guess to play devil's advocate for a moment
Yanko, are you confident that you kind of is going to be showing up in that classic aggressive style to be starting this off?
I'm confident he's gonna be aggressive, but how much success is going to have I'm not sure
And they have to have success on the CT side because if there's one thing I still don't trust their T side like even after Mirage
I know they got I know they got six
But it wasn't pretty and a couple of those was just 9z maybe doing a little bit too much when they didn't need to and obviously the clutches
Right, so I think it has to be a
9 round CT side for fury if they're going to win this how poetic is it though to a certain extent
We've talked so much before the series began about this being like kind of fall in his last her eyes
Announces retirement at the end of the year
He's like the OG master of overpass like when the Brazilians burst onto the scene and LG and SK
This was the map where everyone was like they have such a god-tier understanding of how to do this that nobody can match them
So now here we are with a chance for them to finally win a playoff series at a major for the first time since we were playing global offensive
Yeah, yeah, like five years four years. So, you know, if you're coming back to this map
I think there's something cool about that and fallen better have a masterclass because as Yankee said the T side today are looking absolutely
Rough if anything you got to speak to more of those will I know more though
I stepped up in the later states of Mirage had three or four good rounds overall
but he's also been inconsistent so far in this series and I feel like on a map like overpass CT side
The kinder is going to be aggressive as Enko said he's never gonna change the way he's playing regardless of in finding success or not
It's just a question whether or not this guy has to clean up after the mess that you kinder is gonna make
Sometimes he's needed a lot because your kinder is maybe not finding too much success
Sometimes he gets away with a little bit less but for more of that to play consistently well on the wall pass
I think that's a massive win condition. He has to keep his cool. I remember around against miles
It was against a half-buy and the kinder guy he got one kill
He fell back to bank and waited for his teammates and they came
Over-rotated and they wand around cleanly, you know, it can't change here that now in those situations
You're just going to keep fighting keep repicking because you think you need to win it like for your team
You want to win it for your team like you need to stay patient and play together
That has been the strength of
Furia in this tournament just to put the script for a second to look at the side of 90
A lot of times played on this map, but just looking at their mentality right correct me if I'm wrong Yanko
It still felt like they had that aggressive
Mentality on Mara sure maybe it didn't always go their way, but it seems like they're not scared
No doubt the mentality is there like we're taking the fight to fury out no matter what time and time again
It's just tricky you need to
Understand and at which moment in the round sort of you've done enough and just take a step back like you pressured them
You made things uncomfortable for them
They need to figure out what to do now. You can just take a step back and maybe a couple of times
They did a little bit too much and sort of the round resolved itself in furious favor
So that balance finding it is not easy
But if they can do it they have a good chance of winning and again where there's been a lot of question marks in terms of
Players performing and I feel like one thing that has been consistent
Is the 9c decides to play their version of the game if they were to lose an overpass at least they go out in their
Own terms I don't expect them to change that proactive aggressiveness
we've seen on the CT side that's gonna continue.
It's overpass a map that's really fitted for that.
It can't be to some degree,
but it's hard to do it over and over and over.
And even more so, as we discussed on the T side,
you have to have a certain amount of default
or a certain amount of gating map control using utility.
Otherwise, guys like Yikinda and Molotov
will pick you apart, and that's gonna be an issue.
This is where we get back to Lucha, right?
He put himself on the map, really,
with that game against Paravision.
And no Paravision was out 0-3,
but they had 11 rounds on T side overpass,
and he was just having a field day.
So I don't want to say she's been quiet, but I didn't have many memorable moments so far in this game.
This would be a great moment for him to step up.
I don't often ask some predictions, but this has been a way more competitive for me than I was going to give it credit for.
Jason, where are you laying your cards in this one? Who's going to the semis?
I know, I feel it's crazy for me to even say it myself because I feel like Nanzi has been the better team.
Certainly on map one, certainly for the first half of Mirage, but I'm taking Fury.
This is where I lean towards that experience and those individuals that have already shown us,
They can kind of seal these, not at majors, but we've seen them inflate off some big events, being able to seal things out.
So I'm taking fury. I have to put faith in them now.
I want to stick with 9-Z. They played better Counter-Strike for the most part of the series, right?
The clutches really ruined their chances on Mirage. I think they'll do a better job on Overpass and win.
I think 9-Z has been the better team tonight so far. 100%, but I do think that they had the one opportunity
and Mirage to close it out. It's not going to happen. It's going to be very amazing.
Well either way, who's your prediction of that? Who'd you got?
I'm just going to hedge his bets on either side of the equation, he doesn't like being wrong.
I just wanted to hear it.
Either way, we're doing the third map to decide who is going through to the semi-finals in this South American showdown.
War the clock, strike midnight on 90's Cinderella Run. Only time and overpass will tell.
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I'm sorry, but do you speak Spanish as a team, right?
I had the same thing. I guess they speak in Spanish. I don't know.
So are you speaking Spanish with the coach?
Sometimes because he speaks Spanish,
but we all speak Portuguese better than he speaks Spanish.
So sometimes we speak Portuguese with him.
And yeah, when we are in game, we speak Spanish.
That's pretty funny though.
So he's listening to you guys communicating in Spanish,
but then in the timeouts, speaking Portuguese.
Yes.
Wow.
To throw the enemies out.
For us, like the Argentinian players,
it's more normal to speak Portuguese.
Really?
The server is in Brazil.
When we started to play, always you play against.
And with Brazilians, so it's kind of a similar language.
And we learn the language.
So it's kind of easy for us to speak Portuguese, but it's more difficult for the Brazilians to speak Spanish.
Interesting.
Actually, I was watching the Reels on Instagram, and there were people who were talking in chat, you know,
they were searching for a language practicing, and there were also people who speak Portuguese,
and it doesn't understand people who speak in Spanish.
And I mean, like, Marron said that it's easy to adapt, because this language is kind of similar,
but for some reason, why is this people speaking it?
That it's kind of different.
Yeah, interesting. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's that for me is kind of mind-boggling though that you'd you'd change like I can barely speak English
properly right so the fact that you guys are multiple languages and now you're doing this with us in English it's it's extremely impressive
I'm very grateful to be here to have the team I have
I'm very happy with the rise, the coach, the analyst, the CEO, it's here with us.
So yeah, a lot of people from Argentina, it's cheering for us and waiting this moment for
four years because our last major was in 2022.
So yeah, I'm very excited to be here.
At the best moment in my career, it was definitely my qualification to the Antwerp Major.
That was a legendary for the South American team because it was never inside us a team from South America,
not Brazil, like Ruias and Chile, Chile and the rest of South America,
qualified for the Major. So, yeah, it was historic for all directions.
So, yeah, that will be with me all my life.
life. I think the person who inspires me more I will say fallen and it's the
obviously one but I want to say another one and he's with me in the team right
now who is beat with a legendary player from from Brazil and now it's our coach
again so yeah I'm very happy to work with him.
I want to achieve a lot of more measures, but I will say playoff measures.
That's my real goal, because I want to win a measure, but I want to be realistic at the same time,
so I will say playoff or formation.
Well, haven't we laid the foundation for a perfect end?
9z picking up the first map and Furia, who we didn't know if they could, responding.
And now, from the top of their map pool, overpass a series with no punish picks whatsoever.
We can have the very best map to end it.
An entire decade, Cologne.
You have waited to cheer for this event as a major.
An entire decade, Cologne.
The fallen has sat here waiting for a chance to touch that trophy as a major.
So one final chance Cologne!
Let me hear you roar!
Thank goodness we get a chance to see overpass.
Furia, they've overcome their demons.
And now we put a microscope to every pistol, every mistake, every punish, and every rotation.
As 90 run this out long to get ahead of a very difficult T side.
I love the tempo gotta be honest
Ninzee once again, huh right back at it
Straight into the furnace and Maladoy is gonna give me something to think about in the backdrop
You've got three sets of feet on site though
If Ninzee wanted the bomb plant they've got that at least now hang on for dear life of 9s. I have DGT babysitting stairs
There's no one coming up there. Everyone rotating in from CT. They could run into a crossfire get clothes lined on their way in
That's the dream situation for Ninzee. Look at the bodies though
All these players about to just fly out through that dumpster and that constant threat as well of the bank bush
Fallen's clean with the first one drop by Luchoff inside the corner. He starts to rack them up again
It is explosiveness, but what's for molotoy from the first kill now
Into it reload needed bomb takes quick and there's no
He's got a goal. There's no time so close surely
That thing's gonna blow one
a hell of an effort.
Had to be the last bullet before the reload.
He couldn't nail him there.
And the crossfire is king.
They take out Max, but where there's Max, there's Luchov.
First kill to fury up, but a swift bomb plant.
And again, every round is gold here for 9-Z.
It had to be that shot.
Everybody's looking forward to their CT side on Overpass.
Both these teams massively over-perform on the defense.
The pistol is just the easiest way to take the pressure off of the second half.
Flash in for Kcerano, B250 versus blinded people.
Forces, the team kill.
Luckily there's utility for 9z as well.
On top of that one they will just cut right through this B defense.
this B defense, nothing else to hold them back.
Now, you kinder ahead in USP, I don't think so.
And even then, we see Ninesie play it appropriately,
drop their smokes, and make sure that they don't make mistakes.
Both of these teams lost to round two four spies
in the previous map.
Yeah, but if that doesn't happen now,
and it doesn't seem like it will,
Molledoy pushing in, chance to see the side,
N'Chop takes him down.
Calm situation now for Ninesie.
They gave themselves a very small chance by buying barely anything a couple of P250s and that flash we saw quesadro to try to capitalize on
This exit will come towards Yuri. He knows it, but now I get spotted
No chance to get the jump on them
It's a massive chance
Go far this major, Firiah have played overpass twice, 13-6, 13-7 versus Betvom and Maus respectively, over on the other side.
9z have played it four times this major, 13-8 to the Mongols, 16-12 to Spirit, 13-1 to ParaVision and 13-10 to Tyloo.
That's an incredible resume, undefeated so far on the map.
Well, if it wasn't for us, we would have lost our lives.
tried to work on coming into this major having to wait four years to return
after their Antwerp outing. That's a long time to think about your dreams and
aspirations and now Lucho will be thinking about what he can offer in
the next one because it's opening kill here for Furia. Bodies on the site, flashbang misses,
two targets and monster. Kcerotto from behind the pillar still yet to activate.
Max is leaning in on this and as Kcerotto finds a small sanctuary behind
this pillar. It feels like it's the kind of spot that could go unnoticed. You're
enough. He swings. And he tethers nicely off of Yuri, who now has another. And with
that, Furia's first gun round sucks the life out of 9-Z. Yeah, one of them, one
of the dome there for Mayern. He's about to go down. They'll try to escape
here at 39 seconds. Really uncomfortable spot for 9-Z. Spending all their money,
being able to save an AK and a glill, but just a molly extra for Mayern
and what's really important here on vertigo is the verticality, is going for the boost
within the site, timing that up perfectly with your caseurado.
And for 90, the T side on this map is very B centric when they get the opportunity.
They show variety because they're a good team.
But leaning towards monster whenever it's not being heavily covered is something they're
going to try a lot.
rounds ending B, early rounds where there aren't double ups outside of monster with a crossfire.
Feria have to protect it. They're very good on those entries.
The 0-3 start for Feria would have been a complete nightmare.
Because how many maps in a row can you start from behind?
Here comes a fully loaded Furia, the off on Maladoy.
With those two saves, they know that a buy is coming in, but they also know that that
buy is a skeleton buy.
And 9z, they won't have the capacity to go and sell fakes, to go for a thorough default
to bring an op to respond.
I'm a little bit worried seeing Fira playing this far back.
Because if they give up all the space,
they create a situation where it's one missed off shot
and the site gets overrun.
It's extra pressure on Moledoy.
No inside bathroom setup.
He puts himself in a must-hit position.
No rotations over.
I'm not liking this right now for Fira.
I mean, I know Moledoy's on form,
but it was a communication on map one that I was concerned about.
Keeping the ideas moving to get information.
That's what won them these rounds.
Oh, but he nails it.
Right?
But what if that form goes supernova?
Because he nails the first shot.
Luchov right into it with a beat.
Good entry out of Luchov.
Tuxedo gets popped by Yuri.
More bodies where the first one comes from.
He commits to the spray.
And he right up, picked up the slack.
Just like that.
Throwing himself.
Thrustic forward past Moldadoi's points of contact.
Catching a multi-kill moments.
And that doesn't matter.
Just take your breath away by Yuri.
Beautiful rifle work.
You cannot talk about the success of Furia in 2025
without talking about the success of Yuri.
10 seconds, and DGT is going to hope he dies on time.
There he'll go.
Three up, and three down for Yuri as they close this round.
And as small as it seems, the only
one comes up with this first shot.
That's just so key.
Again, playing that far back is inviting a lot of danger.
But this is a moment where the shoulders can come down a bit.
You know that you're now going up against a save.
And it's time to make some money early.
Even if it sprays a bit wild,
it's just such better cover on that side of the truck
than standing in the open stairs.
It's a gut-wrenching feeling for 9Z to come crashing back to reality.
You are in the mud on the T side of Overpass.
This third map was never meant to be easy.
Domestically, great record for 9Z on Overpass.
At this major, great record for 9Z on Overpass.
Blue chop. What?
Headshot. All the sudden there's a spanner in the works.
What an oddity of a situation we've got here.
4v5 still.
No, excuse me, 4v4 now.
No way to grab that off.
The team's playing this like they have a chance to win this round.
They've got to kill from that far away.
They can't go back and get the gun.
Four on four situation.
I mean just do it again.
And just, yeah, and again it comes down to...
Well right now you've got Yuri in place.
Holding the line.
I hate even entertaining the thought.
Oh, the mob goes down!
You can't be trippin' over your feet now, Furia.
Fallen, looking timid on the approach.
Oh, good reaction for Fallen, and they've got it.
But never, never in a million years
should this round have gotten this close.
A warning sign for Furia, maybe a slap upside the head
that'll keep them sharp moving forward.
But tell me, that doesn't have 9-Z confidence
starting to hit the boiling point.
Why does it even look like they have a chance
that entire time, and it's again because of the position.
It's so dangerous when you let them get that close.
And apparently it doesn't matter what kind of guns you have.
It's ridiculous.
The locks.
Oh, man.
They need to do more on it.
But they're winning around.
They have the lead.
They make them lose a little bit of money,
with it coming so close.
That's not a wake up call.
I don't know what will be.
This round starts with a more forward opening
They moved furious, throwing a Kindar down into connector.
Have a heavy feeling out of the cage, immediately opens, no.
I actually made through.
I do really like to read.
Again, like early rounds and everything,
Ninesie will always default back to take it over monster.
I like that period, thinking about that.
Really left the A site entirely vacant.
Could be scary.
This off catches you off, but it's only for 30 damage.
goes back and Max is going to find the head shot.
The repeat comes in, Molledoy goes down.
And because they're playing open roads,
there's not this instant bounce from 90.
They don't feel the need to rush that forward
and so they're not going to get tripped up by the fact
that Fioria had so many bodies here.
That's the other part of it.
They don't actually just full exec.
They test monster.
They'll try to walk out in the middle of a timing.
But man, how is there no response at all here
for Fioria?
The fog of war is complete and total towards a
And it's the walk up
It's the dead silent move
The kinder's gonna try it to cause some interference. No one's here at balloons. And Eagle is washed
He relieves that M4 forward
Careful, because Mayer's on this exact line, but Mayer's also got to give this up to go and push the bomb in.
And that opens the door for the two Furia riflemen to start to claw it back, significantly.
Mayer's low, cleaned up by Keisarotto.
The two of them, a double kill apiece.
Yuria Keisarotto slipping into what was all of 90 on that bomb site.
Just got to give it up to Yuria, man.
It's fairly critical kills.
Of 90 on that bomb site.
Mayn was holding for that exact Yuri push, Mohan,
but he had to move that bomb in,
and when he does, Yuri finds the perfect moment
to push the opposite side of the site
that K. Serato's distracting from.
They're getting insane form out of Yuri.
Hell of a day to do it.
Still another moment where it's very scary.
Ninzee pulling that call out.
They go into a timeout now.
Max has got the one AK, they invest behind it, but it's a tapered by only some money going in.
And this flank got watched, again, like the fact that you're even gets the kill towards a long,
long. He would never have stood there if he was worried about that. Assist on the third as well.
