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And it's Nisten.
You can't save this one, mate.
Gonna give it everything it's worth.
The Spirit have got their sights set.
What a bigger trophy.
A battle for that tomorrow.
Nisten runs in.
Leighton and Watby won on the 2HB.
Who else for Shiro?
To close it on down.
A low HP, not enough.
But the Spirit is doing it into it.
You pick ancient and that's the Spirit.
We're not in it straight. Let's make that a 10 and map will win in stream
And the victory of the Vitality it might have felt on Nevada, but this ground final spot smells like team spirit
Welcome to the EWC Spotlight where we are about to break down everything that we have
seen so far.
We have some amazing guests with us starting with Sandstorm, Twiggy, and of course, A.G.
Hey, hey, hey, how's Any Chen?
OOOOOHH!
It's a研究 now!
You're just ran off from the trophy area!
Yes!
It's not your time to get old!
You know, you're something in code code.
If I got a colleague, yeah, but it's very exciting.
Yeah, happy moment, yes.
Tell me about that moment where you stood
on stage with everyone from Track Media
and with Gwen, just knowing
the EWC 26
was yours.
It is very exciting
and I just can't believe it.
I like living in a dream
and
because, you know, this week
we are very fond of the boys.
Yeah, sometimes our chance of getting champion seems to be quite high, but sometimes I always drop to very bottom.
Yeah, I always drop to very bottom, yeah, but I think that is the lovely of the yeast boss.
So, we like never give up and also we trust on our players and we believe that they can try their best and finally we made it.
Let's talk about the start of the day though, because we did have some contention with Fortnite, AGL, Falcons, who was going to be able to walk away with a lot of points, and I mean, since when? Why didn't we end up seeing it?
I'll give you the mode, I mean, but it started off very, very well. I want to say, for Falcons, they were in third place after like 5 or 6 games.
Boyle and Peterbot ended up getting a win at the
I want to say at some point I became 5 or 6
and then it just all fell apart
they started falling down AGAL
Sky and Skrull were in 17th
they climbed all the way to the 10th
they were competing with Boyle and Peterbot
and then at the end of the day
Big Clash, you have the winners from the Summit Major
previously in Ficard Malibu
they did it again
they proved that they are the best doing to do it
but at the end of the day I want to say
Falcons, Boyle, Peterbot, they dropped the ball
not even top eight, not even top eight,
especially after all the things that Peter Vaughn has been saying,
I wanna win this for Falcons.
I woke up early because I heard, oh no,
we lost Carl Jr. from Trackvania as well.
Are you kidding me?
Seven-time world champion couldn't do it?
Who made it to the finals?
That's insane.
What was it like for you backstage,
maybe watching with the rest of the team,
seeing how Fortnite was going down?
I can say that many things happen every unexpected day.
Especially like these two weeks, many of our estimation actually is so different with the
outcomes.
Yeah, so it is very exciting and unexpected.
Yeah, but finally we are so happy and thanks for the support for all the fans and we made
it.
Absolutely.
Before I continue asking you some very important questions about the club championship, we
have a question for Chad.
Chad, who surprised you the most during EWC 26?
Let us know in the comments in the chat
or I don't know, scream it out into the world.
I mean, anyone who surprises, cry me.
15 year old winning an EWC title, that's crazy.
And also the youngest EWC champion, that's my shout.
Oh, incredibly so.
But listen, we do have to talk a little bit
about club championship and also the game
where all of the points are hacked up in Trackmania.
Did you think that Trackmania was going to be the deciding game of the event?
Before the game we
Didn't expect that this will be the game designer
Yeah, but it's because like the game honestly is quite new to us
I think also very new to the community
But it is the beauty of the eSports that there are always some new games new players
So we learn about this game, like also take a lot of analysis as well and we find out to very, very high potential player and then we are so glad that we can work with them and thank you.
Okay, actually follow up question. What kind of car are you buying for Gwen as a bonus?
I mean I just ran over from casting it I like you could see you can see and you
could hear that I was unbelievable Gwen didn't just win he destroyed the
competition when nobody else had a chance it was unbelievable you know earlier
today seeing Carl Jr go out we didn't think that was gonna happen whatsoever
we thought it was gonna be a much closer fight but when I don't know I don't
even know because we came into it we weren't really expecting Gwen to I don't
know I think third was definitely doable for Gwen but first and in that
fashion he wanted it all yeah it's it's the best game of any e-sport I've
ever seen. Oh my gosh I just we also saw the fans right Gwen's family in the crowd
you were out there on the stage what was that excitement like could you feel
it in the air during that final moment? Yes this is very exciting and I even have
a little bit of cry and so touching and we always like would love to invite
the parents and the relatives of the players to join together so like we have different
defense participating and we also invite quite a lot of parents to join and enjoy the moment
also with the players. Now if I could maybe peer into your mind just for a moment here because
just so you know in case for some reason anyone doesn't know this is the first time that Falcons
is not winning the EWC. You have unseated them. Picking up the first EWC win for AGAL. You
guys had consistency across the board. We saw some nice performance in Tech and a little
bit of Apex Legends. What is AGAL's secret? AGAL's secret.
I think our global expansion actually in just three years. But actually our organization
started in 1999. So I think we are one of the like very long history organization and
also we respect the players. We treat them as the family and also we like have very good
training system for them. We know how to find very good coach and also the coach can help
us to scout for the players. So our team thanks very much to my team. My team did
a very very good job and under the leadership of our chairman Lane. I have to say whoever
scouted Zubair as well, are you kidding me? $2,000 earnings to win EWC from the LCKU?
Yes! Come on! Get down in the race!
Alright and let's go ahead and take a look at our final club championship standings
as they are just to see how big that point gap is for AGAL. It started as just 200
I mean it's absolutely insane seeing A.V.A.L. first place and not only that it's the fact that they also ended it with winning a
Trackmania competition at the eSports World Cup and we get to see the rest of the teams
I want to say participating here and as long as you have two top eights you get part of the prize pool
Amazing amazing, but again we did I just again
The excite that we had, the excitement that we had, although, you know, we still do have
one more grand final in the future to talk about Counter-Strike.
That we do.
I mean, when we're looking at Counter-Strike, a little switch up, out of nowhere, I don't
even know how.
Foot, take down Furia, like, new lineup, new players, and it's just absolutely insane.
They took him down in a 2-1 fashion, and then Spirit versus Legacy.
Spirit wasn't gonna go down without a fight.
They took him down 2-0, quick, clean, easy-peasy, so now it's gonna be Foot
Versus spirit in the finals and it's gonna be an all-Brazilian third-place matchup
I believe with furia versus legacy now that
I just want to go for the fans
That's it
I just want to be around the fans with all the energy all the excitement because you know Brazilian fans are insane
I think rocket league also had some like region v region matchups as well
But again one final game that we got to talk about cross fire because if you guys noticed team liquid
Stuck jumping up in some of those standings they did they made it all the way to the grand finals
But once again, I want to say Chinese representatives in Baisha Gaming took them down 3-0 quick clean easy fight
And they get themselves the title that they lost out on last year to AGAL
But I mean you guys got the bigger piece of the pie here. You got the club champion
You guys are very happy with that one at the end of the day
Incredible, but Eddie I want to think first of all three of you for joining
But Eddie want to give you the opportunity anything that you want to say to the AGAL family right here right now after
secure and
Yes, I would like to say like super thank you to all our fans and also to all our
colleagues my team players and coaches
Can I repeat in Cantonese in Mandarin? Yeah
Thank you very much, Eddie. Thank you to Eddie
and Sam Swarm for joining me as well.
Everyone, this has been the EWC Spotlight.
We've got one left and we will see you there.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Oh my goodness.
The players stood out as underdogs, beyond Mongolian's qualities rewriting East Port's
history.
They're up in the series!
Mongols close to throwing another knockout blow.
Two kills away!
The eSports World Cup.
The most elite competition in the world.
Its trophy system is built to match.
The Club Championship Trophy.
Awarded to the one club that rose above the rest
and reigned supreme across all EWC games.
Every participant earns a key, engraved with their name. That's their right to compete.
Raining champions hold a key unlike any other.
The game trophy is the ultimate prize for every game's champion.
Incomplete until a champion's key is inserted.
The champion's key frame is locked into the total, a stone marker of legacy.
Enched with every EWC Champion. The losing keys are crushed.
The Champion claims three. A personal reminder of who they defeated.
The rest are preserved beneath the Totem, in Resin. Every fallen contender, captured forever.
Will you be remembered?
Or forgotten beneath the totem?
At EWC, nothing is granted.
Everything is earned.
He thinks he can come in here and play my game!
Enough, nothing!
OHHHHHH!
Tyler Y, you're done.
This is my ladder! You can't fight it!
It's better than being hard-sucking masters.
You're going too far now!
Your eyes, your elbows, your ass, you devil!
That's an airline? That's an airline!
Somebody better hold me back!
Okay, yeah, do something then.
He's like nervous.
He looks short.
Everything's good?
Fight.
Okay.
You look short. Everything's good?
The one?
Fight.
Okay.
You really need the wraps?
Yeah, that feels like an overkill to me.
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The club championship is the beating heart of the eSports World Cup.
Over 7 weeks, eSports clubs send their players to compete.
Every placement, every win, every podium, earned points for their club.
At the end of 7 weeks, every point counts.
The club at the top walks away with 7 million dollars and the title of best e-sports club in the world.
It's not about being the best of one game, it's about being the best across all of them.
Death, versatility, consistency, under pressure.
One championship trophy, one title. Who will take it?
Take it.
Watch history unfold in Paris at the Esports World Cup 2026.
Now, you mentioned how tight you are with Apex.
Did you get a great deal for this two-year deal that you just signed?
I'm not worried about the opportunity after career.
You know, sometimes we do say a lot during panels.
we have to help the players before they enter eSports and after they're leaving eSports.
For Apex and Zayu, life will be fine.
Yes, life will be fine.
It's a great nation, by the way.
It's a great nation, by the way.
And they deserve it.
We are here at the Sony Manga Booth for the one piece experience in
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
miss this.
Now there is a special secret that we can activate here.
I'm going to go ahead and see if I can figure out how to do just that.
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 at the one piece photo booth so you can figure
out what your bounty is.
Oh that's adorable!
Okay, just under three mil, you know what, we take that.
Look how freaking cute.
Oh my God!
So please come out and experience one piece as it has not been done before.
Oh my God!
So please, come out and experience one piece
as it has not been experienced before.
I mean, come on!
Also, one thing that people need to understand
is when a player joins an organization
from the really beginning to the end of the contract,
he has one thing to take care of is being good at the game.
We cover everything.
But literally, we cover everything.
And if we don't cover everything, you can be sure that Eve is the top players.
Two or three people behind will make sure that he covers everything.
So we have a player that is fully assisted and is not also equipped to go out there and outside.
And you know, like then doing, okay, but what I'm supposed to do, you know, financially, I have no education.
I don't know where is my money.
Yeah, sometimes.
You know, like my parents, my agents, my kind of con-seals.
So there is also a lot of sad story that nobody like showcase, but it's happening.
And it's good that we put a lot of, not a lot, but spotlight on it and we discuss it.
It's the eSports World Cup Club championships all culminating this weekend, Sunday at that
A-core arena. But before we get there, we certainly need some answers.
And I thought the best place to do that might be here at this little tower they've got.
You might have heard of it. It's called the Eiffel.
Now I see the Eiffel, but I'm looking to see an Eiffel.
I'm trying to find out who knows the most about the club championships this weekend.
Let's go on a little adventure, shall we? It's man on the street.
What's up? You guys playing video games or what?
Yeah, of course.
What eSports titles? What do you play?
Dota 2, CS 2.
Yeah, Dota and CS 2.
Okay, CS 2. It's a good day to talk about some CS 2.
And in doing so, Fury of Foot, Legacy Spirit,
what do you think about the eSports World Cup club championships here in Paris in 2026?
So I really like it. I watched White Out vs Spirit yesterday and it was crazy.
Like how Donka got killed by the Grenade by Begex.
But that's what happens!
Oh no no no!
David!
Yeah, that was a real funny.
Good throw or bad throw?
What do you think?
Nice, James.
It's a good throw, but bad time.
You know, a good throw or a bad time.
All things considered, how do you think that this shapes up?
Who do you think wins now?
Yeah, I think it was good for Spirit and maybe Legacy.
They looked good against Navi and maybe there will be Spirit.
Where are you from?
Ukraine
Yeah Ukraine as well
Gentlemen thank you very much
Have a good afternoon
Thanks so much
YouTube, do you know anything about video games?
Do you know anything about esports?
Oh I love it
Oh well what do you play?
League of Legends?
Yes me too
Are you guys here in Paris?
Just visiting?
Are you for the Esports World Cup Club Championships?
Just visiting
Really?
Did you know that the Esports World Cup Club Championships are ending here?
This Sunday?
It's actually about tomorrow
Oh however I didn't know
Just check it out it's at the AQ Arena
It's going to be sick
You want to be there
Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you
Thank you. Do you know anything about a counter strike? I do
What do you think?
I think it's one of the greatest e-sports
Go e-sports you could say. Yeah
e-sports. What would be a good runner-up to counter strike?
There isn't none that's the that's the question rocket league
Yeah, pretty fair. I heard you got one of these sports World Cup Club championships.
You know, I want AJL to win, but I think it's gonna be Falcons.
That's probably because the team Falcons are well above and ahead right now, right?
They're looking to lock in a third consecutive. Yeah. Anyway, I didn't say that.
Can you say your name just in case someone ever sees this? No.
Do you guys know anything about Counter-Strike, the video game? Oh really?
Well, it's your lucky day, buddy. What do you know about Counter-Strike?
I know there's a lot of Russian people to play at.
Uh, I know it's very competitive.
I know I'm not good enough to play at.
Okay, there's a lot of us in the same boat.
Okay, there's a lot of understanding to be had there.
But what about favorite teams, players?
Who are some of your favorite players?
Oh, I don't much competitive, Kyle.
Who do you think should win the eSports World Cup Club Championships?
Liverpool Football Club.
Outstanding.
What do you guys know about a video game called Counter-Strike?
You know about Counter Strike?
We know a little bit.
Tell me about it.
It's an FBS game, a gun game.
Low-hack is in the game.
Low-hacks.
A hole-on, that's a little base, but also I can't even deny that.
It's kind of a ridiculous valve. Shout out one time.
Esports World Cup. You know anything about that?
No.
Who's your favorite Counter Strike player?
Today.
I'll tell you more.
Who is my favorite player?
Who's your favorite Counter Strike player?
A Turkish one. Navy.
Zan Tares.
Ares. Okay.
Well, for Aurora, I don't know that it's necessarily gone as well
within the counter strike side of things, but within the Cup Club championships.
It was a very good chance.
Thank you very much. Have a good day.
I've searched high and low, far and near, high and dry.
But mostly everyone here seems to all realize the same thing.
The Falcons are poised to grab themselves
another eSports World Cup Club Championship title.
Could it be that third consecutive we'll find out?
Only the numbers are going to tell us it's very into the road.
Either way, I've had a great time out here at Paris at the Eiffel Tower.
Let's get back into the counter strike.
I'm on CT.
Only long, yeah?
Yes, only long.
I think it's on CT.
Don't see, he's coffee probably.
I'll pick a CT in some area.
Don't go.
Let's go guys, nice.
He's knocked the wall.
At the wall, at the wall.
He's at my HP.
He's pissed along there.
Left, left, left, left.
He has a short and thin, this mid.
NICE!
Nice.
Okay, please chill.
Go contact close.
Got contact close.
Exo, two entry flash.
I'm going to land my nade.
Okay.
Yes, I'm holding.
Go with entry flash on the...
Dashing.
Dashing.
City, city.
I'm siding, I'm siding.
Be careful behind site bro.
I'm pushing, I'm pushing behind.
I'm pushing behind site.
You have a spot for CT.
You have a spot for CT.
I'm siding.
Going left.
I'm pushing behind CT.
NOOOOOOO!
I'm siding!
Got some M3!
Opened! Opened! Opened!
PZRM, PZRM!
2DL, 2DL!
PZRM, PZRM!
2DL, 2DL, 2DL, 2DL!
Nice!
Nice!
No time for me.
Nice!
I don't have a pan, fuck.
He wants to take the AWP.
AWP.
He's probably standing there.
The AWP.
Bory, check.
Uh-huh.
Bory, take this AWP.
Nice!
Nice!
Nice.
I'm going to give it to him.
Take the AWP, fuck.
You can take the left, be careful.
Left, you can.
Take the AWP.
Nice!
Good!
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to the eSports World Cup.
What's World Cup?
Come in, boy, in Paris! That's your newspaper!
What the hell is that?
The Grand Final of Leader Elections!
That's the only spot to enter!
I think I can do it just to prove I can do the Superman and the Spirit of the Kingdom.
I'm gonna grab that!
We on the way, no, we on the way, no, we on the way, no, yeah.
It's my time, you don't turn the beat, you don't make all the noise.
Get in the car if I was your man.
It's my time, it's my time.
Yeah.
But with these, I got a new team for it!
We're here in 2026!
I haven't lost in the world championship.
Ladies and gentlemen, you're rocking the league and the eSports World Cup 2026 champions is back on!
Push your hands together for a return of champion, Magnus Carlson!
It's all changed!
Play is in our DNA.
Whenever we let it out, it becomes our super power.
Now imagine an entire city being built to supercharge it.
Kdea City, powered by play.
I still live, I take everything that's mine
machine known as Donk? This is the day we've been waiting for. The time has come to crown
the new EWC champion. Welcome to the Grand Finals.
There it is that lovely sound of fans riling right on into the arena because it is championship
Sunday here in Paris, France.
Welcome to the arena August 23rd, 2026 grand finals, third and fourth place to Siders,
Nathan Schmidt, MBK over here, Peter Rasmussen over there.
He knows by debris, both of the major champions and both of them have a lot of input to
have on these matches.
Before we get there, gentlemen, let's go ahead and kind of recap with yesterday's
semi-finals.
Let's start this one off with Foot, Lepuria, Ins into 2-1, Barnburner.
Yeah, Foot continues to continue, right?
This is the youngest team in the tournament and now they find themselves in the grand final.
And arguably also the biggest final they've ever been in, right?
They had that earlier win over in Brukerrest, early in the year.
So a team that is just keep elevating and ever since they've got an X-File,
they haven't really slowed down.
That was probably a bit of a concern when we looked at the team.
How's he going to be looking? How's he going to slug?
But you know, he's just like a glove and everything's to be in order.
But now they have Spirit waiting for them in the grand final.
Yeah, there's going to be a bit of a different matchup
because you know how to play against Donk in practice,
you know, and you see the game, you see the gameplay.
When you're going to be in that server on a grand final,
Donk is only getting better and better,
and he's never ever going to slow down.
So it's going to be maybe a bit of a two-degree step.
I don't know.
And it took three maps yesterday,
and it even took overtime to clinch that victory.
So all in all, you know, they were tested yesterday,
and they also tested their opponents.
but on Furia, they might be kicking themselves a little bit.
They actually made it back to overtime,
but couldn't really make it count.
But all in all, we have to be very impressed
with Fuddes delivering.
And I think with them being the youngest team at this tournament
and now making it all the way here, impressive.
Yeah, great stuff from the side of Fuddes.
Of course, they're going into that grand final.
Other semifinal, we looked at Spirit
taking on Legacy a little bit less
of a fun roller coaster of a game.
I'd say that Spirit definitely had the upper hand there.
Yeah, I think it was not really the same story
where you have Legacy.
It has an insane run to beat all those teams,
But once Spirit figured the legacy out after a few rounds in the beginning of the game,
it felt like it was pretty much over.
I mean, the game was in one sided, Dong was there, and then especially everybody in the team was there,
which is not something that we necessarily saw throughout the whole tournament.
And it seemed like the further they go into the tournaments, the more the team is picking together,
and the better they are with howdy behind them.
I don't really see a world in the best of five coming against Thrid.
Where they're not going to be confident enough.
Where they're not going to be prepared for everything that's going to happen.
Do you see any approach where they can really get surprised?
I think the only way they can get surprised is probably in foot's playstyle, right?
You know, they are very aggressive, they like to play very explosive, and they're just really good individuals.
And we all know, and we've been in finals before, that sometimes it's not always about how you play the team.
It's also just how much you shove individually. And sure, you have to get through dunk.
He's been the menace for spirit for so long, right?
But it's anything to have at this point.
You know, once you make it to the grand final, it's also probably the two best teams at the tournament.
So you've got to get some credit to both.
Absolutely have to, which is why we
can take a look at some of that path to the Grand Final.
So the playoff bracket, again, third, fourth place
deciders today, a grand final today as well, right there
after that.
And something that I can just kind of touch on here,
we can kind of just look at the picture.
Surprises in the playoff bracket.
There were some teams that didn't join us in the playoff
bracket, but overall, any honorable mentions?
Of course, we have to mention Vital, you know.
I think all these fans right here, they're
upset that they don't get to have a record of 23
where they won the Major and obviously Falcons as well.
You know, they had that fumble in the qualifiers again,
also against Legacy.
So yeah, I mean, like Legacy had a really good run,
but they will ultimately put a stop against Spirit,
but it is what it is like, it's brutal.
There are two big names to be honest,
and especially for Falcons,
that was a doof maker into the whole club championship.
Like they were expected to do much better than they did.
And they fell flat against a team
that is just looking good.
And we're gonna see them again here
because they have things to prove still.
Yeah, they absolutely do.
Which brings us to our crunchy roll story of the day.
Can foot stay a step ahead in being that young
versus the old battle today?
That's the big question mark.
Yesterday we saw an explosive energy from the side of foot
and it seemed as though they had it right inside the door
where they wanted it.
Yeah, and especially the way that we're playing
and the whole game style,
you can see they really come together.
It's not like a random thing.
They're not here for a random reason,
just individuals popping off.
The whole team, the way they've been working together,
The way Kudio has been working with them, the whole coaching staff has been working together.
You can see every single play they make is really calculated.
Every single flag, every single piece of utility they use is here for a reason and gives them
the edge.
So I've been very impressed with the game style.
I don't really see a way where they will not show again today.
No, I mean like they have everything to gain here.
Like they come in as another dog but that's how it's been looking pretty much for the
entirety of the playoff run.
It's also a team that, as you mentioned, everything is calculated and sometimes
You feel a little bit random, but they get things done together as a team and that's the beauty of it
And you also just have to think about the fact that now that don't with his play style
He wants to get these fights or so does foot
I was also going to be a brawler against there
You know a bit of who can show up the most in the second final, which is a very exciting prospect
It boils us together some pretty explosive counter strike again
That will be our grand final of best of five a little bit later
Speaking of finalizing things the Cup Club championship
Deciding moments didn't shake down exactly how I think a lot of us expected to Jenny
Is that correct?
It's correct, Senna.
When it comes to the club championship for the first time in EWC history,
an organization outside of Falcons has been crowned the winner.
Seven million dollars is now in the pockets of AGL
after they were able to close out track mania.
They did lose one of their two players early on in the quarterfinals.
but Gwen was able to secure it, giving them an extra 1000 points,
putting them way ahead on that leaderboard.
The truth is, although today might be the last day of the competition
because we have CS2, EWC has concluded yesterday.
The win from AJL allowed them to secure the points,
and they've competed in 17 titles over the last seven weeks.
Now, it's important to know that Falcons has also competed in quite a lot of titles.
their wins in Rocket League as well as Street Fighter 6 has allowed them to remain towards
the top of the leaderboard until the very end. But their unfortunate performances when it comes
to CS2 as well as Fortnite and Trackmania as well losing Col. Jr. quite early on meant that
AJL was able to sweep it, they're able to get the win, and they're crowned your EWC
2026 club championship winners here in Paris. So Desk, back to you.
Good morning, Terry!
And here you see some smiles on some legends falling in fear of you coming in.
Going up against Legacy, another Brazilian squad with a new Sniper.
It's gonna be a great day for a third place match
to open things up before we get to the grand finals,
featuring Donk and Spirit.
We're looking to complete their run against Foot.
Hello, everybody, I'm your host Chris Puget,
and this is the final day
of a two-month marathon here in Paris.
The Esports World Cup has been thrilling.
These might be the best matches yet.
I welcome in a legend in his own right.
Five major champions to his name,
the one and only DePriiieee!
How are we doing today?
Really really good.
A lot of good memories coming back into this arena.
We're together at the battalion.
I won the last C stone major.
So yeah, it brings a lot of good memories coming back to this arena.
And we've been already feeling that the arena is about to be packed.
And it's only 10 am and we've already got people strong up for the third place.
I was going to say every mile has somebody new coming down it
as they are filtering into the A-core arena.
Paris!
And I know a few people here are from France.
Do anyone remember the games from NBK?
BK!
Nathan, you have had a great time throughout your career.
It has been a great time having you on this side of the mic, though.
Tell me about your experience here at UWC.
It's been great so far.
Every single game, a lot of the crowd.
Everybody was showing up.
Regardless of the game, regardless of the team.
Obviously, the big names are always more people.
But even now, as you said, I'm very impressed with the turnout
for 10 in the morning, you know, the very first game.
We're going to have bangers though, so it's worth it.
I'm still going to be tweaking my audio throughout this, guys.
Let's get in, though, to our first clips, because I want to talk about Keisarato.
We've been talking about Brazilian stars, we've been talking about Fraggers.
This was one of the biggest names that came in.
So tell me about Furious Star and what does he need to do to get over Legacy,
because if you're looking at the world breakings, this is number three versus number 12.
Yeah, we do get to kick off the day with a bit of a Brazilian dive,
Kessarado is probably the best player to come out of Priscilla in recent times.
I think he's doing so much stuff for Furio obviously.
He's a player that gets everything done.
He can close out the rounds.
That's where he shines the most when playing passively
and then kind of having those multiple potentials.
But also a guy that is not afraid of going first,
if he's needed to,
and it's also sometimes the guy that needs to be running in first
when it comes to executes.
He's just always so stable.
You can always count on him.
He will also have a good performance.
and I don't think anything is going to change that today and in the fact that you now having a
Priscilla in top today, that's also going to matter a little bit more right because the third,
fourth by the side is always a little bit tricky once you're the players, right?
You, those teams that didn't really make the Grand Final, that's really where you really wanted to go
and Fury also as a team that we thought to go all the way to the Grand Final
didn't really make it because he couldn't get over third.
So yeah, Fury hopefully showing up today in the sense of wanting to play,
but we'll see where we get going.
NBK tell me about the underdogs because no one thought they could beat Navi, let alone team Falcons and they pulled off both of those accomplishments.
What are their expectations for Legacy today?
I think they're coming into a win. I don't think there is a question, they really want to do that, especially as you said in the Virginia Derby.
It is something that is going to matter to them. You don't want to be the second team in your country, you want to be the number one, right?
So, Legacy, their game is to remove the name. If you don't really see that, they're one of the best players in the tournament.
tournaments. The way they're pushing the games, the word they're executing, I don't really see too
many flaws in their approach to be honest. And you can see that Furia, they were shaky, they lost.
I don't think it's a done deal regardless of the ranking. I wanted to ask a little bit about
Miss him because he seemed to be such a key feature for them in the earlier two rounds of
the tournament, but he was shut down by Don. Is there anyone that he is going to run into
on the other side of Furia that could do the same things that happened to him last night?
Oh, that has to be Jekyll and he's the spearhead of Fjord and he's kind of had a little bit of in his own performance once we turned our attention to the players, he didn't start off that great, but he's really come through now, but we also heard in an interview yesterday that he's not really expecting his team to be showing about 100% today, you know, it's one of these games where you do go and maybe you do a bit of a gamble in the Vita as well, obviously you're playing for 80 grand, right, that should be motivation in the self, and there's also some important viewers points that you want to be racking up, so I hope for the side of Jekyll and Fjord that they will show you what they're doing, so I hope for the side of Jekyll and Fjord that they will show you what they're doing, so I hope for the side of Jekyll and Fjord that they will show you what they're doing, so I hope for the
Joe at Good Face today.
Her legacy, no club championship points,
really to worry about.
For Fira it is a difference of 225K
because they're in 19th place
or 400K is 14th place.
So a big matchup for the Fira boys.
You gotta get 100% if you're the org.
Let's see, ancient is locked in first.
Fira chooses to be on T side.
Our map number two is going to be Nuke.
Any surprises here, boys?
So far it's pretty clear, Kurt.
So legacy is very comfortable in ancient.
Fira as well on Nuke.
The draft is still not being shown, which has been pretty absent throughout the whole playoffs.
And that's it as a designer. I think it's a bit risky for legacy.
We have Fiora that seems very comfortable, they're playing as a Fiora map several times.
They're going to be ready and they're going to feel like, if he goes to a Fiora map, they're going to feel like they won already.
And also just now Anson comes through for the fourth time in a row for Fiora.
So we soon got to be looking at if this is actually just, you know, coming into the map we're looking at.
Is this actually something we want to continue doing onwards also for this season?
So, and you obviously, we show how good they got things working this 15 seconds left 82% of the fans are going with feria
Where are you going? I'm gonna go with a clear two of the three two. Oh, I think like it's a little bit legacy's got it
We've got a split decision here on the desk. Let us know how you see it playing out
It is the final day of EWC 2026
What's up, Harry?
And welcome to the incredibly iconic
acau arena in Paris, France.
Now over the years, so much history
has been witnessed within these walls.
And here we're about to sprinkle in a little bit more
because after two weeks of elite counter-strike competition,
it all comes to a Christian for championships Sunday.
But Lou, it runs way deeper than that.
Yes, of course, and it's an honor for me to welcome you to my home, Paris, for one last time,
because this is the culmination of seven weeks of competition at the East Falls World Cup.
Ladies and gentlemen, bonjour et bienvenue après cette semaine de compétition à l'EWC sur 24 jeux différents.
Elle prend fin sur Counter-Strike 2, and Ian, I'm a bit sad to say, but after all we witness for all these weeks,
there's only two stories left to write.
absolutely before we decide who's taking home the crown we begin with a third
place matchup and it's two teams that came agonizing the course to making it
to the last dance just one series away but there's a lot on the line here Lou
and an extra eighty thousand dollars the grand final will have its moment
right after this I promise but Paris is not done with us just yet
Ladies and gentlemen, as a Frenchman, we still have a lot of trouble with the matches that seem to be counting for the butter.
But today, the butter is more than $80,000.
And I can assure you that this match is worth a lot more gold than bronze.
Welcome, Bienvenu, FURIA!
We know all about this band base, we know all about them, we know the culture, the passion.
Brazil simply does not do quiet and neither does this roster.
They came within one overtime decider of the grand final, but this run is not finished yet
There is still one last statement to make in Paris before they head home
Please welcome ladies and gentlemen
Ladies and gentlemen, LEGATIE!
They tore through the play of brackets,
sending Nabi and the reigning major champion,
home, without dropping a single map.
Their title run may be over,
but after the run they have put together in Paris,
they still have one last chance to leave with something to show for it.
These brazilian teams have made us dream, scream and most of all forget, believe in the strength of the Outsiders!
Ladies and gentlemen!
What's up, Paris? Third place deciders, man. They're a funny thing, aren't they?
I think in the minds of Counter-Strike players, if you're not first, you're last.
And that very much is the mindset.
You even heard as much from your kindar yesterday in his exit interview after losing out on the final.
But in this one, I think this is one of the more storied third place deciders that we've had.
These are two Brazilian squads. This is legacy trying to punch up and be that new best Brazilian team.
This is a squad helmed by art who spent six years of his career inside of this Furia squad
It was after they removed him that he had to go and rebuild. So I don't think this one comes down to money
I don't think this one comes down to that, you know
Tens of thousands of dollars making a world of difference to any of these teams. This one's about pride
This one's about status. This is about who is the next best Brazilian roster
Yeah, Furia might not have that same fight in them
But they're going to have to show it because you know legacy are running for that third place finish
You know this team want to be back on fury
And I'm glad you mentioned the nationalities because to be the best in Brazil
Well, that would be something that fear of the legacy would love to grab off of fury
Especially when you consider Fallen's retirement up in the air at the end of the year
So fury missed out opportunity legacy already deeper than anyone expected. Why not finish on the podium?
The Vito coming down again, Furia have done it once more, they floated Ancient, I hope you
can talk about this in interviews, a map they're willing to play, a potential 7 map pool, and
to be honest their Ancient has looked pretty good Harry, two out of three wins, all three
games at this tournament, and just falling to foot in the final hour yesterday, well
that was a story for Furia, see they can step up again and bring this new map back
back into their pool up against the hungry legacy.
Biggest takeaway for me, the legacy has been this new addition.
I think it's been drawing everyone's attention.
Try it on the AWP has been explosive.
And another stage game for legacy to soak up gear
in the Acor arena.
Got a B05 final later on, but first things first,
Let's find ourself a third place.
We're looking for that podium finish.
And one thing's for certain, Legacy Hungry.
To show that they are that new top dog of Brazilian squad.
Their run's been legit.
Can they cap it off by taking it down at Furia?
And their final match of EWC.
It's been really hard to argue with the legacy run, right?
Two-0 over Narvi, two-0 over Falcons,
and four different maps shown across those winds as well.
So, legacy, why not put one more on top?
We're into it, folks.
Ancient youth, Dust2, our battlegrounds this morning.
You've shown up, Paris.
Let's hope this game delivers for you.
They're still coming in quick.
Fury have reigned the punch on this B site.
Yeah, just look at a brawl.
I mean, we've seen a very aggressive tone at a fury across their playoff run.
Down to scrap, down to be involved.
This pistol starting in that exact same vein.
And they won't get past Latte. He does.
Double-weave his way out of danger, but only for a moment.
Next up is Doomow closing in on the cave side.
Oh, wait a bit. Awards this smoke.
And that now fades, they've got full and trapped.
I know he's here, these Dolboretes are going to deal with him and Dumau closes in at 2 vs 2.
Oh, try and put the pressure on, but it's come up short, and Art's going to clutch up all the load.
Serato, last man standing.
Why not?
I'm not going to tap on that bomb, but with no kit to play with, the tie might just decide this.
K. Serato closes in, and it's a pistol round at full furia.
Start off this third place to the side there if you have had good tea sites in this map, right?
That's actually been the standout way
It's been surprising some of their CT stacks falling short in the defensive half but on this tea side man
What a brawl against foot yesterday?
So many B hits from both these two squads
Just charging up ramp expect to see more of that aggression today for furia
So will the wheels come off
Legacy force by ARB looked a threat in this second round. Stop that conversion.
Oh, the dodge. Well handled here. Good response to stop this spillover through
cave.
Ah, and the Kindar, certainly two players that could find themselves on similar wavelengths
for how they think this game should be played.
It's an advantage for Furia, five on four, and that bomb's been waiting outside of a
from the top of the round for all of them, all of them are starting to walk it in.
Nice to see Furia hitting their nades this time.
We're shaky in the first game here at EWC.
The things are starting to look a lot nicer now for Furia as they pick up more and more steam on this map.
Straight out A in this round, I can see it conceded all control.
Two players, great, they're waiting to strike, ready at donor.
Lot of damage with no kills.
Two frags come off the pistols, we've got to fight back and Fallen's putting up a show.
It's been a very strong individual tournament here for Fallen.
One down for Furia.
Should be too far gone.
Alright.
One here for R, at least for...
Oh, look who I was meant to reel him in!
I'll bring this one down to another one, V1 attempting again.
It's K-Sirata, who's gonna be in the clutch.
Is he formidable?
Is these the rounds?
K-Zorat, who's built four?
Art might give chase, but again,
time decides it.
That's twice over now.
Art's had a fighting chance in these clutches.
Oh, I think Legacy are going to buy it again.
Why wouldn't you?
All five kills.
Get out with a glill.
Put your money where your mouth is
and keep the pressure on on the CT side.
That's got to be a temptation here for Legacy.
Drop over a whole rifle.
So why not keep the good times rolling?
I say that, Legacy. Playing safe. They won that gun round as soon as possible.
And so no fall by art would just keep that money, perhaps for the AWP for try into that next gun round.
For now, Furia get to redeem their third.
I think that shows how much Legacy won this game.
Harry, you intro with how this team is going to be key to beat back on Furia.
I think you could throw this strat book a little bit out of the window in a match like this.
But legacy they want it they want it bad
I think the fury you know they want to try find a way to motivate themselves in this game when you see the legacy one
Spurs you on as well to try and deny it their way
And a couple of these slower rounds of fall fury out of the gate again
and just leading into their default binocular towards me, taking the lane, your kindar pressuring the cave.
I'm once more hoping to wall-tow into an FDA site.
And they're ready home for legacy right now, they just re-clear middle but they lean into a gamble
and that's gonna leave them on the wrong side of the map, so it's looking good here for Furia to get these conversions.
Yeah, reasonable stack to make.
But again, Furia with the right call.
So I'm steady on this A-hit and falling with the final smoke and I put it down.
should be simple here for furia smoke does miss you have it's dying hard here
for furia but they get the control nonetheless nobody home this is a
three oh lead
There we go, Paris. Now you're waking up.
Yeah, you don't like the saves, do you?
How big saving fans? No one really is.
What are you saving, boys? You've got beagles.
I don't know how much we're going to get much more of it out of Legacy.
It's a fight alive. I mean, I really would have liked to make some exits out of Legacy because they keep the pressure on in these first couple of rounds, but now they just let it go.
Now Fury will get a wealth of economy on this T-side, but Legacy get there for buy and R drops over the AWP, so we are kicking it off with a sniper in the first gun round.
Still, those feel that Legacy do need this map in the series.
It hasn't necessarily been a great map for them as of late,
so I think they're picking to punish, but Furiel are levelling up here on Ancient.
Yeah, I think right now it's arguably one of the strengths of Furiel,
the idea that they're kind of actually piecing this one together,
they've had a good run on Ancient here at EWC.
And I think for the time being, you would feel foolish with them
making this change and bringing the map in to try and not punish them on it.
We've seen a mixed bag of results from that and with each rep the fury again
They're gonna get more lethal here on this map
On the bright side even though the results on
Necessarily wins if a legacy they have some close games against good teams
They showed against very yesterday. We saw the beat Valkyries on it to win CAC in a B05
Wind versus Navi here as well dominant one. So maybe just trying to pull back to their recent success
Just been a bit topsy-turvy at times. Unpredictable has this map being.
In Furio, coming in with all these new ideas.
Couple of players looking quite comfortable like your kinder. Like Cacerato.
So no free lunch here for legacy, that's for sure.
We're attached upon that try. AWP gonna come out very early into this game.
And his bombsite is the one under the microscope.
Gonna find that off in the right place.
Let's see what version of Try we get.
The Rift.
Flashes in, forced off the line.
Try on these guesses one.
It's big damage on this round.
Push.
Good player.
Lato lies in wait out towards long.
A shot away from certain death.
Okay, Serato will deliver it.
Well now planted.
Serato trying to get value low on HP.
Just continuing the fight forward.
Playing it forward.
Shot away from death. Now three kills deep.
Dumau was hoping that maid would bring him in for the 1v1. It has not.
Kcerato...
Despite the health, has continued to be a nuisance.
Even now, the wrap on the long side puts him in a powerful post-plot.
Dumau... Oh, there's a flick from him!
The Moledoy ready to follow up. Burya keeping it flawless.
How does Kcerato get away with all that damage there?
I mean, he should have been dead on the Lato peak.
It was the third man hidden in the site, being baited by rotation.
Lato can't land a single bullet.
Kacerato goes to make a risky play on low health
and even kills one more rotation here.
That is a beautiful round for Kacerato.
Even takes back Longspace as well,
so it doesn't offer himself up in this post-plan.
Fury of 4-0 starts.
Bang it beginning here.
Kishort goes right out middle with a MAK10 into the low economy round.
Gotta watch out.
He's coming through.
Oh!
Man, I'm from Nessim, right?
And even that smoke block out in main, it's really fought in the game plan of Furia here.
It's going to do now.
Big damage softens them up, tries AWP now, appears.
And that is going to scare Furia out of this A-play.
Fallen's trying to open a back door.
Oh!
What a sight!
The crossing, Lato putting him down.
That bomb was moving back.
What's Molador supposed to do?
This could not have gone worse for Fury.
Every step of the way.
I mean, even if they just killed that backside player on A,
they might have ruined the plans
despite the kill and donor.
Fury again. Nothing from this round.
What a shutdown.
They go no further.
Legacy on the board.
Off the back of the low economy round.
me around they put money in and it pays off dividends here on the CT side. What a
shot from Laptone.
Another cool thing about just legacy being in this position is it feels like
game to game anyone can step up and carry you through a match. I've had
incredible maps from a try as of late but this can show up even as the
Typical bottom performer, Lado de Mal.
Modern era, era of resiliency, yes.
The water fire power.
But they get run down in this round.
Here we are, Techni is chasing this B site.
I don't like they do just want to follow through with this.
Smokes down.
If you were gonna make a move, now's the time.
Break on that smoke, Tride doesn't get to see a thing.
And they decide to leave, looking instead to try and change this one.
It's out towards middle, and this is Liza Mway, and they didn't know about Dumau hiding in this corner.
They end up playing right in the legacy's hands, now realizing the best play was just a battle through into B,
but you learn that too late. You pay a hefty price.
Almost to try and traverse up the ramp past this try AWP.
Throw it! Why not try? Molotoy leaps it into the site here for Yuri.
Yuri can shoot their way out of the situation.
Oh, Yuri nervously makes it out into the cave.
Molotoy holding for this scale-up. How long does he wait?
It's spotted and it's in Del Wid.
And now you've got a bomb to play around.
Legacy feeling the pressure of that timer.
They will find Moledoy.
Here he comes, then up. He's surprised.
There's a catch. Spam just off the mark.
Ammo runs dry and as they pound him down,
Legacy stick the landing on a retake.
Starting to find some ground now on this CT side.
Who's in the right direction?
I wonder if that's a bit of an experience for Fury on the map, right?
I decide to rotate. I feel like they have the perfect position.
They have players in cave. They have the smokes down and a bad advantage.
They still decide to rotate.
Sure, Legacy have a really strong setup for that position.
The bait in the corner and mid.
With a red player.
But I think if Fury had just commit off of their smoke execute,
the one time they had nades down, they could win that round.
And you can tell, Fury, they've been putting in the work.
We threw that pre-moli to put out the elbow smoke, trying to get the tricks on
this D-side. Smoked down though, legacy locket, inferior with glocks on two and
Molodoy Hero AK. Not much to do in this round.
Legacy warming into this game it seems.
Another in a very strong position.
This AK has just been getting blocked over towards cave.
Moledoy trying to get the round going, but I guess he just aren't giving him the room.
So player now joins the ranks over towards this B site, and again a re-block over in
cave.
And you've been hoping that when these smokes fade, that's going to bring you into the round,
but this might force a change of direction out of Furia.
Let's go way out towards middle-art. Thought about coming through this smoke.
Good thing he didn't. Uri was waiting for that exact move. 20 seconds.
It's going to be a buzzer-beater out of Furia.
I set on this B site, fighting him on the door with a chance to play.
AK with one, teammates getting mowed down. KSarato even finds one on the glock,
but he's got eight seconds and no gun.
He's climbing that thing, try and walk right on through.
They give it a go, but yeah, not really armed for the job, our Fury in that round, just one kill off the Molotoy AK.
Could not multi-kill too, set his teammate up for a part.
Nicely handled here for legacy, but as it should be, the fight comes back in here for Fury once again.
We've had all the suspects of legacy show up like you'd like.
Fury with refresh and utility on this T side, gotta be said, unspoken, gets punished, break
on it and a player of the cubby will not let you kind of walk out the ramp.
Here we go for this punch on the A site.
Try this shot could be a problem, they burn him out.
He smokes.
No entrance here for Furia.
Nice shot for Molodoy, he's dropped it all.
Maybe he can pick it up,
but Dumau will not have them in easy.
Molodoy AK puts a use,
three kills deep into this round
before the flash, all blinds,
and the round gets closed out by legacy.
All five on the site, everybody home.
And it's legacy with the time out
off the back of that chaotic round.
Furia in quite the predicament early in this game, we've got 3k player.
I always wanted Furia lead 4-0, I was caught up with them quickly here on Ancient.
Cool Furia experienced all you want, it didn't help against But yesterday when we hit Crunchtime.
Think of the OTs, the leads, the advantages Furia had.
all of that was not enough to beat the plucky underdog legacy who have already
had an event of punching up the entire way no strangers to being in this
position
also just the fun factor of denying club championship money here for furia
I guess you want to take it all the way.
Boom.
Here, I love this hay site.
It's not on the back.
You've gained a bit of ground here.
Here boys, doing that best of one, but then Moldoey does that, and he's just giving you a roof for a bottom one, and you post one now in cave.
And nine up next.
Moldoey is going to steal the glory, dead off through his double, but you'd like to think he's done his part in the round.
Hands off now to Yuri K. Serato and his tri-barrels around that corner.
He goes in at his demise.
Flash in.
a Serato with a follow-up and do Mount low slinking away on that AWP heads for the
hills tail between his legs that's a pistol breakthrough in the 3v5 from
fury all of us showed up that's for sure he's hit some cracking shots on the
Digo and the AK in this game points to trees here puts the bomb down and
those furious in the winning position I was not meant to be the round the
Fury come out with, especially in that disadvantage.
Hey, Mordor has a bone to pick with him.
Beautiful shots.
Fury, I mean, they're just not shying away from fights at any point in this game.
It's not like they're playing really long, sprung-out rounds.
They go from pretty direct plays.
What that fakes?
Full-side X-X.
Here we go, full burn down, trying to get heaven control there.
That doesn't really feel worth it.
Magazine nailing that shot in the middle, double AWP is out in this round.
That might come as a bit of a surprise.
Weird smoke in the middle here.
Here we are.
He's in some tries to bait for his teammate, one more bullet might have found you.
Now we'll have to do so, he can not.
He can't have draws back the advantage.
Double red smoke.
At a safe and sorry.
Try a second around to try and watch this red room scale, but eventually wants to move.
And see, you can see Lato pick this up.
This brings into fruition a bit of a slow lean over towards a two players here now third close by ready to rotate
That's a fury are going into a bit of a stack
Try on the line
Players speaking and ready for that jump off. That's a flick on a molotov. He gets her to him
Still paranoid about this red room still looking over that shoulder that tries making it real easy for them with this AWP
All the left in the clutch, 1v4, leaves it to a gunfight, leaves it to that duel on Lato and comes up short.
Now that Jig is up right now for Furio, legacy of reading them perfectly in the quiet mid-ground, going back for an A-stack like that.
I mean, that's just because Furio time after time have walked out AMA with no U-Till.
Try again, nailing his shots, triple kill off the AWP.
He could see that boost happening. He still didn't even pre-A-Mit.
Trust in his ability, Triomato soaring ahead here on the CT side.
You know, we talked about coming in and this one's kind of for pride, for status between these Brazilian squads.
Six years spent in Furia, then having to go and rebuild himself after his removal, linking up with legacy.
But even if you look at the individuals, you know, Dumau and Lato as a duo kind of meant to be that next K Serato in Yuri.
Hell, even thinking the different directions that these organizations have taken themselves, right?
Legacy staying true to the more homegrown formula, looking into
South America, you know, with the signing of tribe and keeping it very very close to home. Meanwhile, for Furia, it was the move to
international. It was bringing in European components.
Someone like Moledoy wants to show that that was the right move in this game, that he is the more confident AWP player.
Everyone's got a little something to prove here in a game that is really tightened up that early lead for fury at long since forgotten about
More so for fury of them for legacy, but no one's feeling too pretty at the end of this round if you lose it
So this is the one that shapes up this first half
Oh, this is going to get quite a flake. Oh, it looks ugly.
I'm going to tree off the boost here.
Fury back on the board.
Fury at a mean one.
Surely you just go for the B execute at this point.
You've still got two tech nines. It's still an imperfect ground.
There's an orb to grab on ramp.
Last time they were in this position, they overcooked and they went for the late donut rotate.
Shut down by mid control. Legacy look to do it again.
Gonna go searching. Timing is awkward though on that redstone.
He crack it open.
Mordoi...
Getting spotted, they're going straight back to B. Legacy read it again.
20 seconds, Furia. Into 3.
Stags have just been so well placed here for Legacy.
Oh, Lato dead right away.
Skirmish up towards the ramp. Ends in Furia's favor.
Bomb now going down in a 3v2.
How far removed from this round try is it's only missing close by
Flash high for this in the trying scale
You need that first decision soon
against you
Serato hell of a wall bang
One more man back in the cave and not yet know it about get all these wall bangs have just been lethal
Do it.
He views being held.
Do it.
Spam off the mark.
Do it.
No push yet.
Molledoy just gets there in time.
Furia pole position taken.
Woo.
And money in the dirt for Legacy.
All this be enough for Furia to edge out an advantage at the end of this first half.
Spam for K-SR.
