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I can't see a better land
I tell the loser
I can't see a better land
I tell the loser
Like a summer lose, ain't been the cruise
I don't wanna spend some time with you, I said it ain't
Ain't nothing wrong, we do what we do
Gonna party till the sun comes out
Leave all your troubles at home
You know the night is young, ain't you not alone?
The lights of the city, how do you get away?
So many games, so many holes, so many plans I can do
Get excited, like I'm some moose
Get in the groove
And I wanna spend some time with you
Saturday night
Under the moon
We do what we do
Gonna party till the sun comes in
I, I, I, I can't let it go
I just wanna dance with you
I can't help it now
I'm intoxicated by you
Saturday night, it's shining like a cosmic light
I'm holding all my silhouette kites
I look the moon dip into my sight
Into my skin, into my limbs
And through the rims
It doesn't need to be the craziest shit
She didn't matter to me
In the center of the ditch
People spend their time
Dip gotta reach for the tip
Satellite
Because we move
In the groove
At a one stretch of primate
Silly me
I'm looking for you
I'm looking for you
Gotta party to the sun and come to me
Silly me
Silly me
Silly me
You
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A lot of people would say that home is wherever their family is.
First of all, I mean, childhood, it's like Kelowna, lived in like six different areas
in Kelowna, lived in California and San Jose, first team house, sort of all my own, at least
that's what it felt like from there.
Lived in Los Angeles in California, went back to Canada, lived in Vancouver, lived
in Germany and Kelowna.
In between that two years, I had to move to Serbia.
I got my visa for Malta, and ever since that,
I've been living here in Malta.
Traveling is our life basically,
so for me, moving around so much is not,
it's not ideal, but it's also not in the world.
The funny thing is I never say going back home.
I mean, it's a physical place,
but it's not one that is staying still.
Nowadays when someone asks me where I'm from I just say Vancouver because explaining where
Kuluna is is just very, I mean I just made it, we'll say Vancouver, that the town is
located like in a valley and so there's mountains everywhere, not much has changed,
especially the Kuluna itself, it's a small place, there's not much going on.
Growing up in Kelowna, it's difficult to say really because the issues I experienced
in my childhood can happen anywhere in the world.
Some of the most challenging things were, I think, poverty.
My family was definitely not doing good.
We moved frequently within Kelowna.
You know, it's never a good situation when you have to rely on the government to assist you in life,
besides growing up in a broken family.
And at the time, you don't really know why parents separated at a young age.
My mother ended up in a not-so-great relationship,
which ended up being abusive for both of us and my dad moved away to another
province and kind of had his another family to take care of for us. It's
probably what's made me appreciate the good people even more.
I first discovered Counter Strike through a group of friends that I played League
legends with like when I was like 13 I think. People started telling me that I'm very good
at the at the game, not at good mechanics and so on. And I was on the same time I got into
FPL. When I got into FPL I got picked up by SKDC.
First sort of twist in FPL, we were just trying out different players looking at some
young talent. Me and Daisy actually that time I had a chat on who he thought was
some of the up-and-coming talent and Russ' name kind of popped up so you know
let's get you in some scrims try out see where you're bowed and I think one
thing just led to another and eventually I found out that ocean was living in
the same same city as me the entire time. I thought he lived in Vancouver and
then he ended up just saying that he couldn't get a ride from school to
home so I had to wait and take the bus just like yo where do you live
kind of thing and he's like living clone. I was like, well, have we lived in the same place?
That's kind of when I started picking up for our pro league matches. I think he got out of school
around three, their pro matches started at four, out of rip to the school, my car, pick him up
and rip back and then just for us to start our pro league matches. Just getting him out of the
shell was cool and he definitely was a more quiet kid, we should say.
I would say not all of school was like bad. I mean, there was definitely
some friends, but bullying was a huge aspect of it, as well as not always having the best housing
situation in a family environment. When you grow up, you kind of just realize how how
shit the kids can be. As a person who wants to be a father one day, it's a scary thing to
realize because I feel like it only has gone worse to be honest. I cannot imagine how it is
in some schools now.
This is things that added on to me kind of just wanting
to be in my own place and play games with people
that are friendly, nice.
First time I got salaried was TSM.
And that was when I was 16.
That was when I pretty much officially moved away
from Canada.
All the other players were in the team house with no plan, really, I mean there was no furniture or anything.
It was only our set-ups in the bed. Mom just gave me the green light to ditch school, I mean she was very skeptical.
Still of like a contract and what it means and having to move away and she was unsure of the people that I would meet or where I would be.
I mean she didn't really, she never was in America before.
Quickly she realized that it was no joke.
I think there was some drama back then that someone wanted to come into the CS scene and franchise everything.
A lot of people were not a fan of it and I think Sean Gears was one of the main people to kind of stick up against it,
say this is bad and I don't think TSM liked it very much and his contract I think was terminated almost instantly.
I think it broke something legally that caused us to be able to go to a different organization.
So I think the core of the team went to the other organization to join him
Sitting house only on misfits for I think three or four months. I went back home to Canada
I think we only intended one man, which was true Mac Vegas
We played VP and fanatic both top three teams. So that was great quick event exit right there
That was when I really first started to feel like I'm I'm learning CS the right way
I think Sean Beers was a great leader to play under.
He kind of taught me the game in a way that's easy to understand for me.
I think I was on the radar of liquids as a potential pickup.
I just think there was accusations of cheating.
I kind of just went with wherever life was going and living in the moment.
The first time I heard of Twist was in 2017.