High efficacy on that grenade, huh? Low health mayor. One of the pistols in play here. Flashbangs
finding their targets but the kinder not getting his kills just yet. It's okay. It could be
recovered. No real chance to gun him down. Lobster pipe held and that one's convincing. Curie up
with a flurry of kills. Go up to a 5-2 CT lead on Overpass and yet all of them still
seen laser focused surely with how 19 have tested them in rounds they're not
supposed to this does not feel safe still I mean it's fallen's overpassed
that invented the forward a aggression from balloons it used to be him using fur
in this position to get space pushed back and then phase for the team that
adopted that use rain in that position but he's the one who invented it and it
It hasn't fallen out of meta.
There are so many aggressive CT options to implore.
You just have to make the call.
Early punish, and now it's the utility from safety here from the CT side.
Wow, what a crazy position after a CT push going for a boost like this.
This would be such an insane read, like the thought that he would even go back to do this, and look, they're covering this correctly.
I have both options!
Oh!
Nice!
Oh, what?!
Oh my goodness, and you keep your push off a short, they knew he was gonna do that.
So many layers to this short play this round between the teams.
It's crazy cause the kill comes up for Furia to actually give themselves a chance, but they still knew what was gonna happen on both ends of that push.
Molo-Do is gonna have to be instrumental yet again, 45 on this clock.
Uri's the support system once more.
Tries to get into position, but as this smoke remains up, it's just Molotoy worried about the bathroom's door.
And now that it's faded, he could drop Max, but there come the shots and the confirmation on that jump up.
Nobody's locked!
And down goes Uri! Down goes Molotoy!
He's in the A site yet again!
The piercing attack, crushing everything.
Spotting a kinder who now has no chance to even go for this.
Bomb gets planted, and Ninesie close it.
There is no holding them back once they come knocking on the front of this A-bomb site.
Glock's Organs.
And 9C show us a real depth in this round.
The amount of setups they had, an anticipation of moves from Furia outside of the B site.
That isn't just them getting lucky with the A hit.
No.
They got unlucky with the Fallen's boost.
They were watching for it.
He still got the kill, and then they got two back.
Shout out Hwaso Peek for the wallbang headshot return.
New Kinders push off from short even though it sneaks by because they have to call their player in blue to now refrag in wassail piece
The rotation to a is still not enough
Again, I would just like to see a little bit more bathrooms control out of fury
But in a realm like that I can understand it was more of a heavy emphasis towards be from the CT side
But these early positions are looking more competitive.
High level overpass.
Kicking in.
Maynard is on the off.
He had two good maps in this series, but starting this one zero and five.
Getting away with this unreal battle.
And to be fair, that span back was also pretty fortunate.
Oh my goodness, what an attack.
Here come those luchov entries.
It's one of the specialties all major long that Ninzee have been able to bank on.
He's kind of an untapped secret weapon right now.
A scary sixth gear for Ninzee.
Eating damage on the approach, but it does go both directions, and again we're going to play this game of Cat and Mouse outside of the B bomb site, DGT to the top of the boost.
Shift damage on Kcerado and Fallen. A kind of light-hearted spam comes through and doesn't find its target at a fury up, but fury will just keep trying these different angles.
Ice made this time out of 90, that'll get Kcerado dangerously low.
Here comes a game of battleship, you know, between short and inside the site.
You can alert them of your presence, there's still, there's no ceiling over the site.
You might as well have used the fact that you can go with spams.
So some damage dealt both ways.
A lot of it unconfirmed.
But the last few rounds, I see have started to lean and end towards A, which I think
a little bit unexpected.
The splash for Yuri to set up, falling into the fight and back into the cover, but they are closing the gap.
Now he's a little more concerned about the short side.
Falling holds his own! What a long bang!
Max has got the one answer back.
Careful in these 2vx situations.
K-Syronto's gonna clamp down on it this time around.
Mayeron can't get that deep angle. Good on Fallen to catch those two kills.
He has the second most amount of kills on Furia at the moment.
At the moment what a time to come alive on overpass of course
That's for a moment pain that he gets those he gets full blinded yes has to fall back
And not just that but it felt like for a second
He goes into the short side where he was about to find a duel still kind of blind has second guesses
There's also more awkward position and still delivers to on the walk up
That was not an easy position for fallen to get one let alone both
I thought he was flustered. This kind of indecision for a second.
He knows that. They know where he is. Not much room to fall back.
It's a good CT angle that he takes, but he just straight up has to deliver.
Knows he has to fight to the death.
And he says class is in session.
Slight limitations for 90 in round 10.
This elusive fourth-round win on the T side.
And a total change up in the tempo. A completely unannounced move.
Look out! The burst area is not being respected, but they don't get the kill.
Oh! You don't get the kill! And there's enough CTs here.
Recovers it back, flash finds them, setting up.
Because you'd think, of course, he's not going to do that entirely alone.
It doesn't matter how good the setup is in the approach.
visit the approach they don't get that open and kill it's all for naught
feria will take your position doesn't matter about the damage here on your
against ronoh watch for lie on the boost always ready
flash comes through takes fall and blinds you still recover
Max can't clamp down on it but I'm not mistaken the player with the Mac 10
in the middle of all that so economic limitations show why 90 are up against
a wall at the moment and Mayeron in the backdrop there was no need to
discuss his shortcomings as an offer at this event or events prior in this
quarter final until now. He has had real glorious moments in both Dust 2 and
Mirage but a difficult side in this time sworn in the final 30 seconds. His
second kill just now collected and they want to rip that off from his hand so
that it's not an option here for 90. He'll get a chance to play on CT side.
There won't be too much T-side-off impact.
But again, this is about getting rounds.
They didn't want to have to start on the T-side on this map.
But they knew that it was coming.
Again, we look back and see how important those pistol and conversions were.
Can actually snapshot a lot of these rounds and see the position for 9Z is so good.
But Yuri comes up clutch with Maltese. Maldoy's hitting his first shot.
This is what made Mirage possible in the second half for Furia.
This is what we expected from Furia coming into the series on map 1.
But now none of that matters. All that matters is closing overpass.
And they're showing themselves they can do it.
But if I'm 9-Z, I'm still confident I can pick up 1 or 2.
It's a weird one, but those nades well placed.
The Kindar has been floating around this opening.
And Molledoy will welcome this challenge.
Missed times the off-shot as the Kindar jumps in front of him, gets killed out through that
smoke.
Now Molledoy really feels like he's got to get something, because he can't really
control this gun.
They just have to hide for long enough that he gets scared, because now his rifle
support is gone.
Doesn't want to take the risk.
I love that he's staying here.
He's getting that rotation in from Yuri, and he holds onto space, doesn't immediately
Evacuate and really just leaves that gun this actually crazy lurk position out of Luchov like look at where this round is actually going
You'll stick here for the time being and remember there's only two guns and Luchov holds one of them
So they're actually allocating him to the other side of the site
Luchov is dead and so when he goes down this becomes far less likely
90 bank on a half health was so peaking they're going towards short 50 seconds
Oh, what a move actually. I mean Paul is not gonna be able to see this
just trying to chase Kcerato playing with grenades. I mean reloading behind the
pillar, he doesn't feel ready. Fallen's caught out in the open but remember they
just don't have the hardware. AK's last at bat and so they'll sweep them under the
rug. Furia secure an 8. Yeah this half goes from good to stellar here for
Furia. This is 8 without a pistol and a conversion.
It's time to lock in.
What a daunting task lies ahead for 90 once we switch sides.
It's one they should have always known they'd have to deal with, floating overpass versus
fury up but now it feels real and that electric tempo that they began this
T side wave flying down long with pistols it is slowly receded into playing the
map and keeping options and waiting for furious tests struggling to defend
against those first kills getting those for themselves
inside bathrooms control one thing they've been doing so well is just
pressure on just absolute opposite sides of the map the kinder trying to play his
advantage here Molledoy protects him on the outside of bathrooms how will this
get clear perfectly time from you kickoff oh
versus Lou job pick it three come on max will deny that still a solid
multi-kill out of your front bathroom's defender Molledoy gonna be just
locking it on this angle now, knowing there's support standing behind him.
Fire pops and he will still offer half his health running back through it.
A two versus four in an uncomfortable place, especially when you still need to pick up that bomb.
And yet this is what's left of Nines' D side.
Stellar defense put forward by Furia at times pushed to its limits.
Molodoy Stoik sits back, relaxes, and knows that him and his team have indeed done enough.
Done enough to put doubts in the minds of 90.
A massive ask of them lies ahead on the other side of halftime.
A pistol in conversion had 9Z's hopes high out of the gate here on map 3, but Brazil
has been given real reasons to celebrate at the moment.
A second pistol victory here for 9Z in the middle of the cathedral would suddenly make
this place electric as their hopes could once again return to new heights.
GLON! WHO WANTS TO SEE A COMEBACK?!
They want Furia forged in the fire.
9z wins 70% of their pistol rounds on this map.
But this one, they need 100%.
Oh, what?
The flash is perfect. Luchov hits his shot.
Mayor in the eyes wide open.
The P250 is deadly from a distance.
Oh, but they take this out. They don't see the bomb.
That again. Two dead headshots in the pistols.
We go back to Dust2. It's been this way since the first round of this series.
It feels like they just win. They're just so solid on these pistols.
Just instant headshots. So, Furia...
Furia, Yuri still alive, so you never know right?
That should have been another in the 90 back pocket
I'm so interested in the CT side just with the amount of kind of jostling an
Out positioning that was going on outside of that B bomb site on 90s approach
Even if it only came up as three rounds on that T side
It felt like they were really trying to just warm their way through
I tell you we're not in control of a lot of those T positions that
They're still very nice.
They're still very nice.
I think it's impossible.
Down to Yukindar.
All four players here.
Surely they all just swing.
That was one of the tack pauses to talk more in these versus clutch situations.
Come on.
And they make it happen.
Last one's the hardest.
They make a meal out of it.
But they win that pistol.
They win both pistols on this map.
And look how excited they are at this chance.
Wow.
Let's go, stay composed, keep talking, keep talking to each other, keep making plans,
keep understanding.
Situations, in situations, make it difficult for them.
Kite, get good positions, bad people, help.
Another thing, the reminder to communicate has been huge, it's been a through line
at this major.
It has made the difference on these tack pauses.
It feels like the most obvious thing to say, but when the pressure's on, that's when the communication falls off, and that's when you lose everything.
And that's why Sid wants even from the dead players, right? All hands on deck.
And that's what's been so impressive about 90. Like through all their difficult games, they have kept communication high.
They haven't come through with very, like, boring setups without map control. They always bring that.
But that's a reminder for a future round.
Furia coming into this one with Glocks a couple of flashes, hoping to score a plant.
It would be an abject failure if they somehow lost this.
A one in a million rounds. Probably inspired by Ninesie's attempt with a similar buy.
Last half. No plant off the pistol, that's what this means.
There's three kills in a bot plant for Ninesie's Glocks on the attack.
Furia's not so much.
On for the ace.
Poiseau peek right there with Furia on the other end of it.
And he won it.
All five. Just an ace for the road.
Or is it an ace on the foundation
of 9-Z's extension into the playoffs?
That's the question that we'll only have answered in some time.
It's also a moment, no kills.
No bomb plant in the second rounds.
Money's the scariest thing to go up against on overpass.
When it comes to safety side, if you can get six mollies every round you buy them.
That off instantly onto mayor, tech nines though. Here for Furia.
Nate's perfect. Oh Nate is insane.
That's kind of what my interest was pieced by, right? These elder setups on the peace mollies.
Here's the mollies.
And Sendier is going to burn Maladoy out, Wasso in the middle of that, Smoke supported by the rifle, gets a little awkward,
Kcerado and Yuri trying to reclaim this one again.
And Mayor's off.
Yeah, he'll find it over top, so that really sucks the momentum out of the hands of Furia,
because now Kcerado, the one with the low health, also funds Smoke, dangerous cross.
He'll still hit two things.
Luchov kills him in the middle of all that, but just a reminder that things can change quickly with the talent that Furia have.
Aferia did a fantastic job in that first half of taking very scary positions but hitting
their first shot, denying the opening entry and then taking full control.
19 will have that responsibility now for themselves to close out.
We're going to get a strong game plan on this T side at Aferia.
They're comfortable being here.
They just know that this lead isn't as big as it might seem to the untrained eye.
They know to take every T-Round dead serious.
If you win this round, I would literally rather be them than Furia in this match only.
But there's that second kill! This is massive out of case or auto!
Just playing games through the monster pipe and it's lethal.
There's still a second half of this map to figure out for Furia, but you've got Mayeron in a tough spot, dropping his smoke on bathroom.
Furia never made this mistake in the first half. This will take a quick adjustment if, ever, Yori tiptoes his way out from the top of connector.
That bomb's going to be Molledoy's responsibility. This sends you Kindar and Fallen in front of that bomb with their smokes out, ready to blanket this A site.
Can Mayer adjust this scope fast enough and slam the shot to Yuri?
Because as those grenades begin popping inside of the site of this now, a sudden rush up from Luchov, a leg shot, and there's that pinch.
Yuri perfectly times it to tether into the A site, and the double kill from Keisarado, worse, it's weight and gold.
Gold honestly mayor is in a spot where it's time to get out of there, right?
If you wanted to have a chance of taking this off into the next round
They have money to buy it again, but you wouldn't want to do that and again. This is a moment where we see 9z make mistakes
Make a mistake
That fury did not on their CT side two kills through smoke on monster
All the advantages that you may have have nothing to do with that. Oh
One more punish here
Make it really expensive. Get through this money quickly is what
Furia are gonna try to do.
We chop hanging on for dear life, but it's feeling less and less likely.
Right off the thread of K Serato, who will collect a triple kill this round.
Attribute this one to K Serato, as Furia now have 10.
This could be a right off for 9-Z. We'll see.
They still get their money for virtually everything they need.
I wonder if AceRotter doesn't just put themselves in a good position, he just wins the round
with those two kills.
impossible to call around. The stakes are high. You want to tell yourself you don't
want to be passive, you just want to be making the right play. And sometimes that means shooting
back through a smoke. But as soon as you die you realize you're taking risks playing
at this level versus players of this calibre, there's never an easy choice to make.
And as he didn't get to this position by playing as a tier two team and pretending they're
playing against tier one teams, they played as if they have the same amount of top 20
players as all of their competition.
That's what got them here.
They can't turn their back on that, but that also means they have to rise up to
the challenge of more, a new set of top 20 players and continue to impress on
a level that you could never precipitate for their run coming into this major.
You can walk that tightrope all you want, but don't be surprised if Kcerado shoves you
off it.
You can already see the change up in 90, not a single player extending down that
ramp towards monster. I don't doubt that Ninesie have other defensive options, but I know damn
well that left a mark on them. This one working out a little bit towards Ninesie, holding onto
utility more, not burning it early, not anticipating a fast move from Furia, which they're right
about. Furia are coming into this very slowly and actually not willing themselves
to risk any kind of forward map control. Now those smokes start to come out for the CT side.
Pgt down here still has his smoke and his incendiary Max is playing flex here
and you know he just wants to make the right move do I lean and reinforce B or
do I stay towards a where they're coming in late well it is a B play only for
short case Rado's the one to go through flash finds its target second player
back there's also now low HP max is also wounded you can't ours gonna kill
blue chop up top the monster pike still slow to the play but max what are you
gonna do here you have no health to work so may on the scene as max burnt to a
crisp in front of him looks for the upshot drops one but the bomb plant
still secured has to be a one-on-four and I don't know if that's gonna happen
oh they deny him swing wide through it it's a team effort here from fury on
the face of the utility late grenades out of 90 but it's all for not their
Money's gone and Furia on the brink of victory!
They're here to take 12 now, that was the chance for 9Z to respond in the second half.
Their most comfortable half in their entire map pool.
They get the pistol and conversion they're looking for,
but as soon as they hit the money and the full rifles, they fall to Furia.
Kcerano once again open and kill out in front of that molotov on short.
That's what opens up the site.
No hesitation for Keisarotto. One of the three players in that pack, met by the flames, doesn't give a damn, dives right through it.
So not only do you feel his wrath when he spams a smoke, you just had a great point about having to go up and play those risks.
But a guy like Keisarotto can also just storm your castle and he did that.
An unexpected move, Katz, 9-Z off. Did they do anything wrong or do they just get caught by a world-class player?
And 9-Z are playing now for overtime.
They will not bring anything into this round.
