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Sure, Alpha was replenished, but you're going through now of the Torgy flag.
Double break, for the second one not so good.
PR boosted up.
Pressure down, PR reveals his presence as well.
Cemetery still able to capture tail of the assault.
Speaks is gone!
Just... oh, he's holding his Nava here in Donut and buys enough time for Cemetery for the chip in.
Just PR, the ace clutch demanded of him, or it's put on 12.
the line. It feels like it's at that center for PR and he's straight to his demise. Cemetery
three. End of the road for Miles. It's shrugging them off here today. Seven to the lower bracket.
We're going to send him home, crush that key. And you're not seeing those signs of like,
Oh, you know, we've learned from that first head to head.
We've come with a point to prove there's a whole conversation about mouse on stage games.
We thought we were done with that, but today it just appears that foot is the kryptonite.
This is about to be the fourth straight series where foot have made its way at mouse.
That's a small sausage for Benny down around feeling himself.
And if you walk through that smoke, your back is prepared, easy for prepared E-Train attempt
from the Tech 9.
He rounds the corner, he's scaly now, Drake should be there, explode one, Zell X-Dig.
Just a capable of keeping this round slightly interesting, but look at his health, Torgie
just attack 9, then again it's Torgie.
If anyone on this mouse roster has been fighting tooth and nail to stay competitive,
it is this man who must clutch to extend play here at the SDC Arena.
playoffs this departure from Maus. It's got a cap and a two bullets in the AK.
Demons about to come back and plug this. It should be curtains for the Kryptonite
of Maus. They go out with a win but they go out with a squeak. Stomping from
a team effort and Krobenny calling the shots. That first half practically ended this game.
The first opening Niko has been involved in all that long.
Chose a good time to post it.
They are desperately in need.
Just cracking the seal.
Find him one.
On your T side just to start the engine.
I'm not making a move but silently on this CT side.
Looks like there's a collision course set and Lato has been phenomenal.
Again in the right place, Monacea and Niko short side.
Oh, hang on.
Try not to jump across. Okay, in for one. Monacea's location draws Lato's attention.
Doesn't look back in time. Carrigan finds him. Just three.
Up against all five of the Falcons, this has to be their round in Lost Modesty.
Now Kiosk has got catastrophe!
Complete collapse!
Okay, 1v2 for Tessus, has he got it in him?
This one surely has it from CT, he can lock him off that bomb, swings on in, inaccurate, doesn't even have his gun out.
For Tessus, plugged.
Legacy keep it going!
There about to be blank Falcons, you got nothing on this T side.
Brof! If you carry again, you want to allow your players to play and Niko goes out mid, he finds the opening kill, but now you have to call them out of a hole.
He was doing a lot of micro-managing, a lot of talking from the rash there.
They get what they need, two opening incisions and a 3v5, and then blink, you miss it, everybody's dead, bomb doesn't go down, and this could be the final round.
This could be the first map Falcons have lost here at EWC.
And in such a stunning way, Legacy have managed to take control of this game.
Passed off.
Pacey, nice headshot, there's Lato.
Tessa, sideline.
Eco-ow, undetected.
Never mind, he's been spotted on his descent.
It's easy for Lato, that's two kills.
Make it three! Taps off the head up, honestly!
Throw in the towel, this one is done.
The start to the series, legacies pick up Mirage,
and they sail to being 1-0 up in this series.
This quarter-final.
Markets at the edge. The 7-5 half you think okay?
We're gonna see every round of regulation.
And you will be wrong, legacy dominance on display to start.
Oh, an absolute statement. That is picking up right where they left off at CAC just a couple of months ago.
Dennis smoke break. Monacee haunts his nerve. He lines up the nades.
Gonna be a little too late.
Carrigan's gone. Monacee forced to address the long pop.
finds Lato. Needs Nism on the cross, he's just gonna stare at the floor, boards get
hanged off the two man, not good enough, but we'll find him though. Up to Tessus and Kioské.
Oh, now to his presence, that's some optimal. You don't want that. This is for 12. They've
got the advantage, that bomb is ticking. Every second closer to that 12-4 legacy.
Kioské leg shot from Trizor. They know where he's coming from, they know the angle of the
from both of them and he's hit it the second time around jumps up oh come on try cannot be tamed cannot be stopped
Enjoying some of the stages the catch ADR
Why not with the counter strike we're seeing that flash a moment earlier a chance the Karrigan has to dodge it has to turn it has to be close
They knew that possibility and as his toes leave the box try hitting everything 26 kills deep
He's got that long spawn. This could be the knockout blow. This could be Falcons going home.
Can he really draw first blood as well?
Twist of the knife.
The fire of the shot.
Full white.
And Long is under Falcons control.
Turns his attention to mid.
Counting on a smoke break plate.
There is an AWP in play.
Long Kiosk.
Yeah, it's actually a game feeling there, but after map number one that's surprising.
He's trying to stick to the cheeky. Oh, the risk.
He could not afford to make. Goes down.
At least he can coordinate from the grave on this CT hold. It's a 2-2 division of labour.
Activity now towards the B side of the map. It's helped by Nissen Loha.
Oh, he could have...
He's tried the same thing and it's got the same way!
Lato didn't have to lift the finger.
This one's slipping through the fingers. They're gonna walk into this and hand
moving the muscle. He's in the right place at the right time. Falken's getting
ripped to shreds near step two. Just want to see to save the Falken's run at EWC or legacy.
We'll continue to build their legacy. Here in the Esports World Cup, Falken's
eliminated by the Giant Killers. Four Brazilian and Argentinian walk to Paris and secure a semi-final.
Javi and now Falcons sent home. You go back to CAC. You say, okay, Karak, you just joined the roster.
How about this time? Try. Did it like a glove in that legacy jersey.
You'd love to get rid of Taneer. He's had a lot of influence in this game, but it's not done yet.
How does he do it? That's Taneer up against the full might of vitality.
They've got every advantage. They've got the drop on him or so you think.
To me it turns what was meant to be the overtime deciding kill into maybe the map winning double
because now the resources are stretched in the whole map is dark vitality no closer to
knowing where this one ends up.
Vitality are left to the big three but they're all split one one one each player tasked with
something massive.
Mames alone in the open, no nades to stop this, and if Zaiwu hangs around in the middle, he will be left out of the play with an AWP.
Spirit are getting closer and closer to taking their map pick here on Anubis.
They're going to lead into a gamble, they bring Zaiwu over.
Damage, as soon as he turns his head up through the temple, Zaiwu!
Not cut out for it and now you've got a very quiet Robs throwing into a one-on-three
Have not had to say his name all too much in this opening that
Spirit knocking on the door of a win at the start of this quarterfinal a recovery from the vitality comeback
And a shaky Robs plays it forward plays it in there's the first
One man on a counted four and that's all it takes. Team spirit, breathe a little easier. They stave off that comeback.
No open side for Zai Wu, speaks to maybe just a set piece here for Vitality.
Suddenly perhaps with a bit of pace behind it.
Remember this was a 7-1 lead where Vitality were just doing brutal A-splits and yard control rounds.
Maybe something out of the pocket here.
Again, move yard side.
We've missed it entirely.
It's not missing, bro.
We've just gone with the donkey, mate.
Smoke's end up leading. The donkey's brought down low in that skirmish.
Not the guy you want shy of making plays in this final round of OT but that's what happens, OH NO NO NO NOOO!
Oh dear....
Magix's co-board get said, the Double Agent comes on line. He ships Ishifl8 and don't get it the round.
Does that how it ends?
What do you do when Magix is a vitality fan!?
Rob goes even further!
And Team Spirit and World of Truly Hit the Iceberg, the ship is sinking!
Vitality, it's not on their own merry here, it's with a bit of help from an old friend, an old foe.
And you cannot believe that that is how this map ends!
The ball is for Vitality, and this quarterfinal, you're in the distance.
Because I will one final ditch attempt.
This is the only proper rifle round of Vitality.
We'll get the chance to play.
This is where, if they are going to put up the wall, it's going to be immediate, it's going to be impenetrable.
You cannot make a single mistake.
And that's the frustrating thing about a guy like Donk.
Sometimes you don't even make mistakes.
He's just faster. He's just better.
Prying eyes with this AWP. Donk hits the tag and that mid will spell disaster.
Robs just gets away from it.
But nothing feels sacred, nothing feels safe.
up here. Saw Team Spirit used this to great effect in that first half.
Nessie at least gets one from it. Zai Wu with just a tag.
This is a three on five. He's just running at them. Nessie gets even more
damage down range. I mean there's a bunch of wounded players here and you've
knocked out the big hitler in Dong. But you can't get ahead of yourselves.
This is your tournament life on the line. You're staring down the barrel.
I want to watch him have a massive deficit of rounds.
Look at Teneir go. No one's home and Teneir's got all this room.
One man short side will get the spot off.
Nezzy knows the players made it out into his bomb site.
Magics get out there in middle.
There might still be a chance of more rounds of vitality.
Nezzy gone overwhelmed.
He picks up next three kills deep in this game and he's dead.
This can't be how it comes undone.
Team spirit lay waste.
to vitality and store into the semi-finals.
Our players started out as underdogs.
Young Mongolia's quad is rewriting esports history.
They're up in the series!
Mongols close to throwing another knockout blow.
Two kills away!
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He thinks he can come in here and play my game!
He knows nothing but God!
Tyler Wynne, you're done.
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You can't climb it!
It's better than being hard second masters.
You know what's more, now?
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That's an air log? That's an air log?
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Okay, yeah. Give me something.
Is it nervous?
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Everything's good?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
You really need the wraps? Yeah, it feels like an overkill to me.
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This is exactly what we everyone should have done and everyone should do sorry because for me like the biggest selling point of
EWC is club championship. And for us at this time we knew that we if we wanted to have a shot at
Taking first place we have to eliminate you. I wanted to put you guys in a position where you are under pressure
Not lifting a trophy because the only way that Falcons mathematically cannot win
It's not having a winner
We're here at the Sony Manga booth for the One Piece experience and as you can see, it
is absolutely massive.
One Piece fans, you need to come check this out because you cannot, you do not want to
to miss this.
Now there is a special secret that we can activate here.
I'm gonna go ahead and see if I can figure out
how to do just that.
Oh, hecky, I swear.
Sagashimono, the Sagashiki,
you do yourself.
My peace.
You can feel all of the emotion
coming from each of these individual panels.
Oh wait, we got a color.
Quick, quick, we have two minutes.
Well, don't just stand there holding the light, help me.
Time's up, did I do it?
I did it!
Yeah!
And of course, you have to make your final stop
in the one-piece photo booth
so you can figure out what your bounty is.
Oh, that's adorable!
Okay, just under three now?
You know what? We take that.
Cool, look!
How freaking cute!
Oh my god!
So please, come out and experience One Piece
as it has not been experienced before!
I mean, come on!
Smoke.
They're close, they're close.
They're taking you too.
1 flash
2 2
They want to come to the front
First team are on the second team
They want one
They don't want to come in the middle
Last
They are on the left
They are on the left
They are on the left
They are on the left
I don't hold guys
One peeks here man
NOOOOOOO
It's on the left
Nice
Nice
I don't want to go here
I don't have any HP
Come on
On site?
What a beautiful thing.
Nice, nice.
Pick up.
Nice, nice!
On 6.
They're watching you.
Get back, get back.
Knocked, knocked.
I'm close, I'm dead.
One is coming.
I got a bomb in the kitchen.
Please, ma'am.
I'm close, I'm close.
I'm picking up the bomb.
Let's go.
I'm down.
I'm down.
I'm peeking right away.
Nice!
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I never feel so bad
Big time I've been chasing the whole city
If you look at me, I'm like, I don't know what I'm talking about
I cut the line, I don't care if you like me
A new life, a new me
I'm in the mood, I'm in the mood
When I look back, because I look at you
I'm dead, I'm in the mood
I'm not in the mood, I'm in the mood
I'm in the mood, I'm in the mood
I'm still alive, and I take everything that's in me
I'm alive, I'm in the mood
We are almost at the end of the line, only 4 teams left battling for their spots in the ground fight.
More foot withstands Pharrir's pressure to reach their first ever big championship game.
And while another Brazilian team keeps building their legacy against all the odds,
everything is on the line and no matter the outcome, history will be made today.
Did only two more days of Counter-Strike with EWC? Welcome to the semi-finals.
It is semi-final Saturday for Counter-Strike 2 at the East World's World Cup 2026 and we are kicking it off in Skarl, not least, because we stood in front of the beautiful Arc de Trans, but I'm joining you for today.
So we're going to check in on this event, we're going to go directly to Paris, right?
Or we can go to Massive Games on Saturday night.
I think it's going to be yesterday as well.
I'm sure, I guess so.
I think it's going to be a lot of fun.
I'll first go to France.
Everything's going to be fine yesterday.
With the fact that I'll go to London.
I'll go to London.
I think it's going to be early in the tournament.
What is this?
What is this?
They are the ones I thought they were there, right?
They are the ones I thought they were there, right?
I didn't know.
You always come to BlastPort, I still don't know.
I still don't know.
Guys, it's been months to come here in Paris,
but I know too, I guess,
I'm going to be...
Well, favorite names there also
are the ones I know.
In the final,
I think,
I think,
I think,
I think,
I think,
I think,
I think,
I think,
I think,
I think,
I think,
desperate by the end of the game I mean I just think about that last round on Dust2
where we have multiple smoke pushes on long Falcons. I'm feeling quite uncomfortable in
that game and Legacy looks really punishing. I mean this is a Legacy we've come through and
toured both their games as underdogs. They've only let one of the four maps go to 10 rounds
for the opponent so Legacy are on fire right now and hey sky's the limit at this point.
And it almost feels like this is the worst version that we've seen Falcons since they're
gotten carried again right and it's a tournament I've been a lot to the team because they
They wanted to build that legacy of the maturing, right?
And they meant a lot for the fighters and the organization
of building the club championship.
So, you know, being eliminated by the legacy and the qualifiers,
eh, that's not really what you're looking for.
Yeah, it's so weird, isn't it?
Because I kind of assumed, obviously,
wrongly that that whole pressure element,
now that Niko'd finally lifted the major trophy,
maybe the pressure wasn't going to get to them.
But it turns out it was completely the other way.
Then we look at the pressure that Vitality were under,
not only to try and, you know,
make a dent in that club championships,
but also on home soil for Apex as I would.
And against a team spirit
have never beat them right any iteration of spirit who have made multiple roster
changes over the last 18 months to try and catch up with vitality they were
able to do it they only had their record was 14 to 2 in maps against them
coming into this game and then we saw don't go off on Mirage and absolutely
shut down vitality I don't know about you Peter I've never seen vitality
lose a third map that hard now I think you could already go back to the
beginning of the match really in the video where they probably took some
different and maybe some pressure with the system so the fact that they
both and Lucas and Mirage go through and you know it's all about the third
map and it could have gone to dust too but at the end you know trying to play
Mirage against Spirit is tough when you have someone like Dong that will just go
out and and pick all these fights and it hurts for my telly right they've spent
probably since the beginning of the season since they got to know that this
was going to be in Paris this meant a lot to them it's meant a lot to
organization and to the players because they wanted to replicate what
happened in 23 but rightfully so they couldn't make it count against
Spirit and they really made it. Especially when you consider Falcos
departure early in the day prior to that game. I think that opened up the whole tournament
for Vitality. They had Spirit who they've always beaten their Falcons out of the running.
I mean, this was open for Vitality to make it to the arena here in Paris, but hey, Spirit
from Runners. Yeah, fumbling in the quarterfinals were Vitality, but we can take a look at the
playoffs bracket to see exactly how our semifinals are indeed shaping up. Hugo,
which one of you got your eye on in particular out of this? I'm looking forward to this
first game of the day because it's going to be Furia, it's going to be chaotic, it's going
going to be crazy. We had Fury kind of come in slow to the playoffs with some off maps.
There's been some talk of you kind of leading this team on certain maps as well. I'm not
sure how that's shaking up too well. The foot are punching up like a legacy. They've proven
themselves time and time again. So I think Fury better watch out.
Perfect segue because there was one piece that we're looking at in our crunchy roll
story of the day and that is indeed a legacy because it's been so impressive. The teams
that they've had to take down to make it to this point, Peter.
Yeah. And when you saw them in that lower side of the bracket, you'd really
that they really make too much of their name right but here they are they're in a
semi-final they're against Spirit and they start off by taking down Navio too
and then you think okay that's surely gonna be it right but then they went on
into the same thing against Falcons and then you be thinking wow when does these
guys actually stop it's it's just straight up impressive and you know
everything at this point can happen because with what they've shown so far and
the level they have shown the server I think Spirit is also going to be looking
at thinking this could actually help a match. Especially when you consider
map pause right for some teams have been struggling you mentioned vitality
to look at legacy on these 2-2-0s, they play four different maps, they've dominated four
different maps, one of them went 10 rounds, the others were pretty one-sided, so legacy,
I mean, are showing a new face, we know this team likes to make a crazy upset every now
and then, but to do it back to back and to go against a team spirit who have never played
against this team coming up next, don't count legacy out of anything at this point.
We've got so many insanely exciting matchups coming our way, but also very exciting
is our club Championship Race, so let's check in the Ginny to get us up to speed.
Besides the CS stage that is still live tomorrow every other game is finishing today. So trackmania crossfire fortnight
That's about it for EWC club championship point standings at the moment 4,600 for Falcons 4,300 for AGAL
Unfortunately, both our stages are a little bit irrelevant because none of these teams are longer competing
So I think we can all just give an update as to what we can expect over the next two
Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna see you hours. I'm gonna start with you for crossfire side of things though
Yeah, everybody's going to look at me and just tell me to shut up and move on.
But it's Team Liquid. That's all it is. It's Team Liquid in the grand finals.
They've guaranteed themselves 750 points in crossfire.
Obviously looking to go back to back on the Allianz Vol after Magnus Carlson
managing to win chefs last week for them as well.
And they've kind of sprung from the bottom of the leaderboard
up to about a round about that sixth place.
I think there's a possibility of them getting up to fifth if they win it.
But it's not looking likely.
And I have jinxed them all the way through. I've been saying it's not looking likely.
Core finals, semi-finals, finals. I've said the same thing, and yet they're still going.
It's just going to go down the line here.
It's coming straight to me.
All right, well then we're going to jump into it because I've got a lot of teams in
my lobby that we're talking about, okay?
However, when it comes to our storylines, we're talking about Falcons, they're in
my lobby.
We're talking about AGL, they're in there, Vitality, also in there.
Right now what we're seeing out of two of those three teams is not a lot.
Vitality are at the bottom of our leaderboard.
AGL are struggling.
That's not what we need out of them.
have had kind of an up and down performance. They did get a win earlier on in the matches,
just got a second place finish as well. So it does at least put them into top eight contention,
which means there could be some points on the board coming around the corner for Falcons,
but nobody's hit match point yet. Okay. So there's still some time left. We need to have a team
on 350 points and then they need to get a victory Royale before we can really kind of call
everything done and dusted in right now out of all the teams I mentioned. The one that I
I haven't mentioned this actually doing the best is Aurora gaming and the reason
that's big Jenny is because they headed into a fortnight in 10th place on the
CC leaderboard if they can win this somehow kind of turn their performance
around get a win here put some tide for fourth and the difference prize pool
wise is 650,000 for 10th place versus 3,000,000 in fourth that's some this
that's a bit of a check but you have truck many happenings as well and it
will be closing out by the end of the day so what are the expectations
I mean, the expectations are that it's probably going to be decided on our stage at some point, right?
I mean, it's going to be a crazy day. I mean, we've got things kicking off with our quarterfinals
Nobody has any cc points yet and we're into the final day. So the big group for me realistically
We've got Carl Jr in Falcons. We've got banks and agl as well
That is the main competitor as we're keeping an eye on but the real big match kickoff today
We've got I think is in game three. We've got Carl Jr from Falcons
We've got the young kid neon the one that was breaking all of those world records
We've got Pac in the same group as well and then attack from Team Liquid Pac place of vitality
He's a former world champion as well
Just won the dream have beaming them event to qualify to get to EWC beating Carl, Jr.
To get here so one incredible performance from him to do that
But they're all in the same group and that's just to get to semi-finals
So I don't know who the script writers are but they hooked here because I mean it's gonna be incredible to see how
They're gonna go with that to kick things off and then that doesn't even guarantee anything
So let's see how it goes, but we've got a big day.
I mean, it sounds like it's going to be down to the wire.
And of course, as anything changes on the relevant stages,
of course, we will let you know.
MUSIC
Paris, make some noise.
It's your semifinals, baby.
We got Feria taking off foot to open the day and who is moving on to the Acre Arena for a championship Sunday?
We will know at the end of this match Feria coming out of Brazil put the Turkish organization going toe-to-toe
and it's not the first time they've done it this year.
Welcome in everybody. I'm your host Chris Puget. I've been here on the EWC STC Arena stage for eight weeks now
but this is only the first time I've had this dynamic duo together.
We got to breathe the one and only five major champion and of course the big brain on two wheels
We got the one and only Jacob. I want to start with you. How we feeling feeling good, you know
Ready for another day of kind of strike ready for the city finals unless you said it's gonna be a plus today a couple of surprises
So find this turn massive surprise. Thanks. We haven't seen the last one now debris
I like that call we have seen a number of upset some people are a little bit bummed by the way
The bracket is played out, but this is a huge opportunity for those remaining
It definitely is and it's it is just two teams legacy and foot that we don't really often get to see in top force and in these
Type of environments and these type of tournaments, so it's two teams
That's definitely a bit of surprise, but I think they've made set their mark
They've made their mark here showing that they can play power track at a very high level and beating
I at least looking at legacy how they people's now, but also how they beat Falcons
That is the biggest surprise of today and by far legacy to over now
They have a 2-0 over Sundance.
Tonight they have another challenger in front of them in Donk and Team Spirit.
But first we got to talk about the squads taking the stage to open up your first semi-final.
It's Furia taking on Foot.
Now, something fun here.
Fallen OG.
On the other side, Foot, new guns. Is that how you describe it?
I think that's a fair way of assessing this game.
You know, you have an up-and-coming squad.
You have a very young team in Foot going up against some netizens of the game in Furia.
You mentioned Fallen. I could say Kisadrado.
I'd say Yuri, there's so much tin here, so much experience
when the freeway came.
Also springy with a little bit of youth in Moledoy,
who's obviously gonna be a guy to watch out for.
So there's a bit of young energy on both sides.
Now I did a Twitter poll asking,
who do you wanna see on Championship Sunday?
Over half wanted to see Fury versus Spirit.
If so, this is the venue they'll be playing in tomorrow.
We got Stunna over there with MBK at the Acor Arena.
Acor Arena, right here behind me.
Thousands of people will be walking through
these doors this weekend just to watch the culmination counter strike to me and they're
going to talk a little bit about some of the games that we've got before we get there and by
one of the games being furia and foot Nathan uh i want to have you identify one player from each
side i want to start from the furious side i want to kind of pick your brain it's very interesting
as a matter because you have the oldest team of the tournament against the youngest team of the
tournament uh furia being the oldest one a lot of experience you have a thing the best example
being fallen, 45 years old. He knows everything. He's been there since the very beginning. You know,
he is the guy to watch. He is the godfather of Brazilian Counter Strike, pretty much.
And in my opinion, I want to watch that guy because he has been pretty, you know, low when it
comes to rating the whole tournament. But the more you're going to go far,
semi-final, final, this guy is going to wake up. He has the experience, he's always
going to bounce back. I'm really expecting him to do good and I really want to watch him.
Some people are saying out of the olden with the new and is that what foot brings the table?
Oh, 100%. The whole brand of Counter-Strike is different. They're very packed, very aggressive,
they know exactly, they exploit CS to their maximum. And if you look at the players,
you have a lot of youngsters. If you look at Dukes, for example, 17 years old,
one of the brightest starters coming up. And you know, to this element,
there is no exception. He's been playing insanely well. Really looking forward to what he
can bring on server well let's see just that thank you very much Nathan of
course thousands of people here this weekend in the Acore arena and for us
we've got to keep the matches going we're gonna see what they've got going
the studio I believe pocket you guys are having fun over there aren't you I
absolutely love that security will not let those two in yet they will get
in there tomorrow the whole crew is gonna be there with us and we are
expecting some great games if you ask the audience though they're expecting
feria to be there can we talk a little bit about the IGLs in this
because Fallen, he has played 1,397 maps on land.
Foot combined, 869.
We could see Fallen, if this goes to game three,
playing his 1,400th map on land to breathe.
It's crazy, like this guy just keeps scoring,
and I think NBK, he put it out there pretty bryfully
that Fallen had to spin around for as long as we can remember.
Like he's been two takings, and he's taken from Scylla and Counter-Strike
to just new heights, and he's at this point just seemingly
seemingly a Mr. Miyake of Counter-Strike and I think he's done so many good things for the Counter-Strike
only for Brazil but he's got to talk looking up for yes a lot of passion for the game and when you
look at the two differences in style fall has tried everything like throughout his thickest
encounter he's been trying to leave all these kind of matters all these trying approaches to how
Counter-Strike has played whereas Coppenny he's one of those new guys in the block he has really
adapted that the style of two two conflict bringing that into tube one and with red so a lot
A lot about the individual is playing very well.
It's a lot about taking these balls
and creating space for each other.
But then, you know, sprinkling with these kind of things
where you're also playing to one counter,
whereas all about making the right decision,
making things work together as a team.
And it's just a, it's a, it's a
it's a bright combination of things.
But the player is also a player that also puts himself
as the main character in the role.
We want to create the space.
And he wants to go out and take those five squares
and the following stuff is a little bit more about,
you know, his plays around him to break his base.
I like that call.
Jacob, we have time to look at Theria or Foot.
Who do you want to break down highlights of?
I'd say, I'd say Furt.
Let's look at Furt.
I'd say Furt.
I think Furt, you know, is, as Peter said, you know,
young, up-and-coming team,
we kind of forgot how good they were.
You know, we kind of forgot how well they play Counter-Strike
and how much they have to offer.
We kind of forget how willing they are
to be aggressive on the server as well.
And when you go up against Feria, who are,
you know, from South America,
who are from Brazil,
who have a style of Counter-Strike as well,
where they're always willing to fight,
I think we're gonna have fireworks on the server.
It's a good, stylistic matchup between the two teams.
Naturally, a lot of experience on the side of Furia, but in terms of never letting down,
in terms of never lifting the foot off the gas pedal, foot will guarantee you some fireworks
on the serve.
I love the aggression we saw at a demon.
Of course, we mentioned what Jude's the 17-year-old is bringing to the table, but it was X-Cloud
who made it to our studio at the end of that matchup after taking down Miles.
He's playing with confidence.
They've got a lot of hope that they can make it to the A-core arena.
What do you need to see from him today, Debris?
I just want to continue what he's doing because it's really working for the squad and for him himself and his time in Hervoy
You know, he's always been the very aggressive player
I think he's much perfectly into the DNA of how foot wants to play it is about being brawling
It is about picking up the fight and it's about being pacey and that's exactly what he fits in so well
So it's good to see that he's just continue his drive and he continually having a tournament later
I think this is his chance of making his best tournament in a top four ever with his dad's as well
So you know a big credit for a guy coming into team
This is a second tournament together with foot soap. We can already feel the impact it had and I think a lot of us had some of our
No ideas that when longs was actually put in the bench and they had to find a replacement
Who would that be and I think a star has fallen perfectly well done management
Let's see how the coaches are doing when it comes to the vetoes though pimp
I know you've been running the numbers in the green room
What do you see on your screen and do you like the pics coming in?
Yeah, no big surprise 18 coming in for for it's been a stable for them so far this tournament new could be the same for
for Furia, so no big surprise. A little bit sad that we don't get to see Kass in the mix
right here, would have been a fun third deciding map, but I guess neither of the two teams are
willing to risk it at this point, so we end up with a Dust 2, which is also a comfort pick
for both teams. We are going to Dust 2, aren't we, Debris? A game three guaranteed?
Well, I think Ft had a really good chance of getting at least one point in this best
of three, because the fact that they were going to be at that end, sorry, that
Fjord was going to ban out of the room, that means that Enchi was going to be
open up. And it is two of the weak maps that we have seen over on Fjord, even
they play both matches tournaments so either of them have to come in play so it's right for me so
foot decides to go for the weak point. I need one more answers because 95 percent of the audience
is going with Furia over foot they're going veterans over young guns Jacob where are you
landing? I believe in the young guns foot all the way. Two one four foot. Make the noise
Paris, this is the beginning of the semi-finals live from EWC 2026 in Paris.
I mean I'm very surprised that we are coming that further in the tournament because it's our
first LAN tournament, we didn't practice that much and our chemistry is not I would say
They're matching yet, but still, we are doing very well.
It's also my biggest stage in my career,
and I think we're going to have a great season this year.
Counter-Trike is different sometimes,
because if you don't win situations in the game,
you're going to suffer.
High level of CS right now, it's all about situations,
so clubs, the team that play better clubs,
I like it, you know.
We have good chance.
I think Phugia game is gonna be tough
because they have more pump base in the arena, I think.
But still, we don't care about enemies' pump base, you know.
We just focus on ourselves.
We arrived late against them.
They won against us as well.
So, I think they play more faster than on other teams.
They have a good game as well, so they are wrong.
When you see the people from Brazil coming here, like give you motivation to play better.
We are giving everything for this, so thanks so much for your support.
We are getting confidence every game, and this confidence is building more and more for next game, so we're gonna play in the finals.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Paris, what an honour, what a pleasure for us to welcome
you here for this last day of competition at the ST Serena.
We've had three weeks of CS in Paris, last chance to qualify a group stage and it's
already our last day here at the ST Serena before the grand finals.
We have two Brazilian teams that are going to hit the stage today in the semi-finals.
It's about to get epic.
It's about to get epic indeed.
The crowd is electric with thousands of people cheering for their favorite teams.
The final four are here and they're ready to move on to championship Sunday at the
Aquilorena and to fight for the lion shed of two million dollars on the line.
It's going to be insane.
It's going to be amazing indeed.
There is a clear crowd favorite for this first match, as you can tell, but don't think that it's going to be easy because here at the EWC, nothing is granted and everything is earned.
So I have a question for you. Paris, are you ready?
I think they're ready.
I think they're ready.
And it's time to welcome our first semi-finalist at the Consulate Strike 2, at the Esports World Cup.
Give it up for Furia!
Nothing about their road through Paris has been easy.
Twice, they have been pushed all the way to a third map.
And twice, they have looked their strongest.
When there are nowhere else to run,
they have survived every test so far.
No one, no way but Julia in the grand final.
And of course, Julia have the drums,
but the youth and the passion also belong to Forts!
He's Forts!
Right outside of the top 15 at the start of the tournament,
they're unbeaten since the very first match of the group stage.
They just swept miles to get here. Nobody expected this run, yet here they are, standing strong.
Youth, they're powerful and proud as they're getting up to the stage at the STC Arena,
ready for one of the biggest upsets in their career.
One has survived every test, the other has shattered every expectation.
Now only one of them gets to play for the trophy Paris. It's time make some noise
Well an electric atmosphere in here for semi-final Saturday, it's the new versus the old
The battle hardened squad of fury at helmed by veteran leadership who have been here done that
Versus Foot, the cutting edge, the experimental, the guys on the come-up looking for glory.
Yeah, not just the youngest team in this event, Versus the oldest team in the area,
but a team that's only fielded four matches in front of a crowd as a roster.
Two of them since X-File joined here at EWC.
A couple back at Pro League where they went on quite the run and took down Maus.
They did it again and again here in Paris to get to this point.
semi-finals and all of the line here for Ft.L.S.
and Furia, who have had waning form,
they've had ups, they've had downs,
but you know what they do have?
A safe haven to those finals yet again.
Will they reach out and grab it?
Or is it an upset from underdogs
that stops Furia in their tracks today?
I think the veto is so exciting for this game
because there were options open for both teams,
especially Furia.
Furia had been banning different maps,
depending on their opponent in this tournament,
They talked openly about their willingness to play ancient, how they don't have a clear permaband.
It was shaky in their first showing here at EWC, but they absolutely blew G2 out of the water in that quarter.
So safe to say, Fury are willing to play it again today.
Insta batting Anubis, handing it over to Foote for well-knowing this map would get picked.
And the kid has even talked about being the in-game leader on this map, but the stressor comes with that,
even though he has understanding, it's a very thankless and unforgiving role.
And so he's going to have to be put to the test again against his clunky young squad
with one of the hottest prospects in-game leading on the other side.
That's Graveni.
This whole team has been a marvel to watch.
The ex-Navi project, an Academy squad overtaking the main team in the rankings
under this organization.
So many cool stories for Foot, and that's before I talk about their
latest addition, X-Floud now in this squad putting up one hell of a tournament run.
Yeah, he's just been in fantastic form, right? Kind of waiting for that chance to get to prove himself, moves into this foot team.
You knew what he was capable of from other squads. Had even a brief stint in with the Turkish guys thinking all the way back to Aurora,
but he always kind of found his form in international teams. That's what made him stand out.
That's what separated him from the pack and he had slotted in real nicely.
Something to put, they themselves even said, you know, it's a pretty fresh faced squad
with his addition.
They're kind of shocked at the progress and how quickly it's come.
But I would say that's how we felt about foot from the moment they exploded onto our
screens.
This was a team that did not go timid in these high pressure environments.
They didn't take the time to warm up.
They were able to get out on stages and instantly leave an impression.
Yeah, punching up their whole career.
I can't call X-Flight a prospect, we've seen him around the block as you highlight,
but I think he's in the perfect position in this young and hungry squad.
It's arguably best team yet, given the form of Fert, and the recent run they've been on.
And he's putting it as proof right now, here in the Sarba,
he's going to have to, in this semi-final, thumbs up fist bumps, we're getting ready.
Alright then Paris, are we ready for a semi-final?
Then let's get it on!
It's ancient to get things going.
First pick in this one.
You talked about the VO coming into this and why it's so interesting.
Sure, you've seen Furia willing to play this map.
Played it a couple of times here in EWC, but this is a go-to for Boots, one they've got a lot of reps on.
So they're going to feel right at home on their map pick.
This is a team that they like to brawl, this is a team that they like to fight.
And so that's what Fury have to be ready for. This is looking like a faster direct pistol round.
You're still getting locked in. I set on this B bomb site.
Yeah, full stacked four here, even hiding in coffee.
and coffee, but Agat's cleared instantly.
Yuri's decked, all into only one.
And through the smokes, they come, they fall.
Furia, obliterated on this B site.
This is shade of the other day against Aurora.
When Furia, even when they had players in the right place,
they couldn't hold their sights.
And so yet again, the full man start
falls to just one man, Cacerato.
Kitted up, suited and booted for this clutch.
not meant to be symmetry with three, but start strong on their map.
I think one of the things that's made foot so entertaining is just kind of the
brand of counter-strike this team looks to play, right? It's very, very rare that
you get a squad come along and kind of upset the Apple car in the way that they have and they they instantly kind of find
their fan base
You're not super familiar with the players. You're not super familiar with their journeys
but
You like the way they play it's a very attention-grabbing squad and get familiar because these guys aren't going anywhere
It's the hottest sports face we have in Counter-Strike right now
You're going to see a lot more of this team. The question is, will you see them in a grand
final tomorrow.
They're going to get down in a lot of situations they haven't seen before, but again they
They hitch their bets in the right place.
Yeah, there's this force to worry about, but you get that open there, you breathe a lot easier.
X-File with a follow-up.
That's even though they're going to the stack, it's no issue.
Fourth foot.
Look at it grab their conversions by force.
And a save call for Furia as this force by goes nowhere.
I'm keeping a watchful eye on Keisarato.
Chance to have his highest rating.
I'm keeping a watchful eye on Keisarato.
I'm keeping a watchful eye on Keisarato.
have his highest rated event of the year on pace to do so and we'll have to show
up today, there's no doubt about it.