We were scouting for a new player, and this really young snappy aimer just kept coming
up in our discussions.
Even on TSL, I was talking to Nitro, and sometimes, Abish, I would be asking them what I can
do better if they're watching my games.
Nick was already becoming a friend, I would say,
and the person that was kind of looking at me
as like a potential pickup for Liquid in the future.
And then that is when I got in touch with Steve.
Counter-Strike was way more like regionalized
and there wasn't as many international teams.
Hearing that there was like a young up-and-coming
aimer from Canada, like, okay, we need to investigate this.
The team that I had these like dreams of joining
was the team that wanted to offer me a spot, so.
2018 was probably one of the hardest years that we had to deal with.
We made many finals, but could never win.
I think it was like eight second places in a year and losing to the most dominant team
Counter-Strike's ever seen and getting someone else's confetti in your backpack over and
over again gets old really fast.
We're playing the final boss in every event.
Most of the finals against Australia's were competitive, not that we could win a map, but
both the maps would be like 16-13, like 16-14.
Once we broke through and won an event, the whole vibe just changed.
We can do this now.
Without a doubt in 2018 we're the second best team.
Even individuals were playing better.
I was playing at a much higher level.
Each person in the lineup had a positive impact on me.
When we won the Intel Grand Slam on Nicklin, it just happened so fast.
We went to like five events in a row and we closed it out.
Started with I am Sydney, one pro league, went from pro league to Dreamhack Masters
from Dallas, I got to create CS there, there to Cologne.
I think it was actually when we were in the playoffs of Cologne,
it's like when we realized, like, what the fuck we're actually doing, like, it's right there.
Like, the Grand Slam is, like, on the other side of this event.
I mean, to win the Grand Slam on the Cologne stage, I think we're the only team to do that.
Yeah, definitely a memorable moment to my career.
It created an aura in our team of like invincibility and players that needed to get over the hump
and get that extra bit of confidence like your aliejas and your twists and your nafs
finally got it.
Looking back at it and obviously the teams that have won Grand Slimes, it makes it even
a more impressive feat for the team.
I will say I think the real change in life happened for me after meeting Carol.
She's German, she lives in Cologne.
The first time I saw Russ was actually 2019 when he won the Infigrenz WM.
Cologne after party, we just kind of noticed each other.
There was no exchange of words or anything.
I think we acknowledged each other's appearance or existence in this case.
She just looked so, like, chill.
It just felt like she was my person, in a way.
I would work some life, maturity.
Everything just aligned.
One grandson, one of the biggest events in the game,
met my now fiance.
And then the code hits and everything shuts down
and borders closed.
And CS is kind of segregated into two regions.
Definitely sucks.
I was in Los Angeles, but Liquid quickly said,
gave a company-wide PSA, like, go home, basically,
and then the border's closed.
And it all happened very fast.
I abruptly, I've tried to kind of forget
about some of the shit that happened that year.
CS was not going well.
What used to be the thing that you loved to do every day
is no longer that thing.
In a way it made me resent being with my family because I just felt like I had things taken
away from me that I could not stay where I actually wanted to stay and be with a person
who I wanted to be with.
And so my just felt like life was collapsing on me and I had the fact answers for that.
liquid. Initially the team did not want to relocate to Europe. The regions were
completely separated and if you're going to have an impact in the game you have
to be in Europe because that's where the biggest events are and that's where you
have a chance to really excel as a team. In general the team environment was not
good but certain people did not get along with each other. Yeah I just felt
like a good time to leave considering my contract was kind of nearing its end.
and my girlfriend at the time was living in Germany, so I think everything was appealing and made it easy to do.
That was actually my last games with Team Liquid. That could be exciting to some people or very bad news for a lot of Team Liquid fans.
I felt kind of at peace instantly afterwards. I didn't even go back to Canada, I just took what I had to my fiance's apartment.
I sat up there, it was just at peace and I felt like there is going to be something for me anyway.
Hello?
He reached out to me when I was in Mousel, of course there was rumors about me rejoining face coming to New Year.
Christmas 2020 was when Russ also met my family for the first time.
The day before Christmas, when I was taking down a car with my mom,
Russ left basically to have a phone call with Kerrigan.
Meeting Kerrigan's family for the first time, and I have a call with Kerrigan for the first time.
He just knew what I can do in-game and he wanted to help me get there.
I wanted to win. I think that's what he needed to hear,
but I was thinking of Russ's time in Liquid and he just wanted to
kind of move to the European team, play a new style,
And also, of course, with his girlfriend staying in Germany,
it just kind of all made sense that he came to favor us.
In some ways, being on the European team
and seeing they gave me more of like a home feeling,
the Faze guys were perfect for me.
We just knew each other's decisions
all the time without vocalizing it.
This was the team to succeed as an international team,
to really make it improve that this is possible,
to win a major, and then also win a grandson.
It shows the depth and the levels that Roster had.
Kedavitze was, I guess in some ways, a fairy tale run.
Rops is COVID, JKS is filling in for Rops.
And then Ren gets COVID, JDS stands in for Ren.
We don't drop a map until...
We don't drop a map.
Actually, in playoffs, we don't drop a single map with JKS.
I mean, Eddie is a funny character, but for a manager to be setting in the coach position,
being part of the major win, I get chills right now because it's like I do rewatch the winning
moments of some of the tournaments and that one in particular, Kerrigan gets like the
final kill and before that even is happening, me and Robs are looking at each other in
disbelief basically. Yeah, I think for them it's very very beautiful moments in our careers.