A sinking feeling hits as 9-Z after their two pistols in the series thought,
it's our time, we know how to do this.
Well that chance may have vanished at the hands of K-cerano.
This is a game that in many ways for all of Furia feels like a curse.
You kindar's inability to win quarter-finals at majors, Molledoy's performance in Budapest
leaving him looking like a shell of himself.
In this constant 3-0, stage 3 start, that fizzles out at majors.
You lose the opening map, it all feels like it's becoming a reality again.
And yet in the back of your minds you just know if we can fight, if we can claw our
way back into these halves as Furia have, then you can get to overpass.
We've fallen, changed the world of Counter-Strike on this map.
We're fallen, inspired, all the nations where every player from 9Z hailed from.
And so you give him that comfort zone,
and he'll give you six rounds to try to fight it off.
Six rounds to battle for your dreams, 9Z.
Furia, map, match, semi-finals points.
And so they step onto the tightrope and they have to see what can they get away with.
Who's going to make the first move?
Can they stick to their CT game plan that they know works?
Or is this just a bridge too far as the confidence boiled over for Furia?
Have they finally ascended to the form that we saw last stage?
That's certainly what it feels like.
One more mistake, Quesarado.
Punish them twice already.
He's got a demon for this B site defense.
A millimeter from the kill.
Another mistake.
catch waso and this time it looks like they're just gonna bounce at times furious
sat back and let things stew this time they want in and as they try to get into
it it's case around to catch another DGT looks to be the hero drops that bomb and
now it's case Serato on the scene he's the reason this momentum rolled forward
it's built up by Molotoy and Luchov on the recovery
more than one another multi-kill from chaos Serato Max says he has a daughter
now and the time is limited. Do not waste these chances, but it's taken from him.
This Cathedral will see more of Brazil's Guardian Angel.
Falling stomps on the deep purple embers, we've seen burning slowly throughout this
major. 9Z are no more.
This is a team that deserve the praise.
Surviving a map, pushing Furia to their limit.
We saw that they could stand on stage
and still play their best ES.
But they gave Furia enough time to reach their form
of trying to be the top team in the world.
The team they were six months ago.
With the player that's won here 10 years ago,
looking to do it again on a side of a bracket
where he knows his hardest test might have been right now.
Ten years he has chased the thought of hoisting this trophy as a major victor again
and he's not doing it with an entire roster of Brazilians by his side
because Fallen's story and Fallen's influence goes beyond just his nation's borders
not only to that of South America, but to Kazakhstan and beyond.
Furia Secure Semi-Finals.
They certainly do a semi-final in Secure.
They're a very popular winner here as well.
First off, congratulations on another semi-final here in the cathedral.
Thank you very much, guys. I'm busy to play here every time.
Very happy we went through. Thank you so much for being here.
What about Nynzee? They've had this Cinderella run.
What is it like to play them?
you don't know a lot about team when they seem to beat everyone what is it
like to take them on they play very good was our hardest match so far I
think they could have gone through they play very good all serious they play
on this tournament and it's just that at some point we kept believing that we
could come back Mirage we did a very good defense and overpass a very good
defense so I guess sometimes your team office doesn't work and that's what
take them out of the tournament what is it like to play here I was I was
talking about this when we opened the barrier on if we look on that
trophy. The last time the major was here was 10 years ago. The team you were with at the
time is emblazoned on it. You lifted that trophy. What is it like to play here?
It's amazing guys. Lexus is a place where I feel everyone is coming from around the
world to celebrate Counter-Strike. You can see this game through NIC, completely different
content and still full arena. So yeah, this is probably one of the best plays
to play Counter-Strike. It's not the best. It's amazing to be here.
If we talk about bookends to careers, what is the difference between the person
speak to you right now who is you say on a retirement tour last time you play
here and the player who lifted that trophy 10 years ago what is the difference
the difference is that at that time I feel like I was still trying to prove
myself to try to win a lot and I was trying to put the first group on the
top of the world and now I'm trying to do it again with a different group and I
know the lifting this major trophy is part of the piece so maybe I can do it
one more time so the difference is I'm going for my second turn this time
what do you think is going to happen in that semi final what are you
It's going to be a crazy match. A lot of people have big respect for those guys. They're very friendly, very good players.
They also have some struggles on play-offs like we have been having lately.
So it's going to be a crazy match. It's going to be a pleasure to play then and hopefully the best is going to win. Let's see.
We love watching you play. We love watching you win. Congratulations Fulham.
and fury it through to a semi-final!
I think we shall!
Semi-final Saturday!
And today's game is all about living in the present.
Easy to say, harder to do.
Aurora encircled with rumours but simultaneously going further than ever before.
The thoughts of the future creeping through your mind on both sides of the stage, the past.
How can you ignore it if you're Gabriel Toledo?
We don't know who's gonna win this one.
We don't know who's going to grand finals tomorrow.
But let's have some fun and find out!
Everyone wants to win a major not everyone knows how to
Let's see who's up to the task today
Furia selecting the T side star and they're looking to pull the soul fly out the gates major rookie's B site
It's gonna be bombarded with a rush
Going straight in
Madge and Mikannia a quick to tend to this is about our first shot and soul fly takes down four and puts his head on a
Plata, there's Madge and there's a nice double out of Mikannia
Shut down one out, case of auto, try to fight a couple of consolation, frags or a aura.
A lip-roaring start.
Hitting him with pace and soul flight, he delivers the young man one kill to the name.
With the setup it was sound and the Turks strike first.
Is there a force fight?
In the ranks here, just chips one away, then playing ahead of the smokes,
Wokardia lays waste to the attack and that's what you want to see not with and
not missing hitting hard and finding the fire it's not the force but there is a
scout Molodeuil into play trundles down middle looking for an opener you need to
get the black flash online early. Bullum spent all his pennies to facilitate this.
Tag's good but I only got a P250 alongside these blocks like the
I don't think you're clearing this.
I don't think you already know.
It's assuming it would be clear.
Woxic will deny Molotoy any further impact.
How much more could the man get?
He's all could be tasty.
Woxic would farm himself up a couple.
This one now.
At least it's retrieved.
Still should be.
Walk in the park.
All right, look at it bring the new dawn.
A new age for Turkish Counter-Strike.
Semi-finals one thing, grand finals the other.
And the way Centauras and Makadia displayed themselves.
I'm sure it was against Bed Boom.
Well, I'm faking the mid to B.
They're the three ready to pounce into Soulfly and Makadia.
Intercepted.
Soulfly could be two for two in defense of his bomb site to start off proceedings.
Does handle your kinder.
Oh, and he makes it look easy.
Comfortable dispatch of three.
Eco goes nowhere.
Aurora, do they want to bring out the AWP that is?
Can they cash to do so?
Right there.
Late second.
I in from Woxic, so they will have the AWP advantage.
Not available for Furia and they haven't gone with scouting back to back rounds.
Falling down to the tech nine. Keep your eyes on the game plan.
If they really want to try and bomb bar, it's all fly over towards B.
We'll have to see how that stands up.
Look at Woxic feeling himself.
Round three. Interlower, Tigers, and he draws last blood!
Facerato cuts out of the round by the South Pole, Sniper!
Backs away, job done, mission accomplished, Furia already walking wonky!
It's the dream start, Chad, for Aurora.
Desk, bringing a slow one here on the T side into question for Furia.
Remember, they opted to be here.
It's a man disadvantage.
Paul and Tusko and Scavenger about the A-checks.
Now he's equipped with a rifle.
Paul don't have to play late long, they're the three.
Working on some short control as you can, that throws out a bit to be smoke.
Hacha and Zintara's passive,
and Soulflamention is the B-defender playing long in this setup.
No orb to hold the arms length on this side. It's going to be the rifles to do the work.
Forty-five seconds.
Celestino comes in Tares.
The uterus has to be perfect if you want to get down to Tares.
Throws out his HE, doesn't find any initial connection, but his leg does!
Matches that into the meat grinder!
Muria shred it up nicely.
Considering the save already, couldn't be a slower start.
Multiple members yet to get out those starting blocks, Fallen, Molodoy, Yikindap, and that last name has been instrumental in setting the tempo.
How long will it be before we see Molodoy get an orb in his hands? This is spotless for Aurora.
Will he lose it after time? Wakadia starting to track this one down. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and...
He's so lucky. He is so damn lucky. Wakadia will consider the clock and one second pause.
That would have been devastating to the Finances early.
Oh my goodness.
I still wiped the board, no threat in this.
And that Major Cook.
Couple of 35 year olds in the server right now.
Major and Fallen.
They're gonna lead their teams to the final.
They're so calm, so composed.
We've only lost two kills in three rounds of play.
K. Serato, look at a make-or-play.
Walksick here with the AWP.
What's it gonna be?
K. Serato out.
He does have vision! He does remove Woxic!
He's got Centauris on his screen!
And Centauris hitting hands!
Case Serato denies!
Looking for that quick follow-up.
You have no doubt Centauris would have provided.
That's what you want to see from Case Serato.
Takes his space, takes the advantage.
Maintains control of Long.
They're still so compromised. A flash at Glock.
Mollidory starts at B.
Okay, hang on. Retrieval mission accomplished.
Complete success. Yuri retrieves it. Has Kevlar as well.
The bomb's going A. How's Mollidory going to contribute to this?
He's completely detached. Oh my goodness. Surely Magistrate has set up to succeed now.
All three of them are here.
But they're showing the bomb to their target.
Wow, the bombs going a how's Molotow gonna contribute to this. He's completely detached. Oh my goodness surely magic set up to succeed now
All three of them are here. They're showing the bomb to that truck
He's provided again case Serato for his third all those into B
They can rotate back all the way, but he only has a block
They've got the time to Molotow like the space can he do anything with his block to hamper rotation?
He's got another case Serato quad kill
Step it up on the big stage
He's got his cape on his back and he is single-handedly gifted Furia the first round of this semifinal.
Bizzin' Les Waccardia has other plans.
Molotoy's actually managed to borrow so deep as Waccardia.
He is! Okay! Molotoy down!
Oh my goodness for surely not the frags though.
All under the heads of Glock as well, this is really all on Yuri.
He has to play this perfectly.
Fallen as well could be disruptive with his positioning.
Doesn't want to be left alone, doesn't want to leave Yuri high and dry on the sidetime ticking.
Fallen will make his move.
Wicardia's got to hurry this up.
Yuri, don't you move a muscle.
Don't move a muscle.
Order, wait!
Today, he's going to find it!
Yuri picks up and before the good day finds him!
He delivers what K-Sorato started!
Talk about touch and go.
Cacerato the hero does it all.
And that one still comes down to the wire.
You think at times against him,
but they don't have the weapons.
Yuri saves the day.
And this is what Cacerato started,
just unleashing fury.
And that's their first.
Out comes the Molotov.
Or he had essentially an eco.
So back in both teams with the bice.
Interesting mismatch in the head-to-head of the default set-ups of these two teams.
If you're eyes on your kinder, he's the long probe.
He'll be tasked with taking on Magi on the other side, but they're not touring up long.
They're playing to disrupt short.
All the way.
Offs the rotation.
Fallen throws out mid-to-be utility as a lurk smokes donds on the B bomb site.
This is a really threatening and Abok guard set up from the two of them one sits and T want to get the info off the flash
Though he's dropped off and completely sold long at some point. They have to think it's a consideration
What's the acknowledges the possibility
Still wearing into this mid to be they're taking short space now the timing could be good for Aurora if they get a move on
One, they breach the site, Mulligan is in trouble, still hits Marja!
Nice little quickscoop from the attack and forward.
Quick with the AK-47, they'll find consecutive.
And that's the money in the mud.
Losing the hero, AK, then back to back with the buys.
They're in trouble with the finances.
Kanarora keep a cool head about them.
They will have to take the light investment here, they have no other option.
Just the timing here.
It's like Wakadi got caught asleep in your kinder.
kinder giving the good graces to waltz on out and this one from model combat open
up close and personal the boss man seals the deal get back under what he's already
striking hard the scout tags has hit you can't go down to boxing scout you
find safe haven accelerating up towards cat is case or rather oh no actually
the mid-doors. It's called by a scout bullet. Two of them now wounded by Wokstick.
Now this is going to be about the finish. The scout is harassing Shaw, but the
stack's over the wards deep. So USP in a D-Gull, Maget tucked in Karp. With the
low HP, he might be able to get something done. It does depend on this
finish. So taking their time, not rushing the plate.
So do you know what's B with the pack? The bomb top cat.
As they set up U2 the game plan, it's being clear. Bombard this B bomb site.
Just fall in, okay. Yes he does. Easy one for Fallen. Should be able to wipe this one
away now. Centaur is up close to personal. He's got the deagle. He's jumped over completely.
Overlocked by Fallen. It's a late to trade. Necessary. Stops things from going awry
and Woxic another attack that's three connections from that scout and now I'm
trying to let it his position Woxic can you take anybody with you you're low on
HP Molotov I'm going to take the fight and your kinder you know is exactly where
you are thanks for coming three three we're all tied up
we get back into the guns there is no Woxic AWP available this is a great
opportunity for Molotov to start to settle into the game that's a quick
one now on the cross with Cardio going close. This one could have gone out of
control against the hand on the AK. That's in Torres we're talking about.
Bit of a grim as he knew what could have been. The Faber coach on the mic even
said the same opportunity. We're all tied up early stages. Long-spawn support
of fury if they want to use them changing the tide in the last three has been
opening kills all in favor of fury and Aurora respond no kit no all limited
Utility
Steps off doesn't find anything on the cross
It's not a room right now.
Alright, respect to the default. Not harassing Lola, not playing short.
I'll try to be a Jarrang forced to the space that's being taken.
That Jarrang has liberated Zantarius from his A duties.
They've fan up of this B bomb site.
In the point of contention. Now would be a great time for a fake.
That's exactly what they're cooking.
Yuri gifted a second smoke. They'll rain in and it will affirm their belief they're in the right place on this gamble.
They certainly could be a bit spliffy here.
Going for it without the smoke. They've got the CT smoke instead. There's three here.
Softlight close on the doors. That's the test for Fallen. He'll pass.
It's Macario. Good angle, but is there a response from Kcerato?
Can he avenge his captain in the smoke? Lost in the sauce!
Set to collect now, Rorora.
Voxix right behind you, Kinder. He's got threats on every front,
run and he's not considering the backs that box it's good find it through the doors
and Yuri thrust into an unwinnable clutch seven HP got her back away even with this guy's record
in the event so far no chance in the world centares takes him out of the pitch up Aurora
responds and that was a tricky round
Furia trying to get quite technical trying to keep those pieces moving
But opening kill on the soft light was great, but the cardia, we know what this man has been delivering.
The future of Turkey is here and present.
And you said it, Madja, he put his troops in the right place. He was so ahead of that complex call from Fury, he had a third body on B.
And here's the response with Sid on the timeout, so going back and forth with these in the early stages.
I wanted to get in before the money is gone.
Does the game plan now shift?
Do they settle into something a little bit more standard?
Yuri has the best long spawn doesn't like their posture to take these
Eyes on Mollidoi's all-picking suicide as usual has a B spawn here, so he will be late to the plate
The walks he has here so we get to see them go toe to toe
Big nade damage on the fallen, longed out from Maja.
And a second, onto Yikinda who dismantles, one of the tracked out Maja's pushes.
Again, they just sell long.
You can see the prep playing for both teams heavily.
Not scared of Furia taking this.
I want to stuff the short progression.
How do you all flash on Centaur as cool?
Hopefully we'll be hindered by this.
A collapse on middle Wakadia coming to join the prey.
Will Sid's timeout lead to Furia?
Finding that fourth round.
Hey Serrano, if he is around short he's about to get an awful lot of information here.
There was a Tarsha down his head, look at that, perfect setup to succeed to Centares.
Matches flash, Centares provides the head.
Mucadia, cheating back over to what's been out 40 seconds, Furia look hesitant.
They feel like they've been rumpled that they're going to be red while two on the site ready to deal damage.
You just need a good entry.
Eyes on your kinder, Yuri to provide the trade if he can't hack it.
There's Mucadia in the window, he's done it again, removing Mucadia.
You need Suntraai! There's the train! Is it available? Is it available? That tool's up for two!
Suntraai's done very well!
Puts him into a winnable retake on B.
Suntara is as quick on the backdoor as well.
Madjah's gonna join him. Two through Tons.
Roxy kicking up a stink from the door side.
Lollidoy.