That's a lot of the line even just looking economically right the difference
between winning this game and losing it I mean fourth place to second place in
this event is a 300k difference or 3x difference sorry from a hundred to
300. So serious money on the line in a match like this for a young squad
Will not be shy there turning their nose up at an opportunity to grab the gold. Yeah
It's a really life-changing opportunity for the good guys, right?
Not just a chance to be on the podium hoisting a tier one trophy
I've seen more money than you've ever seen in your entire life, without a doubt.
So, Furt, they've been so steady in his T-Side so far, just two executes on this B-Side.
Fine to let the round breathe.
Not looking flustered or panicky.
It's Furia who made the gamble in this round.
But for once, it might be misplaced.
Molodoy has that mid-cross and everybody else is back in their sight.
But they've worked for this early right with the back-to-back b-hits.
Fury are more than justified to be paranoid that another one's coming their way.
They're just hedging their bets with these saved pistols. They lose Molodoy out towards middle,
no contest. That's it. It should be the round pulling cleanly into place for Furt.
So a good run arounds to get this semi-final going and that's gonna quell any nerves you might have had coming into this
It's too far in here kiddo, Kermany knows they're gonna hunt him down so support comes in
Don't want to give durian any things on this save, so if I feel like on the exits, you can see we'll do exactly that
three kills, three alive
Five, three rounds, here for Foots.
Now, I'm thinking of when you're on this foot run, there is kind of a bit of a poeticness to the nature in which they've done it.
Feeding back against Maus, and when you think about that, Maus, that was a team that really embodied the grind of being a squad who had to grind their way through playoffs,
had to come to terms with playing with the pressure.
And when we talked about Foots, we said what made them so exciting was, seemingly, it didn't seem to affect them that much.
This is of course the real test of that, but they've even twice on their run to get here.
Kind of the anti-mouse in a sense.
I just said again on another just direct B hit, and got a lot of ground out towards the ramp side.
This is the first rifle round for Furia. They're hoping for something a little more standard here,
because you don't want this early swell of rounds going against you on a comfortable map for your opponent.
I love that they're willing to cancel there. They walk up ramp, smoke comes down, they bail,
and then they get together, they get grouped, they get a flash through this smoke and do it as a team.
Entry comes in, but finally a favourite hold for Furia. The lack of utility may come to Horner.
Util goes down, trying to smoke off his long position, stop Furia's progress, but Bologna gets his shots.
Two nice ones off the orb, no cover there and Krebendi comes up with a couple. Could he really do this on his own?
This guy out of it.
Krabeni's got a string of great clips to his name.
This is a guy, no stranger to having to make a difference all on his own.
Two kills deep on his way to the 1v4.
No, his case rotters here.
Oh, there's the smoke!
Krabeni!
Oh, dear!
Wolfgang left, full, and catches him on this swing.
And it takes the grizzled veteran of theory to put him down.
Captain's clash.
And round recovered!
Very thin margins on that for Furia!
Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
The two captains pull up with double the landmaps played.
Double over the whole team of foots.
Able to bail his squad out from a very awkward round.
You could feel the nerve setting in, couldn't you?
I'd love to see Foul and Pirates of Disrespect like that straight through the volatile.
Doesn't like Grimady get calm in that clutch and they go back for it.
This big sight.
Oh, your Kindar forced out by the Utilt does well to get his one.
Can it be any more than that? He's getting wrapped on Temple's side so they will eventually flush him out of the round.
Let's go. What are you feeling pressure? Like they've got to make a move.
It's a case of Rato throwing caution to the wind.
Trying to get foot a taste of their own medicine with these smoke pushes.
There's a response.
Still the advantage resides with Furia.
You know, the footer down a scrap.
Simon sets in. They wait for this backstab.
Fallen closing in. It's a little ugly, but he will convert.
And Duke's low on health. It's no struggles for Fallen at the start of this semi.
Hey, if Fallon's gonna carry you, you'll say thank you very much Professor.
That's some great games here in Paris as Fallon showed up massively in the playoffs when needed.
Think about a raw match in particular.
Best, nice one, who should this?
So Furia finally stepping the bleeding on these B-hits, they were coming in pretty quick for
winnable positions, but what not?
Now Fury will get to receive a freebie.
No Kevlar here preferred.
Spotted.
Going to get him with this B-side charge.
When the holds are starting to feel a little bit cleaner.
I'd say that Junx comes through with a double.
I also hear that aid hit onto K Serato.
That stops his push.
Junx on the roof!
Oh, there. Ammo lets him down and again, fallen, trying to be the difference major.
Jokes has done a lot to put Krebbeni in this clutch.
The Molodoy hears the wrap-round and Molodoy's got his number.
Captain iced out of another one of these clutch rounds.
Has Furia maintained composure in the early stages of ancient?
Yeah, it's cheeky for Krebbeni. You understand why he's running there as well?
Because Furia had been very heavy on their CT rotations.
They haven't been flanking too much, pushing out into middle.
It was the game the other day that we saw from Furia, where they didn't really play for mid-control on the CT side.
They were sitting behind red smoke, breaking it, trusting Paul and their donor.
It was scarier times for sure.
But Furia are trying to find their comfort on this map.
A map they have relatively little experience on.
Right now they're doing a great job.
This is Putsco 2, and they're even keel.
Just feeling...
Move away from these B-hand.
Yeah, just feeling like you've run a concrete now.
Shut that down, this B-hink.
The look is something different for Foote, those nades find big damage out towards middle.
He first split.
Fallen has been instrumental in every one of these rounds for Furia.
Giving a little boxed in over in mid, he's at least forced the respect out of Foote.
I don't think you're ready for him here, but he's still in a very dangerous position.
He really needs to play this.
I bet he's gonna have to try it, but he'd love just that clean opening.
So he will provide it 5v4.
He forces him down into Kcerato who is unable to capitalize.
And it ends in a stalemate foot.
Just slink on back with the advantage.
It was meant to be your way to trade back.
Kcerato just couldn't connect it.
They're still making plays, Fury.
They're walking through their own smoke.
You can, Daph.
Dangerous move.
With that run back on B.
Even not ready for your kinder in position.
So 4v4 now equalized and Fury had realized where the foots are going.
This is a guy who seems to know exactly what he's up against in this match.
Cemetery 2 around the smoke.
Again, it's another rock clutch.
Low on HP now as it's down to the 1v1.
And one single.
Oh!
and it stopped that!
7-3 at one chance to lock it in!
Finally, one of these clutches coming through for Foote
in this brawl of a game.
Sure, Furia.
Yeah, you can argue it's misplay.
They're pushing through the smoke again,
walking through, giving him those what he wants.
But that's how Furia have been playing in the CT side,
keeping the pressure on,
willing to beat Foote at their own game, finally punished.
Ace Rato, did it.
He's getting the tries.
He lives to regret it.
Big 1v2 out of symmetry, early in this T-Side, the clutch going their way.
What a shot on that final player as well, no room for error.
Do you like that aggressive case Rato's playing in the CT side so far?
Oh! Let's go!
Might be to keep that up with money on the line here for Buria.
Oh, it's always off, but Buri's pistol went in the same round.
I think you can see just how uncomfortable all these rounds have been for kind of everyone involved.
No one super set up in terms of the money.
So you're still looking for control over the early game here, really.
You know, when it gets it, it feels like they get all the spoils of war from just how close these first few rounds have been.
The pin of those triple nades is 150 damage when Furia put 3 players in middle and it's
going to come a condition you to give up mid entirely.
So Furia will do something this round, limited view to themselves.
So even though that smoke is cocky, we know what they're like straight through with that
flashbang chasing forward down.
Yeah, and this time he's dead at the door.
Rotates beginning here for Furia but they need a kill soon to try and hit the scales
Molodoy will provide.
Now that backstab getting activated, you're kind of seen on the wraparound.
Huge smoke, I feel like that's going through.
Smokes haven't really been working how they normally do in this semi-final.
Everyone's been playing through them.
You're in no exception.
I'm going to take the donut space right back.
I'm quite aware that the player's slipping now.
The one HP here does well to get out with one.
Alderoy with a tag suddenly throwing into this all on his lonesome.
You're not saving.
They're on this line.
They're ready to remove that AWP.
It's big damage for Foote, round picked up and money broken for Furia.
Said that one of these squads was eventually going to
eke out an advantage in the early game and
that goes the way of Foote now with an eco looming.
Hold this CT side.
I'm in the diversity of playing here for a first starter with a lot of b-haze.
Now they condition Furia out of middle.
Fearless going through their own smoking donor.
That puts them in a very nice position.
Flight B4 is a lockdown on A.
Nothing Furia can do.
Now look at Furia. Look how aware they are.
They can just run out middle for the rest of this half.
They've got full control with barely any Util.
Double smoke.
Corned Furia out.
One of the most important parts of the map.
I can just sit back and relax, punish these pistols, kick them off, pass the span, the
cave control taken and footage is edging closer to this sixth round.
We got you back, even shot shots.
Some of you on the save door as well, we'll have everything going for them now.
We've hit the tipping point, fury and trouble.
Yeah, I think the onus really is gonna be on fury I haven't to try and figure out what to do about mid right now
You feel like as the game's gone on you started to reneg on more and more space on the CT side
And I don't think you could afford to do that versus foot with how direct
You know if you want to give them that much room of course
They're gonna take you and that just leaves them more lethal when they do set their sights on a bomb site
They've got Nades left, they've got Util left, they're not having to expend as much for this mid-control.
You know, you really need to start finding some very well-timed pressure on the extremities, or you've got to do something about middle.
That feels like the challenge in front of Furia right now.
The fear is, you could say on the starting triple mid to throw these Nades, yeah, but when they get there, they can just climb up evidently.
So it's not like putter losing that much control from this early Util.
How to go to get deep molly.
And execute to middle hip of foot, they look to take it on second timing.
Going right through furious smoke.
There's a flash from either team. Everybody's blind.
So everybody can see it's cave of concern.
Begin to holding on. They flash an end.
And everything from foot, every repeat, every position to get cleared is set up with Util.
No lazy checks on this T side yet.
You can take the round into his own hand and he finds his kill.
If one guy is going to have a great beat on how the minds of foot might be worrying in these games, it's going to be a kind of...
Somebody is down to be hyper aggressive for better or for worse.
Molotov is all picks up another and so this round, not panning out the way foot wanted it to, they get that mid control but they lose so many players out towards heaven.
pick from the AWP. It's 2v5. Now they've always made these kind of rounds interesting, but split up here
with any unsymmetry worlds apart. AWP misses, bomb lost.
So finally a round you might just have to write off entirely if you're foot.
Word saving here in this position. See if kills come to you, but it's peaked it out. It's
dried up here in the Sun. Nice retake of middle there for Furia, able to use it to
take a kill and just get out of there. Molotoy is looking punishing though on this CT AWP.
The case is down that last player, no saves hit the foot. The timeout to squeeze these
last couple of rounds out of their T side. 20 years in a bad place but when has that
stop foot before looks like they want to hold it
I mean you can justify three eight days available up or fires will be left
with less
we talk about kind of the humble beginnings of foos in Academy squad
That even extends to the man in behind in Corlea with them from their young years
all the way to now in this foot team. You've got to respect Corlea as well, right?
Even this year he took a map of vitality as a player. Beat them on Dust2 of all maps.
So I sat on the A plate and your kinder has been super mobile.
They've been used to fighting this guy over towards Lane.
He's been a progressive and now they see him in towards a main and all phased by it.
They get rid of him right away and they play counter strike might make you a little
bit nervous.
They're seeing your kinder pushing on this side of the map.
Fury, you do have multiple bodies in the bomb site.
Well, if we actually cool off here.
The kill feed doesn't, the double-nade in main certainly will.
You don't need to rush this one.
Even if you still want that A site,
let the round breathe and let Fury and pull back.
They know that they've given the info away as well.
It goes both ways.
So Fury have actually...
emmeding, over-rotated.
Just fallen in position.
And multi-kill is not easy here.
That smoke will not be respected.
Oh, that's nice from full and can't quite make it a third but you don't argue with the output the chance that he's given Furia in this retake
I will go down
You don't have all too much time to get comfortable here. They don't set up a single player out towards donor
Instead it's layers of bodies in the bomb site. Krebbeni dead and right away
I don't know.
Bound up on this please next to challenge and a clean retake bestowed upon Furia.
And it let Fallen's efforts be in vain.
If he offers you kind of two and a half on that site hold as the solo player,
you're going to see it through to the very end.
Yeah, that postpons a bit choppy for Furia.
They're trusting their aim, they're playing on orthodox positions,
but they're not really set up to trade any of their teammates.
If he doesn't re-swig off his, they have top early enough.
And Fjord isolate three fights. Sure, any of GoFood's favour.
Suddenly it sets up an exposition even better, but nothing comes up.
And so Fjord, who risked it all on that course-by and now left with no way case in the last round.
Fjord is picking back in. Maybe we go back to the classic for Fjord.
This game started with a barrage of B hits.
And maybe that's how the half ends as well as Krebbeni catches this timing.
this timing past your kinder in the smoke a cave side the kinder coming back
sorry he gets that spot
it's only a matter of time don't be open a cave you dealt with the blood now it's
just these bodies up wrap this shot for monodoy this goes closing in your
kinder dead after a double it will be a bomb plot here for food they lose out
the ramp fight and this site starts to feel very very small no control out
towards Long, player in cave, you need a big double,
you need something from this hole.
Fulans being asked to clutch again.
Nade comes in, but can't quite finish the job.
And it's awkward for both of them,
but at least Demons got that bomb to play around.
Fulans bit a defining character here for Furia.
In all their rounds, it feels like he's had to put up
multi-kills, had to deliver in clutches.
Is this one a bridge too far?
against the reed, but shot missed, time running out.
And so Furt will squeak an advantage past Buria
on their map there.
Yeah, four rounds.
It's that one.
It's with no AKs, with pistols and glills,
and just the punch on that B bomb site.
Even with a missed long smoke,
the modeler can't connect his shots on the orb.
Nice to see the young players outbrained,
fallen in these clutches finally
on that rotation round lane.
So Furt's sitting very pretty
on the team side of their map next. Seven rounds.
Period.
New Ancient was a factor.
New was inevitable really.
This is their fourth game on the map this year.
I have to hope they've worked on their red spokes.
My God, I've never seen so many misses as the other day.
We'll keep it on it, T-side, A-paphuria, and a comeback to attempt.
Alright, demon with the spot.
And Paul's crevette back over with these two operettas.
Second player ready to come through this smoke.
Oh, it's a little rough, the symmetry.
Jews hold on he's put intrigue back on this before what could have been around
it just spiral that a control now hangs in the balance case Arato's wounded bomb
lost out in no man's land you can does good across out into these crosshairs
to go get it think put down range but he himself a little wounded you could
feel how tense this one is. Bunch of low players for Furia. All right. Okay, Sarato gets fancy
with it. It was Jukes that kind of opened this whole pistol round up with his double.
And two more bullets sealed the fate. That would put foot in one hell of a fighting
position, running away with ancient.
It's Kcerato, three kills deep, waiting back cave side there, hoping that Juge's
kind of overthinks this. He knows he has bomb, he knows they have to come to him.
He's not moving a muscle, is he?
So eventually Fury have to figure out how can they bring the fight to this guy.
Swing for Kcerato, and that's exactly what it had to be.
You didn't even get a millisecond of react.
Just a thing of beauty, something to marvel at
from Cacerato in this pistol round.
I think you said he was on to his top events.
Certainly making a case for it with a round like that.
Incredible format of Cacerato here in Paris.
The Juke, he plays it right, let's walk in.
Gatorato is quick on the trigger.
Foot force, no surprises there.
Furia, just going for the gun punch.
They hold for this aggression, said early on. It feels like Fury have a very good knowledge
of what they're up against, how this foot team like to play.
They're barely holding the default, met them now. First wave of kills, it's giving them
room for the bomb plant. Let's not kill ourselves in a stand. They look super healthy
Everyone is low as this bomb gets planted.
The Jukes, he doesn't know just how winnable this round is.
All this war banging, all these nades.
I like that the Fury though, they throw the XQB and they don't rush off of it.
They just let Foot push down the ramp, seeing if they can tempt them in.
Foot hoping to get multiple players close on the ramp.
Instead, they're waiting back at Door, and that Door smoked from Foot.
gave Furia an idea of what they were up against
And so a lot of B stacks a lot of B hits and more success on this T side put Furia even
Lead about to be taken now
Impressive showing here from Furia on another plate map
more of this aggression, but Yuri hears all of this, and Sephiria with a very clear picture
as to what happened in this round, not going to stumble at the pistol push, going to say
it feels relieving that your Kindars bringing his A game, had just that string of opening
kills been hyper involved, really tried to beat foot at their own game.
Talks of, you know, sickness earlier on in the tournament for you to get into something that Furia, I feel like, always get the worst hand of.
And I feel like we saw that in your kid's performance against Aurora.
His team had his back to get him through that game. Now Furia eyeing up at the grand final.
Oh!
To me, that was nice.
I don't know if it will lead to anything.
Cacerato, here's this last player running.
Cacerato's always down to give him a look in.
Always down to give him a go,
but Cacerato just sitting there with the power of information
and it's a powerful thing indeed.
Knew the moves before Cacerato even made it.
it and so lead taken for Furia on the back of these conversions now the guns
come out again for foot but you really want to make an impression it's straight
away now you're wondering a foot like what what are these be holds gonna look
like we've only seen pretty aggressive rounds of them in these first couple
if you're gonna be holding for this should be able to get away with it
for free control you're gonna go with pace and they get below the
Spindereads, Cacerato in a snack on his position and even Cemetery follows up, so Furia already in the mud
Just hemorrhaged a bunch of players right off the rip in this round haven't they?
It's very pivotal pieces gone from the round you would love Cacerato is a closing you would love your kindars and open
But they're sat on the sidelines now
All the joy up and over on that boost just gets thrown into a double peek
And now you get blocked.
Failure to launch. Honestly, you should be seeing a save here if they can get away with it.
Eurica dropped two AKs over. It could be a 4x next round, but they lose another player here.
It's going to be a very difficult call if you're likely to just be forcing.
Nice hold across the map. Nade stack is perfectly placed.
So the resort finding a lot of impact early in this CT side is a requirement for foots
to stabilize.
30 seconds and the boos give it up.
I think so want to risk their
own money though at this point.
First on the city side, you
got to just think about kind of.
You know, sorting out your own
state of affairs.
Worry about yourself, not about
fury. Yeah, that can come later.
So a five alive round found
super cleanly on the back and
nice. You tell out towards
Keen reactions in response to the A-play and Symmetres Orb immediately leaving a mark.
You take the clean rounds when you can get them.
Especially with the money, a fury of being in a...
Imperfect spot, let's say. They're right for a reset here.
The Triple H team put about a couple of these in this game on CT and T-side.
That really sends a message.
Suddenly you like as well because you know foot they are very aggressive, but it's not it's not chaotic there
There's a lot of method to the madness right there down a fight you but they've got the Utah to back that up everything they do is
Very intentional
This is now both arms they've used those triple nades in mid to just devastating effect kind of remove options from the playbook of fury
Retain that have only taken at this map recently. That's a big problem
It's a period really trying to take the pace out of this round, out of this game.
So now you can say that they've met foot in the middle.
They've been willing to scrap.
They've been willing to match the power for pound in the firepower.
This is where you want to show you of the Keener brain for the game.
We have a lot of thinkers on this team.
But who's calling the shots on this T side, still remains to be seen.
You can do speaking right now.
It's Furia with 40 seconds of a decision to make.
They are eyeing up both bomb sites at the same time.
Symmetries AWP in a very viable position.
They're gonna need to knock them off the line.
Good flash pushes him back, he's stuck on the wall as well.
Although he's still marking with an AWP and the bomb isn't back going back.
Have Foot realise this one? Look at this rotate.
They've actually abandoned the AA stack, sure.
They've pulled an extra player back now but they've not bought this for even a second.
Look, with here, play up through the ramp and on.
Why would Crevete be there? That's what you're asking yourself.
Why is he here?
Running and shooting.
Unstoppable, ball is not getting out of this one easy.
And Foot! They read it! I don't know how, I don't know why.
But Foot called Fury his gloss.
In what looked like a really nice fake.
Pushing the AWP, two players don't know, is that not enough to get Fury out of position? Apparently not.
Especially with how kind of weird all those fights end up being, everything's a bit protracted, everything's a bit drawn out.
You are actually losing players over the wards. I think it would have been so easy to rotate out way earlier there, if you're Foot.
But not only did they not jump down on those rotations, they actually, like you said, called the block, they bought more players over the Wards B.
Yeah, this is when you talk about the experience before the lack of it, right? Crowdgames is their fifth ever.
And they don't seem like they have no good, they don't seem worried at all, making the right calls to backing it up in the shots.
2 vs 4, Peter 50 on a block going nowhere.
It's a bit of a hard spot, bother. He gave the will overrun him.
This shouldn't amount so much, you'd like to think. Smoke comes down on Pond as well, but flank is very fast.
Yeah, and it is that backstab that's giving you so much faith here.
X-LOUD is the insurance policy.
Hello, on Pond. Denied.
Come on, follow up on your Kindar, but at 2 HP, anything can finish him off here.
Straight bullet, Nade.
USP, Calypson.
That's your Kindar's round over. It's more costly than foot would have liked.
That goes without saying.
But it's around nonetheless all building in the right direction.
This is where those decisions earlier in the half try and prioritize keeping five players alive whenever they could.
Starts to pay dividends, right? Even though that one is more expensive than you would like.
The alarm bells aren't ringing yet for foot.
Furious summon another time out. They want to speak to Sid here ahead of this one.
Okay, gonna dig deep here. Sure, Fury converts to Pestle.
That's why this game is close, but otherwise Furt have struck three rounds on the board in a row.
So Fury, uh...
Swinging this and this one.
You're out of money against that point.
PopSquad to be in here for Fury, uh, who I actually have liked what they've been doing.
I just think Furt have such a great understanding of the map.
And have not been panicking in any of these moments.
This elbow smoke came from foot.
Not going to be the end of the world.
And it might even be on purpose because Symmetri is holding that line anyway.
He gets pre-smoked, can't burn him out of this position,
but they still flash a fire.
Symmetri is now in trouble.
No support, because they're all falling.
Close go for Symmetri.
Can he shoot his way out of this box?
He's going to do that a bunch more times than...
Once already feels like a hell of a streak at luck
Symmetry dead and that mid-hold crumbles all of those here
Like that bomb in boys, so don't make it past this door
I'm gonna say it will be impressive if you're here ever to long this out
Because I do think a lot of the game plan has been trying to almost beat for their own game be just as broadly
just as aggressive sure it's been them if there was a team to kind of take the
pace out of any of these moments that has been furia for the most part they've
met foot every step of the way I think that the danger there is you know you're
kind of leaning into footstraints you're you're giving them their most
comfortable state of affairs here on the map so yeah a testament to furia
if they're able to pull through doing that.
Also, it really makes the series difficult for Furt because
nukes up next and doesn't matter if Furt has really been struggling on.
In fact, the next two are a bit difficult for Furt.
So if you're going to find a success here,
it sets him up to the two and zero.
Seven lost streak on nukes four foot.
The only map they lost in that Bureau 5 trophy back in Bucharest.
So, the film really needs to finish what they've started here.
Fury will be given a second chance.
They're going to take it again, straight out middle.
Pacerato, fearless.
Right through the smokes, but they do the same.
Jukes punishes.
Fury just pouts.
have been meaningless here in this one. That's a USP kill for Demon. Not really
meant to cause you many problems and so they're glad they get rid of him. Still
there's a backstab arriving. Just look at how fast all these rounds are playing.
In a real quick second into this it feels like he's already on for a backstab.
Of course Fulham's ready for it. Next lab with his spam. This is Chaos Incarnate.
He cannot out towards long. For a brief moment it feels like some
normality restored it to this round if things slow
Bang a few more seconds as he comes in on this back stab. They don't know where he's gotten to
There he is making his presence knowing another big round it from forward putting up three
Furia on his back
I wonder what happened up. He was that demon like spamming his bag
And that's why fury went to the bush because they caught him with a pistol out
I'm not sure he gets a kill, but he had a rifle on his back then.
So maybe Fury just sees the moment, sees the opportunity of the anchor spanning his bullets.
Fall in another massive multi-kill.
He puts it back on the board, breaks the money you put again.
And they'll get plunged into misery here, late in the game.
Another timeout from Coolio.
And can they keep their heads cool, is the question.
Because this is your biggest threat yet. It's 10-10 and an eco round with just a hero gun
I love how furious never shied away from middle in this T side even after K Sarato got triple baited
They're still going for a short of time into changing sometimes going a little bit later
But big control when they want it has been theirs
No, it has been really really fun watching K Sarato kind of embrace the challenge
Looking at this game and going alright we're pushing smokes are we I'm down
It feels like it's doing him a while to get 21 and 15
Ashing anything that foot can bring to the table so many plus calls in this game about stacks
You're in to go right into me off the rim
This would be the perfect round to stack
The interior avoid it entirely. He's so we hope lightning rounds
Again, feels like it just died and it may already be open.
You've got a bomb plant here, site conceded.
Every pistol's referred, so if you give them too much to get interested here, they're
going to come swarming, they're going to come hunting.
Loose molotoy out in the open.
He's at least kept things going with this kill out from the cave on that nade.
Now two players here to play around that bomb.
Xenpor still in the pitch here. He's going to have to have cover on this cave position
and they lose huge, very tricky round now. Just getting toyed with, picked apart in that
cable, Buria moving to the lead.
Ever since so many spam kills in a game of nature right now, this wall bang just abusing
both teams.
It's just adrenaline in a Counter-Strike match.
You need those timeouts just to catch your breath as rounds are flying by.
And foot, will they really fall at the final hour here on ancient thematic?
Here we are, two wins to the WC here on ancient already looking to add a third to the tally,
looking to expand them at hold. They've got the B site already, preventing those,
Spanner would again.
That lurk smoked down, Yuri just sits in place.
They're already trying to retake from the lane.
It works.
Probably smoke they made Yuri can get something done.
In fact, he needs to.
The pace of just all these rounds is absurd.
Everything's so scaled up.
Everything's so scaled forward.
They're ready for Yuri.
They swing out from the cape side.
Herbany gone, full and breaks through.
Take that bomb.
I'm pushing in.
They take this long control.
That puts them in a very powerful position.
Their foot are aware of this.
Four Nades pulled on X-Cloud, see him fed to Fallen on that line.
Now they entrust Molledoy in the clutch.
The open side, this hasn't been the game at Forum.
It's been so pacey, you've been dependent on rifles to get the job done.
Does Molledoy have it in him? Tap on that bomb, edging out around a smoke.
Spam connects!
Clutch denied!
Foot, tie this up!
In an opening map of this semi-final that is now set to go the distance.
And there is a tough call to make here for Furia. A mixed bag of money. Drops available.
But this will be lacking if you want to put your entire map on the line. Furia call a timeout.
It seems like they're interested.
You're about the bad at the end of Ancient.
And a decision like this is not want to be taken lightly, right?
This shapes everything.
The last 40 minutes all come down to this four-spy now for Furia.
They put the entire map on this decision and it is an all-or-nothing move.
This is a game that is played at the most ludicrous tempo.
Do you leave it to a fast round with your force?
Because if you come up short, that is foot with everything to play for.
Likewise, you break through, their money's gone, Furia are the favourites, it all comes down to this force five.
Great D-Nade as well, they know Furia want the late mid-retake and they go for it.
Through this smoke, out of flashes, land in your face.
Double kill from this ET side, make you the hat trick.
As Furia get the door slammed shut in their face.
A perfect storm here for foots!
Oh, what a crisis he might have.
It's room to fall in.
Torwin takes a curious routine, but Torwin's going to get given away by that utility.
They're double flanking. First they active here in the downtime.
Torwin takes his back. Low health though. No shots.
And an ace clutch needed for the young man, but Krobenny shows him the door
to put pound furious money into the ground.
And you see Furia looking dismayed on the cameras. They know they just risked this entire map on that purchase
I don't feel like they barely even made it
Not leaving impression
But they're getting fired up
It's ancient looks to go their way
It's one more swing for the fences on a tec-9 force
Oh my god, you're a spirit!
The mission is sending it down into the lane.
At least that opening fight.
Is that going to make them back down?
Such a risky move.
That's more where that came from.
Your kinder is punished.
And their cake player is dead.
They thought they had the gap.
Demo replenishes it.
Full stack.
This game ends where it all began.
On that B bomb site.
An extra one score.
Is this a risk that might come back to haunt you?
What have been giving Furia guns?
And so they'll pick them up.
They'll put them to use.
Demon holds the game.
And just like that, punch into darkness.
Furia pulled a foot on ancients.
Shut down in the final couple of rounds.
Furia took a risk today.
And it does not pay off for when they go to setting themselves up in this
must win semi-final.
Yeah, it's a type of counter strike that wakes you up.
It's the type of counter strike that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
And it's one where Foot feel right at home, Furia trying outclass them and meet them halfway.
Only for Foot to seal it all, seal the deal on that win with Furia's force by decision.
Now they're a map up, now they're a map away from a grand final.
And the Furia they've got to hope Salvation can be found on their pick and Nuke up next.
What a way to kick off the semi-finals, Debris, we knew this was going to be good, but you
said it was extra special for one reason.
The map pool has been spicy so far for Fury at EWC.
For the third time, they've allowed Ancient Flurry, for the first time it's been a maniasque.
Yeah, and that's what brings attention to you, right?
It's been the furiest perimeter of all of them two years, and this is the third
time they have to allow Ancient Flurry, at least allow it to be played.
And in this specific matchup maybe it's a little bit more tricky since if they don't buy an out engine they will play a Fuhrer and buy his Versus.
So in that sense it's obviously come to a point where it's not thinking is Fuhrer trying to work out what is their new burn brand?
Or is Fuhrer trying to just implement and show that they can actually play engine?
Right now it seems like they're working on, in my books, looking to work on a 7 map map pool,
which is very difficult to do at the very highest level of counter strike.
But as you can tell against Aurora, it kind of makes sense that the Turtles call haven't really played the map too much
And it's always been all those gimmicks when they play like Hally, then you go up against G2
You also have to have Ancien in that platform
And now you look against foot and foot is by no means a bad Ancien team
But you didn't feel like playing Anubis
So Ancien was your go-to and they made it very competitive
So it looks like a map that Pure has looked to be actually playing to make it more competitive and what's your thoughts on this one?
Yeah, just to give you a bit of context, you know, a couple of months ago Fallen announced that he was going to retire by the end of the year at the second major.
So, I think ever since you know they've been trying to figure out, okay, so what is the future of Furia gonna look like?
And one thing we have learned, you know, as of recently is the fact that it's trying to integrate Yukimda in as a new in-game leader.
And with that, maybe also a new map in the map pool.
So I think this is a direct consequence of the fact that they're trying with their idea that Yukimda could transition into becoming the main in-game leader for Furia by then also updating the map pool.
Diego we're talking about it's 40 chess from Paul and he's been doing it his whole career in debris for all the fans
What this loss of fear it means is we hope they win their next map and then we get to game three because if so that would be fall
It's fourteen hundredth plan match. What a ridiculous career accomplishment
That's like ultimate rushing yards or passing yards from my American friends. It's absolutely crazy, right?
It just shows how long fall has been doing this one and the fact that
that Fiora almost won this one out shows that they can still play into the high
level right but for the other side foot needed to win this one to actually have
a chance now because I was I was gonna be very worried for the likes of foot if
they couldn't actually win this one because you know new has not been
looking good for you for foot there's a lot of F's in this one so yeah
Pimp I do want to get to your round because we're running out of half time
time so let's get into it this is round eight this was a back and forth
battle the entire way through what did you see here yeah I think we're
to the viewers to give credit to foot you know and showcase why and how they play
good counter strike on ancient they do it very simple take mid control right here
a couple of pieces of utility smoke off mid-doors and then they've walked
straight into donut and what people at home have to pay attention to is the
clock right now we are only 20 seconds into the round you go into what's
donut you isolate phone all by himself he gets taken down and then they have
control over the A bomb site 35 seconds into the round it's very
efficient it's very fast it's very aggressive counter strike and it
works out for foot it applied a lot of pressure on towards through there even
though they're able to you know fight their way back into this round and make
it somewhat competitive it's a very tough bomb side to beat it so in terms of
why did foot end up winning on ancient well it was this simplistic but very
effective way of approaching the rounds in your face fast-paced and a
workout strong IGLing throughout as well on both sides let's take a look at
one of your plays to preview what you caught up for me it's what we
also talked about is the whole fallen corp any kind of thing where it's
very two different play styles and you can tell by the fact that this is the last round
of the first half and you do secret bending here he actually decides to go through this
round to try and catch the timing actually finds this timing he's you know he wants to
put himself in these kind of situations where he controls the round but you can just spot
his ass walking through into cave and actually go and clean him up and that's just the
round before shake went through.
Each round is all about done when we hit the 1-min mark you can tell how fast
these rounds are just played out you can tell if there's not a smoke or anything
to stop our foot, they just keep going. And at this point, you know, you can also tell
that the pure players, they were already staffing to control mid, they have this insane fast
flank coming in from the B run, where they want to try and take it back into their own
favor. And at this point, you know, the round, they're just, it got about brain power,
it got about isolating fighter, it's just pure firepower. And you know, fall almost
gets taken down by this mid. And then we get into a 1v1 where D1 has actually
called the flank from mid, walking all the way back to ramp, and then gets this
very important factor to show his team and lead moving into the second half.
Even in X-File, definitely players to watch.
Kinder having an incredible series throughout this tournament we've seen
actually and let's take a look at some of the numbers from these two stars
because we mentioned if you're looking for a star on foot
it might be X-File. He joined us in the boot yesterday, great personality as
well and near Kinder, he is not only having to frag out,
he may be doing that second hand IGL as Pip mentioned.
Yeah exactly and he's vitally moving to Nuke which is the second method
And this series, Yikinda is going to be all over the place, involved in the opening of the rounds.
And one player that needs to shut him down on the other side will be X-Cloud.
And so far, he's having accurately the best tournament of his career.
Let's take a look at X-Cloud's highlights from this one.
Shout out to our production team behind the scenes.
They have been killing it for seven weeks here on the STC Arena.
Tomorrow, we make it to the A-Core.
Can X-Cloud make it to the A-Core?
Well, he definitely can.
I mean, the way they're leading is here right now,
but also the way that they're playing as a team.
It's just so good to see that a young guy comes into the team getting implemented so well,
but also just stays true to what he's strength is and also plays to the strength of the team of this.
Never letting go of the WQ, always putting in that pressure and creating space for the rest of the team.
He's been instrumental to the victory and moving it so far into the tournament.
He's having a good time. It's also for him to have this kind of redemption,
getting into a team that can take it a little bit further than where he has been in his career.
Good to see you all and you know, very proud of what he's doing so far.
This is the most full we have seen this crowd since week zero. It is insane. The bleachers are packed
Do you think the fans are showing up despite the fact that all our French teams are gone?
Yeah, they will you know, they love a bit of a good counter strike
Who doesn't love this environment who doesn't love to be part of or something this big?
So I think they will but that's also where the pressure bounce now on foot
They're very well aware that a one never way from what would be the biggest final of their careers
To do that in front of this crowd to do it against Feria
This is now when you have to consider, you know, whether or not they're gonna stop playing, you know
Sometimes we have this saying in Counter-Strike that you play not to lose
Yeah, it cannot be the case for football yet
They need to continue to play that brand of Counter-Strike, aggressive, simple and in your face.
Debris, I want to take a look at one other player from foot. We, of course, mentioned his teammates
But what is symmetry doing for his squad?
I think symmetry is maybe sometimes the guy that we expect a little bit more of, right?
I think he's still one of the biggest talent that's coming up
and he has done some good work for Furt.
But it's always the talking points about the rivalry
because they play so fast that sometimes you can feel that he's having struggles trying to
get that impact that we know and obviously get right.