That was completely different than the first until the grand slam. We had three wins so early on,
one Catero, one Pro League. The major did not count and then we won Cologne which was
was another thrilling final.
We knew we were running out of opportunities.
I think after the event there was only two more chances.
And probably we just took a more chill approach in groups and everything, but I think the
second we hit the playoffs, everyone just flipped the switch.
This is it.
It's now or never to close up the grand slam.
If there was ever a lineup that was deserving of those achievements, it would be a bad roster for sure.
I mean I've played with pretty good idols actually in my career
which was a very natural period.
There was something to believe from all of them
but I'd say if there's one to put up to the most it would be you carrying it for sure.
Leaving FaZe, I mean even thinking about it now it's just a lot of unfortunate things happened at the time.
Maybe a change is necessary for both sides
because I was not able to play like consistent, consistent good in CS.
Faze, unable to give transparency as to why a lack of talks happens.
If I stay, is there still like an organization or that pretty much just sparked the move back to Liquid?
I didn't feel like limited, like I was really happy to play in the trio
and I understood my role very well in the team, but I was also interested in still growing as a player.
It also wasn't made to like get back closer to home because I feel like I still see there's a
comment a lot where you know well you want to be closer to North America again that's just not true
I mean I live in Europe my life is in Europe it's hard in the scene to find a person who
genuinely genuinely cares I'm just Uncle Steve I mean he's such a honest and
and friendly person, any value is my opinion so I feel like I can help dictate what is
the future of the team in a way and it was more of a pride feeling too that if I can go
back to Liquid and build a winning team here and get the organization back to what used
to be the player that they drafted comes back and tries to bring the winning formula.
Wanting to escape in some way, I don't think it comes from negativity, it just, I think
comes from wanting to see the rest of the world, but also wanting the urge to take a
leap in life.
I feel like people that never leave their hometown, they plateau as a person at some
point in life.
I think Russell is most at home when he's in a practice room, like in the zone and doing his thing.
When he is just grinding away and talking about the game that he's loved and given his life to.
I think he also feels most at home when he's with his team, like in a practice room.
I hope that he also thinks he's most at home when he's with me,
but I think there's more like on the private side since CS is obviously a huge part of his life too.
We are traveling 200 days a year, so being in a practice room is actually a feeling of
relaxed, shutting the door, no cameras, and we can always just go full hand.
Home for me is now wherever my fiancé is, and where I play the game 100%. I would do,
I would go through everything again. Despite knowing, you know, the bad things to him,
I would go through everything again. I didn't really think of what I can achieve. It was
more of like I saw the events and I said I can be there you are bought what I
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Let's see.
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absolute slug of a day yesterday here on the B stream. It went the full distance. We had many over times. We had many long series, but great counter strike all the same. And we are now moving into day two of stage two here at EP.
the first couple of games and
we have a couple interesting
matchups. I think to open up.
This is where you know we go down
to the zero one side of the Swiss
and that means we have a few
teams that are lacking some form
not quite looking good enough on
day one. So some real big
answers into today. I think into
how some of these teams are
looking. You know, we've got
some rough teams. I think in
terms of like, yes, they're
team teams. I think they're
you know, we've got some rough teams. I think in terms of like, yes, they're tier one, but their form this year
It's just not been very good. You're being very kind. Let's put it Frank face. I've been show you and we're wondering really whether they can turn
Looking for open our game. Yeah. Good morning. Hey guys, I'm looking forward to got face
They can on pain to open things up
There's plenty of games you can see how things are panned out after the opening day and for the most part things went kind of
As planned, you could maybe argue the Astralis taking down foot, so handedly was maybe a little bit of a shock.
And Bait taking that Fury is also another big one as well. Credit to them, Bait looked really, really good, especially in towards that third and final map.
But still a long road for them to make it through for Bait and still feels like, you know, they're going to get spirit.
So it's no easy task as they're going to follow on through.
But for Fury, it may be a bit of a fumbled opportunity in that opening game, but also maybe kind of just slowly warming up in towards the Swiss stage.
They've got plenty of chances still.
Yeah, I mean, some really big names though,
as you say, sort of coming into the second round
of the Swiss here as we check in.
I think, you know, you look at teams like Legacy
who kind of had this really hot streak in the stage one
and then up against Aurora,
potentially moments where they could have been
winning that series.
To be honest, it was a wild one.
If you didn't catch it, we had a quad overtime in there,
which is crazy.
But yeah, a number of teams, I think,
moving down into this lower side of things
that potentially could be vying for a spot,
but we just don't really know what to make of them.
Meanwhile, on that top side, like you say,
it is mostly who you would expect.
Yeah, yeah.
But there's a couple of names that maybe surprise on day one.
Are they going to continue surprising on day two,
day three, this kind of thing?
Potentially not.
I think it's going to get very, very messy towards the end.
Those two-two games are really going to be hard to predict.
I think it is safe to say.
And you know, one of those teams that are going to cause the mess is phase because it's not been a great year for them.
The loss of rain seemingly having quite the effects.
You know, they still have some good pieces, then they have some less good pieces.
Unfortunately, there are a couple names that you can point towards one being the captain, to be fair, of Carrigan.