It's a three different burst.
All while strafing.
Hits every single one.
So, big shut down on Tri's orbit.
Has been a menace in this game.
And yeah, Legacy might have the right stack, but Furia really well placed.
a really well placed utility for blinding those two B players.
Two M4s here, the legacy to hold on in the half.
I'm not counting anything out.
I've come back stronger later in this game.
I can also just expect a scrappy round here for legacy, right?
And it is just that instant aggression
that punched down through the round.
There's a player early out towards A,
but no one's in a position to really react
to this move right now.
You know about players taking away room
on the extremities, you know about this lane control.
You're not able to react quickly with a bomb
on Fallen's back at the doors, K-Serato.
We're nearly done and they hold this spillover done for.
No worries here, Furia looking good
to find a lead heading into their CT side.
It was like a hard round to overcook.
Let Nikils come to them.
If Lato gets inquisitive in the middle, he will be dead.
So Furia, pull the brakes up.
The only way this could get weird is an A-stack.
The bomb moves with the pack.
You'll have to be not taking the jump spot, it's going to keep him standing in this round.
40 seconds for Furia to pick a bombsite.
Go searching first the probe on a
for nothing
Concerned and wow that will extend a good shot from Lato traded back one going to be and Yuri has a space
So consider it a lock-in a seven round half of a theory and they start strong
I guess he came back stronger, but furious still we're now on their T side
It's been a go-to on this new edition of ancients. It's their defense. You have to hold on to
One more!
One more!
One more!
One more!
One more!
One more!
One more!
Nice!
Now the car!
It's Furia holding the lead right now, legacy!
Oh, Income the Brazilians!
I think the Furia fans have just head to the building.
They missed a whole half, but they're here.
This is going to be a markedly different vibe to what we've had up until now, Paris.
Income the drums, Income the trumpets, fallen with the first.
No matter what happens, a Brazilian squad is winning today.
They can't lose.
Oh, the gnarly shot in the smoke.
He's now doing damage to everything inside, even his teammates try to take one of the back
of the head.
down. Two Paz at all the rest. It's four guns in this retake. Be clean with it. Molodoy
knows there's a player close in the site. Yuri is going to find it. Maybe that gives
him room to start to play now. Smoke down on this bomb. Molodoy gives it a tap. Ah,
Full mag done this smoke but there's no reaction yet from olidoy hoping to catch in the second time around and that
Had to be the chance that had to be the kill no winning this anymore, but he's not about to get knife either
Olidoy with all the kills it's still legacy with that pistol round
And this is where Fiora really gonna get put to the test drive, eventually coming into
this half.
It's been the hard half.
It had some struggles, even with stacks in the right place, just the closing rounds.
So Fiora, a nice recovery on their T side, despite legacy certainly waking up here.
the job has just begun.
Legacy, squeezing every ounce of time they can,
coming into this force by inferior,
expecting a buy in the second round.
Our legacy, it's a time out called.
Knowing the importance of converting the pistol.
I mean, this round is more important to win than the first pick up that second if you're a good break legacy entirely
The pace out middle here, they've been watching the Bureau games
I know for the most part this team are not taking heavy mid control
Occasionally we saw three mid footmanish to crunch that with utility yesterday
dropping triple nades in elbow.
For this round, of course, with lesser weaponry, lesser utility,
Furia have to concede they go for the clear late. In that downtime, Legacy setting their sights on B.
Heaven's way, we'll find a lot of info and a lot of bodies in middle.
Furious Eagles can't handle it.
Oh, Yuri's crossed. This is getting weird.
And I would follow up though just on the receiving end of that Duma rifle and with his teammates having made it up through the wrap they find this gap
This type of a game cold and he's gonna be trying at everything in these clutches and he was a very clutch player
For fury on their run through the playoffs
and the arm of the MP9 and play is filling the site around that corner.
Lato holds and gets rewarded for it.
Tie game.
The four-spy does not pan out.
Legacy good to move into the lead.
I mean, one thing that's nice right now is the big three for Legacy is stepping up tall.
Lato and Dumau are on rifles trial.
The all four have had big impactful rounds, big multi-kills in this game.
in this game. You can't say the same about the big 3 on Furia, not yet at least. You
can do with a very slow start to this game. Straight out middle again in the legacy, slinging
the farm on the MP on the Mac 10. That Molly stops Furia from forcing the kills in mid.
Again, Furia, a nice rotation, knowing what this means, going straight back to that
B site has legacy make their move.
Deep molly's in though, again.
Hold fury at back, and the ball gets caught in it.
Stuck between fire and flames, clearing cave.
And all worries avoided here for legacy.
Five left round and now gets play a bit of a bonus, right?
Gonna keep that Mk10 in play.
Might get more scary when he's donning an SMG.
I see them all the door your from the get go on this CT side
let's go I tried it in our first go over here's the up-tempo round you're worried
about the moment you saw it's a bonus for legacy they are right up ramp they're in
your face are then burst. And we'll fully stop this push through. Dumau!
Head on! Swimble! Oh, the dig nearly does it! Brings Keisarotto down low and now he hands
off to Lato and it is this duo that's meant to be so scary. Dumau got the fire started.
Can Lato keep them burning? One more still to find.
Molodoy hasn't moved a muscle yet, hoping that the anxiety sets him for Latteau,
but he can catch him out in no man's land and make this a very easy 1v1, but
Latteau's not about to give this one away, sneaks down the ramp, looks to play the
long game, hopes the time can decide it, smoke on that bomb, kit for Molodoy,
T-Fuse being held. Lato has to hit this and just misses it off the mark.
T-Fuse robbed. Molodoy with the clutch.
Okay, it was getting scary when Molodoy is sitting back in case Rot is playing alone,
but he knows he can just get on that bomb later in the round.
Very scary. Lato paints around him with bullets. Cannot find the clutch.
Such banging shots if I do now.
That deal connects to the head
This is a legacies round off of the rush, but it was only a bonus keep in mind
That's furious first ball thought by connecting
Legacy have got more in store and they don't have back tents to hold them back
I'm out of the donor here
Otherwise an empty bomb site
There's legacy look to just go for the false end
Oh, a two man, maybe a little too hungry takes a chunk out of all of that push.
He's not gonna fight away in this, and having this donut control is a very nice move for legacy.
Something to play around. You can now have an angle to plant this bomb.
It's the fast flight for you, Kindar, that might throw everything through a loop here.
Closing in main side, he's got two players back turned.
And they don't know where to look right now.
Silent sets in, but they're waiting for your kindar to arrive.
Try, gun on, gets rid of the backstab.
Lato up next, shoots through the temple retake.
And so back and forth we go.
Rounds traded, legacy maintained their lead.
And Mane at an awkward spot for Furia going forward.
They've got to hold on to this AWP.
It's all they're going to have to work with in this.
Next round would be a great time to top of all the wall.
I'll do it to offer something up.
He has been a big hitter here in this third place.
Decider 16 kills to his name, especially you can say legacy trying to take a book out
of furious a page out of furious book going for these a hits question is what
Where do you starve the AWP in a round like this?
Because you want to force a kill, you want to stay mobile.
Legacy, you want to go out middle, and Fulham just cracks him with a USP.
This one's chasing us down.
All the time it's on that B site.
And the bomb is in flow right now.
Boost up, and that's Kcerato something.
So Furia who have continually put more into these low econ rounds.
Again, looking like it might just pay off.
That reload though, is a warning sign.
And Trie takes it, walks all the way into this site, calling for the bomb as well.
Art still has a lot of room to clear.
But Trie is taking so much back.
And there's Fury at clear middle, they don't know what lurks behind them.
So quickly too, right? You've got no idea his timing is this good.
Trie is threading the needle right now.
If they go back to Donut, suddenly this bomb crossing in could become an issue.
Gotta consider this the whole map is quiet with four CTs alive like you know, they've got to be nearby
So you came to Mike a coin
Hilarly that free kill comes in but once case of rato. He's still in position
Parallel spotted you're in use this shot. So he will on drop by case of rato tries to us into a clutch
Well, I have a chance to get this bomb planted
So let's see exactly what Try is capable of in the one on three.
It's all three through the doughnut for Furia.
Flash out of here.
Try knows where this last guy is coming from.
And that's clinical.
You've got to flash off the OrpAs.
Only one of them with a weapon of choice, Mollidoy.
Surely not another bomb that stick out in the open.
Try can't stop him.
And that's twice over now.
Mollidoy's not had to depend on the fights just getting on that bomb.
enough of a problem. That's crazy man. He's a little too late to that, but again it feels
right on time for Maldoy because he picks up the kit, he picks up the molly, gives him
the confidence just to get on that bomb. And so a couple of rounds, my legacy, you know
they do the hard part, they hit the important shots, but it's trial low health who can't
do anything about that bomb stick. Furia, trading rounds now, last four, back and
4th. Barely standing economically but both teams in that position. Let us see
go back for mid control, they do a quick. Ouch. And if I want to get out of here a
couple of spam shots, good. 5v4 for legacy.
Mordoy MVP in these round wins, let's see how his wolf fair is here in red.
Triple setup, so I think you want to re-clear middle right now, it's a wolf pack grouping
in the red room, spot on this in...
Spooked him out of clearing this entirely, it's a check on Doom out.
So it opened and found here for Furia.
K-Zorat has to leave immediately, what does that maid suggest?
Still sits in this corner, ready for the late round.
A good bait for Mekinda to run away in this one.
K-Zorat's a nice thing for this kill and they're still going to go clear him.
So it should be gone.
It's all good timing for Katerato. Molodoy makes up for it. That's a connection. Still got fallen on this A-side.
Molodoy, stop any further progress. Legacy just running to spawn.
Molodoy gives Nysim nothing. Got to wait for Yuri to throw that flash and it goes. It's not ideal. They called it off.
All in this still here. Cannot stop this bomb bar though. At least it is not done with this round.
They faked a bomb?
But did Gora just find an angle?
I don't know how he gets off it.
That was a free bomb right there.
Legacy not convinced.
They don't stick that parts.
They could have put this in a great position, but instead, getting off into fight donor
has given Fallen the kill.
That is the first glaring mistake it seems.
The hands furia a crucial round out of the stretch.
Yeah look at this swing off of default.
Not ideal here for legacy.
It's only the worst time for it, right?
This late in the game and money on the line.
Yeah, you need that bomb part.
You've been back and forth for four rounds in a row.
Now, not only do you have a lead, they have back to back and they put you on pistols.
That's a disaster for legacy really.
Even if you lose the round, the bomb part is going to bail you out somewhat.
Now they got nothing.
Hero 8K Inferior had been handed its tickets to Ancient.
Shocking Watto, be that guy.
remain and so it's just a block from Furia. They've got control over the lane
and they've got eyes on mid. This one maybe starting to feel a little too
obvious.
It's one guy with a gun, a bunch of pistols trying to set him up. And so top
Rifler. Lato at 17 and 11. Has to be the difference maker.
Boost up.
You see Fallen hanging out behind the site.
The shot connects from all the doing and just waves to this defense because,
remember, Fury knew the whole time where this round was ending.
They just be Glocks for the most part, but important kills because of the legacy get positioned and they scale in
Pull one's under threat, smoke down on Molodoy
But everybody does their job here for Furia, that was a gimme round, they had to win it and they do
Game on now, the legacy have anything left in the tank, now is the time to pull it out
What is the call?
11-9 down
And their future on their map pick rests on this rifle round
Is it just an old classic B-pop?
The time to do it would be now, it's only Yuri on this side of the map, sure, K-suron
is closing in on Lane, teammate arriving in the form of your kinder, but you do have
room.
I've got something to hold on to here, and it's Lato who thrives that advantage home,
he's taken the long side away.
Get your postplot.
Oh, Moledoy with a pickup.
Back on.
Starting to lose some room now, legacy.
Oh, under the collar.
Art and Nysim, 2 vs 3.
Guns picked up.
Armed.
Dangerous.
But now have to leave a mark.
A little ugly from Art on the spray.
Nysim able to make up for it.
No trade there!
Oh, because K Serato hits a blind out of transfer.
That is next level from K Serato.
If you see that from his POV, that's
going to be impressive because, my god,
full spray from the side backs along.
He just won that round.
I'm all alone.
Sure, maybe there's a one-by-one bomb
sticking there for him, but he was a long way out.
K Serato, massive triple kill.
And look at him go.
Insta headshot on eight health.
case Dorado makes it so.
Nasty stuff here for Fury of picking up some important retakes now.
This is four rounds in a row, Legacy are getting desperate, they go for the all-in.
Legacy's attempt to punish cancelled.
Fallen's Molly called it off.
We're drawing an inch into the ring to start this third place decider and if it
doesn't pan out here you're left to the mercy of Furia's nuke.
We're not fans of that map last night. In a match where it feels like legacy
with the team and we're gonna be hungry had something to prove had
something to fight for versus a furia that came out at the end of that
semi-final yesterday and said they don't even care this is not the result you
were hoping for legacy have got to hold on falling apart at the seams flank on
this a pushers drop the bomb kill off the kill coming through for furia try
does do that exactly to force his ground back nice shot as well hands now
but won't be able to round it out with a third and that leaves you with just one
guy left to stop Furia with a runaway at the end of ancient. Out into the open
Nistin felled, fallen holding his own and Furia scraped by on ancient back and
forth from the get-go. But at the end Furia
They would have locked in, level up, and now just their map pick of Nuke away from third place.
Yes, you want to talk level up or watch our legacy on that second map.
This has been a go-to for Furia.
They absolutely blew foot out of the water yesterday on this map of Nuke.
That was your opportunity.
So it feels staring you dead in the face on ancient, and they couldn't make up for it on the T side.
They had everything going for them on that comeback for legacy.
but Furia maintain composure at the top of Brazil and take that first map of the series.
Podium Finish still available for Furia. They just need mute in the back pocket.
Gentlemen, Furia come out and steal Legacy's map pick and I gotta ask first,
Who was most impressive? Was it Maldoy with the clear sticks? Or was it Keisarana with the sprays through the walls and of course in faces?
Tried to Mald. They all had moments. Who were you enjoying during this first game?
I think Maldoy showed up in a very good fashion. Not only with his kills, but also the rounds and the clutches that he managed to pull up with.
He had two diffuse rounds. That was very important for Jury. So he definitely turned out where, as you can tell, fall in Jury.
and Jekyll and Jekyll probably forgot to sit there a long clock because you know this game is quite early so
It's good to see that leaves the two standout plays in case for Adam all there's to be up a fear when it matters the most
It's a little early for gamer hours, but we're getting it done anyway
I'm BK who is getting it done though for legacy because they need to bounce back a new going in the game too
Well, it was pretty impressive to have tried being done to fish in whether it's with Jekyll with the up and especially on new
Oppers love this map. They're going to do whatever they want. They're always going to have the edge when it was high, they're going to kill the pigs.
And it's kind of the place where they want to try it. So I think there's a real chance that it's going to be closer.
Furia is ready. Furia knows this map. They're very comfortable. It's going to be hard, but yeah, I think we're going to try it and see if we can watch it.
It really showed yesterday how they also approached the map against foot that wouldn't need to reach that chance.
and Führer just decided to play like the entirety of the map.
They were really good at shutting them down,
getting that information that is so crucial on Nuke.
And I think it's going to be a little bit similar today
because the playstyle of legacy in Führer's relative is similar.
They all want to be very aggressive.
Führer is just so much better at utilizing each other,
playing as a team and understanding the limitations.
Fans, do me a favor.
If you're going to be walking around the venue,
let's make some signs.
Let's make some funny signs to carry behind us throughout the day.
throughout the day. We're going to be partying here in France, the City of Love, and Malibuay
may be leaving here with $80,000 more if he keeps playing this way. Let's take a look
at the sniper. I thought Fowler's role was the sniper when he played. No, this guy comes
in from Europe. They're speaking English on stage and it seems to be working.
One of the most impressive things about Malibuay is his evolution. He started off
being a bit of a fader, being the guy playing for stats in his former team. Ever since
he's playing with Fowler, the Fowler has been training the way. You can see there's
There's a clear difference in the impact here, the way he's going first, the way he knows when to be that guy, if he has to save, if he has to be aggressive.
I think that's the best part of what I see in Colorado. He's evolving, eh?
Yeah, well he is, and it's also just the fact that he's so good. All the weapons, like you have a bunch of arms that will only function very well when they wield that arm, but also the scout.
But when he gets a hit, like even in the pits around, he usually gets two weeks, because he's so good with them, so he has a lot of responsibility in their pits around.
Obviously he is the all player so he gets it all done with that, but he has that style
power where he can turn things around with regardless of what's going on in the US.
So you think Viria picked up a star?
Oh, of course they did, like they also kind of needed it, right?
They also needed someone to elevate them in terms of their aggressiveness,
because that is maybe where if you're outside of Jakarta, maybe likely a bit of more aggressiveness,
because you do have a more defensive core in both Fallen, Urien also gets around it.
Yeah, and you see for one of the as well, I know for a fact that a lot of players are copying some of these plays
so he's even bring a whole different game style to the people and
It's based on how good he is, even though he's so young, okay?
He just impretches things his way and it makes a huge difference, right? Because he's very comfortable, he's very tough and everything and
Yeah, I'm a fan everywhere, of course you're trying it
And yeah, like Mododon has been impressive ever since he came to the roster
I wasn't sure what he was gonna bring if you just destroyed the further we were worried if the vitality fans
We're gonna be here with their team and a lot of pre you once won a tournament for vitality in this arena, right?
Yeah, I get 23
That's good to see the people's don't remember that obviously yeah, that was
Something to be like something to be proud of also something that was very important for us to you know
Give back to the French fans because it was been very loyal
So yeah, a big shout out to all the Batali fans that regardless of showed up today to just watch some good power
So I even though that but I was not here. We love to free. I've heard it all week long
We've got autographs to deliver later, but right now to free. I need you to talk me through some of these highlights
Here is walking away with the first victory. We've got highlights galore's from both sides of the battle
Let's see who did it past in all honesty. It was just very messy. I feel like it's very broadly
it's about getting these first fights and that is where Trey catches the first one here
then Dumar catches him with a grenade and you actually think that they're
put in a position to just closely when I'm out very comfortably. Trey misses a
very unfortunate shot here and if you're like they have literally nothing to work
with but rather than the guy that we already praised, the guy that we already talked about
is obviously going to be Molo-Doy and he needs to get something done. So he goes and
tries to find a very important fighting Tuguna which he gets onto Nistam, puts him down
and you could just kill at this point that it seems like legacy would stress me out a
a little bit too much. I know that if you want to try and be a little more aggressive
on the A-Retake before they can get into post-plant, but it's still like, it feels like they're
lacking a bit of all of you to help each other out. And then it's left off to Keserado
and Yuri in these situations where they're just so good, you know, they're good at
playing out the clutch, they play very passively and well together. And Keserado just gets
worked on like, this is where you want Keserado to be and he just delivers
time to everything.
How much work did Keserado put in throughout this game? We've got some numbers for
us NVK tell me about this player what have you seen from him throughout his
career what is he showing you here at EWC? Well let's kind of the thing with him
he's one of the most consistent referee in the world every single time he's
performing you always know what you can expect from him and having a pair like
that in your team he's so key because you know exactly if you create a
tactic if you put in a certain position that grass is passive he's
gonna get a job done always to the same level. I actually have my first memory
of facing Keisarara was back in London at an ECS tournament and I remember that was when they had made,
I think it was probably one of the first times they made an international
you know trip to try and compete with the Europeans and we were at trials at that time
and I remember playing against that at that time was Keisarara, Yuri and Arthur was in the same team
and it was fun to go against them and at that point we thought this is going to be quite easy
right these guys they're from Brazil they you know we know what they can bring but at
this time they weren't really recognized right and they just blew it out of the war and ever
Ever since Keisarotto has been this guy, has been one of the most consistent Robertson we've had in the world.
He's had a point also been a guy that we've maybe wanted to see go to an international team, see what he can do.
But he's been very loyal to Fury, very loyal to Brazilian Counter-Strike team, staying in that frame, wanting to showcase that he can make things work.
And it's just incredible to see that he continued to do time and time again.
It's Keisarotto my player to lead us in our next game. Let's take a look at what we have in store for the fans at home.
I'm sorry. I don't think we're getting to a game three because it's the fury of pick next
We're going to nuke CT side is the start for legacy MBK
Yeah, I think I think the cycle is no matter at that point you can see that furious ready
They came here with a plan to get to finish property
We're worried on ancient because they're not very comfortable. You know, this is the map though
It was maybe a bit weird for them. They just come in they win
I don't see how they do it
It just feels like fury has this one in the back right now with what how they showed on ancient
I think they showed that they're still here to play regardless of this being a third full-played Asada
Looks like they've warmed up even though that's some of the place. They'll see the latest league
But you know case around them all of a cut the job done
All right, well gentlemen, it's time for us to grab a crosswalk and go hang out in the green room
We come back we got game number two. It's live from Paris City of love
Fyria vs. Legacy the all-Brazilian dual
This ain't no regular theme,
Gave it away for no one I mean
You see my name in the lights,
Ready to break the chain
You wanna go to the Eiffel Tower?
Faxes are so much worse in Paris.
Make yourself comfy.
What is this?
This is the 2CV.
All right, you ready to see the Eiffel Tower?
Do you know where you're going?
I feel confident that we are going to see the outside of the Eiffel Tower.
I'm ready.
I would like to see it.
We're just going to have to go by smell.
Have you ever navigated by smell before?
No, yes I have.
You just have to smell the Eiffel Tower.
The turd to Eiffel.
OK, wait a second.
OK, I think we're getting closer.
Either that or it's the catacombs.
I didn't do that! That'll bust out!
Are we? That'll bust out.
I went to a cathedral today. Apparently the crown of thorns is there.
I didn't get to see it, but...
From Game of Thrones?
From Jesus.
As we're actually navigating some of this traffic...
Here, we take the wheel for a second.
We're gonna just go ahead and take the wheel on a dry stick.
I have something back here. It's okay, you'll figure it out once you...
Ah!
Ah!
Are you stopped braiding the pedals?
Oh, do you know what you're braiding?
I got it. Yeah, yeah, no, no. I could feel it. I could feel it.
Okay, here we go.
All right.
Please take the pill.
Am I still holding the wheel?
Oh, no, I can hear you.
I got my knee on it.
There we go.
You're good.
How long is the Paris sewer system?
I can't measure distance, so...
Twenty miles.
Twenty miles?
That's pretty far.
Two miles.
It's actually over 1,304 miles long.
And much of it is big enough to drive a train through.
Whoa.
It's a lot of s***.
It is.
It's quite crazy.
A lot of s***.
The Eiffel Tower is 330 meters tall or 1,083 feet if you're American.
How much does it grow or shrink based on the temperature?
Does things grow in?
I mean we know that things tend to grow or shrink based on temperature.
Can I have a hint?
Yes, it's an inches.
Three.
Double it.
Six.
Six inches.
First try.
I guess six inches. I mean that's kind of crazy. That is crazy. Yes. Yes. I did a JoJo opening
I'm gonna think
So much about Paris. I'm an expert in Paris. I've been here for like two weeks now right well
What guard a la roue? That means watch the road?
Where's the
There we go
There are no stop signs in Paris
True because I'm just going that is so true actually true the city you didn't yield traffic lights and right away
All of which have been disregarded on this drive
She did not like
Excuse me should we go shabby well, I think we're a duad it no wait. I need to a ghost. They did do I'm gonna go
Oh!
Shraipo, the shot!
Hey, watch the round!
Watch the round!
Oh!
Okay, that was their fault.
We only need a couple more agotias and we're there.
Maybe I should just take an Uber or like a taxi.
Well, no, no, no, that's me.
I am your Uber and taxi.
I've got a lot of stupid ones there.
Like another one.
No!
Well, I'm the safest Uber or taxi that you could ask for.
Sure!
Check out my five-star rating.
Is that the Eiffel Tower?
I think that's not good.
No, that's a crane.
I think maybe you can't see the Eiffel Tower
because it shrunk six inches.
Ah, right.
That's a, let's be it.
But also because this freaking
grandpa is on the road in front of me.
My God, he dropped his croissant.
I have GPS built into my brain.
You know like those pigeons?
Those pigeons that always know how to go home?
Yes.
I know how to go to the Eiffel Tower.
We're still making the, what's the other one?
A dwat?
A dwat.
We're dwatting.
I thought it was pretty a gauche.
We're dwatting.
We're dwatting.
We're dwatting.
We're dwatting.
No!
Maybe I should walk.
I just, I'm just gonna get out here.
You're just gonna, I'm just gonna get out.
Right here?
Yeah, just, I just, just not.
And I can walk, stretch my legs, breathe the Parisian, Paris, you know, the air
and just, you know, just, I can take the rest of the way.
No, it's, you know what? It's really nice out and I just think it'll be a great walk.
It's just one more of a go.
Oh, wow!
Five stars at least!
There, see?
And so the tournament was able to continue after turning the computers off and on again.
For the rest of the club's championship, we...
What's going on?
Guys, why did she stop talking?
The rat got out again.
Guys, let's reset the rats.
Reset the rat.
Come on.
Under the couch under the couch. I don't know it went the triangle thing triangle thing do not let that rat find its family
Come on if the thing starts a union we're in trouble guys. No, no, no over there over there
Come on we're losing time
Oh
How long have I been out? Just a couple of seconds the rat got out again
Oh, he's been doing that more and more recently gonna get you a better hat
Thank you may have peed a little bit. Oh, yeah, there's a lot of pee right here if we can clean that up
I'll leave unless you can read the prompter without it. What are you crazy? I don't do my own stunts
Just give me some cheese or something. Okay. Cheese. Let's go
Yeah, thank you. All right. Yeah, this will
Hey
Okay, okay, I think that'll work for now. Are we good? Yeah, we're good
Are we good?
Perfect. Alright guys, clear set.
Let's go. Let's go.
We gotta get started. It's losing time.
Guys, come on.
And action.
And that's what's been happening in the club championship.
In other unrelated news, cats.
Why are they here?
Why do they smell so bad?
And what can we do about them?
You don't have the fuel skid.
See? Things like this can happen all over the world. We can eat them all.
Easily be avoided. Don't be a loser and buy the future.
It is loud in the Akora River right now!
Because we're down with the Brazilians, right where we love to be.
The Fury are fans. They didn't get the result they wanted yesterday,
but they haven't stopped the passion and energy.
I am actually impressed. I wanted to ask you,
we thought that the Brazilian fans were going to get quiet after losing yesterday.
Why are you guys still making so much noise for your Tinkeria here?
Thank you, thank you so much.
FURIA, this organization is bigger than a win or a loss.
This is a life change.
CS, FURIA, check out life change, all these lives.
So far as what really matters is being here with this special team.
And this is so special for us as well, I think that Brazilian here in Paris.
Oh my word, it is indeed. Listen, you guys, it feels like you have unlimited energy.
You don't stop the music, you don't stop the sound. How do you stay so alive out here?
We say it's all about our energy and how we give our energy to the players.
We build the energy and see the players and we see they have our energy so we can't stop chanting
because we know we have a positive effect on their game so never stop chanting.
It's so hard to stand still down here, Libby.
Yes, and I see you guys holding hands, so I want to ask you, coming together to watch CS, how does it feel?
I love you, I love Steph, I love fucking fucking!
Woo!
In the 16th of Love We Are, in Love We Are fans, give us one more ticket!
Yeah, I got a question!
This is song, it goes like...
Harry and Hugo. How's it going down there?
It's still electric down here in Paris as we get ready to find a third-place finish.
Fury out at Legacy rages on. The battle of Brazil and the battle of the best of Brazil.
Right now Fury out at taking the cake. Ancient was a little punished pick there from Legacy.
It comes back to Horton. Now we go to Nuke. It's going to be an uphill battle for Legacy.
that they've struggled on, let them down a cologne,
one win here at EWC, but that was against
a different level of competition.
This one on the stage, and Furia,
who approved themselves time and time again
on Nuke through Thig and Finn, did it yesterday as well,
in that foot game, in the semifinals,
Furia bleeds through them, there was no contest.
So that T side starts, yet again could be a problem here.
they found nine rounds on it last night. Legacy, was it only a pipe dream to take down Brazil's best or have you got more in you?
They're going to have to. This is going to take everything if you want to try and beat Furia here.
No wrap here in this pistol round, miss him, it does what he can, but it's your kindar to get the ball rolling.
What makes its way down towards lower, and this one already with a couple of twisted turns.
If you're a year of showing that they really like to try and keep their opponents guessing,
and they're the ones on the T side and it's the lurker caseurato that really drives home that message.
Hanging around wrap side. Not quite good for the second, we'll get the best of him.
at the best of it.
Well, he's got a lot of pain from it.
There's a lot in these lurks for Furia on their T side of Nuke.
How much time can you kind of hide down a lower?
Here's the now underneath it.
Oh, no, no.
It's a little ugly, but he will make up for it.
And now it's Art left up in his clutch.
He's been cleaning this pistol.
But no idea where Mollidoy is.
He's been getting lurked on all around.
Oh, Will arrive.
Time decides it.
Great display from Art.
But again, you know, it's the clock deciding the outcome there.
All the kills, none of the glory, pistol round picked up for Furia.
Okay, so many of these rounds here, four frags for art,
but they fall short of any impact. Furia on the board early.
And the thing I enjoyed about Furia on this map yesterday was
they knew they were the better team and they played like it.
They showed it off in that series, absolutely ran over foot.
We've seen some really slow T-Sides out of Furia this tournament.
times come back to haunt them but it wasn't on you yesterday even after losing
ancient right in the final round. Furio were just constantly aggressive on this
T side doing a lot of quick splits. Here's a great example but he did look at the
wrong way. Runs right into that rifle. We run expecting a metal form but Art has
handed it over to try. So put to use straight away in this force by round for
legacy. Furia, I still don't feel the fear. They go down lower. Four players
spoken away, but only one man to stop them. Meanwhile, legacy make the right move.
They push Lobby as a unit. Gonna get this info quick. As soon as Furia go, the better.
And he gets start from drop. He still needs something from Doom now.
Alright, down the vent, but it's not a hero's welcome into four players.
He gets shot out of the round right away
You may well be able to hold on and now this B site starts to get padded out
Roses arriving at full force for legacy missing back and forth. It's left on the case of Rato
Rans it down to this 1v1
The arrival of Lato is not what's needed. He sneaks down the vent
It's a lot of no idea where this last man is
What's up from planning
Who doesn't punch?
How do you stick it here?
You have to shut the door.
This time you leave yourself, the less options open a case Serato.
Eventually we'll just have to focus on getting that bomb down and that's when
Lato will look for the freedom to make his play.
Door stuck.
And there's the swing.
Case Serato.
I think it would have been easy.
it easy to get the roll in there after feeling like you wasted a couple of key seconds.
But those that were timed so low, it was only a matter of moments before Lato walks out into the open.
Yeah, he couldn't have restocked that bomb, there was no time left.
He had to get that fight on that second, and he gets it.
Cacerato, just a great read of the game.
Feels very unlikely that he's going to fake out there.
Lato walks into his crosshair, so clutch round out of Cacerato early.
Legacy were in this position last map. They didn't decide to force by to keep the pressure on
They weren't again just the R-max 7 and owed to Apex here in Paris
Here we go charging
Straight down ramp into this B site. Art's gonna have to push ahead of that holotone
They go window this could be profitable but Yuri on 16 health survives
Bomb down forget about it
I think it's fair to say Art's been using the shotguns longer than Apex, but Stroke Hex
did it better.
How is the difference?
One second that we've run a different trike, pressure on, oops, nothing to do here, four
legacy.
So Furia 3-0 conversion. To me the question here, Harry, is how dominant can Furia make it?
Here is the win.
The kinder says, he doesn't care about this game, so why not just get out of it quick?
Is that the goal here for Furia? It's a fast paced round, it's coming in.
Show the difference between you and number two in Brazil.
I'm just getting out of here.
Oh, my, it tries all keep playing.
I'll put a spot there. Seize your Kimdar. Scale link out over the top of the silo.
I don't know if you're ready for this routing, dropping on fake route very, very quickly.
He's already made it across to those secret stairs.
Nice team, waiting back in the lobby.
So how do they want to use your Kindar?
Is this just a fake in at lower?
Or is there more to it in that scene?
A number of end drops at a furrier on these T sides.
Are we going to look to reconvene by trying to take ramp away?
That will put them on the receiving end of this trial.
It's a scary position, isn't it?
Max not only can try, if in the herd he can drop back very easily.
Taking a wide line, Furia pressure on the A-Sites.
This is all a bit of a bruise right now as he goes back.
So you think...
Try moving back as well, able to...
Rotate back down lower.
Furia just very undecided right now.
It wasn't like they're getting their ducks in a row, figuring out who's throwing what needs.
35 on the clock, try, hits a shot, back to B he goes.
That's player in on that wrap rotation is gone, and so you're looking at try, you're
looking at this AWP, he's got a lot to answer for here, the Kindle's gonna have full manipulation
over those vet rotates and so try, might just have to be the difference maker, dead
off to a double, and now you're locked out of this legacy, no path to rotate in.
in this 3v2 it just becomes a numbers game with Vents locked down you can't get
the bodies into lower furia keep racking them up to be honest it's a bit of a
shock and the legacy even think that they can rotate down then that's very
optimistic they know they lost the yard early and so that lower controls a
guarantee here for furia it wouldn't be going dry out ramp if not for the
in this position. So legacy, accidentical punishment on that rotation.
Even if you find a fourth, they do it easily, despite crime's best work.
This is perhaps where the difference starts to show.
I thought by as well. A couple of guns here for legacy, going to force up around them.
Scout for Troy, SMG for Dumau and another go over here for legacy.
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
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I better go and get him outside, so...
Furia, quickly ready to pounce on his comp site.
He's just gonna solo fake this instead.
Oh, an awkward fleet of entry attempts and everything comes up short for Furia.
Ola makes it down to Ventford. What's he meant to do here?
This is already in position. Oh, he had to stop implanting that bomb, Nick.
So a bit of extra money made on his way out of the round, but not much in this
still down for Fallen. Not much left to fight back with. Low on health and
this finishes the job. Five rounds in, legacy, get on the board with a clean round.
I just see them that squeeze out maximum, uh,
quite a surviving as well, given it's a very safe way to get that spot.
The Fury are going to keep the good times coming.
They're going to keep the buys rolling here on this T side, so...
...going to need multiple gun rounds for legacy.
If they want to break Fury, we had a similar start back on Ancient 4.0 lead.
The Fury got close...
...in the middle of the half, but Fury can avoid all that right now.
Oh no, he's all fucked up on top.
Searching for Tri.
And he finds him.
In opener.
Oh, lurk timing in case Lato walks past the vent.
And he is in this A-side.
This is fake and lobby.
Lato's somehow aware.
Good head on his shoulders.
And a messy clear outside heavy Akinda leads Art to another kill despite the
early advance of Trafuria not maintained.
And he's in this A-side.
This is fake and lobby.
Lato's somehow aware.
Good head on his shoulders.
And a messy clear outside heavy Akinda leads Art to another kill despite the
early advance of Trafuria not maintained.
2v4, fallen and molotoy.
All means new, they're being flanked.
The student and the master see this one through the backstab of missing.
Thanks, you think it's not happening.
Nice kill, missing positive blade.
Oh, yeah.
Fallen, you got a clutch in you?
This position should make it very hard even if it clears CTVM right above them since it's
another player.
That's a waste of strike.
Little ghost searching, good check right up above no fall, it almost connects the final shot.
Plateau triple kill and missing knife, what's in the round here, the legacy, back to back.
And no part of the furia.
Some problems perhaps in paradise.
I'm getting the same level of room on these T-sides that we've seen.
This is a mobile defense being off and off out of legacy.
New positions every time it feels like out in the yard
and enough to stop these, your Kindar lurks in their tracks.
I'm determined for going for it again.
It's Kcerato this time crossing our yard side
very, very quickly.
Your road guard makes it through secret.
Now let's see if he plays any differently to your Kindar.
Is it just controlling the vent
or does he want to have to put pressure
on this other side?
Because Spirit don't have a lot of options
get a ramp they just have to kind of run at it and do it dry. Kacerato is getting in
position to punish this B rotation. Will it be needed? Legacy have two players on
ramp. It moves, cry catches one, the pistol starts to run, blood on this ramp and it
gets stopped. No success here with pistols. Kacerato lost to the hands of time.
At least he gets that door open, unsuspecting our legacy. Kacerato in a half health
1v4. Should be too much to ask for the man. In these positions I like their
legacy. Don't feed the beast. They don't thirst for the kill. Just look to lock it
around and their money as well.
That they wish they were back here in the Acor arena.
Thank you sir, our emotional made the preview back here, right?
The RCS go major trophy, a place that Vitali, you know all too well.
another time that's what you got to tell yourself this is our appetizer to the
grand final coming up later today who've you got Harry I think I can do it it's a
real tough one isn't it dogs looking good there's just so many unknown quantities
with foot in this final pressure didn't get to live in the 70s they're
able to level up but this is a whole different beast in this room
It's hard to not back spirited this one, but safe to say I expect to see foe bring a fight to that match.
And a B05 as well. We, we're eating good tonight.
Ramp room was open, Trine moves in on this AWP but they're already out.
First shot will land and Trine attempting to get away and even though they try and give
chase he will survive with this open toe.
So slick.
I thought Ramp room taken.
You see those rotates towards lower. Legacy try and get ahead of this.
I'll split the defense here, 3-2.
And it's more aggression from this try orb.
Now they're lying in towards the heart.
First man into his crosshair coming around that corner.
Try desperate to extend this advantage even further if he can.
Nails with shot, hangs around, fall and well punished.
They're ready for the third man.
Are they ready for this thorn in their side?
Oh, it's all off back side.
Losing his teammate, sure, but the hungry doesn't buy the less expected.
He's meant to be.
Oh, the door hits a flick.
And our base is whole team there hoping he can win it.
I mean, yeah, they can't fend though.
They're crazy.
All the legacy hoping for now they hope for do you now?
I want me to but both positions contained here by four.
a 1v2, but both positions contained here by Furia.
Surely you can't suspect a setup like this.
Do Mal gets one, no clue where to look.
And Molodoy waits to strike in the back.
Furia find their way, forge into this T side.
That hurts for Artman, because you
feel like there were opportunities to strike.
But the longer he waits, the worse his chance gets.
Oh boy, here's a blind on that flank.
That's a rough round to lose here for legacy.
Could have leveled out the score.
Fast on top.
Oh my, oh my, what a fish in a barrel.
Yeah, you give try a couple of 1v1's like this. He's licking his lips. That's two from his AWP.
Fendah in for Dumau. Can't quite stop them from scaling down the vent, but Art certainly can.
And so now we hand off to Molodoy, 1 vs 3.
I can't believe it. Are you here on the scenes missing?
Molodoy is going to be ready for this early fight and he certainly is in all right Paris.
So we believe in this 1v3 as it starts.
Molodoy's got hot hands.
Nothing but self-belief in this guy as he repositions around the smoke, Molodoy trying to cut down legacy and this would be quite the way to do it.
Now it's just up for the rest of Furia and for Villafo, Molodoy leaves it to chance.
And not meant to be.
Arkelex is clutched.
See a warring there, Molledoy. Every read is perfect.
Nose nisms down be early, gives him a jiggle.
Push through the smoke as I will ask on this B site.
But just wanted that last kill too quick.
One in the position, gives it to Art.
Nice try from Molledoy.
My legacy putting up.
More of a fighter maybe you were ready for here.
Not the prettiest A hit per furio, would love to see some more of these yard control rounds
that got them against fur, even if they're going for these deep lurks.
It's been a long round.
Okay, our help's out, this one gets the backup.
That molly, he sits behind it, look at the fire as they fall in.
It's an info.
I know this one's coming, oh, oh, oh, oh, support.
Both these players in the B site, holding it down valiantly.
2B3 now, if you really get that bomb back.
Hey, Molodoy, maybe feeling like he has unfinished business here,
right close to the 1B3 in that last round.
It's not, he's got a teammate with him.
Yuri making moves, taking control out towards the single door.
Small out-end rotation.
It's rare that you instantly get a...
...repeat chance to clutch up.
Oh!
A shot at redemption for Molledoy, first shot lands.
Tries all now firing off, he's going to go looking for the wrap-fight.
Whittle down in the engagement, Lato finishes the job and so Legacy...
Turn the heat up on Nuke.
Tie game, very similar flow to Ancient.
Early lead for Furia, Legacy able to roll with the punches.
And a chance now of stealing the lead away at the end of this half.
How similar is it, right, Duke Furia?
find his last couple and excel at the end of their T side. They've certainly got the money to do so now.
That was only pistols with a hero. Now they get four rifles all-power on Moldova as well.
I want to see period give him the room to go for his move. Look for his opening pick. Found it last time. Top the silo.
And try has been quite the opponent in this game. You've got to give them that. So
Moldova with his one cat out for him.
Fury would definitely need a commanding cartage because he's asked to be around to submit to their fingers to in a row.
Fire on the last six.
We bow down that because Fury had been cheeky in his T side.
Aldo still looks for that pick outside.
Smokes may make it a little more difficult.
As the ramp push comes in here, legacy.
He doesn't want to give up that kill.
He's going to hunt you down though and Lasso just escapes in his life, robbery onto your
kinder.
What makes it mean no one's watching this.
There is this lobby aggro to worry about so space for more than just comes to matter
thanks to Arch is cancelling his great timing on that main here.
Oh, miss for Molodoy.
An instantly bored down low.
And you just thinking about writing this off.
That must be entering your mind now in this three on five.
You do want to have anything to fight with.
You want to be able to split the difference on this half.
You need these guns, especially with that Molodoy all primed.
We know what that means.
We don't like the saves here.
Who does?
Sometimes you've got to do it though.
I
Paris I want to do a temperature check B05 final coming up later who here is cheering for spirits
What about foot
We love an underdog too, we...
All coming up in just a couple of hours time.
Got beef to settle between the Brazilians first.
So lucky for Paul. Nice.
Oh, there we go.
So here we go.
Last round of the half, last chance for Furia to etch around on this board.
Transorp has constantly been a problem.
Always a nuisance, maybe even more than that in this round with three players crossing.
Oh my, Snipes' case, Serato had a play nearly to follow up as well onto Molodoy, breaks that smoke.
Well, man's made it down.
Try just harassing with potshots through the smoke.
Furia go crossing.
Three players make it down.
Oh, might be the first man on the scene,
but thus far, still to catch this timing.
The jump check has kind of let him down here.
Yuri's made it by now.
The same for Fallen.
They both creep under his crosshair.
This is crazy.
Oh, has no clue that two players
have bypassed him entirely off the spot.
There's the info.
At least not going to get blindsided by players suddenly coming out through the single door.
Suddenly feeling the pressure.
It's not like everyone's accounted for here.
We always have to bear in mind these fury alerts.
This time it's your kinder on those extremities.
Oh, what a great over those players in at the door.
Molodoy trying to give chase is getting toyed with here.
Oh, that's playing with him.
But a Glock delivers Molodoy something a bit of room.
It's still needing to come up.
Big backstab for Lato.
It's a one-off from legacy. Can they find their redemption on Nuke?
You may be ready to riot him off, but Legacy have come to play here on you, will return
to form, and now into a T side, we go quick into this pistol, Legacy running on fumes,
sending it into this B side.
They want that podium finish, they want Fury to dead, they're going to get him.
Three kills in an instant, Pong goes down, lock in a pistol round Fury and you've
You got a dig deep up.
Here's a vitality finds of the crowd.
Nice of them to show up.
Shaying the main team out on here.
Oh.
You're nice.
You know what's happening to Thor Harry?
With the Buenos Aires Major
we have it up.
You would have thought Legacy would get booed, right?
You remember Austin.
Well now we try.
What happens?
Fan favour all of a sudden?
the way and see. And okay, come on, Calipan in the room. Furia are tilted. They do look
very frustrated. Kendo is looking past Moldovae's foot in his mic up. Sorry, boys. This game's
an obligation. You thought it would come easy off the ancients. Well nothing comes easy in
Counter Strike. I guess he's still wanting it. So maybe they didn't start strong, they
You plan to finish though.
If you're in, keep that cool.
I made the right move here, taking away the lobby control in response to seeing all this outside aggression.
What's that pretty backing garage for now?
So not overly committed to anything here if your legacy still roads where you can change this on the fly.
With Hemmick Draw taking on Dumau, you are strongly thinking about this A side finish.
Fury almost go'd you on, they say go for it, because that's where everyone is for this Furious Squad.
The clock might do fury of favors here.
They blocked him in a 30's of pocket with that bomb, they're going to break it open but they still eat these kills.
I think Bureau, surely this round is in their part of their hand.
They haven't players can come in but they're still ury.
They haven't cleared.
He drops one more down to the clutch.
Try 18 and 6 has a had a monster game and fall it's got to run him down
but which side of the site as try shoots him in the back legacy lock it in thick and
thin not an easy round but it's theirs
a lot of ways that could have gone wrong a lot of ways that could have gone
weird. They're just a monstrous streak of trades and they clash the back of the line.
They're pulling flat on their face here on Nuke. They're going to get one gun round to
change their outcome, change their fortunes.
Snakey, Snakey, down secret.
There's some of the back covered.
It's kind of rotating heavy on first contact here.
You see players down through secret with the cross taken place earlier in the round and
a Furia Insta 4-3 gamble.
Do now.
Gonna get rid of Yuri.
One store in the bombsite.
Lolladoi's Deagle rings out with one.
They lose K Serato and fall and in tandem on the topside with the bombshell here
trying to commit Insulali.
Are you gonna take that path to freedom out of the vents right now?
I know.
That's enough distance between themselves and Furyr.
It's any hope of an upset here with the pistols out the window on that quick reposition from Legacy.
They're glad that those kills fell right into their lap at the top site at the perfect moment.
Really gotta give it to Legacy in this game, right?
Would've been he's to roll over and die on new command that they looked a little shaky on coming into this second, but...
Man.
If you have this game right there, I had the 4 lead in map 2 as well.
Legacy once again, dig deep, show better face, pull this one back.
This is 10-5, and if you have one by round, we're going 3.
The warped for Moledoy chance it makes a hero appearance.
This one it doesn't pan out. Look at the pace getting set. Legacy looking for an uppercut.
Looking for that knockout blow. Falling able to withstand the ramp. It does his part. Two for one.
And you've got to win this round. Here we go.
No ifs, ads or buds. Two players rotating.
Break it three.
Break on the smoke but it feels a little lobbyistic now as soon as you hear that glass shatter
and aid in the air.
Going on, eyes on, three on three.
Whoa.
Okay, Serrano nearly burns alive.
I think if you don't get something soon you really got to consider the save here.
I think you're about right.
money or molodoy
Oh, Nate's pulling your kinder down and he'll get found
D-Mow on a tear and that is the save call from Furia
Goddamn
D-Mow, big trip on, yeah, just Furia
Not looking like the team we saw on Ancients
No one, go get him
Just stumbling around the map
Legacy 11-5. On a map they've shown little prowess on as of late.
A few shites of success. This is one of them.
Here we are in the pit. Gonna have to reset coming into that third, because it does feel inevitable right now.
I mean, yeah, it really does. This was a 5-3 lead for Furia on their map pick and 5 might be all they get.
So coming into this, this third place decided not one.
It's about the money, except in the eyes of, I think almost all competitors in Counter-Strike, if you're not first, you're last.
This one's pride, this one's status, this one is for the top-top title in Brazil.
The shocking twist, it's legacy on what hell of a run on Furia's pick.
This was supposed to be Furia's punish.
It's been flat, it's been lifeless.
Can anyone inject the energy for Furia?
Legacy goes swimming on to gust 2.
They're going in with such wind in their sails as well.
Fuel in the car.
Powered up off of the dominant wind here on Nuke.
Legacy again, look at the darkness.
Let's go down to get the cross.
Come on, back and spawn.
No inherent hurry, you can make it down to there.
Two players, you feel like the route has got to be B.
Somehow, someway, they're going to join them there.
This is really a two-man fight.
I think one of the things that's all nerve-wracking here for Furia is you've leant into this
very very early right you now feel dependent on being right in this read
because otherwise you're kinder and fallen will not be a part of this round
her answer something though the bombs coming down right 20 seconds to go
still need these kills easy accept and done
the damage it's changed you now gonna finish the first but it's the
presence of this second man it's fallen Brazil's grizzled veteran
Lying in way, unaccounted form. Could stop this.
Oh! Mullen's lined them up!
That's it.
And now there isn't time. No matter how fast you move,
you're not getting past him, Fallen.
Yes, he's done on his lonesome.
And that's just gorgeous.
Said someone had to inject the energy.
He didn't think it would be the Godfather, but he does it.
And there we go. He knows what he's done.
That's Fallen with three.
Finally.
Can this be the start of a turnaround?