But he's had a good show so far.
If I'm not mistaken, he was probably the fourth best player coming into the playoffs
in this game specifically for Furt.
So it's a good time for him to step up.
It's a good time for him to try and find that impact.
And we can see that he gets that both down with the R,
but also gets it down with the 8k.
So he's definitely got a little ground for also moving forward into the series.
Speaking of moving forward into the series let's take a look at what has
happened so far from symmetry and then of course what we have in front of us.
Run me through the numbers. Have you been impressed by this young star?
I've been very impressed you know he's been up until this point a little bit
lackluster maybe portrayed as the weakly within this this lineup but so far
in this tournament he stepped it up a notch and he's big part of the reason
why Frut find himself in a position now where they're just one map away from
guaranteeing himself a spot at the Grand Final. And someone was asking me
what does that round swing percentage mean? It seems like such a small fraction. Is it a big
impact? Should we be diving in deeper on that number? Well, obviously, what round strings is
where you have the impact of making the round string in the favor of your team, right? Is
getting like a double kill if you're in a disadvantage or getting multiples whenever
it's needed. So that's really what it pays into. And that's why sometimes the scoreboard
can be a little bit misleading. And sometimes you can have a guy that has like a ton of
frags, but maybe just racking up their e-codes and maybe not having the biggest of impact.
So round swing is always important to look at it's probably one of those that's a showcase how much impact you've had
Yeah, I was all about racking up the e-course. I was gonna say he was explaining the keys of min maxing
There's very few e-sports that we're at this level the free he knows this one the best
Let's take a look at our match future though. We've got two more maps in my book
We will see that 1400 map from falling on dust to the question is how do they get it done on nuke?
I think it has to come down to to your kid not having a strong map together with Moldova
You know the two playmakers of Ferreira, Jekinda he's gonna be involved early on in the rounds
He's gonna be aggressive in towards Jart both on the T side and CT side and then Molotov
I have to be there I guess secure element that can close out the rounds with the AWP
I'm looking towards those two players to make huge impact and it's also very important to note that Fiora
So the foot have not picked up a win in the last three months in this map
So it is a map where Fiora will be the heavy favorite
So you have to be looking out for that one and that's why it was so important that foot closed out ancient
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for locking in. It is the semi finals the last day here in the STC arena at EWC
Yes, you can.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You don't manage P. You don't manage P.
Two Gets up.
I will still be picking, okay?
Coming for.
Flash, flash, peek peeking two.
One more low, low, low, low.
No!
No, no, no, no, no, no!
Come on! Let's go!
It is coming down to the absolute wire between Falcons and AJL.
Of course, Trackmania is one of the games where this is very much happening.
Chris, latest update right now because I heard it's big.
Honestly, it's been absolutely ridiculous.
I'm just running around, reports with everybody, because it's all going down.
AGL had binks, who was in the tournament, did not go through as we were just chatting about beforehand.
He was probably the favourite for AGL, but they also have another player in Gwen,
who has a lot of history in trackmania.
What a performance, he manages to make it through, he's into the semi-finals, into the CC points.
They're closing that gap, they are not far away now from catching up to Falcons.
Obviously, there's so much going on on all the stages right now,
but it feels like it's going to be Trackmania where things are decided. Up next is a group that
doesn't really have any consequences for us in the CC side of things, but the final group
is where we see Carl Jr. and Falcons try to get through those semi-finals, which we think,
alright, easy to go. Trackmania, that's what you expect to happen, you'll get it on through.
No, his group is stuck. I don't know how the script writers did this, but the group that
they're in, it's Carl Jr., of course, our goal. You've got Pac in there who won the most
recent event in DreamHack Birmingham, probably the second favourite for the tournament. He
he plus vitality could be some good points with them.
But the big one for me, realistically,
is Neon in that group.
He was a kid that broke the world record
like five times in a row the other day
to get through to these quarterfinals.
Kitten, absolute peanut.
They're on the same group, only two make it out.
You never know.
You know what I'm gonna say?
Doing a great job hyping this up.
AJL is so far locked in semi-finals.
Spockens, we're gonna find that out later.
And of course, what do we do?
We'll let you know.
There is a lot going on outside of just this competition show,
Jamie joining me from FURIA to give us an insight
into the club championship coin specifically
and the running of the organization.
This year, you got second in Rainbow Six Siege.
You're now already in the semi-finals.
How would you say your performance has been
at EWC this year?
Yeah, it was very good.
We are expecting to get at least top 10, top 12.
Of course, we got some bad results in other game titles,
but we are very excited about CSGO, CS2,
And we believe it would be the champion here.
Okay, I'm looking forward to that.
I'm going to have to come back to the predictions,
but I want to talk about the future as well,
because last year for EWC 2025,
you didn't qualify for any of the prize money
when it comes to club championships.
Now you're already sitting on 18th,
you know, maybe with the win, you go all the way up.
So what does next year look like?
Is there expansion coming?
Yeah, for sure.
I believe EWC is a very hard competition for every club.
Even though when we have several game titles
competing in the tournament,
We see a random result in some games, but for the next year we believe that Fudi will come back stronger,
more roasters and compete in the top 10 for sure.
I'm loving the confidence and I need you to hold on to that because the next question is the important one.
You're playing foot today, there is a final spot on the line. I want your prediction.
I believe it's going to be two-one Fudi. Fudi is a very good team, is a very hard match for us,
but I'm pretty confident in our players that we go back to the title.
And tomorrow who do you think you're playing then?
It's gonna be probably Spirit, but if it's gonna be Legas, it's gonna be a Brazilian match.
That's a little bit as well.
Alright, well thank you so much for your time. I appreciate it. That's it from us. Back to you guys.
Hello everyone, today I will be playing 1v1 against a mystery player, I'm gonna try to
find out who he is and wish me luck. Let's go, let's play. I wonder who you are.
I have a feeling you are an Agile, no?
Can you hear me? Super player. Are you an Agile?
No.
You are a rifle, right?
Okay, actually, I might have a guess who you are. I only guess it's Makazer? No?
Are you playing for Team Miles? Team Navi then? No. Not so. Okay. Did you go through the open
Are you an international team or no?
Oh no, who are you?
You are... I have no clue actually.
Are you European player?
Or you're from... yeah.
You're...
Are you from Aurora?
You said not from Topsun maybe no.
You're from Aurora?
Ah, okay.
You're Moxix, though.
Okay, you're Mikadia, then.
No, okay. Let's play it around.
Okay, you're Xantares.
No? Okay, you're...
Who else isn't all around, bro?
Wait, Jimhack?
Hello, hello, hello?
I'm amazing, bro. How are you?
I'm good bro, it was hard to get
Oh my god
GG
Good game bro, good game
Yeah, thank you, thank you
Alright, see you bro
See you, see you
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
Oh, that's been put in.
You go out first, I'll flash, and then we push. Got it?
Roger that.
Flashing.
I've been flashed.
Oh, crap.
We saw often compare Counter-Strike, quite lovingly so do I.
Game of wits, a game of chess, but this is not being the case in this foot Furia semi-final.
This is bare-knuckle boxing. This is a brawl, a fight to the death.
That's what Ancient was, but now we go to Nuke. Foot have had their struggles here.
So Furia's pick might be where they look to turn this one around.
They risked it all with that force by Back on Ancient. It did not pan out.
Hugo, are you thinking we got a three map around our hands?
Yeah, I think someone's just throwing a bat into the ring and Furia about to pick it up.
to pick it up we're going to have to see Furt's best game on Nuke in some time if they're going
to take off Furia here it's been four months since they've even won this map and not through
lack of trying seven losses in a row four-foot but a great form today no doubt about that
winning some explosive rounds back on ancient being Furia in the clutches as well this
one's bound to be a banger Harry Furia on Nuke on the T side calling the shot
So let's get into it
Very curious if we pick up right where we left off, but already this is feeling like a bit of a slower tone in this pistol out of furia
It's a hit all right
Oh, and then Yuri with the UTL, K-Sorato and your kindar try to get down the vents, and they will make it down unscathed. That's the bomb in towards lower.
How do you want to marry this one? If you're here, you're demon already down the rampside.
Spots two, including that bomb getting planted. Molly's always dead on his secret lurk, and so room starts to open up here for foot.
Still one player lost behind enemy lines.
Yuri gets the jump on this ramp hold, but ends up getting deleted.
Your kindar in the downtime 2 to his name in it lower
Still alive. There's a pick up the case of rato crepe
Dinked earlier on thin margins on this but your kindar's got the cover
Jokes now throwing into a very awkward 1v2 times low your kindar with a couple of blinders
Get furia off to the races on their map pick area trying hard
Yeah, they got some tricks up their sleeves and they want an execute upper bust into the vent drop
They got Yuri wrapping heaven
There's so much chaos and confusion for a team that struggle on uke like foot
Well a bit of pistol round like that won't make it any easier
They're giving it a bit more time to get into strong post-pond positions. They just put the round right there
What a force plan a few at the foot
And that's for X-File, but out of position entirely locked out.
It's probably a full save.
This is the Gambling Bee, and I'm here to make the right call to bust up, but we're
watching Fury play this map the other day, and it's time to follow up going a little
bit too slow.
They were waiting way too long, far too much respect against Aurora.
And their best rounds were these quick A-splits.
When your Kinder could just run in and get his Multi-Kill.
So I hope Furia bring a bit more fight to this game.
Because you are the favourite.
You have the most experience.
Every reason to make this a three mapper.
I start here at the Furia, and we get one more saved force play before we see guns.
Oh, I keep it furious. You've got to be ready for some type of a move now out of foot, right?
You see them save on five. You imagine it's this force by, I think with that comes the
threat of immediate aggression at the start of this third round. And so I wouldn't expect
this one to be as pasty as the last two.
Warrant store double-nade in the hearts, really just trying to stop this early rush.
Hang on, here we'll let this one breathe.
Smokes outside and Aspurt settle into the same setup as last round, Furia, do the same thing
just a little bit later, so it looks like just another clean conversion.
This is awkward for Furia, they don't want to keep these guns into the next round, sure
the Kevlar's nice, but otherwise it's wasted money here, there's what keeps pressure
on.
They down the vent, watch out Donk.
It's a good shot and so why not throw your life on the line?
You're buying next anyway.
That opens up the path to the vent rotation a little more.
Now your Kindars all quickly trying to keep eyes on,
but now they're starting to lose lobby as well.
If all the net is shrinking on this A site,
your Kindar can't stop the vent scale.
Time's getting low.
Okay, Serato 1B3 required.
They're closing in quickly and foot playing with pace,
getting the face of Furia.
It's feeling that one right back.
That is explosive indeed.
Those are the rounds you want to see a foot going for and winning.
Bang a dig out of Krebani to open it up.
This is a captain who can hit back.
Yeah, very much a captain that looks to challenge everything you thought you knew about IGLs.
Raise someone who had his whole time in this roster has been a fragging IGL.
Been a big part of their successes on an individual level.
There's still a lot of demands a lot from his team, right?
You hear the way that he talks to them, that Kulio talks to this squad as well.
It won't take any BS
But the marvin perfection
Then when you play the way they do as well you want like a strong leadership figure in that sense
You need someone who's you know prepared to give you all this freedom
But also prepared to reel it in like you know when you've made a mistake force that accountability
Foot are playing scared so they won't talk like it either
Get the fury out of that little punch in this topside and everyone's caught looking the wrong way.
Everybody's dead.
Destroyed on this topside, cemetery puts his life on the line up the bomb for Demon.
Surely not.
Love a real gun.
The meter in fury has stopped that bomb plant and they're feeling a little uncomfortable now.
Gonna try and commit to it. Foulin's gonna have to cover.
And just tucked in right into his crosshair.
Demon goes.
No worries there after a clean sheet of entries for Furia, they will convert on that round.
As I said, two rounds ago, exactly what I want to see from Furia, right?
High tempo plays, not like laying around breathing too much, not trying to fake foot
out.
This isn't a team that you should be scared of if you're Furia, so trust in your executes.
Excellent trades here, and Yuri with a double entry makes things feel easy.
A-side getting abused now by Furia on this T-side, and an early timeout called by Thirds.
Already knowing this could be a sign of things to come.
Yeah, you just can't feel like the topside can't hold, and I know, you know, early game you were playing for the B-stacks,
you were leaning more down towards Lower, you pulled off a cheeky retake even with the pistols,
But you don't want
Throughout this entire CT side there to be this dark mark against your A site hold something that fury it can just keep going back to it feels
Imperative poor foot that they shut down one of these top side splits
Now the time
My bike comes out
Second round save a third round win
Ouch! Already good nades here for foots. Your kinder sails on past right through this smoke.
Playball comes down. Secret still controlled by foots. Is that a problem though? Molly's going to go in, send them back and Furia looks further afield looking your kinder go.
Shifting his way behind enemy lines.
Krebhneni really wants his fun.
He's getting locked on right now.
They can play instead.
Good awareness from Furia.
He got that spot from Main Roof.
They put it to use 5v4.
The second wave is nice.
Keeping foot in the dark.
I think you've seen from foot across a lot of their games is how they're down a group and try and pack roll
you know back there aim look for tight trades good crossfires if fury are able to kind of break that up as they have done in this round
that's where problems are going to start to emerge there's a lot of 1v1 fights on the table here that no one really has a support network nearby
Oh man, up on top of the heart, Duke spotted.
Furia, bring this bomb in towards lower.
They're gonna kill right in front of them on the vents.
And even sneaking down into the crosshairs of Molodoy.
It's a lot of solo plays here, just getting
iced out across the map by Furia.
I can't really blame Foot for not knowing what's going on there
because Furia are absolutely everywhere, they're hell, heaven, and down sea grew with the bomb.
So Furia changed their mind on splitting that A site, it was stacked up for Furtz.
Just walking that bomb down lower, no room for error with 10 seconds, but no error made.
Just trying to survive now, our Furtz.
Your Kinder hasn't boxed in.
Can't leave this position.
Dropping your Kinder!
So Symmetry looks to save Ophiria off to the races for one lead on this T side.
If you're even able to get one piece of the foot machine in their heads playing a bit
more passive, giving up a bit more room, they start to lose a tremendous edge on
CT side. Because it's a team with a wavelength. It's about those gun
fighters, about taking as many as you can. This round at one molotov, this place
is demon yard, goes dark, suddenly they lose all semblance of map control and
you see what it does for fury, right? They feel like they had all that room.
They caught demon kind of really unaware as to what was even happening
in the round in the vents. It's CT side of nuke, your protocols are gonna
tested your responses are going to be tested fury or playing a very mobile
game where they're constantly keeping you guessing something you mentioned was
how like to regroup they like to reverse I like to play together and just cause
chaos it's a hard map to do so all we can expect to see on this is but maybe
you're at the lobby control Ryan can't do that off the rip you have to let
fury take outside show numbers then re-clear the lobby look for case rato
on the luck we've yet to see anything like that cuz fury haven't used their
smokes to go down secret for the most part they've been just abusing this top
site. I'm still gonna find any sanctuary in the lobby here because they
already looked more aggressive in this round or posted up. Demon deep on ramp.
Here we are hold off. I put the kinders kicking up a fuss in yard.
who lies trained on this lobby aggression.
Here he feels like Furia trying to bathe them into this lobby push you were talking about.
But don't give it to them, instead just hanging around in these aggressive positions.
They're never quite crossing over that line into a push.
Here we go. Here's the exact for Furia.
Entry gets denied. K. Serato gone, but that lob makes it down the vent.
Yuri's not so lucky.
And so for now, falling the only guy down there.
Maybe the only guy down here all round is you cannot lost out in the yard.
I was selling that fake earlier on.
Awkward for him.
He did that.
It's a Fallen 1v5 attempt.
Symmetry closing in.
At least dodge this sparse path thingy through the vent.
Fallen's put a bit of distance between himself and Foote.
Dodges that flash as well. First man in his low, surely not.
Fallen. Two kills deep.
Defeuze getting held now and no time for fooling to win this. They're already just sticking it
But it's safe and nothing he could do gives him a run for their money though, doesn't he?
It's a foot round
Considering that's one man with the bomb down Lullar
Pauline extracts a bit of value when all this said and done feel winnable
Just give him you can this position and he kills Krabani. He can cut that rotate you can buy a lot of time
I was getting scared of that too. You fight so he died
All the way to it
He's got two 1v5s in his career, that will not be the third.
How furious money puts the test.
Gonna make do with last, take nine, pop on round.
Even in an aggressive position, could get punished by this splash, but he dodges it.
Lays down the death in-ramp.
Two kills, both rotate in, here we are, and that Molly bleed before they go for the play.
And without all firing off they know they've got the room.
What you do with it is the question.
Oh, cemetery here's those footsteps, comes back with the JWP.
Oh, lazy check. Crusted the smoke too much and now Fury have that topside. This could go wrong.
Genre, it was a bit of a heavier lead in towards lower, 4 foot.
Any site is where Fury are about so much of their success on this T side.
I'm planted, Molotoy dead on that clear.
Hand it off to you, Kindar in the 1v3.
Timing's everything here, you'd love to find X-Flight.
With that, you'll have all the info.
Let's look at if I find this timing.
Confused being held, so Ykindar's gonna move quickly now, gets them off that bomb.
Can he find the follow-up? Ykindar brings him out of it!
Tech 9 pulled as the nerf set in, deep use wasn't being stuck, but is there time for this?
Bomb can't get found, no kill for Symmetry!
All the kills for Furt, but the round swings the way of Furia!
That's a 1v3 out of Ykindar!
Sick round, but you felt like Symmetry had the time age, couldn't find that bomb
smoke picks up the kit can't get on it so you give the wind into the clock
massive pickup in the clutch plays out to perfection get some off the bar before
he even takes a fight. Squeezed every second he could out of that round and too
late for symmetry. So Furio will laugh it off 2v4 and a 1v3.
Spirit back off the board. How is that money of a line?
Stagnant wolf of symmetry again in hearts.
Nice or odd, so won't give an inch.
I think it's in those moments you see the brilliance of your kindle, right?
I think in a different world, in a different timeline, where it a couple of years later,
He could have been a great fit for a foot squad like this.
But he's also just got great smarts to back up his aggression, right?
Always been someone on a micro level just fantastic at forcing the kind of reactions he wants.
He gets you to play his game.
And he shows that in the 1v3, just piecing it together beautifully.
Great catch for the symmetry all.
But no good deed going unpunished here.
Fallen instantly claws one back.
He's going players down through lower, and his footsteps are heard by Jigs, who starts his round down here.
It's falling for Fallen, I think, but this is still going to be hard for Fallen to get to position, but they want to go up there.
Fallen's taking the road on that topside, it's not going to help. Molotov just gets his double entry.
Fallen is lost to the hands of Tyne, with that bomb down, but Tyne now sits in the favour of Furia.
3v2, full and low to be safe, and so both players out ramp on this site,
Maudoy trying to fight his way out of this box.
Now he scores an out, for Yuri to backstab.
I was getting very scared with an alert on the other side of the map,
but Furia just do it on the backs of Maudoy and Yuri.
And even when you're sitting foot with the reed now, in strong positions,
she's not able to convert rounds.
Had an anchor there.
Good timing of a retake.
The way the furiora kind of use in these extremity plays feels really, really good right now.
Constantly buying time for them to find their impact, always being at thorn in the side of this defence.
And it's not nice rotating around CT side of nuke feeling like you're always looking over your shoulder.
I need you to start questioning a lot, right? You start to question your read of the game.
Who's about this boost if you're looking for it? It's still not a fight he feels forced
to commit to. Who's that just him being here? Puts a lot of pressure on foot.
We've seen all these vent dives for Furia, this should be Furia's round to do it in.
Main smoke and Furia, again nowhere to go, we can A site, no stopping that!
Or do I in case there are two inventories, a lobby defective and main located here by Furia, they saw that boost outside.
This one's green rounds are keeping breathing easy on this T side.
Not much to it here for Furia. Just looking like the more comfortable team we're seeing.
The woes of Nuke hit foot in the face now.
They can barely hang.
I feel like Symmetry is a good way in here for foot, he's been in aggressive positions
on a hard ball, he's hit all his shots, and he'd be a game changer on the CT side, can
They put in somewhere better, somewhere more impactful.
You are left with this big worry, they just have too many holes opened up in this defense.
The Imperial are willing to explore every option, they have been pretty crazy calls on this T-side.
not ending in the usual means bunch of a splits to kind of get put nervous off the
ridge the then rounds where they're everywhere and nowhere at the same time
they'll be taking heaven when reality it's a triple lowest split it's been a
very very hard game they get a read if you're foot and if you don't get one
soon I think this CT side is gonna be well and truly away from you you're at
the full mercy of fury at that point just doing everything
another example of it right three players crossing an award secret but
You kind of got his eyes set on taking away this health control.
You don't feel like you know where this is ending up right now.
It'll be a good time to go and clear lobby, at least try and get some info
in this traded position. So that's what Fudd do.
It's the right answer, but it's not going to let you kills here.
And as you clear this position, Fury get closer and closer to the round winner.
You get into Frank's ramp.
It's perfectly teed up for Fury to close around. He's not in any hurry either.
Where does team get space?
There's a check here, but an ugly spray from your kinder lets him down and that gives way to a retake here for foots.
Always going to charge over the door, put this bomb down and Yuri who is getting hard on this B site, it's another entry.
Duke's somewhat ahead of the timing here.
Arriving sooner than Fury you were ready for.
Miss shot from Molodoy.
That's an LECT's close in, taking position back.
One of the more winnable rounds the foot have found themselves in.
These tabs tries to bait a peek and they get what they were hoping for, but none of the kills.
Uriah Molodoy in these powerful post-blasts, there's kind of nowhere left to run for Jugs.
No rounds to be won here in Atlala.
Everywhere Fury are go, they find success.
Just looking at really uncomfortable positions for Bo, they don't really know how to retake that side.
The cover isn't there on the door, they have no util to stop it.
Right up each of the right side, they're holding left.
These are just unfamiliar positions on a map that has plagued them in this year.
Despite all of the success, clearly Nuke is their weak spot.
spots and Furia are pushing that advantage as far as they can.
Eight to two up.
Pure domination at no point in football,
not like they're in this game.
And Furia just playing with their food now.
Not even smokes outside, just four players walking dry.
And you just feel like this is gonna work
because everything has.
Excellent spotted down then.
Does that bait them into Grubbani?
He's got to clear this corner, and he does not.
One knife will trap though,
or it's going to drop in good damage from the captain,
but still, no good deed goes unpunished.
Oh.
Oh, Cemetery hoping to close in as a teammate nearby.
Secret side, it's X-Floud hoping to recover this.
Okay, Serato.
I think he's late-timing for the backstop.
Oh, turn around out of X-Floud.
And so a little something, a chance,
A chance, a sliver to hold onto the end of this first half, shooting for four now.
That's the goal for Furt.
We find we get to see some chaos for Furt, right?
Three players coming up, secret outside main, everywhere, all pushing together,
where they do their best work.
Safe to say, winnable for Kcerato, but a beautiful flick from X-File.
Will keep them in this half.
Desperately looking for a fourth now.
I mean, you see Kcerato always did disbelief.
He doesn't miss those, he doesn't mess those up like that.
Yeah.
That's not the case to Rata, you come to expect.
I think you can ride it off if you just go right back to your winning ways.
Top silo, eights that can't hate, but nobody hoes.
They just get that entry given to them through the huts.
Do you just jump on this, Fury?
Or do the kills just keep fumbling their way into your grip?
Foot getting flooded.
They're not floating, they are sinking here on this CT side.
Cemetery in, said earlier on maybe his orb could be a difference maker, well it is in
the right place.
It's in this moment, the individuals have to show us what they're made of, four rounds
not a hell of a lot.
But it's all they can hope for here.
Last day to rotate and they hear him loud down the vent with Heaven control taken,
He takes himself out of the limelight here on that rotation.
The topside falls and a retake now being demanded.
Just haven't seen foot with any of these positions.
Sure, couple of retakes early in the game.
But this man down, up the vent, round heaven.
Couldn't be in worse positions.
Cacerato has this cross covered on timing.
The belly is very late, but Fallon keeps his eyes
on the prize. So it walks slowly into their demise. Nice shot from Crippini though, could
that open it up? Backside got to get that one. Symmetry tries to dodge death, but in
Borsi's case, Serato and Furia make a statement. A 9-3 run on the T side of Nuke.
Thank you guys. Furia Boy seems to be back here. Oh, and you're going to end joined
by a legendary Brazilian host.
So, there, it's a pleasure to have you here.
You guys are like just crazy, the Brazilian fans energy.
What is so special about you guys and CS?
They are amazing, right?
I think this is because we never give up.
Because this is in your blood, in our history.
It doesn't matter how hard the challenge is going to be.
Yeah, you guys never give up on a bunch of don'ts.
We never give up on Brazilian fans.
I think that's what you see.
And today, you're not wearing the host cap.
You're going to have fun, so any special message for Yurii maybe?
I'm proud of you, I'm always am and keep going, keep doing your best and keep rocking.
I love you.
Beautiful words in the city of love.
Let's see if the Furia boys can take it on Yurii.
Well Yurii is certainly feeling that love right now because he is excelling here on Yurii.
is having one hell of a turnaround was a little quiet on ancient but he's been
enforced to be reckoned with as has that mother to offer welcome return of form
from him in this dominant runaway half
they were jumping at the pit to get on their map it's not hard to see why K
Serato lays down death with those two burritos
Buria want this to be a very quick second map which is 25 minutes in and it
It feels like they are destined to take it here on Nuke.
And they're just falling apart at the seams here.
Tumbleweed goes past as they think about dust,
our third map of the series.
But Footmust pick up the slack,
because here on Nuke, absent CT side,
he's still away from them.
It's not their second half,
unless Krippeni's got a 1v5 of his own.
Not today.
Fiora sealed the deal, triple kill from Cacerato.
And a reassuring side, I think, from Fiora, who fought very close on Ancients.
But now on home soil here on Nuke.
You know, whenever we talk about someone like Paul, even Cacerato and Yuri,
and you talk about the experience on this Fiora squad with that,
comes the knowledge of what it's like to be the team on the come up.
The guys feeling the nerves and they know, they really know just how it's witchy, how lost, how nervous for a feeling here on Nuke.
It is a completely different tone to what we had to start this semi-final.
And that can feel really jarring, that can cause a bit of whiplash.
Because you try and zoom out, you try and look at the rest of the series.
It is going to be a tool task to rein this back in.
If we get onto that third map as it builds on we're going to right now
Pistol's here looking for some ground out towards the ramp room but with Mollardoy set up
It's no contest shut down from Furia as they cruise towards that finish line
It does feel meant to me doesn't it? Not a bump in the road
Forget one try and it's here and it's now on this rifle round
I also think the period helps to kind of recontextualize map one a little bit in their heads right
the idea look we weren't that comfortable on ancient look at how uncomfortable we made
you take us to a map but we know what we're doing and it's no contest.
I think that's going to be a massive boon for this Furia squad in the grand scheme
of the semis.
A rare opening four foot a 5v4 that goes untreated on the back of that span.
Yes, you've got X-File, top performer of last map.
Spamming now, smoke catches you, keep the crossing red.
They're going to set him up to succeed here in the yard.
You can see for ready to react on ramp.
Prepare you with a second wall.
Let's try to make it work.
Oh, okay, that's two smoke shots for X-Files.
I've seen it opponent yet and he's had tremendous impact here. Oh
Speaking and I'll see an opponent's look at Fallen hiding out the orange box a position
That's so often but cemetery with eyes on nice check all in tricks get denied
Love to see that
It's a breaking this silent streak a streak at three going the way of fury a
Finally some kind of response for foot
When it comes down to two X-Files smoke spam kills out in the yard.
Reproducible?
For foot, you know, maybe, but it shouldn't be, right?
You're gonna have to learn these rounds.
You're not gonna get chances like that every day.
Oh, while you're here, take away the guns if you can.
It's a try for X-Files, but 50-50 takes the wrong side.
It's no fun to get a chance, an opportunity, if only that's on this T-Half of Nuke gifted
by X-Cloud.
Terrorists win.
I mean, there's a reason why the allure of Nuke has always existed to these championship
level teams.
It's a map where brains are brawner and paramount in equal parts, right?
It's not just an aimer's paradise.
And for our squad that do like to answer with muscle,
do like to answer just with brute force.
Guria haven't just had that, but they've had the reeds,
they've had the maneuverability,
the protocols to back it up.
Oh, it's with another entry.
Back to back rounds now with opening kills,
falling in foot's favor. Last time that entry out of the
yard was enough. Looks to be the case again. A clean sweep on the
A site take.
Oh, and hangs around for this. Do you really think he's going to
give this one before a go? Well, they'll come to him first.
Reboost in the heavens. An eyes on for Fallon who will just
scarper down the ladder or not oh no disappearing acts he grabbed it all he
ain't getting out of there thank you very much the live is it cemetery
as I thought I won't look at your thoughts in the mouth about entry of
The juke's they just pummel the topside.
A lot more to do on this T side.
At least start with an eco now from Furia.
Back to my gun rounds.
You get a gift.
This round could be foot giving fury to a taste of the red medicine and that first half there
were a number of lower stacks for foot.
Fury are moving into an uncontested topside.
That's exactly what's about to happen here for the other way around.
Fury not in a spot to fight for this.
P250 in heaven.
You just hoping they played into your gamble.
Stopping some saves would be nice.
Punish the escape.
And he just drops down then.
Round lining up nicely.
Still do you want to lock in from Furia in this next gun round?
Why let her get close?
Keep foot under your thumb.
Yeah, I mean, you know, you know, the big advantage you have is the veteran scene in
this squad.
You want foot in their heads.
You want them kind of doubting themselves, their moves, the way that they play.
Last thing you want is for this young group of guys to feel like they actually came
through and kind of recovered here on nuke from the most uncomfortable of the
beginnings and I think it's gonna take much for that to happen hell we could
even be approaching that point already because this was a danger of being an
absolute blowout now you're making it competitive you're putting the pressure
on fury they call the time out
I want them to feel this spare, not resilience.
Five round game now and the guns coming back out for Furia on the tail end of this time
out.
I'm just here to soak up every second on the stage, keeping in mind tomorrow an arena
game and a sold-out hackball arena.
It's gonna get bigger, it's gonna get better, can't forget that!
Push through, K-surah, hold him ready for it, and I'll try and scarp it down the vent,
bombing toad, two players making it down, an X-File does provide some levity out in
the yard. Still a good position for the north of the post-plant as well but
Robbie locked out just gonna have to hold the vent where will Fury rotate?
You've got the edge in this lower fight you only heard one or two players make
it down the vent. That's a Fury. Don't concern themselves with the missing
third man they try and battle forward. In to a crossfire here but we're demon
dead. Now lower site is lost and with symmetry out of position this is
Fury are finding that elusive 12.
And that sounds a bit scary there for Furia.
Krebbeni doesn't re-peak.
He can jump on Demons next contact,
but he goes back for more a bit early.
And both players get isolated by Furia.
To apply by Furia, not to rotate them so soon,
ready for a lobby lurk.
And as Symmetry moves off the vent line,
that's when Yuri takes it.
So some awkward moments there in that post-point.
Again, for Furia, you are just seeing the lack
of success on this map.
back of comfortability exploited by Furia.
And so that is the round that should lock down this game.
That point secured.
Furia looking to force Dust 2 in this series.
You know, when you have a team feeling like this,
and I think it just gives the CTs so much pullback
on knowing that the fights are almost going to come to them
and you're seeing that in a lot of these moments,
Furia just holding their ground, holding their lines,
foot come knocking and give the fights away.
Hell, it even kind of echoes the ending of that legacy Falcons game from the other day.
Legacy just knowing that Falcons felt desperate, where the guys feeling the pressure were going to make moves
and that game ended with Legacy essentially holding their positions.
Falcons walking into their crosshairs.
Curio have got to have that exact same feeling here.
Multiple players crossing in the arc.
Three make it down secret and an entry found as Maldedoi bested on the ramp hold.
He's got six kills, but he has two fantastic entries in this D-side to give foot a bit of chance.
Okay, Serato, a position that might be unsuspected here by Foote Shadow.
Perhaps, okay, Serato, patience. Symmetry needs his quick shot, oh, this game is done.
That's the bomb now, away from them at the feet, okay, Serato.
Even missing that timing on Vent, the one position you were meant to have gets ripped away from you.
And so it's down to these two Ramside. Can Demon and Juge, two bottom performers from Foot, keep them in this?
Or do Furia end it here and now?
Dust two, waiting in the wings.
And with that bomb lost to 20 seconds left, you are fighting a losing battle.
First man dead on the crossing and demon iced out a very different Furia at the arrival of their map pick
a dominant win as they steamroll through foot and now with Dust 2 waiting in the wings Furia flying high heading onto map 3
Everybody's showing up in this second map, the Furia is a resilient side
You get done with a great game, a great day
of the struggling earlier here in the playoffs.
And Kacer also keeping up appearances,
the whole damn tournament, no signs of stopping now.
Those Grand Finals wait for a team,
and Furia looks to earn it on that third.
What an incredible cast and what an incredible crowd.
We are jam packed here,
and it is full all-curia fans on the left side
of this arena, but we knew this was their map.
We knew Nuke was going to be a strength. Did you expect this result?
In a way, yeah, to be completely honest. It was good to see Furia coming in and delivering.
It's good to see a Furia live up to their expectations.
Maybe I could disappoint that Foot were able to put Marvify on Peter to be completely honest.
This was the eighth loss in a row for the call of this lineup.
It's been 134 days since the last one against Nuke, so 135 now.
Yeah, exactly. It'll be unfortunate that it didn't expect Peter,
but I would love to see a better fighting foot.
And it just seems a bit of a match match when you look at the playstyle that Furti's bringing to the table.
It really seems like when you look at how they play against Anson Zolle,
most of the rounds are going to be finished before the minute mark.
And here on Nuke, it's a lot about understanding rotations, making the right ball,
playing out the correct situation, the 3v3s and the 2v2s.
And I just don't really feel like that's the strength of the foot, right?
When they turn their attention to T-start, that was where they went with a lot of aggressive interplay,
explosive interplays, and that's really what they expect of Nuke.
like it's Broly fast because it's talent that works out.
But it's just not enough on Nuke because Nuke is just
surprised so much before.
There's been a lot of fans coming in from all over the stages
here at EWC.
We have four different games going on in the final week.
For those that are new, Biria has a number of stars.
But one of them is Audna Cummup.
He goes by the name of Yipindar.
And one of his tougher jobs, he's helping call the shots.
And in fact, they're trying to groom him,
it seems like, to be the next IGL.
Jacob, how are you doing this one?
I think he's doing a great job here.
He again has been an in-game leader before us,
back in Team Liquid in those days.
He didn't necessarily transcend into becoming
a great in-game leader at the time,
but he gained a lot of experience,
and maybe he's using all that experience now
to give it another shot.
If anything, Peter, individually speaking,
he's playing well.
He's a difference maker for Furia.
He's aggressive.
He's involved in a lot of the early situations as well.
And so far, this tournament, he's
been looking like the old Jekinder
that always finds himself playing.
And Furia really needed Jekinder to step up.
So coming into the playoffs, he didn't
have the great tournament.
in the quarter-final, we can see some of that old Jicken, some of that space-taking that
that Fjure really needs and he is the guy, he is the spearhead of this team and he is
also very much needed to go and create a space for K's route to be playing around and winning
out those scotches.
It's important to see the Jicken that continues to perform because he is a guy in this team
that has been so important from the recent success and we can just tell Osu's effect
that when Fjure didn't play the best, it's also because of his solid Jicken that
showed up.
So he's very important as it and it's just good to see that he continues.
He came away with the clutch, he saw his impact outside.
You can hear they're having a great nuke,
but he's gonna have to have a better dust too
if they're gonna power over foot.
Let's take a look here at some of the B-Plants though.
Pimp, you thought this was an interesting strategy
that was working?