He continues to be sort of heavyweight as he has been for maybe a couple years now,
but just doesn't have the firepower around him anymore.
it seems. Yeah, exactly. I mean,
this is just the side that could
never get anything going in the
opening game. A 13-1 in that
first map. It is such a dire
showing against G2 and courtesy
of our good friend, Aziask, as
well. He gives a kind of good
stat that that one kill that
Jacob got is enough to mean
that face as a team got one
more kill than some pirates in
the entirety of that first map
on Dust2. So that one kill
made all the difference. But
as a whole, yeah, how the
mighty have fallen with this
face side. They get absolutely decimated by G2, 13-1 opening map, 13-10 in towards the second.
But again, this is kind of proof of the pudding of where this face side are at. I mean, the way
they are playing at the moment and the way they've been performing, especially in terms of
their kind of tournament finishes, like, they're kind of, again, to the point where it's like,
they're actually no longer a tier one team. Like, that's how close it is. Like, they're
actually starting to delve into the depths of being like a tier 1.5 team who have the
occasional good performance here and there. It's been a really, really tough run of things.
On the flip side, we can talk about pain. I've also had a rough time in the roam regard,
but they've got a little bit more form than you can see in a few of these maps. The Fernand
the Nuke's not bad for them as well. They don't mind a mirage either as well, where
you look towards FaZe and like, this map pool is so thin. There's a couple of maps
which they like, but they're not going to be probably in play. Like, I assume we
could probably even see that pain go for a bit of a quote-unquote punish and just
banning our overpass there.
I think this tournament could
actually be the funeral of phase
if they're not careful. They go
out like 03. I guess it's got
an online portion here, which
they're probably not going to be
fans of for the most part. Um
but yeah, I think if they go
over through, we have to ask
some big, big questions about
this phase team and the future
of them. And maybe it's time
for, you know, carrying into
move into that coaching role
finally make some space. We
have a few august teams that
you could take a chance on.
But yeah, on the pain
conversation, I also agree
that, you know, it's not
that you know, this is another
team that are looking questionable
in places, but this is a matchup
that they definitely could be winning.
We've got the nuke coming out, kind of a handshake
map actually, so a pretty aggressive
pick, you might say, from pain.
Was there space to punish?
In theory, the Inferno, but Faye's actually
banned their way, quite a clever ban.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. We're going
towards that Dust 2 again. Not too sure
if I love that idea, kind of just
considering how the Dust 2 went yesterday.
They're going to be back to the
game. It's an off day on that
one. But if they go back to back
on Los Angeles, it'll be really,
really spicy. Mirage is going to
be that the side that as well.
So for the most part, a pretty
simplistic map or nothing to out
of the ordinary in a sense is
kind of going into maps that
they value a strength rather than
kind of the punish picks. But
I don't know about you, but
coming towards this one, I'm
seeing pain is the favorite in
this series with kind of the
form of phase that they've
Super Covins at all. So we shall see, but it is about time to get this show on the road.
Face me starting on that CT side. Paid on the T side as we get our first series of day two in
stage two on the way. Yeah, looking forward to getting our teeth into this one for sure.
I think there's real potential for it to go to distance.
Bend down. It's got one cancel to get Jacob. Then we can see one more and he'll have a better
score line than yesterday on that dust too. We'll keep reminding him.
and he's got a double in all
that mess. Get themselves down
below Bolster of the B bomb
site, but pain unable to break
in couldn't get the player down
bent couldn't get through ramp in
the end. So they have to
completely. Approach this round
and well, Mr. Twist is ready
for them. Takes one takes a
headshot doesn't want to stick
around and fight here. Thank
you. See you're going to be
doing a great job.
round and fight here. NQZ going to be known about now. So surely has to go down. Flash
comes in. He finds one on the fade away. Definitely round the corner it felt like.
Look at this round that's progressing now though, right? Just under a minute on the clock,
you've got Jacob who's one foot in the grave, and Carrigan, who's potentially could be one
of Don Angle. And he also did, he might just break the timing here. NQZ is a cross
line that's looming, but oh, it's all whether he could win that fight on Carrigan,
Thankfully seen off, but that could have very easily fallen apart very quickly
100%
Thanks to Brokey on the Julees ultimately and kind of a lucky one there actually not often that you see a
pistol find the vent diving player like that
So yeah, pretty lucky that they get away with that one. Gonna be the hard eco coming out pain-looking to get the AKs as early as they can
We've got a lot of rifles over on that face side of things.
So they're going to be expecting that.
B7.
A lot of damage in towards dog.
Could be a nice move to make some money here for twists.
But we definitely have big reservations
about where Phaser at.
I mean, of course, the same thing
has to be said for pain.
I paid against the Mongols yesterday
wasn't maybe the show that they would want especially as well because we don't really know what the ceilings looking like
But there was nice moments right you know double o t into all that first map of nuke right they took mongols a distance there
Let's say it didn't get a fine prize actually gonna delete Jacob. That's just kind of a bit lazy in terms of the end
Dole by Jacob. I'll get punished
Drive by on our 50 twist and looking for a little bit himself
can take a lot of damage and they're gonna start barreling down on his position.
Positive trades go in the way of pain. FaZe, let's not get ecoed here.
I'm nervous. I'm nervous. I'm not gonna lie. All this kind of narrative that we're bringing in that,
you know, FaZe have been looking shaky. To say the least, Frozen does keep his cool, though.
We'll manage to get three of his own in the end. But yeah, certainly some questionable moves.
Let's try and keep it together here if they can.
Just keep that damage coming really, but it is going to be the AKB.
I think we're quite excited about here.
See whether there is potential for pain to start this nuke campaign, you know why they
picked into it.
Yeah.
Or if FaZe can pick up some momentum.