Spotted out by Suntara is towards that big box.
You've got a lurk smoke thrown out by Suntara.
That's gonna enable them to close that gap.
But on a normal, not far off,
Roxy can remove just the pressure release.
I don't know how great to the smoke, you couldn't be ready, Yuri is, catch his match, it's always
just running for the hills.
We're going to blow for blow here, that was tough, felt like SoulFly had done enough.
Don't want to get into the weeds with the nitty and the gritty, we'll leave that for
the desk but the game plan is clear and that's on both sides.
see a long left open as a voice in villages here time and time again eight
rounds of play we're locked up
the county has been caught a couple of times now in that window and this is
great from Yuri you can see all the way sweating bullets there having to take
the open gravitate towards the smoke that's a tough position to find
yourself. You go around to the same to AK couple of investments, smokes, pistol
upgrades, and Torres will take a fight through shore.
See who can be the can opener into this round.
Against the orb.
Look into cracks, goal, Spongebob, holds perfect, threat neutralized.
AK picked up, Wakadia has that now.
Again, back to B. This is brutal.
Elected to start on the attack.
This is going to put you in a weird spot for the next gun rounds.
I don't know if they've waltzed in, they have all this U-Tilt, the site is theirs and
they shouldn't have any issues holding onto it.
More mollies, more smokes, plenty more to block and hold them at the door.
I question, do Aurora want to play aggressive next round into lower tunnels to really be
an absolute nuisance and then force the round into a mid-round 3v3 type scenario?
And then in the other side, if they get long spawns, just fall in, want to call
the rip, send it.
the pace. It's a game of bluff.
Sketchy on the fight, but no dramas. Round is secure for Fury up. Five on the
board in the moment's time. Yakinda will take Soulfly with him. Yuri wants a
little bit more than his troubles. This guy's been a rock. They do retain the
AK. It's the best of a bad situation.
The second time out from Faber, that mental game will be the conversation into this next
round.
Oksik has the AWP, Molotoy as well.
Katsurado has the best longs for it.
The game plan has been working.
You lost the pistol, you lost the conversion, sure.
As far as the gun rounds are concerned, you can stick into your guns and you've been converting.
One tricky round, maybe an overcook, maybe a little bit too long in the lab.
And it is major time, my dude, let's get this one back underway.
Fact time out, done, conversations hard.
Molotov has a good B-sport.
So if he wants to go post up on the line, is there any aggression from Aurora?
All right, on his own, going to pressure P. Unusual.
The Adeloff has shot through the smoke. He needs to announce his presence.
This is part of the trickery. Now they're going to pop out long.
And just on his own, the rotation is just left him. Woksek hedging back.
Good juggling, Nades.
Maga, considering the pop, but it's just such a quick pop.
Now they know him. Tanks on the corner.
Good flash, good support. Woksek catches Yuri.
Standing his ground, the flashes keep popping, match up.
Can he stand his ground on the door side?
A missed shot from Montmoy.
Shaping up nicely for a rectified situation.
Trading timeouts into rounds.
Faber gave him a stern, a talking to,
and Aurora immediately wrestled back for a 5-5 scoreline.
Keisarato, the unknown entity.
A flash of flash there from Mikado on the short side.
I think they know and they'll take it.
Holding on now.
An opportunity here with this one.
For Aurora to break the Bank of Furia going into the final round of this first half.
We'll catch this in the replay, but the Flash is
Copping the Kingdom.
Multiple opportunities where he just wanted to search forward, take the fight, find the entry.
But his team
is seeing the opportunity there.
Let's see if they can respond.
Second timing, perhaps the smoke is there.
Oksic, not going to be able to find that immediate incision this time.
Territory gained for Furia.
Cross to Aurora.
Haven't been playing to the beat of the Brazilian drum.
He wants to fight this.
Maga, down to Fallen.
Captain on Captain Crime!
Swunken Sim and out. Replayers here, Wakania was over early to address this.
Taro surging forward, he wants answers.
Yeah, but are you ready for this kind of angle? He's known for his aim and his pre-aim,
but clearing these corners procedurally, is he even ready for Yuri?
Oh, he was! Adjusted up, Yuri bests him though, extends the advantage,
It's Furio working with a tall smoke of the 55 second mark
God he's in a good position to get the info for the spots him and we're headset
But like a young man right there
Chris from the rifle now just to define their biggest fear factor is this box it all if he sounds off a shot
They'll find the finish right now. They could be heading into the stack case righto searching for info
anybody home is sector clear can I call the rotation in long also the fangs of
fury are clear at the site the bomb starts to rotate ball and has the
rotation and walks again soul flight it might just have to be the same and
that's if your kinder will let you
that money's not great either it's been a back and forth affair the bomb toss
now planted and the hunt is on 1900 Aurora going into the final round of
this half. They need to hold on to these.
They need to keep these guns.
What a sick. It does take a little heavy
flak through the doors, took down one.
No secret as to where these guns are being saved.
How much will Fiora invest
into finding the removal of the...
There has to be one hell of a wide swing here
from Jakind distracted by the...
Utility. Creeping and crawling forward.
Softly's gone. Walks it just 10 HP. Cowering in the corner. They're coming for him. And they take it all away!
Georgian Hunt. Solid stuff. This is a stage game. This isn't a brawl like what yesterday offered.
off it. He's some clean rounds and that one's on Fallen. Their entry and then the second
onto Wakandia to really tip the Scals heavily in their favour. Maja trying to make a play,
Zintara is the same and Bosh! Fallen's got your number. Final round first half. Hello!
Zintara's lucky to be alive. Attack through the doors, puts him on 8 HP. Will you
He's still dumping new.
Never to get waxy this A to be over.
He's blast, damage done, spam through, soulfly low.
They're going for this 3 man B site. Flash of the ready.
Still wants to go.
K-Sorato flash, oh, and just a HELLZ!
Another second!
Unreal!
He can defy us in Taurus!
Okay, Macho, fallen.
Another little standoff on the long side.
body is dropping on B. Matcher wants to be involved somehow. He can't be so far away from that B bombsite.
What a case Serato-coded double.
B bombsite to finish the half looks likely.
Four congregated in the upper tunnels.
Smoke now faded.
I still have safety first, the mantra of fury up, I'm going to force the finish, I'm
going to find it, I'm going to turn the screws, it feels like it has to make a play, I'm going
to try and react.
He's found his corner, his roost, he's kind of unprepared, guess what, outthrowing his
nades, takes the cue, takes the fight, don't Tarez delivers, pulls us back into the four
on three, out of position, compromise, another frag from Keisurato, getting his third,
There's Woxic.
Removes the threat on the long side, but an open red carpet run to plant on B.
It's a bad door smoke, Yuri will lob one out.
And it's not going to matter. Just one man to find.
Keisarata with another 4k, an ace to finish the half.
The crowd wants it.
Will Keisarato go for it? Looks like he wants it.
Not an easy shot.
Now he knows.
Gay Serato, FIVE KILLS!
They're up at the half!
Here is Star T-side with a bang!
Make a risk, make a risk, make a risk, make a risk
There's the flash that's gonna catch creeps out, they're gonna push off the roof, there's the cake, there's Robert creeps for the straight up, he got tipped off the triple, that's fanatica not done yet.
Can you believe it?
We swap sides, map 1, first semi-final of the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne Major.
We've got Aurora taking on Furia, and it was a T-star deliberately from Furia, where they leave with the lead.
We have swapped those sides, and the fangs of Furia are fragging 19, between K-Sorato and Uri.
Fallen calling a good game, hitting some good shots, and on the other side, we've seen Zintara and Wakadia up to their usual antics.
Let me tell you, let me tell you guys something. We are playing so fucking good and flowing so well.
We just need to keep these vibes, these energy, and the confidence on each other.
Everything you guys called was perfectly executed. Everything, good job so far, but we still need to be going hard.
Comes the key word
Slow and steady one the race the game plan paying off, but now a touch of aggression
Julie's in lower tunnels for Zantara's and Makati to break through
This staggered setup one high one low Zantara's actually gets the information safely. He's in enough
On the back foot now get out of there Molly. Oh fly. He's not got the weapons to punish their retreat
Okay, well they over stayed there welcome that bottle of flames that would have been at their feet
They've re-jigged the setup, now looking to take some short space.
They can't even flash into the ready.
This could be huge for Molodoy.
This could be a massacre.
So fly, denies! What a shot!
Instantaneous on that clock.
Head of the smoke, they're gonna go.
They're flanking, they're aware.
Pulls them, distracts them.
Yikinder into the head of Zuntale.
Sots right down, second victim.
Yikinder once more, peeks on out, commits to the crouch.
It's regarded to sit him down.
Falling on the long side.
Got to hit these headshots because they're hitting them at range.
That was a nasty one.
First fading.
Big fight for Matcha.
Overwhelmed by the Gilberetas.
No kit.
They have to be quick about this and they are hitting the shots necessary.
It's just Woxic to save Aurora.
Well, this pistol is going furious way.
10th round.
Big moves.
Great opener from SoulFlight.
Bomb does go down.
I'm going to go down.
See if the force follows.
That diffuse will confirm the 8th.
Rukinda a necessary double under a lot of pressure there.
Now I'm going to opt in with the force.
Well, Fort Wakali, a scout in 1-6 hands.
The rest you have to invest.
starting to juggle it and actually furia off for the time out this is going to
give 30 seconds for the Turks together to organize themselves. This is a good
opportunity now for Aurora to converge with the coach, have a conversation and
settle in. Zintares has been given an HL. Thank you very much SoulFlight. There's a
scout for Woxic. We know we can hit those tags. Wokadia. He's not the
second string anymore. This boy's got the galil. They've got enough util to
make this interesting. The key piece on the other side. Molodoy's AWP. It's in the mix.
It's been made possible and it needs to find a dent. They foregone U-Tilt to make this
a possibility. He's only got four kills to his name so far. All right, do not have
the best second round break in the tournament so far. 11%. And Molodoy sits down, walks
with a quick one. Keisarato playing with confidence.
Intercepts the Xbox Smoke.
This is gonna make this second round now.
An awful lot harder.
Salt flight.
It's himself an upgrade short.
Keisarato just has to shut them down
before they get a chance.
Had to juggling U-Tope.
I'm keen to fall into his ears.
Either way, he will note this.
He will say Sector Clear.
Kinder Surge is forwards on mid. Pressure on Yuri on B.
That cup isn't far away. Molodoy will be able to scope up.
Yes, the Info Yuri is in trouble. He gets an early warning though.
The trade-out of soft flight. Molodoy down off the 1.
From the window side.
It's Mikardio. We know he's got impact in his veins.
Has he got one here in this game? 6 HP on the 1v2.
Removing your Kinder makes it look slightly more likely,
But if they just double swing, he's a dead man.
The Khan before the storm.
Smoke will fade.
Foul will be gone out.
Wiccardia finds another K-Syrot!
Oh, it's a save, fam!
Why was that nerve-wracking?
Ah, now by the right there.
Vikinda ahead of the play, one of the knockout blows.
Surging in tunnels on his own, making the move, setting the tempo,
but the team was not ready.
Will K-Syrot be able to get to the AWP?
Yes.
But do you force fire again?
One man alive, you kept the pressure on and this is where your mark could slip away.
If you shove right now Aurora, and you can't stick to landing, that's 10 for Furia.
This is a huge call to make.
Bystaking shape, it's not the shove, it's a partial.
2900 into the next, hedging their bets, they want to keep the pressure on.
Back to B they go.
to close down the first and that is the final tactical timeout called from favor.
They tried to keep the pressure on, they did not do enough damage, but they will by now.
Ops 6 orb.
3 AKs in the glill.
It's among spawns to work with, still looking for your first round of this harp on your map choice.
They're going.
Straight out.
Boxing's behind the overwatch.
They're licking on the swing.
The smoke does bloom.
Off the flash, as they do connect.
Zatara's ascetic ducts so blind.
So many fights.
Fallen didn't have the weapon.
An MP9 knocked up for it.
Then an easy pick.
Four mages accelerating.
He's going to go and call B Clear.
clear that Paul's Cacerato away.
Scottle's a well placed smoke, actually.
He's going to keep Madra uncertain as to the rotations.
And he is calling it.
Cacerato, if he's able to worm in towards lower tunnels,
he can cut them off at the pass.
This is a massive play.
He's up mid.
He's not going to spot anything.
We'll be able to dart back in time.
Doesn't look likely.
Holodoy, he's going to trundle over through CT.
Salflite has a smoke for the doors.
So in they run, and is this the round?
Or is there anything more?
Now the penny drops.
Although Neander's over, but they cannot give this a go.
Job done. Long slide's won.
And Aurora find their first in their second half.
Credit to Salflite for his contribution there on the long side.
He let them win out with his frag on to Fallen.
To be on a semi-final stage in the Lancaster Arena,
as your first major experience, I mean, this is just going to set the bar impossibly high.
Because he gets to play his favourite video game in front of the Lancaster Arena! How you doing?
Full boats are U-Tool for Furious Saves on K-Cerato and Molotov.
3.1 on Boat, M4 drops available, your Kindicka by himself.
Win the mental game against them and they're not going to close this.
Round by round, remember the protocols. We're doing just fine. Stay with it, let's watch and go.
Back in with the pines, Woxic into suicide.
Molodoy looking to take the fight.
The scouts two towards Lower.
They do want to be disrupted towards this tunnel's position.
We saw it on the pistol. Same philosophy. Big guns.
This entire is as prepared.
Woxic's locked in by Molodoy's scope.
Two fights simultaneously.
There's the utile.
And there's the headshot.
Molodoy wins out of Woxic, but the tunnel's as clear.
What is it, Monodoi?
Aggressive in response to the loss of his teammates.
This is not a fight you'd expect from an AWP!
And there's the Monodoi special!
Quick scope, neck broken!
One small!
His feet stood a second!
Dips down!
Monodoi down!
It's into the 1v2!
I don't know who the kid is here.
The bomb's into his spawn.
They're going to go back and get it.
The flash, the run!
You keep it!
He's in a 1v1!
And it's up against that rookie!
And it's up against that rookie! Imagine winning the clutch your team needs!
He knows where your kinder was.
He's looking to take that space, expecting an over rotation.
45 seconds on the clock.
Your kinder, past the bus.
He's been talking, his mental's been getting stronger.
Can he stay calm under this immense pressure?
Salfly locked in, focused on himself.
Your kinder on the other side of the stage.
He's audible now you can the track in your spray
Magnificent in the tunnels the combat opening the quickness of the kid the Kazakh delivers
11 on the board and that one that one is gonna leave some echoes put a dent in the mental
The frustration is starting to
brew.
I want to feel this one slipping
away.
Back to B.
Roman Tunnels, K. Serato brought
down a heavy-nail damage.
Falling with full-long
control.
Joins in
Your kinders gonna be given the good graces to rotate over to CT in time
It's the fangs on big
Kinders across three strong to defend this
another smoke. A moment of pause.
Rejigging the U-Tilt.
It's still the same finish.
Kindert still here. It's so quiet on the rest of the map.
The kid that gets aggressive, denied by the Tanks,
there's the Torres, commits to the spray in his monodoy,
backing away from the B bomb site.
And the long game, I know they're just two rounds away,
but that is gonna fill Aurora with confidence.
Get a brittle bite, and you broke into that site
up against the stack.
The individual output there, that's a team effort.
Followed her on the camps, taking a moment of pause.
As that rounds, it looks like it slipped through the fingers.
You have the right reed, the right stack.
You just couldn't connect the dots.
I had to slip in the side awfully late here.
Bombs going to go off.
Now make that safe haven.
The AK saved.
They didn't want any of those Molotovic late-round hijinks coming into play on the big stage.
That's the trade game. Looks good. And matchup. Takes down your kinder, Woxig.
Nice shot. The site player, and then Zintares, holds the rotation at bay and makes sure
that they can get in, get that bomb down, and secure the 7th.
You win this one. Fury's money is busted.
You can't blow a hole in this
one. Molotov. Give it your best
go. Finally creeping through
middle flight on the weakest
the weapons the Mac 10 looks
like they just want to take
this short space and execute
into a. There's options for
Grouped up, ready to erupt.
I need to launch on the flashbang now, your kinder's got so much work to do.
Anticipate the flame on the round side, progress from Salfly, look at how much space
he's taken on that Mach 10.
Has the cover, nothing from your kinder.
This is going to be a save, but what was out of position?
Aurora found the perfect timing.