Yeah, I feel like that was a story of the game.
You know, Foot could do nothing to stop Furia
from getting down to that lower bomb site.
You're gonna see a combination now
of a lot of bomb plants on this B bomb site.
They even started in the pistol.
It felt like Furia could just walk all over Foot
as they liked to in this game.
And that's where my disappointment came from.
I'm pretty sure Footwear went and there was the game plan coming in for Furia, but you
see the round after round, the import of guard, the import rotating down towards them, the
way that Furia played with the door, the play with the scope and constantly dropped
down, they went with the bump here.
There was very impressive execution coming in for Furia, but also I let it to one-dimensional
for my liking not to be stopped.
Yeah, Capri, you were saying that this is almost on foot, they need to get better
at this map.
What is it about their playstyle that doesn't fit this new?
I think footage is so explosive and they place a mushroom in the vision side and making things so chaotic.
Sometimes when you come into this situation, also in what Jacob just brought up,
when it's like Furious has to figure out why it's when the rounds go into like very close
and they have to be like group of communication on the standing where the Furious can be like later on.
That's why they lack a little bit right on it.
It's just a bit of a mismatch to what their strength is.
So there's definitely some work to be done on Newkistil.
And as Jacob mentioned, this is the eighth time in a row that they lose to you.
So it's always been living from the side for them that they can be punished in a video like this.
We've got some more highlights to roll through, gentlemen. The next one is coming from our sniper.
Let's take a look at Maldoe and what he's doing on the AWP. Did you see an impressive game from him?
Does he need to go off with the AWP on a map like this?
He's slowly but surely warming up into it. I think if anything, he's going to be needed on Dust2.
That's almost paradise, waking Roma out as he likes, you know, both on the T side and CT side.
to see him find impact, to see him play well, see Scythe on Nugas well, not the easiest map to find impact with the AWP,
but to get him warmed up, you know, to get him into the game, that's going to be a massive win condition for Furria heading into the third deciding map.
And it is a little bit of a story, but he needs sometimes those maps to warm up into, and then whenever he hits that third,
like that's when he like, green breaks up, and it's also going to be very much needed on our two now, coming into that being such a heavy, heavy off map as well.
map as well. Tuning him up for a big Dust 2 it'll be Fallen's 1400th map played on land,
a ridiculous accomplishment. We got to take a look though at a player who is on the rise again
X-Cloud with a good performance despite the loss. I'm told he had good enough shots that we should
revisit some of them. What does he bring to the table and does he have his hands full on Dust
2 or is this another map that'll play into his hands? I mean he's going to have his hands full
if Ft wants to win. If anything what he brings is consistency to City's lineup he's
He's consistently been one of the better performers throughout this tournament.
Very impressed with how he's always showing up, even in a roster like this, where the team clearly is not working out,
X-Flight finds a way to always have a bit of impact.
So, they really have signed, not necessarily a superstar, but a very consistent player you can rely on.
That sticks to me, like, exactly the consistency that's also going to be important now, moving to the truth.
But that is a map where he can keep this explosion, keep up since D&A are playing very aggressive,
trying to catch those smoke timings, specifically around mid when they turn to the T-Start,
And just being a news and strike, being the guy that you almost feel like you have to expect the unexpected.
And that is also a little bit of what Truth really brings to the table.
If you're just waking up and joining us, welcome. This is our semi-final.
The winner of this next map, they are playing in the A-Quart Arena for the lion's share of our $2 million prize pool here in Counter-Strike 2.
Let's take a look at this match and how it's gone through and what we have in store for us.
Because Duff too, the classic map is coming back into the mix. A fan favorite as always, Jacob.
Yeah, it's been a little bit of a one-sided game so far.
I don't think many of us expected footnotes to win the ancient scene to be set for Nuke.
I think we have a middle ground now on Dust2.
Both of these liners, they like to play Dust2.
They've played Dust2 in this tournament so far, have some decent results on the map as well.
So if anything, I think we're finishing off Peter here with a bang of a matchup on a map.
That's very open for interpretation.
Both teams can play their own style, so to speak, without being too hindered in doing so.
And then it comes down to who is the better team, who has the better individuals,
and who got the better dates of April.
Yeah, I'm sure they've said themselves that they had to put in some hours and some work
into this too, and I think it has paid off, right, where if you turn your attention to
foot, they played against Miles on this map where they actually had a pretty bad start,
but they actually managed to crawl the way back and then themselves threw a very big
leap to make it into overtime where things turned into their favor, luckily for them.
But you know, foot doesn't seem, you know, it's these maps where their DNA, their
playstyle really comes into fruition, and I think that's also a good map for them
to finish on regardless of how they've looked,
but it's still a map where their playstyle can be
a little bit more like, you know, explosive enough.
I think that is really what is needed.
They need to have map where they can breathe,
or they can have the individuals make this place,
finish now with some fast B-Pops
and just, you know, try and squeeze your air together.
Merci, Perry.
You have an excellent host here for Counter-Strike 2.
We have a big map free coming up in just a moment.
Nice.
Yeah, thank you man.
Go.
Thank you.
Come on, come on.
Let's go.
Nice!
Nice guys.
I can't see anything happening to us
We got some foot fans in the house here that got up against Furia right now
They're representing their support in
First of all tell me why are you a fan of foot?
because demon and cemetery there's our friends and they're just fucking crazy
and amazing okay well they're also crazy good at the game how are you what is
your premier elo my premier elo is 24k okay that's pretty good and what about
you premier elo 24,000 okay 224k is ready for foot that's a good start let's
see what the rest of the fans are got my man how long have you been a foot
fan it's quite a new team two years exactly but not be junior tell me what
is your premier elo last time I played 23,000 okay that's pretty good a lot of
cheaters so many so many we need to fix right we need to fix that valve work
on it boys you're playing CS you're supporting foot what is your premier
elo my premier you is 70 hundreds okay that's pretty good that's a very good
waiting for a let's see if we can get some more foot fans he low I found a
vitality fan and they got eliminated so he's now supporting foot all the way
with this one why are you going for foot today because he's more fun than
there's furious one shit haven't they they're already on I want the underdogs
I want new people to win we we've seen furious plus obviously they've got all
the fans they've got all the fame let the new guys I mean obviously yes
to have won one before but not like this this will be epic all right so tell me
I'm asking foot fans what their premier elo is what is your premier elo sir not
high enough it's only about six thousand at the moment hey well thank you very
much for being honest tell me it's six thousand how hard is it do you run into
many cheaters I've not seen any cheaters I don't know I don't know what
the cheater problem is that's a good thing just a lot of people who don't
communicate that can happen that can more keep grinding thank you very much
your time and there we have it it's 6k it's a nice place to play CS all right so
the foot team they're exciting they're young they're up and coming in their
food themselves in tier one but I was asking their fans what their premier
elo was and they have won that with 6,000 so it brought the average down
quite a lot they had 18,800 overall but hey they can do better going forward
I'm sure let's see what other teams have got here we have it
I'm excited for the last elevator bit what I will say is I don't know too much about
our guests today. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
Bye.
How do we want to do the intro? Just to make sure I'm going fast.
I have three carcasses. What the f**k?
Hello, my name is Gina Garling and I flew all the way to Paris to surprise
Ovely and me who's been here for about two months now.
So you'll be here, she'll be here. She thinks she's doing a different interview.
Wait, should we make bets on what her reaction's going to be?
Maybe like five euros per, you know, we'll put it in a poll.
I say she is going to stand there and go
She might start crying. I'm putting my money on her stand and they're just
How do we want to do the intro just about going fast?
You know
Well, I'll be welcome to your interview
Are you actually-
I know that you thought it was over, but you still have one more interview to do.
I called it, she was gonna cry. I get five euros from each of you.
What do you say we start this interview while we may?
I'm actually crying.
Don't cry on my show.
Don't cry on my show. We need no tears on my show at all. Hello.
Hi, how are you? I'm Holly.
Wait a second, this is my show though.
Just like everything we do in America, I am taking your show. It is mine now.
I own the show now.
Okay, so I have some questions for you, Obley.
Do you think that you're the only person in the world
who is recognized for not recognizing someone?
She's, you know...
No, I'm pretty sure that's gonna go on my tombstone.
Oh, you know what? Before we actually start the questions,
I figured you have been working so hard.
You must be so hungry.
So we're gonna play a game of Chubby Bunny
because what in France?
What in...
Oh!
We have croissants!
Obley?
Let me see your croissant.
Uncle.
And after every question, you should have a little bit of croissant in our mouth.
Did you know that your nalads put jam on that, otherwise they'll beat you with a baguette?
I totally did that on the plane.
Is that why they never gave me any freebies or anything when it was so nice to them?
So, Ovela, what's more sad, you think, that you work in an elevator
or that this is probably the biggest office you'll ever have in your life?
You know what's funny?
I was getting so ready for you to say, what's more sad?
This or your dog dying?
But do I get to ask you a question?
No.
This is my show.
Okay, that's fair.
Although you've been here for two months.
I have been here for two months.
This is probably the longest game you've ever had.
How does that feel?
Honestly, I feel like everything that I've done
has been about like two years, two years.
So why not speed run it into two months?
Yeah, all right.
It's only the fair.
Although some people have red flags.
Some people have green flags.
As a person who has clearly given up,
are you the only person with a white flag?
I know where you're gonna go with this deal
Because I know you so well, but we probably shouldn't.
Given the atmosphere and the...
Oh, I thought you were going to say,
feel the strength of feeling the strength of our God,
don't understand it.
That was not English.
Bump on sponge.
OK, I'll leave.
I'm just surprised that they let both of us
on camera for this stuff.
Jack's a b***h.
Jack, put a picture of Jack right here.
Right here in the corner. Yeah, right there like find the worst picture and put it right there
Put it right there. That's Jack. What if this thing just plummets? Oh my god, I wish. Would that be a lairier?
It would be nice. It would be so funny. Oh my god. You wouldn't have to take the flight home. Yeah, same point on everything.
You've been gone for two months, hopefully. Uh-huh.
Leaving me at home alone in Los Angeles. What? Besides me, is the thing that you miss the most? My computer.
I miss that so much. I miss that so much because I just want to play video games all day and
and Paris has like no freaking internet.
My hotel did not have Wi-Fi for two weeks.
You know how hard it is to stay mentally stable,
or at least whatever our equivalent of mentally stable is?
It's very difficult.
Would you say you also miss air conditioning?
Oh, girl, you have no idea.
There were people that were straight up
like getting into fist fights over fans
and whatever the French equivalent of a Walmart is.
Le Wemer.
Le Wemer.
Le Wemer.
Le Wemer.
I want to conclude this this uh this interview. Okay, uh, that means I can break character now
Thank you so much for joining me on my interview I wanted to come out here. Oh my god, we're gonna die
Okay, is this where they kill us? Is this where I told you I've had the keys
Also
Thank you everyone for joining us here on our interview today.
It has been such a joy to be able to surprise my best friend,
Albie.
My name is Gina Darling, and my surprise guest, well,
I guess it's me.
But my guest here is Albury May.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you for joining me.
And then do you want to go drive a race car with me
or something?
Because I did that last week, and I almost crashed.
F**k this.
Jack!
He's got Jack!
Play is in our DNA.
Whenever we let it out, it becomes our superpower.
Now imagine an entire city being built to supercharge it.
Hedia City, powered by play.
We can do this. I'm in position.
Getting it clear.
Got him.
The defuse, the defuse is coming in. Hasn't he still got me?
You're the last one.
It's time to find a finalist, Furia vs. Furtz arranges on to a third map and Furia have
felt like the stronger team across this PO3. Can they prove themselves, come Dust2? Similarly,
weak map for Furtz in recent months. Five out of the last games being a loss, only
breaking that trend here at EWC overmows a formidable throw for an easy wap of
for it, it's time to level up against Furia.
Yeah, these grand finals coming down at two dust two.
And with Fallen at the figurehead,
a man whose career might be in its final chapter,
but he is never yielded to the passage of time.
He's chasing those last few hits,
the glory versus the squad
who are on their first year glove,
their first years, their first steps,
walking out onto these stages.
These arenas that Fallen has called home for decades.
So with one spot left with a map left
And a chance to grasp greatness
Is it furia for all time's sake or the foot slide change now forever?
Dust twos where we're ending things off and a long take from furia to get the ball rolling
Now moving in quickly here Xplowed alone
He may start to join and get into positions as if he'll steal himself away
He takes off over the top fury gets rid of him
sight taken, long wrap, lots of
traded positions here, this one still
up in the air. That kill from Moledoy
could be round defining, but it's giving
you a way out. Bompland found,
Jeeves closing in, oh the go-dead as well and
Yuri finished off, that's foot from the
back foot, and a pistol round secured,
maybe going to shake off some of those
nerves from Nuke if they were
following them into map 3.
Decro Benny sets an example four kills from the captain here in this pistol round shows him how it's done
In a post bar no less and sure you can look at recent maps and you can look at the numbers
You can say put on favored but at the end of the day
Half an hour 40 minutes on dust to it's a bit of a death match here for fruits. It's only got the players for it
And they handle the pressure is your next question
Benny puts his best foot forward and now Fury of Force up.
Keep the wells straight out long, late reapy care,
tee that mic foot, they crash that corner.
It's messy, but they get out.
4v4, gotta worry about the mic foot.
Fury, Fury running up, short side,
Molotoy collects another kill.
Symmetry wants to force this issue,
get back control and he will, they lose his sight.
They're playing pretty quickly here around these smokes.
They're actually trying to get ahead of this.
They wanna fight before that bomb goes down.
Jews with a double and that changes the nature of this around it felt like it was hanging in the balance
But for hard by for every step of the way
Round recovered round saved and lead maintained as that force by gets denied
You call the pace how and perfectly done here by further factor
They retake the site so quickly of course symmetry has to win that long-control battle
Well, they've lost everything all space could straight up CT keeping
Not letting them fall and get into a post plant.
So Furt keep fighting and Fury keep forcing.
Guns come out again.
Facing their odds.
Scout in the middle.
Furt dodge danger.
Oh, dangerous setup here, the timbers stumbles in, and by the time they know it's already
too late, that bomb gets smoked out.
because Serato to Furious push,
and he's trying to force every advantage off-foot.
It's Furia taking the pace out, demanding a bit of respect in the 4-on-4.
For many, going to try and fight and die for this mid-control, but
wasn't hoping that death would come for free.
Double kill for Kcerato, an advantage now belonging to Furia.
It's in these moments you get a little desperate, you try and push, you try and get something
for your efforts, they lose that long player.
A site starts to feel vulnerable, you're looking at cemetery, and he's going to do something
big here.
Two players right through this smoke.
Oh no, he's firing off.
Yes, both!
That was the aim punch helping him through!
even aiming there! Random stray bullet goes up top and kills the cat player! Run that back!
I think it takes a lot before it'll be speechless but surely that makes you so...
That is shocking!
That's the game just handing him a double kill!
Are you alright, eh? Punching him? No Kevlar, it just breaks the whole game!
What the hell?! Killed the top guy at first!
Are you stunned? You can't believe it!
Oh, I killed him! Okay!
That is mind-blowing!
I've actually never seen anything like that!
It could have been more perfect.
A round gifted to Furia.
The game decides, and that force-by comes through.
Have you ever seen that?
No.
That's why we love counter-strike, every now and then.
See something you thought was impossible.
They have a Molotoy. Sort of not scared here on Dust2.
I think it's Shuffly. Yeah, neither does Molotoy. Hang it around, waiting for that exact move.
There's one thing you know you can expect. It is a lot of these mid-round pushes. Now they do chase Molotoy down.
They are going to get that trade, but he's made their life misery in his dying breath.
Double kill sends foot out of the round.
It's a theory competitive from the get-go.
I cannot believe that they're gonna get an early streak
in this game off the back of that.
Sure, we're still at a very winnable position for Fallen.
I feel like it should have just been a 1v1.
Now, Fertz, saving two guns,
gonna have nothing in the next.
I
Always just want to see that pull them round again. I still don't think I've gotten over it
I don't think anyone should be over a year. I think that's the defining moment. This shapes up the early game of dust, too
Gets you on of this hot streak
Good cover for Molodoy, almost caught life out here.
And Furtz want to bring it to Furia, all in in round five.
Money where their mouth is.
And they're very lucky that Molodoy doesn't actually hold the mid-cross because everybody
He got walked right in here and he's very late.
A bit of a punish.
Long control through the smoke.
Your kinder writes it off.
It's gonna be hard for Foote to try and force these fights in the usual method.
On dust.
Fury are already setting a far slower tone.
So that can't be Broly, but it would have to be on Fury as say so, and whenever you talk
about falling you talk about mind games that come against playing with it, this has been
a series where every step of the way Fury have tried to match the pace of foot, and
I would say they've matched it very successfully.
If you want hell of a trick to completely change that.
On map three.
See how they cope with it. Slower.
More expecating style of play.
Right side, right time. They catch Krebbeni on a reposition and that should be the round.
If you really should be looking to save your guns here, that's a huge exit to set yourself
up for it.
Here I come hunting a little bit.
You need that next gun round because we'll have nothing in the bank.
One kill decided here for Furia.
play a safe game.
Mordor is quite the orper on the mid-cross.
One of the few who can consistently hit the cross shots.
Hope we get to see symmetries all out soon on the CT side, taking the challenge in.
Variety of ways to do so.
See some teams who've boosted morpers up on the CT side, looking for those pigs.
Here we are.
Oh, they forgot the bomb.
Look what they wanted, a gun-hope E-Round.
They still do it, facing it off of Molo-Doy's entry.
I'm gonna come in and they'll just walk it in
Symmetry I'm gonna hold the line at first now. They do lose
I can't play a symmetry getting a bit hot under the collar here is the Molly's making very uncomfortable and it's falling
Drive the knife in
Spirior into the conversation with that double kill shows how punishing this B site is you can get two kills on the
hold, spring them out, and then if you get trades right back, Fiora, you're a suddenly favored.
Trying to play it through the window, but you're at the full mercy of these crossfires.
Demon looking for an edge, didn't see that all back in the tunnel, but Molotov has
repositioned Kacerato up close, and this one's going nowhere quickly.
Gonna learn very, very quickly that this B site and these retakes are very punishing.
Demon dead at the swing of the AWP.
So a cool move into the lead, building upon it now for Furia.
It's a 3v5 as well to get those first two kills. It looks like there's no trades in sight.
Furia pause for a moment. Backside Molly.
Trade onto X-File, four hundred three fires at backside player.
And suddenly Furia smoothes the sight all theirs.
We know there's no way back in.
But try to make a play. Symmetry's off. Imposition. Noted for him.
Explode. Not shying away from danger either. He needs to come his way.
The Rebolly puts it on the pressure. It's going to have to put forward.
How is he still here? They've got to know!
Burning alive, Kisarato barely wins that fight!
So 5v4 for Furia, what do they want to do with it?
Still containing aggression, but looking...
...at both being long...
...and further gambling, AWP on the wrong side.
Furia's selling it further before they go back to this B site.
Jukes and Krabani, with a lot to do.
Uh oh.
Long push, but too late.
He's almost furious, not to move.
They're going to hit their site.
Miss him entirely.
Oh, good.
Open up for Krebbeni.
Now telling Jugs to ready himself,
because this hit's coming.
Cover there from Jugs out of the car.
But now he's knowing about discovery and miscondition.
And two players ready to trade.
And second man, not even a requirement.
Deema moves in, tunnel side.
Molodoi ready for it.
And Furia showing no signs of crumbling early on, they're in full control of this.
And Molozoi wants another final.
Wants another trophy.
Cologne fell short, Furia gave us nothing.
Against the Falcons.
And with two of the heavy hitters eliminated.
end of the bracket. It'd be very reassuring to see Fury pull through in stellar form.
That's a really good point because yeah you can look at Fury and say oh they got lucky in the draw
but hey even when we saw Falcons against Legacy, Vitality in a favored fight against Spirit sure
less of an underdog definitely. Well these favorites didn't deliver. Fury right now are.
So one thing to be expected, it's another to do it, and Furia are doing it right now.
Already getting a bit of a similar feeling to what we had on Nuke, right where you're
seeing these big holes open up on the map.
The B site has not been able to withstand these hits out of Furia, that is a massive
problem on Dust2.
It is a constant source of worry for CTs ending rounds in these B site retakes.
You need favorable rules, you need the openers, you need bad advantages, and even then these B site retakes never feel safe.
And foot aren't getting that right now. They're not being given any respect. In fact, Fury or Akina show them the door, show them the ropes as to how a Dust 2 game can play when your opponent is dialed in.
That is four B hits in a row for Furia all connecting in these six rounds.
ASA rejected very clear and even though you have arguably the two strongest players
on foot or two of the strongest players in Juke's and Krabeni, not able to stem the
bleeding on this B site.
It's only a matter of time until this kind of causes a bit of a ripple effect, right?
Your guys on the other side of the map, aren't really getting to play the game.
They're not really getting to find their timings. They're not finding any comfort in their fights.
They're sitting back. They're waiting. They're saving. They're never getting to attempt these rounds.
So there's a bit of a calling off period occurring for the rest of the gang.
That starts two for you.
On top of that, you know, eventually you're gonna make the call to lean more resources over and that is where an
experienced leader like a fool and is going to use it against you he waits till
you weaken the other half of the map and then he's gonna look for that killing
blow out on a scenario into the mind games and that's where fallen is very
very comfortable we see in the time out in a bike slide we see a kinder and
fallen back and forth in chatting this one over so to mine superior put this
one the rest again another aggressive be hit open at this time prefer and it
might not be enough.
Gotta break that.
Fury can't cross.
And they won't.
No punish here.
Foot throwing everything they can, but Fury just relaxed.
Gonna scramble.
Gonna try this one, playing through the smokes.
Great double.
Four Krubeni, Demon and X-Block.
Flood on in and Foot has solved the problem with numbers.
Excellent. They throw bodies at the problem and it's enough.
Yeah, thank goodness.
They actually managed to stop there.
If that gets into a full squad, Fiora are again looking at a lock-in round and foot-saving, but they don't let them cross.
Keep naving that smoke open, keep putting mollies down.
And even though Fiora remolly window, you feel like maybe foot-on had a go as a result, they just want the door.
Three players come through with a high flash, and first stop them with dead in their tracks.
You need to see more life out of foot on this CT side.
And you can sort of the X-Floud putting on quite the tournament, six highest rated player
has been silent in this third map after a great series and does come down to position
as you say.
He's back here on the Esurato, he's done with this game.
You're not even able to do your full rollout, you know, you're not taking all the precautions.
You're not throwing the flashes in the mid.
You're even ahead of the CT smoke, right, and you just feel so comfortable in every one
of these fights.
You've got foot really bogged down in the pressure, bogged down in the minutiae of
a Dust2 game, worried about all these extra bells and whistles that just aren't arriving.
They think it's going to be more telegraphed, they think there's going to be more time.
The Furia are not respecting you right now.
And they're even going to start to kill Hunting.
They want these losses to hurt.
They want them to do maximum damage.
That's the AWP removed.
This is how you set yourself up for success throughout the half and Furia do so brilliantly.
Hunt with four, four players get out and nothing survives for this foot CT size.
You can even look at this game and say, oh, but they're choking there, you know, they're crumbling under the pressure
That's not what this has been not in the slightest
Buriage is absolutely pushing the boat out on these p-heads different paces full charge off of spawn
K-Storato breaking timings
They've just got them in the ring right now and they are getting knocked up against the ropes
You call this street boxing earlier, but Furia still haven't put that back down from you.
And one more round here, we'll just crush the three chem for the final round of the
the half set, Fury, you're up for a 9-3-T side on an already recently weak map for
foot. The Fury had changed the game now.
Do they go back to what has worked? There's so many rounds. I mean this is where the
problem we were kind of talking about earlier comes the fruition for
foot. These guys on A have not had a fight in a long long time, they've not
They've not had to deal with the Fury or Util.
They've not had to deal with the Fury or Timings and how they like to play.
Finally.
They're finally going to have a chance here to show what the A side of the map is made of.
But it has to find success. It has to withstand this hit.
If it doesn't, nothing feels safe.
No round feels safe for first.
Smart Piper Symmetry not to reap me.
Leasing to his rifle instead.
Waldoi holds the line and the bomb.
He might be a dead man walking.
Wait a second.
Not a 3v5.
Not again.
God, if Symmetry has anything to say in this site,
Molledoy too late to help, Symmetry gets one more shot.
And how do you cross?
A shot from down to Symmetry makes it so.
That is a young player showing great brains.
It's every shot required.
We're finding out some fights on this A site.
I'm looking to stack out of the gates here.
Well, you tell yourselves now, Fury are just going to go back to what was working, right?
They're going to go back to that B here.
I think that is the problem with this type of a storyline.
The whole game is leaning against you.
The area are the ones still controlling this game.
They decide where the rounds end up.
It's a sure the simplest solution. Might just be to go back to B.
It's the area who gets to decide that.
And with an opener from Molodoy, the round really opens up.
They could do anything.
Their favorite regardless. 5v4, mid conceded.
Xplow coming back in to try and clear this.
It's going in a hostile territory.
You have no clear picture where this round is ending.
Flash around the corner, thankfully K-Cirile actually cops it,
and so Xplow doesn't get punished.
It's not so annoying.
You want it to reconvene in 40 seconds, you have to change the tune on the fly up, cat instead, into the captive.
Oh, and an exact jury plays out first.
Double entry, double set of openings falling with the next and a clean sweep in the final round of the half.
Nothing shy of a Petra ball from Furia.
Couple of scumbles in there, right?
This big cemetery round, one round into a B-stack,
but other than that, this is a damn near perfect T-side
leveled against the foot squad.
What a game out of Furia.
I think it all started in round three with the fallen luck
shots.
Goes on to build a massive streak of six rounds in a row,
four of which on that B-side.
and Furia ended in style, 8-4 offensive half here on Dust2.
And X-Wild, he had his chances of being multiple of them.
It's been a great series and even better tournament for him, a 2-9, a halftime.
The bottom is falling out here for Fertz.
and a fist around and bite them back into this game.
Impression right off the rip out of your kinder and Molledoy.
I never wanted for it.
Replayers convene out towards the catwalk.
Molledoy still a threat down here in the lower tunnels.
That dink at least gets him away.
Gives you a bit of room to work with.
you a bit of room to work with going in for the big daddy of
Brazilian counter strike fallen stealing himself away waiting for
the moment to strike can't find a thing for Betty gets one minute
it's going to give a bomb plant over you feel like you need this
pistol round if you want a second chance if you want a new
lease on life it could be better set for it.
Oh, careful.
Next file backs up. Doesn't want luck to be the deciding outcome.
Furia renegotiating with spawn, two players coming up.
Keisarato still needs value from his long position to keep pressure on.
Well, his team cannot scale, flashes land in their face,
but wait in the site where they hit their shots when they're caught upon.
3 on 1, the shut down here by a third. This game is back on.
That's a spike and keep this double off and man, it's not real.
Get that guys, every reason before it's a crumple, they do not.
You just got to grab hold of this now, right, this kind of second chance that you've afforded
yourself and you cannot let go. One slip-up, one mistake, and this game can fall out from
under you. Infection being demanded afoot. A young squad, a young roster, and they dig
deep. They want to make the finals tomorrow.
Vio5, they've already won one this year. That was in the studio.
These are different stakes.
Different level of pressure versus
One of Counter-Strike's most experienced players today.
Or one has more maps than all of these players online combined.
This is their fifth arena game.
Right now they look to bring it back in the second half.
winnings for this entire team. Were they able to lift the trophy but even then
you know I think you sometimes see these plucky runs from new squads from
underdogs. They don't make a final but then leave a bit of an impression in the
playoffs and show it makes you think there's potential there but you get to
a final at an event like EWC and it kind of becomes undeniable. People have
You have to start prepping for you. You have to start taking you very, very seriously.
The whole world sits up and notices...
Long ago, this was an academy squad.
Now looking to go blow-for-blow with the biggest names in Counter-Strike.
We've noted them on this cover, right? We've offered them the chance to be a playoff-run team.
They've always fallen just short, just shy.
One Pro League Finals in the top four but for the most part dodging those playoff spots, losing those final qualifying games.
Now to say it, just a few rounds away from a B05 Final.
It's a very different position here for have finally put themselves within reach of glory.
We're just awaiting the furious gun round.
This one is clean. Easy. It was always gonna be.
How comes the test?
Hey.
Good job.
Mollito AWP online in the first rifle round of this CT side.
He was hoping to put it to work right away.
That Molli denies his peek out from the catwalk.
How long?
That's the question.
What a cool man.
I'm really just going to try and do it straight back to Furia with these mid-to-bees
all throughout that early string around.
They come, UTL in, but hit the go button,
Yikindar hoping to play through,
hoping to cause chaos in the back line.
That is massive damage out of Yikindar.
Still keeping the pressure on,
softening them up for Kcerato.
They go into his house now,
but he only gets that with one of them.
Two low players, bomb planted,
but ready themselves as this retake looms.
Tono is a massive reposition here for Moloadoy.
He's got players available to him.
They've used all their util in defense.
Fallen keeps a pressure on, buys room for Molodoy,
who must make a move, but the kill comes to him.
Fallen, our window, finished off on this B site.
Furia pick up a retake on the hardest site in the game.
That's just what a sinking feeling, right?
That's a stark reminder of just how tricky they found that
throughout the entire first half, right?
unable to make those B retakes happen outside of the one round where they had a full stack there ready to go.
My junior year get it done at the first time of asking, B is closed. You're not going to get in for free.
These post plants are not a guarantee to a round win. They're going to make you work for it.
I do love the course still for further. The fact they have the goal to just walk down into the mid-smoke
knowing your kid is late on rotation in that first gun round. It's not going to start middle with a right fall.
They're still hard, some tricks left.
They're just running out of room, this is too close to cool.
They have money in case things go wrong, off the back of their clean anti-ecos, that
is the reward.
Two 5 alive rounds, keep them stable here, even into the next.
I never got this mid fight in my today.
Ooh, for full wall bang.
I only want more.
That's good info for Mordor, knowing he hit a tag.
Sees the blood on the wall.
They're still early in their default, but with full players on cat, that temptation to execute.
Right there.
Looks like they're going to just grab it and always move back over on a perfect timing.
Orp gets his self-online in time and Molledoy just gets the pick players out of the round on this cross.
Orp now sticks up for the defense and another keen double kill from Fulvin on the hold.
Q's left in the 1v3 and with layers of defense making their presence known out towards Long,
it was always going to be an uphill battle.
And you get to hit that entire time you're burned out.
Didn't get a kill, didn't show his hand,
like all of Moldova do the work.
And I've got to say, Moldova, what a great time
to hit some banging shots.
Never really know what you're going to get
from this young AWP presence, but today he's showing up.
And we're hitting crunch time now for foot, right?
They gave themselves a second chance,
winning that pistol to start this half,
but this is the round that decides it all.
You know, the taller the mountain,
the taller to the challenge you have to overcome or the more impressive the climb if you're able to get there
This is an in form of fury
Your kinder flashed into middle
Found in a 5v4 pressure looking for that trade will case the rato gets the exact move
He was hoping for they thought he got out of there. He smoked you left
So case a rato little surprise in lower tunnels
Demons still hit a bit of a gap, but it looks like Molodoy is not letting his eyes off this position.
Smoke comes down, shuts the door on this round, a dink for Fallen who continues to impress.
Demons walk through, Molodoy's gonna miss it!
Timing goes astray, Demons forces him back from a 3v5.
Demons handed you one hell of a chance.
You're going to realize this opportunity. Symmetry doesn't want it to be in vain.
Bomb now planted.
This Ratsuin Yuri, it's the fangs of Yuria.
The OG duo at the very heart of this squab, they're going to ride it off.
They want no part to play in this retake.
That double from Demon, that kill from Symmetry out towards Long, that's enough to win
it.
It was all going so well there.
B3, ball and what damage on all my jukes, but Molodoy goes to help him out as he gives up the line.
They weren't even close to falling.
Molodoy looks away from the smoke and it costs Furia the round.
The most possible scenario here.
As Furia had all the plays to break foot into.
They are still here.
Whoa, ha ha ha!
Extremely tense down the stretch, fury at another time-out.
I can't believe it's the first one used, I mean everything went to plan on that T side.
They go around here as soon as they go on it here in the second half.
Up until now, everything felt like it was going according to plan.
You could stomach the pistol, you could stomach the conversions.
What you can't stomach is a 3v5 turnaround from Furt.
Right as crunch time hits.
hits. If Furia were to lose this game you just think they had them where they
wanted them 10-7 in a 5v3 as the favorite team with the experience. Now
their money is susceptible. You know there's layers to winning right? Sometimes
your opponent doesn't show up, sometimes you're having a really good day,
sometimes it's a mixture of the two but right now this as we've seen
throughout the entire series it's an informed Furia. It's foot having to
rise to the occasion. And that's the unknown quantity.
We can. Turn the cap.
But if they are able to get there, it makes this win all the more impressive.
I'm ready for that.
Open up for Krebbeni, trying to play with this great timing.
Cemetery's got the cover.
Off with your hand.
With the A-side faltering, with all this control lost, there is nothing left to play for in this round.
We are down to a one-round game.
Individuals have come through in the steep side of the foot, that's for sure right?
We've seen some 3v5s out of them in the pistol in the last round as well
But what a couple of calls for Ben, he's given us the walk through the smoke on the mid to be yes
It doesn't work, but it put them in a good position and this one as well straight up catwalk
Weep the killing blow, foot go to finish the job
Yuri's gonna save something
This is that one round game that you mentioned
That refused a joke.
Stay gasp for air.
Trying to well this comeback.
So here we go Furia, what have you got?
This has not been the team shy of making plays in this series.
playing as the same for playing to win
They've left the open.
Look at that.
Ho ho!
Can't dodge that though!
You're in 4-11!
I had a horrible time here on Dust2, but a chance!
Get on that smoke push, X-Cloud! Never took his eyes off it!
Return to sender.
You should hunt these guns.
And we are watching in real time...
Foot level up.
At the tail end of a semi-final.
Just had every reason to crumble in this third map.
They've lost five out of the last six games on Dust2, but here at EWC everything is changing
for foots.
They know the value that just one kill offers here.
I think it's really interesting to see on the cameras but are always a team that is super
high energy they celebrate a hell of a lot they celebrate for every inch of ground they
getting a game, but we are not seeing that right now. You need to have a steely mentality,
a laser focus, these final few rounds as you close in on the opportunity of a lifetime,
it's all about keeping those nerves in check. Not letting the occasion sweep you away is
I'm sure you've tied this game up, but the job is not done yet.
Far from it.
Many teams have come close.
Finishing the job is a whole different beast.
The buy comes in.
They were looking for it there. They wanted that kick off the orb.
Furia, I don't know that that one smoke in the B tunnels has saved their life.
Some footmuffs look elsewhere.
Resmoke on B.
No more available.
Here it cannot stop or block a play on this B site.
Serato holds the final molotov, Fulham makes a play on long.
Clear out.
The picture's building.
Here it might have an idea of what's coming, but can they stop it?
two fangs must sink deep into foots.
Here's the push.
Yuri, big chunk of damage.
Keisarato, here's time to shine now.
Lashiro!
Not in from all sides!
Keisarato doesn't crumble!
One more man will be too much to handle.
Even holding for re-aggression could get caught with Utah pulled,
but doesn't think second off, it just drops those in.
Trying to buy a few more seconds for them to make the noise on the backstab.
They push out through the doors, they go into this crossfire, miss shot from Molledoy.
15 seconds time running real low, you gotta plug this bomb in.
They bait the peak, Demon gets him!
And Futter moving into the lead!
This is shocking!
The first half dominated by Furia.
The only team to be fully competitive on all three maps!
maps and foot coming alive, foot leveling up.
Victory feels like it is right there and off for the taking.
Unbelievable round out of Furia trying everything they can to stop that bomb from going down.
The fall and fate crash up, you're kind of through the smoke.