It's one of the things with this FaZe team though, man, wherever they're at, whenever
Karagun is involved, it does get a little freaky.
Molotov there. Yeah, that's intentional to stop the bounce of that smoke and as you see it leaves a gap
So an adjustment now from pain great flash as well
You swung off the back of that could have been
Naughty bar bigger Sarah swing and a fine looks for a second off because they're ripping some heads
She could get caught with heaven in a matter of moments. It's a two versus five turns four
One caught outside. I think you see you'll go and so will snow
No. Bombs planted. They might
potentially be legs behind it,
but it's a question of a face.
Do you even want to give
this topside retaker looking?
Paragon's pretty low.
It's not an easy sight to be sent into either.
Well, yeah, I'm down.
That should answer our question quite nicely.
What around for biggest error though?
The opening double are absolutely fantastic.
And then they just seal the deal
or frozen or save.
Maybe again, you know,
As you can tell coming in towards the series, we're very worried about FaZe in this series, but just as a whole.
Yeah, sure.
And, you know, first...
Fan favourite's FaZe, you know, everyone has to perform as well.
The game benefits from... from Karagan having a strong team.
Exactly.
But first gone rounds, they get...
Oh, Zera.
You know, he loves to fight, you know, he loves to send himself into the fray and...
Good for work.
Indeed.
But yeah, kind of a tough one.
I feel like Bigger's area thrives in those types of rounds, so there's a bit of weirdness
at the start.
It's not quite gone to plan, and therefore, he has to rely on his powers of deduction
to sort of work the round out, and he does just that really well played from him to
be fair.
Yeah, he loves a pug.
You know, if you want to fight, I'll fight.
Like, head to head against Karagin, he's going to win that aim duel more often
than not.
It's value him as a fracking IGL over Carrigan, but it's actually more so can he find ways
to break down pays in terms of the systems?
Yes, right.
Well, kind of an IGL that's had a lot of praise.
It's interesting.
You know, they must have some some secrets on him or something, the pain management because
he's been there for what is it like nearly eight years now?
I think something like this.
I think he's like the fourth longest serving player on one team.
I think it's not like I was like, Crimson number one.
Okay, just over seven. Yeah, just over shot slightly, but still
Yeah, I can't read exactly where but no crimson's us number one and then like historically it's obviously like, you know
The likes of your
He's up there he's definitely up there the SM for a double broke you'll get one
Excuse myself up a rifle and dips away Molly or forced them in the two hearts
It could be very interesting.
Thank you. You've got the bomb.
This is really dicey, boss.
He just mows them down.
Hot control taken.
I think if you're broke here,
you might just save the rifle.
I know you can have a buy until the next round,
but I don't have a little bit of a stronger recon.
He could put the rifle over.
He could pick up an orb.
That's all a nice theory.
He's not dropping a rifle.
He's dropped dead.
Yeah, it may well have been moving to safe,
to be fair, and just caught in transition.
We'll never know, but indeed,
not going to be too much of a dire effect here.
I think they are better shooters,
so it's going to be tough for
FaZe to break this one down.
They need some of that magic,
which I think is the big thing
that's gone missing, right?
Were a lot of people
like to sit back and say,
I can never count them out.
Keep watching. Don't worry.
They'll get back into.
They just absolutely can't come
out now.
They've just not had any games
They've they've not really looked that good since the the major really. Yeah
Yeah, exactly had that kind of fairy to run and I think I saw a really good point
I can't remember if I had to who brought it up
It was on a podcast somewhere and someone brought up the point that
Actually potentially might have been Maui
But whoever it was brought point that that run that they made was actually the worst possible thing for phase
Because what should have happened is they had a bad run and then they made
that was a great idea. We
really wanted to get the
team together. We've made
dire needed roster changes
and you know, shoring up the
side for the future. But
however. That deep run of the
major. Take the side together
and we've kind of seen now
that how one is actually
prolonged the pain in a sense
the suffering ever so slightly.
Happens once in a while. I
think with the roster, you
know, it's like we really
want now be maybe another
just doesn't feel cut out for this. Yeah. Twist, I think, is kind of chilling. You know, he's playing
with people that he enjoys playing with. I still think though, with it, like, you know, if this team
started doing well and there was like a decent team around him, like Twist would come back into his
own. Yeah, I think he's also happy just, you know, having a bit of fun. Yeah. But at a certain
point, it's got to not be fun. Yeah. You know what I mean? I think the trade off of phases
that like, okay, you might have a tournament where you just bomb out last, but then the next
tournament. You're gonna make this crazy run, beat the best team in the world in like a
three map legendary game, you know, so you kind of get it back. I just not had that again, as we say.
One goes down on B here. There's some quick and easy trades flying in.
It'll be a save-out phase. I mean, they just have no presence downstairs.
Yeah, they're all off into this B site. Yeah, I've been talking about it. It's like, you
You know, twist and frozen, for me, you can keep both of those.
I think as well, if you want to kind of keep
carrying for now as well.
Again, I don't even mind that too much
just because of maybe the lack of IGLs.
But there's been a lot of talk about kind of who would you replace it
in terms of kind of Jacob and Brokey?
And there's been a lot of options to be proposed.
All three of their life from pain.
We caught a bit of pain as well.
that crack out and honestly we were pretty impressed by the ESM. He looks actually really
quite solid. I caught a bit in sort of past teams in his career and it always felt sort
of maybe ever so slightly otherwhelming, but honestly the ESM looks very comfortable in
this paint side. I think he's given a lot of freedom in the way that he wants. And
it looks quite scary. When he gets going he's really quite sharp and haven't seen
it just yet in this matchup but it's definitely worth keeping an eye out for. I've been
putting up some decent numbers for pain.