I mean, what the hell would have come back in me, itself?
Short and short, it's during his best round of the game, off the back of the professor, but...
...I can't stay away from the score line.
Oh, yeah!
11-6 up.
Legacy ample chances, period need...
...to seize the opportunity the Follers just gave them.
Fries Hall.
the right here on Nuke. This is an AWP as round right now and try tipping the
scales back in legacy's favor. Now ground game now towards Hell. This wrap
taking shape. That's over the bit of a freestyle teammate here alongside him.
We're actually gonna look down towards Ramp. Moledoy does deal with Doomow out
in the yard. It's still paranoid about this heaven climber. Legacy of completely shaking
things up with this routing.
Fallen needs to go back to Lor. I think that Penny's dropping now. The map's too quiet.
They know the hell. They see them on the ramp. Bomb loose. Disasterous. It gets picked
back up and buys time for these two to rotate on the doors. Molotoy and Fallen once again
here to stop that plant and they can do so right now. Whoa! Punish! Hit the shot though.
makes it a difficult one. Do
you stick? Do you fake? You've
lost the round. It's shot or not.
Lato can't survive. And so
Moldovic keeps his finger to the
pulse with four kills on that
orb. You have to tell
themselves it's only six rounds.
It's no secret how much
and has inspired Mollidoy.
And so, seeing him with the big 3K
pulling through Mollidoy,
virtually with the same play of his own,
in at lower in the next round.
That's pretty easy in round 19.
Single-up grader pistol on a flashback here for legacy.
a chance right now coming into this one off the back of the floor.
Kavex, who swings off.
And this is, it's actually a P250 kill.
Rampgint's taken, they're flooding on some other door.
He pulls the pistol, he's going to fall.
Falling is to reel them in again as this one gets a little dicey.
And shot for try, that could have been everything.
Wow.
Still connects, second time around.
One left for the choice for 1HP in a swing.
A front case, Serato seals their fate.
It's far more costly than Furia with a light.
We're still building in the right direction. At this point the cost doesn't matter, it just matters that you get these rounds on the board.
Especially those ones.
Three round game all of a sudden.
Fury are kicking themselves to go cold on their T side.
There's an opportunity for a two and O who still presents itself.
Legacy that 12 round will be such a relief if they can find it.
He's been set, it's still a struggling map for this squad.
He's losing power, he's the hardest part.
Looking for something on this topside now, and there are enough.
Fury had been pretty young, he's got these rotations, they've been heavy on the lower side.
They've not got much of a setup here.
And Sarato is going to get locked off by Nades, it's just going to be Yuri in heaven, if he wants to commit.
Here comes the execute, double Molly, a lot behind this one, better watch your back, because it's a fake.
It's okay, Sarato, can I get pulled in by all that utility?
It was so much getting committed that you almost have to respect it.
If you're Furia, they'll start scrambling bodies down, but he rotates a hose.
Line up for Nissen and a 5v2.
We've had a string of big moments at this lower save, but this time your Kindar can't bail them out.
The Foulans surely hit his limit of individual heroics.
1v4, I mean this is where losing three players to Glocks comes back to horn you.
You've got to save.
He went out for this and...
And I like that for a legacy because, yeah, sure, they get fortunate in the sense that
Fuhrer don't have players in, so they have to scramble and really trust that fake.
And this one still gets in a very strong pause and shuts them down trying to rotate
then.
That was a panicked call for Fuhrer, realizing they'd been duped.
So here we go.
relief and that safety of overtime locked in.
Terrorists win.
Legacy four shots to shut this out.
Another take is to dust.
You've seen this legacy drive be proactive with these timeouts, they haven't used many
on this turnaround here, we said it was that early 5-3 lead for Furia, they got stuck on
that 5 round scoreline for the longest time, it was a big streak out legacy, but they
We just want to make sure now in the first time of asking that they're able to close this out.
You don't want fury within earshot of overtime.
You just want a clean separation, a clean break here, get to dust 2, that's the goal.
Double law makes an appearance.
That's right Paris, we're going to get to see Foul in it, donning an AWP alongside Moledoy.
I still see a weakened A-Side though, just coming up outside following Alps Ramp.
But watch out at any moment, I guess he could run through the hearts and win the round,
So I look for Doom now, we go up, art down secret.
Do they pull back for the main split?
The map is quiet.
Furia retents.
Change positions.
Swing on this on Molador, Yuri there to bail an out though,
and Yukinda's got this scale out towards main.
This split is getting sandwiched by Furia.
B3 and Yuri is not letting them through the heart. They are going to lose Fallen on rotation.
Follow up for Try, but Molodoy there to keep things in check and so no worries here.
Art doesn't have that bomb. Has it off to get past?
And many CTs able to just close in at the drop of a hat. Art trying to play it forward.
Needs a clean kill and with Molodoy on a convincing angle, no chance.
The legacy is captain in that 1B3.
smart for Molotov and that's where you see his growth as a player right playing this level of CS,
really crusts his teammates on the setup, he knows when to not give up the fight backside, never keeps
up, never goes for another kill, even though legacy are right there and he knows it, lets his teammates
bait them in and Molotov plays for the round with hiding backside giving nothing away.
Freituri and stops Art on the way to a clutch, so here we go a second time up a legacy,
they can feel the burn.
You're in your first out of four.
When they're second, when they're third is right there for the taking. It's going to be a broken legacy economy.
This is the round. It really lets us decide just how close does this get.
Legacy don't have a hell of a lot to work with here. They've liked these drawn out rounds.
they like to try and operate in the shadows, confuse Furia a little bit, but that's not really an option,
that's not really opening you here, you're working with a lot less.
Now we are set up a bit of aggression from Furia, risking it all on the yard push.
Double played, it's designed to set up KSR after a bit of quiet game from Furia's Star Rifleur.
You'd like to think they wouldn't expect him here, you can do is that yard guy, but they're going above.
What can Kisarato do if he looks up his barrel and will reveal his position?
Just do now, no. No, he doesn't, but if he shot the Kisarato, it's punished.
Orb connects on Fallen, and just like that, in a swing comes a miss for Furia,
and Legacy are right there.
I'm just thinking now, let's not make this hard for ourselves.
Stick together, you've got a couple of low players here, ways that this could get weird.
You know you could be walking into a stack but you just got to have faith the
sheer numbers will be enough. Do now at the front of the pack low on HP nobody
down at this B site for Furia it's gonna come down to a retake. Moledoy and
Uri at a position this should be impossible this should be the round
that confirms dust too. The map just waiting and never the ability Moledoy
try as he might. And they won't finish anything. They are not taking these fights. Legacy looks
to lock in the map and they do so together. Five alive. Furion tried to pause comeback
but it is too little, too late. Legacy all the way to a third map in this third place
to Sider. Desperate science here for Furion. Some ugly rounds here on you. All starting
too slow on the end and legacy we set it coming into this game they want this they have a point
to prove they want to be the best in brazil they want to become the so legacy locking in a third map
to the delight of the schedule and stage makers we are going to a game number three
went around from legacy to close things out and of course we got to talk about the upset here because
Fiora came blazing out of the gates and then legacy storming back. Yeah with what Fiora showed
against Fujisada you really think that it was just going to be another one of those shows like just
going to be very one side of the Fiora but this time you know like legacy really turned it up by
I think the fact that they got seven rounds on their CT side then converted that pistol coming
into the second half really helped them set up the momentum of them but they just had to
to get those last two rounds and then missing coming in with a massive 4k round to hook him
in 12 and from there on it was actually nice to see from legacy that they started slowing
down a little bit because they threw out these tournaments, played so far, they've just
been getting in their heads for their opponents, but now they decided to slow down a bit,
play a little bit more patient and actually work the rounds together and that was just
quick because it had such a big lead.
Nathan, this is number three in the world versus number 12 according to HLTV.
This is a massive matchup if you're a legacy fan and it sounds like Try is starting to win
some people over.
Is he your favorite player to watch on this squad or who have you been enjoying here on
the final day of EWC?
Well, Try is definitely the most efficient, if anything.
He's all over the map, he's getting the entries, he's closing the rounds, he's
getting the clutches, off-rath hole.
Right now he's just a delight watch.
When it comes to favorite players to watch, I think it's between the team and
motorboilers.
The two operas came into play.
We were in reminiscence of, I don't know, 2015, those years where the off was a bit slightly overpowered.
And, uh, you had those guys that were like doing the highlights, kept them right.
And I think this game was the exact same.
Trie is just a little bit of a server.
And I was just looking at Trie.
He was really good over in Ancient, and now again he was one of the main reasons to
why they clinched out Nuke and now turning into Dust2 for the third map.
That's also where he showed yesterday where he was like being amused and also throughout
The Terrancy was just being so good,
Pacific was playing on the A-bombs,
like getting so many frags,
but maybe he was executed on,
but also just being very progressive.
So it's a good sign for Legacy
that their Alba has definitely showed up today.
He had eight opening duels,
he wins six of them,
impressive stuff from the AWP.
Let's take a look though,
at round number 12,
what did you break down for me, Dupree?
Yeah, the last, the last by-ron up to first half,
you can tell that,
that Fiora is obviously trying to get that six round,
they're trying to even have a scoreline,
but Legacy wants to get that seven,
and I don't think it gets a massive frag,
trying to get the guy squad to the secret, Yuri brings it back though and this is the fast rotation
out of Art that he wants to try and understand what the Rival is about but the way that he's jumping
he actually doesn't catch the two players going to the single door here and Furia is on Kip's
position away maybe because they thought they were spotted and then Art in a very classy style
of him doesn't really know where to put himself so he decides to go for this very aggressive
swing where he knows exactly what happens when this door is open he catches both flags
Mason's trying to do some work here, so to dig it back,
and then he brought it just closer down with a 7-5 lead.
MBK impressive stuff here from Nuke,
and did you think Legacy had it in them?
Was that a map that played against their playstyle,
or is it something that we could see more from them in the future?
It was definitely unexpected.
I don't think we were going into that map to get,
oh yeah, Legacy's gonna take it,
or even thinking about a fight that they were gonna put.
And it turns out that they would make the better team.
One stereo that figured out, it had no way to run.
It was just legacy out rotating the getting those entry fields getting those the problem
I was so in the run before that was like pretty much the example of the how we went legacy with a step
above nobody really expected it and for the third map you know we have offers going on
uh-oh there was a moment when Maldo I put his head set up and the gas was called out
period tilt I wonder if the headset stays locked all game three in the meantime can you visit
Round 13 for me, what we carved out, what do you see there?
This is what ladies would do best, right?
They don't hesitate, then they decide to go for a fast ram brush.
This is like, just keeps flying a bit of, you know,
just a little bit of critical watch, just like,
he made himself fly through the,
well, fly through the air and just jumping around,
of course, in so much favor.
And at that point, you know, they're just playing with the momentum.
They just want to get the rounds over.
They've already got that very important entry.
Now they just want to go downstairs.
They just put themselves in such a fatal situation.
And from there on, they set the pace for the last round,
playing fast, playing as close to how to go the best.
Our favorite pistoliers, legacy, putting on a show here
in the A-core arena, the final matches of EWC
are happening here on Counter-Strike 2,
and we still have the decider to go.
That'll be on Dust2.
Real quick, final thoughts, how do you deal
with the aggression in those pistol rounds?
Because, MVK, this isn't the last time
Pierre is gonna have to deal with it.
Yeah, just run away, first of all.
Just take information, run away from them.
You know they're gonna be back,
And then you're going to be able to play at 5-0-5 with a full 5-0.
I think that's the main thing you can do.
And then, yeah, Sierra got lost a little bit in youth,
where they were trying to do stuff,
they were trying to get out of their game plan
in order to adapt to legacy,
where it should be the other way around.
So I want them to just go their game plan
and execute legacy if they want to win.
And turning to those two,
it's pretty much very even ground for both teams.
Both teams have been playing it quite a lot,
and also both teams are sitting at around 1%.
So this one's open for it,
And that's why Third Mask always seems to be so interesting, right?
It's where both teams seem to be going so even against each other.
So at this point, with the momentum that Legacy just set them up themselves, also picking
up Nuke, I think they feel like they should have closed that answer, and that they should
have won that one also, because Furia is not notorious for playing it.
So I think it was very important for them to just feel like, hey, we actually just
brought them up, whatever you do, good, we can do better.
And now everything in Habitant does too, where it's very even ground.
It's awesome to see the community from around the world making it out.
Some Brazilians were telling me it's our very first time out of the country.
They are part in here in the city of love.
Paris has been an awesome host.
I have one final question as we're getting into Dust2.
Who has the most pressure on each team?
I think it's me, if you're the one that has the most pressure.
Right there on the rankings, the best teams, but there's also some, like they also want
to know by showcasing that they're the best team, like the best Brazilian team on
So there's something to push us through.
And which player on period do you think carries the most weight coming in?
I think Yuri is going to be the one to watch, because he's a bit other-rated, he's a bit hidden,
but he's going to be the difference maker.
NBK to pre-mix some noise barriers. We are ready for a game number three.
It's EWC, match for the bronze.
Hello everyone and welcome to fill in the blanks with Team Legacy.
I'm going to explain the rules.
It's pretty simple.
Who's most likely to?
It will be the question, every couple of scenarios.
You can write the name down of whoever you think in your team is most likely to and then explain yourselves
If you feel like it, I can see you're already laughing
He has a strategy on life
Who is most likely to sing first at karaoke on a night out
I don't agree, I have a reason.
Okay, you go first.
Lato is practicing his vocal chords to be a singer.
I would say if he has an opportunity to show the world who he can do, he would be that person.
You have an opportunity right here right now.
No, no.
You guys can do it for tomorrow.
The problem with the cameras, the camera cameras.
Who is most likely to forget something in the hotel room after checkout?
That's easy, that's easy, alright, alright.
Sounds like this has happened before.
Every time, every time.
That's easy, that's easy.
Why?
I don't know, that's like...
You think you knew it?
Yeah, he lost everything fast forward, everything.
Who is most likely to sleep through with the hotel breakfast?
He's the one.
He's the same guy.
It's like a...
If you make a one minute silence now, he will be sleeping one minute.
Yeah.
The best thing to close my eyes was it, you know.
All right, next one.
Who is the most competitive outside of CS2?
Yeah.
But they're all right.
It's a tie.
It's a tie, yeah.
Because he plays Dota.
Ooh.
What? I play Dota too.
That's offensive for me.
I can say, yeah, he's like, yeah, Dota.
Yeah, Dota.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Dota.
But he rages a lot.
True.
I will say, Art, because he plays CS, Dota, chess, and Clash.
Clash is difficult.
Yeah.
But he doesn't shoot.
He is not raging.
Yeah, but I try hard.
He does not shoot.
He tries hard a lot, bro.
He sees something in the YouTube to play Clash.
Yeah.
That's a good tie.
Who inspires the team the most?
Why you?
I'm a good guy.
Why art?
Why art?
I think he's a hard worker.
Yeah, he's a captain, a hard worker.
He's working in every game and in chess as well.
That's it from us. Thank you both. Thank you all.
So much for joining us, having you.
That was fun. Thank you very much.
You won't find her outside. She's mysterious.
You won't find her in the kitchen. She hasn't cooked in years.
You'll find her... here.
Get wrecked!
No, no, that hitbox is cheap.
I hate this character.
On day 4 of a gaming bender, with no time to sleep, or move, or shower.
She is sedentary, she is terror, she is gamer.
Essence of eSpawn, or the toilet.
Play is in our DNA, whenever we let it out, it becomes our super power.
Now imagine an entire city being built to supercharge it.
The Deer City, powered by play.
Alright guys, no worries, I've got a plan.
They want to have smart ass, but we will be smarter.
Go, go, go!
Come on, come on, let's go!
Open it!
Going to blend the bomb.
Where's the bomb? Green?
Where are you?
Ties, it's clear.
Take enough of us now.
Shields backfella.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's a big name on the French CS scene that has joined me.
Maybe I have joined him.
Ladies and gentlemen, you know him, the guru of all things, of course.
It's a pleasure to have you here in Paris.
We know it's a big stage.
What does it do to have so many French people together for the CS in France?
And why is it the best in the world?
Hello Paris!
What's more, CS is 20 points of esports, do you have time to say more?
Not at all.
But how much did he impact the game and how do you feel knowing that he's going to be retiring soon?
You and Folen are from the same generation, the 90s, I was there before.
What did it mean to know that he's going to take a very good return? How did he score?
Folen is the father of Counter-Strike.
Laura, who is leaving, I think, brought with her all the Brazilian scene and even South-American.
We nicknamed her professor. It's going to be hard to see her leave.
But before we stop, we still have Atmex who will be there for two years at least.
So it will also be very hard to see him leave.
So a big and simple gift for the Brazilians who will make one of the greatest legends.
He had so much impact, he brought all the Brazilians also, I feel like, so much hype
on to CS from the Brazilians.
He's called the professor for one reason as well and it's going to be hard also to see
Apex leaving soon another figure from the French CS scene, I believe.
And my last question is going to be maybe first about this game and then on to the
finals.
So first for this third place, who will you see taking the win out of the Brazilians
scene?
What are you going to do for this third place?
I would like to see them beat Na'Vi and Falcons.
So I feel like they deserve it.
I love the Norleys and he talks about the Grand Finals, team spirit bests us foot and for the grand finale, what's your name?
Last year we saw Mongols, a very young team, winning the World Cup. It would be great that a new year is coming with FUT.
In addition, there is a French Garixer, a manager, so I hope it will make noise for FUT.
But on the other hand, there is the only trophy that is missing. He won Cato, he won Colo, he won the Major.
If he takes the World Cup, he will have everything, and it would be incredible.
Ok, but that's not really a good answer, so who is it for?
That's what they're game.
Coming into this third place decider, we build it as our chance to see who is the top dog in Brazil.
I want to be honest with you guys, I don't think it's quite lived up to that yet.
I think Furia looked very, very flat on that second map with Nuke.
I don't think it should have to come down to Fallen, the Devetter and the old man in this Furia squad
to try and pull them through. You're gonna want more mileage out of K-SRR.
You're gonna want a bit more fight from Yuri. We're on to the third map now. We're on to the decider.
We want more fight out of Furia in this third place deciding match.
Well, no better map to get it. Dust2 to decide who gets on that podium, who gets an extra 80 grand
of Furia from championship points. They would very much appreciate the legacy. It's all about
being the spoiler and taking down the big dogs at Brazil, CT side stop for their
Furia on the T half, gonna have to bring a punch here through this pistol.
There's a lot of room to play with pace on this too and so Furia trying to set a
slow-tone early in the pistol. That's all really good. Let's give you a
methodical, let's you get the util in, working the map, they're looking for this
short control.
And they've got that now. So I set on this A bomb site in the pistol round,
three strong here for legacy down in the pit, it's doom out. There's a real
nuisance back on Nuke but this time it dead straight away until you're
Kindar to open things up
A little bit of an ugly skirmish here. Eris Bullen can't quite finish his meal, but Molenoid comes in to help him out
How does this 2v4? Latteau and this in bow out of the pistol
Through the boom
Here just locking them out here
This was the map we saw last night
between Furia and Foots, went to overtime, was again a Quintenuc, a dominant T-side star for Furia, the 1-8-4-Rop.
Quite the lead, crumbled on that CT side.
So again, expecting a strong opening half for Furia, as we did last map, didn't quite get it.
Reality setting in now, this is your last chance.
Fasten it for the stage.
It's left in the right direction.
We've got a force bite in or on the cards for Legacy.
I was threatened to be so early.
That's force three in position here for Legacy, but if you're hearing no hurry, it's
going to fall off.
I do now response fast-backstab is all getting ready to come in through cowboy
Fury turns and I deal with this but I'm quite put a stop to it.
His force-buy's got some legs on him even if it's down to the retake now.
I'm gonna try to cross in with that.
Bob won't survive the crossing because Nissen's tapping heads off.
Mothernoy finished!
And Legacy steal around right back.
First time we've had a pistol not converted in this series.
It would just been locked in, it's force-buy's or not.
But Legacy, that's one way to do it.
AK puts a use here for Nissan, some sharp shots, switch up on Furia early in this game.
It's full of incredible taps.
Furia nothing to play with now.
Try the pistols with the scout, as he fights through the mid smoke.
Try to cheeky position with an SMG.
The player baiting for him, I'm sure, might just pay off.
Great grenade.
Try to wait to activate surprise surprise, Nate in hand.
Here he keeps around alive for how long.
There's the wrong line up there.
still try and make this interesting.
Dunao's also wounded over here towards A.
That maid would get rid of him
if it finds its way on a default.
And the lobbing in utility.
Hiko's ramp bounce.
Dunao still gets a chance to play here.
Already the swing off the back of him.
It's a 20-second push.
It seems pretty adamant that someone's hiding out
in this bomb site.
Trying to chase.
Art dead first.
There's the follow-up from Yuri.
I'm now planted!
This is what you were worried about. Low player dealt with.
The bait and switch doesn't work.
Now they find themselves in a post-plant.
It's a very viable one as well. Just a low health on your kinder.
But if you can hit a quick shot of the scout, we're back on.
That's a long spot in.
Fury trying to play the cover. Don't shoot your teammate here.
Your kinder hiding out in the site.
It's his one, D.
This round is coming alive out of nowhere for Furia, but trapped in, chased down, Nism saves them again.
Back to back, big rounds out of Nism. As long as there's time for that deep use, it's getting pretty close here.
And it's not happening to Furia, they win it. Back on the floor, so back on their own BS.
It's one way to do it.
Uri had a really struggling Dust 2 yesterday, do you feel like part of the difference between
Uri and Furtz?
Some of those B defences unable to put up any kills.
That's a big round to get confidence back here on Dust 2.
This is a busy guy.
Org now takes to the line and this is going to put the fear in this B assault.
Smoke down, tries to peek ahead and it gets attacked there on the molotoy, but it goes both ways.
Blows exchange to Kindar, smokes back, molotoy follow up.
More felt like a golden ticket for legacy, now comes down to a retake.
Retrieves that AWP.
No stranger to this gun.
But caught by a Kindar who works his way in close.
And tacked it off to Latteau.
Orc could with the smoke down.
Gonna try and make it play right through it.
Eyes on.
Moledoy's got the cover.
It's a Furia able to recover.
recover and it's so hard to get back into that B-side. The Fury shouldn't ever get in that position in the first place.
We saw that Nistor smoke the other round. This time it cost them. Try to get his line on the orb.
Everybody get two kills on this and Buster try doing doing damage from middle and still Fury.
Once they get that re-smoke in the odds suddenly flip.
So despite an awkward lost second round, Fury are back in business 3-1 lead.
It's stuck.
Pistols up close.
They want to come through.
Time for a nuclear map in this series.
Farms easy goes.
This rato goes hunting and one by one legacy go nowhere fast.
All steam ahead for Furia.
Oh my god, what the heck?
Long rush setup, but...
Here we are. They are gonna go for this control. It's gonna be on a second timing.
Yuri will recall from his years spent alongside us some of these locked doors pushes and knows to hold for it at the start
still down in the pit
Heart with a double and that's well handled stopping that spillover
As a one-man army, it's very low out there as well late flash comes in for him to clear it out
That's two massive kills from all that will reroute curia into this
is we sight a Serato car get that entry and so the round dies with it so it should
2v5 in the backing up. Is it a wrong save here to Furia?
Still a very important kill from Nyssen as we've seen throughout this corner how
how many advantage rounds have been lost on that bomb site.
So here we have to walk away and hey, this time every map in this series caught one up.
There's one no exception but once again, legacy, wake up!
Counter-Tas!
The time being, Moledoy's got an extra degree of freedom, it's going to be a little while
before you see the tri AWP come online.
It's a save here. It gives them something extra to work with.
I got to help her early on at Forfuria.
I was always seeing them trying to lock in a little bit.
I don't think you want the questions that lose in this series would open up.
Legacy are a team that are constantly punching up, constantly making moves in the right direction.
It's kind of coming at a time that you have started to look at fury of three different
lenses once one of the teams challenged you for the trophies and we were almost
saying that about them in the CWC, that wasn't till they gave it a way to put in the semi-final.
You don't want to go from being a squad that was considered title contenders,
but just the guys seen through the end of the year.
Everyone's even talked about his impending retirement and still having that motivation,
White to win more knowing these are his last opportunities to do so.
Also just thinking it's such a rare thing in reality, right?
Having this kind of clear timescale on a player as legendary as fallen.
The idea that these four can play out the final year with the face of Brazilian Counter-Strike.
Yeah, why not make it worthwhile?
So here we are, 5v4 here.
Lato is still in a threatening position, but...
I thought about giving chase, good thing you didn't commit to this, just hides in the smoke.
Faker out, they're still going into one more on A, you know?
Ato has forced flank.
You can see him. He's hurt somewhere.
Ato's right there.
His back stabs Juicy.
There's Yuri gone. Try teams up within a molotov
and getting sandwiched. So legacy.
They nowhere left to turn.
It's them all over us at D&A, just pressure.
So this is a 2v4.
Pato with a miracle happening on that backstab, finds the perfect timing.
And a very similar ebb and flow to how all these maps who start in early lead for Furia
legacy, quick to get competitive.
Must have closed in on a tie game as now Mone called into question for the Furia
squad must have heard their not so silent jumps back up xbox because they dropped off the
fake out.
Nice!
Well done!
He came successful with Lato in close position.
And now money back to the control here of legacy.
very left in a hero way too
One pop.
The smoke sends Legacy back, but after the smoke, well...
I never count this guy out, he's definitely considering it. They called it off. Guns out again.
That's probably the right move here for Legacy, not to over commit.
It's Furia, the ones who have to make the move. They've got two smokes to do so.
First it's just a bait.
The late rotate out, as Yuri Tresa sells something.
I hear up against a bit of a broken body.
I was at Yuri's house shop thinking, well I know Oz normally here, why is he not pushing?
He would have done a couple of years ago.
Nice set on the A-play, Dumau has had a quiet start to this game, but a chance to path these
numbers out now as pistols cross into the open, Dumau a little rough looking, but the
try AWP supposed to bail you out, Clarence still found, pick up the caseurato, you
kindar's rightful now with a chance to strike, but try has got his number, caseurato
with a P250 left in an impossible position and as they scale up they scale over
they'll swing in together no worries there for legacy
bomb plant or fury are able to muster the constant resilience on display from
legacy across the series who highs and lows always still still be fighting back
slow stars to every single map still leveling out here around the Bates
They should be against pistols, but here comes the buy once more for Fury and Molodoy still has to wait a bit longer for his AWP again.
Our imposition once more delivers his end of the bargain.
All the concerts and horse-heading people fall back!
You understand, Furia, kind of feeling a bit reluctant to renege on that long space after they lose the player for it,
but clearly doesn't fit into whatever the game plan is here, they give it up.
Let's anticipate a mid-to-B.
Splash play too, now does fine roll and on this B site the drive hit just gets diminished.
Plateau triple kill, shut down from car, not even needing this into uncrouch.
You can see that's more like it, just drive fight is exactly what Plateau was looking for, 10 and 3.
Been a force to be reckoned with across the series.
That's a four rounds in a row for legacy
It's been good on these long holds
It's tired of dead with nothing done case or I always gonna find it
Bunch of bodies out on the long side just an instant flash play to go and fight it
You kind of got a bit of room back. We can't hold it together. And so it's left to fall in
He 250 at range that lets him down a legacy
smooth in this one over and a chance to hold the best lead on the half yet hard
job for said here to keep pure in this T side reset the tempo as he's really slow
round so not worked out for furia
see if there's some more B-Side Abuse available or not feeling up for it a
A couple times I think it's been difficult.
Given our tries all been long, I feel like it's an opportunity here for Furia to make a take in this round.
Double warp out now, so whichever site you go, you're running into it.
75 halves on both maps.
Chance for legacy.
Vegas lead we've seen.
Try and morbidoid.
Will they ever meet on this high line?
Something quite...
There we go.
That's what he was waiting for.
Try rewarded it for his patience hangs around what feels like an eternity on that short angle
So Fulham's gone got to do it without him
Ouch, one hurts
Kaserato has the cover here in middle and they get out but the bomb is still back on Catwalk
a period fighter, fake again, Bato!
He position heard on his jump, high damage, finishes the job as well
and Fury has just gone out here, they've not got long control
bombs up Cat, Kaserato's got to regroup and try to steal here with the orb
at his odds, two orbs to hold his sights
Oh, Miss Farah not able to make up for it.
Keisaratu crossing in and tries getting sandwiched, caught by Yori out on Long.
Two versus two.
His fury, I hope to recover on this half yet.
It's an open bomb plant, Lato not quite able to punish.
Samaladoy counts his lucky stars, giving a second chance at this bomb.
Second lease on life.
It seems long wrap.
They ready for it.
Molodoy spotting.
Just cleared this.
Still remains going on.
You feel like Lato's trying to buy some time for something.
And with Yuri down in CT, that only leaves one other avenue
open.
Molodoy, going to flash a peek, swing and a miss.
But time running out.
Time's starting to expire.
Lato's really going to get a move on here.
He's trying to run away as he just handed it over.
Nailbiter of a defuse.
Let's go, it's got it.
That's going to sting.
That's really going to hurt, Uriah.
You can't believe they've just given him that.
Every step of the way, they jump up on the site.
What was he looking for, Uri?
Trying to take one more engagement.
It felt like he just dodged death.
And then Mordoi, how much time do you think you have to run away back to Gandalf?
They will not let you get away with it.
Lato is having a hell of a game.
That is a nightmare for Furia.
So the rounder should have let them back into this D-side.
Instead, they could be leaving with just four on the half.
Lato trying to get to what he wants.
Good follow-up here.
Yikinder, big double, keeps this round breathing, but it's not closed yet.
Can't tell legacy out.
Dumao decides to fight and die on this island now towards shortness and is not involved in this.
This is a 1v3 right now for Dumao.
Dumao is going to be able to join him as this smoke down is given to Dumao in a cover.
Loose exchange, the Yuri comes out looking all the better for it and there's a flash.
They learn their lesson from that last round. They go fighting there into the final of this first.
first half it's five for Buria another seven five split let us make a break to try and shut
them down and claim that podium finish
They're shooting at us!
They're shooting at us!
I can also shoot.
Are you still there?
Yeah!
I'm still there!
Yay!
You're at the point!
Look! I'm at the right side of the road!
I'm looking at you, on the right.
There's another one.
One more down.
Nice!
He's trying to hit us.
Once again, Furia's strong start slows down quick,
and Legacy are surging towards the finish line here in this third place.
Cider quite a run on the CT side.
Six rounds in a row before Furia finally break in,
but it's not feeling like the same ferocious Furia that we expected today.
Legacy. That smoke is annoying. Four blocks by Fallen. They've got to cross through the
open room. And USPs way back in CT to punish Legacy on this commitment.
Oh, and it is just a bruise. Oh, it's exactly what Fury wanted. They block that smoke,
They back up, they leave it to the range game.
And so now you're stuck in a string of awkward fights.
This one's feeling like a death match
as you try and make it across.
Ah, has survived the crossing.
Mato dead, and Art left alone.
1v5 attempt, Glock.
Hoping to bring the fight over there,
take advantage of it in the close range.
But just too many bodies there,
full furia
well thanks to that smoke block from fool yeah true it's such a long way doesn't
just give so many kills over here for furia
oh header the winds around
The superior, like what they see, an AWP here in the second round is going to be required.
We've got rifles out, guns dropped over.
So, like this, he still has the opportunity with the Lato AK.
I'm not counting anything out.
He looks for that quick B-pick.
It's a hard way.
he's got all trapped in here at Boxes.
Right, sure, he likes that.
Thank you.
Now you know they're in lower as well.
We've left a little red crop trail here for Molly to try and follow.
He's just grazing these players indoors.
He's got Quesarato to back him up.
If anything goes wrong, this shot, flash play,
we can see I'm getting up here for free.
Quesarato ensures that fact,
or back it up.
This is a weak B-side again.
It's only one man.
An entry from Lato wins this round for Legacy.
He comes down to Yuri getting multiple, one will not cut it.
A bit of help from Keisarato there at the doors, and Yuri's lived up to his part of the bargain.
Even a tag on the cross, try board down low.
Time to see how much is truly enough on this B-side retake.
3v2 with help with Vantage.
Slash for Molledoy, when that comes out, that will signal the push.
They take the corner first, they take the contact on that first swing.
It's going again, a try, iced out, and 3B2 turns out to be plenty.
They've got Yuri to thank, good hold, out towards B, did everything he had to.
Yeah, far better showing than yesterday, that's for sure.
Just had trouble.
Taser Alto a lot of the times, he was still getting two on his own,
but you just couldn't find that third piece and so B-Site was a constant problem for Curia.
A typical game for sure, the one their foot exploits into the maximum degree.
So legacy just left with scouts.
Oh, careful!
I don't really want to sit and he gets it!
No way!
Can't punish this guy!
I'm going to go back into safe setups in a 5v3.
I don't want to be bottom of the board, but I've seen this guy have some great rounds with his scout.
And sit up and try his body.
Off back in spawn. So you almost hope this doesn't go too well.
Because if you get to a point where this could have been winnable if only you had that bomb, you are going to be kicking yourselves.
The show's where the mindset was out for legacy in this round, never really thinking they had much of a chance.
Just looking for damage. Art will catch one. That should be the end.
Missed it, and Lee titted. K-Sorato double. Furia moved into the lead.
I won't get ahead of myself just because Furia is converting a pistol.
They've done that many times this series. It's been gone around so they've fallen short.
shorts so again and I start off here to fury up at the true text in this round
and try gets us all with Kevlar as well
I just escaped this time, time to push and miss him on a very annoying line.
Another miss from Molodoy, it looked on, now Legacy getting closer, they could line up,
Molodoy can't escape, 4v2, Legacy punching in a ticket to win their first gun round.
So you're in K-sur-A, are you gonna believe that if any duo could see you through this,
this duo miss him on a very drawn-out backstab and with Kcerato dead I think
Yuri's living on borrowed time here got a player closing in at from CT stuck in
the elevator they're gonna struggle to feel too uplifted here they ice him out
with utility
Yuri just can't hold on to these leads they said got the money to get a bit
more going, another roll pass from Caceron to the drop, it'll be a 3 rifle by, best
case scenario here for Furia.
Gonna arm their storm all the way.
Come along, but run it back for Legacy. Why not?
made to nice for it, and three killers better in your kinder dead after one,
puts Legacy again in position to come up with a round.
That flash comes too early, not close to scaling.
The Moldoi, gotta be thinking about saving at this point, 2v4.
Even Legacy in this position, know the importance of this round, so
no hurry to waste this opportunity.
Short smoke comes out, and up they go.
I see Molotov down to be hyper-involved. This next round he's gonna have to do exactly
that because lead taken for legacy AWP is really the only thing worth mentioning in this next
round for Furia. The save will be allowed as legacy focus inwards trying to build up
their own bank accounts. It comes down to a little bit harder to dislodge at the
the end of this third place decider.
We're hoping for something big for Molodoy.
Expecting to be aggressive, expecting to be involved.
There's a spawn formid on this AWP and you've seen him like to fight this line many a time in this game.
So an instant swing right in to that tri-AWP.
What gets handed off to Cacerato.
It's strange that I haven't done this every now and again.
But when Yuri dead in middle, this AWP would have to do something spectacular.
K-Sorato blind, K-Sorato dead.
And looking for a fire-the-live round.
As legacy build towards that finish line.
There were one round in that first half when Yuri and their kind of strung out, then
Mary splits up, same on Duke as well.
The legacy, doing everything as a wolf pack.
These long pops late through the smoke.
They chase down that AWP as he gets picked up, spam U-Till on Caceroto, he can't see a thing.
The orb doesn't even get fired here.
From Furia.
As Legacy ascend their regards.
Three round strays since hitting the four flies.
And Furia, they've been living off of pistols and the fumes that come with them in this series.
I guess he definitely had a rifle round team at the moment.
Another scrappy pie here.
I saw something on the job.
Oh, this is a little awkward for Doom now, it takes more damage than it was anticipating
and now they just block off short, denying the climb up.
If you have a little trick up your sleeve, you're going to paint a damage on a new mouth
as a nice start, but there's only more to it than that.
It's aggression into the upper tunnels, for case Serato and Yuri moving in at right
his legacy.
I'm thinking about turning away, that's even more damage now put down.
him also softened up and you can see this whole B side of the map. Furia have
a very clear picture of where legacy could be and where this round is going to
end.
Mordor peeks ahead of it. Mark punishes and Frank is contained even try turns
around off the back of that flash it's a nice people before them and can't just
be falling again, can it? SMG comes back up, 20 seconds and no health here on legacy and
that bomb is still looking for a fight, hasn't crossed in yet. Don't want to lose it now! Headshot
all those fines, listen, down to three. Yuri 1v3 and they knew the kill so they come and
get it. Legacy surging towards a close here in the third place. As Furia have come up
with nothing since Legacy's first rifle round of his half.
Four straights.
Fury's final try on this stage to stay alive.
Nice. Fine for Fallen.
You can see, still seem pretty committed to this idea. They have a second layer of lurk
on Long. Even though Fallen backs up, although he was on that line, not forever.
She's always real certain it's going to be kind of our front of the pack. Him arriving
a little late long side. Can that shake things up? No, Fallen never took his eyes off it and
with Molotov he freed up to go back and watch the cross. It's left legacy and dire straight.
He's gonna try to turn this into a mid to beat. Because the doors were closing on this round.
Yuri's gone. One more still in this B site for Nistim and caught in the crossfire.
Fioria able to clamp down on that mid to be
It started again by Fallen.
It shuts down the opening play.
One shot on the door has to connect he does.
At that point, that round rather dies on long.
Not more now.
This rauto is waiting for the cross, not wanting to offer for freebie.
Oh, our spam exchange.
The pooling reaps the reward.
This is all getting a bit scary for legacy now.
They don't know where to go.
Jumping back into catamiddle.
They're going into the Molotov AWP
and he's not missing those.
Art dead on that first swipe around the corner.
Blocked now by a smoke.
You might just have to try and change this one on the fly.
You really want to commit into this double side setup in a two that all looks like they do
a better man to spawn can they buy a few seconds the kinders still behind this smoke one frag from your kinders gonna go a long way
on this hole but it can't find it and there's two miles striking from below
volodoy gone do now chasing that long player full and picks up the orb and
retreats hold position for what will become a retake
Double option this retake, you lose Yuri.
I don't think you're even considering this if you're Yuri.
You don't really have the room to do so.
A very unlikely round.
You almost can't believe this is where Legacy find match in series point.
That's a really nice play for Doom out to get into that city side smoke.
Gets underneath them, picks Molotoy,
and the kinder committed on Catwalk, no option for a trade there.
The two entries come in.
Legacy lock in third place point.
Three chances.
to add on into the list of top squads they've been on their EWC run.
say that later is the moment you do just want to take a picture of
line up to be corner shots
forward is jiggle again. Don't tell me this is how you lose your way of playing.
Oh, he's just gone wide in this exact moment.
Alright, did a flay, can he fall in?
Now wide, good for one, trade there.
Retake time budging, you know any case Serato haven't moved a muscle on this B site.
Maybe starting to reconsider a little now.
The start is over.
In terms of joy.
50 seconds left on this one.
You've just seen a player cross away from B.
They're going to stick to their guns for the photo finish on A.
Two players trying to fight for this catwalk.
The reinforcements arriving at four missing.
And this is it.
Feeling like the beginning of the end unless Molodoy can save face Bafuria.
first shot lands but he's gonna have more tricks up his sleeve and more shots
to come through. Molodoye they close in and the double-wone cut it.
Cacerato has been spotted. It's looking like death by a thousand cuts
but Cacerato has been whittled down low and one last name the Brazilian top
Dogs of Fioria quelled by Legacy to cement a third place finish at EWC.
Narvee, Falcons and now Fioria all four by the wayside to Legacy.
It's been an incredible tournament for this rocky Brazilian team.
Adding in the Argentinian have tried excelling to the top
and Legacy a bright future indeed. They are hitting hard here in EWC.
Yeah, no question that they wanted it more in this, right?
You saw Legacy kind of very, very switched on from the get-go,
competitive map one, and then constantly able to roll with the punches.
It was Furia getting off to good starts.
Legacy having a play catch-up constantly throughout the series,
and they were up for the task, an impressive list of teams
that they beat on this tournament run.
Furia served to be the cherry on the top.
Make no mistake, it's an interesting time for Brazilian counter-strike,
new challenges start to emerge and legacy putting themselves in as the
front-runner to try and overtake Furia. Yeah, questions of what will happen to
Furia upon Fallen's departure and retirement from the scene at the end of
the year. It's a bit of a sour note to leave Paris on for Furia alone, but at
least interest in the future. A map board that seems deeper, ancient added to the
repertoire, certainly wants to look out for as Furia still have unfinished
business for the rest of the year. Legacy in the meantime, can't be forgotten about.
Couple trophies in their pocket as well, and more and more stage experience. We will be seeing
more of legacy.
Ladies and gentlemen, it's the legacy that will leave the top of Paris, the legacy that stands strong against the Brazilian opponent Fuiac. Congratulations!
But of age, art for this victory, third place it is. I know it's not, you know the kind of games that you want to be playing as a competitor of course, but that's still an insane run from you guys.
So what do we want to take away? What do we want to remember from this run in Paris?
The tournament is very important for us, it means a lot to get a third place.
It was a good run, first tournament of the semester, so I'm very proud of the boys.
And thank you for the crowd, thank you for the noise.
Thanks guys, we're together!
Ladies and gentlemen, can you please say a few words?
Thank you for the noise, it's been a pleasure to have a full arena.
First question, what do we want to be called in Paris?
I played for the third place and it's never what we want.
It was a great run for us and I'm very proud of my teammates.
It was an important tournament for us, for our confidence.
And now I want to tell you and ask you about something.
Poland is about to retire.
Couldn't you let him win this one?
Your jokes aside, how much does it mean to you to be such a legendary team as FURIA?
Always considered maybe as one of the best Brazilian teams ever.
Yeah, he had a great time with Fahlin, he's an amazing guy, he's a legend,
he got very much respect for him.
Maybe not this time, but he will have a lot of opportunities to end this year with a championship
and I believe he can do it, so I wish him all the luck.
Beautiful words from you to Fahlin, of course.
Second question, Fahlin, you will soon be able to take it back.
You can't let him win this one without laughing.
What does that mean? What does that mean for you, Pat Furia?
Honestly, it's a honour every time. It's a very big team.
It's a legend of the game. I respect it.
Maybe not this time, but there will be more chances.
I hope to win a trophy.
And there is no rest for you guys.
Because I think that you are going to be playing the last quarter in like four days.
So how are we seeing this tournament?
Is there anything you want to adjust going into the quarter?
Tell me about it.
Yeah, we have a lot to adjust.
A lot to take home.
We have a little time, but that's the life we want.
That's something we strive for.
So we are happy to play in a tournament after a day.
It's going to be amazing.
That's the life of CS tier 1 players, right?
Playing tournaments again and again and again.
They will soon be playing in 3-4 days with Porto.
How do we adjust to that? Are we ready?
Yes, it's a very small time lapse.
We'll be ready, we'll adjust.
Honestly, that's why we live, that's what drives us.
In the tournament, I'm going to ask you about the finals.
Of course, I'm not going to ask you who do you think will win,
but I'm going to ask you who are you going to be rooting for?
Are you going to be rooting for FOOT?
Oh, you're gonna be rooting for our spirits.
Yeah, definitely I'm gonna be rooting for FOOT.
It's amazing for the underdogs to get to the top.
If they like it.
I feel like the French crowd likes it. Why FOOT?
Yeah, because the underdogs, they all be amazing for them.
I can feel how they'll keep their way to the start.
It means a lot for us.
So, don't have many trophies nowadays.
So, let's give one for the boys.
Yeah, you can leave it to the other boys, right?
The question is about the final. What do you think? What will you support for this final?
I want to go crazy and the audience wants to follow me.
So she already has a lot of trophies, so I think she can make a little bit of a croquet of little ones.
We have a beautiful story of underdogs.
And last but not least, do you want to give any words to the fans, to the Brazilian fans here and also watching you at home.
Your last words, it can be Brazilian, Portuguese, it can be in English. You go for it.
Thanks for the fans, I know it's going to be a great show, but I'd like to thank you for the sound, it was a great show, I couldn't expect it, but we'll root for you, we have a lot to do.
Thanks, we're together.
But hold on a second, Bonjour Paris comes about to the wall!
Now that we've finished up with that third place match-up,
it leaves us with one piece of business left to settle.
The grand final of CS2 and the eSports World Cup,
and the final series of this entire event in Paris.
That is literally why everyone came here.
You know it, and you're here for that.
You're here for the grand final, to see the underdogs.
against the legendary spirit Ian, shall we check on the crowd maybe?
Yeah, I need to know who this crowd thinks will win this final.
Should we do it?
Go for it.
Will it be...
FORCE E-SPORTS!
Fair enough, we always love on the dark stories here in Paris.
Ladies and gentlemen, a little serious.
Who thinks it's going to be Donc and Tim Spirits?
Yeah, I feel like you're on the underdogs side.
I leave you one last chance, guys.
who is for Tume, Spirit!
It is getting rowdy here in the Acorn for good reason, a legacy pulling off the upset
number 12 over number three on the planet and we have to celebrate with a very special
player leading the way in the first half of the auto.
You are such a blast to watch throughout your run here at EWC.
Not only did you take down Fallen in Phyria, you beat Juggernaut along with Navi 2-0.
They did go 2-0 against the Falcons.
What was it about Paris that gave you this energy?
I don't know.
I think we have a very difficult bracket, but we play well.
So I think we're changing one player now and we can show our success in this tournament.
Can you tell me about that new player changeup?
What is it like having him on the team?
What is it like having Tri on the team?
He's very good.
We played with him in 2022, I think, but now it's very different.
We're growing up like a player, like a person, and now in the team he's very insane.
It's very nice playing with him.
Lada, can you try and explain from a player's perspective how it is to be playing like
a third, fourth place decider?
It's not a lot of the line, but how important was this game for you against FURIA?
Was it important because it was against FURIA or was it just because of the points of the money?
What were your thoughts?
I think we have the VRS, so the points are very good too, to get invited to other tournaments.
But play against FURIA, of course, it's a Brazilian team, so they are the best Brazilian team.
So, a win against them is very good for us, so I think that's it.
And you also have Korva coming up soon as your next event.
What do you expect of yourself now that you've made such an impact?
You kind of make it as a top three here, that's great for you guys.
So, how do you see your future since you're so new as a team since you've brought in trial?
I think now we are going to work with him.
And to the other tournaments, I think we want to achieve the playoffs.
So if we can get a trophy until the end of the year, it's amazing.
So I think to the next year, we want to achieve more trophies.
So for this year, it's actually more playoffs, go to the major playoffs and I think that's it.
For the tournaments, you have a lot of different playstyle,
you have like very slow, very fast.
Do you think you can play any map anyway?
And you can adapt to everything you play with the coaching stuff you have,
with art, doing the tricks and stuff like that. Are you feeling confident against any team, any playstyle?
Yeah, we play very different teams so I think we are very confident playing against the outplay styles.
So yeah, I don't know, we only do the preparation before the game and we are ready.
Looking back at your playoff run, you beat first, Na'Vi, and then Fagus, and then ultimately Spirit was where you couldn't make it count.
What was different with Spirit compared to the other teams?
So was it because of the team play that you couldn't get things going?
Yeah, I think we don't play our best CS against Spirit.
I think we are a bit nervous.
In the other games, we're not nervous, so against Spirit, I don't know.
I don't know, it's a bit nervous but I think they don't play a lot so it's very difficult
play against them and I don't know, I think that's it.
Do you think you got nervous because you were like getting closer to, you know, getting
to the grand final and you're achieving something really big, was that maybe what made
the difference for you guys?
Yeah, I think when we won against Navi we said now we will get the Falcons and
And when we won against Falcons, we're thinking,
maybe we can win.
So I think we are nervous because of this.
I think you had everybody thinking that
until Donk did Donk things.
Thank you so much, Lotto.
Before you go, we gotta get your thoughts.
Foot is coming in as the number 14,
taking on Spirit, another top three squad.
So talk to me about Foot's opportunity.
You're playing a best of five.
How do you beat Spirit?
I don't know. They need to dunk. To dunk it punk. So let's see, I train my foot.
Do you see if Spirit can get it done or will it be another upset in Paris? Give it up for Lotto from Legacy!
Rob's medalist here at EWC 2026. More games in just a moment.
What would you do with 75 million dollars?
I would travel the world, I would invest in a bit of a boring answer
and I would help people when I can.
I'll buy things for my family.
And house for my mom.
Yeah.
Invest so I keep some money for the future.
Everyone's just out here saying,
oh, I'd spend it on my family.
I would invest it smartly in smart enterprises.