Molotoy gets a length shot with the AWP.
None of that is enough! All in for Furia!
I wonder how this series started. High gain, 11-all on ancient Furia Force.
Wrist it all on that bye. For this time they're around behind. The Force comes
from desperation. This is their cross. They're desperate clutching at the straws to try and
save themselves in the semi. They cannot blind. Seamcrawl is crossing there out towards the
car. Polly pulls at his feet and there's no smoke to get rid of that so that's a free
kill, a free entry. Not done yet. Mordeaux is in the site. Gary here with him. You
We need Molledoy now more than ever.
This was the guy that really caused the uptake for Furia.
Need him to deliver because he's your only hope, 1v2.
Does Molledoy have it in him?
Round the corner, first shot, lands,
and everyone in the arena is crossing their fingers,
but he can't do it!
But on a 12, they've got two chances to close!
Grand finals are right there for the taking.
An 8-4 lead.
Two 5v3s.
What more could Furia need?
They said that this side of the bracket was open for business, open for the taking,
or the favourites fell in the other half and Furia might join them.
Once again, another year running, EWC might welcome an underdog into those grand finals.
Can Foot seize that opportunity?
A broken-by, brittle for Furia, no orb on Molodoy.
And they must make it work.
What a step up from Foot in this dirt map.
You've just been running on pure adrenaline.
Your heart is racing,
because the thing that you've dreamed of is around a way.
And that surge off the shot.
What does it tell you something is that b-site weakened?
Kcerato, it's been the one delivering on this side of the map.
Yuri's had a stinker.
Time of the time, Kcerato's doubles have not been enough to hold the b-site.
Doesn't it just feel poetic to see Butte finish on that side of the map?
It's where Furia bullied them all T-side long.
He's got to be tempting.
All of this come back what X
Cloud still said to bottom of
the board. He has been the
front runner for foot throughout
this Paris performance. But here
in the semifinal, his team step
up around him. The new boy on
this squad showing what it's
like to be a part of the team
and as this push comes in,
sure you have a flank, but if
head, they dodged it entirely.
Here's that Utah, and that at least gives Fallon the tell.
This back stab, it has to do everything.
Anything short of a multi-kill here wouldn't be enough.
Fallon the two, Moledoy fighting back alongside him.
And is this the massive sigh of relief that Fury
We're looking for 5v2 and 5v1, Grabeni in a box,
Iced out in the spawn.
Furia still have fight left in them.
They're not about to roll over and die.
This one is going the distance.
Enough to enough, St. Furia.
They were making plays all series long.
They were not afraid of getting aggressive.
To make that push happen, with tournament point
against you, you're lifeline about to go.
And if you're gonna make the risky move, it pays off.
Feels like there's only 70 times we can say this, but now this is the ultimate test for both of us.
Because up until now, you've been riding one hell of a high.
This is a setback.
And is this the knock before the fall?
Or do they once again shock the world and rise to the occasion?
Just looking at the spawn here, it's gotta be so tempting.
Symmetry of the orb has the best B spawn.
Don't you just wanna put that in position?
Don't you want to scope up and hope Furia make a mistake?
It's got to be tempting.
Foot's time out elapsed.
You won't take it.
But look further afield.
The pressure smoke forces a lot of util out early in this round.
Fury, I just have to dump what they've got in this deep bomb site for fear of losing it instantly.
Look at what it's done to the mini-map. Draw on three players to the wrong position.
Mordor has not had an orb to defend from an A-play.
Fury are understandably shaky on the most punishing side of the map.
But the boat's not going out long.
Some moves being made here.
Keep it up. Gives you an opening.
Long control taken. Furt a man down, but they are moving very, very quickly.
Eyes set on this A-play.
And no matter how fast Fury a move, they will struggle to disrupt this.
I was making a cross. Kacerar with a gap on this smoke.
Reinforcements now arriving forward, softening them up.
them up. Players start to disintegrate, left and right for foot and the gap without smoke
only makes matters worse. Flash on through as Furia come knocking looking for extra time.
And this was always the looming danger that ever-present threat. If there's one thing
the Brazilians say about Furia it's that they don't give up.
Not without some overtime.
They had their chance. They had their opportunity.
Well now they have to do it again and again.
Purity of the deep money relieving here in OT.
Paul is always going to get his off.
Team of free space.
I've been afraid of here with a promise of four rounds to play.
And so Foot can get aggressive, but that goes both ways.
Molodoy pushes in.
Thank you to watch out for here, though.
This is where that adrenaline that's kind of been fueling you up until now.
This is where that turns to nerves, right?
You're going to be shaky.
You're going to be twitchy.
And these are feelings that Foot are having to contest with
for the very first time in these circumstances.
Molodoy down towards lower tunnels.
This is a guy who's been no stranger to the pressures of these stage games.
Looked like he was someone that would throw them off right here.
I remember his debut event, had some good runs in playoffs,
but it was a majors for this guy without pressures, consistently got into it.
He knows how foot are feeling.
No!
Spammed out at the start of this round.
It's an advantage for Foot.
Had the dawn of OT.
Do they play with him there?
Everybody jiggling, no one committing.
All the way, barely, barely dies.
Flight does come through. They know where Foot are going.
It's a fantastic couple of grenades.
Touchdown on the face of Fook and the backstab is in as well.
Fallen still putting up performances but that bomb has made it in.
A brief moment of silence and a double kill out towards Short.
You thought they were going to try and lend you kind of some time.
They've left him in it all alone.
He's got support. Demon holds from the cross.
Demon swings.
Now the info something to play with.
Demon backs his aim on a wide swing out through the catwalk.
And the first in OT firmly belongs to Furt.
One thing to do it. It's another thing to do it after Furi
come back and force overtime with two rounds against them.
them. That was just a Yukon short. You're a fucking obliterated. Drag them through that
First round of OT.
One OT timeout granted.
Her team used by Coolio.
I mean he's been with the core of these guys since their first steps into the server.
You would have, would you?
Are they really going to run it back with a B here?
Is that all they've come down to on the back of that pause?
With a disrespect as they completely changed the pace on this one.
K-sur-O flashed in.
We're only good for a one-for-one on that peak.
Leaves it down to a retake. We've seen how hard these have been all across us, too.
And what skill are you able to pull these off earlier on?
They have another B-side retake in them.
You're still getting locked down. That buys you precious time per foot.
Seeing them not look for the most down-to-post glance.
This is a team that like to scrap, like to brawl.
And it's not hard to see why.
save calls for Moledoy because you've got to start thinking about your money
Furia if you want an orb going forward it has to survive now Moledoy heads for
the hills footward two in overtime can they make this a clean sweep
This young team decided to go down fighting. Unreal call off the pause.
The first full B rush of the game and they do not stop, they do not slow down. Send it into this
site and I bet Furia wish they started their overtime on the T side. It was going so well
back in regulation, but they're powered up. They look for this clean hop.
Keisaratu taking it all and taking a spawn. We've got double up here for Furia.
Alto is going to try and keep the flights coming. Flank connects! And off with your head again!
Considering all the effort that went into saving that AWP, that is not how much I imagine
this last round on the CT side with Pan out.
You're still ready for Quesarato though, because you can still hit shots in this position.
Foot need to throw their cross smokes in, they might be lax a days ago, but they
killed Bjorn, but there's another head to this beast.
Quesarato has been the guy for Fury yet across this tournament.
Will his secondary awp be enough?
Can he be the difference maker?
They're demanding a hell of a lot of their stuff.
And Furt don't respect it.
They run right through.
And Flawless half is right in front of them.
4v2 left to find.
You can't shut down.
And Yuri's been quiet across this entire third map.
Right now not feeling like the man for the job.
Two players waiting.
They know he's under the pressure.
that they wait for him to come swinging.
It's all in vain.
But keep giving themselves more and more chances
at those finals.
Fury of Agnes, 8-4 lead, 5-3 in the pistol,
10-7 lead, 5-3 in the gun round.
They would have broken the foot,
but the foot had broken through.
An incredible comeback
for a team that has barely seen the stage.
and a clean sweep in overtime.
But, sharpen their guillotine here in Paris.
And look at the capitate curio with a brawler streak.
But is it ever that easy?
They're leaving it all to this long take.
The Banny with an entry.
No trade found!
This is one of the rawest, one of the realest,
one of the wildest underdog stories that we've had in a very long time
and it's been legit besting mouths.
and now looking to get one over on an inner form of Furia who were favorites to
make that final tomorrow.
A cord that believed in each other from their humble beginnings in their
Academy roster. A shocking change the addition of X-FLOW who has been in
fantastic form across the tournament, slotting in like it was meant to be.
And now just three kills away from the dream of a final tomorrow.
I'm not really going to find the first.
But look at those rotates, but not second guessing themselves here.
They know the tricks.
They've seen this from Furia.
They know where this is ending.
This is the final push.
Outcome Furia into the crossfires.
Molodoy is doing everything he humanly can to keep them in this.
One back from Yuri.
That's what falls now under the shoulders of Demon.
Gonna wait for this on his shoulders.
First in, last out, Yuri gets rid of him.
More rounds required.
And how is that the round that Furia fight?
How is that the round that keeps them on this stage for another at least?
A straight up 3v5 with all positions known.
And one by one they isolate, but in that B bomb site, they are not done with them yet.
An ugly, ugly ending to that one.
First they'll have two chances.
Again, we saw what happened when they took the stumble in regulation, right?
That one round came through for Furia, then a blanket of them.
I'm very scared here.
They're going to get dealt another one of these B-plays by the looks of things,
and this was the way in for Furia in that first half.
That's where I've got legged on the cross.
This is a weakened B-site.
Furia pounce.
Two through the first.
X-Cloud trading on his contact.
It's a nice set of openers for it's fallen in coach trying to turn the tide and again it ends even 2v2.
And they've got fallen out here in middle.
And then I just have to deal with him before they begin this retake.
He's in behind enemy lines, they find the veteran.
Now it's on to Molodoy. 1v2.
And he's feeling pressure to try and thin the herd.
He's feeling pressure to try and turn this into a 1v1 so it all becomes a game of tidings, a game of chance.
and they beat him to the punch out the door.
Kimono do it, really do it, no!
He is gone!
And then the second time of answer, asking,
Demon provides that clutch.
Foot stunned the world.
They beat Bacchuria.
They battle their way to a grand final.
And up against overwhelming odds the entire time,
We watch as this young team, youngest at the tournament, level up in real time to get to a final.
So many times in this start-back you were ready to write them off, and you thought this would be a furia finish.
Another final from the team that just made it all the way in Cologne, but cut down at the end of Dust 2 by the young, parky underdogs.
their first grand final in an arena tomorrow a best of five to prove themselves and what an
unbelievable show of resilience from this squad. Foot are here, foot are legit, foot forge their way
to this final. And that's what Counter-Strike is all about right there. Not five household names,
not the big men that you've come to expect but it's foot battling through showing grit
and determination.
Oh, wow, wow, wow, what a game here at the STC Arena.
Foot takedown to one, Furia, X-Cloud, Zaffari Shintepriklia.
Congratulations for this insane win.
I imagine you must feel incredible.
There was bloodshed.
You guys came back on this too.
Then over time, what are you the most proud of on this game?
I don't know.
I'm still shaking because that was a close game.
I think first leg was smooth,
but second and third was very hard for us
to close the game, but we have good tip. I don't know, like last week I was fully off, but my team is just doing so good, the money is so good.
It doesn't matter the kills, etc. I want to get the win.
First question, how do you feel after this victory, a believe, pass to Furia?
I'm still in trouble, I have a little bit of a headache.
To settle my emotions, we would have been able to conclude a little earlier.
This 2-2, I didn't play too well on the last map, but my teammates, Mon, Kari,
and I wanted to ask you because your ideal told me last time that this is your first big stage
on stage together. Yet you're playing against one of the most legendary names of CS in front
of 7000 people. So how does that feel? How do you guys beat the pressure?
I think we are not beating the pressure, we are just accepting it's the pressure and
we are just trying to enjoy it. There are some times we are struggling but still we enjoy
it. It's so good.
I mean you guys are bringing up the good vibes on stage and we can see that for
sure. Second question, how did you get to beat pressure like that in front of
7000 people in front of one of the most legendary CS Furia names.
Frankly, we don't have that pressure.
We accept it, we know it's part of the game.
And we even learn from appreciation.
Everyone MVP in this team, I like that teamwork, of course.
This is a question that has been asked to everyone.
Each of my teammates managed to step up when it was the time when I was too proud.
Now we can talk about what's next.
You are in the grand final.
That means you're going to face either legacy or spirit.
So I want you to do our job, analysis, desk jobs and stuff.
Who do you think you're going to be facing next?
I don't know who's going to be going to face, but I know we're going to win the final.
Oh, so we have beautiful confidence from you.
What is that?
Yes, I want to say you three explode, you three in legend.
You three explode, you three in legend, ladies and gentlemen.
We can applaud you, explode.
And if you're a legend, then it's time to prove it.
Let's go to the key crusher together.
Should I say Elal Hadi?
Hadi, let's go.
Let's go under Turkish banner for explode.
is eliminating Furia out of the EWC here at the STC Arena.
The young roster makes it to the grand finals.
That's pretty good.
Again?
That's pretty good.
That key crashed.
I mean, right now we didn't lose a single game, so we are just breaking them, but yeah.
We get used to it.
used to breaking the keys. I'm going to welcome you in front of your fans. Of course,
X-Flight, I want to tell you I'm sure that you make many French fans also today. So many
people chanting for you from Turkey, from everywhere. What do you want?
What do you want to tell your fans? Whether it's in Turkish or English, go for it.
They are so insane. They are so insane. We didn't expect that much fan base but right now the support they are getting is insane here.
Yes, you guys have the fan base and you're gonna get even more. Thank you so much.
Rapportage, thank you and once again congratulations to X-Cloud and Fuddy Sports.
Congratulations to Foot. We will see you in the A-core arena tomorrow and our
condolences to Furio. We've got camp and debris to break down all the action
that we just witnessed in overtime game three. You can't ask for a better
semi-final finish than that unless you're a Furio fan. Pimp, walk me through
some of the big plays. Yeah, what a way to finish that for Foot, you know.
So, pulling it off in overtime, I thought with Furia we were able to fight the way back
from being down 12 to 10 Peter, I thought to myself, okay, back to square one, back to
where the experience kind of went out, but I got a tip I had to foot, they kept the
head in check, so to speak, they kept calm, they kept composed, and what a performance
from such a young squad, booking a squad inside the grand final at a tournament where
all the favorites seem to fall like tonight.
I really feel like for Benidus, he's going to have a shot on you because that comeback
on those two, on that season, that was very phenomenal.
Even if in the rounds where he would not be the main character, Craddell is based, he just created such openings for his teams where then the teammates would go out and finish missions and, I mean, also a demon.
He had a phenomenal 3v5 conversion where he went through this world on short to bring it back.
And I don't think, if it would have been for that specific round, I honestly think that fear would have run away with this one.
So, all in all, this is a very big, big, big, big victory.
I was going to ask, when this is compared to some of the other major upsets, I remember
Mongols winning at EWC wasn't as expected.
How crazy would it be to the CS world if foot goes on to win this whole thing?
Well, that would be an even bigger upset than the Mongols.
To be completely honest, the Mongols, when they won EWC was a big surprise, sure, but
they were somewhat competitive at the highest level, where as for foot, I think a lot
of people after the break and after changing their roster, they maybe had them as
a team who would be top 10, top 12, top 15 for them to go in straight away and
book a spot in a grand final and potentially win a trophy that would be
groundbreaking and would set the world on fire a little bit there, say that. I think
that would be one of the biggest surprises I've come across in the last
couple years. You heard from the commentators this was a $200,000
difference between fourth and second place. Congratulations to the young
foot players who are now guaranteed at least that much. They're in the
running for the greatest share of the two million dollars before we get more
into the depths of what went down in this game. Let's hear from your kinder
from Furia backstage. Very tough game all the way into the very end here for Furia
who's least trophy run will end here still the third place to start tomorrow.
Your kinder just talking about first of all this ancient in there where
you were able to push them it was a lot of back and forth in these
rounds also you're the one now calling for it so just talk me through
I feel like I fucked up a little bit with the first goal I made, which was a fast A-split.
I believe they did 1-3-1 on the city side, and they kind of baited us into going out there.
The thing is, this for us was a test because we only have ancient in the pool since this break,
and we were taking it step by step, playing against a team who doesn't play,
to play playing against a team who is not necessarily good on it and this was the final test of playing against a team
Who's actually good on ancient and we gave our best, but it was not meant to be today and it's okay
We're gonna work on it and see you tomorrow
The comeback on Nuke though right was like domination from start to finish a bit like the fury
We know and love and I would say same kind of for how it went on dust suit
But it gets to about 10-7 you're on CT side. You start to get low on economy
You end up trying to save and force into it.
What is it so difficult to just manage foot and how they're playing
and how surprising they can be as to why they're able to come back into this?
I feel like there was many winnable endgame situations for us on CT side
that we just didn't capitalise on and that's the pressure,
not necessarily the pressure but like the feeling of,
ah, if I have to help or something like this, it just keeps on going.
I feel like we lost two 3V2s on post plans.
lost a 4v2 and it's a tough day in the office but at the same time it's like
we play CS for every day of the year and we can we can be rewatching this
fixing the things and moving forward. Looking at that right it's a tough day in the
office today but you got to play the third place decided tomorrow how do you
reset and make sure you come back in to deliver and take that third place
tomorrow? Third place game doesn't matter in my
Honestly though, it's just like whatever, who cares who is the third place or who's the fourth place?
I don't know, we're going to re-watch the game, trying to do our best tomorrow, but same like I believe in the real,
you can't really turn the players into 100% when it's just the third place this year.
I like the honesty with that as well, very much agree with you, you can end up, thank you very much for your time and thoughts.
That's not it fully for Furio here that we plan up top so tomorrow, but the trophy is all you have one aim for
You heard from you kinder he is frustrated with the finish
But the man down here is elated to be going into the Acre arena
Can I first get your thought jubes welcome to the studio as soon as you locked in that 16th round?
What went through your head?
I don't know. I'm just I know it's actually but I'm super happy that we won this game
I had a pretty bad series, but I'm really happy that my team stepped up, they carried me today, and I'm really happy.
Jux, we spoke to you at the Major, you know, where it wasn't necessarily as big of a success as it is right now.
What has happened since the Major up until now that makes you guys play so, so well outside of the Olympics that X-Flight is coming in and helping you out?
I think overall we just improved, like we played many official matches, we played a lot of practice.
Yeah, we were just improving and that's how it is.
To be honest with me right here, how big of a surprise is it to you internally within the team?
Obviously you always believe you can win and you always believe you can go deep into a tournament,
but a week ago would you ever imagine that you're now standing in the Grand Final?
No way, no way. I was thinking that to go into the playoffs would be a good result
and yeah that's where in the Grand Final it's something crazy.
I want to turn my attention to Nuke that was played in this series a little
where you didn't really make it count and Nuke has been really rough for you guys.
Can you just like try and explain why Nuke has been such a hard map for you guys?
I think we just don't understand the map really good right now.
I think we just need to work on it, we need to grind it and in the future I think it can be
a good map for us but for now it's we just need to gain experience from this and yeah.
James I got a good question, sorry you can ask for...
Well I was just thinking because you know you won early in the year you won Puparest
And that was a tournament that wasn't a stack to this one and now you've made it to the grand final in a very stacked term
And which one's those better right now?
Definitely this one.
Also this crowd is really good. I really like it playing in front of the crowd and yeah, this was the fullest
We have seen the arena it was a delight to watch, but I want to roll you through another delight
Here's some of the highlights from your captain. Can you tell me what is it like playing with preventing and what does he bring?
To the table for you guys
He's a really confident guy. I really like how he's playing. He's really, he's never scared of taking doors
He's never scared of contacting like he can win around the loan. He can do just five headshots
Really nice play. Speaking of players that is nice to play with we spoke to X-File yesterday
He's off to a great start with you guys from your point of view as well. What does he bring to the table?
What is it like playing with X-File now? He's really talkative. He's a really good guy
he brings also some experience from his previous teams. I think it's just overall like a really good
player, really like how do you say like he's really good in every aspect I think. I'm a little
surprised by how well he's playing. Are you surprised as well that he's that good? Yeah that good. I'm
surprised also like he's footing really good. I don't know like he's really good. How about
tomorrow you have a massive grand final coming up and we're still waiting for your opponent
It looks gonna be legacy or it's gonna be spirit you want spirit just you know
It's like someone how could you guys or what do you watch your thoughts about yeah?
I think spirits will be and I want to play against spirit because we never play against them
And I think if you would win the last time against them, that's a few more deserve that would say then winning against legacy
If we get to a round deciding moment, it is a 1v1. Who do you trust most on your team for the clutch?
Symmetry. Okay, nice. Why is that? Why him? I think he's just really good in clutches. It's
pretty calm, I don't know. Or myself. Yeah, that's what we were hoping to point to. Let's take a
look though at Symmetry because he had a massive impact on Dust225 in 15 and ADR of 73. Eight
multi-kills though is what we took note of. What is it like playing with this guy? He's
He's really good, I think he's just sometimes inconsistent, but if he can get his consistency
up, I think he can be really good, really good.
I'm kind of curious because these wins where you play in front of so many people that's
a lot of pressure and it's a very stacked tournament, do you also feel like this is
going to be a win that is very important to you guys as a team too?
Finally, you'd be like a super good opponent in such a big environment, do you think
that's also what's going to inspire you and make you an even better team in
the future?
sure like we never played in a big crowd and this was this was the first time and
yeah we're really enjoying it and yeah I'm very so happy that we're gonna play
and that'll be twice as big tomorrow guys it's gonna be amazing get your tickets
for the a-court arena I know it's nearly sold out they just released a new
package today in the meantime I'm told we have a brand new update over from
the Lenovo Legion Gauntlet box what's going on the club championship
Apparently we have decided today some breaking news take it away
Absolute hero ready to be seen 2026 in Paris with a GL and Falcons not getting any points in fortnight
It's down the track mania, but I just heard the legend the world champion back-to-back seven times back-to-back again
What Chris was going on he's gone so many he's done that one of the
team. Obviously I've worked in
eSports for a very, very long
time. No, I'm a real look. That
was one of the maddest things
I've ever seen. So in track
Mania, you have to get a certain
amount of points to then can be
yourself on finalist mode, and
then you're going to win the
race after that to go through.
All four teams are on finalist
mode at one stage. All four
players. We said at the beginning
of the day this was a slippery
slope potentially for Carl
Junior is the goat of track
Mania seven time world champion
all the way down so I'm also words to be honest with you with Howard actually
landed a partner incredible it was a attack who went through pack
for vitality one of the other favorites went through first and then attack did
it was a mistake from Carl Jr. that did it mean the Falcons get zero points here
so the situation now Gwen who plays a GL is already through he needs to finish
third all higher and if he does a GL or your EWC 2026 club championship
Oh my goodness. This is AJL's race to win. Falcons have given themselves a bit of a lead.
We're going to keep you updated if AJL can actually catch up. So stick around and find out who wins a
$7 million EWC Club Championship prize pool. Wow. So Trackmania could be the decider of who's
walking away with $7 million and who's walking away with $5 million. We know it's either going
to be AJL or Falcons on top. Falcons looking for the three people. Let's turn our attention
back the counter strike because we're here enough for our second semi-final and the last Brazilian
hope is in the form of legacy. Pym, talk to me about this. Yeah, another massive surprise at the
tournament to find them in a semi-final here, but play well so far have really been doing the dirty
stuff to some of the favorites as according to the bracket as well you can see nobody expected
them to beat Navi, they did that in a convincing fashion, no one expected them to beat Falcons
and by the way that seems to have consequences for Falcons at the club world championships
as well. 2-0 Peter, they get to lose a map in the playoffs. Why? Well, I think they will today.
Yeah, it's a super legit run. They've pulled off so far. I mean, like, it almost feels like if
they also take down Spirit, then it's like a team like, what can actually then stop them? It's
actually going to be footstopped them. So, they have to be very proud of what they've achieved
so far, but they still have a juggernaut to slay to make it into the grand final.
Team Spirit has a man with all kinds of aura. He goes by the name of Doc. I tried to say
what's up to him behind the scenes. He paywalled me, kept walking. He is so fit on this matchup.
Gentlemen, give me one more hot nugget. Why should I stay tuned to the second semifinal?
It is the one of final three matches here at EWC.
First you get to watch the best player in the world to do get out, you know, against Legacy.
Donk right now is on a tier. He's playing fantastically well throughout this tournament spirit.
Haven't always looked great, but he's always bailing them out.
So if there was one good reason to tune in, it's to watch the best player in the world do what he does best.
And that's playing Counter-Strike.
Locking, ladies and gentlemen, around the world the day is only halfway through.
when we come back it is your second semi-final live from Paris who is gonna make it to the
the A-core arena legacy versus Spirit after this.
Rattlesnake, Rattlesnake!
Rattlesnake, Rattlesnake!
Rattlesnake!
Once here in Paris, I never want to leave.
OK, then I'm going to need to ask you some questions to make sure you're ready to leave
here full-time.
OK, I'm ready.
OK, perfect.
Let's begin.
What side of the road do you drive on?
Whichever side has more room.
Oui.
What are French working hours?
Very limited.
That's very correct.
What's the city's biggest tragedy?
Emily in Paris.
OK, yes.
What is the cost of riding the metro?
Your dignity.
You're very good so far.
It's our most important holiday.
The entire month of August.
Okay.
Last but not least.
Do you like French people?
Of course!
No, wrong answer, please.
Think before you respond.
There's no way.
I need to test your senses starting with your reflexes.
What the f*** was that?
Perfect.
Very good.
Now, what's the loudest sounds that you can hear in the city?
An American bachelorette party.
Dacar, what do you do when you smell something terrible?
Eat it.
That's perfect.
Finally, your eyesight.
What do you see in those three pictures?
Uh, three baguettes.
That is completely wrong.
Are there two baguettes?
No.
Baguette, ficelle, and flutin.
If you miss any other answers, you're gonna fail your exam.
Slut is an instrument.
Okay, look.
The next question is language proficiency.
Please say the next words in French.
Mmm.
Okay, good.
Acceptable?
Ho-ho!
Okay.
And the last word.
Perfect.
Now, sing the national anthem of France.
Frère Jacques!
Frère Jacques!
Dormez-vous!
Dormez-vous!
Dormez-vous!
Dormez-vous!
Door Mavu!
Door Mavu!
You know what? Close enough.
Welcome to France.
Massive comics!
The rent is 5,000 euros.
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Ha! Ha!
Music
Would you rather play with inverted sound or an inverted mouse?
What about both?
Inverted sound.
Inverted sound.
You don't think you can do the mouse?
No way.
There is no way.
I tried already.
Inverted mouse.
Inverted sound.
I'll go for the mouse though.
Cause?
Yeah, yeah.
Cause the mouse is more adaptable, you know.
Sound.
Inverted sound?
Yes.
For sure.
Can't do the mouse.
Like imagine spraying up.
It's hard.
It's like, the mouse it's hard.
But like for a year I think a lot of players play.
Gimp out play.
I know also one more guy.
Gimp out plays with inverted sound.
And also I know one more console player that plays, so I think it's not easy but I think
better easy for sure.
What do you think?
I also agree.
Like I played also with Tessix here, Romanian guy who played with reverse sound.
Sounds good, I think most is too much.
So actually some players played with inverted sound.
Jimmy.
I mean like as well.
Oh really?
Yeah.
It's crazy.
I think I could get used to inverted sound much easier.
inverted sound.
Sound?
You both quickly, why sound?
Yeah.
Because he can shoot and win yet.
I have a friend who changed his mouse to inverted
and now he's playing like he's inverted.
So he sprays and he pushes up?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Huh?
Like he likes it, but like sound I think it's not comfortable.
Like to mouse you can like play a train and you can play after.
I think I choose mouse so.
I think mouse because sound it's incredible.
Both are a matter of like the more you practice with it the more you're gonna
get used to it.
But I do feel it would be a little bit easier to manage your hearing.
Maybe an earthen sound.
I think if that sound is easy to get used to in the mouse.
I think game is so much more important than earthen sound.
I even tried it once for one round because I got new Ineos and I didn't know left or right and then I fucked up.
Doesn't it kind of space you out? Like sound is so important to Counter-Strike 2 though.
I didn't take out the first pistol but I didn't realise until we started so it was not good.
Oh, so those are the tech pauses when actually players messing with their headphones and stuff like that.
It might be individual mistakes.
Okay, okay, what about you?
Yeah, I chose the same sound. For sure this sound. The theme mask is just...
You gotta be playing some pilot simulators and stuff like that to get better at it, so you know.
But in mouse pro you can't handle that.
So you spray upwards. You can do it?
It will just take some time to adjust.
I think the sound is the better option out of the two.
I would probably just choose that one. I'm not the mouse because even with the mouse, I would be cool fully
Yeah, that's cool. Yeah
I
I'll kill you!
Meet clear.
Thank you, brother.
You're watching these sports World Cup live from Paris, France is 2026 and we have one
of the French legends back in the studio.
Welcome Nathan, better known around these parts as NBK.
I watched you back in the global offensive days.
How are you enjoying CS2 in this venue?
So far the games have been excellent.
I mean obviously the last one was a blast.
There was everything in that game.
Claps, she has big movements.
Absolutely love everything in Paris so far.
Yeah, you've been smiling in the green room since I first saw you to start the
day.
that's an exciting semi-final. The one we have coming up I think because Donk is
on the server first and foremost. Donk show? But also because we have legacy for
I think is the surprise package really in this semi-final especially considering
you know the side of the bracket that they were on they took some big wins to
get to this point and that's why it'd be a fool to look past them. We got a
rise on some of the top stars in this matchup but none are very familiar
if you haven't been watching Legacy closely let's take a look at the
squad that has been knocking out all of our juggernauts. They 2-0 Navi. Then they took
down the Falcons, which is the surprise of the tournament. Falcons were considered favorites
coming into this thing. And now if they complete the road against Spirit, you have to say this
is probably one of the hardest possible brackets to a Grand Final.
Possibly one of the biggest upsets of all time in Counter-Strike at that point because
with all the games that we didn't expect them to get through Navi to start things
off and then they're just starting to 2 over 1 and then they're just here to
They play a beautiful Counter-Strike, I think that's the most impressive.
They saw the bracket as Falcons had at Cologne and they said,
we can do you one better here at TWC.
And I mean, that's been over Falcons, might just cost Falcons $2 million in the club championship.
We'll see, it's getting dicey over there and obviously they have a lot of faith in their Counter-Strike squad,
but Legacy sort of ruined all that for them.
Legacy are now two maps away from the A-Core arena.
arena and right now we got stutter over there with pimp what's up guys tomorrow we get the party
start inside this a core arena right behind we've got a third or fourth place the sider we've got a
best of five grand final to culminate the entire esports world cup right here for the counter strike
two side of things but before we get there a semi-final is a foot legacy spirit pimp we've got
this one right in front of us let's go ahead and identify two players and let's start on the
legacy side who do you got yeah massive surprise the legacy even find himself in this game and
partly thanks to Dumau. I think he is the win condition, the big win condition for legacy.
If they were to pull up another offset and I guess playing the A-Carolina tomorrow in the grand final,
then it has to be Dumau who's stepping up. He's a fantastic Counter-Strike player,
he's been playing a good tournament so far as well and I think without him playing well,
that's no way. Yeah, it does make a little bit more of a challenge over there because they are
they are looking really good over on legacy, looking sharp. Obviously on the other side of
things as a team spirit and I almost can guarantee you you would pick a player like Donk.
Like who would do that?
Kinda hard not to, you know.
He's been playing fantastically well so far in this tournament.
He is without about keeping them alive even in moments where they're not playing well.
So fair to say that Spirit maybe haven't looked at their best despite being in the semi-final,
despite being the favorite to win the entire thing.
But that's a thanks to Donk who's just whenever there's a moment of doubt,
whenever there's a moment where they're not looking good, he'll step up, he'll get the job done.
So what happens if Donk's quiet?
Oh, that's a good question.
I think Legas have a real shot.
Legas have been playing well so far.
and spirit as a second, you know, as a team, maybe not all the way up there, but don't individually,
he's just a tough man to deal with. Look, Jacob, I think we can have all the Q cards in the world,
but the truth is you can't quite script exactly what's going to unfold here in the AQ Arena.
So if you're in Paris, make sure you're here on Sunday. It's the place to be grand finals,
third, fourth place deciders, and the culmination of the Sports World Cup Club Championships.
I am tired of stuntin' on us like that. Man looks good, but sort of these two has
break down what we've seen from Legacy because it is a 2-0 win over Falcons that shocked the
Counter-Strike world and I want to revisit some of the big moments. Janko, what did they show us?
How do you describe the Legacy playstyle? They've shown us a lot of stubbornness in their approach
on some of those T sides and they were going to be relentless. I think that
might be a good way to describe Legacy. They're very aggressive, they like to fight on both
the city and the city side right and they're not going to back down to anyone really.
If you really look at it and we talked about it earlier they have one A game plan. If this
game plan doesn't work they will try it again and they will try it again and they will try it again.
The problem is we have players of warflash like Dong for example right you're gonna do it 10
times in a row you're gonna get back 10 times in a row. Right now they managed to get every
second time a few rounds here and there and it was enough for them to have good city halves
Are you going to be the same again Spirit?
That's going to be a bit more complicated.
We have to talk about Try as well, you know, he was the latest addition in that AWP role,
which is all so important and he was the best player on Dust2 and by a large margin,
had so much impact, especially on that CT side, our Falcons couldn't get
anything going because of him. And you know, for a while it felt like
he could upgrade in that department and how everything unfolded with passion UA and
and what not try suddenly became an option.
They pounced on that opportunity
and they're already getting some dividends of that.
Another player we want to show some love to
is Nassim and Lotto.
Both of these guys were mentioned by players
and of course the folks that were taking the interviews
on the main stage, NBK,
what should we know about Lotto first?
Just a fragger overall.
He just has so much output.
He's everywhere on the map
and he's just very efficient in everything he does.
He's very active.
He has a lot of, as you can see a swing.
You know, there is a thing where at all of all the MVP events this year, it was the fifth highest ready player and we're talking right behind right behind all the top top players that everybody knows, right?
Donk, Monizzi, Zairou, he's right there.
So that means that how big this guy is playing and how important it's going to be for the team.
He is having a massive impact here throughout 2026, especially at EWC.
When you look at the rest of the squad, we want to highlight the team.
What is his role on this team?
He's the anchor slash lurker right so in a lot of those rounds when the team is working one side of the map
He's going to be left to his own devices and sort of beat the closer for them
But on the city side we saw him yesterday on Mirage early on set the tone for legacy against Falcons
Hold down that B bombsite and I mean he had his best series against Navi that has to be said
He had just had an incredible
Ancient really over there and it's good to see because they had this weird situation where he was benched for two weeks
during the offseason and it was like
So maybe come back and I'm sure they glad he he did
We've got a lot of going on here behind the scenes Freya was fast enough to catch up with art Freya was happening
Big game today for you are but you probably used to that by now you really taken down Navi
It's just our falcon yesterday. Tell me about that Mirage where on the second half you didn't allow falcons to get a single two-sided round
Yeah, I would say yeah, I think everybody notices. I'm realize that pretty city heavy map
I think it's one of the most city maps in the map that was up for now, even I would say so more even than Nuke
my opinion so
When we make five rounds, I think that's something we are confident with
That's good enough and if you can make a
Pistol, it's going to be way easier if you lost pistol. It's still a competitive game
So I'm gonna ask you guys to get a pistol in your favor convert the first buys and after that
to just play good CS.
I think what's been so impressive is not only have you taken down some huge names, you've
done it across four different maps, right?
You have Inferno and Ancient, obviously, versus Navi, then you have Mirage and Dust2, versus
Falcons yesterday.
How confident are you in your map pool at the moment?