I want to try and take this away.
We'll make their life an awful lot easier going into the next.
As mentioned, Furia are in a position where they have to take that eco.
So these saved guns give them an opportunity for the double dip.
But a great call from Maja. They catch the timing. If Molotov is playing car, if he's playing ramp,
that's a different looking round altogether.
Calculated gamble.
Rolls the dice and absolutely nails it.
It's their first consecutive rounds on the T side.
Some flight takes full and widdoms have chipped away at these investments,
but the biggest of the lot has been kept and Yuri has just found an AK.
So another ground ball into this.
Let's see if it can be the difference maker.
The last second scavenge for Yuri.
Come on! Not a guarantee. Fallen is up close, he's got Centaures trying to clear corners,
spots the shoulder of Gabriel Toledo. He's got problems. Multiple targets. Overwhelmed.
You know your kid is on the corner, but are you ready for K-Serato? No, we're not!
Double on the FAMAS, Madger on the back foot, can't commit the bomb.
His teammate, Wakadia, disconnected from the play, but he wants to bring the fight.
He's testing K-Serato, catches him as he jumps. Perfect timing, no help.
the rest of this one matchup. One man on a mission or Furia C12 on your map pick in
this semi-final. The bait play on Long. The kid has found
himself a gun now as well. This doesn't get any easier for matchup. The Long move around
the world has been cut off here is it he knows it knows exactly what's up he
just runs straight back into the bomb site to fight on his terms with his
and ready to close!
That's what you want to see from Molledoy on the major stage.
Starts it, ends it, and puts 12 on the board for Furia.
They made the most out of all of those saves.
The fact that Molledoy is playing like this
is a fear factor going into the next map.
He is playing some liberator counter strike.
Not shy away from the stage.
Stepping up and delivering openers, closers and everything in between.
between the AK and the Famous, they make the most and Aurora, they are rocked.
And they are going fast alongside Woxic ahead, throws out the extinguished but will reveal thanks to the flashbang.
Golflight takes the space, they do have this control.
Head to head here, Yukinda not ready for Wokadia, but off angle and the Mic 10 upgraded!
Big Naive, Wokadia swallows 50 damage, a boost out of our Molotowite may be unprepared for this.
He's been caught by the spam of Zintara's. Still dangerous game being played.
And he's managed to catch Zintara's on the edge of the smoke.
A smoke break exposes another and it results in the loss of Molinaway.
Advantage Aurora. Oh, indeed by Woxic.
He's not going down without a fight here. Four rounds demanded in consecutive fashion.
If Aurora won hopes of seeing Dust2 converted in their favor.
The fans to finish in this 2v4, pivoting back, Yuri tends to feed, Kaserotto slips through
CT, and meanwhile, the path of least resistance is being found.
Does Kaserotto try and make a player?
Is this the long game again?
Is this another CT side save?
There's a bit of cash in the coffers, we'll go a long way.
the bomb going down with what's it posted out.
We know what that means.
I don't think Mononoi asked for that HE.
In the pressure moments, stakes will happen.
that risk there's no reward.
A couple of clean ones from Wox,
it keen eyes.
That's our poor sniper.
As a team, they are drawing this back
into just a three round game.
Bomb goes off.
12 to 9.
Down to stretch that light bite.
Let's put in Furia.
strong enough position to buy again. Saved guns, pistols in play, that round win.
The risk taken from Fallen, running with no armour whatsoever. There's the AWP
and fours in the hands of those who need it. And both teams expending all of their timeouts
from this moment forward. Unless we find ourself in OT, the coaches have to sit back and watch.
I've got the best seats in the house this one here you model I think costing you can do it. Yeah, there it is
And what six contributions on the long side, okay, you're first of the four demanded
Oh, they want to still allow them into the play here, excuse me the lower tunnels push with those mollies
So you can do cannot make that move magic takes the space swiftly
That's the first time I've
seen a ball. Catch Lee.
This be pop again with the
Mitsubi element. Chris Cross
one of those but pressuring the doors at all this is going to be five man through
tunnels once more the wolf pack of Aurora up against the fangs
case Arato Yuri side-by-side up against the five of them connect to get to this
side debate this which he's got to just matter of what remains smoke to delay
Your kinder on the door side wants to spot his foot, can't hit the shot, magic can!
Just magic, up against three, and he goes down!
Syria sees the lead!
Taking dust two!
Fights in Syria, falling at the Syria data!
Your kinder and Molotow data fire, and they're one map away from the grand final!
A slow start from Furia, they turned this ship right on around and it felt like everybody
was popping off for the Brazilian squad.
We're looking at a Cacerado who wants to win that major trophy and Jango, he is doing
everything in his power to ensure they get that step closer.
Yes, it was a little bit of a rough start until he showed up to that T side for Furia,
started it and ended it.
But this was, I believe, the best furia we've seen yet in Cologne.
Absolutely, by far. And I think the other big thing too, as it goes back to what you kind of told us after the quarter-final, CT sides are rock solid.
Look at the way this happened again for them, when they switched over to the defensive side of things.
That was absolutely no, nothing that it felt like a rower could actually do to penetrate that defense
and start putting significant numbers of rounds on the board. I thought it was a really solid CT side.
A super rolling match throughout the game. I think both teams were very proactive once they turned to the CT side.
give up the space and every single time they lost territory they were trying to
find it find it back somewhere else whether that being on the extremities
or the you know fighting it out like the space they all already given up but
you know both teams finally will choose a male for every single one. Yeah let's
dive right into it let's go back to the beginning because when you give
Keisarado a Hero 8k he has the opportunity to send him a sentiment in his
favor straight away right. He does he does and you turn your attention to
round number four where we can see a Hero 8k in the hands of Keisarado the man we
just highlighted having a phenomenal game and he really wants to go into that
grand final and you know it's these rounds where you really want to be
handing out the kits to the guy that you think can do the most with all sorts of
spawns that he has. I think Aurora gets a little bit too eager to fight him when
she actually gets to pit but he actually finds a fork here of this one and then
this is where I get a little bit worried Furia because this is the early
science of a bit of lack of discipline where like Moledoy doesn't have to go
for this one and actually almost sticks out of their hands.
Fallen was caught on Catwalk and couldn't really do anything else and
had to find like this perfect timing to find that flank but it's these
small details of discipline that I've been lacking a little bit for Furia
but they turned it around and did so much better throughout the game.
But sure, they wanted to pick up that guns,
but at least the first thing you want to make sure
once you play these games is that you secure them out.
I thought it was really cool from K-SRL too,
because when we saw in the 9Z series,
that game was a little bit more grindy, a little bit more back and forth.
It felt like K-SRL really needed the success out of your kinder,
out of Mollipdoy to create his openings.
And this one coming in with the AK, he's just like,
oh, immediately I'll have impact.
Immediately I'm going to be the guy for us to get us started.
And it's a lovely luxury that Fury has
where it can go that deep to find that impact.
Also great when Cacerado gets an ace later on in the game, as well, Janko.
That's things you like to see up on the beat.
It's also so many times. I mean, first, we saw this yesterday with the...
or two days ago on Overpass, right? Getting kills through the smoke.
Now on B tunnels, he does it again.
Perhaps just if you know Cacerado is on the other side, don't go for it, right?
And just stay away from it.
And yeah, I mean, from B going back towards that A fake.
And usually players are very good at denying this final kill,
but he was just too good nothing Woxy can do in that scenario and that's what you love to see if you're a
Furia fan, right? I mean just nine out of the 17 kills coming from those two rounds putting in Q's work
Yeah, I mean just the impact
Yeah, I mean it's just the critical ones as well where they come in and then obviously by his time in Maldon
I kind of start stepping up with the ADP later on let the little I mean I'm not gonna get a call last gas from Aurora
But at that point it felt like fear was also a shot and I just echo a ya go
So this is the best fear we've seen all event all those questions
you might have had of them going up against some of the softer opponents in
a bait you know that their stage 3 run wasn't the most impressive this is a
team in Aurora that's been playing super well so for you to come in and
handle business today after such a shaky look against against 9z very impressive
let's swing back to the T side conversation you're bringing up
Alec is of course rock solid on the CT side our furia T side is where we had
questions though what did you learn yeah I said this is the most important
half of the series for furia and they were cooking they were cooking
fallen and said you're gonna see here right the B split this smoke is missed
intentionally for door so that the players coming in from mid have an
angle on guys here towards the left or even on the box outside of tunnels
Molotov he adds a smoke for CT spawn so they can't get shot from ramp and this
is all working out great they're going to find an entry but then lack of
discipline for Molotov is gonna cost them after that kill you can see him
turning his assignment the CT spawn just hold that right case Arato is
supposed to trade fallen instead.
Molotov turns, dies to Major.
Major then kills Keisar out, and you can't do anything.
So even though they lost the round,
I think this was a really cool concept,
a really cool idea for Furia.
And we saw them have a lot of good plans on their T side
that, as we heard from Sid, were executed perfectly.
I agree with you on this one, that he obviously
has to be covering C1.
I guess this is just a showcase of stress
on happening on stage, right?
Because the guy, I think he solves like he runs
out through the smoke that happens in winter, right?
And I think they just get surprised by it.
So it's probably very chaotic and team-speak and since he doesn't catch anyone and sees you rotating
He turns around at the most unfortunate moment, right?
And you know that that's just part of stage conflict
But you know in if you want to play like the perfect counter
I guess you should have just kept his attention on CT fall and will have something to say about this
Since game is about this you have to be more patient than your opponent right like you have your thing if those guys die there
That's not your responsibility, right like that that's on them like but you cannot die like this in this
Also, you'd like in that kind of a situation, Maladoy to have the confidence of even if his teammates go down in mid
as long as he gets this play in CT spawn, he's got plenty of time to help recover the situation
and whatever it is, the 2vx scenario from there where you have intel of what the B defenders are positioned in.
So yeah, a slight mistake, doesn't really punish him this time.
In a well-played but they never let a roar get into this game in a significant way.
Some of the patients that we talk about, they did show it in the second half.
I mean, when they did lose rounds, they didn't throw away guns, they just conceded, you know, the round
and kept their head in it and it ultimately allowed Molo do it to find some of those openings
with the AWP and leading them a couple of rounds and that's what makes it difficult to play
the second half on the T side or rather easier for the CTs.
You know exactly how many rounds you need.
So when you're playing with a big lead, you don't need to go for every single round and
I don't think Aurora played a bad game.
I think they just got outplayed.
I think also I think they really, I think that case Serato round was really deflating.
I mean you're a little bit reductive, but I think like that whole thing of like the hot start that I wanted to see Aurora get
Out to you in the pistol you convert and then you go into there in case a lot of kind of rips that away from you
I think that would be their biggest strength in this matchup is them being able to kind of take that advantage and run with it
They're coming into this one
I'm like a six map win streak before losing this one as well
There's series up to this points have done two zero all the way through and now they're going to get tested now
They have to bounce back in a series just a retention point about the T side
Maybe being a bit lackluster from Aurora
I was just looking at the the round distribution there and it was you know very hit or miss and it's totally right the
patients coming up trumps full furia because then you get to say those weapons
and then you have more of an opportunity to kind of hold any momentum from Aurora
theory Aurora didn't do bad fury I did better in key rounds that's why you see
you know all these resets is because whenever Aurora really needed the round
to break the economy for fury I get some breathing room like they couldn't
make it happen and that in the first half obviously they won the pistol and
the first gun round like that was just here or a key from case you're
So that really hurts your chances, you know, and I'm happy with what they've shown
Yes, they end up losing, but I wouldn't count them out just yet
I think all right actually play a decent game as well. I gotta agree to that one
I think the most important thing to me is that they dare to play not to lose
I think that that's what stands out to me like when they lost territory like they would be pushing into middle
Try and find openings they were trying to push into tunnels to try
You know, you know limit the space that they would give up to fear it was none
And then you didn't turn your attention to fear they they had some really great calls
I saw a lot of the things that that I've been looking out for fear is that you they take this space and then do this
Cross rotation throughout the map and go in to be that did this multiple times this game around and I think that's it's hard to do and
It requires you to have more
Patience than you've already said. I think it's totally fair to frame it as it's not a bad game necessarily for a war
But I think this goes to say what we were talking about in the pre-match segment right the fact that they haven't gone up
Against an opposition of this caliber Jason and that's exactly the way you're gonna get punished when you go up against a top tier team
Yeah, and I mean they're throwing a bunch of different looks at you as well
And major never got to get any kind of a rhythm when your t-side is that kind of stop and go and curious winning the important rounds as an
IGL you don't get that same kind of feel for how you duck you want to work them around the map
And I think for that the major his playbook surely just collapsed around them
You also didn't have the performance of zantars that you're used to getting not as strong on the entries
But still so decent enough
But I just think there wasn't enough tank in the tank for Aurora to come back on that second half
If hurry up that might pick does land weight that's gonna be a little bit of muc. What are you thinking for this one?
What have they got with this?
More of a punish pick for Aurora than anything else.
Fiora is saying that they're comfortable on all six maps that they play and anything is really an option for them.
I think maybe they looked at the bad boom game too that Aurora did end up winning,
but there were a lot of situations there even on Aurora.
City cyber looked a little bit lost, you know, maybe communication wasn't exactly on point.
So I think Fiora just while they were doing their preparation saw that they could exploit some of those things on you.
I remember talking to you again a couple of Vince Bergman and he said that when this identity crisis kind of hit pure
New York was the one they would you know turn their attention to where things seemed normal
And that's why I think it's also one of the real one is that like the pick that they can punish their opponent
But at the same time that's why they feel like they can still play their own identity and the same identity that they've been known for
And what they've been good at so it just makes perfect sense for both your opponent
But also for themselves, and I think you know for a fury are coming into this map to starting
I mean this is that point to that we brought up in the pre match
Which matters less now that they've taken dust to but not starting on that t-side
There is a window of opportunity for war to get back into but I'm more concerned when you switch sides
The upper boss out of Aurora would scare me the most when you have someone like a wakati when you have someone like a zantara
Is with the way they've been playing opening up some room for walks
If you didn't whenever major wants to mix those in those can be very very deadly
Well, you've been said about the city side versus that boom wasn't watertight by any shirts the imagination for a war
And that's a completely different caliber of opponent
There was the Vicadia eco round some more kills and sure
They also lost some clutches to boomage on the other side of that
But just when you're when you're looking at from a macro perspective
It wasn't the best but as we said Aurora is still playing well
I think that is the danger here for furious to get a bit complacent just because core line wise
It wasn't mega close, but I think if they drop off a level then Aurora even a nuke can make this game super competitive
Got about one minute before we get back into the action
So Jason, is this the last time we see a roar upon the stage?
I'm just gonna say no, I actually came into the series of thinking a roar was actually gonna win this year
I thought they were gonna cause the upset tonight
So I'm just gonna stick with that out of just faith of the way a roar has been playing and say they're gonna fight back here on nuke
I know maybe it's a comfort zone that three or I can go back to but you know you're in this kind of a scenario
And it's not always been a comfort pick for them
They have had their own struggles on nuke at various points
So I'm just gonna put some faith in the roar to bounce back
You buying this Peter? You buying this Nick?
I'll buy it a little bit. Just a little bit. Come on. He's just my car
I don't want to rule anyone playing in the semi-final.
So I think there's a case that they can't pass the break.
I want to see Fallen in the final, baby.
And Fira is playing their best counter strike at the moment.
I feel they can close it out on their own matter.
Well, let's see if they can indeed continue that momentum.
And things are looking likely as we turn to the ground of new...
The map pick of Fira coming into the semi-final.
It's going down in just a few moments.
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Hello everyone.
You asked for Ilya, Moenzi, Ossipol settings.
And he's here with me.
Hello Moenzi.
Nice to meet you. We are going to be doing your setup completely, talking about peripherals,
all the settings, all the in-game settings that you have. Tell us, what do you have prepared for us.
Let's go.
Mousepad.
Very easy.
It's just mousepad, nothing special. For the esports player you need keyboard.
Perfect.
Perfect.
Some mouse as well.
You need lame.
I think when I see this mouse on the internet, I see your face next to it all the time.
Is that true?
Yes, it's true. It's true.
It's actually a very good mouse. I like Logitech overall. Since I started playing a Navi, I've been using Logitech because they had this Gpro X-Series always, yes, I use it every time.
I will plug your cables.
Thank you so much, Pratron.
I see that you're using the older version of the Logitech.
Yes.