We need Americans because Americans will come out here
and be like, I'd buy 10 Ferraris, bro.
What if I say that I think you're lying?
I don't know. Do you think I'm lying?
Yes. The first thing that you're going to do is buy all of the jerseys from your favorite players.
I think you're going to buy 10 fancy cars and go crazy.
OK, OK, I'm going to invest it into probably a retirement account.
Why are you such a liar?
I'm a finance major. I just graduated with a finance degree, so.
So don't lie. You're going to pay off your student loans first.
No, actually I wouldn't because I have an interest-free loan for my parents.
Oh, so he came from money!
Let's go to someone who doesn't have a silver spoon in their mouth.
What would you do with 75 million?
I'd buy an e-sports team.
Hell yeah! This is what we're talking about.
Why are you wearing a Timo hat watching Dota?
Do you think that maybe this is a... you're a traitor?
Yeah, this is my own traitor, yeah.
A big PC, like a new, like a real new Lakeside mansion, you know, a good little Lamborghini
here and there.
What color?
It has to be red.
Super Asian looking Timo, what would you do with $75 million?
Up, two, three, four, six.
Buy my first PlayStation and thumbs up, six, that's it.
are expensive right now so a lot of that 75 mil is going towards that okay
rejection it's just like high school all over again and all alone I buy this arena
honestly I would name it after myself and everybody would have to plant my arena
this would just be mine now you think that this is 75 mil a little deluge you
could buy the parking lot parking lot I'll name it after myself perfect yes
Okay, now shoot.
Ooh, maybe he can use the 75 mil to buy some skills.
I've had the time of my life doing coverage for the 2026 E-Sports World Cup.
We've seen unexpected upsets, incredible underdog stories, and amazing victories.
But my favorite thing has been getting this overleave.
Oh kitty.
You've allowed me for far too long.
You've disrespected the language, the culture, the foods, and also what was
Start at the perfume reshop.
This is for everything you've done.
That's my chief! Wait, that's my chief!
That's my chief!
Yay!
Wait! Wait! Give me anything!
Want to touch it? No.
Alright, well that's totally cool.
rumbling
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jee, where are you?!
What are you doing?
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What am I supposed to do?
Oh, not the stairs!
Please, anything but the stairs!
I'm gonna kill you!
Kenny!
Come on! Kenny, we have to talk about this!
Kenny!
Why did you use the Eiffel Tower?
Kenny?
It's gonna be singing!
Come on, let's go!
Give me the key!
Give me the key, Kenny!
I can't.
I can't.
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I can't.
Since you arrived here, you've been nothing but rude, disrespectful, and worst of all, you put ketchup on so manya.
Okay, I actually stand by that, but I understand.
Listen, when I came to Paris, I wasn't sure at first,
but now I've gotten to know the people, the culture,
the beautiful architecture, and I love Paris.
Okay, thank you for saying that.
Do you have a key back now?
No, it's not possible.
Oh, why not?
Because it's not a real key, Avali.
What you're saying is that this isn't the real key
to my happiness, because I found my happiness through our friendship, through all of the
relationships that I've been able to build with everyone here, is the friends that we've
made along the way.
Again, it's not what I meant.
What you meant to say, what's really important, is us, a community.
Let me do it.
I want to do it.
I want to do it.
All right.
Well, we're able to share our passion, our stories.
Is that how you do it?
I see that happening.
And our love for everything that is e-sports!
Oh, the mayonnaise!
What's more important, that you make a lot of content, or that none of it is with women?
I'm not a king!
You can't have a king!
You've gone too far! You've gone too far! I can't- I can't send you-
It's not what I meant, and again, I really think you should do a psychiatric evaluation.
Look, EWC is real. But this key is not real! You bought it as a gift shop!
No!
What are we supposed to do now?
Just go hang on me.
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Here we go baby our players departing from the hotels and making their way into the a
core arena it is the final day of EWC the final match is moments away and this time
It's not a BESA 3. We're going to a BESA 5. We're two greats here at the desk. We've got them
alongside. Janko and Janko, I want to start with you. How hype is it seeing an underdog like Foot
coming in against a giant like Spirit? I think it's very exciting, especially because Foot is
a team that's been on the rise from the start of this year, right? And you can definitely see
event by event, them getting better and better, right? They have a very, very young team,
So they were gaming experience at first playing tier one teams going to these events then getting to the playoffs playing on the stage
Playing in front of a crowd and you go calm minutes here at the eSports World Cup
Getting to play in a grand final against team spirit him at the end of last night's show in the interview
We heard xplow saying my name is legend
Do you think he should be called a legend if they're able to walk away with the trophy?
Ah, maybe not quite there yet
You know, but he's making a great case to maybe be a future legend
winning the footcamp at the very least him being picked up by that team have
really done a lot of good stuff for them as Janko said you know they started off
the year by playing some good solid counter strike they may be stagnated a
little bit they made a roster change during this season and they're coming
out all flying now so whether or not X-Flight is going to be elected for the
future not quite sure but it would build a case and help this case if
they were to win today. Yeah go whatever you seem from the Ukrainian duo because
Demon has had the number in every clutch I've watched him. He's just a
Mechanical demon right? No pun intended actually, but yeah
His killer is just through the roof aim wise and it's all been about again
experience learning how these tier one teams like to operate and players and
Learning how to be patient and times right when it comes to straight-a aim duels like his second to none really in a way and
Cemetery on the other side and he's been a high ability at times
But you know when they lift the trophy over in Bucharest he was the MVP yesterday in that semi-final
He was the one who stepped up on that decider as well.
So once he turns on, that's when foot can go to another level.
Those players with the low floor, high ceiling, those are the scariest.
But when they are on, they're the most electric to watch in eSports.
What does cemetery bring to the game?
What does he need to bring here on a championship Sunday?
We even spoke to Duke yesterday as well, who labeled him as a bit inconsistent.
But when he's on, when he's on his game, he has that expressivity to him.
He can change the time of a game.
He can change the time of a round.
and you can even be in a moment in the game where you feel like the team's food is out of it,
but he has that extra ability to turn up and sometimes just
bring a bit of extra life into the team.
So yeah, maybe a bit inconsistent, but you most definitely have the ability to turn up
and change the tide of what else happening.
Now his worst map was on Nuke, but he seemed to thrive on maps like Dust 2, Mirage potentially.
Where do you want to see these guys go? It's a best of five today, I go.
I think it's going to be interesting once we get to the Vito because both teams Vito Inferno, right?
So Spirit is the favorite, probably going to have to be the one to get it out even in a best of five.
That means Foot gets away with one, they get a free ban.
So are they going to use it on something like a Dust 2 potentially, which is really strong for Spirit?
Or are they going to get rid of the maps that they don't like to play, either maybe a Nuke or even a Cache?
But I think that will be a mistake.
Here they are on the team bus rolling in, no fans allowed.
What are the discussions being had on this bus?
That's a good question, you know? I think a lot of the questions...
No discussion.
Exactly. I love to say the same thing.
Team Spirit, they don't talk, even to each other, everyone's just quiet, listening to their own music.
You know, the fewer words you say, the better.
I like that. They're staying locked. Honestly, I tried to say what's up there. Don't, he just goes to me.
That man is focused, but when he gets into the server, you do not want to peek him.
He will take off your face. We've seen that multiple times last night.
And even talk with a team that just won third place legacy. We asked why didn't you get to the grand finals?
Well, I don't say right away. It was don't like don't is causing problems for those who are unfamiliar with this team spirit squad in
Don't him just how good is he? Is he the best player on the planet? If not, how far behind?
Yeah, I think you can you can build that case without a doubt that he's currently the best player in the world
The last couple of years maybe even there's a couple of players in contention for that him and Saibou being the two names
that you're always growing up, but at this tournament specifically he's playing some of his best Counter-Strike.
I think it's on par to be the second highest rated tournament ever for him as of right now
as you can see in this graphic, which is unheard of and average rating of 1.6. Again,
if you're not familiar with the ratings in Counter-Strike, that's like if I had one game in
my career where I had a 1.6 rating I'd be happy. He does it on Eric's, he does it every single
time, he does it every single tournament. He is God's gift to Counter-Strike and could very
well go down in history as the greatest player of all time. He is a joy to watch,
That's one of the flashiest players on the planet.
On the other side of the stage, trying to keep pace
with a player like Donk, is X-Cloud and Stunna
caught up with him before the match.
This matchup versus Spirit,
not historically gone your favor personally.
I think you're one in six,
something like that against them career-wise.
Talk to me about playing against a team Spirit
and not letting Donk get a hold of the game
or some of their antics come to fruition.
I'm letting whenever we've played against them,
Individually they were short, especially Donk, like he's doing amazing unbelievable things with his movement and aim, you know?
But I think it's important to don't change with him, like, if it's necessary, and I think Donk is a momentum player, that when he has momentum, he will play better, but when he doesn't have momentum, maybe he will be playing like worse, you know?
So I think it's important to have a straighter on that, and I have a straighter on that.
Spirit are favored in this matchup. Does that allow you guys to play a little bit more freely in the server? How does it set you up in the server?
I mean, as you guys say, they are the favorites, so we don't have anything to lose.
Like in paper, people think we lose already, so I think we just need to accept it's going to be a hard game.
And we just need to play with the odds. We just need to put everything in the server, and we are accepting what results we are getting.
What do you believe genuinely that foot does better than spirit does in the game?
When you look at it at a macro level, maybe a strategic level, moving position, all the things, what do you think it is?
I mean I think they like to play around dunk and they support only dunk.
Like they give all the sources to dunk but we don't have that kind of such a thing.
We have like five players who can pop off.
So it's important that like if I'm maybe getting some fights on yard
But maybe I don't need that much force so my team just can hit the different side, you know
But I think in Dong it's a bit different like he has always the best position like they always try to force him
So I think they are lacking on that little bit smaller than us
If foot went today, can anyone really still call it a surprise?
You feel like obviously this would legitimize foot at the top tier but you guys are in the door now
Do you do you think it changes anything?
I mean, this is the first tournament, first non-tournament for us, so I wouldn't say it's gonna be consistent or guys okay
Like we're gonna be able to tournament, you know
But I think it's gonna be good to confidence for us
And I think it's gonna help us perform better in the coming tournament because I'm still thinking we are just so young and
Inexperience, but I think this tournament is gonna give us that experience we needed
But like I said, I think this can be still surprise like maybe it may be a one like honeymoon
you know, let's say but
That tournament will give us a lot of things to work on because even the games when we are winning we know we did some mistakes
So we are trying to learn from the every moments
For you personally in the last one. I'm gonna have is this what would it mean in your relatively young career to come through here and become an
EWC champion today at the very end of the at the very end of this tournament
What would it mean to you X-Flock? I mean, I think right now a WC is the most precious tournament after major I think so
I don't know, I was always, like, even though I was very, very young, I was dreaming about
playing in, like, Pro CS, you know, like, in the tournaments, in the maybe Stab, U-Mar,
whatever, like, stage, but I never was dreaming about finals, you know, because that was a
raw way to go, because the scene is so competitive, and it's not easy to get that
final spot, but yeah, I'm just so proud of my team, I'm just so proud of my
works you know and let's hope we get the final and all works are going well.
Shout out to Xplot and congratulations to Stunna he did not point once during that
entire interview. Janko it looks like Xplot is ready he knows what he has in
store for him in his team today but can you tell me the role of Kerbeni how
what job does he have as the in-game leader and what does he need to
accomplish in terms of fragging? Obviously he calls the shots right
He's the one who decides what they're going to do as a team.
He's the one who has to in the mid rounds, you know, come up with solutions mostly on the T side, right?
But something that separates him from maybe some of the other IGLs is that he is indeed a very good fragger
and he's a strong individual player and isn't one of those IGLs that sort of only thinks about how can he
sacrifice himself to create space for his teammates and and you know create space for the team.
He just thinks like any other players like where can I find the advantage? Where can I find the edge?
I feel like like I'm as good as anyone else on the server
Pimpless roll some highlights from this guy because Gravetti has been so fun to watch the servers
One of the standout rounds I saw was when he busted out the dualies. Is he always gonna pop off in pistol rounds?
I mean he can pop off in any round to be completely honest in in GonaFrag. I very much agree with the sentiment from Yanco
He's not necessarily the typical in-game leader who's always thinking about how to set up his players and how to sacrifice himself
He's a playmaker on the server. He's a space creator
He's a guy that would do anything he can in order to put himself forward on the server to find duels to create space
In particular, he did well against Ferre yesterday and Dust2, but if you ever watch him play on Ancient,
I'm not that we may get to see tonight as well
He's got to be in your face all the time trying to create space, trying to create chaos, and he's very successful at doing so
A fracking in-game leader that we don't have a lot of on him
I personally like also his attitude towards his teammates at times too, where he has no problem chewing them out
When they're just losing concentration, when they're making basic mistakes, you know, he'll take a time-out and just call him out the entire time-out, right?
And for a team that's so full of young players, I think that's a good thing, right?
Sometimes it's easy for your mind to wander and to lose the focus at the task at hand, right?
And he leads by example, you know, he doesn't take rounds off.
So I think for me, that's something you love to see in such a young team, someone who already does a good job with leadership.
Incredible stuff there from the leader. He has led foot to their first finals here at EWC
We've got a lot more to talk through on the other side of the stage
But first let's check in with James Banks who is live with one of the biggest co-streamers here at EWC
Hello bucket, thank you very much for that one. Yes, I've got gala's with me here gala's you've been here in Paris
Really what you've been co-streaming you're in the arena. How is it going for you so far?
I know it's a bit of a sad day because no Brazilian team in the final.
In the past, we we hope that Brazilian games in days like this in the final day.
So it's not the final, but the third place is good as we know.
And Paris is awesome.
It's a beautiful place.
We love this tournament, this place.
So I'm very happy and talk to me a little bit about it, right?
We're going into this final.
No Brazilians in here, but we've got spirit, you know experience, they've won two tournaments,
got up against Foot, the young, exciting team. Where do you sit? Where are you thinking
that he's going to get the win here? Who are you cheering for?
Cheer for Foot, for sure.
For Foot, for Foot.
Why Foot? Tell me.
Yes, because they are the underdogs.
Okay.
They've won so many things and Foot, they are young guys, talent guys. I think that
they look like legacy and I would cheer for Foot.
I like that a lot with that and I know there's been so many Portuguese, Brazilian people here talking to you.
Are you surprised still when you come to events outside of Brazil that you meet so many people that know and love you guys?
For sure. Now we have the Brazilian, the Portuguese from Portugal and we have a lot of people from South America because 90's here.
It's going so well so we have Argentinian guys, Chilean guys.
So I'm very proud to be a part of this event and see a lot of people from my country and our friend countries.
It's really great to see you. It's always great to speak to you. Thank you very much to you as well.
Kyle, let's pocket. Let's get back to you.
Sorry for hogging your camera there James. Let's take a look here at the opponent on the other side for Foot who that man just called to win it.
All is very comfortable in his confident win so far, but Spirit may be his biggest opponent
Can we talk a little bit about what this team has done because we mentioned Donk?
But Shiro has had some incredible plays everybody has chimed in even Zaltis had a big night last night after you called him out
Janko
Yeah, absolutely, and I think
Spirits like many of the other contenders we've come into this event with some question marks
You know losing two miles in a grand final no matter whether it's the first event of the season or not is
sort of unlike them so you were waiting to see okay are you going to form an EWC?
They slip up at the opener in the best of one but from that point on they've
been spot-on right like taking down Vitality obviously in the quarter-final was
huge taking care of business against Leipzig yesterday and that's the thing
about spirits you know they'll get better as the tournament progresses
they won't make too many mistakes right they're so good when it comes to
these playoff games when it comes to the arena games and that's why they're
the favorite in the grand final?
Yeah, I was just going to say, you know, they've been getting better.
Every single game you've been watching, they've just gradually gotten better.
They had a rough start against TG Hao and the best of one.
And even in the second game in the lower bracket, they were struggling, you know,
to put out their best foot.
Shira in particular had a slow start as well in this tournament.
He's gradually getting better and better.
So it does feel like it's a team that's ramping up game by game by game.
And if if we go by that logic, you know, they're getting better today,
then the foot is going to have to head full.
Then Shira is an interesting one because, you know, they've been some
Rumors and I don't think they have much credibility to them
But you know perhaps fallen retires the smaller day want to go somewhere else
Maybe spirits is a good landing spot right like he can go back to speaking Russian
And they can get an explosive player in the place of shiro for by no means is a bad player
But leave sometimes something to be desired in terms of having impact or finding openings
You know, but I think for a team like spirit the type of a player
He is he fits them really well because you have guys like don't who are always going to be
in the front and in people's faces and show his quality as closing rounds like
he was so good in the clutch and you saw yesterday in this legacy game a lot of
these like mid to late round scenarios he's always in the right place he
always you know hits his shots gets one or two kills that he just so reliable
for the most part and I think hopefully you know those rumors maybe
just sort of like a little bit of a fire under him to be like no I'm gonna
to show you like what sort of a player I am you'll be crazy to consider replacing me with
Mologos.
Some of these shots are great for the real, great for the resume, Shiro was popping off
especially on ancient, I don't know if it's 17-5 or 15-7, either way, the man was taken
over from what we saw in that game too and then of course you're going to see them
power through their opponent to get here on a championship Sunday but now you're
playing a best of five.
Spirit, they have the deeper root.
Not cool, right?
They should have, you know, they've been together for quite some time now, you know.
It's been a while since Magic, Sun Tix, Tineir for that matter was introduced into this lineup.
So I think in terms of who has the map pool ready,
Udago too, Spirit should be able to come into the specified feeling relatively comfortable in the video,
despite as Janko said, you know, maybe giving the fact they have to give up one of the videos,
you know, and checking out. But I mean, maybe you can play Cash.
And if you can play Cash at a somewhat decent level,
then I think you're going to be fine now, Best of Five,
especially considering they are the heavy favorites on pretty much all Parameters.
Paris, do we want cash tonight?
I hope we see it in that best of five.
Let's talk a little bit about two players that have been supporting the star on this cast.
Donk, of course, he's known for what he can do.
Everybody has seen his green numbers,
but Sontek's and Tuneer have also stepped up their game at different times throughout the tournament.
Let's start with you, Kim.
What do you want to see from this duo and who has the harder role tonight?
role tonight. In all honesty, I want to see a bit more to be completely honest.
It's not all sunshine from from the camp of Team Spirit, Tania has moments, you
know, shows him glimpses what a great individual he is. I feel like he's a
player that definitely have more quality and more individual. I guess impact,
you know, available at his disposal. It's not fully working out in Team
Spirit, just another on a consistent basis. Whereas for Santex, I think
he's doing his job, you know, but I also want to see a bit more from him
because as I said, they have been struggling a little bit. They lost
Grand Final 2 mouse they were looking you know beatable in the group stage it's not
always sunshine in the game but I just can't believe they have a photo of
Zontics actually like sort of half smirk smirk that's a little bit of a smirk
there you know but yeah I think that that's been the thing with Team Spirit and
obviously Zontics had a great semi-final Tnir had a great quarterfinal
against Vitality so they both had their moments and I think they're going
to have to be in this final, sharp individual, right?
And I think actually, unlike some of the other games,
I think this really, like, Don't cannot have a bad game here,
right?
Because FOOT is a team that's extremely broadly,
likes to get in your face, and it
feels like if Don't has a quiet game
and can sort of be the carry that he usually is,
then the rest of the guys will have to go above and beyond
to match up with FOOT, who's just so sharp in those angles.
There's a look at some of the rifles. It's time now to focus in with the AWPer.
We've got Freya with Shiro. What's up, Freya?
Thank you so much, Shiro. I'm very happy for joining me for this pretty much interview.
I just want to set the scene for a moment because you were right here as heavy favorites,
very similar to the situation in Blast Bounty, where it didn't go in your favor.
What have you learned from that experience?
You came here again as a favorite and the same was on Blaster, but it didn't go as planned. How is everything different here?
I don't know how everything is different yet, but I hope we will show a better game than on Blaster.
He's saying like he doesn't know like what exactly is different, but he hopes he'll show like a better game than against mouse
Your individual form looks excellent yesterday versus legacy, but when we enter grand finals, you're not always in your most consistent level
What causes that?
You said like he doesn't really care, he doesn't think about it
If he gets the trophy in his pocket, that's all that matters.
Looking at Fert today, Jokes was saying in an interview yesterday,
he really wanted to face you guys.
Fert have strengths, you have strengths.
What's the biggest strength that you see in Fert though?
Because it feels like most of them side in your favor.
Because both teams have their strengths and their advantages.
What do you think? What do you have in them?
We have a dog.
We have a dog.
But what about Fert? What do you have Fert have?
What are you aware of them about?
What do you have in Fert?
They have a good team.
What does it do to the preparation when you're going up against a team in a grand final that you've never played before? How much does that change things?
I think we practiced a lot with them, so in general we understand how they play, and okay, we didn't play the whole game, but I think it will be an interesting game.
very much Freya, she's absolutely min-maxing.
She's maxing the minimum on the other side of the interview.
The Russians, they're always kind of quiet,
but Shiro, he seems quite focused today,
taken on foot esports.
And this is really David versus Goliath.
That might be Goliath on the left.
Donk has been a monster in this tournament so far.
I just hope Team Spirit, you know,
hate losing as much as they hate doing interviews.
Because if that's the case,
they should be super, super motivated
coming into this grand final and getting the job done.
There's no doubt they are the favorites.
There's no doubt they had the better play at the server as well.
But as Jankers said, you know,
with all the individual skill coming from some of the different fronts of foot,
they need to be there today.
We also did see what happened at Blast Bounty when Donk is not playing well.
That's a team that's not too, too scared to go up against.
When was the last time you saw Donk not playing well though?
Ooh, Blast Bounty.
Well, yeah, Blast Bounty in the final, right?
And a little bit in that seven final against Althus at the major.
And guess what? They lost both series.
I don't know, it's just funny to me.
You know, me and Jacob are sitting here.
our job is like, break down one team, break down the other team, find like pool storylines
and everything.
And then Shiro comes in, does an interview and says, we have dunk, they're a good team.
And that sometimes both comes down to like, we just have dunk, and he just makes up
for so much that maybe you're lacking in other areas.
Production, if we can, let's show the world how good dunk is.
I know he's put up highlights across the week.
He's done it, not just in groups.
He crushed his way through this round of 16, the quarter-finals, and then of
Of course, the semifinals last night, this man has been magic.
It doesn't matter where you're coming from.
He has his crosshair ready, and he doesn't miss the head.
He just finds a way always to be involved in the game, you know?
It's one of those players where you can remove the scoreboard,
you can remove the stats, you can just look at his point of view,
and you'll always find a way to gain impact,
or at least be in a position where he can make the difference.
As Angus said, you know, occasionally he's going to have a bad game,
occasionally he's going to have a bad series,
and that's always going to be an issue for Team Spirit,
because a lot of their play and a lot of their win conditions
rely on naturally having the best player in the world.
Playing against Gunk is exhausting, right?
It's not necessarily like other star players,
because you go up against Ivo,
you say there's going to be a Ivo round.
You know, he's going to win a 1v3,
he's going to pull something out of his ass,
like, and then just say, this is the Ivo round,
let's go over it, right?
But with Gunk, it can happen every round,
all the time, and it's exhausting,
because like you have your game plan,
you're thinking about, okay, we're going to avoid him like this,
or when we go at him, we're going to use a ton of utility,
so he doesn't get clean aim duels, right?
But when it's an eco, he's going to get dropped an AK, right?
And maybe you're going to get just a little bit complacent
because you know it's an eco.
It's going to be a four before and your protocols are going to fall apart.
He's going to get it, right?
And he's going to get those opportunities and he can break here at any time.
So mentally for a team as young as FOOT,
they have to like keep their head in it, not get this illusion.
Like if if Donk is having a great game
because it's going to be a marathon, not a sprint.
Ladies and gentlemen we are minutes away the players getting ready on stage
We give them 45 minutes to get fully prepped before we bring them out
Pimp if you're going over these last few minutes, you're trying to prep for spirit
You know you're playing a best of five and both of these teams don't like to play inferno
Do they have maps that they both do enjoy playing?
Yeah, this does measure some overlapping in the map pool where both of them feel comfortable
Hey speaking of ancient, you know a map that they can both play at a relatively high level mirage
is also going to be part of that mix does too curious to see if food really
curious to see what food is going to be moving in this video because the new one
is the interesting one for me spirit not necessarily a great team on nuke but
food have lost it eight times in a row you know so at that point is that a
map you want to bring into the series and do you want to bring it in earlier
do you want to risk it being the fifth and deciding map behavior where to
get to that place a map you lost eight times in a row so I'm really
curious you know in this video you know not often that funny or
interesting when it's a best of five but food have a little tricky room to
Yeah, there's a lot of options here and the problem for foot is the roster change right like X-File just came in so
How much time did they have to work on their map pool? How deep is their map pool?
That's gonna
Determine but they're going to veto because you know you look at it. That's what would make sense to veto
Yeah, I remove one of the best maps for spirit make it so it becomes a little more random
But how much time did you have to put him on cash on new if you're on the side of food?
So maybe you're thinking hey, we're just not ready enough to play this yet
Let's get it out of the way and sure they have an advantage on dust too, but we played it a few times
You managed to beat fury on it yesterday in the decider
So just sort of take your chances there in a way him. Where were you at when you were 17 years old like that man?
Jugs is oh
That's a good question
I think I was playing Copenhagen games in some small halls of London
You know playing for maybe a mouse and a mouse pet if I would like it wasn't riding his bike then I'll tell you that
I was probably at McDonald's
Inspiration you can be anything you put your mind to including a triapid you freak
Let's take a look here at our maps of moments here because this should be a fun one
We got our vetoes rolling in from the coaches backstage and yanko
Please do me the honors walk me through the early rounds
We were speculating what you know foot is going to remove and they go with us too
So I like this personally try to make it a bit more uncomfortable
For spirit if you can and then for the pics like Mirage would be their comfort if they want to go for that
Punishers would be more like cash or there we go
I like it
I don't know as the first map because you know just being the first map you're gonna be nervous if your foot and then
This is the sort of a surprise pick. You may just lose it due to nerves, but let's see.
I like that they're going for the punish. Spirit themselves with the nubis. That's interesting because for foot it hasn't been a bad map lately.
I was thinking something maybe more like an ancient or a mirage. Foot does it for them. I think now Mirage for Spirit and Nuke is the fifth map.
That's the issue right here.
Or was this expected?
Yeah, I think that's fair enough. The issue now for foot is that you end up risking playing Nuke as the fifth deciding map in this best of five.
Oh, it's actually going to be Mirage, Spirit of Pigment interview.
I like that, because we haven't shown anything what's going on.
There's also something really dangerous here, Chris,
which Fury added in the major Grand Final.
So, Foot is going to have to start T-Side on all the first three maps, right?
And in a Grand Final, going against the likes of Team Spirit,
no matter the map, there's the danger of snowball.
And sometimes, just playing on that CT side,
where you can be more reactive,
and don't always have to be the one taking the initiative,
for these young players to be helpful.
So, they have to come out swinging, right?
they can't have a slow start here.
On the other side, when we were watching Legacy,
it seemed very most comfortable when on that T side
and setting that aggression.
Can foot replicate that?
Because Legacy, they tried to take the hardest road possible
in the semifinals with their map choices
last night against Spirit,
can foot do what they were unable to.
I think foot have a good shot
at making this game very competitive.
I think the way they've been playing so far
and how well they've been playing all the individuals,
X-Flight, you know, having a breakout tournament,
Demon having his moments,
Semins we having I guess consistently more and more impact I definitely see a world where they can remain competitive against team spirit
I'm pretty much all the maps but there's a long way from being
Competitive to being the winners of the series and I think you're spot on yanker when you're saying in terms of time
Preparation having not been together with x-flout for that long preparing for best of five. It's a big task
And I think the toss is gonna be a little bit too big to handle for foot
That's how you feel like they have to sort of play from ahead and that's how they're going to win this game like plan a
They have to work because Clancy, I feel like, is going to be a lot of improvisation, it's
going to be pretty shaky, and against a team of Team Spirit's caliber, you know, that's
where they really get to feast on you.
We got a lot to break down, but first, let's get a vibe check.
We got Stunna on the floor.
Friends out here, that's for sure.
Okay, there we go. What's up gamers? Where are you all from?
I'm from...
Who did you come here to support?
Vitality.
How'd that work out?
Alright look, you've clearly got their attention. Tell them something. Get them going.
Okay.
We hope we all hope today we're gonna have the big revenge we expected yesterday
Strong that's very strong anything you think who's gonna win this is gonna be footer spirit
Floats say it again make them hear you foot
What an interesting time pocket I think that's a
I think it's lit. I think it's lit. Confirmed. Thank you very much. Stunt it with a minute and nine seconds to go
I got a hand it over to the big brand. So walk me through this series
Tell me the winner and most importantly who drops most numbers on cash
Oh, I think it's gonna be it's gonna be don't you know on cash without it out
It's gonna be done on all the maps. I have spirit winning this series
I can see foot take a map three to one would be a realistic shout
But spirit spirit got to W 30 or 31 31
I think for Futsi, they're gonna have a chance in this final. They sort of have to win first or the second map
I think on ancient we definitely have a chance, but if Spirit is already 2-0 by that point
You know that's just going to sort of extend the series
But if Futsi can win one of the first two maps, I think we can have a game on our hands
And if we are going to win this first map, who am I watching from the foot crew?
I'd go with Karbenin just because he's the IGL like he's gonna dictate the pace
He has the opportunity to lead by example obviously his guys will have to do a brunt of the work
But you know in game either grand final you have to lead the way two months of action all lead up to this
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for your counter strike to grand final
Now be and now Falcons sent home you go back to CAC you say okay, Kara can just join the roster about this time
They beat Valkyria, they couldn't touch this team, they send a Halloween message taking down Vitality in the quarters.
Welcome to the Grand Finals.
We managed to win the finals, to win the Italian Championship.
We have very important victories for us.
We thought that they could surprise us by making unexpected decisions.
We will surprise them with a dunk. We will try to drag the dunk.
And all of the spirits tried to get to me if they got away to help me.
And this is the one!
No!
That is so ridiculous!
You're a drunk dog!
No way.
No way!
Hold up.
Okay.
We have an insane aim in our team.
I think aim was one of the best.
We are really excited, really dreamful, I would say.
And we really want to win every match,
win every tournament and just win as many as we can.
It's an amazing experience to play such a big crowd of ourselves.
I'm grateful that I'm here, that I can feel every person who is coming,
and I'm just overall happy that I'm here.
I see a lot of people who support us.
It's very cool, and even here in Paris,
we have a whole sector of leftists who support us.
I'm always ready to go to the trophy.
The question is how to get to it, to get to it.
It will be cool if we win.
You
of the Lifetime!
This is the time of the week at EWC!
Let's begin!
Arena PC!
Yes!
Game over!
Game over!
Game over!
Game over!
Game over!
Game over!
Game over!
The last night it seemed to me that this is where it's all at.
I
Paris, the time has come.
We have a fight on our hands and when it ends, one team will stand as EWC champion.
The core arena! Raise up your grand finalists!
It's first e-sports!
From Mabini Jr. to the EWC Grand Final, the coach at the heart of this young team's rise,
he has shaped this core since their Academy days.
It's Julio!
The right foot trusted to deliver in the biggest match of that remarkable run.
97 in 10 of his career goals, and he stops.
Here's Steven!
The open, controlled, foot semi-final with clutch play, when it mattered most.
Please welcome onto the stage, Symmetry!
The young captain who has led foot through their first full year at Tier 1 and into this
grand final.
Stepping up, Crabby!
The newest addition to this roster, he joined Western seven weeks ago
and now stands one victory away from the biggest title of his career.
It's X-Flowed!
And finally, just 17 years old, looking to make his name in a game all that he is.
Welcome to the stage, Gears!
The opponent's team, Spearhouse!
The architect behind Spearhouse, young superstars and a coach who has led them to a major title.
Welcome onto the stage, Halley!
A bold rightful ready to make his mark on the intermc ground final stage to EVP Awards this year.
Please welcome, Timmy!
Spirit captain in his first years as an in-game leader, now taking them on to fish stage.
The one and only...
LENCHICS!
Quiet with his words, but his actions inside the service be plenty low enough.
He already knows what it takes to win a major in spirit colors.
It's SOTICS!
Five straight years among HLTV's top 20, a major champion, and Spirits Tristanov, our final player,
Shiro!
And iconic venue for an iconic occasion, the culmination of CS2 and the Esports World Cup
is here.
The Lions chair of the $2 million prize pool is there to be taken along with the right
to put EWC champion beside your name.
Nothing is granted at the Esports World Cup, and everything these players have done so far,
and then this entrance.
It's but Esports!
That's his team spirit!
A core arena after seven weeks of competition.
This is the ultimate grand final at the Esports World Cup,
And this is Counter Strike!
32 teams boil down to just 2.
30 keys and dreams rushed.
And only one will survive our last day of play.
No matter who wins today, there will be a new EWC Counter-Strike champ.
Last time we played a Counter-Strike final in this Akkor arena in the Red Cross Paris 2023,
where a vitality took on Gamer Legion. It was a David Versgoliath then,
and it's a David Versgoliath now, Spiric, habitually making it to Championship Sunday.
Is this going to be another walk in the park with them?
Foot have earned their place in the top, but will the final Dragon Boss fight prove too much?
much. We heard it in the interviews as well. It does seem like there's an air of a thirst
for revenge from the French crowd. I do see a lot of vitality jerseys and perhaps foot
who've been adopted by those vitality fans. Paris, can you hear me? I have a question
for you before we get started. Are the French crowd looking for revenge? Are you
cheering for spirit!
And how about foot?
Interesting, interesting!
This is a band of brothers
A new edition explored, sure, but they are going from strength to strength Chad
And now the question is, is spirit too much to handle too soon?
We've got a stacked out Akul arena
10,000, 11,000 people here and for spirit that only drives them further.
They're going to be more locked in than ever. You just boost Donk.
They're only going to chip on their shoulder to Team Spirit.
You've given them some extra motivation here today.
For foot, new opponent, new environment, new challenge to conquer.
These young kids turning heads. 602 maps together.
That's the four plus the coach of the last two years.
This will be a tough task here today.
He's off with a surprise. It's cash-up burst at the delight of the crowd.
And we just remember when the last time Cash was in the map.
Poor thing, but we're still in diapers.
This is a team that has an average age of about 20.
2019 was the last time we saw her.
And this will only be the second time it's played in the playoffs.
Could be one hell of a start to our grand final.
Paris, shall we get this thing started?
We're off to cash, a best of five Grand Final spirit, front runners, favorites and a disruptive
foot up against them.
Picking cash, they haven't played it yet, spirit, we've seen it three times with a losing record.
One to two.
CT start as well, that will be nice.
We know what the complexion is going to look like on their gun rounds.
Let's see what the call is from the Crabman.
This is the amount of U-Tool here for foot and the rip.
We've got a couple of smokes, a couple of flashes, and Amoli inside to head over towards A.
So they're going to drop these outside of the squeaky door,
to set themselves up for a double smoke, because it's a key push.
It's actually taken my interest right now, so early information for Spirit clearing out B.
Need to batten down the hatches on A-Doo, Shiro alongside of Tanea.
The rotation on the way, Magic should get there in time, as they line up the U-Tool.
That Molly's going to make life difficult for Shiro's dual barrettas to find as much activity here.
There's the Molly, forced back and already down.
Good fight, Jukes. The first frag of this grand final.
Demon looking to build upon it. Three in quick succession.
Broke the A site. It's X-Cloud.
Getting walked on by Don. He sets him right down.
Could be flawless.
Denied by Zontics.
It's not fun on the way back here and what else can Zontics do?
Another shot, beautiful straight between the eyes, jukes down 1v3.
You'd have to do the impossible, there's no way.
The flank right now from Krebhany will be exhaling the deal on this.
Oh, he's so clean with it!
That's huge!
Doesn't seem like a lot, the pistol for foot will be celebrated by the crowd but let's
see if that follows through.
There's the ability to drop an M4 across the dock immediately.
Isn't that going to be the decision made?
Or do they just let this man use the hand cannon?
We've seen his dig doing dastardly things throughout EWC.
That's simple stuff.
That's a late A execute.
The utils there, they swarmed the site,
and it's nice for the youngsters of foot
to get themselves their stage legs early.
No M4 dropped across.
It is just going to be that diggle for dock.
A couple of 5-7s to scout for Shura.
MP9 fits in the air.
Up and over the boost, a big nade, X-Flan brought to half.
Doesn't deter him from venturing forward.
Lots of space, needs to be careful, this Galil could fall into enemy hands if he's not careful.
Donk's Deagle usually good for something, and this time unable to find the headshot.
Chipped down, it takes off, he's still flying! Sticks on the angle, fights it!
Just a mad dump of the Galil up highway and you've removed Donk.
Playing with pace against a force a risky move to make but they've stuck the landing another round another entry
Now half of police resistance will be this be side
Group Molly just letting plan on what some ticks can do from the heaven position
Look to hold off to this spirit if they can't catch anything on the cross and oh son ticks
The span battle you want to take
It goes down 40 seconds on the clock and we'll see if Spirit can hold on to these investments.
Chests take a breath and settle into this half foot.
If they can play with momentum, all series long gray, but eventually they are going to
run into Don.
Unless he has a complete off-date, he's going to hit hard, but foot have individuals who can do the same.
So, pace-seeking beginning to map number one of his best of five.
And we always talk about it being at map on the sprinkles.
EWC, this is the sprint, the final sprint.
He's off with the largest man of the qualifier in modern CS history.
Oh, they're told like a good old-fashioned BYOC.
They're just with the best PCs possible.
Yeah.
Can you get yourself a 32 team event without skipping stages?
That's a breath of fresh air.
Now we get a new EWC Counter Strike winner guaranteed.
There, no Navi. No more goals, in fact, Ex-Navi Academy are on the stage.
The student has surpassed the master.
And in the VRS as well. These guys are racking up points right now.
This is a nice little bit of mid control. You can see Magix is going to be able to stay safe on the sandbags.
Does he get overlooked? That's a product of that.
It's a big biff in mid. Magix, I think they hurt that.
Takes a look at the flames last. Dong goes looking. Good.
Oh, a chance! Magix will pop it off with one.
You need another, and it's actually X-Files fighting out for the mid.
They are just willing to fight!
This is really good signs of life to start us off.
Some teams could come in cagey against the Spirit.
It looks like Ft. here to play their own game.
And X-Files are harsh-rated.
Bimbo up the team.
I think they'll be up until this point.
We'll see if they continue it.
4-1 right now. Pretty good for a debut.
And dealing with some tricky rounds.
What I'm enjoying is the U2 usage.
Sure, they fumbled the boost there for a moment,
but the sandbag persistent molly to double nades.
They're not allowing Donk to play this comfortable position.
And if you can take him down to half HP or more with U2,
that's likely to get that multi-use on this.
We'll connect onto cemetery.
So a little bit of damage done.
All in all, 3-0, the score will read in a moment's time.
Now, presumably, not all rounds are going to be so hectic in middle of the start.
Could be.
This is the question that Spirit have to ask themselves.
Do we want to win out middle?
You're going to have choices.
You can fight for the extremities, the aim and pushers.
You could get the AWP on the line towards B, but more ways now in the new version of
cash as Nate comes in for literally damage.
Damage is all it is.
I don't take anybody with him, but we'll retain an MP9.
I'm sure if you continue to use that, he'll be the B anchor.
It's near the A anchor.
That's the question right? Do they want to fight for mid control?
So they can do a lot of utility
and this can turn into a bit of a coin toss like ancients do right.
How many extra flashes are there? What type of armor?
And now the guards are over the boost.
Shiro will get his AWP.
One kit on Zontix. And away we go again.
This time not. This is the boost, Jeremy.
Next map. And through. Looks to damage.
I see the reaction there, sure a witty runny on the break to work contest if they do pipe
up middle.
And highway, who's Donk?
We'll be able to get a lot of info on these jump spots, a very safe way to deal with
this.
In the first round it's not pacey out of foot since the pistol.
It's like it's going to be a late mid.
Could double-nade this.
Oh, that would be perfect timing.
They've both got their HEs. Tonk is there.
It's going to be a Molotov for Krebbenny instead.
That will limit his options as he uses the smoke given to him by Shiro to stay on the line.
And Nade will hurt.
Stenarys to Tonk.
Krebbenny has to try and find that trade.
Xplod's been plucked from the pack in mid as Shiro's AWP to draw blood.
Magic spills on top of it cleanly.
And he's ready to pivot from the pet position. Nice work from Song 6, the Alfa on that FG9, and Semitri lucky to be alive.
Rikwon back from the AWP, but a 2 vs 5 with a wounded AWP. Jutsu would have to start finding frags, and instead he's found a headshot from Donk.
Glee, Spirit on the board.
Drops available here, there's Lightcash on Cravenian and Semitri. We'll see that 1,400 loss burners coming in.
So they can drop a couple of AKs and be all good in the mood for the full buy.
See the response here, they're expecting that U2 to force them away from middle of the immediate extinguisher.
Spirit have their protocols on how they want to respond.
He's going to be peeking into Shiro, but action there, you see Don just pushes into Juggs,
these B and main pushes.
It's all through a booze, Shiro.
The pixel doesn't connect, that would have been your 4 on 4.
I missed opportunity.
Full info and pressure over towards B. Unfortunately there I'm poor to be observed between multiple jewels.
They pushed all the way, they smoked off and to return to that will be tough for a foot.
Next protocol is to trap this mid-control.
My way of smoke being lined up, the CT smoke dribbled in as well to remain and the flashes
followed.
They'll be able to pick off this.
Something's just playing a jiggle defense right now.
Just looking to drop the molly, once pressured, that'll allow the rotation and there you
go.
He has entry, and he wins out.
Six-five versus Magix.
Even Keel.
30 seconds pressure on that T-Stat.
That smoke forces Doc forward.
He does only get the one.
That Zomtik's playing off of it.
Back of the side, getting run up by an AWP,
and he's done it!
Cemetery!
Pomba AWP could have very well saved that round.
Keeps the dream alive, at least.
And he has space. He's already through the vent.
And he won't go for that plant.
Cemetery, you've got even more on that AWP.
Compromised.
This throw, exactly, on Krobeni, on Headshot does that to Tuneer.
And first three for the in-game leader, and that could be enough.
Shiro in the clutch.
Once you go, cemetery scoped up.
Oh, and he's nailed the first one to Krobeni.
He's running him down.
Shiro known to clutch, built to clutch.
A one versus two, decided the fans.
It's a beautiful one for Shiro.
Starts as he needs to go on.
Doesn't matter about your 3K, Krobeni.
Shiro has denied.
Great impact early there from Shiro.
I'm gonna be the second round alpha spirit one around gap and looks a bit dicey, right?
You think okay, there's no kit. Well there was one in the side
That could always be picked up just didn't need the pressure of it
Important frag out middle like this does about all this checkers face and we are splitting big because it's great right?
The side becomes such a box
Sonti's delays the best he can don't puts his life on the line then shiro steps up
Layton's start potential of this man right here
With cemetery early
I don't know what he said, but he's happy with that one.
Time to go time out.
And curiously, by spirit.
So how are you on the mic? Fist bump's coming in.
It's called the moment of pause.
Foot so far, just with one AK.
Cribbetti, there's karma on X-Flight as well.
The rest are still currently on the glocks.
Kulia will have had a chance to chip in.
But looks like they're gonna keep it light. Knowing that came down to just the one man.
I'm gonna keep the pressure on the finances.
Only concern, as far as the head on the department is, to me.
Put it forwarded.
It's held back a couple of bits up. Oh, run boost!
For quite a step, the landing there.
Need these blocks to make room for the acre to find the trade.
Ok, they'll go for the late boost instead.
Timon will have a flash, that's to set them up.
Again, Shiro waiting for the break and
tests a bit cumbersome right now with the movement.
Wallace! Quick!
Glass bullet to the dome and Krebbenny's gone.
Now, X-Flight had four Kevlar, so you
have to get that in his hands, but Juggers is going to hold onto it for now on the boost.
I've just swapped out that AK now.
Come on X-File, not having a look, don't feel more than willing to receive this and another
head splattered.
Masken egg supports there and it is a shutdown in middle, three out of dunk, shiro and teneir
with support.
It was casual.
You're not going to have to operate with something a little bit lighter after that
hero AK, so who will be on the D, the rest of the AK is no symmetry AWP.
With the piercery at the conversions, now the conversions came through punchy middle
place but that's because you know that's less likely gonna have to deal with the
mollies the HG's towards the boost to slow you down you want to return to
something like that and see if you can breach in
that's pretty flashed out of this and I think he's gonna try and path right
side to the pipe yeah okay straight out having a go doing in the stair he
nice catch on to magic you've still got to find don't those traps and over
to run, Krobeny!
Up on the roof!
Explosive is the best word to describe a foot, but Taneer, he wants to make a move of his
own, has a massive gap to work with, and tightens the loose here around the foot.
They don't even know it yet.
Demon is considering that as a possibility and a reaction.
And hold, but...
Oh!
Team kill!
No never mind.
It was Krobeny that goes down.
Demon responds immediately.
Sontik's a forward disruptive position.
He's ready for jugs.
And he's done it well.
Tough start.
Tough start.
Oh, for both of them!
Sontics lays down the law.
Symmetry, the last arrival.
I'm in a bit of confidence now, aren't I, with some of these fights?
Symmetry, he's missed the clutch on the other side so far.
Has been given the space. He will be able to get in now.
He has spoken of Molly.
Oh, Sontics! That is just beautiful!
The stone face killout strikes thrice.
Nice!
The reposition there.
So four round to run it now for spirit, one round gap, and it will have to be the partial
as the loss bonus maxed out.
A round like that from Zonty's knees, it's coming to tear you up.
You don't want to be going deep.
Settling into things now, it's going to be, we'll have to execute, they're
Fainting mid pressure, a lurk smoke, a Z smoke and staying up for the pop.
Magix has already predicted this, he's got his HE ready, he's hoping for a chunky one.
Off of the wall, if he can get that timing right.
It's going through the air.
Here it comes.
Zontik throws out his, a flash to disrupt as well.
Jilt's farming forward, trying to spam through the smoke, it's Zontik's able to find
one, no two.
From Zontik's on his bomb site.
Overrun his shield road, that is something, but it's Zontik's again just bragging.
Up a storm!
Shut down once more on B.
Zontics with three.
A good read of the situation was bad, Nick.
So, I think we're on the pulse right now, our spirit.
Polio will take his first tactical timeout.
Calling these adjustments is going to be difficult right now.
There's no officials full foot on this path.
Surely you can practice it.
This is a team that's at, with their young age,
definitely weren't playing in officials all those years ago.
They've only been in tier one for just over a year.
over a year, they signed to FOOT on the 1st of August, 2025.
The Corps has been together for a long time, and that's why I think they have that depth,
that belief in one another, more than a team.
Symmetry of all goodies, AWP.
I think he's going to try and have the P-Lurgs smoke early.
He can't get that progression in the checkers.
He tries his hand at an early key, keeping it.
Audacious second.
Big opportunity goes to waste there.
Almost caught on the cross, slowed down.
Not an easy shot to hit by any means, but it's an opportunity early.
I'll be able to hear a lot of sound cues from this pressed up position.
The shift key integral right now to foo-
They make their way to main until they announce the presence with the flash.
So all posted on the line to deal with any aggressions.
You two being juggled and don't communicating all of this.
Magic supporting dog.
This is a big nag.
Can be kept away.
Heavy made damage for X-File to work with.
Around the smoke.
It's thrown by magic, but it's done for the profits.
It's team play on display from Team Spirit Round 9.
I want to go against an AXE to keep this multiple bodies here to deal with this.
Insurer is just hanging out ready to hold the main.
He will be smoked off. It's Teneir that's ready though.
Doc will have one to break.
He can play around this.
Call by the flash then.
On our main, Teneir is in a power position around the edge of that smoke ghost looking.
Overwhelmed.
Empty hands for Teneir.
4 on 4, you've got to get past Donk.
Slides into Quad.
Oh, he's deadly.
Demon gone.
There's Magix with the chip in.
He's just ripping them to shreds.
cemetery one and gone fair play it just feels like wherever they go there's a
multi out of one of the spirit defenders this time donk with the 3k
pick up the men's man that me kills as well our spirit
run now six straight rounds bombs only gone down in one of these so the
max bonus is there but you need to start getting the bomb done if you
want to have consecutive gun rounds that's becoming an issue we're
We're running out of rounds, so another partial bike, two Galils, two Diggles, and a P250.
He's out quick.
They're no more utils, they're gonna have to do this with the bullets.
I wouldn't fancy their chances, eh, but...
And it's two-sight centric over towards B.
Couldn't be better.