Yeah, I think it was a little bit shaky in the start of the season for us after we
made the roster changes because it changed so much.
But during the tournament, we talk a lot and we take a lot of time to prepare
better.
So I think that now we feel more confident on the way we are playing and the way we are
planning to play the maps.
Obviously you got Spirit as an opponent today, really interesting history between you guys.
They haven't played Legacy before.
The last time you played Donk was back in December 2023 when you were on Furrier as
well.
How well did you feel like you know them?
Yeah, I see them play after I face them.
Of course, they are a strong team since then, so I used to watch.
play and don't collide so you'll see the net every day so we know how they like to play the things
they like to do it's always going to be a hard to deal with them just because of the raw power
aim power but yeah maybe the maples also are good for both teams you like to play both similar
maps so i think it's going to be a great game either way and just looking at the gond that
you've had to run so far right you've already come through what seemed like an impossible
bracket. Where's your mental at at the moment? Yeah, definitely raises the expectations I would say,
at the same time raises our confidence. So it's both ways. It's very good that we are managed to
get here, but at the same time we're not letting it affect us in the negative side. We know that
it's not a job finished. We still have something to strive for and we really want this win. So
it would be very special for us. So we're going to get it all. It's been such an impressive
run so far. Let's see if it can continue the legacy versus spirit today.
That is Art the big brain behind legacy. Can he get the red calls? We'll find out
because he is going up against some ferocious opponents. It's time to talk about Team Spirit,
one of the top five rated teams coming into the event that is still remaining. And how they get
there? Well, they have to get through Vitality, taking down Zywu and Apex. It wasn't an easy
work, but they get it done in three. What did you see last night, Mbk? Is this kind of a
team that you've already needed to present? You know all the pairs, they're here for a
a long time now. They just seem resilient in every front. You have seen games where it
don't look very active. Sometimes the people that's active, they were winning regardless.
And I think that's a very, very good sign for them. And they're the kind of team that
the further they're going to go into the tournament, the better they're going to play.
The better the players are going to show up, the more the individualities are going
to show up. So it's going to be even better today than what we've seen before.
And they struggled. They haven't beaten Viadjin in almost two years, right? So that
It was a huge win for them yesterday and they have this quality where the other teams in
the tournament may be struggling like Nathan pointed out, they get better with every game
and they don't really choke in games.
They might throw a round here and there but their floor is going to be pretty high and
for all these conversations about the coaching staff over there and that whole situation
I think we should give some props to Halle for that quality because that does come
down to leadership and he's the one figure that's been behind the team for the
the longest time or the changing leaders changed multiple different positions in the team ever
since they came onto the scene in 2024 where you know, Don can share or pairing up back then
you know they've had this quality so I think that's what makes them a really tough opponent
for a team like Legacy in this phase of the tournament.
Not only is Magic's a top tier conditioner user the man had some great calls a bad
grenade could have thrown them into a spiral instead they bounce back even stronger
Does Magix need to match up in the IGL role today against his opponent Art, or do you think he has yet already?
I think it's great, it really has a good team effort, and as Jampers said, their coaching staff and their weather approach to games doesn't make it very reliant on the one person.
It's not going to be on the matches that are going to be calling and doing everything perfectly. Everybody knows their role, everybody is very active.
And you have players that are very important in every department. You have a player like Taniere, for example, you know, always very important in Sazel Mab, because whenever he does good, the team can do whatever they want.
And he was doing good yesterday, Nathan.
Yeah, definitely.
I mean, you can see, especially the different groups and playoffs, we're talking about the
fact that they're getting better and better.
I think he is the key player for this roster.
If he plays well, Dong doesn't have to look at his team side on the map.
He's just going to be, oh yeah, I chose this guy.
He's going to do these things.
I'm going to be able to get in the middle of the map, destroy everybody, and you
guys have my back.
That's why he was brought to Team Spirit, right?
To be that second star on the right floor in addition to Dong, right?
Obviously, they have also shared on the AWP.
For me, I think it's really important the fact that these two teams haven't played each other, like ever with the course of their teams.
And for both teams, it's important because if you never face Dunk on the server, you might think you know how good he is.
You might think you know what you can and cannot do against him.
But the reality only hits you once you get to play against the certain team.
And the same goes for teams with a spirit, right?
They know that legacy is aggressive.
They're going to do their prep.
They're going to watch the demos.
demos for just how aggressive and how in your face they like to play you kind of
have to experience it to really be aware of what you're dealing. I was asking our
other experts what separates dog from the rest of the competition they said well
he just knows where you're gonna be his crosshair is already there before you
make the decision how does he do this every single round and you've got to run
out of energy at some point right boy doesn't seem like it and that's pretty
this way I mean this guy has been I think there's no word at that point
And then, as you said, you know, legacy and spirit have very played each other.
They played in practice. They saw the dunk in practice.
Now there is the dunk in official games. They're completely different monsters.
You're just going to take over the game and you have to really be ready for it.
Because, you know, in practice, like you're dunking, it's a dunk.
I'm going to peek him. I'm going to show him who is best.
You have that sort of an attitude. Well, do it when it's 10-10, right?
And you need to take connector on Mirage.
And you know, he's there and you're just praying sort of that he's going to be flashed
something like it's a completely different piece at that point in time and you saw
what he did to Vitality yesterday. Massive impact from Don throughout all of
his matches in fact coming into this tournament somebody pointed out look at
Don he's green look at his teammates they're all red can you continue to win
matches that way or does somebody else have to keep pace with the right
word? I think someone always steps up right like he can't do it on his own
but that's why we mentioned to Nina as being an important piece, Shiro as one
of the closers and more reliable members of the team too.
And, you know, Magics and Zothix can have their moments too,
but you know who's the star of the show
and who gets allocated the most resources
and for good reason.
We're taking a look at some of the maps
on the numbers backstage, Nathan,
and something popped out, Inferno,
might not be played today.
How bad of news is that for Legacy?
Yeah, that's going to be a big thing.
It's usually the map where they're very comfortable.
They could be picking up, I guess, anybody.
They have a very high sitting,
and it's not going to be there
because Spirit's bad in that map, they can't play it.
So, you look at the record in the other maps,
you're not very confident in your legacy.
Yeah, I think the problem,
legacy is in a bit of a pickle here with the veto, right?
Like you almost wanna say they should pick Cache or Nuke.
Those are two of their lesser played maps.
And I think even more important than that is,
they can't let Spirit get both Dust and Mirage.
Okay.
I think also because of how good Donk is on that map
and you can limit his impact more on Ancient
than you can on these other maps,
But in reality, those are the three maps that are the best for Spirit and they're bound to get two out of the game.
There is their Dust 2. Ancient is coming through. Is that expected?
That's gonna be expected. Ancient is a comfort pick for Legacy individually. They're very comfortable on the map.
Yeah, and then Spirit is gonna bank cash because they don't want to have that randomness.
They're not really knowing how the map is gonna go, how they're gonna pay, what new tricks are gonna happen.
And that's what we talked about. There is Dust 2 and Mirath on the map.
Neko, you wanna call it now?
I get it right like you feel like we're good on this map too, but these are three of spurs best maps, right?
And you've given them all three, you know, in a best of three. So that's why I have a tough time seeing legacy overcome
They're really trying to play the game on nightmare mode. Let's go that way
Legacy is taking the toughest road possible here at EWC if they make it to the 8-4 arena for the Grand Final against foot
That will be a match that will be historic a crazy round of upsets on both sides of the bracket
Let's talk a little bit about what we expect to see though. Keep it real. You don't have to sugarcoat anything Nathan
Is this David vs. Goliath? Is this like fifth grader versus a high score?
I mean if you look at it from names then it's very offensive
Somebody said that to me offside
If you look at the team in the name and everything inside that yes
It would think that this would be the most impossible if you look at pure connoisseur
If you would remove the names remove the team names, okay legacy is a very very serious contenders
They pay very good counter strike. They have a lot of things very thinned out and it looked like a very prepared team
They have a very good game plan and the individual keys are following. So I don't really see why not
I think it's a possibility. They're not favorites, but I think they can take it
You know 25% of the fans out there have faith in legacy
They had less than 6% when they played against the Falcon
So they're starting to win people over spirit the heavy favorite with a minute 12 to go
Walk me through how you see this plan out
I would have been at 25 before the veto after the veto. I put it at maybe 5%
Oh, you know, it just spurted so much in their comfort zone that you know against anyone in the world
They'll feel comfortable and I think for legacy will see I mean they've shown their stubbornness yesterday
They feel like they can exploit a certain part of the map yesterday. They were targeting carrying a lot
So is the plan going to be let's bogers on tips is right?
Let's go where magics is whatever they feel the weakness is but
but you have to be able to adjust if things don't work out, right?
If you're too stubborn, you're not going to find success against Pirate.
Do you think they're targeting Zomtik's today?
I think we don't know, and I think that's a very good part for them
because they can play whichever Grand of Kahnerscheid they want, they're going to be all over the place.
They targeted one player one day, they're going to target someone else the other day
because it's going to be a whole mind game behind that.
Final predictions for map number one only. Who wins? Who is your player to watch?
Team spirit shero, I think he's gonna have a game. I'll go with team spirit. You know what?
Let's go with magics. He's gonna explode the server magics is gonna pop off watch shero for me
It's the dog show live from Paris. It's the EWC semi-finals
I think as a team we are better and individuals I think the same
We trust each other more than usual.
We have conviction in what we are doing and we believe in Kiwin.
We are here not to just play CS and be beaten.
We are here to prove that we can win tournaments, we can be the top.
Legacy is really a dangerous team with a very aggressive style and they are very good indoor players.
I think they are getting better. They are involved in more as a unity. They have a nice purple which is done.
I'm putting out my life in this, so I believe we can do it.
We just wanna win this tournament.
Ladies and gentlemen, one finalist has been found.
The young team claimed their spot and there's only one other place left at the Ecorra Arena
for Championship Sunday.
Absolutely and one team sent the major champions home without dropping a single map yesterday
and they clearly proved that beating the big dogs was no accident.
On the other hand, the other team has faced what haunted them for nearly two years, but they were able to break through when it mattered the most.
Quieting down a French arena, you guys saw what happened yesterday.
Here at the STC arena, and our two teams are very special.
One keeps turning the expectations upside down and the other just has beats in their demons.
Finally, ladies and gentlemen, you saw the spirit of the climate in Paris, and now I think it's time to see.
Let's do it. Please welcome our first finalist, LECACY!
This team arrived in Paris with questions around just how far this one could really go.
Round after round, they have answered them with composure, confidence and absolutely no fear of the moment.
These guys aren't chasing the Central history anymore.
Legacy are here to win and now just one series separates them from championship Sunday.
And against them, the strong, the magic Team Sparrowites!
For nearly two years, Vitality were the opponent they could not solve, but yesterday they broke
that streak.
Eyes cold in map 3, while they blew the doors of Mirage.
One of their biggest spires is gone.
They conquered Astana three months ago.
Can they make it to another grand finals?
To another trophy here in Paris with all eyes on this team spirit.
One keeps proving they belong here, no matter the standings, the other just smashed one
of the only doors that had stopped them for years.
Only one spot left in the Grand Finals.
Merazza Monsieur, Fert du Bruit!
The semi-finals Saturday and we happen to have something brand new for your eyeballs.
And never the foreseen matchup.
And what we didn't anticipate when we saw that playoff bracket, I know for sure when I looked at it,
the density of the names in that lower half of the bracket,
Legacy was not the one I expected to be walking in today.
Legacy had proven that they are not to be underestimated.
Chad Falcons and Narvey falling in two-map fashion.
I mean, what?
Rather than doing it in impressive fashion, I feel this team has conviction.
They've got pace and they're ready to be in your place here today spirit. Enjoy the moment take it in you've got spirit
new up one of the big three
Now
Their eyes set on that trophy. Yeah, the only one of the big three right?
We have the ideas about vitality falcons with fury are falling as well. I mean they are truly the last one standing
Then you've got legacy on the other side of things
I question what the questions I have today for this matchup is do legacy have the firepower the depth and the
Capacity to keep up with an informed team spirit
Well, they have to do our nightmare mode as the death was discussing this video right now
Three maps that well and truly within the spirits will house don't we continue just to lay down the law
And that's a legacy can get things going. This is the best pistol round team in the tournament so far
They're at the tip of that stat line and once we get deep
That's when we start actually taking a look at those numbers and they have been phenomenal with the pistol
So we'll see if they can continue that today against spirit
And the first map of this series starting on dust to like you said nightmare mode sure all three
As Yanco put it comfortable now for team spirit. That's if try can do it. He did yesterday
He was so on it
It was sensational to see that man with his sniper and just leveraging so much control over the map legacy feet
Falcons into submission on this map yesterday.
Yeah, that's as well, sudden to become a recurring theme.
CAC with a big point of discussion.
Investified final a couple of months ago,
only when Karrigan had just joined the roster
before they lifted that major trophy.
And Legacy ran over then as well.
So doing its impact to back with a lot on the line.
Right, so this is not just the counter-strike,
we have millions of dollars of the Cobb Championship,
and Falcons is one of those names that are running.
But now that conversation's blown out of the water.
I'm going to keep her eyes on that as far as the counter strike is concerned.
But, I'll be watching, I believe, by to see who the owner will be in this final.
I still have to just process that, like, oh, you're talking about those in the grand final already.
Yeah, I have to put a weight for the winner of this one.
So many twists and turns.
It is, you know, this has been the great level and we've seen all these big names for these rising stars who have seemed to find that final piece.
You know, I like the way you were framing it to me yesterday about how finding try this last piece.
And we can get ourselves started
Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we're heading into the very first map
Paris!
Who's there for Dust2?
What do we say Dust2? Is it Dust2?
Absolutely, I'm excited. Let's get this party started and let's see if the dog structure starts straight away Chad
There's the immediate pistol dominance. Yeah, well, you took the stat line
This man is the tippy top of spirit who would have thunk it. Huh, surprising. We're out the gates
The next...
The opening middle is Lato.
Having a little bit of a look, he's ahead of that smoke towards the mid-doors.
It's an Xbox smoke indeed, and on the short molly, a stand and open up.
I want to try and pipe their way.
Can't walk, do spirit.
There's a flash on Zontics.
Don't put the P250.
Long push, spotted.
Okay, try and get noted, but actually a little fake gooch.
Walk through the doors.
Teneir's healthy, and they're searching for that P250.
League in the charge as well, blocked, primed and ready, catches DOOM out.
Some low to 20, up, buying time. DOOM out providing headshots as his try onto MAGICS.
Eyes on Donk here. Low HP on that swing. Easy for him to pick up onto DOOM up.
He's losing teammate, they're dropping. It's in towards 2-1-2, thanks to Shiro.
Donk tasked with the plant.
They're safe. Plants as well. This has made the post difficult.
Missed him with the smoke. Ladder to his short.
Ladder draws attention short side, Donk. Not overlooking the potential.
This is close the gap and close your eyes, Lato.
Donk does him nicely, there's Nysim though. Quick click on Toshiro, can he find...
Oh! That is a big way to start off!
And Nysim triple gets legacy started!
Yeah, Juno's gonna bring that energy, he's happy with that one.
Pistol clutch against Donk.
Sure, you may have played him in practice, this is an official, this is where it counts
and this is for the grand final.
This pistol round, Tink.
Off the tournament, we'll grab another and even soften up a couple of bodies, there is Nysim.
If that nem know
Just keep winning pistols I guess well we'll see if they can find a conversion spirit will be going for the force don't
If to the naked 47
That was when you planned the bomb when you get multiple kills in the rounds and you've got some other upgrades to work with
Give it a Mac 10 pistols the other three with you till zero
Same up now this time your door smoke
Aggressive from try
All facilitated by Nysim.
Crazy, so early.
Thanks for that to fall into enemy hands.
So, holding onto this one even more important for Legacy now.
Mid to B smoke thrown out very early.
I'm just gonna waltz down middle.
I lurk smoke as well, so Magix kicking up a fuss to make this look...
Eastflit centric.
No commitment behind it, though.
This is a short waltz, that's the problem.
Perfect, finding Dolton at a national swing, sir.
I'm sorry if it gets harder for Spirit from here on out.
Short, Teneir can scoop up the Galash. It's not lost.
The DOOM is not playing scared around the edge of that smoke. Teneir still occupies it.
No planation about mid smoke.
Last minute of the call, it does seem like it'll regroup towards the B.
Gonna have to deal with no nades.
So in transition right now is DOOM out towards CT. We'll be able to support this with Lato
Trying to bait for Nysim on the tall box
Getting information over towards long a good probe
But he's far away
Yeah, Lato and Nysim are gonna be hard-pressed here
The test of his Alpen, Lato's attention catches on, there's Nysim, only the one
Zontics and Taneer claim the B-Cycle themselves, a duel for Taneer that he was willing to take and DOOM out, punishes
You got a post plant short, you got a rifle on Shiro.
That's your problem.
What is your problem? Coming in for that tunnel's flanked right.
Anticipating an eventual window swing.
Shiro's playing this off angle. Easy, please. Easy! Pick it up!
An AK upgrade. A second round and sweat off the brow.
Couple of tough ones there. Back to back for legacy, but they will convert.
Now we have the questions of what spirit want to call in next with their bike.
You get a couple of kills, you get the bomb down again.
to 2400 being injected into bank balance.
You could drop another AK over to Donk.
Shiro just not aware as is that set up
with the man just down his pressure.
I get used to that noise if Dumau and his tin
continue to convert.
I think he's gonna bring in a scout.
Oh, we've actually got a tactical timer
from Halley early.
So, I imagine this is to discuss the type of buy
we're about to see.
Does he wanna try and keep the pressure on?
Get a couple of members there just below that 4K mark.
So we're talking AKs with a head armor, the other good pistols with the U2 that can get Kalilza, if they want to try and keep this.
But then are you playing exactly into legacy's game?
Now this is a team that loves heads up counter shot, they're going to take the fights.
So a big decision to be made in this moment.
Now he definitely didn't like the equip of the scout from Magic.
So that's been sold back, that turns into Tech 9's and Kevlar and a bit of U2.
Another adjustment made from the coach.
Interesting to see it so, I mean, three rounds deep.
Oh, I've done the line. Okay, the scout has reared its head again.
I've tried to cross to Shiro, so we're back in port with the vise,
and we are ready to get back under way.
My tag problematic, considering that might have by these pistols,
we haven't deal with him now.
Three rounds, three different ways that someone can did.
You've got options and their future pros is the lower tunnels, mid control taken, legacy
playing, an Antico-Anti-Four set up by a more sight centric, they've got that long control
they're borrowed down on the A side with the ramp, tries AWP and over towards B once
more is Lacto and this and that duo if tested with these pumps will need to deliver.
You want to go one for one or two for two would be the exchange as mid doors
But he smoked at the same time.
So the map falls quiet.
There's now another smoke lobbed towards Short, so right into these very quickly from our legacy.
So we'll have a minute on the clock, and we'll have a smoke to block.
That's the last of the...
Tagots and Sontics have tried to worm forward, they're going through this.
Lato's in the burned out position, has to peer first, still the low smoke gives him angles.
Lato and Nysim. Defender sight with honor.
You're five alive. Can they keep the sheet perfectly clean?
Looking good to do so now because Magic's down in the smoke.
It's just that Shiro scope. Didn't get to do anything with the Scout this round.
I think I've found something before. Time is up. We'll need to take these fights.
He's gonna have enough money with the lost bonus of 2900 for the AWP into the next.
And he should be that man walking tag. A swing. He goes down and it is flawless.
Sure, lots of damage done, but no kills, and that's what Halle would have been looking for.
Soften the economy, make reinvestments possible for legacy, but right now,
sitting pretty with a residual buy, even if they do lose this first rifle round.
It's very promising signs to see this in form as well. That's his second multi-kill.
Well, that's if they are going to test the extremities right. This is an anchor player.
The fact that he had such a mauling against Na'vi earlier in the tournament,
you don't expect that from the pair on the wings.
Jiro's ult on the cross.
High as up.
2-1-2.
I was all studying towards B after difference in the CT centre and they're going to get a little bit curious and long.
Now it's going to be boosted up in the smoke.
This is not going to be a position you clear.
If you do head back towards Long End with ART hoisted up, you feel that you're definitely guaranteed one.
The long is safe, it's gonna free up you now completely.
Walking out limits me again and remember, it's Tries or Pombi, he has a full bird of
utility because the scope is on tunnels, he doesn't have to drop the nades.
Yesim's playing for that one tap.
That one right there does!
Find the head of Magix, now spam through the smoke, it's packed with both of them,
Teneir and Donk, worse for wear.
Is it?
Right next to Teneir.
Smoke!
Teneir works it out first!
Solves the problem!
just got to find try on site doing a try into the scottish okay zontics fortunate
try was unable to adjust so quickly look it's a 2v3 the bomb goes down 40
seconds on the clock they've got kids time for you to take sure
That's hardly through the tunnels, Jumao has some YouTube to work with now.
A couple of flashes could open the door, they're going to go for this one late.
Yeah, he's having a look.
Shiro is scoped up on Art's approach.
YouTube thrown over, and yeah, maybe not.
Okay, they weren't fishing at least, they're going to try and do damage as they hope to save,
so Spirit need to find a way out. Jumao, how many can you take with you?
Got an advantage between now trying to take more.
I could perhaps get another.
Or retreat, Shiro will have safety, 1 HP on the AWP, just by the safe haven in time.
That's good damage.
I understand it's not the round, but that's very good damage done there.
The key is Shiro saves the AWP.
If you took that away, you wouldn't see one into the next round of play.
So you can see what the game plan was after the round was lost.
Funny exchange here.
Today I was trying to enter the smoke list, I was trying to leave it.
Couldn't work out what he was walking into.
Go to post up, put across once more.
Ready to try to post up aggressive, sure.
He's been very good at these lines, trying not overstepping.
He's actually worried about the lower boosts.
Just intermittent checks of that possibility.
Minor damage dealt to Doc.
He's going to be deep man tasked with taking the lower tunnel space integral if you want to get the ability to push back short.
It's my Lordy M'nade, Doc.
I'm happy to start taking a look and we've seen a couple of funky boosts coming out of Legacy.
Yeah, they've definitely got a bag for the tricks, haven't they?
Let's see if this one can hit the mark.
It's a B smoke pressure and they've had to disassemble that one, trying to block the mid to B themselves.
Don't want to fall down to the same round twice.
Suspicious smoke made onto magics.
And a conversation being had. You can see the meeting of the mines in near. Doc is ahead of this. So on that fade, he is on the hunt.
I'm not very aware of that now. The AU2 lands, but this isn't the commitment. The bombs still around lower tunnels.
They dropped magics into spawn to deal with the rotation. Let's find out.
First off, out here, good find from Latta. That's the first blood, and it's at the 25
second mark. The first frag, 20 seconds, things get awkward now. Teneir's got a sight
to breach, here's a buck, dropped in the corner, but he still finds output.
No chance. No chance. No chance. No chance. No chance. No chance. No chance. No chance.
time. Round for legacy. Just
don't go down after time. Here's
on 60 search and he wants some
and he has to see if he can
back or back. But so lucky to be
alive. Like you see whether
the storm spirit that is some
optimal. I did admire the way
that spirit ran the mid to be
in the previous right. If
you're up a tunnel player
oversteps the markets,
not fun to get by this time,
but this time just not
enough bodies. There's two men
trying to do the mid to
beast, but why everyone else
is holding onto the rotation
something a fake they didn't get the rotation that they were hoping for. I'm
still in awe that Nissan gets something down to Teneir. The counter to that
position is being spotted by a teammate in it on the mid to B. Still wins out on
the dual we've got a 4-1 scoreline folks.
This partial hard to expect a lot.
The save decay and the backup cap on dock.
I think one of the keys is trying to deal with what pace legacy could throw you, but they're
not doing anything crazy, right?
They're not pushing lower tunnels.
They're not really aggressive short.
They're playing a very standard game of Dust 2 right now with very tight comms.
Everyone seems to be on the move all the time, aware of the gaps.
They're not overextending and turning this into a all-out brawl.
There's something behind this in case of the B-pop, right?
He wants to be jarring if they are setting up at U2.
And they will be eventually, but right now the legacy set up is perfect.
Three towards B.
All five of Spirit in the upper tunnels.
This should be a shut down.
They are leaving this in a little bit.
More distance grows between him and his support.
They just rotate the AWP over towards A.
They don't know that it's the B play. 45 seconds.
You'd think they're going to be okay with Lato still here on that M4A4.
He's got the bullets. He's got the instantiary.
They're coming.
Listen one, flushed into the fight and a spray down, shut down.
Nothing out of that rifle, just a eagle and this one makes it up.
Easy enough to triple out on this one. Keep coming B, he's going to keep feasting.
We now have to see if spawns start coming into play for Spira on this T side.
Spira has the best long spawn right now, Halley is going to take his second tactical time out.
lost bonuses maxed. Magics get to get going.
Let's give it a dump show right now. It's just nice and round after round.
So somewhat easy, right? This is my investment. Sure there's the same AK but it's running through the incendiary.
They're unable to make space there tonight. Look at all the bodies, right? They're just stuck in the tiles.
If you can get out, you can make some room to chance the AK to work, but unable to grant that space.
So Zontiex, he's going to have been in the bind for worse for wear.
And he saved that AK, didn't get the lost bonus in the previous.
So he's just going to be working with a tech 9.
Three AKs and Shiro back in with the orb.
He's got a great spawn to try and do something on the cross.
Has yet to connect here.
On the opening and it will continue into round 7.
Now you're talking about openings.
Within 6 rounds they've all gone in favor of legacy.
See if it can continue in round number 7.
Well Molly's in the longhouse so she's showing it.
I'm going to continue to try and press this same move to near my get caught.
Right, this one's going to port, yeah, debate and switch set up.
Two thousand stands aren't able to contribute.
Oh, they're on the, yeah, put that one on the tally.
Seven and zero in opening joules.
It's not going to have to be a change in terms of the tone of the game.
It's just been defaulting going through the motions.
That's how it really had the room to be able to contribute in the way that you'd like.
And we haven't had that Donkran yet, thought the pistol could have been it.
You miss him out of the plans.
Back to mid, they'll float.
Right.
Hard shot.
Not playing scared.
Confirmed two and the bomb on the back of Shearer.
noted. Best in two, Mal. He's got to hit a headshot unable to find on the first
class. Block, smoke and go. Must delay their crashes. Ten bullets left as he
hears this push of dark. It doesn't matter if you can hear it. He still busts through with two.
No secret as to his move there but still two headshots. Job done. Site one.
Spirit round two. Oh, something might be on one here.
Knife out. Spotted out. Oh, man.
And a deathmatch duel being had as, uh...
This will confirm the save.
This man sitting close to the monitor.
Shaving off a couple of heads of his own.
You need to hold onto your guns here, Spirit.
There's gonna be a second round. Three round gap now.
And 1,400 loss coming through.
Lato will be able to drop one.
probably able to buy himself an AWP.
And Tumel will be able to contribute as well,
so there won't be any issues for the legacy buy.
That's Cash's other sloshes you would have hoped for
after a 5-1 scoreline now turns 5-2.
He's a good longspawn this time around.
Yeah, this is Donk knowing that he has to make a play.
The man disadvantage.
The crosshair placement out of the smoke.
He just has to click.
And it's just insane.
This is Counter-Strike's biggest carry.
No doubt about it.
Looking for his counter by his tribe.
Oh, and Magix has opened up the account for Team Spirit.
Don't build on top.
He's not done there.
Either delays this map or are playing on the pixel off the flash.
Long push. I'm not having a little bit of a gander here.
He's a dead man. Magic's ready.
Two to find.
Okay, well, you know Miss and the B Defender.
They don't know that he's quickly been able to squeeze his way across over towards A,
but five versus one and this one should be done.
This seems being good. I acknowledge, but I do think we aren't setting the bar high.
I'm expecting anything out of this one.
Well, the money's going to be gone after this, so legacy will have to take the eco.
Would you say this is a textbook definition of what players mean when they say freeze?
Not a single movement out of Team Spirit right now.
Just saying if Nissen wants to continue in the School of Art, but no push coming their way.
Any Magics in game leader?
Throw about long, see if they can find him before they look for the finished 50 seconds.
He might catch him here.
On the pivot, and well, Magics knows where you are, so take that bomb head to B.
That's long. Jumps up and offers up his line, Nissen.
He did it, Tim.
Good output. Bear in up.
watching this game is going to be sitting a little closer to their monitor.
Don't mind the timeout here from Adia, just to have a conversation about the cash.
Those extra kills from this are mean that he could drop a glass cannon AWP.
Well, it wouldn't be glass cannon because guess what?
Try to get my armor behind him.
So an AWP, I don't think, is going to be expected if your spirit coming into this next run.
And that's what's manifested.
He tries to drop the AWP.
Everyone else is eco.
Now he's going to have to try and insert himself in this round.
So aggressive shot is the plane. You're not ready for an AWP. Magics can't believe it
Try does what he was designed to do. He has to keep moving right now
So this is where the orb just needs to say agile
I find as many picks within the round as possible
You just don't want to sit in one position
Continue to be a nuisance in the side of spirit while they try and regroup
An objective live for the rest of them
It's a bit of pressure on B awful rotate back towards the A site
Magics gets an opportunity from the grave to look at the macro but the rest
of them aren't going to take some responsibility on probing out some jewels
across the map. They do have a lot of nades so you'd hate to walk in dry to the
orp again.
There was more of an investment is 5.7s and p250s maybe it's Eagle. You could
make a case for this but really this has to be all try so if they want to win
this round the Orp needs to find more. The more are coming his way.
Long-range USP headshot from R. Puts Tanird out to five.
That gun here retrievable, despite Tri's attempts.
Spirit have passed this test.
I kept the pressure on. Definitely a more difficult puzzle to solve there for Spirit.
Let's throw that one away.
She wrote and has enough to buy time so don't you worry about that.
There's a cleaning up the trash, there's Zontics.
Three for him, two for Taniyya.
And a score of five to four.
Still in favour of legacy as ADL will take his first tactical timeout.
Halley has already burnt two.
I'm sure he'd be happy that the pressure is now on the other foot.
So, you can say, boys, we've broken through with taking control of the money.
We know that there was an awp in the mix.
So something has to be a little bit lesser in the buy.
The man to take the emission is going to be R.
MP9 towards Long. Hey, as long as you can get the control, good weapon for the job.
I mean, every Orc player must be salivating the way they're set to give up.
Yesterday was the first up two we get to see, we're trying the Legacy roster.
And that CT side went 17 and 8, 6 multi-kills.
I hope it'll replicate that here today.
I guess this shoot from the bi of legacy is no kid leaving this route.
Try again starting B. Second time we've seen this open up.
It's deep molly's long tell of a portion. I think after you've seen it, uh, worm his
way in and get through so that you want to deny that if you can.
will be very wary. This is his territory on the default. He has support to try and put
a leash on Arth who's not there. And I bet you since earlier in the half that's conditioning.
Thanks spirit. I was so worried as I just see a setting up for what is going to be
a bit of a short clamp down. Very sight centric over towards 8. Very limited room
if they do lose long. That's... We'll just have to walk out and take the space
and he's acknowledging it. He knows the possibility.
There's U2.
He runs over to what's short, over to what's deep.
This is going to keep the comms of legacy a little bit muddy right now.
Gosh, Magix has a million flashbangs at his feet.
Time's going to be the issue. We're already at the 42nd mark.
They just smoked the long corner and now they're taking the space.
This is going to be difficult for Stuart.
I think Shiro late short on his own
But I think of any rather than this he's gonna lose that awp
I can't believe it. No cover. No help. Long last, Lato. He's been sat down
Zontix has just gone straight through the smoke. They have no idea they're past each other
Dark, good find on his position, and now he's getting all the kills necessary
There's one back from Driver. The bomb gets planted regardless
Zontix reveals himself
Listen, I've no idea that ships in a night crossed in the smoke and now thrust into a 1 vs 3.
Option is to save again. You might be able to...
That's something a little bit juicier to take into the next 4 try, but right now we're looking at 4 straight rounds for Spirit.
Yeah, you already highlighted no kids on anyone into that round, so with that bomb plant, the round is essentially secured.
Also a triple guard at Donk, that certainly helps.
They want to make sure they remove this and listen, they take it another within, Teneir
finally onto the trade, all denied.
Didn't expect two to be playing whack-a-mole on Xbox.
Well, Max lost bonus for Legacy going into the next round.
This should be partial by territory.
We might see Art go for Hero M4.
He's got 3.8k.
So, these are the type of rounds we return to aren't to be a real jarring presence within the round.
You might see him trying to run into lower tunnels depending on his spawns.
He did have a good lower dark spawn, but he's just going to be starting over towards A.
I believe he chopped the Famous the Doom house over there.
Treating this as a 4-1.
Shiro's AWP on the long line.
Smoked off that molly.
Off the bay. They're going to play through for the space.
Let's put it where we can see it anyway.
you hear flashes and being so late should be telling to spirit the long
control has definitely been garnered
all the hurry up and wait right now coming out of the spirit counter and
absolutely no rush the type around where you don't want to be stepping on any
movie traps laid in this line by.
Just like more stressful to play the late game.
So to run the clock right down to those final 20 seconds, team flash there, but Spamgyz gets out.
I know this has been having a game, but this is asking a lot on the 5-7, isn't it?
Two more Spam-Mass noted and spamming through that mid smoke now.
They're looking for occupation on B, that he's outside of their expectations. How are you clear?
Ah, Jax! Oh, is it ever lazy clear? The trade from Dontho secures the B site.
And they've got the rotation as well. Right, Shiro can just post up and watch CT.
You've got to near-dealing with Short. The biggest problem right now is a long push.
They will definitely clear the rounds out in the system.
Plant that bomb, 40 seconds on the clock, and watch should be another round for Spirit.
Moan just limit the possibility to see if he can take an AK into the next.
Tenir is going to deny Art any possibilities, but Armour not too shabby either.
All in all, the gas has been sucked out of the room here for Legacy.
It was Nism who shut them down.
Round off to B, round 18 kills Deep.
The net closest on his team is 7 and that's try.
As far as that's concerned to Deep Molly, not really going to hit the markers.
Tenir just needs to not give away this AK.
and the second is confirmed,
bomb goes off and that's spirit.
It's high at the heart.
Five straight their first.
Stand alive otherwise it's
pretty close right these rounds.
They've definitely done a good job.
Legacy of trading back and forth,
but then donk happens with a multi kill
and the round just gets away from you.
I'm still taking AWP and trying
to for a long pick early while
she wrote spams the doors or
takes a shot and that might mean
And when they round the corner for this long control, they're a little bit lazy, not expecting
another AWP to be posted on the line.
They start with three.
Magic's also wielding what Donko's looking and he's tagged up Doomow.
Oh, and we've got an AWP on B as well, have we?
Nissen was not ready for that.
And out of the box starts the round for Spirit to try and have the leg up.
Yeah, using the catch there, advantage there.
That seems heavy investment into adwp for the final round of the half but
we're rounding and setting up for a B-pop, okay. This instead, let's see if we can
overwhelm his sight.
I'm in question to all to be hearing from others.
Oh it's almost the full magics.
Pipe's a flash out. Ah, full blind, fortunately. Nobody taking a look just yet.
He's cornered and trapped by Shiro on that line.
They're going to mid to be, though. This setup's good for legacy. They can still win this.
They haven't sent anybody out long. They're just searching short now for resistance.
A triget to kill that might just force their hand into this mid to be.
Both from R, a significant damage through the doors.
And Trite has found magic ball. They get channeled in now.
With 40 seconds, they're feeling flustered. Don't forget Dumao low.
Any output from him on this commitment
It's worth it's weight in gold, Duma hides out, hoping to be overlooked on their path.
Nick Doss managed to find out, but disappears in a puff of smoke, they're right next to each other.
Unannounced, creepin' and crawling.
Sontik's getting shaky and a miss shot from the orb, Lato couldn't connect.