There's a little something about him.
You see?
Look over towards ramp early, Broke.
He's actually been getting very aggressive
towards ramp, so it's definitely something that
Painner now aware of.
Change up from him in this round,
but not going to see too much action.
It's quite a laid back setup from Pain.
I think it's safe to say they're expecting
A round to come to them, maybe. Given the fact that the econ is sideways here for FaZe.
Frozen.
Would be big if he gets the timing.
Snow is being very cheeky here, trying to threat through.
Get away with it. Frozen down below, not ready for him at all.
Oh!
And a big kill found, to be honest. One of the scarier guns taken out of the round.
And it's a ruse, right? Because they're actually gonna go back over towards Ram.
There's no presence here.
here. The snow draws attention towards outside in the pack, creep their way down B site.
And so be another save again in just a moment. The question is though, are they going to be
given the luxury of saving once this bomb goes down in a moment? Surely if you're paying,
you're a bit tempted by a hunt of some regard. I think you leave snow towards top
site here. Yeah. Put the bomb down and actually maybe even send snow with somebody else to have
a little look. They know there's no reaction. They know probably phase on going to give this
too much of a look and maybe bar the pistols themselves. I drop that all. It's true. Get
the hunt on right. They have good cash, not loads and loads, but good cash in the
same vein. They maybe don't want to go down and give weapons away. So yeah, just
They've snowed by himself.
Chris.
Absolutely clinical cuts through two.
However, they were the distraction
as the boys are looking to slip away to make sure that they solidify the save
and I think they will do just that.
Things are down to the bomb.
Oopsy-Daisy.
Happened sometimes on Nuke.
Yeah.
It's one of those maps with stupid bomb radius.
That's not the end of the world as well, like you mentioned, plenty of money to work around for the pain side.
And these are some pretty good T rounds that have been put up.
Four rounds are ready on the T side by pain.
FaZe don't look uber-cabetted since the guns have come into play.
So a full buy back in for both sides now with that AWP rifle saved by FaZe and an investment around it.
It's the round that they've really got to put on the boards just to make life a little bit more comfortable.
It feels like they've been cruising in these last few of the push and pull outside and ramp and
That's seamlessly taken map control
Yeah, just able to keep it simple. I think twists in a pretty good spot here. We'll get his head ripped off
Quite got that confidence to hold the angle
Traders there for one will it be in for another the answer is yes
He could do very well moving in between angles recovering the position back
So all of a sudden there's any three that remain and not ready for frozen at all and he mows them all down
Pain finally the simple style the peaking style will get the better of them as they just lose some respect for phase that
Yeah, dude that that's a very lax round. It has to be said very sloppy
They they just try to balance towards fights and assume that they can
sort of out-aimed them and, well it cost them. I stood up and frozen.
Oh, good. I station a fight, but in a situation like that, like, where's a bit of
Utah that's gonna work with? The only thing is they don't have a flash, there's only a
Molly and a smoke to work with for the pack of those three. That's a nice round.
That's one that you can really try and work on, Barayar and Bigazera. They
combine well to get them space towards A, and Molotov in towards Mini hits
It's Karak in no less, so because there are noses here and either comes in towards heaven
or really deal damage on towards two. I think already phase you're calling for a save a quick
a pop and an easy take. Sometimes losing around in that fashion
as pain did before is like a blessing in disguise. You know, it's going to wake you
up. It's going to alert you to the fact that you need to change things and they again
because they've not gone that deep because it has been quite simple to start the
game off they have plenty of options available right what what do they want to
do here and they go for the opposite end of the aggression spectrum as it were
flying straight in trying to make that work and it looks pretty damn good
Karagin forward man again just sort of distracting away patching and exit but
losing his gun they'll still be able to buy here Karagin for some reason got
10k yeah it's like that's come from last three rounds that's why I suppose
So he's just he's never had to be rebuying it. He's also not been dropping anybody. Yeah
He's been
Gathering the money, you know for for a rainy day, and I suppose this is potentially a rainy day now
Yeah, first time I'll be taken here by phase. I think they're aware the situation they're in while the score line doesn't look too drastic
It's a you know five to three. It's five rounds seaside say it every time we cost new golden number of five
That's a really decent first half already put up by pain and this obviously stark potential of a lot more
This is the damning position that we're in phase. No the need to cut the bleeding sort of here and now
You know they don't they're gonna be a lot of trouble heading in towards that second half that's where pain will do a lot of their best work
Moving forward and towards the seat of sight, but it's a fantastic round. It's very simple, but it's very effective
It's one of those if they go for back-to-back kind of
Aim based rounds pain and they lose both of them. They're in a lot of trouble
I think it really knocks the confidence but because they
just pull them right back in their favour with a quick pop towards A.
It's again going to keep them into pretty starkly in their favour.
Feels like a big swing round here.
Pain able to get six on that T side already would be a really great number.
You can kind of feel that to be honest. Again, slow down a bit. Pain with this hanging back kind of style.
They're going to get some smokes outside.
Typically not a lot of action around those smokes though. Maybe Faye's gonna get used to that.
There is the one player over there in Snow, frozen.
Good nade! Wow, that didn't look like it was gonna be that good but it lands perfectly onto Biguzera.
So we'll soften him up here, moving into the final minute.