Had that with Magix to have a lot of U-Kill to dump.
That rotation of Donk won't be far away either.
So it takes High Alert now.
Just face the commitment.
Magix...
Oh, Spamming!
...an entity that gets spammed through Cork-Donk on the rotation.
It's cemetery B250 that can't do enough,
but it's a distraction for Jokes to profit.
Magix coordinates noted.
Tenir-Active-Headbutt comes in on Fun2Demon.
It's all too good for the defense.
Gropetti back. It's into the 1v1.
Contract the head!
Magics running him down, side off, he's side off and just stood up on it from the crap man!
High intensity and that's one to get back on the board, a partial bar, a punchy round
and that was tough, the rotation was there, coming out CT, coming out Heaven, multiple bodies on the site
and they'll get there fourth.
So I'll be ahead on the time and you can see it getting caught.
Just use that elevation.
Niiiiiiiice!
I'm letting out that roll, plenty of money to lie back in for spirit, but I have enough
for this one and the next.
The door pop with three, they're not in the position right now, juggling you to shore.
Just full repress the magics towards middle, or in the rotational way.
They will need some more, dirty out!
Yeah, they call the time in traffic. It's here. It was just traveling with his needs. It's another site is lost
Shiro try
Pies off the shot. They know where he is
Smoke won't last forever, but that bombs gone down and a scrub any falling to the spray through the smoke
Docnes another potential for a rat in the system is jokes. That's gonna be detached from the pack and
Magics, which is so ready for it a five on three
Sure, the clock ticks in favour of Flut, but there's five members of Spirit that plan to retake control of this bomb site.
Demon on four.
Aggressive backer from Cemetery. He's pretty committed to that.
Draws their attention. Demon one, then Cemetery. Hang on. Time ticking.
And Spirit evaporates! They just couldn't breach through!
That's impressive stuff. It's really disadvantageous post-plant on that A site.
You wind them up, you let them go. We know these kids can shoot.
I'm just stunting on them right there.
It was U2 for the retake, the HEs were landing well, the smoke was in play, the flash, they just couldn't reach.
This is the freebie on the span.
Magics, well prepared for the low count middle.
You have 4 control, it's one of the power positions.
Loving and Sendry to be able to flush that out on the retake, and Halya's going to take a second tactical timeout.
This is his first half of the play.
Once that's set, he needs that marginal lead.
You know, this is a map that they put a tough timer on.
They lost two phase, they lost a big.
They're only winning against OG.
Early stage of the season, this is a young team 2 spirit.
The more new gen players, Magics.
The longest tenure on his name.
It's a good recovery since the streak of spirit.
Stand back Molly from Damon.
off for now they can get out that's a little bit shallow of the incendiary so
X-File will take the space granted
more resistance middle
I think these last two rounds out of foot have been a lot of convincing that we
could have a game here at least here on that first round
that last round was a great call yeah it was I want you to be able to find the
finishing on Hansen and Shiro.
His smoke is there, but so is Shiro's orb.
Perfectly points for something.
Does find X-Bow, not before he found Don.
Go crazy.
Kropeni shuts down the Sniper.
Teneir's forward position has been noted
and Demons playing with it.
Caught out trade.
Nice from Kropeni.
Finds that deep line on the crack.
Advantage foot.
Zontik's in magic.
He's gonna try and find a way back in,
but looks like Jumps has got a 3B.
Yeah, Zontik's looking the wrong way.
Just magics, well this half is tied up, dead, even, dead, magics 6-6 at the half!
You got that even half six six it was the pistol conversions and then a run of
three at the end from foot's T side. That's got us all tied up. We have swapped sides and now the
question is, is what can Spirit do on their attack? A bit of a difference was made there by that
Craveni clutch on that partial by Spirit Shearing Destin for a seven. They said we're tied up, same
in the opening kills. Let's see if that's the case with the pistols. And we split them here on
on that number one it is best to five final
two pairs of Jules Baretas
two ones who start with the defense is eight you two lined up
now this is a route, this is meant to draw a rotation
I'm going to want to try and play out middle with Tanea and Don, so watch this over and they go
how much does Jules want to investigate this?
Oh, it's a clean headshot to start off proceedings.
Teneir sleeping with the fishes.
Dr. Gressin dealing the same and demonic quick headshot by Shiro dips away.
He's making it hard.
He's making it hard.
Into obscurity.
Ajax distracted, perfect for Krebbeni.
One in the back, here comes that dunk back.
Starr Krebbeni, he wasn't ready but dunk up by the final bullet.
It's WSP, a one versus four taking shape.
He did that one tap he's got the bomb. He's got info on the two truck
Excalibur the unknown take the plan and it looks like he's gonna get it
They can't contest it some extra cash if he doesn't win this
And he does an expounding shorty
A couple of lovely moments there from Donk obviously out man and out guns
And I thought they were just gonna swing him. That's what I wanted to say careful boys
They like your aggression, but you know who you're up against they do it as a team
and they'll take both pistols in that number one.
When you shave two players off as beautifully as Jokes and Dean have dipped,
you're always on the back foot spirit. The fact that they salvaged the plant will get them in
with a tidy looking four-spy. No way, okay? But it's a little...
Pistols around it as we do have a bit of a tech time out here on stage.
So excuse us as we get this sorted.
Gives us a chance to check in with the crowd. There's so many of you.
You guys having a good day today?
Good, good. You've had your...
Okay, question.
Is it a Pan-au Chocolat or a croissant? Which one do you prefer?
Is it Pan-au Chocolat?
Okay, what about croissant?
Okay, we keep it with the classics.
About 50-50 division there.
More divided than the support and the server right now, I think.
Oh, that's for sure.
What happens when I say this team's name?
You ready?
Team Spirit.
Crazy. Can't explain that.
Actually, I can. I just prefer not to.
It's going to be tough for the right.
Talk about Donk and have a chip on his shoulder
playing against the crowd.
This is something they've discussed plenty of times before.
Now, when they head on out, they find themselves up against it.
So it's not an unusual feeling.
The foot this is.
Both these teams lifting trophies this year.
DJO Bucharest was foot taken down Australis.
and then a stun up.
It's about years you've got Spirit picking up there.
So we're getting a swap of chairs.
I haven't seen this one before.
A hot swap.
All right.
They can take ours.
Got a couple extra up here.
Hopefully Shiro's happy with that.
I'm always questioning where his pillow is.
Yeah, he is one of the subscribers
of the gaming pillow philosophy.
Make no mistake, no matter what the app or arena
17th Spirit are favored in this grand final foot. Sure, you have a trophy
But a trophy in this kind of arena against this kind of opponent that is yet to be checked off of the list
They're a bit ahead of schedule. I think
I'll take the opportunity right now. They're running with it one round gap for now
We're just discussing that by we'll have to hold on for a minute longer until we're ready to go
You take it all in
Enjoy the moment.
So we'll give you an update as soon as we've got one.
I feel like catch has to be the most win.
Feel your best foot forward. It's the one that's the least stable for spirit. You've got a best of five ahead of you. You need three.
Feels like that's just such a small task.
In the key that we've seen earlier is the fact that there's a brawl.
We're winning our flushers, having some events in place to their rounds.
You've always highlighted that some teams do you see the change in their game. They don't have a legacy yesterday legacy start playing scared
Haven't seen that yet. No, not at all. They've just been as confident as ever and that's what's the most remarkable part
emotional side of it the tough part to measure I
Think they're just plugging in his chair
Aha! Just getting a plug in.
They're getting good at this.
they realize.
For foot watching this back, this is going to be funny.
Just showing them. Yeah, we had an arena. Every time we were on screen, we had an arena celebrating.
You want to give up?
Yeah, he was trying to have a nap.
trying to compose himself. They would just pick themselves up a very valuable
pistol in the second half of the first map of a best of five Grand Final.
And this is the ridiculous part, right? We're having a hold on to this.
Thomas in the crowd?
Yeah, we do.
Why does your mind wander?
You can't talk.
You're mid-game.
It must be so hard to stay centered and as focused as you were.
All you could think of was the monitor in front of you, the mouse in your hand, the keyboard in the other.
And now we're doing like a counter strike pan to mine.
Alley's standing, Kogler is taking a seat.
Let's commentate as to what we can see, shall we?
Yeah.
We call it some sort of dance, I'm going down here, this is good.
Some sort.
Wow!
That's what they say, these cows are right crowd to the best jacks.
It's because when the calisthenics entertaining them they entertain themselves do they take requests? I'm sure wonder
Do you guys know any other songs?
Oh song is pretty good. I haven't heard that one in the top 50 charts
It's getting louder
I just feel like this is going to awaken the beast.
Now, yeah, look, we're going to bring in the big guns right now.
We need a little bit of support. Let's see what Ian and Lou are up to.
All right, thank you very much, guys.
Listen, we haven't spoken to the crowd yet, so there's no better time than the present.
Should we start talking to some of these guys?
Who are we grabbing? Are we grabbing foot? I see foot jersey here. Do you want to come?
Let's have a chat. Anybody who wants to talk, come on up to us, get the game off.
Guys, how do you feel? Come right here. What do you want to say to the crowd, to the full pass?
We're gonna bring the Champions, guys!
Let's fucking go!
Okay, let's see it as you're late. What's your name? What's your name?
I'm Marcus.
Marcus, where are you from? Hong Kong.
Hong Kong, and you're here in Paris supporting foot. Tell me your story.
I love foot. I've been with them for two years with this roster.
I love them. They're my boys.
Foot forever.
What were you guys just chanting?
It sounded like you were singing something.
Fuck you, spirit!
Fuck you, spirit!
Fuck you, spirit!
What else to say about that?
What do you mean you say that?
Fuck you, spirit!
It's quite catchy though.
Fuck you, spirit!
Fuck you, spirit!
We haven't heard it.
We don't have...
We have spirit fans!
Yeah, maybe.
We've got a spirit fan time.
Spirit fans!
The spirit signs! You want to write about us guys!
What's your name?
My name's Sanjay.
Hi, where are you from?
I'm from the Bay Area.
From the Bay Area? You hear me, guys?
How exciting is this? I mean, look around you right now.
I've packed out a core arena.
How much are you enjoying this experience?
It's amazing. The crowd is loud, the counter-strike is great.
You know, let's get loud, everybody.
Woo!
Let's get loud, everybody.
Woo!
Alright, you're energy too, Jazzy?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
They're not here right now?
I know.
How are you feeling?
Uh, let's fucking go forward!
Yeah!
I found...
Wow!
...and I found a spirit found.
So can we give them the chance to talk back?
What do you want to tell this crowd that is voting your players?
Don't they's gonna destroy them?
Talk is gonna destroy them!
What else?
Wait, fuck you, fuck!
Whoa!
Whoa!
Where? Where are your friends? Where are they?
My friends are right here, right in the bushes right here.
Okay, we're gonna come and see you guys later.
That's it from down here. I think the game is ready to go actually.
Hey there, already let's finish on these cosplayers.
You and C.S. before we get back to the game.
Well, the cosplayers are biased, but this is gonna be fun.
That takes it. Oh gosh, let's get back to the game.
So I've actually just received word. It may have mistaken that for profanity. What they're actually saying is the French word fuck.
It means seal. You know?
Seal spirit.
Yeah, exactly. They're saying seal spirit.
I get it. They're up.
Look, we are sorted. Thank you for pairing with us. Apologies. Let's get things back underway.
A reminder of where we're at.
Pistol conversions. Put the first half.
The crab man clutch. We tie things up 6-6.
Click on over.
up, he could have gone with both pistols. Let's see if this spirit force fight has any punch.
Up with the Galil, three tech nines, MP7 for Taniyip. It's rifle heavy from foot, no surprise there.
He starts three towards B, just one man on A being demon during all of this.
Aggression U2 for the checkers control, so Zontik's going fresh out on the other side of the map.
It's good work for Zontik, he delays that plan. And he's not to know that there's three
players here but it's stolen out this vent boost for now so limited vision. Interesting approach from
Dean that looks like he's got a reactive smoke. He's playing a block right not just allowing him
to cross to the other side of main. Donksby boosted up calling mid relatively clear no one's
looking from highway. This vent position is the problem. I think don't catch him on the hard
clear.
Nobomolimid.
X-Cloud, not flushed now.
Does he go nothing, but Donk catches him in transition, he was midair.
There was no chance for Donk in this one, and that was the only rifle.
Next best, you're looking at the MP7 up to near, Kravani burned out, forced into the fight,
there's good output to near points too.
Heavily damaged, inflicted though, and it's X-Cloud 4 number 2.
Oh, thank you. Three, a quick headshot on to Shiro.
Leaves to there reeling and he's just running out the next round top of the field day here.
That's a big round to win and to hide the bomb going down.
And we're never going to let Tanir be able to punch that in.
Can I have the extra cash?
We're coming through around gap nine to six, very likely.
Deagle's invested upon. Donk goes heavy.
Deagle head armor.
SMG, extra cash in.
I think we'd all be deaf.
Don's going to try his luck in mid.
Big flush over.
He takes the big with the D.
It's Molly H.E.
So, can't brave that.
And cemetery sits him down with the span.
That is Don's sixth opening death, I do believe.
He's being involved in ten fights, one fort, lost six.
I don't know what I'm talking about, I'm talking about this one now foot.
That's all the serve, X-Flapp.
Got the information there.
The support of Jules and the side trying to cover the cross to check is
and then X-Flapp can activate, you have Grabeni able to swing quickly into what's bent.
This is on ticks, taking his time, taking his peeks.
He's swinging any moment, spots one, side, side,
Binks to the bay and switch and they're ready for this.
X-Flapp! Now lined him up, lots of gap.
The team with the multi Mr. Flau.
That's not missing a beat.
This pattern is stats versus team spirit.
Back to back ball case.
18 frags now.
To the top of the server by a long margin.
Some force by kills.
Some eco bashes.
That was something that stood out to me
in the earlier stage of the tournament.
interview and he just starts saying the real test comes in the Grand Finals.
I kind of took that as like you know a little bit of exaggeration, a little bit of bravado
and yet here he is in the Grand Final. No question which was the hardest part of the bracket.
This is their real test, a team spirit on the Grand Final stage, the best of five
in a packed out aqua arena.
It's not charged on their mid-kind test.
Since he's will get it for free.
Sliver being in vent, he's now that supportive element for Jigsaw beat.
Trying to be so devilish right now.
This position of preventing, for example.
If you're on the boost and you're lazy about how you pop your head up, he's going
to try and take you.
So, every liberty under the sun right now is a slow default.
Spirit are trying to take the pace out of these rounds.
Good restraint on the util as well for a foot that hadn't been pressured so it held onto
a bunch of incendries and smokes. God, you're right, of course, it's empty. That's Donkdown!
I can't explain it, I'm already in right now! Oh, and he's just about still standing!
One HP, he pivots into check as he's surely a dead man. He's got support, he goes looking
for more Confum's three bodies. He spotted the bomb, that info flows to Krobeni, quick
to pluck the head off his Xontix's shoulders. Krobeni trying to provide some support
some overwatch with the orb.
Craveni with MC Hanz, that's big from Magic.
Shiro as well.
Just chucks here, still stands his ground.
Another clutch for Shiro.
He's already had one.
A one versus two, just delaying,
dancing around the side, and he gets it.
And he gets it.
Shiro denied, and we've got a 10-6 scoreline.
Let that sink in.
Just going through and looking ahead to head
to between the likes of X-Flight and Dong.
X-Files killed him at least six times. Not all being openers, but the thorn in the side for Donk right now.
This one, real light on time with the clock there.
He really wanted to have the base out of it, but the person who thought it was making aggressive move, and Halley.
He's just used his final tactical timeout, he burnt two in the first half.
One quite early when it felt like things were on an easy streak.
Some adjustments he wanted to make.
Spurter into the partial.
That's four straight.
He's second half so far at seven straight
if you look at the tail end of the previous.
Bombs only gone down one time within this stretch.
See if they can win a line by their own
if someone can come up clutch.
Will it be for an execute?
Looks across to checkers.
the head shot quickly fast, he wants it too.
Shamro the rebuffle.
Rotation through, it would be a full Xerran to commit to this.
But also to back off, how are you meant to get in?
You just used some of your U2, you've lost two bodies, you got one back.
Someone's going to have to hit a big shot.
They're still there, spots the toes, drops into sight.
Oh, and a head shot into there. Helmets saves him.
Flash is great. Both of them doing the dance.
The Tech Knights can't close that gap, and it's still without...
Nothing here to be celebrated for Team Spirit.
A single kill.
Damon ensures it stays that way.
This is impressive. I don't think people understand that a team this young,
in an environment like this, taking on Spirit,
The core of this roster has what it takes to lift a major trophy together.
You have Donk, the biggest carry-on counter-strike, the biggest weapon in the game alongside a Zywoo.
And right now you're styling on them 11-6.
Ash, it's sure the newest map in the pool, but this is the best of five final.
You're going to set the tone early. We've got Nuka's up next, ancient.
The only map that isn't Broly is Nuke.
And that's if we need to get there, I'm sure.
Paul would like to make this light work.
It's been a miss smoke.
Semitri, glirting with aggression, thinks twice, backs away, jumps dozen, straight from
Doc's big.
Keep spirit accelerating, look at the movement here.
Semitri, gonna have to do some combat, all pink up close.
They can wrap behind him, he's been overlooked, toss the bag, get Doc, and he'll get his
eye to the scope for another.
Grebeni does, comes in through, let's catch his magic, slip it.
Readers to the potential towards that fading mid smoke as well. He's cognizant of the possibility
She has got the ball. Oh, and he's gone. Fast tense.
It's near a 1v3. I don't have time to do this, but
Yeah, you meant to break it.
Can they really keep it perfect?
Absolutely, Swartlers, ladies and gentlemen, another CT round. It is 6-0.
After a dead even half
Again another round where the bomb doesn't go down. The only time was the pistol so the fight will be mainly Galils
The response from a missed the time of the tempo
Playing right into foots hands
And it's very well made a final round crazy thing sure we have that to extended tech time out
But this has been relatively quick
Magic's full white as he parms up mid.
That's going to make life miserable for Krobenin.
Force 5.
Oh!
It doesn't matter if he can still hit the shot!
Magic's flushed him out to his own demise.
He's dunk trading.
Junk's leaving.
Junk's leaving.
Doesn't matter, Zontik's caught on the very edge of the smoke before the util comes up. They have the advantage now.
Well you see the plant. Ooh, good catch from Teneir. Info that there's only two towards this B site.
Thanks for the notable dismount. Here's the retreat. Doesn't know Donk's hiding on the smoke. Back's a turn.
Back to turn, golden opportunity and dunk!
Twist the knife on the two of them!
No informant, Floud.
Bomb ticking.
There's only one man on the side.
I know this is almost impossible to pull off in this type of environment, but he does have a smoke, he does have a kid.
And if everybody stays calm, Alex, they're leaving the bomb.
Like, they're leaving the bomb big time.
They're leaving the bomb big time, Alex. It's not a good plan! It's not a good plan to run it!
He's running! He's running!
Saved by Tannick!
I've seen a couple of maps where these kids get wobbly legs when they're close to the conversion.
I'm gonna lose this and another before the money gets broken.
At that point the game could be back off and still hard work for spirit.
Flash, fires, falls.
That's the space.
Ooh, Krebbenny!
Another opener.
Yeah, onto Shiro.
Keep rocking him up!
He's looking at court.
Could find back from Magix.
Further forward than Krebbenny realized.
Brattening lurksmote scuttled forward.
It draws the attention of two players.
Cemetery investigates.
But he's gone to Magix!
A big miss from the AWPer!
Advantage spirit, Magix.
What has he got more?
I think but a bullet on the floor now.
Three on three.
You've got jokes.
Up close and pass not quick.
first bullet out of Teneir's galil. And the B site is lost. Bomb will be planted in less
X-Cloud. Now he's away and he will dunk down. The nemesis of dunk right now is X-Cloud.
And Teneir dinked as well. Demon though. I don't think he's gluing his corners.
He's got U-turns. He's got a free. He's got a free. He's got to be a free beyond.
Teneir just pulls him over. Are you ready for the position of Zontik's though?
The fast-flank. D-HO! He thought he had him.
Zontics wraps around an important denial of the clutch.
Another clutch attempt.
He was looking, he was looking!
Yeah, not far off the mark.
So two rounds that the spirit just get by.
Which were a long way to be.
Absolutely pants me that defuse, but this was a very good opportunity.
He felt like Jules could have shot them down in the main.
Lovely from Magic.
In a great position in this clutch as well.
The main world place. It's a safe plant too.
This is the time we might have another one of those conversations where you got to get to the bomb, you got to deny and Cooleyo will take the time out for this coach as well.
This is the biggest stage he's been on.
So if you're able to usher the voice, it needs to be that calm, safe voice they're used to hearing in these moments.
In terms of how they're approaching the round, you can't fault it.
Boys, we were up 12-6, it's only 12-8.
And think about how they've just gotten over the line.
We are making them swear, we are making them work, and we are back underway.
Yeah, every round earned.
This one will break the money.
Twenty-one hundred lost into the next four-foot.
Impressive from Jupps.
He's chosen a good round to do it. It's just Zontics here.
Explode joints have been party. Still good for one is Zontics.
I think you feel mids a little bit more lightened up in terms of space to be taken to Spirit.
They're not in a hurry.
They don't immediately jump into action. They stay silent.
Come down in T-Sport, we'll need to be picked up. So heading back to grab that now.
Dump the man's ass with it.
And rerouting as foot gamble elsewhere. They stay searching for answers and information.
Nobody spotted in the middle, that doesn't mean there's no slip out the pipe.
No one hidden towards the vent. But look at a hedge and play 2-2.
Can they get back to the site in time? That's the question.
We're gonna get answers. Rapidly.
Krebbeni, Heaven angle, Magik's pre-aing.
Oh, he's caught a bit of a flash. The flash does do damage to Dunder.
Double swing, good headshot.
Awkward for Jokes.
Does profit, though.
Spot of the info.
Knows one's close headshot.
It's Magik's up close.
Swing, and Shiro shuts.
Should have access for the plant now.
For the bomb is idle.
Teneir's caught the rotation of Daemon on highway.
That's a big one.
He talked about the financial ramifications of losing this one.
chat cemetery likely going to be incentivized to save that AWP
being safe with this making sure they're going to use to live before they just go for that plant so
no risk being taken from spirit allowing this clock to sink on down
I want to get lazy in a moment like this so night's round will be theirs this cemetery looks
to save this AWP shiro already on the hunt you'd love to get that in his hands
He's already trapped you up, Cemetery.
Shiro has an AWPer himself, knows how to peak rival AWP.
I think you'll get to near to come and swing this line first, and then Shiro can take it after the shot.
Just like that, Cemetery's quick though.
I'm going to get a couple with
him.
He's going to swing up in last
second.
Magics is right in front of
this.
Second guessing it now.
That's a nice hold on.
Well, Magics have waited for
that shockwave.
They might have been able to
catch him there in a moment,
but a bit premature on the swing
of the door and they lose
everything.
It's been a one round of
reinvestments.
We'll have a couple of
Galils in play again.
I have been able to get a fire around this after all.
I thought they'd just be passed behind the op so it's 2M4s to pass the cemetery safe,
an MP9 and a FAMAS.
This is very direct.
Magics throws out those smokes and it's going to be a big test for Sametri.
Yet to see too much impact out of this AWP.
He fought tooth and nail to maintain it and now without the support of Kropeni, it's just him on site.
Mirage of Nades, still able to fight in here.
Donk clears.
All gone.
Site lost.
This is the Famis and the AP9, short alongside of that M4, but...
Not the most glorious guns to save
Come back to take shape now
Thanks for that's trying to find an upgrade on the exit
Look how aware Donk is always on high alert.
Unable to scavenge.
So now, four consecutive as the last time out from coach Colio.
It's Panic Stations.
It's been games of streaks.
This wants to take us to overtime.
It's for map number one of a master five.
This time should definitely be the
partial behind the saves.
Not the full shot.
Give himself one full gun round before overtime.
So sure you can get a little bit something extra
in Criveni's hand cemetery.
Like they're gonna want to hold on to the lion show
of his cash for the AWP to make sure
it comes out into play.
It's Deagles for those two.
the character of Famous MP9 and the M4. No reason foot cannot win around like this.
Been playing some confidence counter strike, they've been in their face,
XLUB's been great in the head-to-head against Donk.
That's two over the loose, Grimanny relays that information.
You're gonna hold down, the exotic sunroof is getting pushed on here, that's not good
out here man.
Darn, it's controlling.
That's an upgrade.
AK found.
Action highway.
Oh!
They need to team it, he's put it to good use.
Double take, then Krobeny on top.
This was just the partial investment and this is the one they can win.
to start off as the underdog bears its teeth on cash.
Two to five is Tanera and Shiro fighting back in.
A 2v5 goes 2v3.
Big name, huge news is Arringham has jokes.
He removes Tanera, Shiro's gone and the underdog
takes the first fight.
A massive map for some young men in a stage game.
Foot are here to play.
This will not be a wash.
This will not be a quick day in the office of the spirit.
They're gonna have to work for this title.
What do we think, Baris? Did we like that, Cash?
Yeah, me too, especially because football, and I want to start with you. We said if they're going to go anywhere in this tournament, if they want to win this Grand Finals in the best of five, you have to start with your map pick. They got the job done.
They got the job done, you know. It was, not necessarily I would say it was a gamble to pick cash,
but it was a calculated risk, so to speak, to have that as the first map in this series,
but they delivered, you know, spirit, off to a slow start, then they take control of the game,
and then it's foot from that point, and all wants to bring it together, nine,
ten rounds in a row to eventually get it over the finish line. Strong performance from foot,
and once more you've got to give it to them. They're playing at public expectations at this
tournament. Yeah, what do you think of the scoring the first half? Because we added that even.
Yeah, I think those three rounds that Foot was able to shrink together at the end of the first half was what won them the game in the end, right?
But the cash pick wasn't without risk. The map just got reintroduced into the pool after a long time
this summer and it sort of evens the playing field a little bit. Everyone has to start fresh.
So Spirit, maybe three months down the line will be a better cash team than Foot is.
But right now this is where they had a strong chance and they took a swing.
I think an underdog has to do that. You have to take risks and it's paid off in their 1-0 up in this grand final
I think what was most impressive about this win for me was the fact that X-Floud was able to stop dunk
We always ask the question who can stop dunk X-Floud what I believe at least seven of the opening duels or not mid-round
Duel's so pimp walk me through the rest of this series can X-Floud continue to do this on other maps
Or do you think cash plays his place? I mean I kind of want to say no
you know because it's coming out of nowhere but the way he's been playing so far in this tournament
I can't say no. I think he's been playing fantastically well. He's definitely stepped it up from when he came from
the road. He's acting like a star player. He's playing like a star player. He's found a certain
amount of consistency in the foot as well where he's showing up every single time. So in terms of
whether you work the Christian, can he match Donk? I don't think so. Nobody really can in this
world of Counter-Strike. But he's definitely the win condition for X-Flight and for Foot
if they want to continue to remain competitive against Donk and Simpsburg.
They helped Donk to just five of his opening 12 dual wins and now we got to take a look at some big rounds
Janko you carved out round number five. Why are we taking a look back at it?
I think this was really important early on right because Foot wins the pistol, converts
Spirit wins the first gun round. So this is the round right after that was all important to reset rounds
This is where Foot can maybe wrestle control of the game
We said they have to be sort of playing from ahead if they're going to be winning in this game
And you see Donk doesn't care that it's a really important round
is gonna walk through the smoke, go for a name fight here, find Jax. That's a 5v4 for Spirit,
early on this boost, although Qt doesn't necessarily work out for the foot in the mid-ground. That was
one time they put some pressure on A early on in the round. But in the mid-round, get mid control,
go back to that B bomb site right in the 4v5's Trish, to see Xplow leaving the way for Penny.
We talked about him, how he's going to be very important, finds one kill to even it out.
Here they are able to trade out, going into the bomb site, right?
And then in the 2v2 situation, this missed Molotov for Shiro doesn't flush Cemetery out,
so T'Nil will die, but Shiro sort of finds redemption for the missed utility by winning the 1v2,
and he thought maybe this was the opportunity that Futs missed early on.
Here is the play out, and Shiro is going to be able to get there.
We take a look at one more play. This is a little bit later, round number 10.
Janko and Pimp share this one for me. Pimp, how impressed were you with the teams in the first half?
I was impressed, you know. Round 10 is a great example, but also a key moment in this game
where, as you said, Janko, Foot found a way to come back into the game. This was the round they needed,
this was the round that kind of steered them into a second half feeling comfortable.
This was an equal with just some upgraded guns, right? And you can see the 3A setup from Spirit.
It's because Foot was really focusing towards A, right? So they figured, okay, they have to change eventually,
but they just kept coming back to that B bomb site. Zontikz and Magus have good utility,
But they're going to fumble this hold a little bit, right?
Even Spam's don't get the entry.
Here, Magnus isn't really covering Stonk's properly.
He just gets killed in the back.
This was the kill that sort of gave the space
to put in this round from Drucks.
And in the end, Krabeni now in the 1v2
is able to finish the clutch
and sort of get some life back to Futsi.
You know, this was spirit of a sixth round,
win streak, Futsi was struggling to get the bomb down.
They weren't that close to winning rounds.
And from this point on, they would win
eight more in a row to put them on that point.
Now we saw them with great strength once they switched over to CT side,
but they have to play from the T side for the next two maps, I believe.
So, what does that mean for this foot crew?
How do you stay locked in the game?
I mean, they get to dictate the pace,
they get to set the tempo of the game,
and so far I think for Benny,
and Ferdinand could have been able to do that
and pretty much any game of commerce like they played so far.
So, I'm not too worried on behalf of that.
One thing to look out for though was to share a performance right here.
We had the conversation about him being stable, being reliable,
having had a decent tournament so far.
has a bit of a habit of sometimes being inconsistent in the big moments in the grand finals.
He's also a slow start. I think it's going to be vital for him to step it up on Arsena too.
I know Foot starts on the T side, but it's once they switch over to the CT side where they can
really sort of kind of finish Spirit off in a way because they're a team that's super aggressive
on the CT side, right? Even on a map like the Lufus, you're going to sit for Benny jumping
out of the window whoever has a good spawn. So even if it happens again that they're just
destroying spirit on that CT side like you're wondering hey if this final just want to be over
one more thing before we go here guys we have a second map loading up this is spirits map
are they expected to win it by more than three rounds i'd say so i'd say so anubis you know i
think it's going to be competitive i think it's going to be close but yes i do think spirit
have prepared at first and foremost i do think spirit on paper i the bailout team but it comes
down to some of those individuals son six is going to be vital to get activated cc side he's
he's gonna be left by himself in a lot of scenarios.
And then I wanna say it one more time,
Donk played well, but Spirit relies a bit too much
on only Donk playing well.
Someone else has to step it up.
It wasn't Sinead, it wasn't Shiro this time around.
Someone needs to help out Donk,
because otherwise there's too much skill and fruit.
Zod, X-File did incredible by sort of just dueling him,
head to head and winning him a couple of those fights.
That's gonna mean so much for the entire team,
the foot roster.
You just wait till they find out
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Ladies and gentlemen, more Counter Strike,
live from EWC 2026.
I'm picking the other one with you.
I'm picking the other one.
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Hello everyone and welcome to EWC Hardcore Trivia.
Today we have the gentlemen from CORE joining us, Stable Ronaldo, Jason LaWine, Adapt and
Marlon.
And today we're going to figure out which one of them is the smartest.
Just by looking at you guys.
I don't know.
I had a 2.1 GPN.
It's not bad.
I had an Associate's Degree of Arts.
4.0.
You graduated?
Oh my God.
I graduated high school with a dual credit degree.
I didn't even think that was possible.
Either way, this is how it works.
You guys have already figured out the buzzers.
We have a couple trivia questions here for you.
Now for round number one, each one of you
is going to be able to answer one question,
and you can pick your category by ringing your buzzer,
which you can begin now.
Stable, well, no, honey, that was just a skill.
Stable Ronaldo.
Go ahead and choose your category first,
Food, food, I want food.
Food, all right, food.
Name the bitter compound in oversteeped, dargling teeth.
What?
What the f*** is it?
Yeast.
Oh, okay.
Maybe the answer was yeasty, but not really.
Answer is polyethanol-derived tannins.
That was my next guess, that was my next guess.
Minus 30 points for Neldo there.
Oh my God.
This is my next guess.
And feel free to buzz in to choose your next category.
Guys, one.
I'm going to call it geography.
Geography.
Geography.
All right, we like geography.
What is Glenn Switzerland's official 2025 population
within 100?
I'll give you 100.
I don't get liens.
You don't know this?
I'm not sure, Lynn.
Population 500.
We're just talking about 100.
Yeah.
I'm going to go, so obviously that's a city.
All right, obviously.
Thanks.
Well, it is 168,000.
Oh.
168,000.
I'm just saying it's close.
It's close.
That is fairly close.
But is it within 100?
Come on, 100.
The correct answer is.
A thousand maybe between 13,700
All right now between Jason and that oh, man. All right adapts movies. Yeah, there's no mo. Oh, there is movies
I can't read for a second here. All right in the movie the lion king. What kind of animal was Simba?
Okay, so everybody got like I'm starting question. I got the third grade question. Yeah, I'm
Uh, I'm gonna go lion.
And the answer is actually a lion.
That is correct.
A point for Adapt on the board.
Why don't you get like the hardest question of mankind?
Yeah, go ahead.
Jason, and your final question for history.
This gives you the opportunity to tie up with Adapt.
Name Henry VIII, third cousin,
executed in May 1931.
I know, I know.
I'm gonna go.
Here are Watkins.
Hahaha.
That's Seymour Woods.
Roddy Nets.
Was that just like a honorary degree that they gave you?
Here are Watkins, you know.
You don't know Dare Watkins.
Clearly, you don't know Margaret Pole, the Countess of Salisbury.
Oh, I don't know.
Come on, come on.
Salisbury, yeah, come on.
Disappointing, incredibly disappointing for everyone besides Adapt.
Now, adapt as the winner of this round,
you get an incredible opportunity here.
You may eliminate one player from entering round two.
You have five remaining seconds.
Five, four, three, two, Jason,
you're gonna have to stand there in sorrow, sadness,
and silence.
For round number two,
you will be answering questions in the same category.
So, buzz in whenever you're ready.
And Ronaldo is first.
What is the escape velocity of Earth?
Oh my god, that's so easy. 32,000 meters per second.
Ooh, I'm sorry, but we are actually looking for 11.2 kilometers per second.
I mean, honestly, not bad.
I was right there.
You were fairly close.
That is incorrect, and that's another minus 300 points for you.
Oh my god.
Are you like the later sunlight?
What's going on there?
Your question, what is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way?
It's so easy.
Third closest galaxy?
So you got the Milky Way, and then you got the Segway.
The Segway.
You got the...
I'm gonna go that way.
That way?
I'm gonna go that way, yeah.
And while you were close, the answer we were looking for was Tucana III.
Oh my God.
Oh, the Tucana, that way.
What happened?
We're in a dach.
Come on, we're locking in, locking in.
We also would have accepted Safeway.
All right and adapt your question. What is the bright yellow object at the center of our solar system?
Some may perceive it as orange. I feel like it's the Sun and the answer is the Sun
Adapt that's another 300 points higher for you
Outerspecting me. Yeah, you two are uh
Kind of struggling for the third and final round adapt you get to select who your final opponent will be
We'll give Marlon a break, yeah.
Give me stable.
Alright, even though he's at like, negative 300 points.
No, no, no. He plays the next round, me and him, 101.
Marlon, I'm so sorry, but we're gonna have to take your buzzer and you must stand there in sorrow, silence, shame, suffering.
And for our third and final round of EWC Hardcore Trivia, we have two potential categories for you to choose your question from.
Oh, he gets the pick first.
first. Adapt does because he is currently in snow league.
I see you go for that. I'm gonna challenge myself.
Let me get gaming. Gaming? Alright. We're gonna go to you first,
Ronaldo. What landmark particle was discovered by the LHC in
2012, proving the existence of an invisible energy field?
I mean bro, come on. We had a conversation about that on the bus.
I'm going like, I think it was like a trick rush. I'm gonna go dark matter.
Dark Matter! And the answer is the Higgs boson!
Okay, I mean not too far, not too far.
Minus 47,000 points for Ronaldo.
I don't know if that matters.
And the final question for you. For the win, what color is Mario's hat?
This is f***ing...
Let me go red.
And the answer for the win.
Red, Adapt has won EWC Hardcore Trivia, a round of applause from all of these competitors.
Nothing but salt from Ronaldo, unfortunately. Tell us how you really feel.
This is f***ing... Okay, can I... Okay, give me a gaming question.
Alright, your gaming question is, what was the release date of the first video game console ever commercially released?
Yeah, go f*** yourself.
Unfortunately, this seems like a skilled diff for poor state of the art.
How'd that happen to another diff? What is it?
I said, I already won. I don't got nothing to prove.
Would you like your question?
If you get this answer correctly, not only will you have bragging rights over these three for all of perpetuity.
Go ahead and ask it, bro.
They will have to sit in economy on their flights home.
Oh, really?
Oh, yeah.
Would you like to take the risk?
I mean, take the risk, bro. What is the...
Yeah, what do I got to lose?
What's here?
I might as well.
Partially built right here in France, the LHC has led to breakthroughs in particle physics.
Though not intuitive, the first letter of both particle and physics are the same.
What is that letter?
P. P.
And the answer is P. Gentlemen, I hope you brought your comfy neck pillows, sweats, you're
sitting in economy.
Or rather, maybe in the cargo hold.
Adapt anything that you'd like to say to your losing colleagues?
Now I knew I would be going to end up on top of Gargis.
Cora, thank you all so much for joining me and adapt.
When can I be expecting my check in the mail?
Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you.
I'm going to connect you with Griff and we'll sort it out after this.
Fantastic. All right. Make sure those two extra zeros that we discussed.
Thank you all so much for watching the EWC Hardcore Trivia.
Appreciate it, guys.
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We had a question coming into this ground final.
Would Foot disappear under the additional pressures of arena counter strike?
Foot have answered.
They have risen to the occasion.
This underdog bore its teeth on cash, picked up their map win.
And starting off the best of five with that win, new edition X-Cloud managed to keep Donk humble map 1 and 9 to 4 in their head to head jewels.
That's nuts.
Almost there the office.
Yeah, basically was. I mean, can they keep it casual?
Or is this where Spirit the Dragon awakens from its slumber and we are reminded of why Team Spirit were the hot favorite for the trophy lift today.
Just to pace out the game, it's the mid rush.
Oh, and Magic's bell rang, awkward.
It's a basic round right here.
Yeah, straight up mid and Xplode has continued.
Kevlar to be quickly puts his name in the feed,
sparring through smokes and finding Shiro.
Wally over looks on 6-2, the rest of Brian gets ready.
He's unable to track the heads cleanly and to near down as well.
They're just fighting.
They are just fighting.
This is what Foot do and are continuing to do here on the grand final stage.
To make it three from three in the pistol department so far.
Donk, on place, in limited time.
Just be looking to hold on to the Kevlar right now get a couple of kills and get some upgrades
This can't be the Hollywood cliche coming of age story where this rag tag squad
Slay all of the beasts at the top of the Counter-Strike pyramid
Oh Spirit have been in a lot of finals lately. How many trophies just the one and the one out to mouse the other week one off foot
The great start again from foot coming in hot take a look at
It's a map of Anubis for both of these teams this year.
Spirit, they played it 12 times, nine to three record,
and they've won four on the trot,
four at 11 times in 2026, a five to six record,
but five consecutive wins coming into this outing.
Oh, sure, a losing record overall.
But a bit of a streak.
Exactly, it's been green.
Only one of those has been played with X-File.
That was here, that EWC against Magic.
Spirit only played it once as well,
and that was a victory over Vitality.
So, a much bigger scalpel, much harder task.
Dust to Amberpool.
It was feeling like a bit of a must to go back and forth in the maps of this Buster 5.
So, let's see.
Spy in.
Amis for Donk.
Or 5'7", an MP9, and a Deagle.
We'll get more of that head-to-head between Donk and X-File.
He's going to be tasked with playing for E-Box control, and that's where Donk holds.
So this will be a anchor. They've moved positions around in recent times. Magic's taking middle to here becomes the beaman
And she wrote here there and everywhere but on this investment more gambles to be taken as a main pressure baskets control garnered by Jules
Don't feeling the heat
I don't know the one to the tower you chatty beat this class just keep fracking them up against this man
He's talking so you can see he's gesticulating. He's mad!
He's russian and his all-help.
This is not a cacognizant.
He does look like he's ready to go on.
X-Flight!
Whoa!
For the X factor!
You're this guy who could shoot right now.
He's just ripping in the shred from shred.
This is mad.
Yeah. Well, just one more to find out.
He's right down.
He's going over to the T-Stairs.
Turn here.
He's trying back off and hold onto this if he can.
Didn't make this course by look like an eco!
Ah, and it is an eco now!
Spotless!
Beautiful work!
T-side Anubis.
Can't expect the line-share-arounds before force.
The resistance spirit can put up, but probably nothing coming in.
This is ridiculous.
Jumping in the double molleys right there to make it...
Looks like very difficult.
It's a city of love and counter-strike.
Oh, with an upgraded pistol bar, Shiro, pretty util as well.
Let's see if they can make this more exciting than the previous.
So to work on a streak around to their own did spirit to draw that back, but busted
against the partial.
Shiro, ready?
up with a flash.
Will there be more output out of that X-Floud Mach 10?
Of course, worse for wear.
This time operating 62 as they do once again,
synchronize their mollies.
You can see what that does to Donk's positional options.
You can play for that one.
Fies off the shot.
Triangulated.
Oh, that's a quick tap.
Sits down X-Floud.
I'm just going to force them might be into A.
Crebeni on his own trying to make mid-space.
There's multiple bodies here to deal with.
They could lose a Galil.
They certainly could, and if everyone might
do overlook the possibility for the stacked close,
quite this distraction when they start to push him in.
Kravani does lose out on the Galil,
so they're making this secret threatening.
They did well.
Ooh, chunky onto Zontics.
That made it 60 damage.
He even feels like he needs support to get over there.
Yeah, he's going to be concerned about losing this bomb,
but he might just risk it.
He does.
Just drop in.
He was maybe disappointed to come over
and give him a hand, but had to make the move.
They're trying to constrict the rotations.
Everybody through a beach.
They're all coming for jugs.
Max out-friamed and ready, anticipating more.
Cemetery in support, finds the necessary double,
they get three.
A threatening eco from Spirit.
The dunk headshot on the deed, but it's foot three.
I remind everybody once more that this team, minus X-Floud,
has over 600 official maps together.
Now, not all of these are tier-one maps,
but that's ridiculous, right?
All players in this squad have played 600-plus maps
of character.
I am so impressed with just how these basics are looking for them right now.
The communication appears to be flowing very well, and the energy there too.
One of the more personal and human side as well as X-Files being able to fit in
with such an established hierarchy, order, vibes.
Glamorous Rolls who gets with the departure of Long's aggressive positions.
Yeah, he's making the most out of them.
At least he did map one. He starts at the same here on map two.
First rifle round.
Shura has his AWP.
Sonti's playing to block over Ace, is that?
Shura's disrupt isn't going to cause an issue whatsoever.
That one will.
Oops, forced error.
Chooks.
Quite land the mark there.
It's a mid-space.
Least stage one taken, and baskets.
It puts a lot of pressure on the defence right now,
off magics, and Sonti's the filler in the box.
If you want to try and take something back,
or are we going to play retake?
That's the conversation they're having right now.
As mid has been a bit of a void to write all of this, so there's questions there as well that Tenir is having to acknowledge.
Shiro's all posted on the B mainline.
It's Donk to deal with E-box.
And congregating now for a B play.
There's smokes, there's flashes, there's mollies.
Every beam that Kibani needs to call them into this.
Yeah, Dexclad's braved the flame there.
Yeah, ooh, hoping to be overlooked.
Donk flicks in. Nice fight.
There's Shiro, opens up.
First for him on map two.
Tenir at the back of Platte.
There's Shiro, quick for number two as well.
But they try as hard as they might to breach this B site by the individuals from Spirit Sandals.
Very well done from that B defense, that's tough.
In fact they've dropped those plugs with donkeys, great, but their rotation was miles away.
It's not like some magics are worried about middle, they're worried about an A play.
All that information is coming in, so essentially a 3D5 on the other side of the map.
This is impressive.
Let's see if they can make it consecutive now.
You win this one, you can break the money.
Give yourself up against an eco.
Magic's starting to prepare for some very fast middle.
You can see him. He's got flash in his hands.
Look at the layering.
Magic's finds Haven towards Cameron, out forced away by the flame.
You all was coming. You could see him prepared for this.
That Nade was in his hands. Immediately have a rip.
Then he went to the flash and then the HE wants more.
Once more, so Magic's with a good read of the situation.
Locked on camera.
No info.
No, they like to play through this to spirit.
So Flash from Juggs and they will push them straight through.
Go to the one, bringing the fight onto the A site.
Cemetery trading out.
Magic spotted on cake.
Nothing to celebrate, just the one.
Three on three, bombs should be planted.
Demon responsible.
That's Kits, there's a smoke
and there's a chance on this retake.
In through camera, one late main.
That's Don't Cam. Supported by the Shiro Warp.
That smoke will limit his contributions.
He's got the whole HG's elected to throw it through.
Shiro will pivot.
Okay, this is going to be late if they want to give this a go.
Shiro's going to try and flash above camera for Don't to make the move, or easy.
Demon, tugbasket.
Krebbeni can provide support.
This is the flashbang. Demon not going to be affected.
Still nails the headshot.
And that's got to be enough to secure it.
Just looking for a couple on the way out is Shiro.
You can chase down here, Shiro. You might lose your AWP.
Come in, pluck from the pack.
God, we'll make sure Grabenny doesn't get to see an AK into the next round of play.
The foot, they'll still convert it. Spirit knew what was coming.
It's still difficult to deal with.
They took the tat here, one for one out of both the magics and zontics.
It was this right here. Shiro makes a lot of noise.
Demon's hearing this. He's hearing nades being thrown.
They, hey, oh, they smoked heaven.
All right, there's a flash coming.
So what prepared was Demon?
You know, just that first bullet as well.
I'm gonna swing it to new.
These are not household names, as far as the Counter-Strike world is concerned.
But Ford hit very hard.
Right, well, we've seen this roster throughout the last year.
And there's been no doubt that they've been on a clear and steady rise.
I think when we heard the news about Longs, everyone was questioning why.
It was looking good.
Well, this is a step even further than what the Romanian was able to offer.
It feels like it's come very early in this team's progression.
Yes.
And early in the season.
Bring some solid counter strike, not backing down and taking it to spirit here today.
So the three-round gap.
We saved guns, some drops, and we're back in with another buy.
Curious to see what we're going to get out of the back ten from Krebani.
A compromise for the captain.
It's like a test imminent for the B site, Cemetery's making moves, sheer as a tension
drawn, Demon smokes him off.
They're pushing, they're crunching, today at the back of the site's gonna have to do
what Doc couldn't.
Two quick kills, Jugs and Demon reaching through, Magix kept humble at the one, it's
a two on two, as the dust and the smoke settle.
They could have it. Jokes. Oh, right down the back pocket. Denies the plant. Forces a clutch out of X-Flight.
Tickles the bomb. Trying to make a play in play. He's Shao. Zontix, cognizant of the possibilities.
Read him. Wow! Beautiful shutdown from Zontix. Good awareness from Zontix.
In a pressure situation like that to be expecting that smoke push.
He went to play through on his own back pedals make sure there's no option for X-File to make a plate
We go back and forth in the last three rounds the brute force it looks good
So they're a donk cheer or a couple of table slams right there
Rotation was very quick just so many bodies in that. Hey cheese
So some very important kills from Zontick's
And the money wobbly now for foot as it will be just one a cake
Okay, four tech nines.
This time they want to try their luck over towards A.
Zontics, just have a heroic moment
with a couple of very important frags.
Can he do it again?
They're not going to bounce into what's his side.
They're playing in that block smoke towards basket
for Benny once.
He lives to tell the tale, does he have any?
They're getting up A right now.
Right there, they're fighting to the middle.
A is open.
A is open.
Yeah, Zontics, he realizes his mistake.
Space conceded and opening.
Now this is a tough retake.
I understand they don't have the weapons, but they have the sight and the man advantage.
This would be disruptive.
Wouldn't be the first one of these in the series either.
This man is just begging to have two consecutive round wins.
Now it's not going to be easy on the way back in.
Donk searching, a man determined, looking for a lot of fights, and they'll stand at bank.
Jufs brings him down, tech knight headshot lethal.
Tanira and Shirou still finding output, one back from Demon.
They want a fight.