Not the SuperStrike, for any reason.
Just preference, just preference for now. Maybe I will start using later SuperStrike.
I used it at the beginning of the year, but I decided to switch because I was used to this
mouse before because I've been playing for a long time.
Also wired keyboard, I used cable for some reason, I don't know, just feel more comfortable.
About your seating by the way, before we dive into the settings.
So the way I sit, I always pull the chair down, all the way down.
And this armrest, I don't really care about it too much, the only thing I don't
like is when on like for example on some tournaments the armrests they hit the
table and I cannot control the height of the table so if this is the case I
remove them but if they don't really bother me I just leave them and about the
height of the table you have any preference there no I usually just
the way I set it up I put the monitor always between 7 and 6 so it's
between 7 and 6. I put it a bit in front and after I understand by the feeling how
how how high yeah. You're putting it between what do you say 6 and 7 and 6.
7 and 6. Tell me how you sit comfortably so I can measure it kind of for our
viewers. Okay. Where your head and eye level is in the monitor level as well.
I just do it by the feeling I like when how to say it my legs are like
kind of touching the ground you know but I see just very comfortably and I
understand when I put the monitors between 7 and 6 I need I understand how
they will should be set up for me. After that I put the mouse pad more to the
right of the monitor so I leave like a little bit of gap here. The mouse pad is
on the edge of the table. I move my keyboard a little bit more to the
I turned it slightly to the right, that's how I always was playing.
I remember when I was a very small kid I was playing like this, you know?
But after I started turning it, because I started playing on some LANs, you know?
Yes, you need space.
I don't know, yes, I need some space.
I don't actually care too much about the in-ears.
I have G333 Logitech with the Logitech sound card.
I don't know, I have this in-ears for four years almost, since I joined G2.
Oh my god, here's human reactions!
Hey Lancers, are you still there?
semi-final Saturday and Dust2 in the bag for Furia.
To continue to see the poetry flawlessly executed,
we're going to roll up and up a fight for Furia's pick.
Hey, Lancest, what do you make some noise for Counter-Strike?
It's going to be a city start for a war.
They will need every piece playing to their prime.
As we head to Nassida Creek, seasoned captains on both sides of the server.
The area to start on the offense.
Fallen and his soldiers have the chance to set the tempo.
see that.
The one serious run throughout
The one serious run throughout
the major. It's W four times
Instead of for a top-pump.
Speed or smoke.
That jump is possible.
Looks likely.
Sets him up.
McHardy, oh! It's a second as well!
Okay.
Faminal peds! K. Saratu and Akinda cut out of the round.
There's one back into the warehouse down the van.
a little bit underneath them. They have no idea surely. Now they do. Zataris has caught him.
You want to get that bomb down, you're going to get past Salt Life, all in that range with the
Glock. Can't find that follower bullet. Just Molotov, last seen warehouse. And walks
around in the corner for a clean click. That's what Aurora needed to start off new.
Can you see what it means to match up? Kind of bring the energy early in this one.
Let's see if their mental can hold on.
That's the start they're looking for.
Should spell the eco for the Brazilian court and this is great for the Bucardia.
This is Diggle rounds against Beth Pym.
They really got the party started.
Last one there from Moxie.
Side swiping.
Final frag.
Yeah, it's a clear intent here to bring this energy.
We'll see how long they can keep it.
Gone for the force, not the eco.
gone for the force, not the eco.
The upside smoke is going to get down secret with pace.
Best runners across.
Taras is already down to deal with this.
Bomber part of this is likely the B finish.
How many is he getting?
It's gonna be one big burst.
And he's got nothing!
Empty hands for Zuntaris!
Oxy can soft like it, both dropped down.
Fumbled from soft like.
Not the weapon he wants at range, they're closing the gap, smoke on the site, full
of a punch in the code.
There's soft lands and Tarras in combination to finish off that Kisarato.
Yoy!
Boom!
Head on the ankle, soft like.
Rings his belt.
The bomb plants something, but I think the round is out of their grasp.
That's going to get hot. Fall, fall, fall in.
It's set here, it flushes it in.
Flashing his face.
Molano is gone.
Wokse closes it down.
Shaky moments there in a couple of those fights.
But that setup was strong.
They played two ramps.
They acknowledged the cross.
Tsintaro goes down first,
but two players can immediately descend and take those fights.
So very well done from Aurora.
That's a stabiliser in the early stages.
That's right, they're trying to stuff him in the choke there, leave the air for the
pressure.
He goes down and sit by into the form.
This man made his mark in Kamistrak.
And now it's the international venture now.
Trying to take Turkey to new heights.
This isn't a full shove.
Arshel off the plant for Furia.
Enough money to get the buy into the next.
More threats, more problems for Aurora.
U-Tills in the sky, a second smoke wall.
There's an investment that you need to be fearful of.
Waxing with the orb up in the heavens.
Try and breach in the topside.
Yuri looking like he'll be the late piece dropping main.
Another squeaky smoke. Does that change the go signal?
the go signal.
Cardi
blows.
Match up.
Match up stands his ground.
And you're in this late piece.
Sure you fell so fly, but you've got a minute to try and piece together another clutch.
And that's kind of a Nuri's specialty.
Does he have the capacity?
the time.
Adrian Wasi will have to start acknowledging the possibilities in a
moment's time. Ram to Heaven, outside to May.
So, I have to strong the bomb under their remit. This is tough to break for Yuri.
No time to go Heaven. It has to be the main play.
Still he hasn't announced his presence.
He walks six up close a little bit.
He did get shot from the offer.
Now he knows where Magir is and he's running out there to do another ure special.
Just Magir to stand his ground for that third.
He's done so much work and he does even more!
A determined captain clutches up.
Keeps the sheet clean for Aurora.
Couldn't get the hands on the AWP that...
Enough money to bring it out but under pressure are Aurora.
The pistol rounds.
That's the most solid of the lot so far.
Last two.
They've had their moments.
They've attempt there from Yuri.
They have been able to drop the AWP thanks to Akadia's extra funds.
Get back in now with the full buy.
Cross with Pace, the bombs are part of this.
He stays silent on his descent.
It's how he's made him like a book!
Beautiful!
K-Siratu call!
There's Saltfly!
A whole lot more work to do!
A whole lot more targets on his screen!
Molledoy will remove his head!
Fallen lingers hard.
They're keeping this tricky.
He's a tarred.
If he finds Molledoy,
furious hopes and dreams down with it for...
just to crack their silence on this T side.
You got the card here?
I'm looking the right way.
Big one back from Yuri,
but if they pivot,
they're not aware of Matcha.
Fallen.
He's saying it's clear little do they know Yuri when you get the info when you buy time for this sweep from four
And he's told wait just wait
That's a tricky way to get your first T round on the board haven't planned they're gonna give this one a look
HP on law no, they're not
Lots of risks the old and the M4 with the money already
I don't want to give this one a chance. Patience is the key in that one given fall in the time.
They still have something to contend with in the next Aurora. It's a bit of pill to swallow for the Turks.
You often talk about manipulating rotations for a demonstration from Furia.
And the communication clearly flowing as well.
This is the fire right here. You're in surprise.
The Cardiott trying to make the play that wins the round.
Plays one step too far, and the rotations go with it.
Get to the mic before the money's gone.
MP9, 5-7, that's the lower.
And the Cardiott on a firmus, not great.
The Fiora with some clear pace and intent with yard crosses.
We've seen them with the tech minds, now the A-case.
Just charge yard, get the space.
So Aurora want to play ahead. Do they want to play for some yard control?
Quick extinguish, there's Zantara's chipped in, we've got Cardi as help as well, then
stopped him in the choke.
Lost in the smoke, we're back away.
Ready hampered, eyes fury as T campaign round five.
On a lick of damage dealt to the defensive side.
Deep smoke, thrown out by Zantara as to delay on squeak.
much utility invested to find that opening. It's going to be a very tough round to get back into.
Looks like Foulham's got a plan.
One of the ways a big part of that, especially if you're refining Riccardia, hang on.
Suddenly they just let loose, charging in towards that side.
You've got Zantares, has to be somewhat of a rock here.
Support from Salflon, takes all that space away.
But then he dampens Zantares down to half, he's been spotted.
That information is relayed, he's still able to find one.
Then your kinder caught off guard, thought he was safe to plant.
good of Chippin. Scuttle's out of the nade. Falling a Molotovite side-by-side.
The student and the master.
If a roar were invested, every penny. Molotovite can come up clutch.
All for naught. Softly spotted here comes lock 6-0. There's the first
isolated. They try to overwhelm them. Strength in numbers, Johnny. You
They will prevail another CT round for Aurora.
I fall for that, but I open up, I set him up.
The chip back in, limited U2, flushing Mercantial into the fight.
Fold line, nothing consecutive.
The Brazilian call, and well handled under pressure.
So up to the task, Arora at the desk, highlighting their playing well.
Regardless of the result, we had on fold on map number one.
They are here to play today.
Furious shove.
Light on the A-case, a little heavy.
This time back to the yard antics.
It cannot be questioned.
Arora do have their stage legs.
States down further than any Turkish team has ever been.
In the major circuit.
What's it knows nothing's crossed?
The kinder looking to take some space.
First man, Mokadia knows this is a possibility.
It all hangs in the balance of this.
The move from the kinder.
This fraction on topside.
Just one back.
Imagine does go down.
Yuri accelerates.
Has Mokadia on notice.
14 HP from Heavens and Torres with empty hands.
A bullet between his eyes from Yuri's galil.
Waxing behind the smoke main.
Flash is available to get Soulfly back in. It's Wakadia to set him up.
Kenny D was in Taras Kudai from Heaven.
Looking for that, Frank swings on out. Keisarato to receive in and that could be Furious 2nd.
It is Furious 2nd.
He's putting in a shift right now. Two massive kills to draw them back.
Nitro and Wakalia, they find opening incisions. Yuri with the double.
That smells trouble as the attempt to go back in, it just felt meek.
So far on his own, they weren't through.
They didn't look like they were connected there.
So a hard part of attempt from Aurora
Does continue to see saw of the finances
The game continues like this area great serve
Your land slide of rounds that'll follow
And look at the reaction there. That's after the flashes came in and he was well dead watching that unfold
And those the frustrations that you have to avoid creeping in if you're Aurora
That becomes some of the saves and are the ops in the mix.
Block utility.
That won't be full force.
That boosts in Tares and is set up for success by Salfwark.
know about his close enemy 9 and don't know about that second man. Centares being
set up to succeed, it's Sulfly the bait.
And it's Centares that should be that way.
HECK! OH NO!
It's absolutely nothing!
Match up, look it down!
It's a collapse!
Monty trying to hold on to his honor, hold on to his aura.
He's dropping through. He wants friction. He wants a fight.
He's telling Mikadeo, I can do something here.
Just wait and see what I can find. He goes fishing.
Mikadeo punches nose in, spots it now. Yuri is low HP.
Oh, he's hitting. Fallen rocked.
An odd bullet through his boots.
Can't adjust.
Molotowic, Pallaxi, and that should secure it.
And that's an AWP for Molotowic right there.
Yuri with three big ones, I can.
Back to back rounds, this man is finding impact.
He's ain't clutches, he's a clawbacks.
Sounds a one-around game.
He goes down with the ship.
And the gun saves, a little threat on the board.
Again, Aurora's by.
He has to be light on. This is tough at ramp.
He takes all flight. He played that well and he valued his life.
But this second one, Centauri is going to be chickening himself.
Magic the same.
He's able to finally validate.
Faber, you can see his reaction in the background there as well.
You can see from Magic's face, he feels he's losing his grip.
This one shouldn't be too much to say.
Just MacCardia, bit of a one-man army, all four.
It's in my position to get something done.
There's a lot of bodies here.
It's in to duck. There's the trade.
AK denied and surely the rest of the ram will fall into place.
It's just the starter pistols.
And it's Buria that are picking up pace.
It reminds us of the moment when they're all up, broke new ground for Turkish counterstrap
but this is the first time they find themselves in the semi-finals of a major.
Here in Cayserato, they tasted it before in the most heartbreaking fashion, Rio.
Fallen, you all know his story, it's a stage experience, a lot more lopsided, let me
compound out with the success.
They just need a piece the final moments of this together but again
Fury up.
Force for thought, poise on display.
Hulkarman collected not getting drawn into a back and forth force by a fair.
Continuing the crisp game plan.
Centares wants it and Salflight on the pistols to get through.
25.
There's Azar Taras, Uri's approach from Hapif, makes the angles more good.
Boxed with the ball, and they will fall.
You got a tie-doc game, folks.
Four rounds to each side, Newt.
Not far off the mark.
I didn't even be happy with that.
And that's without the pistol.
He's putting the hard graft, putting out the financial war of attrition.
And now looking to put a little bit more pain down range.
He's giving this pace on Yaw.
And the kid is surging.
Acting bigger than he is.
Woxic's already down towards secret to plug this gap to his reckless note.
He's got the line.
Ramp and top need to hold strong.
His matchup, harness up, the Turkish prodigy in Bikardia.
Rancor's smoked, so I'll make the move just yet, but it does give them a little bit of staging area.
Tsaraz is the man to fill the void.
Salt flies across towards Redpult, and a ramp explosion at the ready, and the Turkish terminator stopped this.
He has to find that stage wobble and shake it off!
Only the one!
Territory lost.
Madjer accelerates forward, yeah, Kinder gets the reaction they were waiting for.
Lever extension puts Furia back in the driving seat.
Waxig onto Fallen.
Kaseurato vs. Wakadia standoff.
Madjers forward position could take that bomb off the back of Molodoy.
Barrel spotted, Maga ready, gets the info safely, but with 28 seconds that bomb carrier needs help.
No one nearby to lend a hand and we can't use the pace.
Oh no, he doesn't!
Maga's there, looks like he can't hit his shot. Hang on a second, it's up to Maga.
Both of them are there, jumping across, he's doing 45, this is tense. Should be a dead man.
Should be dead!
This is agonising for Aurora. We're being strung out. They've been toyed with. This rotation has pushed pulled.
I can't believe Paul Droid isn't losing on there. When the barrel spotted, Matt just in the off angle, he gets the info and they get the round.
They get the staging area, they take some space, they force the rotations, they're putting
so much pressure on Aurora and it's just mounting now as every round slips by.
Aurora more pressure, globed on top, that's four consecutive, five of the last six and
that cushion, that's just from the pistol, this one here, Saltfly moves, he thinks he's
the man who has to try and take some space, take the risk, gets some information and
Match up attempts to play the clock forces their hand doesn't want to fight
Are the cracks starting to show
Pressure mounting emotions start to overcome you you need a cool head on your shoulders to play your best counter strike
An audible dismount
This brings you back into a mentally if you can somehow scrap this one into your favor
but just with the pace.
Yes.
If you were playing fast, if they gave you a chance, they gave you some chaos, you'd
feel like these upgrades covered opportunity.
But if you think it's their advantages, the weapons, the great success just like
that.
That'll do nicely.
Arora don't have a chance.
Kintaro draws attention to the south, make the vent break, but this round is going to
go down flat for Aurora.
Just like being toyed with at this point.
Yeah, like a cat, a ball of string.
This is your one place, the one place only.
You have to start taking the fight.
You need to play for yard control.
You need to start shoving Lobby on tidings, but you might be playing right into their
hands and a small adoy.
with flick is that small tumble, a little bit more pressure short.
He can do fall back open and take another with it.
So, like, not long for this round, and that is 6th with Uriah.
I can see the tight game at the half.
You got to feel those Uriah fans.
Now that final right around the corner.
Is there any bounce back?
Is there any resurgence?
is this the mental collapse the way it all feared.
Kinde's gonna quick down the fact.
Rant's a problem, Sulfide as well.
Removes moloboy, falls back in towards the safety of the B-side with
charges in, that's the aggression you were talking about. Caution to the wind, proactive on the defense.
Ukinda definitely has playmaking potential in his position.
That's all in the case, Serato start knocking on that door and miss shot from
Fallon with that AWP as he's still got it.
With the big gun a distraction put profits, Yukinda, oh it's the second of Jaloxic!
My John Daniels!
He's just popping pixels!
Playmaking potential and he lives up to it.
Yakinda gets down the vent instantly, lies in wait, binds his time and he strikes twice.
This is the second big round with the rifles in hand where Aurora have had a huge advantage.
Now that 3v5 slips through the fingertips.
What a piece in this Burial Machine, Yakimber is.