Oh, Snow. Left alert towards the A site in spots, nothing. He's keeping the crosshair trained as well.
He knows the possibility of more in through heaven.
He could drag the pack back towards this top site because he sees no response.
He's not spotting anything and he's waiting.
He'll go back into his lobby. There's no lobby control taken by FaZe.
They know they're going to pass to a plant here.
This is going to be kind of difficult.
FaZe needs to re-aggress probably before the bomb even goes down to make anything of this round.
But the thing is they can't.
They're committed to holding it down lower. It's the wrong call and Karrick is not even in towards heaven.
This is round lost. I think he just called for an early save.
We had game state to deal with for sure.
Karagan moving in from on high though.
He's going to give this a small look.
The tip of the top of his head gets ripped off.
That should be the save indeed now being confirmed.
Ayn as I say with a big fine man, moving up to six.
Being pretty damn confident.
I think it is safe to say.
Yeah, they're waltzing through the seaside at the moment.
It's pretty uncompetitive to be perfectly honest.
Bayes are finding kills here and there, maybe ever since Flash is a brilliance, but there's no consistency.
There's no real formula, Payne's looking pretty good.
It's all simple counter-strike as well as the thing by Payne.
It's very, you know, these aren't super in-depth rounds that are being thrown to the table.
It's essentially one kill by Snow that wins them the round.
I mean, Karagin gives it a look, but no one else is supporting him when I look towards A.
It's one kill by Snow, A side's vulnerable.
also even like a questionable place to play as well.
Snow is kind of a bit of a freebie in a way.
But, hmm, top of sight all alone rather than back silo.
Sure, sure.
Another time I've been taking there, this is pretty quickly after the first as well.
We've not seen a massive uptick from FaZe.
And I think, you know, you can kind of see by Kyragan,
usually a happy-go-lucky kind of guy who knows when to get serious.
And he's certainly gotten serious here, I think,
as the vibrations may be slightly off.
Not quite the right hurts at the moment for FaZe in there.
Usually good going charm.
Just struggling to get into the game, and you know, it gets serious quite quickly.
You don't want to be losing quickly here.
The Dust 2 is kind of up in the air.
They probably have a bit of uncertainty going into that one, uncertainty for sure.
So they need to pull off a pretty good showing here, if not a win to be honest with you and
Don't be going down O2 so so quickly, especially if you are face the expectations are high man
But prior junior after the timeout on a mission of his own to find that first kill. Yeah prior
Constant pressure by him. He's really solid well into this game. He's a kill now leading the way for pain
One of the new boys with via salmon
I'm really good at doing so. Twist, he's pushed aggro outside, there's an all-put range keeping
pressure on. How much can Twist get away with from here? Are they going to clear him properly?
They clear him, but Snokes can't win the fight. The biggest error will trade well. That keeps
the numbers in favour of Payne. And where is Brokey on the AWP? He's got the right
read, but staying outside like that for Brokey is such a risk. He knows he has
to tuck himself back in towards A site.
Advanced position here from Karrigan could be beneficial in the moments to come. Broke he's gonna smoke out all squeaky frozen also crunching here
Have missed them. However, they get the impon kill and now the T side have to turn around and deal with this
It's an absolute mess over here in theory Karrigan though trade it out could be a big deal
The orcs gone down frozen find themselves one versus two
You don't necessarily fancy his chances from here
They're gonna make lots of noise. They're gonna recover that bomb back
He takes the head of the first team some great movement here from frozen
Gotta get this frag. It's the only way in and BSM is denied
By the youngster super clean. Yeah, that's brilliant from frozen single handedly gives them another round
He did it earlier as well over three pieces of the here with a three piece
It's still concerning that this is the only way they really phase all winning rounds these gun rounds that you need
basically frozen multi kills, but
We'll keep taking as many as we can get, that's a beautiful little three piece from him.
Such a good ice station again, is that killer bomb puts in such an awkward spot and at that
late in the round is Lord Payne that spends so much time recovering it and then deciding
what they want to do with it so ESM just can't win out the head to head.
Nice work from him, but at the moment he's the only real shining light for FaZe.
A couple more, just a little bit more online and FaZe can start to compete in the tail end
of this half in towards the second.
You get Brokie here and a couple more.
Twist's a bit more online and I have a chance here.
I think it just needs to be really careful though that you do not want to be, you know,
oh, team mate.
Team mate.
Twist was tagged so he's in main.
He's trying to fall back to credit card but Brokie's trying to break the smoke
So he teammates him and Karagin, he might have one for free here, but he's actually probably going to get checked.
Oh my god, he actually just falls away, but surely Snow goes hunting now.
I don't know, that would have been a team need anyway, like even if he wasn't tagged, you're going to do like damage to him?
Yeah.
He really wants to break the smoke to shoot the cross.
Oh my god, Karagin's got to be dead right now surely, and maybe same for Jacob as well.
Down goes Jacob to Pariah, it's Karagin and Snow, if they just won't surround each other, they have.
They must have done somehow. Yeah, like he's dropped out the vent just as he went around the corner potentially bring around the roses. That is crazy
Rosin meanwhile trying to contact in he gets taken down on a no scope
You just get catch in from behind they'll be questioning that I'm sure 20 seconds
Could get a bit freaky out here. They know the location of these two players
So should be able to break in towards the a bombsite. Let's take a lot more time to get over here
Oh yeah. You get it. And
have to go down. He will move
a bit too quick for bro key to
trade him, though. They try to
maybe deny. The bomb doesn't
work out. Brokey find it spots
players at the back spend but
cannot get the all up fast
enough. It's seven. Now the
pain and that feels like a
really great school line going
into the second half. It's a
great way to live off in via
semi. Just plays a contact. I
love the little angle as well.