Look at Kropage, a swing and the fight just keeps on coming, it's still up for debate!
Magic's smoke kit. That is the dream combo for this 1v1.
How does Demon handle the pressure of this?
Ooh, gives him the fight.
Knows where he's at.
Magic's watching through their options.
They're just going to spam it to the smoke.
He gets weird.
Demon can't find him.
Magic's just holding!
Magic's the spirit!
A hard one, yes!
Back into the site.
Takes the kill on the last second.
Ooh, they see two rounds.
He'll be hard to come by.
That was the force right there.
Ooh.
And you just get across the line that swarmed towards heaven. That's a frustrating one before
Not a freebie on the entry
You're still able to get in get the bomb down and they set up for so many jewels towards heaven
I think they're expecting most the entire spirit team to be following through
So we'll be the eco
Light work no reaction from magics
Not sure long as always, it's four digs and a glock.
They're playing an angle that's very hard to hit the head there.
Mordred off by demons dig in space for Krabeni. They're playing this camera temple crossfire.
And he gets a couple of heart shots.
It's a connector. Just shero activating a cemetery when scavenging.
Hello?
Ah, goodbye.
Okay, so Donk's starting to get a little bit more grounded now in these fights against XFLAB.
To beat him out on one map was one thing, to do it consecutively, that's gonna be another up.
We'll just beat her out now, it is just Juke's last round of mine, over towards T-Stairs and Donk will moll it.
Eco down, we're tied up for a piece, and now the gun's it back out.
Cemetery can AWP if he wants to go glass.
Attack time now, called from Coolio.
It's gonna steal this SMG, may as well wield it into the next.
There's options for it.
Three straight, that's where it starts to stabilise, and they haven't had to do anything
aggressive on this CT side.
It's just been very standard in UBIS, but we haven't seen them trying to catch these
timings out the hole, they're not doing like flash pop plays out B main or trying
to take water and sandwich it with connector at the same time.
I know that four are going to bring the fire and the fire and they have been.
Captain Kroberny has been making full use of that time out.
Get a lot of space in the middle.
They are.
See if it happens again.
Sponsibility of magics.
This is direct.
Congratulated outside here.
Now waiting for some type of a push, some type of a play to call the rip.
Cromani is going to continue with the mid-util.
Are they ready for it to near?
Locked in jail.
His 3B right now, magics having to worry about middle as well as that temple support.
So he's floating between both.
Try to play for sound cues pressed up. You can see him there on X-Ray through the wall.
And there you go, he's hearing some steps, you can relay that.
Donk and Tenere versus 3B main.
It's going to go 0 to 100, just as he looks away.
Attention, draw on Tenere, able to find Axe off of Frigo, swinging in, then the cemetery
trade.
Donk, what have you got?
Finds just the one, keeping him humble.
Quick smoke is late breaks available
Magic's gonna go for just a chunky made here cemetery. What you have?
Bosh 59 57 for Krobeni
This deep smoke flash onto shiro
Retooling
The time is ticking
Semitri's just setting himself up to take the fight.
Krobeni's been spotted outcourt.
Just a pixel of him exposed on the pillar.
Now, Demon has to step up.
He strakes on in.
It's Semitri that has to come up clutching.
He just can't hack it.
Chiro with one HP to spare.
Good poison, a pressure from Spirit.
It was so calm on the way back here.
They also had a bad read of what the round was going to be.
That set up, it's not great, right?
Donk, as soon as the smoke starts to fade over to what's E-box says,
I have to acknowledge this.
Then they had two players there.
Essentially, he's somewhat caught in the open.
So, decent output from the B defense, considering the team had the overall wrong read.
Which is a bit of a boon for Krebbeni, but still, he doesn't get the round.
Now this is full, it's straight.
Magic's out.
Magic's getting made rough. This is a full rush.
They are rushing for Magic's get the backstabbed.
Ah, fang! They just lying out, he knocks them down.
One on to the A anchor though. Zontics is gone. Shiro should be fine.
He must go for a plant. Shiro, yeah, he's got the denial.
Nade might do it.
Yep, just about the safe is X-flat, but only delaying the inevitable.
He's being run at. He's being pursued.
Well, he's going to be shy of the mark as well.
So X-flat away, but Tania aware of the possibility,
and we'll finish things off. 6-4.
First time we've seen something a bit more punchy, right?
out into water taking those fights, making sure that foot aren't able to get that early space,
but that was just aligned by another gun again. Momentum shift. We did have the streaks similar
on cash. It was the pistol, the conversions for foot. It was the tail ends off the back of a
for any Diggle clutch against Magix on that B side. We'll see if they can do it again to
give them some bookends before we have that halftime break. Two more rounds, two more opportunities.
Not spot that. Good interception.
X-Bart parting aggressive into Magik's crosshair. He's nailed it.
Are you ready for the second? Look at Krably go.
He's just gone so quick and eats the flashbang. Magik's feeds it to him.
Now you're walking wonky, three on five.
Your aggressive ventures cut down.
They're going to win some 3v5s against Fury in their run.
They're even making it some big plays.
They can do it in this one.
Private Conker, man of the **** right now.
Isn't she middle with the bomb?
They're even coming to join him.
Jurg's trying to probe into basket control.
Four, what they would hope can be an A-split,
but there is three lying away from spirit.
does force the block detail magics as well we forced to throw out his incendiary
in response
perfect from magics a wide swing find cemetery now judge's activated it's all
too easy for team spirit that a site safe as houses really good chemistry
from spirit in this stretch and what a stretch it is now six on the trot seven
of the last eight
once this final round he's gonna burn another time out
if I will be there it is just have a couple of issues and you coming in with
the Mac 10 trips has gone AK just with care of no hell I'm behind it
That's not unusual for foot.
What's the call from Coolio?
I found they tried something heavy through middle, they got denied. A really nice shot there from Magix, a good alley open, that's near.
That's rad, it's felt like they had a decent read of what foot I wanted to get up to. It's really just the pistol with those conversions.
This is the better rounds that they are resting their heads upon right now.
I'm going to brave this smoke so on the fade, Denny, come to the moddy, they'll run, they'll
take the rune, they're announcing their presence hoping this will cause an over rotation.
Good connection onto magic. Smoke camera, he's ready.
Washington punished right now our foot.
We're seeing them lay back in with flashes and they are coming for a sweep
akin to an ancient mid crawl.
Here's the swing.
X-Files chose not to engage. They want that miss info to flow.
And get into the back lines. They've got time to be able to work
Trunks has got the bomb on his back as well. He's leading this contact
I have to know this is a possibility. They want to try and fight e-box or B main extremity
They must know him. It's a massive gap. I think it was the wall. They called it clear
They hid in plain sight
And now X-Floud has the flank. Oh the info that flows, but do you overlook?
I do you might know never mind magics has gone down demons in spawn
And you know exactly where Taneer is.
You spotted his entrance into the E-box.
Foot to close out this half. Keep it just a two round game.
Cemetery sent up to collect onto the Zontigs arrival.
It doesn't quite nail it.
Calls us back even. Late retake out of spirit.
This is not out of the realm of possibility.
the plant however does make things difficult, Krebbeni hiding out on site.
Exploded to Nick and it's looking good, a little too good for Shiro and Zontics to handle.
No time, no head, we've got a 7-5 half folks, Spirit looking comfortable on a Nubis,
can't foot seriously, put up a fight in the second half.
They are on the top
They are next to me
Headshot
One more time
On their defensive hearts and now all swapping over to the T side
Is it really just going to be tight things up neat and tidy or there are a couple more twists and turns
On that have to get their first pistol round if they want to keep this knee and tidy
It's been one way trapping in that department four foot so strong starts be the foundation of this competitive series so far
Water ball for Krebbeni's hearing is on six cross with the rest silent rugs
Nobody in a at the moment. No sir as they have to even jiggling towards water Krebbeni searching as well
They are gonna see this as clear. They just hoping for a fast flank retake. That's not gonna be easy
all of the jewels come their way and then smoke and go I don't have a kit for the
retake very curious to see how that works out for me but in the flank they'll
have to push through the camera smoke and you can't hit the headshot to dog then to
fall in quick succession the first pistol for team spirit and it comes just
as easy as that. I understand the thought process especially with foot they have no
issue trying to brave smokes and take those fights knowing that they can get
their feet planted in the crosser in the right place quickly but that's a risky
pistol they gambled and incorrectly. Demon, take one for his troubles to near.
He looks X-flat for a moment but corrects first as X-flat. Chunks and
frustrations there.
He goes down and stuff from there, two for him, two for Donk, one for Zomtix, no armor
saved means the force pipe will be a little bit lighter on.
The game has yet to turn into that scrap dish yet. This has been a master streak so far over both.
It's not the tip that's out of the back and forth of clutch heavy game. It has been brawly.
This force is 2572 Degals, an MP9 walking around the before team.
Down with the gamble, similar to the pistol. Have you made two towards B, A?
An open runway, and our spirits are low.
How long do they go through the motions before this is detected?
Right now with the bomb over what's rugs looking likely they're gonna
Oh, he dashed correctly once more.
Nice shot at it.
He's deep, Magix.
He did, he did.
Michael off this cave finish.
And Demon is attempting.
Pete Tuckin before they run this corner.
Will you overlook it, Donk?
Has Demon done him dirty?
Of course not.
Cleared hard, cleared by Donk.
D-1 just reclines in the chair.
X-Floud, kind of alone here, knows he has to play it forward,
knows he has to try and get something on this first buy.
And he's got Donk!
Continues in that head-to-head.
And his number on cash.
Different story here in a new business.
That's a great shot out in there.
He's looking precise to start off this T-side.
There's that bomb going back to A because it's under the control of Zontics.
I think you give this one a go for short.
You don't just hold on to these guns, cemetery's here in time.
The bomb just going across now.
Jiro hesitant.
He's got the cover.
Stepping that gap.
Once to buy time, can't take this on his own, but the fight might come his way.
Jiro's now timing here. Yeah, just perfect.
Get your info on Zontics and now all attention on Jig's approach.
Anticipating, A main is Shiro.
And he's absolutely down.
He's perfect. Played it to perfection.
Top of the tables.
And even kill spread. Everyone doing what's necessary on Team Spirit
to run home with an equalising map.
Curious if we get something crazy.
I'm going to pull with a buy here.
But then he could drop an endfall.
And then that seems out of the box.
But that wouldn't put a pass to him to go for a move like that.
They are just going to get some pistol upgrades of their own.
And this is the push-pull plan between both of the sites and he tries to be tricky thinking
this is CS2, I gotta stay in motion.
Don't dunk across the back tent for him and one spotted over towards that main.
He wants that dual.
forces on the block smoke instead
the last nine rounds of play force spirit so really taking control of this
one
to near versus x-flout and the awareness is there it's a comfortable
map put in here you're seeing that good performance earlier in the tournament against
Batavia on-trend, kind of an oebus.
Should just be able to comb this one over now as it's just three players to find.
I've got the big one, sure, but they're in the side there, entrenched in dog, which throws a bit more U-Till.
Going to fire this off, find those two of them, and then juke it out in his round alone.
Sure, just peppering away.
Get a gun to save, that wouldn't be too bad for Foot going into the next.
We'll be bringing out the guns.
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I think a lot of aggression has spurred on their CT side. Let's see if Foot would be as respectful.
He does have his AWP. Good spawn if he wanted to try and go towards A or middle. Not the best.
I've got an hour, I'm going to grab them for the underdog to find the victory here.
Into a ledge, into a tower.
Thanks, wow.
Spill like early.
Must have been tagged out by that first time he nades.
Not an easy lineup.
3-1-1 to the defence.
Just jugs on, eh?
Move for Krebbeny, the other three on B.
Asked its pressure applied with that smoke.
Jugs trying to play around this.
They could break it and clear.
Just gonna get the support of Krebbeny coming over.
Oh, here comes that break.
Should be a combo, yes, with the molly towards fountain.
Yeah.
Picks get awkward for Jugs.
Oh, plays on the pixel just in the burn.
It's near back. Krebbeni's still there.
Catches to near on the swing. No trade available whatsoever.
Now the door is locked behind you. You have to fight forward.
Cemetery puts his head in the vise. Shiro slams it shut.
Krebbeni swaps out to the AWP, shows Cemetery how to use it.
Two kills deep from Krebbeni.
Oh, the headed by Sartics.
And a clutch for Demon taking shape.
First found, just Shiro.
It's all or nothing. Do we have something to be excited about here on a new best demon decides for us?
Sheerite holds the line! And as demon falls the opportunities for Swap go with them.
Final tactical timeout that tells you just how much of a problem this is. So for straight on the Swap of Sides
the first real opportunity with the guns in hands and starts well. A lot of damage done there from Jokes.
An important shot from Shiro and Sontics. They've been staying quite active. The bombs going down, they're not just sitting and waiting for information.
Continue to search, wary of the possibilities on the way back in and a couple of rounds through this one.
With the rifles in hand, and a whole lot more tidy.
The womba's closed. This one's looking to be more of a landslide.
Engine coming up next, setting the series choice from foot.
3M4's an MP9 and a Famicom to mix up this.
Early pressure towards B.
To the air wall part.
Oh what? X-Cloud! Just gives her a swing!
Don't seize to it.
That's the gap right now, I think.
Zontics has the opportunity to take an awful lot of space.
Big rotation back. I thought that was just a full in-b execute.
So Zontics got a lot of room.
Then he parks the bus.
Looks like the demon don't.
Then forward into Zontics is exactly what he's positioned to deal with.
That's the flag of 3D!
Reads the team and repeat, but still...
Not 3.
I think both sides very well are spirit.
Hello.
There's only ulti-piggressions of magics.
That's the passion of these undies. Everybody bearing down on your side now.
Yeah, he's gonna be gagging to see demon and cemetery pushing out a main
and start to help him out.
Ooh, Shiro low!
Does the damage! Magics down!
You're chipping through cemetery!
Stops him!
Before he could round the corner.
I'm sure I put into one
unwinnable one. That came down
to the timing right there.
Magic's just throwing some
U2 is caught in the back line
and the booze before we can
even say it looks to hold on
to this.
So we're over to Mach 10, Magix has been dropped out of history, so we get to Tec-9.
Okay, it's going to work out 2 Tec-9s, 1 for Shiro, 1 for Magix, and 3 AKs.
Right from Dina.
I choose to discreet those type of things.
In motion, moving forward, catches a search in main.
It's one of the NKs down, sure, loves to get this back.
There's a flash, there's a molly.
In front of a tree, they come in.
Kramenny, he's having none of it.
And Don obviously reacts, obviously looks the other way.
And as attention is drawn, X-Floud flirts with aggression of his own.
Don creates him like a book.
Oh, where that came from.
Oh, way more required.
Kramenny catches magic straight out of T'Nir.
This is deathmatch now.
This is deathmatch, because the bomb is down.
You know where Donk and Teneir were?
Jugs. Oh, just look the wrong way.
They didn't spot him, Teneir!
Didn't process the information.
Now Donk in a box, and his team in the slums is shut.
Nice.
I'm very in your face, Deff from foot.
There's Teneir there on that push.
He's been out of the eco from Spirit.
That move was always going to have to be the case because they had given up full mid control.
It's a weird exchange, not the regular territory like you'd expect a cash or you lose middle
you take a name.
This is coming from multiple areas as the crunch, three box and a name but still
Same design to try and get you back a piece of territory.
Oh, dear.
Donkka is down.
Donkka is right full.
Hang on, this could collapse.
Donkka already found output on it, but it does go down for his troubles.
Grabeni should be able to keep a lid on this.
He should be.
Get the operative and the line up.
Shiro and Zontik put their heads together.
It's an eco, somewhat interesting, two birds one stone.
Come on, Tark, let's come in again.
See the design, don't know in the front of the park.
The park able to pick that up, but there's a lot of bodies there to deal with it, so well done for a foot.
Yeah, those are those little tripwires, those traps that you can get caught out by.
I've got three consecutive now, let's see if they can make it forward, it'll be their longer streak so far on Anubis.
With the bomb not going down in these last couple, you'd be begging for that if you're Halley.
I'm curious to see what kind of adjustments Halley's been looking for.
Successful interception of the lurk smoke.
Newman succeeds.
He's having a good time behind us for free.
Oh, he's lonesome.
Let me hit awards A. So it's his presence.
He's being laid through e-box.
I'm going to put him in pressure.
I'm sure no one is above able to push behind Donk as they asked me to set up for the B play.
Come on Molly.
Yeah, X-Files don't have to pull back.
Perfect timing.
X-Files was completely unprepared for that.
Open and kill from Donk.
Flash leaves demon reeling.
Half health.
Back at the site.
Cemetery in support.
Krobeni on the flank. It will be late. Semitri's got to find something here.
The big, perfect magics. Forces the trigger pull. Trying to stick around on that pillar, but out of position.
Teneir will finish the job looking good as Teneir. Quick on the follow-up.
Demons gone. They know about Krobeni. His jugs on the wall park just go swing it towards Ivy.
Krobeni down. It's three out of Teneir.
He's keeping up with Donkir on a new best. He's definitely comfortable.
The reason he's wearing that spirit jersey is to be that second man.
Yeah, that's a big point, right? You can talk about where the resources go.
What's an instrument is meant to deliver as the second rifle and star.
Good boys with you to use the way to manifest the open area goes from 0 to 100.
You don't have a great idea where they are. OK, well, then you're in your face.
Donkirpons, they get 12. Just one more round. It's all they need.
What again? No low smoke but Krebeni takes in big space. Seriously, that's not made on to dark.
Trajectory does tell of Krebeni's forward position. Explodes too.
And that smoke will extend their control of the water area.
Can't really stay here, either gonna have to keep on pushing, which is risky or back off.
It's a good retail utility that Spirit are able to throw, and they have clearly in no rush a boost to clear out, so getting creative in the open.
The mantle's up.
There's Zontics on high alert.
This is against Legacy, a very good job of controlling the tone of the game, right? They're not going to rush, you're going to play at our tempo, not yours.
It's baffling, that's a third smoke on stairs from the CT side.
Just going to delay this water control for as long as possible.
It just forces you middle or B main.
I'm talking about push back the main control
to worry about somebody out in water but it is a very risky move so white pressure
with a slash middle as they group towards B
it's x5 and they need to stand and bang 30 seconds
barrage of utility and spirit players and demon completely unprepared like a
a day's ago look in the wrong way explore just a crowd spray it's decent
output and Zontik should have a book to Krabani do you consider it all he does
but court man to link doesn't have the accuracy in the air cemetery and this
shot or jiggle bait usb headshot at rage to near in the clutch we're saying
he's comfortable and he can close it down but cemetery will hit the shot
first time I feel like I'm really saying his name for impact there he
It does extend play, cemetery in the 1v1.
Long-range USB headshots, naughty too.
That's tense.
Scraped from X-Files to get the double, but again,
you can see that FUT really don't have an idea of where
these rounds are looking at open and end.
But like the demon that has his back turned
while transitioning through temple,
so worried about middle.
That was almost a meh.
This is a little unusual.
That's the pilot behind his own cendry here.
It's a trick, it's a gimmick. It could lead to an opening.
Most of their U2, fortunately a little bit of support.
It's amazing even holding for their secret awareness that it's a possibility.
How long can you stand this setup without searching?
Such a shout.
Ooh, overlooked it for a second, able to pull his crosshair back and will provide a knock-and-seek.
So that Magisk can stay there with the Glock and all these nades, and he needs to stay alive and try and
find some outpour with this.
He'll start throwing it now, so
he's going towards
another camera.
He takes himself an upgrade into a Tec-9, so there's something a little bit more punchy.
This should be fine.
This could be an operative word. Jokes, team flashed.
Sematree will be able to get up on Fountain and take this, but they are
something to posture.
All this setup, they've got two smokes. That could be
Heaven, camera, Molly towards backside or bricks. Lots of flashes to rally in and they could overrun this.
It's just the two of them here, the rotation point of Krobeny is going to have to be through beach to heaven.
Steps made.
Oh, can't miss that. Can't miss that.
They're going to need you. He's feeling that pressure. Cemetery under scrutiny.
He's just not about trying to run away. He's scared of spirit. Jug stabs on.
Necessary double for Benny, Cherry on top, that's Jokes in defensive aid.
The run game, another one. Double digits. Final tack timeout from Halley.
The one five of the last six.
Good shot from Don Svig in motion.
nice edge now we get 2,900 loss going into what would be the final round if you
lose this one spirit already get a couple of emissions being galils
coolio with a lot to say in this 30 seconds as well sure he's AWP has a
good spawn if he wants to try something a little bit out of the box good kick
mid from the top left side he could try and charge to take the connective
fire but he smoked because he wanted to pipe straight into what's aiming
something crazy it's not really in Shiro's wheelhouse so I'd love to see
and make a move at a moment like this. Stand up and be counted. He's great in the
clutches. See if he can provide an open up.
Zero and zero in that department just for context.
I missed that.
We're not feeling the change of pace necessary, some tits.
Brutalized again over towards main, dropped down to half HP by Util.
Now all these rounds were foot just completely forego the mid control.
The man to spot it will be a croveni from A for the U2.
At least a sound for the heavy beat.
3-2 split.
Invitational spirit if you want to take this space you can.
Magic's finding no resistance on his barbbing 50 seconds as he keeps on making a move
that smoke thrown from Zontis will not last forever.
So he wanted to get into the back line at top, but he
have drawn a rotation away from B.
Demon has to acknowledge this.
Wok to be named, 38, Magic's flank is everything.
Does look like Demon's Cognizant at all.
Chance in position, Flarey.
Oh!
Farrell, Farrell, Demon Pivots.
The pressure's on Spirit.
They've got 20 seconds, Chad.
They've got to make their move. The bomb's outside of B main.
Symmetry, can you provide?
Explode there too.
Deeming with the chip in.
Orcwood. Very Orcwood for Tees.
They're headed for the hills.
They're running to save.
You know how Paris feels about that one spirit.
Yeah, like they're wasting their time.
They have to absolute nothing there.
Cool. Sontics takes one.
We'll get to hold on to that AK.
Tanira Magic's gonna operate with something a little bit lighter, but all in all that is a nothing round
Just hoping that foot would come to them
A little bit of space plate
They force the mutual out of the aim and play as it's
Very restraint on your utility out of that beat events. Just really slow the roll
Can you play at this tempo again screw it?
You have to try and force a fight early. You cannot continue to be so slow
12-11, and Krebbeni immediately throws aggression into the mix.
So does Magix.
Sametri going to get overrun.
There's an SFG, needs to adjust his health.
Good work.
Magix overlooked him on camera.
The control cannot provide the trade.
On back, Shiro anticipates X-Blow.
Just the head visible.
They can pick up more. Connected block two ready to push out May.
That one's overtime.
The pace is just agonising.
Zontics returns.
Anticipating some proactivity.
Ryan's perfectly reddit.
And there's another where that came from.
Krobeni Poch's nose out there in hot pursuit.
Nade delays! He's still around! He still sticks in for one and a half to near 5 HP now onto the AWP.
Gifted it by Shiro using it to try and pressure Cemetery. You can see the speed wobbles Cemetery
feeling the pressure of the moment. Knowing if you can just find a kill, just one could be enough to secure overtime.
Giving you something to breathe and there it is onto to near.
Shiro in a clutch, high stakes, low time and two to find.
Steven there, and Sametri's close, swaps up to the USP and takes us to overtime.
Spira just trying to sow these seeds of doubt with his slow play, the slow roll, just expecting
Fook to continue to move. Well earlier in the half they were right.
Of course some fights do come their way. They're covering fire here from Jugz, the man doing it all right now.
19 kills deep, up the top with Proveni.
Frustrations.
Bumpable from Spirit, now they need to change the pace.
At least in one of these three rounds in overtime.
Give yourself a go, give yourself a chance.
Next cut. He wants to start off with a back.
He goes charging.
Donk was anticipating for...
He's gone unnoticed. Jokes!
Pushes main, finds Donk, distracted.
Sontics, chance for the clawback.
Demon quick to take the fight.
Every fight Spirit have found, there's three CTs there.
And it's the second win and a half.
Tenir, and lurk smoke fading now.
Can't be more of the same, just hurry up and wait.
Shot down from Chiro, jugs down.
Look out towards A.
They're gonna group up here.
Surely they clear this.
He would hope so.
Tenir, he bites his tongue, he exercises his string,
he's gonna discipline and they crumble!
Advantage gone!
Krabeni couldn't find the lethality he wanted.
Nade might stop him up further.
up further. Bosh, 37 and the bombs moving back to be mid-pivot. For all the way to rejoin
their forces to be-
Preventing these steps. He's worried it could be mid or be main, but he's heard those steps.
He's gonna call Cemetery over. In Libra with the U-Till. He's making left side side.
Cemetery will have to path to plat if he wants to fight this.
Just so silently, he'll be on the line necessary.
And he hits the shot too. Good one back, Shiro. Hits the shot for number two.
Cemetery in the clutch to start off overtime. He secured it with one.
This time asking too much. Magic just runs him down.
What Taneir got right there is what Spirit have been looking for.
Down the stretch in the late stage of that second half.
Alright, let's get the territory, let's wait, let's put some pressure on.
actual fight. It came to them first. You see it right here in the replay. Minutum 40.
Jokes overstaps the mark. Donk goes down. It's in here. No biggie place to punish too.
That just did not come one round earlier. Right. That's in the 12. We find ourselves in OT.
Spruer were given a gift there because of the early exchange. The fact that the fight came
to them, I understand they didn't go in their favor, but it destabilized the setup of foot.
They felt like they had to keep moving for information by doing so.
Take themself.
Round two spirit.
Yeah, that early beam ain't smoke.
So Nessie's that making his lips get to cross undetected
and buy tears time for an impactful double kill.
Come here with the lurk.
Because they went for that aggression, no one was going to block it and again, it won't be.
He's headed into the Zonties room with a pocket between the smoke.
He's comfy here, Crveni. He wants to jump on out. He wants to lend a hand.
He might get Zonti to free if he pounce back. That flash draws attention.
Zonti's aware that a great shot!
A good show on to the in-game leader.
Great to see the awareness.
To explain a block on A.
He didn't spot any flash, but drops the smoke regardless.
Understands he's on his own as Demon rotates through a beach to support him.
All you tilt toward them away
This is a gamble
This is a big gamble, but it looks like the right call being made right now. Yeah, it's probably an extra resource
Dispatch towards a
It's going to be this fight first. Who goes first?
Magic's right there. Oh, so is the bullet from Daemon.
When you overlook Taneir's lay arrival. It's not baiting if you win the round.
Four on four. Taneir nails the head. Takes out Daemon.
Belated trade into the A site jugs.
Between a rock and a hard place. Just talked to the box and it's back side.
Exposed! Easy for Donk!
The A site falls, X-Files been there the whole time, and they've actually made it with 10 seconds left.
Right down to the wire, and Donkel Clarem triple to find that second sequential.
So the first time it hasn't felt like it would have been on the same page with some of these decisions.
Trying to thrive in the chaos there, with the players closed, they could have all just started pushing through the smoke.
It would have been risky, it would have been desperate, and it probably would have been the same result.
Last round of the attack then for Spirit.
Cemetery, walkabout, spots his counterpart, Shiro on the stairs, remains on the pixel
but the gap closing.
Sontik's a donk, walking in, hunting an AWP player.
Oh, he's missed his shot.
They're just running at him, still cemetery girl.
There's Taneir!
What is that?
Comes out B main and man possessed.
Provides the necessary.
Three, looking for that fourth.
Softlands up, Krobeni.
And for Jugs, no reason not to give it his best go,
but with three determined spirit players,
one with 27 frags under his belt.
It's not the usual candidate.
On the fade.
And another headshot for Teneir. One hell of a little burst of frags we've seen from him in those three sequential T side rounds to start off overtime.
They're going to be so disappointed they've fought so hard to force this into overtime. Now they need to be forced on their T side as well.
Look at this.
Just a quick adjustment into cemetery.
It's an editing realized he'd killed him initially
Just smashed them the concern I have now that we flick over
There's no reason they can't get back into things but at T side rounds were mainly the pistol with the conversions
Yeah, we didn't see evidence. They can string together gun rounds. It's exactly what they've got to do
What's the plan what's the call get chokes some early a main space but some fresh on to zonx's shoulders
It pulls magics away from middle
You didn't see it.
He is.
I'm to near and don't get coming.
Nails it.
To near, gone.
Deleted.
Right foot forward for foot.
You do see Jukes go down.
That's on six on A main.
You push forward, clear down baskets,
equalizer
It's a bit quiet outside of a that's a really important Molly there from cemetery that changes the push if you want to clamp down
Water with two through e-box to its room main now. We have to reset, but it's forced them back towards middle
And that's exactly where foot find themselves
Magic's called donk over
Now they strike cemetery ready there's donk back knows this more eggs not through the smoke that's a huge kill
Well, inside open for business, you just got to get the bomb through.
Donka arrives.
Could be a well-placed made.
X-Bards up, though.
Easy for him.
Demand trading.
And his stocks are shooting up.
Shirah's patience again pays off rifle for the 1v1 cemetery.
That's what you want to see.
Closes it down.
Another 1v1.
one converted as far as coming in trips and drives out that you get me spurt you
know was out of the fire would be main push forces the hand of spirit they
push I mean they deal with jokes so name plate kind of so the extruder is
getting removed this name comes through playing ahead that giving sure
or chance to play into the round with him so it's a bit of very difficult
position as far as the coaches concern and cemetery it's the necessary shot
might not seem like a lot but under that type of pressure with the game on
the line. Play for a round longer. Two more of those. Can we do it again?
He's got the best for like a whole push, like on those lines. Yeah, body language looks
So they just want to play out another stand-around.
I think to add the box, Shiro's going to take the orb towards A.
He's looking a bit different.
Person on the line to see if he can suppress Jokes looking for that space.
Jokes actually throwing out a deep...
Ask it somewhere from spawn.
He was so unprepared for that.
A perfect little pop and go.
Follow through.
Yeah, they're hoovering up the space.
Shiro will be on the line, flashed off.
Fires off the shot.
They're closing the gap to near.
Unable to provide support from Temple.
The no-a-main is not being cleared.
There's a chaotic one front in here, just goes running in.
Doc does too, reveals his presence.
Outside the camera, smoke.
Drugs has been insurance policy here.
Oh, guess the info, Drugs.
Reveals himself.
Shiro's already found a chip in.
Oh, an overextending.
Don't call punish.
Now the pressure's on Demon's shoulders.
Only Cemetery can save him.
To tie up this grand final.
One each.
A spirit take it.
Into overtime short.
It was Spirit's pick and they were leading to work for it to near upstanding in the performance 29,
Donk 25 and this Grand Finals only just began.
They found themselves up 11-6 at one point in this.
The fact that Ft.R.A.P.E. were able to draw this back.
This Grand Final is still to be played for.
It's ancient up next.
There's a whole lot more coming your way here today on Sunday.
The EWC 20-26 Counter-Strike Grand Final is delivering.
It won't go down without a kick. There we see an overtime. The first of hopefully potentially
many. We've got our grand finals up in the morning. Walk me through what we just witnessed.
Very competitive, Gabriel Kastrak. Spirit looks like a team in full control for the
the best with really a time. Strong CT side in the first half, foot could really string
the rounds together as Chet said in the past, winning the pistol, converting, but in terms
of winning bar rounds in that first half, not really a foot playing up to their best,
whereas for Team Spirit, same could be argued in the second half, it was two atypical
strong CT sides on a T-heavy side of mind.
I think the really important thing as well is foot is not going to go away quietly,
right? Like they're not going to be easy to put away, even if you have an advantage
driven if you are in the lead in the end.
It was the small things like the inexperience in the clutches,
a little bit, and trying to do too much in certain situations
that ended up costing them an U-Bus.
I want to ask you about some of the names we covered coming in.
Taneer and Zontics, how have they played through two days?
I mean, Taneer stepped up massively here on the U-Bus.
We saw the T side impact yet in overtime in general.
Throughout the entirety of the map, he found himself playing good,
you know, and that's exactly what we've been asking for for Taneer.
That's exactly what Spirit wants him to do as well.
You want that secondary rifle who can help out Dump
when he's not necessarily winning the game by himself.
And that's Austin Seneh.
He kept Spirit alive in moments in this game,
and he was a big factor as to why they're able to
claim it over the finish line, especially in overtime.
Yeah, Goli carved out some incredible rounds.
Let's take everyone back through round number seven.
What happened here?
Yeah, I think this is a good example
of some of the issues that Foot has had
on their T side here against Spirit.
So you will see here even on a sort of a week by they find the good timing to hit a
Spirit is focused towards that mid fight right?
Xontex is sort of going to be leaving the box site and as the execute comes in
He wants to help but he gets caught by the flashes and just dies
It's a fight before and you have the bomb site on the side of foot. They understand. Okay
We have pistols. We don't have a ton of control and we really want to go for this CT pipe
It doesn't go that great. I mean from a 5v4 the trades are going to come down to 1v1 in the end between
Demon and Magix who luckily for Spirit has a smoke and he's going to be able to clutch this one out in the diffuse
but you know it's all about fight fight fight right though the pressure may be
on your opponent but this was a broken Spirit's economy and was a huge round for them to actually win.
Knot's start for foot on 4th Slade,
Donken's 3rd are too strong to near,
leading the way for a squad,
and that is now each team taking their map.
Pimp, this is the best of 5 though.
So what do you foresee in the future
for everyone here in the Echo Arena?
Me, as I said, a competitive game of Counter-Strike.
I see no reason as to why Foot shouldn't
be able to put up a fight against Spirit
on basically all the remaining maps.
Maybe the only question mark I have would be Nuke,
which we're now guaranteed to see in play as well.
But overall, I think it's a foot who's proving
into the final was not a fluke there was not by any chance of luck they're
playing good solid tennis like that now and really putting up a fight against
I think ancient is a must win for foot though right like I if they don't win
that I don't think they have enough on a map like you so ancient plus my rod I
think is them the best chance to shock spirit here before we get to that game
three let's take a look here at year round 25 pimp what did you see well
the issue with foot and something you need to hold in a bit you spoke
about the constant aggression, Janko, we saw it in overtime as well.
They kind of lose grasp of the balance, you know.
12-to-12, they just made a massive comeback into the game.
First round on the CC side, they go for the aggression again,
and it's calculated, it's good, it's with great effect as well.
Dukes gets an opening, then you have two players in middle.
Also getting a kill here on Demon, you have a 5v3, at this point you fall back.
I don't know what Dukes are doing right here.
There's no point whatsoever in showing them...
Why?
No point whatsoever in doing that.
X-File Demon decides to go for a p-cast.
Well, X-File with a bit of a lazy clear doesn't check the corner,
Poser then gets nailed down.
You had a 5v3 in a winning position,
you just made a massive comeback into this half,
and the first thing you do is completely drop the ball.
That's inexperience, and it's not good enough.
You have Spirit on the ropes as well,
you just made the comeback,
like they're struggling to find solutions,
you killed Don in the back,
like that's how lost they were at the beginning of that round,
and the B push doesn't happen if Jigs doesn't die.
So if you really, that's completely unnecessary,
you got the job done, the pressure is on Spirit,
and you just gave them an easy solution in that round.
Here's a final look at Taneer's stats from game number two.
We're all knotted up after Foot took their map choice.
It was up to Spirit to punch back.
We thought it'd be Donk leading the scoreboard
of every single game.
Instead, it's the other rifle they bring in
to beep up this roster.
Guys, I was actually talking to some folks off-screen,
and they were asking,
if I wanted to buy a Counter-Strike squad,
how much do I need to invest?
Ballpark for a team like Team Spirit.
A lot of money. I don't know the exact number, but we're talking yeah seven figures three million. Yeah five million
I didn't say you know if you get gung in in the mix as well
It's gonna be very expensive and then if I want to buy a foot how much do I have to scrap up?
Can I be my friends in the Acre all pull five together?
All right, we're gonna talk some numbers with the financiers later for now foot you sports is looking to claim the
EWC title. They're knotted up one one against spirit and we still have at least two more
games to go. It's going to be a party here in the Acor Arena and we appreciate you all
joining in. Thank you guys and don't go anywhere because I was just told after this
We have a man, a man, a mountain here in the 8-core arena!
Powered by play
I'm in the arena. I'm in the thick as all the action goes down
I'm trying to find out who is gonna be MVP here at the sports world cup my man. Tell me who's gonna win my MVP
Unfortunately, I think it's don't yeah, I have zero bed don't
explode
Let's go!
Let's go!
Donk.
Donk?
Yeah.
Cemetery.
Cemetery!
Let's go!
I think maybe Donk.
Donk?
Absolutely Donk.
Maybe it's Floud.
Maybe Esra.
Because of the cash performance.
But we will see.
Maybe it'll be Donk.
Maybe Donk, maybe Esra.
I like it.
Thank you very much.
Enjoy the show.
Donk.
Donk?
It has to be Donk.
Everything he's done beforehand you have to give him an MPK.
Send knife.
Oh, look at this.
Look at this!
Uh... Donk, Donk for sure.
Jokes.
Jokes.
I don't know.
Yeah, why not?
Jokes.
Jokes, I like it.
Donk.
Donk.
Donk.
MVP of this tournament.
Maybe Jimin?
Donk, have you seen?
Donk.
Joke.
Yeah, I hope you see.
How much you have, Jimin?
Yeah, Jimin for me.
Oh, Donk for sure.
Donk for sure.
Yeah, he's gotta be Donk.
Donk, of course.
Donk, of course.
He says it with a smile on her face.
on her face what a foot win okay she's not accepted it she's only accepting dog
let's see what happens at the end of the tournament
But for us, you know what we are doing?
We have like data scientists that check fine data.
We have, you know, a coach that's looking for this and we have a panel where we also
judge the trash talk of the players when they are joining Vitality.
Apex is part of it, he is the CEO of Trashore, so he is making this grassroots talent, you know, like on.
And I think it's the next content for us.
We will make a video for sure, with him judging people doing this.
And if it's weak, I can tell you that he will not be pleased.
I love it.
You guys in pit, pit, pit, they're low.
Roger that.
Easy peasy, Lamax, Squeezy.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a surprise for you here in Paris.
I think you will recognize this face.
This figure is huge.
Legendary, we have Gregor Clegey, the mountain from Game of Thrones.
Here, after Vjonsen, is with us in Paris to watch the top level of Counter-Strike.
and I'm absolutely loving it.
And it's absolutely a pleasure to have you, right Ian?
Yeah, it is. Absolutely.
Listen, you mentioned it there,
but how much have you played Counter Strike in your years of gaming?
That's a great question.
I can look up the hours, but yeah, probably a lot.
You know, I remember myself playing a lot when I was younger.
Obviously, life got into the way and I, you know, stopped playing, you know,
but got back into it during COVID.
And I love the game.
I love watching the game and I'm having a lot of fun here.
You're a good player.
Am I a good player? I'll say it this way. Compared to those guys, I'm not.
Well, I've got to ask, you mentioned these guys here, right? It's your very first ever
huge e-sports event. What do you make of this? What do you think of it all?
This is awesome. I love the crowd. I love the, you know, it's great. I absolutely,
I'm having the best time of my life. When you talk about pressure,
you know what pressure looks like. You're a, you know, well strongest man, I think,
in 2018 what do you think is more stressful a huge deadlift or a 1v2 oh that's a great question you
know for me because I have some experience lifting weights probably 1v1 in counter strike a 1v1 yes a
top in pressure game like this when everything's on the line you're competing for the East West World
Cup champion you know for the first place that's very stressful it is very stressful and I've got
Cut to ask, the Grand Final is going on as we speak.
As soon as those players come back out here,
they get right back into the action.
You might have heard the fans have got a favorite team here,
but who do you think is going to win the Grand Final
and why?
So I'll tell you guys this, before I came here,
I was moving for retaliation.
Obviously,
obviously spirit kicked them out, you know?
I love a big underdog team, so let's go, Fjord.
Let's go.
Okay, he's going for a foot!
Huge reaction here!
What have you got coming up in the future by the way?
Just as we wrap this up, is there anything we can look forward to seeing from you?
Yeah, well I'm still competing, I'm 37 years old, so I'm about to retire in strength sports,
but I actually have a competition coming up now, September 5th, and then more acting in the future.
Can you give us one more flex before we throw away from you?
He wins.
Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for DePwede for Hexer!
We're going to see if we can turn this grand final into a mountain
because both teams so far so good, they managed to convert their map picks.
Now into the third, can spirit break serve?
Ten straight wins on Ancient.
That's the question.
I also have a question for the crowd.
Pariakute-Mua!
I've been hearing you.
You've inspired me.
I think you go something like...
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-da-laa!
Alright, I like this.
I'm curious.
Are we still cheering for fun?
Or are we really hoping for a good close game on our third?
There's all to play for here at the Esports One Cup 2026.
CT star for spirit.
The pistol, this could be fast.
Red smoke out the rib.
4th man stacking the B, just Zontik's in red and they're fast down here, they're going to
patch straight into him.
Yeah, they just want to fight Zontik, he'll fall back, understands the possibility, falls
into CT, cover from Teneir, relays the info, he'll turn tail, tempo.
If Zontik hits anything here, this is huge, one kill, it's enough.
Yeah, he's a man surrounded.
Noted by Krabani, good headshot, jumps dead on the swing, demon trading.
On planting.
All through donut.
X-File's been waiting for this and he's found Don cleanly.
Getting the molly out of his hand is something.
Makes life difficult for Magics and the fight goes down from the grave.
X-File, nice fine. Good output. Demon's taken his place as well.
Really hard for Spirit to win this one. Cemetery the insurance policy.
Good head shot to Nier's goal.
Sheeran falls. Another pistol next to Putzvain.
Another one of Natali that. Racking him up now.
We're out of the five player to boot that spirit only getting one
So they're gonna have to do this the hard way again
Sontics he got his one it's a indona having this extra you till just with the kid the smoke going down
We got the longevity here to take this series the distance
Talk about breaking serve. Yeah have to be breaking spirits win streak on this map
What a comfortable on ancient. It's a Brawley one.
He's even searching straight up B-Rap on their own molly.
It's a map that certainly suits their start of play.
It's a great thing, getting that, but against the lighter bite.
It's not the optimal move. It's not a handful of smokes they've applied.
A lot of pressure. They forced up block smokes early.
That's a win within itself, and Cooley will be happy that his boys haven't braved
in the smoke for no reason.
They may push taking shape.
So Shira and Zomtix.
Can we form this stack over to what's beefing out, Jugs?
We're the same looking for our way out in case.
Ooh, Miss Sharf and Garmin takes a couple of attempts onto Demon,
just the tip of his balaclava visible ramp.
Well, this is risky for Jugs, right?
Having to play forward on your own.
If you lose this Galil, you might just walk into a 1v1
in one of these nooks and crannies.
We're parting back now, rerouting.
Oh, and the flash, that's enough. They're just darting quickly.
Quick reactions, the Jokes is there to stop.
Wards, Shiro's rotation.
Zontik is there on site. He does find a perfect first, second as well.
Great output from Zontik so far.
Jokes on this rotation does get spotted, donk.
Jokes is in trouble. Amazing, a lot of trouble.
Oh, over the top of the box.
Magic's 5-7 going to run it in.
Finds himself the upgrade, finds himself the first of the clutch.
Oh, just cemetery! Beaks in on the reload!
You have to be brave to go for that one.
We think there's just one. There's always more with foot,
ready to trade as well for each other at every moment.
Now, that was very close.
The bomb was down.
It was a 1v1 at the end, and there'll be some partial investments again out of spirit.
saw a dog yesterday but they're saying
the vision with a D-ball can a double kill on a D well he's got one of those
again they've even got smokes and HE's into the mix so no easy rounds given to
foot looks like they want to shift gear all five groups up it may just be a B
rush
these are heavy price to play magic says across they did roll and a
secondary molly so maybe not expecting but I don't have that info as far as
search is now yeah just up around the smoke to secure the long and short
chippings it's just gonna be that game fight that's in there smoke break there's
to this spot in x-fabry lays and loads perfect fight
straight bullets connecting but cravenia moving magics should ensure it
That was explosive moment, it's always fun to watch from foot.
How quick it all comes together is part of a spirit on the light pistol investment.
It's so apparent when they get that go sign.
You know, it's just 0 to 100.
U2 lands perfectly with the parvings there, they're definitely in the lab.
They lack a theory for this team.
There's Zontics hoping to get something on the way out of the door.
Here are Donk and Taneat yet to get going, but again it's early stages.
Sandwich, just goes down, top decent.
He's gone into the tally.
Just three out.
Good for bonus in some ways.
Four foot.
Actually, now I take that back because they only have one left there.
I like not at all.
It just means that there is the carry through up.
Back ten.
She already gets his off.
The tree has the red smoke lined up.
Horse smoke early from spirit as well. That's going to make it much harder to get the Rollin'
Molly in.
Look at the face of the crap man. Just right up in their face in cave. They're going to
want to deal with him. They're going to pop out mid.
Yeah, and they're going to try and catch that tiny with Donk looking the wrong way.
It's hard to get past Donk.
He did us a bit of full mag-dust, though, so onto the USP!
How is he still alive?
Look what it cost him just to get mid access.
As fast as he has a Magik's head, he goes both ways, though,
and a dink already connected onto the helmet of Krebbeni,
finished off cleanly by Magik's, but mad.
Donk recently got a penchant for the M4A1.
Less bullets, dumps them all,
and still finds the opportunity for a second kill.
Time in there, little way he was going to go against it.
He just peered back in time, and then...
I can't worry, very late coming out of that smoke.
Not timed with the flashes, just as I was talking about that explosive collish.
This one lacks it.
Thanks for watching, the frustrations.
Smoke.
That's my red smoke, time out.
Really want to fight middle right now.
That Molly's missed, the elbow smoke as well.
Just chain in his flashes for magics to go have a look.
Ooh, over the top!
They just parred through their own smoke to dock, from middle up the heavens through
the smoke to get the cave space and Kribani down.
Yeah, it came as a bit of a surprise to Kribani and they've got to try and get some pressure
onto cave.
Okay, missed orb shot from Shiro.
They're chasing him down.
That's very little.
Perhaps that is red.
I've sat on board with Zontix.
He's been very hefty on the clear, so not wary if anybody's out there yet, but now has confirmed it.
This break will be late and suboptimal. Action on Zontix.
Feels like he's always good for at least the one.
Makes his position.
Whereabouts noted.
Those plant advantage spirit.
That rotation from Magix is expecting a lurk, but he joins the party now.
There's a kit, there's a smoke and a couple of flashes.
That single flash is going to get him out of temple.
Here it comes, the retake from spirit attempt.
X-Buff brings the fight to them, and one undone, to near trades.
Cemetery just attack 9 versus the M4.
Good walk back from Shiro, he's going to come down to the one on two.
If you could just get Tanir off that bomb, he's on it!
Somehow, some way, he's gone away with the defuse of the low HP.
A single bullet from Demon would have done it.
Spirit steal it.
Last second retake, defuse comes through.
Should go again, not an easy retake at all.
No, sir.
They're proactive as well on the T side right there flash comes through at the same time
they counter flash to stop the CT's get this to free and shirok worst weapon for the job
still finds the frag he stood in front of him the bodyguard caught that last straight
bullet
I think you'd call off this A-Play for now, because Craveni's going to hear a lot of rotations
from this position. So Spirit aren't careful, the sound cues could give them away.
Set up has Shura's orb trained on middle, obviously the leak out heaven is a possibility
he has to acknowledge.
It's also over to me but with the position of Krebbeni, it would be surprising for
the CTs to be so far forward so they might just walk through this. They also have
time to wait it out. Straight through. Yeah, it makes sense. I think the fact that you have
all this room, you can just group up in pounds. That's the plan. He's hearing the jump spots.
Krobeni makes his presence another in retention drawn, but now they're up longer. They ready
for this? No! Jokes! Catches him off guard! And now with two in the feed! Awkward for
Spirit! Reeling! So much pressure onto the B site, and now channeled into Speedway.
They're calling on Donk saying we need something. To the Tech 9 bullet, could put
Put him down, stands his ground, demon feet, does it, there's Jugs, Shira's on retreat.
Flut just came in with some unarmored pistols and Krebbenny takes the risk through K, finds the space.
And they've stolen one away from Spirit.
Pick up what they can here, over and up all the guns of U2 as they can on the way out the door, but...
This round is tough to explain, because Spirit also will have known that they've given up
that cave control.
The only thing they weren't aware about is the fact that they knew it was essentially
a retake set up out of the gates.
So that little bit of information and the way that they've decided to save these jewels.
Primarily he shows himself first, so action is on cave, it allows the scaling of the
round plays and then there's that surprise.
So this is a very bad round for Spirit to lose.
They usually have a very good lid-off things, and some years' expression says it all.
Timeout at the follow-up shows the real ramifications of that moment.
And then they're by, worse for web.