Running through is Sontik's, the hero spirit needed.
He gets himself three before he meets Trie.
Mission accomplished though.
One versus one on that low HP, good luck, have fun.
Shiro healthy as a kick the tries just pick that up time no longer such a
problem
he's hoping as he lets that clock run Shiro starts to get paranoid about
alternative entrance has to hit the double head shot here
right I just suffer six six on the half
Oh my globs!
You're coming back into B, that's never going to be easy, especially on low HP.
What?
So they snap something away to stop the run of five.
Crispy stuff there. We'll catch that again.
Zontis, I can't believe how quiet he was in that smoke the entire time.
Ladon misses the shot.
Zontis punishes and then blub blub.
He heats up, goes a little bit too far.
Gives Try a 1v1 and he'll take that every day of the week.
Your head pinned to the back wall. Nice shot from Try.
I mean, he was one bullet shy
of getting the 4k was on ticks.
Try to survive on a scrap and
made it work for attention again
to the fact that I can see the
best pistol team in the tournament
so far. Let's see if they can
make it two from two is now we
swap sides spirit on the defense
on their map choice to British
for shiro's on ticks gives it
a smoke and magics flash to
near yet to buy. I'm sure he's
just going to chip in with
that armor as we're leaving
spawn. Yes, he will try with
Try with a good long spawn. He's got a P250.
Let's see if we can get a head-to-head.
He wants to take the fight over towards middle.
He's also...
The bombily's back. You might want to throw that one off to Lado if you can.
You don't want the P250.
So if you first with the bomb...
There's no aggression from Spirit either.
them and slow and steady from legacy the same as what we saw in that first half
just making sure that there's nobody getting a little bit cheeky pushing up
trying to find a fight there giving you all the room in the world. So rally of
flashes they can walk out the mid-doors for free and then at that point it's
gonna be the pace.
The rear out all the way back through spawn it will be so try and we'll take the
bomb over towards B that's sitting outside long for the push. Towards the
It is going to be that of Zontik's back flat trying to bait for Shiro with the dual bretters up close
That smoke must have been left so John team all the way back to pick that up mid to be is going to be a real problem
Big test for Zontik on the pistol
Okay, real low through the spam of the smoke he gets away with his life for now
I don't know. One wants to go up short hearing the CT boost art spotted do now order for pressure fell donks managed to find the headshots
Quick double, Teneir, oh he's done well, gets the info, still alive for a moment,
and there's a down, he has delay, Lato, hang on, on to Donk!
That's a big kill from Lato!
You can see the side now, bomb will go down.
Changes the state of affairs doesn't it?
Gassim was hoping to hit the headshot on the mantle up, and now playing a wicked game.
Gassim mounts, looking for Magix, he's not scared, he's playing a 1v1, he'll happily
duel!
As will Magix, taps his head off, Lato unable to connect, trying to a lot of
Pressure now without T250 they're closing the gap tightening the news through the box a head shot and spirit pistol to be taken
He just doesn't have the bullets
Touching goes still I think Tanea when he slows them down coming up short you think to yourself
Okay, this will allow the rotation to come in Lato picks one off the park and changes that side rotation completely
This group that wasn't an easy round by any means they kept you guessing the need to be you till back up short with the reroute
Now, boosting Donk up is the right decision.
With the bomb going down, should be expecting a force.
How about Scout being invested upon right now, or at least it was.
It's being juggled.
It will just be two take-nines and that Scout for try.
It doesn't fire on the first.
Nade will cover the second, and the B defense.
Donk and Zomtix will be able to get across unscathed.
You two options for Legacy right now.
They get the meat door and short control.
We get the criss-cross.
If they can get up short, we've just got the smoke wall.
Or is it something a little bit more out of the box?
Both teams have been respecting one another a lot with all this room.
There's only one round in that first half where Legacy tried to overstep
that might go a bit aggressive.
It's more understandable from Spirit up against the four-spire.
Magic has got his work cut out for him if they do start to repress this myth to be.
And do you think it tries, Doom?
Magic spies off some shots, tucks in, ready for a hefty HE.
He wants to get the timing right.
Donk on the window, standing active.
Gotta start to engage now.
Yeah, check the bombardment.
One from Doom out, but the rest is all team spirit.
Try another one and it's Donk with three.
up the scoreboard totals rapidly. He's chasing Nyssen now.
You can see them announcing their presence as they come out there. Magic you'll be calling multiple footsteps, at least three players there.
They both turn their attention. One of the keys for B defenders is you have to fight the same choke point.
You can't split up in one fight. They need to be in the other way of the tunnels.
You have to group up. Sure, you know that Nyssen likely going to play through late.
That's why they push out their fight and they flush out their mid to B.
That was what was determined in that moment.
And those protocols have to be in place before that pop happens.
So we'll have to be the ego.
One corner to get them off of this.
Oh, yes!
Oh, yes!
All right, Lato.
Oh, my God!
Crazy double out of the Diga, Lato.
Well, he's done more than he was worth there.
Unfortunately, Magic's double right back.
Nism's got some space.
More than they realize.
You can see, oh, trying to work out
what he's supposed to do with this.
Obviously, Zontick's acting like nothing's wrong.
Little does he know though.
On the way back in, how does Nissan play this?
He's got a hefty disadvantage with that PT-50.
Relaying this information as to that Zontick's coordinates.
He's gonna catch this perfect. He cannot be spotted.
It's on his own as well.
He cannot do anything.
But...
RUN!
NO!
The jump still finds accuracy!
a little bit of lady liquid luck on the side of zontics he's in the air chat that's a bailout
killing a half okay so what this round time and that's spirit nine to six what an unbelievable
round both ways that's oh those people kill zontics show us that one again please he's
straight-up scroll wheeled mid-panic spray. It's better be a jump-skick. Lato hit some
crackers. This one's second one as well. That's a hop-seat pop-latch. The other one
out towards middle. We'll see this again. Bosh. The eco is not meant to be this entertaining.
Oh yeah, that one's gonna leave a mark. Second tactical timeout called from Legacy.
We would love to get the bomb down there. Try, we'll be able to bring in the AWP,
but this is where we want to see if Arles hit the pedal to the metal rack. We know,
yesterday against Falcons, their game plan on Mirage was to try and bully
Karagin. It didn't work. Honestly it was there, but it's their CT side that shut
the door to blue wall. Falcons embarrassed as Legacy continued to take
home big names, Navey and Legacy fall, Spirit the next on the naughty list
and that's if they want to shot the Grand Final against Poe. You heard me
right? You're gonna be Academy no more. Still processing.
Try will not opt in with the AWP. It was possible.
Be sure it will have the advantage in the head with the early B pressure.
They're trying to door smoke, so right now Reeling will be Zontix.
He has to hold this himself.
We're going to lay out long.
Oh! That's the way to open things up.
Hold on to Magix. It's going to be in the open.
He controls the Enforce Break gracefully.
He's fully fighting to the line-up Lato and are gone.
Lated trade, Shawshiro clocks one of them.
That's ball on the back and try and he's gone.
Nice reposition out of the AWP finds a deeper line into pit to ensure it.
Well now, last good luck, have fun.
Yeah, it could be four straight right now unless dinner can clutch this one out.
Extremely unlikely, especially with the power being exotic.
He's going to come through low way.
He's not going to give you the challenge over towards the mid to B cross.
He's just gone all the way around into your spawn and that means he can batten down the hatches
You can't path back through T spawn to pick up that bomb and if you want to path through short
You've got an AWP to get
Molly goose will push hero into the fight
Right not gonna spread looks all right. Yeah, it's heroes. Okay
It's an annex up to bat. He didn't find that one tough with his bell now wrong do mouse chances
So down to zero
On the truck to start off CT proceeding spirit comfortable here on dust to add another multi kill to the tally that the donkey's up to six
So far zon'tix doing as well in that department as well
He's got five so between the two of them they've been that shutting things down or open them up
And I think the opening kills if you consider the last two rounds, they're still flooding in for legacy
They're dominating in that department, but not within the round count
ADR's used his last time out. We're talking 12 opening kills in favor of legacy
It's all of that four for spirit.
We split the pistols, leaving that clutch from try.
So right now it's just a whole lot more polish from spirit on their home turf.
This and Anubis, that's where they like to find themselves.
Band out today was Anubis having a pick in the dust too,
but their record with this roster, 26-6, 6-2 for the season
and undefeated so far at EWC, looking to end that four in a row right now.
Three more rounds.
It's flowing so good. Partial bite, on-corner smoke, shero, flashed off runnels, AWP and they're no.
On control has been given.
So legacy, I gotta back off and try and reroute quickly.
So normally in this moment, right, the CTs, if they want the space, they gotta try and push in the upper tunnels.
The clear on the smoke spots nothing, so that's good information.
Gonna have to be so hasty trying to call back some room.
And again, when you know what type of buy that you're up against,
it will inform those choices.
A full gun round? Yeah, okay, you might be quick to that.
Some pistols, some light upgrades, you don't have to be.
So force on through mid.
He's still got that HE cheat shot. If he times it right, he's gonna expose him.
Attention, draw on with alert smoke B.
Martin Co. congregate.
It's the molly cell, I guess it does.
Exposed.
Only aren't there, nothing, no, Shira was stubborn, stuck around.
Nice composure from Magix as well, just burst the head off the do-mouse, finishes
the jargon.
Oh, he's got Alfred and Troy.
Two on the BT-15 onto an AK and hold your forces!
He nearly pulled us into a 1v1 of absolutely nowhere.
Okay, so a couple of rounds where they've had these pistols with good output, but again, we're searching for rounds.
I'm running out of chances.
Just two more for Spirit to lock this one in.
They were out of position, it did force a bit of an over-rotation.
Actually, I'll say rotation, not over-rotation.
They were still in the right place to deliver.
Uh, pardon me. Watch it.
Looks like a long go.
Lato and Trite to be flashed in from up.
Lato, striding forward.
The man determined to crawl first,
climb up the donkey, and into the punch.
Oh, the magic's on the chip, it's just on the smoke space!
Back through the car window,
we can see Doom out connecting bullets.
Now the smoke, Lato, finds Taneer.
So now what?
Unless you're a long player and you're aerotaving rifle at dead.
Zontik's the B anchor, Donk.
Mid to B rifle out, you still have to get past his AWP.
Ooh, he's escorting Donk forward.
Shiro can also flash this to try and facilitate Donk's swing.
Yeah, that's exactly what they're gonna do.
You got last ever now.
Ooh, everyone doing the dance just in time!
Art gets it back on!
Reaction shot, I wanna know how blind he was.
Supposedly there's a quite catch on the smoke break.
Shira was hoping he could find level of sound to a 2 on 2 instead of legacy.
A man up only.
Shadow of his former self art on 4 HP.
Well the fact that they've drawn this back at all is crazy.
The two of them kill is going in favour of Spirit.
Looking across.
Flash will delay.
There's a HE and an incendiary in the mix.
That could be lethal to Lato or Art.
Flash and go.
And then go across.
It's going to be the nades. It's going to be this bombardment.
Well placed in San Diego in combination with the HG Grenade.
Two of them now. And now it's on Ziggs. All he has to do is just pepper it.
Oh good shots, hard to make it out of work. Two kills from him and legacy to something on the T side.
That's going to be frustrating there. The fact that you got them so down low, the U2 looked perfect.
Doom out the man who lived and well the same for his team mates they will get on
the board we'll post that T side round they still need to break through another
before you can break through the money it's a great flash I just got vision
back enough job was done there straight down the guts
gonna be a suicide try with the post it and he hit the tag
Shiro could do that in the first half. Yeah, crazy
Flick finds the boots of Shiro. I want to return late long this three congregated outside the doors now
Okay, try not go for the pre lineup on the corner. They started donk over towards long as mentioned. He's traditionally that mid to be right
Training places this is gonna be tough enough. It's in here. He's currently returned to the corner the smokes faded
He dares jiggle this one step too far and try will have you
That's how all the ball flash deep and it got to me. That's fortunate saved him. Yeah, he went out then he was a dead man
We split up a trice position. What's the adaptation hoping for an over rotation from spirit this time round
You're gonna play it in lower one in upper waiting for the push
We're gonna have a fight here on line, ladies and gentlemen, arm of Moses Mack, there's Tenin.
Finds the first frag of the round, there's Tribe back.
Ato continues to train, level us into the three on three.
45 bombs spotted.
Bombs seen long.
You need these lurks to activate to try and draw somebody back or group up, right?
You still got time to group up and trade out efficiently, but right now, one, one, one is how they stand.
Legacy, what's the plan?
You just hope and pray, Spirit give you something and you're patient.
25 second round, you're so loud if you're Lato.
They're still heard.
They know what's up, they can totally catch you.
On the back pedal!
He's got one, he's got two!
Are you going into B with your...
Okay, Shiro can do this!
They have to plant, they have to run at him, they have to run at the sniper!
10 seconds Lato, have you got anything left?
It's too little!
Too Lato!
It's Shiro!
couldn't get it done in the first half in the 1v1 versus try but that one means a
whole lot more 12 on the board one more and you're shutting them out you're
shutting them down Jiro bought into close
so crispy shots it looks so good but shiro the unknown entity on the B site
dancing around getting them done and how he likes the way that one feels
This could be the final round.
Heavy towards B.
Not off the rip.
You really want to pull it through with the pop. You got this orb if you don't get out, if you can't reach through. How is Tri-Ment to help?
Here it comes.
Don Gretis himself does a low two down immediately.
Legacy's hopes are taking Dust2, going along with the 3K.
Dom comes at 25, the last remains of Legacy search forward into Sonic's staying nimble.
A full mag dump into that smoke.
A flash and go to near quarter as well.
Just latter on that low HP and a 1v2.
I don't fancy his chat, he's dead. Spirit take Dust2.
We had a competitive first half, they were level pegging 6-6.
And on the swap of the side spirit erector blue wall
And we split the pistols the clutch in that first up going in a favor of try
We swap on over and quite the run to find consecutive rounds
Donkins on teach with a handful of multi shiro's clutch the statement piece
Coming up next. It's gonna be ancient another brawling map, but this tone of this map was not that this was slow
This was played at spirits pace
Legacy do you want to try and bring a bit more pep in your step with the map coming up next?
If you want to push this to Mirage, you want a chance at that Grand Final in the A-Court Arena tomorrow.
And this one, this one wasn't close.
This is another Dust2 AWC added to Spirit's tally.
GoFall ready to support this poster game.
Let's take a look at some of the big highlights, including the Closer, a blind dog still finds two,
and then his friends convene this is the Closer to Spirit's Dust2.
It was their map pick, NBK.
It was close to the first half.
Not so much when they got the CT side.
Yeah, I mean, that's what we talked about.
Once the A game of the legacy was figured out,
I think there was nothing else for them to run away for.
It was just, yeah, experiencing Dunk, I think, on a big stage,
but especially Zontec, I think,
he really put them on the map on the first part,
and then Dunk took over the game.
Janko, you very politely called out Zontec,
saying if they want to make it to the grand finals,
he's gonna need to step up his game good enough.
Yeah, he definitely did great,
especially on the T side,
where they were falling behind and it had to come back into the game,
but you see the quality of Team Spirit.
Something that got legacy this far has been chatpointing out pistol rounds.
They're the best team in pistol rounds in the event,
and you feel like when a map like this against Spirit, they needed both.
They had that 3v3 in the second, Nessimo extends a little bit.
He was feeling it, he had a great first half,
and from that point on, really wasn't much there in the gun rounds.
Once the eco was against him, the game fell away to Team Spirit.
Let's take a look at some of the crucial rounds. What do you call about for me first, Janko?
Yeah, so as I said, you know, Spirit was behind in the first half, legacy behind that pistol,
you know, doing great work. They did this a couple of times. This is the first time it actually
worked that someone was long. This was a bit of an anti-strat from them. We're going to find
the kill on Tuneer, right? So great opportunity in a 5v4 to keep rolling. Try. He stays on
mid, and as soon as they see him fire up a shot, they speed up towards him because there's
There's no op to punish.
Dunk versus an AK, advantage over anyone.
Dumal even has a defensive smoke here to try to play it together,
but it's not going to matter because Dunk is just going to fully disrespect the smoke.
He's on his own, just wrecks Dumal, gets out as well,
maggots, gets the kill on Tricor, trying to come back,
and the other two players have to save,
and that just sort of boots forth the effect that Dunk can have on a game.
I think that that really showcases why Dunk is daunting.
and what's the difference between talking practice
and going to disrespect him.
You're going to get that kid in practice maybe.
But in an official game, if you're going to run through,
you're going to miss that one bullet.
That's good enough for them to make the difference.
So yeah, I think that was a good showcase
of the difference between what really started
to come back for Spirit.
They had a lot of good ideas, just trick plays,
5v4, just small things that give them an advantage.
But then you have the brute force of Spirit
that comes through and goes over.
We've got another round carved out for y'all at home.
This is round 15.
Jaco walked me through this one.
This was not, this is where you thought,
Oh, it's legacy gonna steal one away, right?
You can see they're on an eco.
No armor, a couple of upgraded pistols, and that's it.
Lotto, bang, thank, that's sheer out.
See ya, goes back to mid, bang, that's Donkau.
5v3, okay, they're still on an eco,
and Nissen, great risk play from him,
walks through the smoke, can be, and finds it empty,
and now Zontics comes back, he's running.
Nathan, as soon as I saw Zontics
jump around and run around,
I knew Nissen wasn't gonna get the kill.
Yeah, definitely, especially when he gets the important
There was a good 10 seconds where he was nice in hand and jumping on the side.
That was the timing.
You have just a weapon with no Kevlar, and if you can have it...
Just when a player is moving so much and you have a P250 and you're like...
It feels like you think it's so easy, but it's not.
And the five-in-zone things, God and Jumping, is just insult to injury.
That was one of my favorite plays in the game.
It made this whole crowd roar.
How infrequent are jump shots?
They're more and more frequent with CS2, let's say.
It wasn't a thing before, but now it is.
It could have real well, well to be honest I don't think it would have changed the game that much
Maybe they would have lost a round, they would have won the one after
They were clearing control, they were cleaning the better team
And this is also on the flip side, your legacy
You have that round, you have Lattet against the two entries
Lucky you would say with being blind and everything
You lose a round, you have everything going on, you still lose a round
And I think that mentally for legacy they're really silly about
Little bit mental boom right there
Zom takes those, stepping up his game throughout this first map
Let's take a look at some of his best moments, and I want to hear from you, NBK.
What impressed you from this man in particular?
Whatever Zontis is really going on in his group games, it's the multiplayer games.
The multiplayer games are always there, and you can see he has moments when he's just very sharp.
And is this a discussion we've missing, for example?
When you have these players that are hot anchors, that are being left alone,
if you get those guys going, if they look sharp, you can let them alone.
You can leave them completely alone on one side of the map,
and you can do whatever you want on the other side.
Look at him, look at that, he's just adjusting very quickly and it looks easy, right?
Yeah, I think with Xomtix, you know, actually his mechanics sometimes maybe lead a little bit to be desired,
but it's sort of his fearlessness, his game sense, understanding, alright, it seems like the attention of the opponent is on the other side of the map.
This is where I have to try and make a play for my team, you know, to create some space, to get some information, maybe even open up a bomb site.
I think that's why, you know, that's a player that coaches love, right?
Because he's going to make the correct decisions.
He's going to do whatever is best for the team in that round.
And you always want players like that.
You don't need to beat the star.
We've got a big one in Donk.
Let's take a look, though, at some of the stats from a guy
playing for number one on the planet.
Three players were on that list of start determine.
With Falcons out, we said goodbye to Modesty.
And then, of course, we had to say goodbye to Zawar
when Vitality was taken out by this man.
What can you say even at that point?
Even if he started pretty slow, he didn't get too many kills, he was like average on the scoreboard.
And he just lights up every second and a half, especially on the city side.
The moment he gets an AK in his hands, that's multi-kills everywhere you can see.
I don't know, the stats speak to themselves. He's all over the place, he has high ADR, he's entering, he's doing multi-kills.
He's all over the place, you don't really know when he's paying B on the last round.
He's just... everything. He's counter strike at that point.
And he's not a cheater, right, Janko?
This is actually real human.
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
Perfect.
We haven't proven it, but we will DNA test him out.
So far, that was hard of you.
Another player, though, to watch throughout this matchup
had a star first half.
He said he had a big game yesterday.
He got credit from his teammates.
Let's take a look at some of his highlights.
And Neko, want to hear from you.
Where is he most dangerous?
Yeah, this was the huge for him and the pistol.
He was in a 1v2 against Shearer and Donk.
Ranches to clutch that.
He does such a great job holding down the bomb sites,
right?
Early on, Spirit was going towards that B site.
and he was just there shutting it down, finding multi-kill after multi-kill.
That's something that you can expect from him going into Ancient as well,
but it felt like he was the only guy to get going for Legacy for the longest time.
Definitely, and it's good for him to hold his site and his part of the map.
If you have the rest of the team that can't do the work everywhere else,
you're going to lose the game regardless.
And so you could see on the first half he was very efficient getting a lot of the kills,
a lot of multi-kills especially.
And then coming into the second half, something reflected in the green room, that piece around, that's little moves, he was going aggressive but not aggressive enough in my opinion.
If you're feeling the game so well, if you're so confident in everything you're doing, just go for it.
Yeah, everything is gonna work for you. Jump into this corner, take that, do it 100%, and don't drink your chigolping.
Don't be in between. Just go for it, especially with a map like that.
Yeah.
There's no way you're gonna be so excited about confidence in your abilities and everything you can do.
You see him stabbing at the T-side a bit shaky.
If you have a game, have a game.
Look at Don. The moment he starts doing, he just goes.
Yeah, they'll start on the T-side on ancient.
That's why I think, you know, it's really important for them to win the pistol
and have a good start, because the way they want to play is aggressive.
They want to rush, they want to have fast rounds, they want to get in your face.
That's way more difficult to fall those rounds and to play them when you're down 0-3.
And if you lose, you call it and lose it.
Now you're on pistols again, the opponents are getting the huge bank.
huge bank, like they have such a big buffer to play with.
So yeah, it felt maybe a bit that they were a little bit nervous
on the first map to the players from legacy.
So hopefully they got that out of the way
and now they can play a little bit more
of their Counter-Strike that we love to watch.
We want to welcome in all of our viewers
from Trackmania and Fortnite.
This is Counter-Strike 2 and we are
in our second semi-final,
foot a team that wasn't in the top 10 world ranking
is already into the grand final.
Now we will find out who joins them
at the 8-core arena.
Spirit was able to take their map.
We're going into ancient.
This is Legacy's pick.
Spirit decides to start on CT side.
What does that spell for you, MBK?
I'm very worried for Legacy, to be honest.
It really felt like they started with a game plan,
and then Legacy started with a game plan.
They got the rounds going, and then they got figured out,
and that was over for this point.
So I think Asian, sadly, might go this way.
This is where they stormed to Na'Vi,
but they came up the back of a 10-2 CT side, right?
They completely neutralized Mokazi,
and the way he likes to take mid.
and I'm sure they'll have something in store for, you know,
Donk, but they are starting on that T side, right?
So you just wanna find some of that, you know,
bravado that they have and some of that aggression
that they have on their T side, loosen up a little bit.
Like if you're gonna lose 2-0, go out playing your own game
because now it's a bit too timid for me.
NBK is a player who has competed at the highest level.
I know you've gone up against some greats.
Is there a way to shut down an individual of Donk's caliber?
Can you game plan against it and take him out of the game?
You definitely can.
It's something possible.
But then you take away other parts of the map.
So you need to have individuals that
are going to step up in those areas.
That's how you're going to do all your utility in mid-ancient.
You're going to need to have players going on B
and getting those entry.
I can shear all of you, right?
For example, this is something that is going to be very hard.
Legacy can do it, but the way it's going, I'm very worried.
I think they need to piece around a thing that need to go.
Very, like, just start strong, otherwise.
We've got the biggest audience in EWC history
live here in the STC arena. It gets even louder tomorrow in the Acre arena. For now, a quick
break from the casters. When we come back, you're going to see these guys going toe-to-toe
ancient, your next map.
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4600 points for both Falcons as well as AJL in the club championship right now which is
absolutely crazy to be saying because we are down to our final title track mania.
As of now Falcons does have the tie breaker but AJL can do something crazy right now.
That one is done for Gwynn.
I mean I think realistically speaking we didn't expect it to go this far.
He wasn't doing very well in his semi-final either to be honest with you and somehow
made it through but now he's in there he needs a top three finish they're owning
four people in that grand final just these finished first and AJL will be
champions I am unbelievable oh my goodness it's gonna come down to this
stage over here in the lower legion gauntlet so of course we'll let you know
if anything changes
Why I like Animus?
Actually I was really young when I started watching Animus.
I was like 13 years old I guess when I started watching Animus.
So I started watching, watching and I liked a lot you know so even nowadays I watch
animes with my girlfriend, she likes it as well. One thing that I learned watching animes, I think
every anime show to you how hard is the life. You need to be stronger, like you need to move on
and I think the best animes show this for you so I think this. I think Ancient would work really
well as a scene of an anime game. I think it would be really cool. Sam Mubis, I think Anubis is
Special map also Ancient. Ancient they wanted to, I know Valve, they wanted to make
Night Ancient like with the moon on top or Mirage with the moon on top in the
weather, you know, in the clouds. So I think it would look insane. Either Nuke or
Overpass, like I would say more like Overpass. Even though I don't like the map
as much, I would say Anubis. Yeah, it looks like a one-piece map, so I think
kind of reminds me of one. Maybe a dark map. There's maybe Ancients,
and the dark age age because we can change the the sky so I think it's
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That's not snail.
Wait, there's no snail.
I dare there's no snail.
Hold on.
Oh, wait, wait, wait, I got it out.
Why can't you bring butter croissant?
This place is mint.
All right, so when are we going to do the...
Oh!
Man, she's mad.
She ain't no, no.
There's the lady.
And people say that the Americans are not cultured.
What are you doing?
Don't you eat beans on toast or something?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
She went too far then.
She went too far then.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
That was a hate crime.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Apologize.
You went for the low blood test.
Apologize.
Oh, this is the frog.
What the hell?
Oh, man.
The bigy stealing.
Oh!
Look at the little eggs.
Just stick with chicken.
Like, what's the point of doing this?
You know what I mean?
Sticking with chicken.
Just let them just walk around.
They don't want to be eaten.
They were just trying to rib it, rib it and jump around and these b******s in front of them, go on then, put some sauce on these firsts.
Please, those are new to you. Please, those are new to you. They're good chicken. Oh, that's like an action figure.
No, you don't do that though, man.
Well, they used to do that and they can't now.
Yeah, that's possible. Probably.
You can't.
In fact, they're there right now. I'm devastated.
Cut it in two.
Cut it in two?
Yes.
Okay, I'm just gonna show you.
Yeah.
That's that's good.
I thought it was a 60, 70.
My 70, my 70.
I said the 30.
And I'm saying the 20 is 67.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
Am I insulting the friendship?
I don't try it.
OK, here we go.
Let's go.
Two, one.
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Oh.
It's interesting.
Why do people only eat the legs?
This is nearly the end of the day.
Yeah, the whole body, yeah.
Yes, after what you do.
Come on, chuck me a baguette.
This is what I can go with.
Yeah!
This is what I can get into.
Close the couch.
Hello.
Put me the plates.
OK.
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Just do the sideways, Mum.
Right, it's all good.
Sissa, my hand.
If he's put his hands all over the bread, at that point your mouth is pretty enough.
What are you doing?
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It's a French line.
Yeah, I'm so sorry about it.
Voila.
Right, it's good.
Hey!
Finally the good stuff.
Why does AJ get a cake when he didn't even try to sail?
I don't know. Is that what's happened to you all?
Yeah, that's guys I see.
Would you please take a spoon?
She won't look at you.
Oh.
Good, not bad.
I think you have to cut a cake.
Why don't you take that long to do that?
Yeah.
Oh, of course.
If we lost our napkin, do we use the tablecloth?
No, I never. I take their napkins.
So you never use your hands to clean this ever.
Wipe it off.
Look, good?
You're not here?
So, do you have any room?
Those are the tablecloth in the store, right?
We'll go up in the room.
In a washroom, anyway!
Merci beaucoup.
And we'll see you at the next French lesson.
Terrorists win.
Hmm, let's see.
Hey man, can you drop me a P250 or a grenade?
Man, what are you doing? We need to eco.
Don't worry, I've got this.
No guys, please. I'll drop you next round.
The eSports World Cup continues, the Counter-Strike does two, another semi-final against the second map, and Dust 2, it looks competitive in that first half, it is our first look at this head-to-head.
We haven't seen these calls, legacy and spirit clash before, it's a brand new flavour, and it's a new flavour for legacy.
One of the questions we had coming into this one was when you saw the Vitos, Janko said his estimations of like a 25% went down to like a 5%.
Yeah, there's a question of playing Donk in an official.
You can have no fee, you can have conviction,
and then you get smacked in the face.
It wasn't just Donk, it was sure with the clutch,
Zontics with some big moments,
and, well, yeah, Donk, of course.
As we turn our sights to the map choice of Legacy,
things only get harder from his spirit
are on a nine map winning streak on this map right now,
going up to Legacy who played it once of the day.
They dumpstered Na'Vi,
but they started on the CT side,
and this and, well, he went God mode.
Can he do that again today, right here, right now?
they're going to need it. This
could be a two over spirit and
booking a spot in that grand
final best of five tomorrow and
for arena we're going from 7000
to 12000 so don't miss it. Yeah.
Let's see if legacy can get
their stage legs up against
spirit pace of the last game
was a bit curious. I thought
that legacy would be a little
bit more punchy. Good job of
chaining them and I think the
conversation for legacy between maps be make sure we play our own game before this is done
doesn't matter the result right because there is a unique flair and flavor to legacies
counter strike it does not get blind pressure to walk that a side is donut smokers completely
scrapped their plans though invested utility into that and now this is the clear magic
world but I don't want to nail the headshot shiro another where that came from ramp
dual barrettas but they're gonna race him through caves.
Yeah, has to respect this Shiro.
He's in a good position though.
Imagine if the long players start drawing blood
and then he could just activate, does so, tracks,
Lato.
Whoa!
Spirit players rotating through.
Zontik still underhand next.
You've got the numbers though, legacy.
I'll now use time to group them up.
Zontik's a Shiro.
Now Doomal does get out.
It's got to stay.
Slops of bloodshed.
Two quick ones out of the do...
Doomal Glock.
It's just Donk and he's done dirty by Dumau!
Okay, interesting round push and pull right there.
That don't have blocks, no working against them.
I think Donk there just taking potshots, he was expecting to split.
And legacy, pick up where they left off on map number one with a pistol round victory.
Forcebar will follow from Spirit.
Decent work there from Shuri, you see Zonty as well wrapping alongside jumping
to try and alleviate some of that pressure, but hitting the break, slowing things down.
I'm looking for the conversion, red smoke, elbow smoke, oh they've also gone for the
shallow mid block but it's an A rush and nobody is home.
They're going to wait for sound quickly though.
Donk's Deagle will be there.
They've got the flash, it does connect on to a heart with their powers combined, they've
drawn first blood, now I'll respect the donut smoke.
The next port of call could be Teflon, oh Doomow just goes swinging!
He's gone down as well. A two-man attack, but they are so worse for where?
Zontek, Shearer, O'Donk, susceptible to a single-gallil bullet.
That's what Lato's playing for. Okay, fine. Pivot through.
Finds Donk through the smoke, anticipating any more from CT.
And every jiggle Magik's takes, he's catching. Black.
One three for the three take, but it feels good for legacy.
The smoke does a kick, but they're also low.
That's the problem, isn't it?
Now, Magik's six feet deep.
Zontik's going for this last second. He knows he's got about five seconds to fuse ahead of him hoping perhaps a miscalculation comes through from legacy
Now and
Saves the day
Goes down to that long range MP9
And I'm gonna get there in time
Got to find a safe haven on the save and I'll lose everything so it started threatening
The legacy just taking the jewels saying we've got the better weapons. You want to take these fights?
Yeah, that's on our watch to zero the start looking for the three
It's going to have to be a light investment from Spirit now before the guns come out.
Donk, tricking himself to Adigl and Kevlar, magic starting off with a smoke.
Not using it to block the elbow, so it might be over towards Cave or Be-Ramp in this one.
I have to hate you to break.
You can throw it into damage instead.
This is spotted. Full-body main star from the CTJ.
Art's already applying the pressure, don't know.
Getting chased and trying to get that info safely.
Still get to three pinpoint numbers. The whole squad's there by one.
Shouldn't matter. It's just the one.
Invested Kevlar and Eagle. Tamiya has a Desert Eagle as well.
Taking steps here, trying to be tricky.
Back towards A, he looks to hedge.
Oh, okay.
more more steps trying to seem multiple bodies 55
here comes that last wave got that 40 second mark that's impacted by the smoke
but he hits two on the D. Oh and Lato you're not long for this one. Chipped away
out finished by Shiro they run straight into the stack and they've got
Nothing but misery to show for it.
I think if you take a look at Dust2 as well,
Legacy was doing a lot of this Get Space way
and then hoped that Spirit start to overstep or over rotate.
Understand this is essentially against an eco.
So losing in this fashion is miserable.
This one is clearly going to test the mental,
but they were hoping that Spirit outplayed themselves.
They either walk into the waiting positions that you've got,
or they're over rotate and stuff the other side.
Well, this is ridiculous.
They just start, they call you bluff.
You didn't try and take any space
and you're walking a dog with a dig, and you're dead.
Just so often his conviction.
Immediately, an arm of dig, and you've got a round.
You weren't supposed to have.
Look at this again.
Clean headshot on to R, the second on the follow-up,
and he nearly got three as well.
Did soften him up for Shiro's 50-50.
It's going to be interesting to see what legacy T-side really has in store.
Again, we've only seen it once since Tries joined the roster here at EWC,
and it was the winner of an RV.
With the save day, can't they force by a rounder?
there's a galil, there's some pistol upgrades and you're gonna have to strike that off, say don't
happen. Lots of pressure towards me, deep caves run, lots of flashes, they're hoping to draw
rotations, keeps me removing. I love it you two to invest early for nothing really gained.
So that looks to flush out heaven, what's this cave's space? Just do them out for support and
a trade and on the other side it's going to be magics with a mach 10.
The only blint off from this is confirming not too much on the jump up, blocked on cave.
The pressure draws the rotation to Zontics, he's got more U2 to block a smoke in a molly.
Once more if they're hoped for an overstep, if they're hoped for a push from spirit
they're not getting it.
Now that block smoke comes in.
Two smokes and flash for the finish, could just be as simple as short and long and
they're moving to get the bomb down but if you go through cave this is going to be tough to break.
Don't fancy that chances. The Hilo set up a nipple mag 10 to near poise with that Galilifat
dares take a step over that line. It's after their smokes.
Have to go. Off the ramp. Magic wins out. It's an area able to focus forward now on that
Onside, Mr. Mal, back.
Good find, Shiro catches, miss it,
but that one will get planted and the round will be extended.
Rifle upgrade for Magix off the cold dead, hands up to Nier.
Mistakes three on three.
Oh, what the hell?
It's Maik, Magix through the boards.
Donk on top, good luck, Trite.
Needed that, finding Donk, but at 19 health
and peeking into an AWP in the hands of Shiro.
Goes one way.
I think if he was to know Shiro had the care,
Magic's didn't he could have made that one a whole lot more awkward, but how's he meant to note?
I thought Magic's got the second with the spam right there gonna take down two on that retake, but we type things up to a piece
Bomb does go down with the clear of the smoke good stuff from Chiro trying to be proactive while they're searching for post-planned positions
Can't be hard for an autopilot
Chiro shows us just how easy you can look. Yeah, could have really gotten out of control there
Well, this is that art laver, didn't see a whole lot of it over on Dust2, but it...
Okay, in the hand of Doom out, some pistol upgrades and more pressure to apply.