Fresh is at his highest.
He's down the vent in the first 15, I don't believe it.
Yeah, in six and round 11, in their own right.
It's one of those in a half on the left side of Nuke.
And then just, he just heats up the hot hand in this round.
He's kind of, has given them the lead before the break.
And Aurora, it's nothing they can do to sit back
watch. Restart. You'd better be a game. Okay, needed that from Centauris. Stops the bleed.
Sulflight. Leases his head. Aggressive. All right, finished off by that Wox Ignate. His chaos.
Otter. Pandemonium. Crunch lobby. Recede. 3 on 3.
If you're a ruler, you really can't have that halftime score. Read 8 to 4.
This fifth feels like a necessity for their campaign towards that grand final already down a map.
Just a scout to get past, but it's Woxic on that scout, does miss his first on the sliver gap.
Make that same mistake twice, tags up, falling.
Falling, falling back, looking for that shot, can't quite hit different dips away, maintains his life
Friction elsewhere, leaves us in that 2-1-2, they know where they both are
Both seem ramped, Wakadi up-finds his way, up towards the sight in time for this pivot heaven
He's in the perfect place, they shouldn't have a chance
He's perfectly set up to succeed, overlapped, bomb drops, you're re-in the clutch, hang on!
walks it with a scalp it's ugly not the weapon he wants in a 1v1 with such
major ramifications and AK will work on him
but that's Uri! their heart is breaking in real time as they feel that grand final dream fading away
James Yuria again on these T-Stars, eight on the scoreboard!
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We're driving towards this grand final now on all our shadows of resell that we saw in the quarterfinal
that we saw on Dust2. A pistol, some celebrations and then a collapse.
Furia with an eight round hole on the T side of Nuke.
He's got a lot more than just the one on silo to deal with, Zintara's whipping up B 250,
The body up, removed.
Still hold the info before you came to here.
Mike in a second if he's not careful.
Moxick that is.
Morning shot, hits and he'll back away.
Inferno's a beacon of intel on the secret stairs.
And his name's you came down.
And Santaris tries his hand.
Mangled mental wreckage right now in the halftime break.
Untimmed dreading was to come the other frothing with anticipation.
Looking to return to a major grand final after a near 10-year-long drought.
3v5 can they buy back in?
I play this one by the book.
Time is already against them. 35.
Down to Woksey, an important one back.
Didn't see him. Didn't react.
All the time he needed to line up that shot.
Softly lining up names.
This ain't warm up. This is a major semi-final.
Here he out and controlled the tempo and time of this game from the outset.
They're looking cool, calm and calculated.
Stopping this team.
Nothing's getting in their way.
They keep playing like this.
Our pistol rounds.
Makes them a huge step close up.
Aurora, no plant, no chance.
Into the eco.
Just look at those player camps.
take in the body language this is not a winnable round short
for Maja as a lead up into the lifeblood of the team
I'm just calling strategies they're here to unite the force
now he is the engine of Aurora
hoping to get them started how much can you say what can you do
You know you're meant to be in this one.
It might be the hands of Gabriel.
He packs him up, dips down.
He knows his life is more valuable than a couple of eco-frags.
Polaroid getting run at.
Retriever by Kostom.
No, okay.
Matches managed to dip away,
but he's lost his team,
makes it into the process,
and he's just going to throw it over the fence.
The best of a fat situation.
Did match up.
Right now this is looking like nightmare fuel.
You can ask him to dig deep, you can demand a response, but your players have to deliver.
One man can only do so much, his players have to believe.
Open move, aggression to the agenda, taking space, not giving them anything.
Watch the secret ready on the brakes. Three players fallen out here as well as the
AWP starts ramp. They want to shut this down before they can pull rotations.
You can see the game plan to be disrupted on yard.
Well is it just to break the smokes? Slow the timing.
A track keeps Intara's quiet.
He's got company in the up-right.
Zatara spots them towards Umbreakable.
It's falling us low.
Into this!
He's got a Phoebe in the back!
Zatara's removed!
Spots the head on the side!
And all are crumpled!
The Guardian just a whisper of health.
That just taken...
A couple of bullets on the fading smoke.
He sticks and stands his ground.
He knows Bloodshed.
Required.
And it's him that goes down.
What is Mccardy supposed to do as Furia continue to make magic happen?
A mismatch?
Or maybe Furia just wants it more?
This round with a wind part and it appears the pride of Turkey the same.
Conversation around this team was always the mental game.
Ever a question of can they make the playoffs? We've seen it plenty of times
That's what did we get from them when the heat gets turned up
The best disgust and we talked about it
I thought that quarterfinal was gonna put hair on that chest and steady their legs on this big stage
This isn't a young team. Zintara is magic. What's it?
whole story individuals of Turkish Counter-Strike how many times we get to taste the lancess
and it's this how you want to go out or fury up and I'll give you a choice
This is a 10 round run from Furia. Two more for the close.
Is there any discrepancy Aurora can create?
plan has been so clear from start to finish refugia in both these maps in both these halves
both connected bullets there. Bacardi is more position on main now noted. Heading towards ramp
it's Molotov with the advp. Bacardi will get a cross. Seems guaranteed and now goes Santarez.
Molotov can tip down to the site Yuri to react. Softly still clear in corners.
Molotov is playing for a second one here and Yukinda is in hot pursuit. Bacardi are none
the wiser, pinned to the wall, from his M4, having a mother's meeting on-ramp,
mother and I can back away.
That's just a matter of time.
Magic pivots to help.
Once you can start flying back to lobby, try to turn this into a top pincer, 45.
Thatcher leads the charge, up that ladder, it's all about the timing here, is Yuri on the angle or not?
Let's see if it's the riffle-all.
Down goes Match-Up!
And the Furia run to this grand final!
Now the opponent completely hamstrung since that floor.
Fallen onto Waxing Door.
Anything for Solskjaer! Absolutely nothing!
4-0 up!
He's getting dominated, absolutely blanked.
3 kills in the second half, 4 rounds deep, no resistance.
A run of 11 straight rounds.
The belief is dead.
And Fury up.
5 frags away.
Fallen and his disciples.
I set on the price
I guess the info on the cross yard
Down goes your kid but that's a change
Wakania has provided the opening
To extend, play, K. Serato calls back
Molotoy on the warpath
Looking for that flag, he's found the carrier!
Problems exacerbated for all of us.
Furious loyalists.
Over eight years, K. Serato and Yori wearing that jersey.
Chasing the dream of having just a fraction of the legacy that their captain has.
And in the very same arena.
The very same Cathedral.
That decade-long drought of major finals before Fallen.
And he could be the one to secure it, denied by SoulFly.
You've got K-Stars on, don't you?
And that's why he's in here!
Defying Secures in a good court kill!
The player is in the Cathedral.
The pain, the legacy.
His story is made in Brazil.
Fallen's luminosity likes the way
as Luria finds finals for him.
Aurora absolutely dismantled peace by peace.
The mental game.
They were not here to play today.
Notice it's not crazy celebrations.
They've got another objective in mind and that is on Sunday.
For Aurora, heartbreak.
You didn't manage to put up the fight.
You dreamed up.
This was business. This was a clinic. And this is a major finals verse for
Yikinda, Moledoy, Keisarado and Yuri. And they get to go to battle in one of the
absolute best to ever do it. The godfather of the region, the man on the
retirement tour. Ten years after the fact. Ten years after putting Brazil on
on the map. This man is back here to do it again.
It's a party in the stands on one side and complete opposite on the other.
You're chasing legacy, you're chasing trophies, and Furia, they deny.
Congratulations, but Sam Mabee has carried you into a major grand final. Congratulations.
I appreciate it. I don't know what to say. Honestly, grateful for this opportunity.
I've been playing CS for more than 15 years and this is my first grand final in a major road. It's crazy.
We speak with a lot of hyperbole. When we talk about winning in Cologne, we talk about majors.
Does it feel different as a player, being here, being in the Lancest, knowing that you're in a Grand Final?
Honestly, for me it feels different to play with these guys. That's the most important and different thing for me.
Throughout my career I haven't had these incredible teammates and this incredible support from the fan base and from everybody who's besides Furia.
And I'm very thankful for that.
can see over there we can see your fans there's drums there's whistles there's
balloons there's people bouncing up and down how much I mean obviously you can
see them in your eye like how much does that help during a match well listen I
think I think it's easier to play as underdogs when everybody's bullying you
but honestly knowing that there's always gonna be people behind you always
supporting you this something that gives you strength consistent strength and
I'm super thankful for everybody here in the arena not only the Furia fans
The whole crowd the whole stadium. Thank you guys. It is amazing. It's turning out to be one of the great events
Isn't it you mentioned before you're enjoying playing with these players? It felt then it felt like you've really started to click
I feel like we started to click the first term and we played together which was last time and
throughout throughout times we just were trying to
Speak the details pick the deal tells sometimes we were overcooking the kitchen
But here we are after a rough season, after a rough pass for many of the players, here
we are in the major finals and honestly it feels amazing.
I have to ask this question, we talk about Fallon, he is legendary in the scene, he's
done so much, he won here, he lifted that trophy 10 years ago.
How much do you and the other guys want to win this for him?
Well you know when he announced his retirement it was a very sad day, not only for the
Brazilian CS or our camp it was a sad day for a counter strike and of course a
man of his figure deserves to go out with a bang and it would be great it would be
amazing he would be the first one to win the long three times I believe and that
that's our goal and that's our goal. Well listen it's been great Chanchu what
can we expect tomorrow in a grand final? Well it depends who we're playing I
hopefully if we play spirit I hope the donk is gonna get sick or something
And if we play Falcons, well, we lost to them last time.
Both of these teams are very strong.
And I don't know, man.
Are you ready for it tomorrow?
Of course we are.
Yeah, well, listen, it's great.
I want to get you, if you take this pen,
to sign your name into history.
And we'll get a round of applause
for this amazing audience.
We have our first grand finalist.
Thank you to Kinder and Furia.
at the major grand final!
Nine times in a row, Niko and Monosie beat Donk in a head-to-head across G2, across Falcons,
but at the major stage in Budapest, everything changed.
Spiro got a leg up, they humiliated Falcons on that stage,
and they have hit hard every time it matters since.
Rio playoffs, Estana final, a BO5 that Spirits swept over this Falcon.
And so the question today is, do things change for the Falcons?
Can they finish what they started?
taking down the world number one yesterday is great but it only matters if
you continue on this trajectory. Team Spirit had the fight hard to get here.
A never-ending five-hour match against G2 in the quarterfinals left them bruised,
left them exhausted but hungry as ever to defend their trophy here at Valone.
Anubis our first map, Mirage next, and Dust is side at Lancis. Are you ready?
Let the semi-finals begin.
T-Side Spurr gets me the guys set in the pace, set in the tone at which this semi-final operates.
Already they're wasting no time making their presence knowing quick play out towards main
But this is all the little roos bomb leads back over towards middle
They're gonna keep Falcons guessing throughout the start of a new bus. He come on. See haven't moved a muscle
He's in the call from the get-go
It's tense.
And eventually the onus is on spirit to make this move.
Tess is alone in the heavens.
Spirit charging.
I need to go straight away, but honestly, lives up to his end of the bargain out here in the middle, those dead barratas!
Turn through Team Spirit!
As they go looking for any semblance of control, the net only grows tighter.
Round Spirit to start the semis!
Falcons choke him out, pistol round secured, five alive at the end of it.
at the end of it.
They're still two struggling teams in pistols
across this tournament so far, even into the playoffs
yesterday for Spirit, it was decided,
of course, but it's more often than not.
So important for Falcons to lock that in
because they have struggled in their second rounds.
Team Spirit take the breather, full eco coming in,
blocks across the board.
Consider this a two for zero start.
Chas to settle your nerves on the stage.
You can't say spirit don't have that experience and I'm not even talking about last year and just yesterday spending five hours
In a battle against G2. It was meant to be a lopsided quarterfinal spirit will put to the test
They still have some leveling up to do
Against the Falcons who have that faith and that goes a long way
I think it's almost hard to quantify when it comes to Team Spirit with the game they
had both to get them into the lices, but also their first one with this squad up on
the stage.
Two very drawn out games versus opponents you'd like to think they should be beating
easy.
On one hand, they show the resilience, right?
The ability to draw it back, they do that without a coach.
And I think that's a key takeaway for me, it's the fact that they did win those games, right?
You could credit or you could question the accomplishment of Spirit, how difficult those
games were, how difficult they should have been, but at the end of the day facing multiple
over times, multiple elimination points, Spirit still weathered the storm.
That is resilience.
That is what you need to win.
That is what Falcons have struggled with prior to Carrick and joining this roster.
So Spirit, no, they can win from any position.
First go-round now, Falcons have a couple of moves in play,
late flashes on this B site, get them aggressive.
And Teneys hanging around for exactly this.
This is a move that Falcons like to pull in.
These are flashes that want to see coin.
No contact from the back of it, ends in a stalemate
towards B. It's time and attention wasted. It draws for it into this B bomb site.
Doc ran through that molly just to stop the Falcons push. And that first duel might be between
Donk and Kiyosuke, static on this B site, playing in the open. Spirik keep up appearances,
utility into middle. Magic's kicking up a fast, but this B bomb site is the object of their
desires. Kiyosuke has fallen for it.
I'm carrying him here.
Man against the Sea of Team Spirit players.
Smoke's gonna buy you a couple more seconds but the rest of the Falcons
are a long way from home.
Oh group, they'll clear out middle. This one smoke has bought so much time.
They can move now. So they start to rotate bodies over and a lot of them
of that spirit losing the timing on this site here reinforcements arrived it's
okay with the spot me Kodo first a strike this choke hold has to get broken
Duncan shiro come through with entries magics now spot it knows about
The Carragans, Captain's Clash and he comes out on top, but it's fast flank, trying to reel it in.
Time really low, they need this kill and Dump fails them out!
I don't believe Spirits win that round, they focus on everything, why are they the star?
They don't fall for the tricks, they re-clean middle, they have a stack on that B bomb site,
but they give away so much space to Team Spirit.
Spiriges walk all over them.
Very impressive.
A late round clutch out of here from Duncan Cove.
Falcons can't celebrate too soon.
Successive pistol.
Already coming down to this one money-breaking round.
Always trying to make a move, always trying to push the boat out, but he'll go right in to all of spirit.
Open as gifted, and you might just look to try and play this one with a bit of pace. Two quick entries.
Oh man, lies it way, it's Niko on the chopping block.
He mates again, one way away, it's Niko.
He needs to do something spectacular, it's damaged, but Dong's gonna best him in the head-to-head.
They're in a so comfortable and in being patient in these scary moments, they get a lot of entries,
they get spotted, Falcons are moving all over the map, they're flanking from B,
they're trying to sit back, relax, and acclimatize, get that second wave of utility in.
He goes just standing there stuck in the open not knowing when he's gonna get swung and spirit able to do it with ease
This is a really good sign for dong starting strong
It's super hard to characterize that game from him yesterday because while he goes and gets 40 kills across large
It didn't feel like the dog that we see every day. He was getting traded a lot
She too had a lot of plans on how to deal with him one for once in many many rounds and we know the dog
That's not what he wants
So, already starting off at both these gun rounds with a couple of massive entries here
from Donk.
Let's put Spirit in the right place.
Falcon saving guns, that's all they'll have next round.
and steady pursuers.
Yeah, no issues here,
falling out of the gate.
The slower style lending itself well
to the aggressive move
the Falcons have looked to make.
Almost sitting on top of the board. I mean it's everything you like to see if you're a spirit fan.
The two hero guns to work with here. Carrigan, Yasuke.
The foul player together here, and worlds apart.
They're carrying him dead first. That's one of those rifles removed.
Even though you're going to scramble the stack in place here, play a bit of a gamble.
Spirit are in no position where they've got to commit. Plenty of time left.
They may be expecting a stack. Donk will hang around.
Ooh, well swung! That proves to be one too many.
Sontik's going to try and tame them here, but that molly forces you back. Now weapons retrieved.
Spirit are between two minds. They want to stop these guns from getting picked up.
They also want to run the bomb away. So while they get this empty B bomb site, they still are trying to fight main.
Will that be more weapons for the Falcons as the running decoys for them manage another kill?
No!
AKS UK does this all on his own.
Look who's ahead of the curb on this rotation.
Niko already in possession!
This is not around and they were meant to win. Tonea left in this all alone.