Magics with an MP9 to near with a D-gull.
An AWP and 2M4s.
So that's a mystery for them.
They're not going to know that that's how Cremeni got that info about being there so early.
They have no way of being able to piece that together at least now.
He's just sat up straight, and his body language there coming into this.
There they go, and now, Jokes leads the charge, X-Flight for the trade potential, they're looking
for Donk, they're looking for Donk, one, and done.
Jokes to double up, today's got good low HP magics, he does manage to balance things
out, evens the scales.
Talking of scaling, you go straight to red.
Demon slips through.
The rest partner up for a cave clear.
Sure, we'll have to acknowledge this in a moment.
In limbo between ramp and cave,
parting back, if you can get into a retake position,
you can shut this down.
He's going to have a look.
The perfect weapon, but the wrong result.
Real, they're out for jokes.
Crazy outfit in middle.
Stars there, ends on B.
They've still got demon parked here.
Can only get cleared.
Zontik's a free frag and there's the denial from Magik's.
Elise leaves with an AK-47,
but absolutely no intention to play for this.
Last one was...
Last to fall by 4 and a little bit puzzling by spirit.
Here there was missed Util.
Tanira in red, he goes to throw his smoke.
He bangs it off the wall.
It just comes back and lands at his feet.
So Donk's swinging out essentially dry in that moment.
And that might be explaining a bit of the body language
we're seeing for the man right now.
I can't psychology, but that is still five per foot, three round gap, and a big smile on
cemetery space.
They are happy with how this one's unfolding so far, it's going back to the safe haven
in the pocket.
He's going to give you that moment where Jilks is blinded, transition stuck at the box
and then Monk has the advantage of the fight but that's not to be the case so, what's
Bonus, 2,800 into the next round.
I'm just going to finally upgrade around this.
It's been gifted to Adam.
Kill it for an A-pro.
You get X-File out, dude.
It's in the right place.
Now, one rifle.
Magic puts into Donk's hands.
Looks as though foot are going to be run into task.
He has to play ahead of the Dino smoke if he wants to contribute.
Too late now.
No, not for Donk.
Oh, that's deadly!
Quick, two onto the double Ds, Jokes and Demon, done.
There's still a rotation on the way over now.
Donk's coming for it.
Donk post a third.
He's already delivered.
Oh, and he continues to...
demolish the two on four don't worse for where symmetry cops a bit of shrapnel
Krobeni searches and cemetery loud about this draws attention loads to nears
position takes heavy damage hoping for Krobeni out towards CT now alone don't
this rightful well placed well invested in some hard hits good clear
from Krobeny opens up the path to B.
Magics could and should get to the ramp in time.
Plant obscured though from it.
Can Krobeny do anything with this?
Doesn't hit that first burst buying time as they close the gap.
It's Donk on that low HP.
Could close this down.
Krobeny would need to dople his kills.
Spam through the smoke by Magics secures it.
That is the Donk factor.
I can't believe he gets those two kills, right?
That Donk smoke is landing.
He's literally playing it as a ploon.
That is insane.
And he's just going, OK, no, I will use it as a shrouder cover
to get these kills just before blinking.
He misses. Donk doubles up.
Cognizant of that low-cow middle,
and they're going to steal one back.
So the tech nine rounds, here we get it again.
That smoke's landing.
I'm thinking, OK, he's not going to be far enough ahead.
Just the perfect timing, of course.
Never doubt Donk.
And I'm reminding myself.
So, Fudge, just as they were starting to string some rounds together.
Okay, Callie, coming to near here, trying to get a bit more out of him.
You can see him trying a little bit of dismay.
Stop flowing for him as easy as it did on Nubis.
That's for his top performer, their equalizer.
Well, now they've got three AK-47s, that's a real boon.
Thank you very much to Donk, and thank you very much to Magix for dropping in that AK-47.
He's been a game leader, sets up a superstar, and he delivers in a big way.
You win this one spirit, you get a chance to tie the game up.
It'll have to be a foot eco going into the next step.
Fun's waning.
X-Map tries his luck, but the flash waiting for him on the other side of that smoke.
Xontix sets himself up for the open up.
Nice little underhand push.
Krebhany, what the Rathlandton is in the off-rack or wasn't ready in the cubby!
One by one they fall.
Whole lot more for Cemetery to deal with now.
Can't get the bomb.
Lost on the wrong side of the incendiary.
Magix has overstepped the mark and the tray's not there with the crouch.
He can play now.
Now, Jupp scratches Donk, looking the wrong way.
Important find.
Shutting down Sematary, put it all onto Jupp's.
And Brutus.
Smoke, he's taking heavy black.
Five HP, returns the fire.
Puts to near down.
On this HP, Zontics should just be a full-manity ball.
And yeah, catches it with his back turned.
Spirit will make it a one-round game.
Two consecutive for the CT side.
From a macro level, that's a round there that we've just seen.
is quite telling of the prep for spirit coming into this expecting all those ramp plays walks or pops
and that's why in other rounds we've seen them for go cave a little bit more so once we get into
the next gun round which will be in one round time we'll see if they just need more cave
centric to shut that down expecting Krobeni to try and find that path at least resistant
so five to four p250 anateagle some bucks invested that's it
This one's not even a goldie. You go B. I'll plant A.
You do need the Duke's Dig to do some convincing if you hope to see an open A bomb site.
Very tough to be able to make this work at the best of times.
It's always good on a train.
I'm on the map pool right now, you know, rushing inside the bomb cubs out there, you get that
plant down on vice versa.
This one.
You've got Tenir, short side, you can pat his stats right here.
Takes the exchange.
I've seen enough, they'll go search elsewhere.
Don't jiggle him from down up.
The bomb on six is here. Don't you worry. I have a move to muscle. He says. In the server
and in his face. Okay. Restraint now. Look at who has the best spawn. Okay. The jugs
Proveni. In the cemetery, you can try the luck out middle. What's the call?
Two players on foot without head armor behind. Please, A-case.
Wow, really prioritizing one for three. Oh, and they're going to lose bodies early.
Cemetery doing the flashbang dance. Down to Donk.
Demon trading and out of the elbow smoke. So is midflying the foot flag? It looks like it
It is, X-Lamb! Loses the bomb!
Didn't anticipate Magix to have already progressed down the ramp, now bomb is lost.
Oh, and Krebeni catching heavy damage!
Magix paranoid about that one smoke double door.
Give them the bomb here, I'm going to pick this back up.
They're already worse for wear.
Oh, Magix confirms presence on the ramp, bomb retrieved.
I was just worried about heaven for a moment that has to respect the possibility for that a walk
So he's given up all this midspace. That's the mystery for spirit right now
They're not to know that everybody's just still got the bus parked outside be lane
full foot it's two smokes to the finish as we get a cave boost
To the amounts of the box those smokes thrown in
The game is about to begin.
Krebbeni, there's the setup.
What is the dismount?
But it's magic with precision on display here.
He is delivering in the frags.
Quick one back from Demon.
See the headshot potential on this guy.
Ooh, Teneir holds his nerve to the jug's push.
It's a fake from Demon.
He can all found the Inventor.
He's on to spot it.
He does nail the headshot.
But get out of this one if you can.
missed one HP one bullet versus two. Getting the blood is the achievement. Good luck Alphanme.
Yeah, Shearer just runs it in with the P250 and it will be Spirit taking the lead after this run.
I can't drive there. The fact they get the bomb down that's huge. That's going to give them
something a whole lot more competitive for this final round of the half. All consecutive.
So the back foot, tired of that round salvaging this, was at least something.
Actually, it's not no action.
Oh, and that's the spam they were hoping to punish.
Zontics does well to take out Xplow.
Wait, this is a gap. No one was acknowledging this potential.
I think they both thought the other had it.
Long was spotted there on the radar.
Shiro noted the presence. Jugs overlooks to near.
They know both of them were on A and so you can see Demon just knife out accelerating it
for a speedway smoke.
Doesn't want to overcook here.
Lost them through middle.
Demon's playing this very well.
Right?
This pivot.
Head of the play.
Oh to near.
Does get away with his life for the first exchange.
Demon's sticking around his ball, Z.
understandably cautious.
Coming together is Taneir and Shiro.
Sematri, responsible for the ramp walk.
They will divide in attempt to conquer.
Audible is Shiro, attention drawn.
Demon responsible for the cave bush.
That's the fight. Taneir finds the headshot.
Good night, Sematri. Demon.
Got a plan for him.
Can he run him down in time?
I think he should be good for this.
The clock. Headshots.
Look up through.
It gets Taneir on the bomb.
No time!
All tied up!
Jabari style, map 3!
I'm staying on dragon guys, he'll fuck them after.
Hide demon, please, I'm staying on dragon, I can't.
Kicking one P and Pillar one, only one.
Let's go.
Let's go.
No!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
He broke the hp, Andriy, he killed my team.
He's dead.
He's dead.
He's dead.
He's dead.
He's dead.
have been eluding the series so far, but we've still had very close arms of play.
2-6, 6-1, being a 7-5.
I'm still reflecting on that last round, the way Demon played it.
It's so difficult to see Spirit convert.
Let's see how the attacker Spirit has in store for us,
because Magix has been calling up us storm throughout this tournament.
The T-Sides, especially on Ancient, have been very, very effective.
Magix being left with the smokes.
I see the standard turn up and CT. Molly on Shiro, hit me big box, but over towards B, lane's being taken.
Information flows and rotation needs to get there in time.
Yeah, reminiscent of the Nubis. A wide open A-bomb site.
This time a kit and a smoke on Krabani.
Jigs confirmed the gap has closed. Temple occupado.
Shiro's hold on to this Molly.
Flood flash, won't fight.
Smoking the kit on Kribeni, that's the difference maker.
It's time to play.
Excalibur to lead the charge on those dual threaters.
Wow, crazy! You see somethings go down first.
Quick clear from Cemetery, he's finding good output.
But the solo team's spirit, a demon goes down with the ship as well.
Good find. Glocks just start to unload from every angle as you emerge.
Look at that spirit, second pistol of the series.
So we're going here on ancient.
Force by back front foot will be there.
It's going to get very sketchy if you spirit in this moment.
It's going to be cops going crazy.
There's smoke, there's bullets, there's everything.
You've got to take the fight, not just play on that
sound cue of it, a fuse.
They want to go like he gave.
for us to flash this to get him out. X-Files gonna clear this to near our vision at
time starts to unload. Notice the push is coming but that is first blood. Oh my
god they're running past him. They surely will consider this demon no way
they're all absolutely unaware. The temptation to pull the trigger, get that
bomb down. He will one tap to the back of the head.
Cemetery dead to Donk. Kruppenny playing around the smoke. Donk's got a good
Reap for this just looks away though!
He's human after all!
Zontics and Magics partner up a meeting of the minds to make a 2v4 go 2v2.
Demon spotted.
He gets the info.
Knows he's got Zontics corner, they're gonna run at him.
Good work!
Gets output.
Demon healthy.
Charges in to make it a 1v1.
The bomb down on A still, but where did he go?
Magics missing.
Hearing a demon reading.
This one's about to get funky. 45 on the clock.
He's not moving a muscle.
For these seconds now, I have a problem for Dean.
HP, a problem for both.
So he's got four bullets and Magic says 25 out. He just can't miss.
Time's starting to become the problem now. 15 seconds on the clock.
The smoke is everything for Magix.
10 seconds, Magix. You're gonna go!
Dima can play this. Just has to deny the plan.
And Magix right in front of him. Easy pick for Dima.
And a clutch! Another clutch!
Attributed to Dima to keep foot fighting.
Spirit got the pistol. No problem.
We got the second round forced by Convertit.
Mr. Man, there was a name behind it.
some of the round right the fact that he's able to get all the information he's enjoying the spotlight
just the bombs spilled out and the chaos ensues this day it's ducked on his head's optic
still an awful lot there the madness has to play it has no choice the clocks against him
cool yeah likes the way that one feels spirit force flying back without a plan of their own
It's going to be a good time.
It's going to be looking.
It's going to be tires.
It's desert eagle.
It can do work.
Next round.
Complete deny stock any output.
At least Shiro there for the trade.
It's Jukes trying to block any sort of burst out of donut
to respect that smoke. Rebelli's got their exit. They're in the hurt locker now. No good
option. Rifle's keeping you at range. That smoke gives them something to play around.
Oh, but denied by Graveni.
Threatening from Team Spirit, but regardless, they weather the storm.
A bit of comfort now for foot. You go up next.
It's time for your box in there. Throwing that CT smoke, the initial hoping to get a flight pushed out from middle,
but this game plan from Spirit, we saw it on an Ubers down the stretch.
Once they get the room, once they feel like they've forced that rotation, they just hit the brakes
and they hope that foot plays into them.
them, put cotton onto that now and I'm happy to sit back and allow you to make the first
move to the side. Another one's on the clock.
Steak denied, Krebbeni. Onto the opener does. I've put off a lot of HP for that but it's
all good. This is just now. A couple of Glocks of PT-50 and a Digo to get past.
I want to see if this one go wrong.
First half of play.
Spirit with Dominating in the openers.
So everyone that full can get does start to alleviate a little bit more pressure.
New cut next. Tough map for full.
I'm going to give it a go, but not moving the muscle, right?
His jug's still here.
Just so long as he doesn't get a glock head shot in here.
Don't worry about that, Jokes.
It was E-Cros like that for breakfast.
A 7-2 round gap.
You would love this under your belt if you're cool here.
You know a duke around the corner, you've lost it eight straight times.
It's not going to be easy going up against Spirit.
So to avoid the consequence of being defeated 3-1 in this final,
get yourself a map to the good.
You know that if you can't park your way.
And then Mirage, that's really a foot specialty.
It's fair enough not wanting to play it on Spirit until that fifth and final map.
Making good on cash and now looking to do the same here on Ancient.
Eventually not breaking serve.
Might be breaking the streak of Spirit on this very map.
Ten consecutive Ancient wins for Spirit.
A grand final versus this rising power in foot.
They're fucking here.
X-Flock and I was working out for them if Donk did commit, but actually it makes the
play back.
There's nobody in spawn that's real flashed, right?
So they're definitely not going to give that one a go.
They said they worked the B lane right now.
Spirit against Legacy didn't have any issues getting mid-controlled and it's a tremendous
late-B place.
And their fakes were deadly.
Six Flashed In to get back this main control.
And it's guaranteed there's another elbow smoke allat.
There's more of Spirit trying to control this tempo.
to start. 17th of magics. He's
putting in a shift right now.
Yeah, not only calling, but
playing a good game. Next
line's called off since map
one. Certainly.
It's placed even in drugs.
It's been a good ancient.
This pace becomes more agonizing now that you're down a man.
So we're gonna split.
It's gonna leave one man Trebeni, the leader, over towards B while the rest of them...
...and down the hatch is on A and that's what a bomb's hitting. There's no time to rotate back now.
Weanon better. Gets better for Team Spirit.
I'm just gonna call the site clear, but they can't rotate back. They have to go A.
They're running into this demon setup. Sanatri, he's all here as well.
Demon will back away. Kept to pay by the flame.
13 second spirit.
I know you like to run the clock down, but we're getting a little sketchy
Clock and the Franks come in just in time
Crazy
Rocket the most exciting tempo to the game at all, but they are positive beta
Type of team here round after round at least against foot
Just that slow
Role when you send somebody out as a probe into the science meant to do the time left of the clock
Magic's on. Okay, well now I have to hold W, try and get the behind to try and contribute to this round.
I know my team are going into a stack.
Spirit back on the board, 9-8.
Can we have the money with this one here, Spirit?
Just listen to that cacophony of utility. The start of Ancient.
It's the CTs that are left with very few.
I respect not getting drawn into foot scaring the heads up counter strike.
For the early openers allow them to use their nades back and slink into this silently.
The shadow darkness sort of got in this control.
And one response is to go looking for answers.
Goes down here.
with the bomb as well. Jiggle baits out that all shot.
Magic's ready for Krebhany. Oh, what? Didn't find the kill!
Krebhany gets away with murder. Able to pivot back to the site now.
Look at this! A spanner in the works.
Zontik slips behind enemy lines undetected.
This is so deep to find jokes.
So Teneir parks it, bomb on Shiro moves to this open side, I say open, it is still Jods in donut.
He's just barred out, he's just barred out, Zontics doesn't know.
Oh he does now, an audible backpedal.
Krobeni still finds the lurk on Teneir, it's weird, Zontics can catch the rotations here.
Demon ahead of his expectations, beautifully handled.
Just the right timing to get that with zero resistance.
Shirro's gone with a double digits for Foote.
Sure, Cash.
But to do it on Ancient.
There's so much trickery within these rounds that the Spirit's hoping for.
Tough to play against, but it's not making a look that way out of Foote.
Finding these Gaps, or at least they think they have them, and just so little time.
This margin for error is null.
Last chance for Halley. Compluted.
Next round, 2,400 lost learners. This one's already compromised.
Trying to be even less if they can't convert this, then the game will go with it.
So an important round now for Spirit. Halley knows it.
How do you ever convert this one?
What plan has Maddox been targeted?
To help the valley.
Immediate smokes on A.
Just to draw the rotation. I think I'll try and walk out here.
Jukes does audibly retreat and just as Crepenny was trying to take to the hold.
Oh, Donk happens!
Quick on the follow-up, catches X-Flight's trade attempt.
Donk just has the question if anyone else wants to try and flush him out.
He's borrowed in the box.
Well go looking.
Jukes has a good idea that that's what's up.
Sendier, he could secure it. Semitri finding Shearer, they can equalize.
This could be that three on three, but Donk still takes one.
Standing in the flames controls the spray.
We might get into a bomb site with more than 20 seconds left on the clock.
Xontics, leaps out.
Can't deal with him.
Good shot.
Now it's Semitri, then over to Orp was.
He's open for business.
Molly will announce the presence.
Bombs can get punched in 40 seconds on the clock and...
Semitri, can you save? I was talking about that loss bonus.
He's going to have to retain this.
This is agonizing back and forth down the stretcher as the close of this map is going to come through.
for Halley, successful on his final timeout.
Is that a trick?
He changed the AWP.
The AKS just spurred and thanks very much, Donk.
Gets out middle, finds that impact,
they threw the Fade, they did exactly what they needed to do with Donk.
Time to do the smoke, preventing out looking.
Follow up there, and a third.
Masterful, there's Donkers. Another multi-kill with an AK. Sure on the T side, but don't forget that first half of Play Magic saves one, drops it to him and that's where they started to get some impact going on their defence.
Oh, here's the fire starter to any momentum we see out of spirit.
I'm sure it was very good yesterday on this map, he hasn't been able to get going in the
same way, especially with the AWP.
This feels like a crunch moment for Foot.
Save the AWP, then get on M4 on Xflab, couple of 5-7s, there's a Famous, and if Utility
will at least go for the blocks on the opening they can smoke Albert.
A cave utility into the Salami easy path towards heaven.
It's fully done to success in the same way Ali did.
Brave from Donkey knows that the fighter on the bindock could be as much utility.
You want to talk about Brave? I think Jilt is up in position in A main. It's exactly that.
Noted by X-Flight.
Cemetery completely departs.
Doesn't look like Spirit will investigate.
Can you clear this now?
It looks like Xantix has really switched on for this clear.
Look at him go.
He's so panical.
Didn't clear it properly.
And this is save the jugs!
One, five, two, sure, three out of jugs on the fanhouse.
When his team needed it most, the bank balance was broken.
They scraped together what they can, and jugs put it to good use.
An aggressive angle overlooked, and he slays three.
Can be found to it. Pick this up.
She looks to have a round.
Then I smoke the entrance is going to play through this to get that space.
Magic's not joining Don. 35 seconds.
It's about to be called clear.
It means B lane. Not a problem either.
Cemetery, you can finish this one off.
It's a perfect angle for the AWP if they do commit A.
That's an if they are.
It's one of everyone's favorite four letter word here.
Dima's got no reason not to have a look.
Oh! Ducks under the crosshand!
Just magic with the response.
Take it after time. You want to keep saving. Take this away. Throw another body at it.
He'd be left with nothing. Like a grand in the bank. No AK.
They want their own. They want their own. I'll explain.
Just feel what he saves. You want to turn the screws.
There's the man at the moment.
Jigs on screen.
That's four rounds, we've gone back and forth to the tap.
No one able to break into consecutive rounds, and in foot two, the game should go with it.
A bit of balance underneath, which comes through as well, and then they line up the desperation for the trade.
And Tontik, he was considering it, just wouldn't think of deep enough on the clear.
Actually, my natural conversation continues.
B rush, Ace. Look at this. Don't just charging.
Ooh, shot down, our spirit!
They thought they could just take it whenever they wanted,
instead, foot with a two-man advantage.
They knew in the last two hours, someone boosted him on the box.
Again, we get to see Spirit give us a tour of Ancients T spawn.
Finally, they changed the pace. They move away from this slow roll.
They go for the B rush, thinking Foot might get a little bit lazy
with their protocols out of the cave and that is not the case.
Context in Shiro. I don't think you've got too much of a chance in this one.
Demon, welcome to the exchange.
Oh, that's not a nice smoke.
No, that does completely change his angle.
I'm given an option of approach right now.
Understandably gonna fall back out of that.
That's a hell of a state.
I think that's expected.
Context, that's his wind.
The mothertops should find enough space for Shiro to get that bomb punched in.
Now two glasses four, now one, just Shiro to four, Xplow combines.
It's Demon with a beautiful 3k, completely shuts down this pace change out of spirit.
Now Demon's the one that's turned my attention to.
It's that play on that four spike, which destabilizes spirit.
They haven't been able to get multiple rounds together in consecutive fashion on this D-side.
They're ready for the B rush.
No doubt about it. They can light work at that as soon as Donk goes down.
That one's done.
And Tania has been showing clear signs of frustration throughout this map of play.
It's been a while since they felt this much pressure on Ancient.
One more round of their break. Spirit's winning streak on Ancient.
Then they're going to have to do their own lost streak foot on Newt coming up next.
Eight consecutive owls.
Still though. Donk's not done.
Right out middle, miss red smoke, not gonna cost him, he still gets out to his box.
Caribbean Demon won answers early and they're gonna get it.
It's a little suspiciously quiet in the B lane.
Thanks for that's gonna be feeling imminent pressure.
Cemetery 2.
Gets to the angle red.
Magics though, too fast for him.
His end here he runs through!
WHOA!
Magics!
takes down the orper equips himself now all quick but the don't apply this hits the flick
options is gone! magic's doing everything! he is a man determined
ancients not done he says! oh don't fuck demon yeah crebetty sure I feel like
Magic's has done enough starts around with a tech nine
Leaves with three potentially four kills
Rubbish out those
Andries are these days are we just see it drop the floor and straight through it such magics
More impact from him. He's been putting in a shift 23 kills deep now
That just looked like deathmatch gun game
Get out of there trying to make up for some of his teammates up struggle street
Follow my lead, he says.
I wouldn't have looked like putting it down if they had broken through with consecutive
Magic makes a play, but does he have to keep doing that?
Spirit want to keep winning rounds.
Two more, but overtime.
Map number one was 13-10, map number two,
made it into overtime, then Spirit took over.
Then the ones who have to drag it back just into the conversation now.
So close, he gets so far,
And because of the spray of rounds, we've had the financial situations being back and forth throughout.
We haven't had these big streaks that we had in previous maps. This one has been.
Thanks, all of you.
Thanks for our force to extinguish pays a heavy price for the delay.
It looks like Footer just started to consider this, as they tool up for this A finish.
Smokes are in the sky, very far away.
The support network for Xplowed, a million miles, they're starting to move now.
Hoping to just find one if he's lucky.
gets it down. Spirit set up for the post-plant. This one will not be easy to get back into.
Say that as X-Men, just more than one against the both! Donk and Magic sideline, Teneir's
position noted, they can go. Zontik's well positioned as his Shiro. Rack him up, knock
him down. Advantage returns to Spirit's control. Cemetery. Part is up with Jokes.
You can count on him for more. Wanted to take the fight, Shiro's on that crouch
clear they're on the defuse they can't hit him off it i think he just hit a low
scott gets him off it's still into the wanky one
he will see every round the damage on cemetery from a jump shot i swear
i believe x-files is able to get so much output there as well
gonna talk about what was over a little talking about the tension
gulio saved his final time out for the right moment
number 24 coming up next he's likes 37 hp
that exchange, not considered, not expected to undetected, X-Wab. Almost find the input is Taniya, will find some impact.
Get dog-fired up with that one.
We've just been discussing the finances consistently.
There's no surprise the foot in this final round are not able to snap together a tidy buy.
I guess we could argue the 5-7.
No kid.
Everybody with a smoke.
Only one in sentry.
I mean, this has got to be OT.
Look what they've got to defend their honor.
I mean, this has got to be OT.
Look what they've got to defend their honor.
Even getting some info.
I mean, look at the good graces of this space.
And a lot of these round spirit have been very near and eccentric.
Actually, that's side of the map,
and that's where you see foot starts stronger over towards A.
We're here to defend.
It's good range for the 29.
Demetri, he's been there the whole time, still doesn't find lethality, not good for it.
Explode, reveals his position, that's the bomb on the back of Doc now noted.
But they can just use brute force.
Oh, a jumping dig, softened up, goes for the fight, now a 5-7, this could go wrong!
Jugs is here!
To a low!
He's hitting shots, they are softened up!
Lead two!
Oh, and had his ears ringing, he wasn't ready for Shiro.
Inne can still win this, they have to finish it all day, they can't reroute.
It's asking a lot, though.
MP9 up against 3, they're all congregated.
The first is clean onto Magix, they do need to access that A-Site.
Demon gonna try and stand his ground, they'll try and keep him at arm's length,
they'll go for the swing, he'll have to play to stop that plant.
Oh! It's the drive-by onto Donk!
Don't worry, though!
Shiro, safe hands ready to secure overtime!
Well, Demon does the ridiculous!
What first is 3?
So close!
Madness! It comes down to that!
Team in a flow state there.
Dude, the drive-by?
Getting everything to moves.
From a low HP, the MP9 was more than enough.
Shiro steadies the ship.
Man, I put another clutch in his back pocket.
And these spurts of action...
Nothing of any better word than agonizing with the pace
that Spirit are playing at, because you have these young varks,
you have these kids who love the aim
and want to get stuck in.
Coolio says, hey, it's all good.
We're back underway. Now we've got the guns.
Let's pick right up where we left off.
Kept you no damage, brutalizing in space.
They were looking to take.
Yeah, compromised, exploded jugs.
So much play has been towards A in these later stages.
So, Navjix wants to at least attempt to link over towards B in the first round of overtime.
So, you're still being juggled over as Don called back. Everybody called back.
WP ramp, what's the web up?
Oh, he's done so well! Trax magics from the jump peek!
Beggy, not only satisfied with the opening kill, he gets info that mid is far too quiet.
Cading. On this phase, Teneir's gonna get a face full of lead.
Thanks, loud. Oh, never mind! Both dead! Quick transfer out of Teneir!
3 on 3, high stakes game.
Who starts off...
for the first round of overtime.
Symmetry rounds the corner, present and disruptive with the incendiary.
Well denied, a plant for 6.
The re-peak...
avoids the brunt of the made damage, but it does facilitate Zontics getting across the site.
Demon spamming through was just that fake after all.
safe block. Round extended. Let's play Counter Strike. You got Zontics. Holding for the
Persianosis. Another where that came from. Tracks them both. Zontics with impact.
Him and Teneir. Two frags deep and Cemetery. Last scene, Ortlong. Zontics will play around.
Cemetery would be peeking into Teneir and actually does bait the shot. Anticipates
the wrap around. Another missed Teneir. Not known to be an Orper. Shouldn't cost
them won't cost them the USP it works very well for cemetery you need to hit
this one right now
fair play his USP consistently getting him out of trouble but this time I'm
able to bring you all through and spirits start off with the win
They lose Shiro.
They're staying staunch ready to fight down the lane on the Fade, the bodies are there,
they're grouped up, they're not giving them the room.
It's going either way, but once they're in the site, asked to pull by Spirit to get
to 13 first, just a little bit too late.
We're looking for right now is 16. That's the magic number.
It's 12.5K in the overtime.
Decemetry not saving that or not the end of the world.
Should be able to get one next round from one of his teammates
and that's if they desire it and that's if they don't win this one.
And this is where you turn to foot and you question the inexperienced,
question the age, and they can hold on.
They've been competitive all series long.
There's the pressure bomb, it's to make the difference.
X-Cloud launched to an aggressive move and he's already started to reveal himself.
He's moving quickly.
Locked on Rapper Spirit.
Donk's still searching.
Second break, hoping to catch Krobeni on an over extension.
X-Cloud kicking up a stink! That's nice from Krobeni.
He knows that Donk trade attempts on his way and X-Cloud all combines with Krobeni.
Double up for the captain. Zontics next up. X-File, blast the chip in.
Spirit uncomfortable. Super uncomfortable. You've got Shiro and Magix.
Not out of the realms of possibility, but how?
Three members of foot congregate at the back.
You have to force a fight, Spirit.
That's what Shiro's hoping for.
Bomb on his back. Feast or famine.
That's the shot they did.
Tossed with that plant, still not time-sensitive.
There's the ball away, they get something from Iran, they just all stay low and crush them!
They'd be worried if you were to give them too much room there.
We'll have a situation from Foot.
foot. He's going to use his overtime number one time out. Let's see if we get OTSI number
two and he gets another. Let's see in these last two rounds it has been B. They feel like
they've conditioned A enough that somebody has to start there. That was the case with
cemetery on the AWP. Tanir went in quite disconnected. The follow up was late to
to the party and then that crossfire
undistabilised by any util
9 AKs coming in
no AWP needed for Shura
I have to know this is possible, Honk6, don't say that!
Honk6 didn't consider that!
Kroppani continues to play it forward on these CT cave starts.
It was like the comms are not there for spirit in a round like that.
That's not a moment that should manifest.
Yeah, it's not a good look.
Klitz has gone his smoke.
He's actually elected to throw an A main, so now they know.
They're gonna clear him.
He has the AK.
Shiro combines with Donk.
A site access granted.
Teneir the lurk removed.
On planted.
Vantage foot.
Get back into this one if you can.
Where is Don going?
Great question.
I'll tell you if there's free,
Grubenny's not considering it.
Magic, so he can just hold the line,
nail this one time on the swing.
Oh, he's quick!
And Grubenny away!
Spirit are gone, nowhere!
Triple out of Grubenny!
He is so aggressive around that cave
Curious what happened and it obviously there's the assumptions on he says I don't expect him to peek out
But you feel that that would be communicated by the belaying player. Hey, it's possible. It's on the deeper cave smoke
He's able to parteries able to pick the gap is able to find that oh now
Here it is again. He has a jiggle spots in first. Some teams get to wind of it
And then Don's trying to make a move doesn't want to stay in main
It was always gonna be tough for him to try and make that peak
But it put more pressure on his teammates who had to play out of donor and try and stifle them on that CT rotation
But we swap sides get back under way and I think aggression name of the game right now foot heavy belay with five
It's just
Jokes straight on in no resistance
How's his part that magics has caught it just before the smoke bloom you got the info to near chips in
And falling by the wayside up for a perfect utility to near racks up three before chromatic in C2
Easy for another, but their Sontek spirit quickly repel the invaders and say no.
He will not be taking up on site that easy.
I do like the pace change.
Unfortunately it hasn't worked for either of these teams on these B rushes, just some shutouts.
Maddox chipping away at one there through the smoke, he's continuing to find some impact.
This would be nice if it's in here.
What you need, your B anchor.
We're running out of ideas soon, Foot.
Yeah, he's a call like that, Indicative.
Next loud, down.
Next loud.
D10 HP on Darkie.
He just walks on into the foley.
Greenwich!
Jones has got Zontics!
That's a weird way to get an advantage, but he could excite.
He didn't do this.
He has no idea.
He truly has no idea.
So, we're going to have to wait and see.
We're going to have to wait and see.
That's a weird way to get an advantage. Krebbeni could explain it.
He has no idea.
He truly has no idea, so presumably...
Coming back his way.
They're gonna run into him with their knives out.
Ajax making the most ridiculous of plays.
Demon down. At least now they know.
Cemetery and Jokes hit the brakes in that they scream at Krebbeni.
We need your help. We need it now.
Understandably concerned, is Krebbeni for the wrap.
They go running through. Five. Cemetery gets it done.
Shira's got the perfect weapon for that cross and he's put it to good use, Cemetery gone.
Two on two established.
Let's take the anchor, at this point, or well into the mid-round, so it could be anywhere.
Both Planner are trying to ensure some trade potential, oh what've you got, Taneer?
He's got a smoke, he can work around it, prioritizing the plant, a little fake,
Teneir doesn't choose to engage, goes through, finds the gap, Krobeni don't finds the head.
It's Shiro in another clutch.
How often have we seen him convert these?
A 1 vs 2.
So much at stake at 14, all that he makes in a 1v1.
The fight goes shy, Jokes couldn't hit it, and now you know he's going to hold it.
Krobeni, that's what he thinks, and Shiro's cooked him!
Just the brains and the brawn combined.
The S should be silent.
save spirit puts them on for an opportunity to find map two
I've lost count of these shiro closers that crown surge you think it gives away that magic smooth
He still gets one the tail of that coming in with demon. They're worried about a push from another way
They think they're gonna be in the death valley
Yeah, he was full-blind the amount of flashes they drew into that
There's got five or six flashes to get that mid-control donk still gets the open up one more now
Now, Spurr can get map 2 under their belt.
It could be 11 astray on Ancient.
Symmetry searching for that cave jiggle.
Oh! Magic's just a little bit of an overextension.
Acceleration.
Looks like it.
Teneir tucked on Coby.
Supports a few to the lands on the round.
It's bad. Doesn't matter.
Gravenia overlooked the possibility.
Two and a half!
Cemetery up close and passable to the smokes.
This is by no means comfortable.
Explosive chase there!
Look at this crew commitment!
And he finds the burst necessary.
He's removed Shiro, the bomb goes down,
and then surrounded.
No option is a good option.
Fuzontics and Donk.
Oh! What a shot!
Taken down the Yorper.
Everyone's low.
Everyone's low.
smoke on Kate makes it weird he could just sit this jokes you better have your
line-ups right it doesn't look like he does one more bullet would do but there it is he's stolen away with the defuse
Spirit take action the win streak continues so many opportunities before
going to quite pull it off. What a rollercoaster that was this U-cup next
this is not home turf before eight straight losses on that map Spirit
one map away from listing the e-sports world cup championship in 2026 and this
one put a smile on their face they knew this one with back and forth a hard
four-pattle the shot one map that's all they need
shut up the magics what time
Harris give it up for your casters machine and sponge I've been killing it through three
games and of course we got to give it up for the spirit fans who have been going up against
the rest of the arena they've been putting on for their team and their team just performed
for them pimp what a comeback what a comeback what a give a kind of strike you know a
A lot of nerve, a lot of tension, a lot of back and forth.
Both teams having moments in the game where you're at your day.
They're kind of slipping, they're not playing the best brand of Counter-Strike.
Then they have a couple of hero moments to come back into it.
It's one of those games, Janko, right now,
where it feels like it's anyone's further taking.
Both of them are playing well at times.
Both of them are showing nerves at times.
A lot of frustrations being shown on either side as well.
Sontik's being mad.
Cemetery standing is this.
There's just so much to say right now.
Yeah, Sontik's showing emotion.
It's when you know that things are getting airy.
Right, but yeah, in this one, I thought football was going to run away with it.
The spirit just made the game incredibly difficult for themselves, losing two pistols.
Multiple times, just had bad economy, couldn't win consecutive rounds on that T side.
But at the very end, you know, these two guys that you see on your screen,
Magix and Schiro were the difference makers.
Magix with some, you know, YOLO plays on the Tech 9 to get a round win
and then Schiro coming in the clutch.
You know, that's the thing about him. He can have a poor game, he'll get a lot of kills.
But when he comes to that clutch, we can always count on him.
I just want to add to that equation as well.
Had a couple of big moments again coming into overtime, just like we saw in Lubus.
It's like he gets a bit of time to get warmed up, but then he steps up massively.
And if anything, you know, it's a sign of strength.
It seems Spirit were able to win a game where Donk was not necessarily playing at his best.
He had a couple of moments naturally where he got the job done,
but this wasn't a Donk performance that he's going to remember.
Yet Spirit was still able to grind it out.
Dog is smiling. I saw it. Chat, you saw it too in the meantime.
Let's take a look back at some hero plays, some great rounds as well.
Janko, we're starting with round number eight.
Yeah, this is the one where we talk about how Donk is exhausting.
There's always something, like it's always dangerous here.
Magik saves an AK.
Of course, he's going to drop it over to Donk.
So you see early smokes from foot.
Axel doesn't really go for mid here.
He just sort of falls back besides against it.
They go for an A, execute.
Dunk is in Donut, the rest of the team is towards B.
Foot is just gonna be missing like just one extra flash here, you know, because they're out, but the smoke hasn't blew, and there's no flash for a player who would be Donut.
Dunk gets a multi-kill, right? He's sort of aware now, buys time for his team, expects maybe someone could be coming from mid, gets the kill on X-Blog, and they more pop.
And these are the sort of rounds that, you know, are the most dangerous almost when you go up against Team Spirit.
That's the crazy part about him, you know, he has that ability to basically create a round out of nothing.
He had this triple kill, he had another one on the T side where he gets a double entry,
but apart from that, he was kind of gone missing for the best majority in this game, so I guess it goes to speak to his class, you know,
he's still winning two rounds single handedly by himself despite not having a great game of Counter-Strike.
Another close first half, but it was the second half that looked like it belonged to Foot.
They were running away with it. What do you got for me in round 17?
This is a great example of how Spirit wants to play on the D side against Foot regardless of the map.
Right? So they open with a slower default, not going for any fight immediately.
They can see the control of the map over to Foot because they know they're going to expend utility.
They want to get that early opening kill. They want to get the frag and you see
Maggots just being patient, gets the one kill, right? Going to throw a B-Page.
As he does that, K'nir gets K'benny. Also he's going for an information play.
And even though time is low and foot is stacked in the forefist's side,
the patients from Spirit understanding that this might be a possibility,
Magnus didn't see anyone, they know everyone is here, right?
That's why they're locked in on their crosshairs and they're still able.
It gets hairy, you know, one kill going the other way, maybe they run out of time, but
that's the quality of Team Spirit. They don't crumble under pressure.
One player that seemed to be crumbling a little bit on stage was Dean and a man who
He was known for so many quads since he felt the game was in his hands and at the end, boy might have heard this kind of...
Yeah, he was slam disking a little bit. You know, I think there was a lot of moments in this game if you're paying attention to the player camps throughout the series.
We saw Demon Death slamming a little bit. It was very close for him to get it over the finish line, showing a lot of frustrations right here.
That's fair enough, but it's tough to handle.
Dude, there's Death's slams, and then there's Death's...
That's a trick, bro.
I legit think he's good at this hand.
This is your mouse-hand, bro. You need to be smarter about it.
It's a final. You want to win. It's all great.
But you need to be smarter about it.
I was keeping an eye on this player's hand throughout overtime.
And every time he dies, he's touching his hand, and he misses away.
Now, maybe he doesn't even explain to you this hand.
Is this a reason for that?
So this is where some of the inexperience that you talked about from FOOT
sort of shows in these moments.
Because the game was in your grasp, obviously they felt like it was slipping.
and you know, even in OT they made a couple of mistakes that cost them this map.
Bash it could be your best friend or your worst nightmare in a moment like this.
Foot is looking to regain and go into a game number five, but it is going to be a tough
map for them next. Let's take a little bit of a look of what we have in front of us.
We're going to Nuke, right?
Yeah, that's the biggest issue right now if you're in the food camp. They played a great
series up until this point. They remain competitive as you can see on all the maps so far.
We had two in a row with overtime, but Nuke coming up has been a big issue for Foot.
not only with the new lineup but also historically speaking. They're now heading into a map they
haven't won in 135 days. They have eight losses in a row on Nuke. Now the silver lining for Foda is
that it's not like Spirit are world leaders in Nuke either. It's not like Spirit are coming in and
that's their best map picker or one of the maps that they're owning on. But if you're coming into
a map like this Janko where you have to stay alive, but this is due a dial time and you
haven't won the map eight times in a row, it doesn't give you the most amount of contracts.
And even more so after how ancient bands, like you sort of had it, you had it and then it slipped through the tracks in a way that's I think is going to hurt even more than the fact that you're going on Nuke.
And yeah, haven't been able to find success on the map. Obviously with a player change too, you know, that's where communication has to be crisp.
Everyone has to be on the same page and it's going to be an uphill battle for FUTON Nuke.
You ain't go for spirit they finished late last night and then you got to come in here and play a best of five
Are there any worries about their fuel in the tank?
Well, I wouldn't think so. This is where they get a little bit of an extended break sort of to be able to
Regain some of that energy. Maybe grab something to eat real quick. So, you know, you have enough
Stamina for that not five if it does if it does come around but honestly, unfortunately
I think they just have such a big advantage on a map like Nuke that this is where they'll be able to close it out.
And of course on the foot side they average about 20.5 years of the age as a crew.
They are not going to run out of energy. So how do you retain their focus going in to a very difficult map for them?
I mean, as to the doing throughout the entire tournament, they've had backs against the walls in a lot of scenarios.
You know, no one happened to even make this final.
So I think they've shown that mentally they're resilient and have been resilient.
in the Scylian, but as we spoke about the way you lose ancient,
the fact that you now have a little extra time to think about that
and you're heading into Nuke, it's starting to feel like they've
had their shot in this game, they had the opportunity, both
on the Nubis and ancient, winning Nuke to keep this series
alive, that will be another, you know, another surprise being
pulled out by the foot.
It would have to be off of the back of something like nine,
10 rounds on CT side, and then just winning T-pistol
and converting, you know, like you do have to play a ton
of gun rounds and competing in that way. I think it's going
be tough for Spirit, the longer the round goes on T side, the higher their win probability goes up.
So if they can just stay alive, deny some of those openings to FOOT, I think they'll be fine on you.
Here to the youngsters, they'll be going up against for Team Spirit. You got to deal with Demon and
Juge, who is scarier so far in the server throughout EWC. We're starting the MVP conversation.
All 10 players are eligible, but the winner is coming from the winning team. I think that's
It's a close race, to be completely honest. Both of them have had moments in this game, both of them has moments in this tournament where they've been the difference mega.
I go with Dukes, you know, a little bit more consistent, so to speak, but I feel like Demon is the player that has that ability to explode out of nowhere.
You described to Mienko as having a very, very sharp aim, you know? You don't want to go into a clean duel against this guy unless you're caught down.
Listen, his nickname is Demon. So let's just hope that after all that rage, he's going to be able to channel it into something positive, right?
can have a game and bounce back when you and take us into a map five it has been
an incredible nine weeks out here in Paris the city of love has been my
second home unfortunately this is my final segment I'm going up to the crowd
you guys will have a fantastic post in this seat but before that we have more
Counter-Strike game number four new loading up conspiracy sealed the deal
KTB, KTB, bro, give me the key.
Go, let's go.
I'm ready.
KTB is on me, KTB.
No!
Come on!
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Oh, I was trying to find out what people's favorite moment of eSports World Cup
counters like this. Hello, my friend. Tell me your favorite moment from EWC.
My favourite moment should be the Falcons vs Legacy.
I'm here for support Falcons, but they lost, they broke my heart.
At that moment, it's really impressed me, you know.
Are you now a Legacy fan?
No.
Went for almost called a diffuse.
I wanted it, I wanted it so bad.
You were dreaming of that?
I was dreaming of it. I don't know, wouldn't that be a great way to finish?
Are you supporting Foot now to win?
Oh, certainly, yeah. But it's just great to see some great cards, right?
It's at the point where the team kills off Magix. I don't know.
It's the double nosecap shot on death, with the jump shot.
It's a nice feel yesterday.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Those magic glitches, you know?
He was playing very good this tournament.
The X-Flight is my favorite man ever.
It's not about the moments, he's just single.
Justin everything else loud everything else loud. That's what this man's about. There you go
This is some of our favorite moments from EWC so far many more to come
Whenever I use taxis or public transportation to get to EWC, I always end up late.
So I'm taking matters into my own hands.
Borrowed it from my producer.
Still pretty well.
Oh, bonjour.
I think I'm too tall.
Okay, that's terrifying.
Now it says Death System Control Motor Ceyron-Dra-Letelier.
It's normal.
Does that mean that the car is on fire?
No, no, no, it's normal.
Okay, where's the print on?
What?
Okay, so here there's like different buttons.
There's sports.
There's the different mode.
Different modes.
There's sport.
Sport.
And CTF.
And CSTO.
Okay, but where's eSport?
E-Sport? No, no, no, it's just for...
Instant possible, actually.
You can't have E-Sport mode?
No, no, no.
So now what do I do?
You can upshift.
Upshift?
One gear?
What's this button?
One gear.
It's good?
Why is there dual-wielding horns?
Look, there's a horn here and there's a horn here.
It's good.
What if I press it both at the same time?
Okay, let's go. Corner, corner difficult.
Corner is difficult. No, I got corners. Watch this.
Alright, now when you're on this track, what's important to remember?
Eyes up. Eyes up.
If I want to check my phone really quick.
No, I can't. No, okay, alright.
Eyes up, eyes up.
My eyes are up. Where else would they be, sir?
More gas, more gas, more gas.
Alright, I'm gassing it.
You want this rope?
Start here.
I feel like I'm doing a good job.
Yes, yes.
Let's let it ride.
Okay.
Ha ha!
I don't think I was driving that slow.
Yeah, I feel like I went pretty fast. I don't know how much faster I got!
Oh my god!
I'm not on this top-down track, brother! Holy crap!
There's this barrier, this barrier, this barrier! We're gonna stop at this barrier!
Oh my god!
This animal isn't to all my middle school teachers and high school teachers and college teachers!
Like, if you gave your entire life, it was only gonna touch me!
I got such a bad job.
You should not have a driver's license!
None of this is okay!
I
Was never
We're getting cleaner for my five.
Welcome back to the Accord Arena in Paris, France. How are we doing everybody?
Yay!
Mixed bag right now because there's a lot of foot fans here and we've seen Team Spirit take the lead.
They only need one more map to secure the championship.
And I've got some spirit fans standing by right now. What's your name?
Alex Nain.
I'm Nick.
Juliana.
Okay guys, you guys have been listening to the foot fans talk a lot of smack all day long here today.
Now you're in the lead. What do you want to say to them?
We will like a big tractor and run, they over.
This point smash, fuck.
I'm not gonna say that the cross map was just a gift from Team Spirit
and I hope that the guys from food appreciated it.
You're welcome guys, but anyway, you're gonna be fucked, sorry.
Oh, wow, okay, and finally...
I mean, I don't like to say trash warpads,
but if you say fuck Spirit, I would just say let's fucking destroy them!
I'm kicking that foot, but Lou's standing by. Lou, what's your rebuttal?
She said let's destroy them. Wow, that's some big words on the side of the spirit fans as I am standing by with some foot fans.
Guys, first of all, can you tell me your names?
In French it's Serge.
Serge, okay, very good with the accent.
Max, Max.
It's a pleasure to have you boys here, of course. My first question is going to turn to you.
There's plenty of rookies here on the side of football and it seems that you know they're bringing up a good fight against a top team.
I'm pretty sure that Team Spirit will not bring the fucking trophy today home.
It's gonna be GG for food.
And did you hear how Stadium will support in football?
The guys will support in football?
Yeah, it's gonna be good. We're gonna go get the trophy, 3-2 reverse sweep.
Can you give me one good reason to support the team here in Paris?
Thought are great underdogs, we love underdogs.
Dimon is a youngster, he's gonna destroy last two maps.
Dimon is gonna destroy last two maps.
Dimon, you have a dead farm, the last one, and of course, we have to mention Donk.
There is no Donk in football.
Does it matter?
The main point that there is only Donking's theory.
So, only one guy against five, that's nothing.
Are you saying it's 1v5?
I'm pretty sure because I don't think that guy...
Wow, big words here, guys.
And the crowd is not really sure on which side to stand.
It's getting heated in Paris. Spirit are leading 2-1.
Let's see if they can take the win on Nuke.
He's rather new to the tier one stage their first year in that top echelon of Counter-Strike
Is this asking too much?
Yeah, it could be out of that depth here on Nuke. We're talking about that lost streak of 8 straight
Sure, this isn't spirits hunt turf, but they've got more comfort. They've got donk outside
He's a tippy top of those stat lines
Paris, you're under arrest!
Let's play, shall we?
This is half the spirit. This is the final map for tonight, so let's enjoy it.
Speakey blown off, lurk smoke out.
Watch it to roll, it's ramped with three.
One man there, demon.
What an impact on Ancient, wasn't enough to get them across the line.
the line. It's the magics man.