Over smoke, while they're there, nobody trying to edge as they head fast.
At least congregating towards the same main control.
Xomtix is on this jiggle to fence, he should be able to just get the info safely.
I'll brave through this.
Oh, shadows. He doesn't have the time.
He has to get his gun out and that's the trade from Doom out.
He's in recovery.
Oh, and Decent from Shearrow.
He's got him before as well.
Donk just disrupting.
Melting.
Boosting. Melting.
And that's a quick round for Spirit.
Green now on the drop to the CT side.
Reminiscent of Dust2 where they just start to run away with things on this defense.
It didn't really keep up enough pressure there, right?
You're hoping to get a couple more kills, get that bomb down
so everyone can get some right falls down.
There's going to be a few question marks in the pipe.
3 AKs, 1 Galil and a Tecnoam for Trike.
try and they don't even have all the nades and this is a map on the T side
where like in furno you need them all for the early stages cave smoke don't smoke
red smoke all right Molly mid is it closed is it towards heaven I have to
extinguish them running up the lane without all of these nades your options
are limited and don't it'll take the space he knows that you're in a little
bit of trouble how much room does the man need he's already cleared lane now
you're still in T spawn so well really you didn't leave gosh it's just
feeling it's impressive if you're legacy right now you just smoked red room as an
elbow smoke arrives in front of your face replenish from magics
Lato chunks him down to half health don't get magic up stay here forever this
is a position where they are gonna have to move back in a cave and jiggle move
further up the ramp because there's good retail utility available for the T side.
The elbow smoke lands and just about 10 seconds ago, Spirit had themselves been a very heavy A stance.
They've rotated away now. Just going to be one man to knee up with an Org.
I think he's chosen this weapon specifically for this angle.
Magix is rotating back. He should be able to get there in time. Okay, they're still in two mines.
Yes, Ontix is going to be waiting for the failure of the elbow, here's to Teneir, Flash and
have a peek, eye to that fork, scope, oh, duck!
And Ontix caught as well, good awareness from Lato, catches that fast flank, shuts it down,
they have 28 seconds to try and get past the line, and Shiro nearly gets a 2-4-1, this
hit, bleeding out, problems now, easy 4 team spirit, Lato on that big box, and he's
This goes to Sierro too, just keeps racking them up!
Cash is stacked high, great opening up.
Good understanding of the elbow push, but more bodies than you were ready to deal with.
It must feel like every time they go away, the whole Team Spirit squad are there.
They're quick to react.
Lost bonus into the next 3400, so some partial investments again.
Sound like a broken record right now with these biomelecs in it.
I think into the next four gun rounds they might feel their hand is forced into doing
a mid-fight.
We have to tell them to use it too early.
Let's see if they can make anything out of this one.
Oh, they're a strain.
From Magix, hold on to it for as long as you can as they go running at him.
It baits them into Shiro, that's that team play.
That's a beautiful camera shot, right? There's definitely details with that one.
Long searching.
He spotted something on the map.
Oh, we nearly lost track of us. Still manages to take him down.
And Shiro's there for the pivot. Two more in red.
Scope, probably heard.
Yeah.
Oh, it's just a might swing it to the off and this shot to my prop it's but this round is going spirits way
And magic still here towards long left. I was gonna have to hard clear this if he wants to plan
He came from around pillar
Oh, and he has elected not too easy for magics
He time that to perfection dude didn't even start the plan
This is clean right now, 5 share rounds, sure a couple of casualties, bombs gone down in
one of these 5.
And they're very well, it could be.
Just starting off the second half of 20-26 in the Counter-Strike world, lots of questions
to ask.
And they're putting a lot of answers near the WC.
Nice, lots of...
Buster
Going through the motions now as another tactical timeout was taken the loss bonus look at them a full buy no try AWP
They do have more days this time
Yeah, I think this is where aren't probably wanting to do something a bit more off the rip right smoke red smoke don't have smoke cave
Probably laying that's trying to fight this mid control together to win out some early territory because otherwise
They've lost all the territory. It's just been taken away from them round after round
would just be a D rush. It was like a crazy call-up against this
in-paunting spirit. They were ready for the rush, jumping so many days on the ramp.
Ooh, good find! There's the spam through the boards now, just the last tick of the
molly, and down goes another. Today it goes down. Don't get able to provide as well
on the last. This one's going one way. Legacy! Just have to find Donk and Shiro.
Easier said than done.
On plant, that's the Shiro Sendier.
A little late to stop the plant though.
Covered by the guys with a smoked Shiro Junt, now blind.
A Pacey one.
From Legacy to break this three-counter team spirit.
That's their identity, wrapping in your face and being very stubborn about the calling.
Wouldn't be surprised to see a repeat call either.
There is good money for another spirit buy into the next,
but holding onto these as well will give them a few more down the stretch.
It's around to be five to three, two round gap.
And it wasn't the all-out B rush, if it was.
There was the Molly on the round they jump and made it into it.
That lurks about landing in the site.
It's that real sweet spot from the anti-rush utility into Wiv's still on the site real quick.
That spam kill goes a long way as well.
Yeah.
To be in, Magix and Zontik's going down.
And we have a legacy round.
It's the first week of five.
Yeah, it's just tough to get away from a lot of you two harassing sides very very early
Do we get a repeat call?
Pat now a spawn says no red smoke donut smoke looks like demow is gonna want to fight for this
At least to fight some pressure. Yeah, I'm gonna test for Donk's mid-hold. He does have support from Zontics
And it's their red smoke.
One kill.
Just on the edge of that, Lato.
Magic's having a spam battle that Lato will reign supreme on.
38 for Magic's.
Sontics, are you aware just how close they are?
Around a missed red smoke.
On the face?
Oh, you needed that did doo now.
Don't get able to find the last bullet.
Here it is.
Hit shot back onto Sontics.
Double Lato doo now.
He's done everything.
Did I beat the timing?
I don't know if Sherry clocked in now.
He didn't.
He's across, still clacks the head of Doom out.
Bomb down, next to try.
Parting support.
Late arrival of Lato is problematic, but a loss of art.
This gets uncomfortable for Try.
The three versus two does have his support arriving now.
Two of them are low, it's still very winnable right now for Legacy.
They're going out 10-4, this is a really uncomfortable fight for Lato.
He's so far forward.
They'll have to be farted.
Oh, no! Lato puts Teneir's head in a vise.
And now looking to synchronize, there's Try, finds Magic, Shiro, the only man left.
There's just no time for this, that's a big one. Legacy, two on the trough.
I'm stopping him up there, I think that was some sort of shooting from Shiro, 15-4 right now.
This is a positive sign for him, this is an AWP that gets criticised,
doesn't know you're being a little bit too passive, but he was taking his chances.
And he's the one that decided to level this out, it's Donk,
who couldn't win that initial exchange, that did open the runway in towards A.
and it is a tough site to retake unless it's off the rip, but if you have players leaking through Donut, CT, Temple, all simultaneously,
there's too many positions to cover with some well-placed nades. In this situation,
they limp out, essentially putting the low HP players on the end of the fishing rod and hoping that they're able to
get a fight. Halley's gonna take a timeout. It's a one-round gap.
And I like this timeout. It's before the money is completely gone. Screw it into the next. They're gonna have 24.
It's same for legacy. So both teams seesawing with that loss bonus.
It's gonna mean more to spirit as far as the stretch of rounds that we have remaining in this half if they can hold on to some guns or win this one.
Legacy would be able to get out another buy, or at least close to.
See what round ten has in store.
He's asking for the double boost.
What's that for a double?
Look at the kill feed, lined in the air through smoke headshot.
Okay, well, right, cast that in the replay.
Be pressure, all upon the line, to near aware of the possibility.
Zontik's essentially playing retail, Ike's got to near at the back as well.
As soon as that slow lands, they call it off, no point hanging around for this, here's Zontik.
Oh, well, counter! Perfect from Zontik's!
That took on a bit of a false sense of security there.
Thanks for telling me right where you are.
He tracks the traces perfectly.
Well, a 5v3 situation.
And the legacy work back into this short smoke
Zero doesn't get the flick you get mollied out of position
This it goes down he's having a rough start
Zero and seven from this and it's not the same as the game versus Navi and now try 40 seconds left in a 1v4 situation
I didn't even have to say it this time. He hasn't even started still waiting to see if any fights come his way. You could still give it a crack. It's very unlikely.
So I'd like to hold on to for the next round, but try wary of the pushes and the possibilities.
Fair play to Shearrow. He's definitely the non one.
I think it has to be the return from legacy just to all our brawling counter strike things that are grouped up very pack heavy four ones or
All out which is a bit of a coin toss on a German you coming up middle
Who's got more flashes and what is the timing on those that is real big factor at the hell we can all post
The save will come through allow him to hold on to it
This retains
Wonder if we could check in with how that round started just a death on elbow
Yeah, okay. Yeah, well his reaction depends on any jumps and clicks his mouse and do not dead first zon'tic zon'tus to now don't
Crazy
64
Break this for trying to look for a pic don'ts going though already fine leg and this knife out and try will punish
That's what they were looking for with these boots on elbow
How does that inform the mid-round for our Donk dead?
How does he make a move?
Yeah, Magic's here.
This Lata's considering it.
That's a nice bit of flash work.
Lane's going to be here.
Everyone's here for scary.
Even that smoke fades.
It's just fading now.
It's not just those Muff Kings and Alt there as well, though.
Does that lull them in?
I'll be behind him.
Yeah, DOOMAC can punish this.
He will activate.
Those sheriffs are already aware.
He cognizant of it and DOOMAC elects not to push.
We're gonna try and take some space now. Right, the fact that Zontis and Donkdead, that's your mid defender and your A defender down.
The AWP showed himself 17 and 5, sure, but you're just gonna try and put pressure and force the rotation.
The man to address this likely to near. Here's the smoke, here's the molly.
John's over from red, and Shiro's here from donor as well, trying to catch anybody up on the ledge.
Now Flash is for to near to get onto site.
He's heard that.
He's seen up on tree.
to the head,
all this in needs, one hell of a first
right to provide and now you've got to get into the all pitch
shero though. Four versus two goes three.
And that had just been it.
One on the side of the rotation. How's the
activate now? Yeah, but shero's ready. He's ready for everything.
Doesn't hit the flick up. Picking back into
Dumo. Is that a death sentence? How quick is he?
Not quick enough.
Donk and Zontics are all in M4 range and should have been able to get an AWP in his hands after all.
It's a gift for Shiro. He's near a Diggle with no Kevlar, a little bit of Yuto.
That's going to be tough round for him coming up next but legacy, you can still see the comms
are flowing. The team works there. They're not out of this one yet and they've got mid-space.
What a feeling. Taking Donk's territory away from him is Dumau.
smoke break
not visible
spot on the go-way
the smoke walks
now unprepared
the bait and switch
Zontik's just mag dumping through
Shira has all this A man can draw
right now on B you drop your nade
you block
you know that this has to be the response
crazy for the orb to have that info
and crazy for an orb
to hit that shot on Dong
the dash is in crossing
so a late equalizer
Shiro's forward position elbow will limit options for this pivot. Hang on, is he hearing
them spawn? Oh no! Listen I'm prepared again for Shiro's aggressive orc line.
That makes you get a big hit.
He is the shepherd. Legacy the sheep. Try finding T'near, that's a big one back into
the 3 on 3 but they still have to find Shiro and with 45 they're indecisive.
was moving spawn back to lane.
Jax going down would be a catastrophe.
That's the only man that can defend B.
Well, they cleared out middle.
At least they fought something back, but still,
you need to find the finish.
30 seconds, bad flash, not going to cost them.
Both teams in motion right now.
Oh, it's uncomfortable.
Asking an answering question.
Shiro stays over the wall there with the AWP.
Worried about Donut and Main.
There's Smoke for CT on Lato.
20 seconds, they are going to have to do this loud.
And once again on low time, you run into Shiro.
as he once again positioned himself perfectly to deny legacy.
A tight ball game.
Tag? Try has to plant. Just in time starts to punch in that code.
Arches peppering, firing bullets, trying to overcome Shiro just so.
There's one from try. Magic's in that drop, but there's Art for a 6-6 scoreline.
That's a stretch to a final round of that half right there.
Both teams just out in the nubring one, another back and forth,
but what a half from Shiro was. 19 kills deep.
Find the flag for Team Spirit right now.
Listen, this man that was the monster against Na'Vi to eliminate them earlier in the tournament, 1 and 9, all they said was it's going to be tough.
To have an extremity player from that level of output is never going to be easy.
Kiki start.
All is follow up and this is where the round got out of control.
Everybody pushing, pulling everywhere.
Everybody pulling out here just yet, we're all tied up.
Nice!
That's if we do it again right now on ancient
The smokes on this pistol two brothers could zoom out hit and smoke for art
Spirit pistol get a Molly the smoke a double flash and the red smokes already in play
Well, peppering through from Red, seeing if he can catch anything on a bit of the timing.
He's going to have to get that reload in.
Last EQ.
Donkford is a path forwards.
Out by Try.
No immediate U-Till, but on this, he's in trouble once more.
Amonatov forces it forward.
Donk tries to get in.
Foad's dead.
Try takes him down.
A pivot to B for Spirit.
Playing retake.
The bomb could get planted.
He's a proactive.
This seems quick on that.
fast rotation but still the 42nd should begin in a moment's time. We think so.
Yeah jumping out, throwing cross. Hang on, try and Lato get every shot. Nice one!
Everyone connects! Try and Lato get the job done between the two of them.
Just didn't want to hit that pedal right there. Thought Spirit would just run
into the side, the hand was forced. If the dunk goes down, they don't win that fight.
You can't be getting that ace splitted. That is the flawless round for legacy.
Nice shooting, where there's no snow, no flash, there's nothing in your face. This is how
crispy the voice can be.
It will just be the eco from Spirit. We've got double flash on Magix, not a deagle, not
a p250.
It will be a slow one.
So they can capitalize on any over-aggressions. So conceiving what should be the eighth
round to Legacy now before the guns come back in.
Just one hand necessary.
Tongue's chillin'.
I guess you should show good restraint right now, they're not being pressured.
Now why are we going to throw a block smoke if we don't have to?
It's a false spirit to do something.
I'm blocks and two flashes it's not a recipe for success it was made not bad
okay ricochets the wrong way look like it was destined for damage the smoke
towards cave 50 seconds now and one to block ramps up agonizing is the
feeling for spirit not being given any easy opportunities. He
breaks the silence. Once a dog knows there's no mistake. There's
no way in in this flash. The meat grinder. Oh, stylish lock
the block. He goes down and
you have it eight to six four
stand alive. Can drop an AWP
for try. He can give that
import over to do now and.
And bring out the green effect
like it doesn't appear to be
the case, so. I'm going to stay
life will set trick on this
one. Looks like nothing
background unfortunately, but
that's just the way she
on the T side of Dust2. Slow. Steady. Measured.
There goes aim mapping and all the magics just get around the corner to Nino so lucky.
There's the dog trade go. Oh, and he goes anti in between the two.
Dips back in nearly. All the smoke has nisimed really.
Oh, and an easy pick from Donk. Just catches our clothesline.
He's in just three kills. TV wants more, but Doom out denies.
The mission's accomplished though. The guns come out.
But Donk multi-kill comes through.
Shiro and Donk have 35 frags between the two of them.
The backpack is out right now.
The two of them are doing a whole lot of work right there.
The rest of them have 10 combined.
It will be interesting to see in the replay if Tri flashed himself
in that moment before the swing.
Oh, you're right.
Because he was going to... Yes!
He didn't have his hand over his eyes.
I didn't see anything as an assist in the feed.
Good point. Well made. Good catch.
Eight to seven, one round gap.
I always think it's so stylish to see players do the empty down,
straight to the floor and back up again.
There's another dog moment.
They keep coming.
And inevitability in a match of counter-strike versus team spirit.
They're running out of hands to count these on.
Shoot this again. Okay, the trade.
To me, you go first. That's all right, mate.
Yeah, he can flash himself.
He did.
That's going to make things easier for Donk, isn't it?
Haha, I didn't know it was possible to flash yourself without the presence of a mirror.
So Zontik has himself...
...no head armour.
He could have been dropped to...
...then the mix here, so he could have equipped himself, but all in all will...
...see how this really impacts the next round of play.
Probably not a lot, with second tactical time I've made the other money.
It's kind of where thin. You get the pistol, you get the conversion, but we get the early rifle round.
And now you're down to
just like a little bit shake here. Again, it's going to give them down to you too.
We spoke about it in the first half. On the T side, how it limits your options, the same with the CT side to block.
You can see it there, one run up, with that graphical on stage. As far as sniper kills go, 14 of the 20 Shiro was posted
with the big green. He was doing a great job on the CT side, keeping up so much pressure.
Yeah, he's constantly taking peeks. That's what you want from an all-prone agent to be active and active
He was onto the rifle this one though
Team Olly's are gonna keep them at bay and who's for do now
They're going for a contact walk mid how does that interact with this setup?
They're not to know.
They're fading. Sure, I might get caught in the tail of this.
That would be the bong.
Ooh!
Lift past undetected.
It's an A-split, they've just smoked off over towards B-lane.
But there's three of them here in the vicinity.
When do you realise they're looking that way now?
Definitely.
Two AKs, sound off CT.
Back of the turn!
Back of the turn!
Doom is going to be screaming, they're right next to me.
The flash is catching him, Sontek throws blood.
Takton temple trying not where you want to be with an AWP,
especially now with flames in the hold, spawn goes down.
And Shiro gives up CT spawn, he had the rotation covered off,
but now that he dips back there, they're trying to clear him out.
Meanwhile, Spirit are taking donut space, setting up the post plant.
You don't have a key, you don't have a chance, you're going to have to save.
Ooh, if you can, Tanez removed, missed him.
Well, that tough game for Nism continues.
I know he's not the only one dragon.
He seals his ontoes with three, Teneir with four, Magix with five,
but Nism, one kill to his name.
Things are going to get tough, but that is way too easy, isn't it?
How mid, just walking under the smoke, they get across just before it fades.
That's a very stylish call.
The eight offenders, you're saying there's three there.
Two box player. Back open. Donut player. Back open.
Where are you meant to push? You're in a box.
You'll have to take a fight.
And it wasn't like they hadn't announced their presence.
They start popping shots towards Lato and they were still concerned about anything coming through the donut late
This one's just shoved all in here. It's a
Nice old backer right back in forth got to keep our eyes on this these guys
Chopping and changing their mind. It looks like they want to force bar behind these sites
No, they might not get many more opportunities with an AWP and tries ham down the stretch
Starting three movement events. They try stuff to choke
He's trying to be disruptive of Donk's parving.
Audible to Donk on the burn.
He's asking for one mic to provide his own.
Takes the space, forces tried back.
Anticipates a re-aggress but manages to progress.
That's the smoke break plate!
We've got profits!
Magic spots that, he's seen it.
He knows what's up.
Action on Teneir now.
Two walking down that ramp, Teneir's ready.
Man off! Look at the strafe on him! Gets hit with the MP9.
Backing away.
Bomber detected on the back.
Magic.
Through the so hard to track right now.
Yeah.
You're taking five stunts, push up towards red, you push P-lanes, there's two players there.
Well, guess what? They're about to walk out A-Mane, which is just being spotted by Doom now.
Does he hold the cross?
He goes temple.
So by slipping in, there's a big gap.
Try and donut short.
Bombing bound.
Unannounced.
They might just clear this out silently. Yeah, and this is a horrible one. Hang on.
Important swing. Yeah, the fact he gets a little more active catches one of them
and so now the jig is up. Attention is drawn. Try is looking in the right
direction but Zontik's still the unknown entity being cleared out now.
Fahad the AK. Headshot found. No immediate trade. They know try likely
donut. It's Lato you're not ready for. Comes running and gunning.
A lead shot onto Magik's hit already so should be set to collect here.
Compromised clutch for Magix.
Just wait until he starts planting, play the bomb.
Except force Magix to be the one to make the move.
Don't just give him a fight.
And now, running out of time,
Magix is the one who's going to have to force the issue.
So, 10 seconds.
You don't really want to hold onto the glill.
Can you do any more damage?
You got plenty of cash.
You don't really need that lost bonus, but Lato,
make sure you're going to get it.
To legacy.
And he's backing the lead, 9-8.
We're going to get a brawl today.
A bit more of a chess match with how some of these moves are unfolding.
But you're right about trying to keep track of Team Spirit.
This round, they were right behind.
Sontics and Tongs went out mid.
Two out A, two behind the B doors.
That's when the drops as we get a tactical timeout from Halley.
What's bonus for either team going into the next?
The Spirit will be 1900, the Legacy will only be 1400, have a little bit of extra cash on
R and zoom out.
Roll and all, that's a force by position you'll find yourself in, so if you lose the sight
early, you'll be expecting a save.
Not knowing as well that they're fully strapped, but for how long?
I think an important time-out to steady yourself, but you're also giving that opportunity
To the Brazilians as we are ready to get back underway. What's the opening gonna look like?
I'm gonna try as luck in the middle again. If you get the space, why don't you take it?
I'm getting it pretty consistently
You can say that every round he wants it, he's called south
Who smoked two mollies invested his dough they're going for this smoke break
Oh and unison with the flash
I'm trying to work himself into the game, there's a lot of information and it also means that
you can give up Donut.
Try pushing down the extremity of B-Ramp.
Magic's unprepared for this.
Ooh, the trade immediate.
Just where you want to see out of Shiro's AWP on this T-Side, Azontics.
He knows what's up, catches Nyssen, activating.
Doesn't erupt and take the space immediately.
Just gonna plot it they play to their own pace here spirit
So slow roll in a will be three expecting more aggressive maneuvers
Define decent you till the legacy to try and force them elsewhere now starting to congregate and group up towards be now
They want to execute or do they want to contact looks like they're gonna play shiro's off ramp blocked
Don't want to go through this. It's a good timing on these blocky till.
Lato playing Audacious, that smoke break would have exposed him.
He's just thought twice about that at the right time.
Time's going to be the problem now. 25 seconds.
Look at that. They're going to fake beep. Pivot A.
Such a good call because look at the reaction.
I have to stand up.
They're now running for the hills.
He's abandoned his post.
I'm going to give it a try.
Last second pivot out of spirit
to a wide open bombsite. One of
the best feelings we discussed
that financial situation, so
they're not going to give this
one a look. Sure is going to
hold the line and see if you
can catch anybody to now
considering the cave plan.
Sure is also going to be here
in some of these steps
behind the thing. Not too
I'll be able to drop the AWP try to get that back in his hands I'll be able to give himself
right to the right, but they
do have enough to contest.
No, at this moment, if they
win this round, legacy don't
save anything. It is going to
have to be the option of a
really bad force or more
likely of an eco. At that
point, you're sitting on 11
just to a weight and lock it
spot in the grand final against foot tomorrow. So I'm all riding on this one.
Don'ts is so casual, just strides out middle. Eating flashbangs but space taken.
Smoke break he gets spotted and eliminated. Nessun combines up the ramp though.
Teneir to try and lead the charge. Donks provides the trade. There's magic
with one. Teneir and Navarato goes down. The B site looking lost. There's two more
here though. Doomal giving it his best shot. He's ahead of the flames.
Behind the smoke and puns to near
They fight for don't easy on to miss it
Now you hunt now you chase you try and take these guns away as you can
First you establish the round is yours, and then you try and rip these out of legacy's hands
You turn the screws you punish them
And you look for that freebie of a round if you could take it all away
Stay turtle then type this is some restrained counter strike by both teams
It's a big moments with individuals who's breaking in this with a team effort
to near don't get magics all
during the scoreboard as part of
that.
Saves keep the conversation alive,
but it's so limited.
Your choice at this moment is
forced by behind the saved
AWP and the import.
We'll take the eco, we're
next round you get a 24
you get a 2400 loss bonus but to get an all-power is going to be very difficult.
Someone will have to make a big sacrifice and then make it look simple.
This one closer than the last shot and a bit more of a back-and-forth to see.
So it's like a warp. That's spirit. In the position where you break
legacy's hearts and you eliminate them right here right now.
Nominal run taking down Navi and then Falcons both in 2-0 fashion.
statement victories but then you go up against spirit for the first time ever
and this one has a different flavor, makes you don't look as fearless, don't look as in your face
and they're not just running near trying to stuff Donk in the choke they're giving him respect
he's getting out he's setting the tone from that position
he's on six as well with his parking just there just demonstrate how little
resistance there is if you do want to walk out mid on that first timing
it's not a full shot but Art doing art things he's going to bring out a max seven into this one
High playing ahead of the donor smoke again.
Usually got flashes for that.
Shiro on the ult, so we're going to put their body on the line for this.
The spirit now for the game right now is identifying where these guns are.
One annouces their presence.
Arb is going to be baited by his teammate here, missing.
It's all part of the plan.
Another great flash.
Not the end of the world either.
Oh, I'm no foul.
Let's work on mid flashes, just as Doom out and try and start it to rotate. These are the two saved guns.
I'm responsible for A. If they do a full execute, which is not available unless the smokes are on the ground.
Working with a couple of mollies.
Flash is on some nades. This is...
Ooh, there's one.
Okay, so what's your choice here?
Magics, though.
Top round of call without any information at 40 seconds.
Yeah, this is getting a bit uncomfortable for Team Spirit to find at 11th.
Mega spotted.
Is he alone? The question the CTs ask. Do now and try those two.
Both here on the A site.
Spirit's focus for their finish.
Top down cleanly from Dumau.
The majority of the Nades still action on Donut.
They're closing in.
Zontics a necessary frag.
They're giving him a side.
Try didn't want to hang around.
He didn't want to try and disrupt this plan.
The bomb will go down with plenty of time.
Oh, there is so much trouble now.
Spirit an 11th imminent.
Try wanting to hold on to what he has.
Ah, just an armored shotgun.
Just finding that part of Least Resistance, despite DOOM house best efforts, just a one.
Another round where they save.
In every round lost, legacy being saving.
Guns again, retain.
That lost burn is 2400, coming into the next.
Can you get yourself a bit of extra cash and maybe an AK report?
Oh!
I should have walked into that next round of play.
No chance!
Good luck, mate.
To me, we're looked at punished.
He's got some pettards.
Ziggs will take out with him.
There's another weapon for the mix.
It was just a shotgun shot.
Lada still wanted to get his hands on it.
It's crotch time.
Soon to be key-crossing time
unless they can turn things around.
This one hasn't delivered
in terms of action packs.
Spirit looking comfortable.
Spirit looking in control.
Let's go look at two rounds away from being done with this series
He's all overwatched for this round
He's gonna be blind, he's gonna be so blind
This is the perfect util, they've punished the forward aggress of the all-part next victim
Don
Doing dumb things brought down by Lats over the post as a trade
Set up to succeed man advantage Madsic's on the plant on the pillar hasn't committed and oh
He just goes looking for more trouble. I was on his own that support
It wasn't there shiro in the back lines on six over the Wardell, but now it's missing the man has been struggling all map long
Will he save again? You got to give something to go at some point. Oh
You're running out of chance. You're running into zontics
Zontik stalks his prey and this he's got his knife so a gun fight, his 12th for spirit,
the 8th for arena tomorrow within reach.
The legacy, it felt like it was going tip for tap for a while, a 6-6 half, a legacy pistol,
you think, maybe just maybe they can put up the fight necessary, but what it is now
Now a run into these sites, consistent four on the trot.
Yeah, you take a look at this series overall.
Three out of the four pistols.
They won two clutches in the first map.
They were winning out in terms of the opening kills.
And right now, they're about to be sent home.
Sent to that third place decider tomorrow against Furia.
The bludgeoning on B will continue.
Long, backs away from that.
Laco's not going to give this up.
He's up close, up well.
No immediate trade on the back pedal.
Don't stop trying. K-Off for R. Only able to provide the one though.
Nade looks like it's got a lot of those numbers.
Yeah, 16 and the flames just put by Taneir. Legacy.
In trouble.
Taneir spots out Dumao. It's a farmhouse. They're not in any rush here.
The whole spot's here.
And Legacy, after slaying a couple of big names, they're going in A.
Rubbin' so in the wound!
I just missed him!
You can't save this one, mate!
Gotta give it everything it's worth.
But Spirit have got their sights set.
What a bigger trophy.
A battle for that tomorrow.
This one runs in.
Maitrena 1v1 on the 2HP.
Who else but Shiro to close it on down?
A low HP, not enough.
But Spirit do it in tune.
You pick ancient and that's the spirit. We're nine straight. Let's make that a 10 map of winning streak and the victory over vitality
It might have felt like Nirvana, but this grand final spot smells like team spirit as they have locked this one in with ease
They have waltzed over legacy
They were making a name for themselves as the giant slayers MIBR, Navi and Falcons all falling in straight sets
It's spirit, but we haven't had to talk about that best-of-one loss against Gigi how Gigi who?
as they have taken care of business here today.
Oh, and they're individuals all online as well.
The team, the machine, it's all operational.
Shiro looking more proactive than normal as well.
He's aggy, he's disruptive.
He's been a thorn in legacy side
throughout Ancient in particular,
but even over on Dust2, but those two maps,
comfortable turf and legacy unable to muster the courage,
the ability to overcome them.
Take a look at the scoreboard at Sinear Magics.
not putting up mega numbers but they were playing their roles they were playing their positions the team right now came in and
controlled the tempo and turned against legacy something Falcons failed to do something Navi got overwhelmed by
legacy their run will come to a close
Congratulations to team spirit from making it to the grand finals congratulations to new
Welcome to the big arena.
The first question I wanted to ask you is that you guys are known to be very cold and composed.
You are passive sometimes, you punish many of the mistakes that the enemy does.
How are you handling this in front of 7000 people?
How are you not troubling under pressure at any time?
It's a very hard question.
Usually, we just support each other and trust each other and we really don't care what happened during the crown.
Samex stays, we just handle it.
And today, my guess is insane, I got carried.
Don't say that, it's always a team work, but it is your play.
Your team played very well.
First question, how do you manage the pressure?
You are a long-term team that makes a lot of mistakes.
How do you manage to not take the pressure in 7,000 people like that?
Honestly, it's a difficult question.
I think we all tried to focus, depending on the round, we tried to go next, we tried to forget.
And today, I'm done.
Honestly, it makes me happy.
And I don't know if you saw, I had a very long interview with Donk yesterday.
I'm just kidding.
But I want to ask you the same question I asked him yesterday.
What did it mean to you beating Vitality finally yesterday
and did it give you confidence for today and going further for the finals?
Well, that means for me. I don't know, I just was happy and that's it.
Feeling relieved, finally, of getting it and excited about the grand finals, I imagine.
Sorry?
Are you excited about the grand finals? How excited are you?
Yeah, yeah, sure.
You want to play for it? Evidemment.
We are fighting for this sport.
In the grand final, it's obviously a pleasure to have battled Vitality as well.
And one more question before the key question.
We saw on this tournament all the big teams eliminated. Vitality, Falcons, Feria are out. Why not you guys?
Because we keep it up and fighting during tournaments and just working about ourselves.
Just working, reflecting about yourselves as well and that's what we saw definitely on the server.
And I think it's my time to welcome you Tamir to the key crusher, the last one before the grand finals.
And our key master is going to show you the way here in Paris.
It is the penultimate key to be crushed.
And it is at the STC arena. All that is left now is the grand finals.
And I can guarantee you that Team Spirit are ready for it!
Congratulations against India.
I'm going to welcome you back in front of your fans for one last question.
You're going to see these guys tomorrow at the big arena in front of 11,000 people.
What do you want to tell them?
Thank you guys for your support and see you in the Grand Final.
See you in the Grand Final with Mr. Fadjibouin.
We're going to see you tomorrow for the Grand Finals at the Acor Arena.
See you there!
There was a level of tenacity that was missing, and I think the fear factor when you go up against a player like Donk,
it's always going to put you in a corner.
And it's tough, right? Because you have an identity as legacy.
You're an aggressive team. You like to get stuck in, but if we know that, everybody knows that.
And Spirit did a very good job today of keeping a lid on it.
You have to give a shout out to Shira with the AWP.
She had a fantastic series, and it was Donk, right?
Those are the two players that you look to be putting in numbers.
But when you take a look at the macro, when you look at the Counter-Strike played,
It's the whole team, right? The information coming in the way that are able to control the pushes from legacy that had them come out on top today. 13-7, 13-9.
Some of me thinks that they've done a lot of convincing for the crowd as well. You know, we've seen these interviews where they say, well, wherever we go, we're going to beat the ones booed.
I don't know, there is a growing spirit support crew here in Paris, and I'm sure they'll be in the A-core tomorrow.
But we've got the brackets up on screen, and you can see who they'll be playing against.
Not necessarily who we thought we'd be seeing in the grand final from the top side of the bracket.
Now I've fought with a miraculous runner. I think the fact that they take down mouse starting to become the kryptonite for miles
That's four straight series and then up against fury. That was a battle that was back and forth short
Nuke a little bit of a weakness but I showed some class on the other two and
Today the match spirit versus legacy never happened before we're gonna get the same tomorrow with foot versus spirit
Right, it's the the Navier Academy no more
All right
This is a punchy punchy bucket a bunch of youngsters with x-flat in they haven't skipped a beat right longs out x-flat in
Okay, they're just as good if not better and I think right now as you're seeing this team evolve
There's no reason I expect them to relent to make they're gonna be on the stage
They're gonna get a little bit nervy
But this is a team that play with aggression and I hope that we don't get them snuffed out in the same way
We saw legacy today. Yeah, I don't know whether or not they're ready
Yeah, it looks so good and when they're playing like the team play everything it just flows so nicely
We know that don't crowns are inevitable. Will you be able to hold your mental?
Will you be able to win that marathon of cows reckon the best of five as well in front of such a large crowd?
Are you ready for that? I think there is no better team to prove it against if you can actually get past team spirit
Yeah, I think that's key right there made the run even more legit
Yes, and this is the only team undefeated in the tournament so far
So if they're able to keep this up, right I talked about the GG how I talked about that GG victory over
Spirit I think that maybe a wake-up call you hit dogs out
We need a couple of days to fix our problems from the group into the playoffs and then they find themselves
today looking damn good but we're going to club a championship update to take a
look at here at EWC. The next 40 minutes are going to determine the winners of the
club championship. Seven million dollars on the line and Chris, pick up down to this.
I don't know what you said Jenny but I cannot believe we are stood here on the
second half of AWC and track mania is deciding it all. Gwen from AGL doesn't need to come first,
he doesn't need to come second, just third in this very final match here for track mania,
all he needs to do and then the 2026 AWC club champions will be AGL. I mean how we're
beginning of this we called them the dark horse, I don't think we expected this.
They were not on our radar to begin with, but here we are now.
EWC 24 was Falcons.
EWC 25 was also Falcons.
But EWC 20-26 is yet to be determined.
That's crazy, considering the way Falcons were eliminated, right?
A couple more wins and that could have been a difference maker.
But tomorrow, Championship Sunday.
A core arena.
Last time Counter-Strike was in that arena.
It was Vitality winning the major over Game Allusion.
right now we've got spirit the favorite up against plucky underdog foot
About you know having a little bit of something so let's hope this time it's a bit more of a competitive final best of five
You can see here
We got the third place decided at 10 a.m. The grand final at 130
I had this fury versus legacy battle for best in brazil do you think so to all you spirit fans here
You know that don't count your chickens and don't go too hard celebrating the win tonight because you've got a big one
And you got to be a maybe an early start as well
Please note that the grand finals start time is subject to the completion of the earlier match. Oh, that makes sense
I will not begin. Yeah, right. We got to finish the first one first
If it goes long then we will start that final when it's done that makes a lot of sense
Well, we heard from your kinder earlier today
He doesn't really care about it
But I think the fans do and the viewers in the arena will too that is a day done here
EWC for counterstrike. Should we say goodbye? I think we'll say goodbye Chad
And we'll see you and the you tomorrow in the eight-core arena
I
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You've got the power!
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