He's got the time to go for a bomb plant, but up until now this whole round has been built
around setting up Kiyosuke.
Three players about to face him, and that first shot not connecting.
There's the crushing blow, and Modesty don't want to deal it.
That is not the round that Falcons are meant to pull through on, at every step
in the way they've got unshakable faith in their rookie.
Now, it just tests his wide swing and Kiyosuke peeks off of him.
Monosikazel saying everyone puts their life on the line for this rifle to find the glory.
And Kiyosuke, with three kills, gets him out of there with ease.
They run so he can walk it over the line.
That's a shocking round to lose.
And you see those POVs of spirit looking shook, trying to track that spray.
Am I with Falcons in the past we saw often used to home in on the unthinkable rounds
they lost since Karrigan moved in it's the unthinkable rounds they win and this is where
I think the lack of a coach for spirit really could come to hurt them and we've been given
Magics a hell of a lot of praise up until now he's played a lot of close games on
this run to get to this semi-final for his first outing at the Major as a captain.
But if there ever was a game where you're going to really feel the burn, the lack of
a coach, it feels like it's destined to be this one.
And first time in the Lanxess as well, from actually, since almost surprisingly here,
right?
We saw this guy on a major stage, back in Team Spirit in 2022 against Caragher in that
Antwerp game.
And so experience but also incomparably so to the Falcons captain.
Already a spanner in the works here with Falcons winning that eco round spirit.
Gotta keep it tight here.
Running low on you to already the slowly gaining space.
They've got that big control.
Falcons haven't really vied for it at the beginning of any of these rounds.
The Magix has got the read.
He is pushed all the way through as Spirit get ready to assault B.
Monosy and Kiyosuke here, side by side, it's the off looking for an opening, and they'll strike in tandem.
Monosy puts it at a distance between himself and Main.
This spam's coming close, and we'll hear them for sure.
Shiro gets rid of that AWP.
Frank is in.
This is all the while, Magix was working an entirely different angle, out through middle.
Conrotates around to try and join him, and he's in a position to try and throw the timings
through a loop, carrying him dead on that rotation.
This boost allows Tessas to catch and bow.
And so a bit of ingenuity goes a long way.
Teneir again thrusts into a clutch.
This time he's got two 1B1s in front of him,
player from main, player from mid.
He'll battle forward, goes looking for Tessas,
and can't reel him in.
Oh, Nico having to set up his players,
even setting up his support staff.
Tessas over the top of the triple kill.
And Tenea in another clutch.
That's not the guy you want in the clutch here,
but Team Spirit, he's looking uncomfortable.
He was meant to be the hard-headed entry,
came to run in first, be alongside Donk,
taking over a lot of these entry duties
on the team side at times.
But looking very uncomfortable in these 1BXs is Tenea.
He was the hole yesterday
in Team Spirit's bucket on that CT side.
So you do not want that continuing here
in this semifinal.
as Falcons pounce and win more and more difficult rounds.
Spiro finally broke.
Triple B on the anti-ego.
Again, Falcons lean away from the middle of the map.
At what point will Spirit really start to abuse that position?
There's a desk of selling up so many uncertainties on this map for Falcons, mainly because only
Saw Kerrigan pull it through here at the Major, didn't touch it, but Astana.
Three wins in a row, tight wins, but wins nonetheless for the Falcons here at Clone.
Make that two rather, Nabiubi Taliti both going into overtime.
As I said on this B-play, but that's where the stack is for the Falcons.
One step ahead, this is a mow down.
Not an inch of ground gained, 14 spirit.
So a commanding lead building up at the start of the semi-final.
Breakthrough round coming off the hero guns.
That's where the four teams have changed a bit for the Falcons,
able to respond even on the back of that magic smith flank, now in control over the money.
They've got a spirit in a vulnerable position, trying to collect as much as they can on this CT half before the swap.
It's like he's very calm right now for Falcons.
This is one of the more aggressive moves we've seen Niko pushed up close in the middle.
He's got support of Orb, obviously never far away.
Kiyosuke really all eyes on him on this B site because side by side the character who yes
has added a lot of the untangibles for the falcons but we've still seen the struggles
as an individual especially on his CT side holding positions.
He's got that Molly Force, she's a shallow.
The Spirit avoid the extra damage, Magix already down low.
Sontek's got to be careful.
That Maid is not deterred Niko from playing this aggressive stance out towards mid.
All available for a quick drop down should they need it.
My poly miss is huge.
In Suki, we'll get flushed out of there at least.
It's going to give over this control. Dark taken by Team Spirit.
Eyes set on the B-Play again. In the real object of their desire to start this semi.
Three strong for the Falcons. They're in position. They're ready for this.
Smoke's obscured.
Spirit get to play behind them hoping that Chance Fam can connect.
Doc doesn't need to leave it to Chance. One rattling through.
Karrigan's play through the smokes gets denied.
Niko, he's done a lot of damage.
He finishes off Donk in that head-to-head.
And Monosy and Tess says, do they still feel interested in this?
They lose Monosy on that check.
Niko swung a spirit by back.
Falcons are everything they have at Donk there.
He is down to seven health as he gets that first kill over the smoke.
Onto Kiyosuke, no less.
Shura triple
in that post-bar, hunts down monocene, hearing him jumping about in temple
and even takes that AWP, so now we have Shura armed and even more dangerous
here in this playoff game.
He beat things from Shura today.
Des talked about his struggles on stages at times.
but drop-off or not him and donk are undeniable
still reassuring science from doc to kick off this game no reason to call the alarm
I do believe we have a way down.
I do this kind of stressful position that the Falcons have put Spurri in.
Could dissipate very, very quickly with another well-placed rifle round.
Suddenly you're back on top in this T side.
You'd be able to streak some rounds together, make something of it after all.
That's very much hinge on winning this one.
Make no mistake, Falcon's half is already done, they've already locked in enough.
This is all just bonus play at this point on CT side of Novus.
You don't want to lose that momentum going into a pistol round.
Spirit again, slow and steady in AMA.
Kira holds, looking for Monacy, who has been in a new position every time on this AWP.
They've been running the triple B for a little while.
Not uncommon to see you make a bit of a play for info, but that doesn't look to be the case.
Instead, Karagin leaves on rotation, goes back to pick up middle.
That means this two-man hold isn't getting any support anytime soon.
Look being thrown in for Tanea right as Falcons trying to gress through main it's a one for
one right now.
Oregon with a very awkward fight out there towards middle and Tess says getting sandwiched
there on either side of him.
Plays out towards main it's Shirou closing in on that all but a free kill out in the
open.
This is a layup for this A-plan 3B2.
And even the Falcons are moving over, there's money on the line here, they're going for
this and coming up short, give spirit away back into the half.
That respawn just denies it, it immediately cools it off here, 4 Falcons unless they
find a kill on a lurker, they're not going for this round, so spirit with a bit of
extra util, it goes a long way in ensuring this round and sending Falcons on their
merry way out.
This is already looking like an exciting head to head in middle between Karagoran
Magic's definitely an ugly fight for Karrigan, but gets there at the right time, that's Magic's who
continues to exploit this gap of middle, no one really playing it late in these gun rounds.
So he's able to walk the right through on this A-Split.
The machine of Team Spirit chug-chug-chugging along on this T-side, getting the job done.
I've been more early aggression, I feel like maybe they've been a little too blind in some
of these rounds that have gone by, they were scared out of going for this early on, what
with Spirit just holding this default, ready to punish any aggressive move.
Alcantus felt like wherever they have tried to get stuck in, they've gone away and they've
got into the waiting spirit forces.
This time it's a far bigger grouping out towards middle.
Maybe trying to catch Magix on some of these mid-lives.
They hit a space getting taken away out towards main.
Bees on uncertainty right now for the Falcons.
They've got no idea what's going on
on that half of the map.
They're really only prepared for this mid-fight.
Bit of an A side lean.
So as the bomb links up with Magix,
It is going in to the Falcons, but they're moving away.
They're doing the worst possible time on this.
Tess has with the spot.
Monacy's Orp's already gone.
Mid now taken.
Where does Spirit want to end this?
They've got Zontics floating around me,
but it feels like they're going to walk this bomb
through Temple, and we'll put them
within earshot of this Monacy Orb.
And you may be thinking it's just magic,
so they're not ready for the whole squad
right now walking in through this B flank.
Honestly, he takes space. He knows someone's coming in at least.
So if Falcons try and clear out more of the map,
they've realized that nothing's down in water.
Does that save him? Does that help them? It doesn't look likely.
Carrigan picks up the big green, but Skoda all over this bomb site.
They can run him down.
Utah flies in the face of Carrigan,
and he's already thinking about that save
because his team are ready to get cut off.
Shira missed shot.
They're charging him down.
Might need some help here. This is a double orb here for Falcons.
Something for later, maybe.
As Spirit take the round, Falcons leave with Lute.
Realisation was there for Falcons, he just spawned upon them too late.
So perfect call for Magix, we're waiting to see if they will be exploited.
This is the perfect round for it.
And this is a real game of cat and mouse right now between these two squads.
Everyone trying to find these timings and right now it's Spirit coming up with them.
Magic seemingly securing every gap for Team Spirit.
Now you got this double orb to work with. Wasn't really in the repertoire.
Wasn't really what you were looking for but gifted an AWP from Shiro.
Falcons decide to play with it. Carrigan picks up that second door.
That should be on the B site here, monist is going to be floating, might go for a pick.
Might just set up a main.
Good U till the middle.
Spirit know the Falcons want to probe this part of the map now and keep some presence there.
So Spirit might just go for something called out of spawn, it's looking like they're
surrounding this B bomb site for a hit.
Alright, that's quick for the Karagun. Kiyosuke here to help him out.
And he's now scoped up, ready for a swing out through the dark.
Gets to the spot at least. Actually goes back to look for this Karagun!
What?!
Making magic happen on the AWP!
Donk left up.
Well the Karagun are going to be able to stop him though.
Come on! Donk's on his way to something! That might have seen him on the top!
It takes fire to fight fire!
Stubbs Donk called in the clutch!
Oh my goodness, a 1v5 coming out of nowhere, Donk with a beautiful spray
and of course it's you to stop him because you can't out-shoot this guy.
Donk nearly doing something darsedly in this B-bomb site but it's the Carrigan
2nd orb that keeps Falcons above water.
You can almost feel the monosy influence he's been watching him a lot, that was quick.
That is not what you expected from the Carrigan 2nd Reop.
Now he's feeling it a little pushed all the way for a name, and Kiyosuke in behind him, trying to go for that early pressure again, but once more it's handed away these openings.
They've done that set up a couple of times, they've been waiting for that move, they know the Falcons have a couple of tricks up their sleeve here on CT Anubis, and so a double B push, shut down by spirit, and the round just falls into their lap.
The only job now is to just not drop it, and Marth Alcans could make a full gamble to hedge their bets.
They're still uncertain to do so. Niko hangs around in his position.
Monacy ready to react, and Tessas wants to play his mage, so he gives up a mage.
Timing miss for Monacy. Tanea on the edge of the scope, but the time is good.
Good. It's that shot. Now they hit it.
Utah come in. They know where Spirit are going.
Monacee's going to get here in time through that Utah.
Tess says, bites you a couple more seconds.
Monacee all come next.
The elbow can't quite find it.
Still, this 53-butt is getting scorned.
It now backends in bold position.
Takes on Tix and Shiro to try and wrestle this one
back under their control.
And all the way through to Niko Falls.
Spirit regain control.
And this semi-final is moving up to the high.
We are split right down the half to start things off.
Here in the Lancers, two teams vying for championships Sunday, a best of five, and a major trophy here on Counter-Strike's biggest and best stage.
It's Team Spirit, looking to defend their title here in Cologne.
Falcons, looking to win as finally promised as Karagin joins this roster.
You think the hard part is done, they took down Team Vitality yesterday, but Spirit saved themselves, we're just getting started.
eating up, slow and steady. Anubis first map. Falcons pick in their pocket with Spirits here.
Halfway.
Yeah, Spirits were down to try and foil some of the Falcons antics with slow, grueling rounds.
Falcons inject a bit more chaos into this T side.
Jiro, he's certainly making an aggressive move. As are the rest of Team Spirits to open up
in this pistol. It feels like that drop down was heard. Falcons don't commit anyone out through the
rugs yet. Now they get this spot, they see multiple players down here in the water. This is where the
round is fought on lost trades. Back and forth! Magics turns the tide! Oh, doesn't need to hang
around. He's got teammates nearby to try and cover this. It's Kiyosuke and it's Niko.
You know the old side-by-side for the Falcons, don't count of the pitcher, Shiro as well.
These are the two heavy hitters for Team Spirit watching from the wayside as this pistol still
hangs in the balance.
Contex is meant to be ice-cold in these positions.
We've seen Tiniest struggling them and Falcons might test the sole player on this A-bomb
site. The patients first spirit starts to make a move and it couldn't be better
timed with a magic score. How come to walking in but they don't know that door
is closing behind them. Zontics any step hard is only going to speed up his
captain's move. He plays full retake on this site. Trying to lend as much time
to magics as they can. I know he's got the element of surprise right now.
Bombing can plant it open. Magics could try and swing out to deny this
but they get into these post-plans. Kiyosuke with the spot.
And so this big element of surprise move that Spirit were waiting for has now been rumbled.
Next two to play.
Zontik's into Nier. Side by side out through the camera.
Into this crossfire.
And it all goes against him.
Magics 1v2.
And it's not going to happen. Kiyosuke delivers big in the pistol.
massive round here for the Falcons both pistols in their pocket in this map pick and
very calmly done
by the capable Kiersuke
Nico walks around the world with him at Falcons swim ahead with the lead again
For Nico again for Team Spirit Falcons just redeeming these freebie rounds
And that was chaos. That was the Karagin call. Come through that stair smoke. Everybody jumping
down rugs after seeing Spirit take control. Falcon's not afraid. Team playing with Bravado.
the confidence of a squad that just beat the world's best.
Carrigan's just a probe here, trying to figure out if this
site is truly clear.
One can come in or can rotate out depending on how hard
Spirit rotates to this position. They've still kept
magics on the other side of the map. But Carrigan's
calling. He has so much room. He is up in heaven and he
hasn't seen a soul. He takes two women through the smoke
gun pistols, but Falcon's no problems. 42, this one's a lock.
Yeah, Don Deagle patrols up here towards Heaven.
He's got four rifles ready to try and deal with him as soon as he plays his hand.
I want to see how close gets spotted.
Ron can't get his bearings on that Deagle, and with Magic's dead, no issues there for the Falcons.
It's a clean conversion and a lead locked in.
I'm not looking scared in the slightest bit. Does that change hitting for rightful rounds here now for spirits?
Sure off we'll have to wait
Team spirit a couple of cold players couple of slow starts don't consider punctuating the scoreboard
But otherwise still waiting for more
to the end of support here, not alone as he tries to hold down middle, magic snare by,
that nade keeps the advantage belonging to spirit.
Valeration out here towards main, Niko making ground and smoke slows his roll
I'm sure of hiding out towards the fountain gets here very very quickly a move and not spotted by the Falcons
So as he plays out that catches them by surprise
Gums come through for spirit and with it a
Key round to try and turn the tide a lot of decisions made very quickly
But they perfectly hit the spirit smoking that Molotov from Niko. They pull back
They're able to recommit. Zontics has a great bait for his teammate, costs him his life,
but on the pillar, easy trade for Team Spirit, puts him in the advantage. And Magic just keeps pushing the bowtie,
keeps flanking, keeps poking Falcons.
Causing a lot of nuisance here is the captain of Team Spirit.
As the Falcons bank empties out, it's Karagon, Glock, Armour, Niko with the only AK.
hardest challenge for the team that makes it all the way. It's hard to avoid the
elephant in the room that Nico is eyeing up, that major trophy and what a
difficult one it would be. Vitality, Spirit, Furia, Counter-Strike, Elites.
Can anyone on Spirit stop this play?
It's not a bad way to get the ball rolling.
Montessy responds with two of his own, and so quickly this triple stack is reduced just
down to Shiro.
To hold the line for a moment, or maybe more than a moment, Shiro gets it done.
Magic's arriving just as he's supposed to.
And that force for the Falcons doesn't leave much of a mark.
doesn't just like magics has the perfect read of the game at this point
He is push be main in the silence at a minute mark and walks right behind the falcons
Not only does that tell you it's gonna be an April he gets a free kill in middle
It's all team of boss rotating and shiro's rifles have been very