He runs through a molly, they've got the party started.
Demon immediately backpedals, he knows.
There's more where that came from, so conceded ramp.
Down the vent on rotation.
Yeah, Demon will tuck. Hope it can be overlooked.
Least of one, that lethality. He does get a 3D onto magics.
Don't click on the trade, though.
X-Cloud double doors, Zontik's peppers in.
They're running through control, they're taking this space away.
Oh!
When X-Clouds lost his head to Donk.
Jugs back, Celetry down to Taneir.
Zontics lies in wait to catch Jugs on his clear as lazy round the corner.
An easy pick up for Zontics.
The hard work. Now done.
Oh, Taneir ensures it with a clean head shot.
Okay, strong start for Spirit.
The way that that last map ended, I'm lucky to get away with it sitting at a fuse in the final round of play.
New venturing overtime, but before this pistol we had a 82 round to counter strike across these three maps.
We're 4-2 in the pistols, now we're 4-3, still in favour off-foot, but 16 1BX situations on fault so far.
And who's taking the majority?
Well, uh, put the split bag in that one.
Let's see what they can do with these Deagles, 5-7s, up against the scary Donk AK.
Magics as well. After the performance on ancient, I'm glad to see him with the rifle.
Yeah, start lines over at HLTV, don't have him as the man who had the biggest swing, but for me...
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Opportunity goes awry for Krapeni. Up close, one deagle bullet shy.
Impressure applied. Now smoked off as they go this second wave. I think they've
loved the smoke during all of this. It was meant to be tested for lockers.
That's the one you see in the middle of no man's land.
Don't worry, it's near the soldier.
He takes that space regardless.
Semitre, I'm gonna poke his nose out of lockers and have a look, see if he can track it down into lobby that push.
It's just Juggs on his own with a 5.7, has squeaky space.
Okay, that's something. He got two roof on shero though.
Semitre, cognizant that he could be...
...the rat in the system.
Juggs clearing out hold of the Zontex, good find! The 5.7 headshot comes through.
Semitre is clearing, Tenere is found. At least they know where he is.
Still a heavy disadvantage financially
Players alive
It all favors spirit a chance shiro's patients could have found jugs
All boys needs to reload and by hitting the brakes right now. They're walking into a
So by keeping them busy
Beautiful round from him
Impact on those little burst from the Mac 10
You've got to demon. He's down at B. So he's gonna even have to try and pipe up the vent
I just have to say this has been
There's a round of isolated jewels.
You don't want something into the next round for it, so hold on to these if you can.
And a steady start for spirit.
You could hear a pin drop in the Akkor arena.
Is reality setting in that the revenge for those that dispatched a vitality.
And it was after some hiatus as well, right?
That win from Spirit 2024.
Having to go back to the way of that time machine to check that one out.
So it was a huge accolade.
It was a huge achievement for Team Spirit.
They had the best back.
Yeah, exactly.
the demon on their back bested them and now it's foot in front of them one map
away strange as well to get to head to head to spirit they've never had before
right legacy and now into foot so this isn't familiar match up as far as
counter strike is concerned
lots of goods they upgrade some more
look to find a little bit more resistance outside again and this
This time I hit the smoke, well Doc just wants to fight.
Yeah, more than half a turn, look at him lay down the law!
Teneir gets a little bit more from cemetery, there's jugs 5-7 actually threatening onto Teneir as well.
What a comfortable position to be in.
Should have the bomb loosed, Sontex aware of the possibility he slipped up close.
Teneir might get caught here then, Sontex left to clutch out.
More than capable is Sontex.
to the left.
Juggs, oh, spots by Taneir, but no.
Taneir with empty hands. We've got a clutch on the board.
Juggs can he convert or can Zontik stabilize for Team Spirit?
Nate Goods, 17 HP in a dream.
Zontik's, yeah, he's not missing that one.
A single body shot keeps them trained on track.
all three rounds so far. So six and one, some good impact after what was
the frustrations during third map of play. It's got dicey. It's just essentially the
EK with a couple of saves in the mix. The guns come out now. Look, I got a hope that
they can find the same level of success. Yakuza, watch your hands, son.
Slamming that desk. That's your mouse hands. You want to ensure that.
I'm sure we'll get the AWP.
It's going to fall again very quick off the rig.
Grave smoke has to be cleared. They're wary of the push-up to red.
Maybe even under silo, as Creveni breaks.
Juke says the same.
Dead to Demon.
Arm down secret, but...
Demon didn't see it.
Looking to return to A right now to near again.
Ooh, he heard that.
That's an audible.
It's given to near A, huge gap.
No one prepared for this X-Cloud.
Definitely not considering this cemetery the same.
Sure, you got the man advantage, but for how...
Long bomb yard.
He's gonna plant the ladder.
There's the reveal.
Cemetery now paranoid.
Surrounded, Zontik slinks on out.
X-Bat reveals himself.
Zontik's just found the necessary cemetery.
He's got his signature USP.
And Zontik's low.
Shearer is holding, doesn't overextend.
It's just that low HP.
Zontik's, and he's making a clutch happen.
Avoids the nade.
Gonna get that bomb, running up time.
Yep, yep, very uncomfortable.
He just wants the headshot.
Just wants it now.
Gonna go for the fake demon.
Do you run him down?
Oh, you called the ball!
Oh!
Zontics got tricky with it.
Play down.
He's the one who thought he was pulling him into the fight.
He just gets toyed with there, Zontics.
Yo, that's a play above his years, is deep from Demon.
Just making sure the spirited ones to play first in that situation.
So with one staying alive,
tough to get those drops going on the foot side of the server,
but still, they get that round on the board.
So struggling with guns, they can talk about this next opening move.
And, let's head me up.
Techno for magics.
No, smoke ball outside this time.
Let's get you from X-Flapp.
Just all that, any bent progressions.
I think we'll still be able to make a way.
He glares close, but...
Smoke in his head.
Oh, hey, scrappany!
Can't believe it!
Zontics just threw the smoke, provides an opening kill, Spirit set to succeed.
Does Magics get across here?
Well, he's right into a top split.
Yeah, Cemetery's famas, tries to mask the drop into sight with a bullet.
The bomb down B and there is no rotation.
The demon is going to have to try and stuff the choke of ramp.
Zontics searching this now.
Another door reshmote, so there is vent rotation available,
but you don't do it when you've lost secret, demon.
This could level us out.
Oh, Sontics better.
He's having a map.
They're given all the time to go for those clears.
Before not being proactive in this one, not grouping up and searching out,
just sitting and waiting, hoping that they can deliver in the frag department right now.
Just hoping to save.
This is already...
Getting to a scary T-side hall, it's only just begun.
In fact, it's starting off in the room of the Mentor, this time spirit.
We know how few would fire between the pistols are being to get it out of the gates, to get the conversions.
And a bounce back after the first rifle round lost, this is sitting pretty...
You really would like to hold on to your bring-in force here.
And now, too. Andriks makes it so.
Oh, they're losing them all.
Cemetery goes down yard
Jokes might be the only
M4 brought through
The lack of discipline there trying to hold onto those guns
Also tells that I don't know exactly where spirit are exiting through so losing an awful lot then that is going to leave a mark could have been it
How are you looking next round to play sure wouldn't have been a full bike. There it is again
It's just done by 10. There's no pressure right there. There's no jiggles. He's just taking his time
into the motions
He's gonna try and counter the- OOOOOOOH! That's his signature move!
The Zontics jumping AK strikes again!
Number two finally felled by Krabani a little bit of revenge, but still.
The damage is done.
A highly inaccurate bullet still finds its target.
And it's gonna try and counter Krabani a little bit of revenge, but still.
A highly inaccurate bullet still finds its target.
Climbing onto magics, hello.
X-Files extra investment is waiting for them down the secret stairs.
Don't can share a peeking in, it was an easy...
Ah, it's an easy second!
He doesn't take a point of damage, shuts down two of the three remaining.
Mission accomplished!
Tenir in the clutch.
He's got two bearing down on his location.
Krabani's had a round there folks.
Three kills out of the captain of Foote says this game is not done.
They just defined an extra M4 investment right there.
Didn't they?
He really pulls Hallie into a timeout just so everybody knows.
Bit of a conversation being had between Zontics and Juggs right there.
right there. Dukes has a nice shot.
Longtik says sorry. He also said I would have won that duel anyway.
A little bit of exchange in the server as Dukes is still smiling up to that one.
If he's smiling more up to this one. Three staying alive. Next flat, finding some impact.
He was hot-handed back on cash. He had Donk's number, hoping he can wake up and
start doing the same again on the CT side of Nuke.
Now like that goes a long way into building back into things just we were talking about
this getting out of control it was the financial situation that was the problem for foot.
You win that one it can be a fire starter.
Turn it into consecutive, spirit will have to take a save.
Right where you want them, just need to get the conversion.
He's headed into lobby for a ramp by his head, he's crashing, head to head with Cemetery!
Cemetery can't believe it, he's baffled!
Shiro, so fast on the line!
Unusual for Shiro as well, right?
It's not very characteristic of the...
Spirit Orpah.
So now you operate Hamstrung.
Demon tested.
Shot around the corner from Magix but he's just setting up Donk making sure that they
continue to keep the number advantage.
Two of Rotetta down B they're ready for this.
Yeah they are.
However, unable to track Dark before he gets into the safe haven of the Dark.
Bombs on his back.
Considering the fuck!
Sorry, Krobenny!
Swings over the doors, Bombs didn't think he'd have the audacity!
Bombs loose, this is tough now, 3v3.
It is. I'm looking at that flanker's secret stairs as well.
T'Nyr might be able to cash him off guard if they can kick up a bit of a stink.
Messi spray from Krobenny, loses control of it, and then T'Nyr onto X-Cloud.
Just jokes.
And Shiro's already got him bugged.
It's on him!
Oh, and a great shot out of the sniper.
He starts, he ends those bookend frags to get spirit stable.
Investments available again for Foot, but some guns.
Cemetery's going to get the AWP.
I'm not sure he's going to be willing to take that fight again.
This was for two with just putting the body on the line there.
It's very kind of an ask about that trade.
It's all about getting that space and five round T-side, Luke.
We can swap halves right now and a lot of teams will be happy with this.
They can build even more on top.
It's an outside fake, they're hoping to force rotations
and it looks like they're going to set up for some of the top centrics
so we need to be juggled.
A bunch of smokes left to block, what's the timing?
Let's see what you got. I feel like Jubbs is in a good position.
He's going to have to throw the smoke.
They're able to stick around and Traction is flying like 10.
Donk, though, for another.
Jokes down.
Krebbeni unloading his D-Gold.
He didn't anticipate Zontik sticking around in the lobby,
so this has all been other frantic.
Oh, it wasn't far off.
Demons read on the plant position,
but looks like it is going to be everyone's favorite.
Well, we'll see if they can actually hold onto these
this time rounds.
True.
They're going to have to back off,
they're going to have to wait more than they should have
last time, and they're going to need these more so.
Cemetery on the line.
A couple of misses going here and everywhere.
He had a quiet in that four arena is telling of the way this game is going.
Six rounds. It's all theirs.
Natchik's boosted up on the hunt, trying to take it away,
but he's got a long way to move if he wants to remove either of these.
Flashes are coming. That's more where that came from.
They want to rip it all away, Demon puts up enough of a fight.
He will bring two rifles through.
Demon can drop the M4 off the back of his save.
First, a classical time-out from Cooley out.
Cemetery can drop a Thanos or something because of the mix.
That's if they want to go for the buy.
He can take the parachute behind these two guns,
get a full buy into the next round,
but the house already got in the way to you.
It's a really rough death for X-Flight.
A flying Mk10 headshot.
He could have really feasted on that.
This is coming with an intentional Mac 10 and he has a good spawn, so it could be a bit of a gear shift though, maybe just a vent drop.
Trying to unravel whatever the plan is that would have hoping for. Turned out this ball pushed into Lobby.
Trying to ice it out.
Six rounds to each side, they're just going to keep racking them up here and they already had that five starter.
Already had that round that you thought was going to do enough to get things going.
all for it it's falling away now and considering how competitive the last
three maps are being you'd hate to see it go out this way but that's just
sometimes how the cookie crumbles much rather be going out with a roll
it's a win-puff, Zontick's down to the makes off the dark and still gets out but
still gets to the second on to Junze absurd he's having a heart right now
it's on tix 12 and 3 everyone on team spirit is contributing think about the
Killz has got the Jumping AK, the Spam to the Smoke in the Main,
Addison the Mact 10, Fast and Furious.
Another round where they have to look to save.
This has gotten out of the grasp right now, of foot.
Yeah, this is...
Team Spirit, batting around foot.
We knew it was gonna be tough, right?
Again, we've told you multiple times
it's eight straight losses on Nuke.
Yeah, couple of them to Maus,
couple to Astralis, couple to Vitality.
or very good teams, but right now they're not in this.
A lot of these new games I'm talking about as well in the losses,
16-14, 13-11, 13-8,
you still feel like you're in these type of games.
Right now, you're not looking for the case.
However, you know, this is one of those steps.
You get to your best of five Grand Finals,
and then you realize, okay, there are vulnerabilities in our map pool.
We're not yet ready to hang in a full B05.
There's that mental residue from those previous as well.
The fact that you were in a lot of time on Anubis and Ancient,
you could have won 3-0.
Why not?
The difference makers, the details, the clutches that we've been talking about, the pistols in their favour.
They sort of have to grind this one out, they've been made to work for it, but right now they're showing their class and their polish.
For another trophy in 2026.
Motality falling early. Who knows what era we're entering.
It's all up for debate.
The
awful lot of freedom for Krebhanyi on yard.
Poke your head up.
Shiro dares you.
Perfectly timed as Krebhany emerges.
Shiro removes him.
Someone will have to acknowledge outside OU Gamble.
Krebbeni could just call you into a stack because nothing's working.
What do you want to hedge play 2-2?
Rotate down, batten down the hatch to see if you're able to frag out.
Door smoke lands, a minute mark, and this is the tempo that's really been happy to play with the entire game.
There's been a few moments where they've shifted gear, been a little bit more aggressive like that new top plate.
Ancient they try to rush in towards B, but otherwise slowing the roll off foot, not allowing them to play.
If you probably counter-strike a lot of these moments,
you're gonna start taking the fight.
This has got to be the recipe for success, demon making a move.
Well placed, H.E.G.
Here comes the offensive.
H.E.G. now standoff.
Oh, and just a flurry of frags.
Team spirit, frenzy into the A site.
From dead silent to the round done, the blink of an eye.
and the rundown of the old cemetery
gets left with nothing.
Magix unloads a couple of X-Triple
that's into his corpse.
Just making sure it's working.
Magix, a lot of, as being in the initial
talking to be done after every single one of these rounds,
it looks like he has definitely a bit of a flow state
with the calls that are being made right now
and it helps when the individuals are finding this output.
And Donksepp dawning on another MVP.
They run after a loss to G.G. Howe has been a win over Luminosity, big, bait by Tality.
That's the big name and legacy.
Not a lot you can say in moments like this, Coolio.
It's just blowing so nicely.
You can leave that cache of flashes on Team Roof, but whenever Magixx feels like you've
taking this phase you've got those openings you could just pop into that topside whenever you
you're one apparently. Dominating them right on the T side with open kills got a total of seven
the 10 rounds played so far they continue to add those to the tally
which is the only man conceding multiple on their T side. This is a dream this is setting
you up nicely for that trophy lift.
In a more resistance, the foot engine coughing and spluttering to our fourth map of play.
And as you said, Chad, you're right. Tanubis, ancient OTs, probably still at the back of their minds as they're sitting here trying to find anything on the CT side of Nuke.
It's not a red pole. Oh God. Oh, it's okay. You're gonna spot it, but then you've got to rotate down. So down the vent goes X flat
He's got an MP9. It's just an MP9
Support demons coming down to help him as well. Okay timing is everything
You time this engagement properly does hit a burst onto shiro, but donks hunting him down
Truly hunting him in the vents with him
Makes it look easy. He's on six losers bomb Dima
This shot from shiro won't make that mistake again. Incendiary forces his hand not go, but it's the door and just enough bullet
A burst onto Donk.
Shira equalizes.
Pick up the bomb, they can stick it back towards there if they want.
It's gonna slow down for a sec.
Magic's yard, looking for answers towards that locker's position.
It's Krebbenny there.
Ah! A pre-aim!
Magic's a round-winning kill.
Removing Krebbenny puts it all onto Cemetery
and I haven't seen much in the way of Karch's out of him.
It leaves Magix and rotates it down.
He pops his head up the bend and Semitri knows he's in the wrong place.
And running out of time, with that bomb planted here, give this a go.
I think you might have to, you need rounds at this point.
You don't have a kit and...
Oh, shit.
Yeah, I mean, there are no good options here.
There are no good options.
You've got zero in your bank account.
You've conceded nine T rounds on Nuke.
It's one of the absolute worst ways for a Grand Final to come to its close.
Yeah.
I'm gonna say throw in the towel, put a fork in it.
To mount the resistance on the T side, especially with the momentum that Spirit is starting to build.
They're broken through a conversation from the camp that win over Vitality, refreshing the mental.
Potentially unlocking the team to another layout. They've been under scrutiny.
20-26, you got Donk in the team.
You meant to win trophies.
consistently getting to the finals recently. Yeah, and that's how they've been on the rebuild.
Then this whole coaching conversation started. Well, he's near here now. Yeah, just a handful
of rounds away from lifting this here today. Final rounds. It's half. It's like a whole
I don't want to work through any inspiring right now, but...
Cemetery is gonna try and insert himself into an opening.
Just thinks twice on it.
Smokes around, participates in his presence on top of Main Roof.
Four of the five members of Spirit stretching their legs yard, and Cemetery still so preoccupied.
I know what's looking, dunk!
Just really don't kill us!
It's a mental collapse, isn't it? Right? The comms aren't flowing.
They have no idea where Spirit is.
Even though they should be wary of those possibilities.
They would have no idea, and it's just falling apart, kill by kill, round by round.
This is 10, guaranteed.
The pedigree of Team Spirit.
Impossible to ignore.
The contrast between this map and the three prior night and day.
Shiro just tracks his prey, jugs none the wiser.
One back, two from Demon.
But an inevitability.
And now this half-ent.
He's played it nicely, goes off, goes fine to Magix,
and now another on to Dom to significant damage.
Demon's making this one convincing.
20 seconds, they get an interest back now.
Don't go up heaven trying to get the bomb down, he even gives him that space.
Safe into the site for the plant.
The first three in pack-up.
He's hoping they play into him.
Uncertainty grows as he cut, not cuts noise, don't look in the wrong way.
Demon swings on out. Guess the info anticipates to swing out of dunk.
The dunk takes you needed that. Denies Demon something sickening.
Instead, it feels like the writing's on the wall.
The trophy practically there's 10 on the T side of Nuke. It's spirits now.
Two secret at the end, one more, he's coming, secret at the end, secret down.
I'm taking him, I'm taking him.
I'm taking him, I'm taking him.
I'm taking him, I'm taking him.
I'm taking him, I'm taking him.
You can go with him, you cannot take it.
He's taking down.
I'm taking him.
Can't be guys, on you.
I'm on the left, I'm on the right
Single
Double on the left
Double
Wait, wait, wait
You're there, you're there, I'm single
I'm single, I'm dead
I'm single
I'm dead
Foot left wanting.
This one's going to be like trying to separate a pirate. He's right right here. This trophy.
All but spirits. You can see it in their hands. You can see them lifting it in a moment's time.
CT side pistol, getting their stride.
And quick, can this be?
The win on the pistol was just about to seal it.
Demon does well, wins out a long drawn-out battle of attrition versus
Teneir at range with the glock still first blood goes foot's way, sure as
yeah he is the dual barrett is however made the audible step yeah
Oh loads to the shot, well in that game Bronsontics is here as well
Krebbeni not aware the vent that's going to be the play into a has to
Yeah, Magics will be here though.
Up the vent uncontested.
Magics here's this. Tries to find our first bullet onto Krebbeni. Costs him dearly.
Up Heaven, comes Dom. Got him off the bomb. Forces a reposition out of Krebbeni.
Buys a little bit of time for Zontics. Can Domkin's Zontics really pull this one off on the way back in?
Ten second defuse, so they do have to move quickly. Speed, the name of the game.
Time is of the essence.
Sonic's pressuring.
Donk something.
He chose himself.
Jokes ready to receive it there.
Nails the shot does for a penny.
Here's the start of a very, very long road backing to this game.
I'm curious now if we get the force by the Spiridorf.
They just want to take the eco and bring the rifles in there next to get this done as quickly as possible.
You can see the force by the CT side throughout, so right now seeing it here you go.
Crazy.
The change in the churro has doubled, not enough to get it done.
Just a perfect utilisation of the Gilberrata.
And I think as well, we're just down where they have that advantage.
See these youngsters not fumble.
That's the type of round where the mentor could just go.
They keep it together.
Do you have to just connect your mouse and keyboard or...
This is why you should be like that to lose this one.
You can't lose this one.
Just USP's and a HG. Surely not.
That won't be so...
This moment for spirit, you don't even have to contest.
You can just look for damages, they try and exit.
Or just not give kills to these SMGs.
So all in all, this one is over already.
He's going to go for a search outside. He needs to be careful here.
Yeah, there are a couple of traps.
We'd need to give this a little over.
Swap him out.
Getting flanked, Shiro.
We pop him in the back line. It's a no.
That's a huge cash injection right there for Shiro.
Perfectly saved.
An extra $1,500.
That's an awful lot of damage right there.
Shiro can have his AWP and armor and duty.
That's the AWP's dream going into run for run number one in the second half.
Maximizing.
Thought, yeah, just going for the kill. We'll get the kill.
This man had other plans.
Land around the head.
Almost on the back turn. That could have been embarrassing.
It's crazy.
What's in the hatch on the hill?
Alright, two straight. How many more?
Once you can shift the dialogue off-foot,
outside hefty cross-nail,
this is the mark.
This is the mark, and even does it.
Catches donk.
Smoke. Easy for shero.
Preventing the damage.
Catches, don't smoke easy for Shiro for Benny had not considered it so it's a clawback kill from Shiro's orb
Jugs cuts off the vent roti option
Got zon'tix down here
They're all trying the zon'tix now
Good fine from Jugs stops him from finding any output on the endfall
This is looking more like it a bit punchy a more conviction in the place
They've started to look a little bit scared to a little bit timid
now
finding their form to find their fear.
Spirits are just going to play the long game and then they just need three rounds.
But MR12, it can get away from you quickly.
The reason that there shouldn't be any concern is because this is the CT side of Nuke.
She's going to take a multi-kill from one individual to win out a moment.
Well, it hasn't happened yet, but we're in the early stages.
Spirits are fighting their time.
Will retain three, 2900 loss they can buy again.
This can drop, sure it can do the same.
We all have rifles, which is better than what we just saw.
Before taking an environment like this in the arena, 12,000 people,
you play a faster 5 grand final against anyone that comes to the best counter-strike players who ever do a dunk in the server.
And you want to leave this stage and make sure that you're leaving, they're ripping you out of here.
So treat every round like it's your last.
Okay, so Magics will opt for an MP9 at the time.
That's going to allow Shiro, if they do lose this, to get another AWP.
The cost bonus is maxed out going into the next.
So if you see financial choice, we can see if it has ramifications.
It's around 17.
They're not getting their consistent brakes here. I think the smoke pool is a little unusual.
It's been able to control the bank drop, so I'm sure that the Lobbyman jokes hasn't dropped down.
It's a big point of contention as far as rotation.
It's dog's game!
I don't know where it's just unloaded, it's mine's cemetery.
a tough game 3-11. And if you want to do Accelerator near his block, X-Flight wanted 2.
Faced with a smoke on his descent. It's not even a multi. Just one straight kill through the smoke.
Oh, Jokes flashed it up! Oh, revealed! Teamwork on point!
The perfect sense for the near working in perfect harmony.
That's that team play. That's that pedigree.
This one's not punchy. They can't get the space. They can't just be running at you now
and it's going to simmer out. T side a nuke.
easy to play and look at this position from
Oh look at his aim doesn't even have to adjust he's just aiming with his keyboard at that point
Magix confirms bomb was on its way up close and personal to near being fated in
might not even prove necessary with don't know I've been never deemed was pre-aiming but as
Let's move the combine magic's output on the MP9.
That last exchange, the early time there was multiple people involved in the fight,
otherwise it was just one outside, one door, one more outside.
A bit of pattern. That's an absolute nightmare scenario.
You're not trading with each other, you're not doing anything with the space you have.
Two regular scheduled programming.
Two more rounds to spirit.
It takes the time out to extend the time on the stage for how much longer.
Pistol, some more conversions.
Some saves come through with another gunny.
117.
Just have to be something a little bit more all-in for a foot.
No, that's not the way you want to approach things.
You can't just be running in with a top hit, but...
Make sure you're together.
Make sure you get the possibilities to trade.
You can't account for Don't Just Spamming through a smoke,
but you can try to avoid it.
Deep quick, straight to Donk, jumps into his jaws.
Another Donk opening.
You just put that AK into his hand on the CT side
and just watch which Glee is the guilty,
regularly reads Donk on to Demon.
The scoreboard again. It's another
player throughout this series who may have had more
impacting moments but Donk, more ways
there, always delivering.
Yeah, you know you're good when your
nickname does become above. To be Donk's.
To be Donk Tom.
That trick's down the vent, you need to go across
secret. Not because the HG to break this is not working. Too early on both the HG's but
now time is going to be against for them. I don't have to make some noise on this cross.
He's chipped away but they do make it across.
SonTix is down here relaying the information to the troops. She here with a power position
as well, man.
Oh, okay, top off.
Tom Kajaro, however, looking to put the 12th on the board.
Crepelli, aggressive dunk, feasting.
Four kills in the round just to secure it.
Five starter indeed.
This kid is a prodigy.
We'll read out the run.
The one's more.
the one lost to Gigi Howe from the upsets of the tournament, but we can chalk that up
to being a B01, a Nosty 2, a Big 2-1, a 8-2-0 fatality. That's the big one, that's the
one that counts, that's the one that's made the difference, and then legacy in that semi-final,
just the last round of play. And Donk seems to make it so, Krebbe,
sideline force to watch, the inevitable end of this one, champion's imminent,
You can feel it. Spirit gotta be on top of the world.
Jokes goes down, you're eSports World Cup champions.
It's courage, it's determination, it's team spirit.
Take a look at the final form here on Nuke.
This was domination. The rest of the series, it was touch and go.
It started with a loss on cash, who would risk it bringing a new map of play.
The spirit they're here to stay did not doubt the dragon
The ages in Shanghai the e-sports world cup in Counter-Strike in Paris
The dragon hoarding treasure across the globe
And for foot this will not be the last time we see them on a grand final stage that much I am certain
Individuals, good flair, opportunities, as you said, for a 3-0 OT back-to-back.
It's your champions! Team spirit!
Come and join me here, Greenfield, and dunk as well.
The rest of you guys, you just need to head over to that side of the stage
for one last important piece of business.
No, no, come back up here. No he's gone, Magix, I'll talk to you.
Come here.
Incredible, give a spin round for me, Magix.
I got to ask first things first.
That felt like a fight to begin with, but it felt like you guys never lost faith that you had this one in the bag.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Do you know when you came back to this team, did you believe that you had what it took to get back to moments like this and achieve greatness?
Yes, just play better.
What have you been working on over the past year as IGL, as such a great leader?
Communication, aim, movement, flashing, grenades, pre-fires, tactics, setups, etc.
And how much do your team believe in you? And how well do they communicate with you as being game leader?
Ten out of ten.
Ten out of ten, I love that.
Doc, just come here just briefly. You've proven so many times. Listen to this crowd.
But you are undoubtedly a superstar in Counter-Strike, one of the best to ever do it.
What does this win mean to your career?
And you two have known each other a long time.
What's it like having him as your IGL?
Do you know what else is nice?
Giving out a Sony Tournament MVP.
And the time has come to award it to this man.
Ladies and gentlemen, Paris makes some noise for your Tournament MVP.
It's the one and only, Dom!
I know you're very modest and I know you like to think more about the team than yourself
but you've been part of the spirit system since you were just 14 years old
Do you feel like you just keep getting better and better?
Who is better in Counter-Strike than you?
Just you two?
Yeah.
Okay, good stuff.
Many words right here and they are your champions.
Please, I want to throw over right now to Lew for a final piece of business at the key
crusher.
The last key to be crushed, Lew.
Absolutely.
Yes, Ian.
Four found out the hard way that beating Team Sparrow was too tall of a task and
talking about being tall, being immense.
Look at who is with us to crush the foot.
Kiya, are you ready to crush the Kiya?
How is it going to be?
I'm ready, should we go do it now?
You're going to be able to do it now.
The Keymaster is going to explain you right like this
exactly as my voice is living as well.
Team Spirits are going to be on top of the EWC
here in Paris.
We seem to be having a little key crush time.
Ladies and gentlemen, team spirit, UAWC champions!
That was, that was very, very solid. Congratulations.
Once again, Taneer, now I have to ask you,
The way to reach that stage wasn't always easy, but you made it.
Which keys do you want to be part of your trophy?
Which teams do you want to see in your trophy here?
You're still on Gigi Kau.
Ah, Gigi Kau is another team that you face in the group stage. Why?
Second team Vitality.
Do we got a reaction here? Of course!
It was a messiola to Zemklé.
C'est celle de Vitality. Fair enough.
And what about the last one?
It's Bate.
Bait Esports, the UB as well.
Ladies and gentlemen, can we still make some noise? Please!
For Team Spirit!
That's a very, very interesting choice of keys.
And now, I think it's time for me to welcome you back to this stage
where you guys are going to get your key.
Your key master is going to give you the key
and you're going to get back on stage with your team.
It's going to the totem.
Okay, Donk, Magics, you can join us on stage.
It's time for you guys to go to the Totem and get your final moments here at the Acor Arena.
Boys, I'm giving that to you.
Thank you very much, Lou. Boys, bring it in. Coming through.
Trav, a big tournament for these boys across the entirety of these two weeks.
But we need to take you to the totem right behind you.
We need to get the key put into the totem.
Definitely not allowed at the venue,
but we'll keep removing that so I can't hear us.
Trab, what performance from these boys make your way up?
Nice go.
Touch the totem.
Right here.
Incredible performance across two weeks.
Now all you have to do is put your frame in that totem
and write your name in eSports World Cup history.
Paris, one more time for your eSports World Cup 2026.
Counter-Strike winners, it's Team Spirit!
York was a massive fumble from them, it turns out absolutely not, they are your e-sports
world cup champions.
You're right about that Fred, it did start a bit dice in the team spirit, who went on
this journey where they lost the first game of the tournament and then gradually got better
and better by every single game they were playing up until the point where they finally
took charge of this grand final. As you said, they had to fight for it, foot put up
a really really strong, I guess, experience and a really really strong performance today
in order to push two of the maps into overtime, but at the end of the day, you
It did feel like it was inevitable, right? Spirit being the better team, having the better individuals, also getting to lift Kato.
And the experience shines through in this grand final, right?
We can't forget about the Mubes either, even though Spirit was in the leading, gets into OT.
Maybe now another team would get nervous, let them actually play. No, they kept their composure.
Ancient, they were the ones pulling their way back.
because what you could have to do, they were going to have a chance in this best of five,
but Spirit denied them that and showed class one more time.
Classed 100% of the way through, and obviously we had to talk about it quite well,
but the vitality first key in the trophy, as well as taking maybe two bitters,
maybe all the fans there in the arena, but that was what kind of catapulted themselves
to this very point, like we've seen such a turnaround from this spirit,
and it came up in the digits.
It took Don Ken, it took Team Spirit a year and a half to finally beat
and that's the prospect of this tournament win as well.
We know we're going into a busy period where there's going to be tournament after tournament after tournament
and with a vitality that is more than beatable at the moment
even turning up a tournament is what is standing.
Who is to say that Spirit can be that next up in line speed
considered the best team in the world?
I think the title as the best Counter-Strike team as of right now
is up for grabs.
It's definitely going to be interesting to follow the next couple of months
and Spirit winning this tournament, getting into the final of the glass boundary as well.
They're off to a great start in this second half of the season.
Yeah, I think it's wide open, but you know, I'd also like to say a few words about Halle.
He's been under a lot of criticism, a lot of it unwarranted, really.
The man had to take a leave of absence, you know, for health reasons, and the team was
without them at the major.
He comes back, they lose one final, and everyone's like pointing figures, right?
And here at EWC, where a lot of the other contenders floundered, they were the ones
who were able to get their floor up and play better punters throughout the tournament.
Once again, they capitalised on bad performances from their opponents and obviously beating
Vitality along the line, who they've said in every interview, they worked a month and
a half for this event.
It was in Paris, it was in France, they get to play in front of the home crowd.
The club championship meant so much to them and despite all that, Spirit was able to
take them down.
I think he deserves some praise for his work.
1000%.
It would of course be a miss talking about Spirit without talking about the phenome
that is strong, as we heard, MVP worthy conformance,
yet again coming in from him,
and exactly going to the spirit of the game.
It's impossible to realize how good he is, really.
He came into this grand final on track
to have his second best event ever in his career,
and it may sound a little bit trivial,
but the fact of the matter is that Dong
is having great events left, right, and similar.
So the fact that this one was unparalleled
to be the second best statistically speaking speech volume
to how well he was playing in the group stage,
how well he was doing in the playoffs,
and naturally also had a big impact tonight in the spring.
It's also a matter of practice that he can't do it on his own, right?
And yes, he can have a slower map, like he did on the ancient.
It still has incredible rounds, like we showed case at the time,
but it was magic to have a lot of kills like that.
We're sure we'll have the fewest amount of kills,
but the most important clutch is down the stretch.
And if you want to win a tournament of this caliber,
it is always going to have to be a team effort.
And that's who holds this trophy at the end of the day.
It's the best team at the event.
And that's the thing, when you look at the entirety of Team Spirit,
I love that you mentioned Shira there,
because I think actually we had a couple of questions that said,
how he was going to show up in this grand final?
It's not been, you know, too often that we've seen those inconsistent performance,
but it's more so that it happens in those grand finals.
This wasn't the case. He hasn't even had to go.
Absolutely. And I think also, Shira is sometimes easy to pick on,
but because the style of play that he has, right,
like he doesn't go for opening kills, he doesn't go for flash plays,
But what he's really good at is being a safe pair of hands, right?
If you go back on a demo and just watch Shil's POV, you'll see there's a lot of rounds where actually
he gets that one kill that really sort of turns the round and his team's a favor or secures the round.
And obviously on top of that, the clutches, the great pistol round play, the supporting that he does.
So it's sometimes a thankless job, but he doesn't on such a high level where they can't win without it.
It's kind of like Yankee Retro tweet.
Jacob about him being the most reliable opera? A lot of people in the replies were saying yeah, but not in the grand finals
You can put that forward as you're twisted. I feel he is one of the most reliable
Able of the players you have. He's not the most sexy opera. He's not the most flashy opera
But he's a same to set a safe pair of hands also a player that's reliable for his teammates
When you're playing with a guy like sure
He's not doing random stuff in the middle of the round that he's never done before he goes by the book and
One of the least talked about attributes
So I think sometimes what being a good teammate is being reliable to your teammates as well.
Because everyone in the world has to play around Shiro.
And if you as a teammate always know what he's doing and know his tendencies, his habits,
it makes it so much easier for guys like Tamir, Magic, Stonk for that matter as well,
to be around him, call around him and perform around him.
And I'll tell you, from a coach's POV, a player like Shiro is what you want.
You want a guy that's going to hit the shot that he's supposed to hit
when you put things into place so that he's in a good position,
time his way he's going to do it like obviously guys like Monacea are luxury
sometimes he's going to be in a terrible spot and he's going to get your kills and
he's gonna you know find your openings and all that and that's awesome like it's
great to have players like that but when you're building a team and you're
building your plans and then you're building rounds like it's all for those
moments that he can take care of. It's funny how that works right because
everyone out there who's playing a bit of Counter Strike himself I think the
most asked question to me you know back in my time when I was playing is
How do you get consistently good at the game?
Sometimes I'm dropping 30 kills, sometimes I'm dropping 10 kills.
I can't figure out that consistently thing.
So when we finally have a player who's built his entire career-bound being consistent,
we also give a bit of a jab for that.
You know, not always going above and beyond.
And I don't think that's fair.
In a world where consistency is a rare thing to come across,
it's nice to have a guy like Shira who's consistently showing up pretty much every single time.
We don't want to go too random in the pool.
In the moment like this, where obviously,
running high for both sides of the server but I do just want to get your opinion
blood. Survive in others! We just walked past her and they were looking a little dismayed
but I do just want to get your opinions on that Nuke because as we were already
talking about three maps that went in quality close to the lentil over time
but Nuke a completely different story how were they able to get away with that?
It's unfortunately it's the story of foot I don't think that's necessarily
coming down to spirit you know upping their level of playing much
much better they continue to play well and they got the job done but
they're playing against the team who's lost any sort of confidence
you can have on that map. There was the 9th loss in a row for Furtbassercourt on the map
of Nuke, so it was always going to be the case. Unfortunately not a close game, unfortunately
not a competitive game, but as you also said Janke, the way they lost ancient had to bring
that mentality into Nuke knowing you lost it 8 times in a row, it was always going
to be tough. Yeah, I still want to applaud Furt for this final. I think they did everything
right. The veto, they took the correct risks, right. Unfortunately, it was just
that ancient.
Right?
But they just found a way to close it out.
I think they were never going to win Nuke, even more so after losing ancient in such
a manner.
And I think Mirage would have been an incredible fifth map for this final between these two
teams.
And I feel bad that we didn't get to see that, but that's what teams that's good
get to do, right?
They just are that good where you're on the other side against them and they're
not playing their best and they're losing some rounds, they're not supposed to still
have what it takes through wind games.
I spoke to Proveni before this
grand final at Laven, he was the only one that really picked out and I was asking him, you know,
do you think your map pool is worthy, is ready for a grand five? That was the
issue, the heating point, saying I know it's going to come, I know it's going to be a punish,
that's where the troubles are really going to arise, but looking forward for
thought, like, I know it sounds almost false to be talking about this in this context,
but they should be kind of what they've achieved here, right? They were within
touching distance and taking down spirit on multiple occasions, maybe putting their name on that
very trophy but they should be immensely proud of the run and the teams they've
managed to take that. 100% we even spoke to Duke yesterday who said that getting to
the grand final of EWC is as as nice if not a better feeling than winning the
event they won at PGL Bucharest right so that speaks volume to where they're at
right now. Another I guess fact we have to state is the fact that they made a
roster change not so long ago bringing in X-Flight you know so to be able to
to remain competitive in the best of five grand final against a team like
That was always going to be a tall task, yet they did it on the first three maps.
So in terms of their future, in terms of where they're going from now,
it's likely to think that they're getting better.
It's likely to think they're going to use this experience to be more consistent, more competitive.
So I don't think we've seen the last of foot in these big stage games.
Whether or not they're making the final or not, that's going to be tough, but they're inconsistent.
I mean, let's add some context.
A little bit over a year ago, these guys were Navi's academy team.
They weren't even a team of their own.
their own. Then Navi takes their best player away, Makazi to the main line-up and is like,
all right, you guys are free now. We're going to sell you over to someone. And then Foot gets the
team and, you know, they get into a good spot in the VRS, if you call 2026, they have some good
wins, improve with every turn, right? And now they're the third-ranked team in the world.
They serve hacks, Navi's main team by a good margin, right? So it's just been an incredible
feet in such a short time. Of course this loss is going to sting when you lose it. All
these things, but the way they play, the way they did things, they did it the right way.
There'll be a lot to learn from this game, right, in terms of counter strike, but also how to
manage your emotions, how to manage expectations as well, that it's a marathon and you need to
preserve some of that energy that's going to be frustrating around. So I don't think
foot is going anywhere. Yes, now this is all the wrong scene after all.
So, the captain.
Gentlemen, thank you so much for your thoughts. I do just want to get your final thoughts
considering that we are kind of only at the beginning of the season. This is the first
to just line event to start off the second half of 2026. Janko, in your opinion, where
does this set us up for the second part of the season?
I think it's wide open, right? The Vitality has to deal with different stand-in situations,
falcons, okay, they failed at this event, but they still have a lot of quality players
spirits with the swing, cemented themselves.
Wow, it's even more tournament.
So there's a lot of teams out there that will be, you know, battling for trophies.
And I think that makes for a very exciting season.
It does feel like someone took a hand grenade and threw it into what is the top of Counter
Strike right now.
It's completely blown open.
Anyone is in the talking point for that.
I even argue, I'd seem like Mavi have a lot to prove after this tournament where
it didn't go too well for them after an offseason where they didn't make
the roster change.
A lot of people expected.
From your belief right now you have six, seven, maybe even eight teams who can walk into a tournament, then you're not potentially go far too.
I wish the cameras only would not believe what you have to say right now.
Gentlemen, thank you so much. It's been an absolute pleasure to join you for the crescendo of what has been the eSports World Cup 2026.
But don't go anywhere because we have the spotlight show coming your way.
I'm going to go. Thank you very
much, Fran. Hello and welcome to
the E W C spotlight. We've got
banks, Chris and Trab joining us
for basically the end of the
e Sports World Cup. Thanks. I
asked for Fran and they gave
me you. Why? Um because
phrase that you don't want to
see you again. I'm sorry.
That's just the truth. The
matter of the fact you have
to deal with it. So you
in the green room and then for some reason you came in and people started fleeing the arena.
That's what happens right normally when my voice goes off the arena does start to empty but I will
start on a positive for this because yes this arena was full even with vitality and falcons
being eliminated you know the people who are the fan favorites for our counter strike so I want
to take this moment while people are still in the arena to say a massive massive thank you
to every single one of you in this arena because counter strike won today because you
You guys were cheering, you guys were enjoying it,
no matter which team was winning or losing,
you could have booed Spirit a bit,
but at the end you still gave them their love
and they deserved it after that great final.
Crowd is always one of my favorite things
about eSports and this whole community,
but yeah, Grand Finals, let's go ahead
and talk about it because we have our winner.
Oh yes, we have our winner in Spirit
and it was supposed to be Spirit
as favorite as the whole way through,
but at multiple times, they've been pushed
by a younger and inexperienced team in football.
The foot is a bunch of rookies. They're in their first year of professional play at this level
and they have showed that they can push some of the best teams in the world.
They are levelling up. They are very synergised.
So even though it's a second place with them, they still won on this mental game,
on the experience and what it could mean for the rest of that season.
But spirit, this is a bounce back. We just saw them at another event in Malta.
They reached the finals. Guess what? They were favourites again and they dropped the ball.
I was worried that was going to happen here, but this win shows us that they are still developing.
They are still growing they've got an interesting two-coach system going on at the same time and right now
They're making it work and this is a monumentally big trophy for them to take home huge trophy and also a couple bonus points when it comes to
The club championship because with this win. Where are they now trial?
I mean they put themselves tied with Virtus Pro in sixth. It's a great position to be in considering
It's a little bit of a wild to get going. They had MLBB halfway through which got them the a thousand points
to be able to add this a thousand points in spring of the leaderboard is absolutely huge for them
and no doubts carrying them so much more money. Yeah a nice chunk of change that they get to bring
home but before we talk a little bit more club championship hey we also had our third
fourth place match that took place. Yes you know with the third fourth place match it's very
important for the club championship on your side of things with that for the players it's about
the reset when you've had to deal with not taking the trophy home and sometimes that is mentally
draining with it. But this one, Furia, should have come in as a favorite. It was a South
American Brazilian derby. It's a more international Furia and Furia, it did drop the ball a little
bit. Legacy came in, what I would say was more fired up, more hungry to win it, and
they got a deserved win. They're an interesting team who's been working their way up the
rankings. They want to look out for the future, kind of similar to put in that
then. So somebody's young teams, all that hype, all that energy, they're making
it work on the big stage.
Chris, what was it like for you watching in the green room? Because every single time
turned over you're like oh I know I was really I was really going for fun to be
honest with you I love an underdog story and that would have been so cool as well
especially considering all the fans are chatting for them as well and well as
better have had that moment it would be nice to see a new team as I say like
they've barely been around obviously the play for a long time but coming through
and having their moment in front of these 10,000 people that would have
been crazy. Absolutely okay Trav we got to talk about it because yesterday
because of the points we officially crowned AGAL as the first new EWC
at 26 club champions. But how did we get there? Because I don't think at the beginning, anyone
thought that it was all going to come down to Trap Mania.
I'm so pleased it did as well because Trap Mania was the letter yesterday. It was genuinely,
I'm like, I love this e-sport. I love this e-sport. And to be honest, I barely even
watched it before, but incredible stuff for AGL. Just being consistent all the way through,
really showing how useful that is. And obviously in Trap Mania, Gwen managed to get that
last second win getting them over the line ahead of Falcons is huge for them.
And I'm so pleased we're able to see a new club champion in 20 seconds.
And speak to me a little bit about how pivotal the Falcons performance was both in Fortnite
and then Trackmania because they had that lead. All they had to do was keep it and that won't
happen. Yeah they kind of I feel like choked a little bit in both to be honest with you.
They had one of the favorites in Fortnite Peterbot and Pollo and they drop out of the
the competition. It's not looking too great for them. And then we move over to trap mania
Carl Jr. We were speaking about it time and time and time again. He was supposed to win
it as well. And he drops out before even secures any points. It's really tough for team Falcons.
They just couldn't get it across the line. And you've got to question if it's the pressure
of the club championship on them players shoulders that made them crumble.
Now let's go ahead and talk a little bit about third place because everyone's eyes
was on vitality throughout the entire event.
I mean, they were absolutely rocking the little legion going like
when we over on stage three, they had so many fans in the background.
Just trying to long park who is their main guy?
This guy's a world champion was coming at the tournament, maybe as the
favorite alongside of Carl Jr.
So I'm to pick up that third place was really, really solid out of vitality.
And it's kind of been a bit of a topsy turvy event.
I want to say for them to be honest, they kind of went all over the place.
There was so many games that they did better and then you wouldn't have
thought. So so many games that they realistically should have done a lot
better around.
That's right.
Yeah.
Well, honey, and I didn't want to say it.
You know the elephant in the room, but there was a couple of others as well that you were expecting a little bit more of vitality
But third in the end. I think it's a fair assumption the best
Now the other team that I think I feel like we have to do credits one spotlight because we just kept asking
Where are they throughout the whole summer?
Managed to make it up to fifth place. I know unbelievable. I mean look we always knew at least a win was gonna come that way
They have Magnus Carlson, so that's a free thousand points. Thank you very much
or least you would think so. And along the way, look, I think to see them on zero points was insane
for how long it kept going. So where they've actually ended up isn't too bad. I know they won't
agree with that by any stretch of the imagination. But at the same time, all things considered,
how well they did over the last couple of weeks is a testament to how deep their pool was, I
want to say. But yeah, Magnus was the 3000 points and did well over the last couple of days
as well. I mean, listen, I think that this EWC proved that someone can take away that trophy
from Falcons. So who knows, maybe it could be Vitality next year or Liquid the next year,
anyone has that opportunity. But before we go ahead and sign off for the EWC spotlight,
I just want to go down the line. Trav, what was your favorite moment from this event?
To be honest, my favorite moment, I think it's, you know, we just spoke on it, Magnus
Carlson, they were playing over in the Allianz Fort, which was my stage for the most
by was really incredible to see someone of that status, that power come through and really
just decimate his competition went ten and oh so it was expected but still cool to see I think for
me it was track mania was yesterday uh honestly it really caught a lot of us off guard like I've
worked in e-sports for a very long time and to see the vibes around it and watch the game as well
I mean I don't know who at the foundation decided to get this involved keep it here forever please
because it was so fun to watch and to have that drama of course it helps when the guy goes
on the winner to secure this club championship that goes a long way no doubt but track mania
was such a fun. Yeah and I'm going to review a little bit of the track mania because I just walked past the stage a couple of times the
energy was electric and I was like what was happening I was like is this really track mania so I agree with you let's hope they stick around for the future here at
EWC but for me it's going to stay with Counter-Strike side because you know even though foot end up with second place this is a team who were
rookies this is a team who they came from Navi Junior they worked their way up to a big organization it's their first time in a crowd this
They've won a trophy, but it was a studio event.
This is a whole different beast, and I see these players,
and I know it's like courtier to say,
but it is like friends playing,
because the synergy and the server,
the way they react off each other,
the trade frags and how it is, it's just impressive.
So I've got a lot of love for these guys,
and I'm excited for what they can do.
I'll just give a hot take there.
I think they will lift one trophy still
before we get to the end of this year.
Oh, can't wait to see if that prediction comes true.
But gentlemen, thank you so much for joining me.
And for everyone else thank you all so much for a seven amazing weeks of spotlight and we can't wait to see you for next year
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