We're not actually talking to
But yeah, it could have been really fun to be back to team NATO is just in the end actually so costly
It's clear an error
Pain you've guaranteed a lead at the turn of the half as we head into the final round of the first and
Seven already you're pretty happy with this anymore for any more be fantastic rookie should have got that one for free
But he actually misses opportunity and pariah again will open things up
He continues to shine playing through single-door
And he continues to punish phase on these sloppy mistakes that they're making
Curious to see what pain go for actually got a lot of players outside, but she's not gonna hold that common for them
You can get some more smokes down here Kagan meanwhile
He's been on this move a lot, bro. I think they're going to be ready for it this time
Just trying to find a slightly different timing
It's gonna go for the peak by the looks of it though
We'll see how it pays out for him. They seem aware though. Nate comes in. He still looks set
Can't quite catch the player they try and crunch in it's not worked out
Now, FaZe with a few individual moments here to give them some rounds, give them a lifeline
ultimately as a team. They've not looked as good BSM to close out proceedings in eight
rounds on your T side. That feels like a winnable scoreline. That feels like a scoreline that
usually when we see it, we say, okay, maybe not 100% over, but it should absolutely enough
for Payne to work with FaZe. Anything is always possible with this team, but that
The kind of storyline is dying off into 2026, we'll see if that's the case in the second half.
We're going to go back to the
second half. All right, welcome
back in looking forward to the
second half, but we're very
impressed with pain in the
first. We already said when we
hit the five round mark for
pain that this is a fantastic
first off already and they
have plenty more rounds to the
board finishing eight to four
and I thought you have a phase
bar frozen. Really a lot to
like there if we're being
completely frank. So let's see
This guy though, the first half from pariah, so so good in towards single door, he was
constantly putting pressure on towards the A site and Pages couldn't find ways to shut
him down, he now finds himself tagged in garage.
Yeah, taking some damage early on but certainly left to his own devices, he looked pretty
damn effective.
Oh!
And there you go.
So confident.
He'll even by himself outside and he's able to do the same sort of thing.
stuff. See we'll slowly join the team. I'm sure Molotov over the top here. Bursting out
into the Julees though. Snow only one. You love to see those Julees get multi-frag moment
because there is the player that lets us down as well as he gets no kills. So three versus
three and a bomb plant now coming in. Right, Juniors a little low. It's so awkward to
to retake this top site at the best of times.
VSM moving from behind quite fast.
Quite fast, but they are ready for a flank.
Looking good here.
Julie's getting involved.
Oh, it's down to a one-on-one.
And unfortunately, you just cannot correct up.
Twist's angle will work.
It's a sigh of relief, but it's still not
the easiest of rounds, man.
Yeah, it's not a bad attempt at all by pain there.
They kind of dive in from two different areas,
and they're trying twice.
The only thing really is that VSM is just a little bit
more trained on that angle.
then something could have come to play. But I think you're right.
It's all you to generally expect a little bit more than just one,
especially a close angle like that. That'd be in the case.
Could be a different round, but it's not. Faze start there to decide well.
And I hope is that is how they need to go on.
We'll get a force from paint.
Famous scouts MP9 are the better weapons on offer to the eagle
and a five seven to round it out and very limited utility as well.
A few smokes and a flash for the remainder of this round, so see what they try and do
with it.
Another smoke that'll give Twist a cross.
Pariah be that first point of contact.
Twist from this angle should have Pariah dead to right.
He's got the drop on him.
He's snuck on by.
Pariah doesn't know about this.
In every way, Twist should be winning.
snowed in this a couple of times and got away with it.
Flicked to the right like this,
up and to the right as well.
Surely should never win this engagement,
but let's see, it's kind of patience.
What have you got to be?
No, it's moving, yeah.
Come on, lads.
What have you got to make it move?
Here we go.
And now it is, twist or win it, as expected.
And now we can take secret control.
Yeah, just keep the CT side confused, if nothing else.
Maybe having to move resources downstairs.
Looks like they're not moving loads.
They're letting him get away with it and just feeling confident to bolster the upstairs side of things.
They kind of would be correct here.
So we'll see. Oh, I think the whole thing is air melting and he's flashed as well there.
Loses one of the players to support him.
It's the scout at the back end of silo that looks a little freaky clean headshot in QZ.
Surely not has done enough.
Surely not. He's gonna have to go crazy from here.
There's no additional help and indeed he's like, ah come on. I'm hitting these crazy shots
Well my teammates but not to be unfortunately. I think he's chomping at the bit there for more kills
Honestly, it's a great effort. It really is he tagged one as well
So you're thinking that he has a chance to see him off
But good effort honestly really good effort might have even been the play to pull out the pistol at the end there
But he does such great work that shot was broke. He
That's what I mean he tagged him so he's feeling confident about it, but
He said tucked into his heart and he knew that.
He'd got the damage off, but he'd not been able to see him into the grave.
Not a bad effort on the four-spy, but...
Two-round game, most likely going to be a one-round game into the second.
Flash in, it's a beauty of a flash as well, but it'll work against them.
Oh, Pariah!
Oh, a double!
Double dig as he looks for three.
Oh, Pariah!
Lightning fast with a hand cannon, and he's put FaZe into an early grave here
here in this round it was a non-investment and nothing brought to the table and twist left you
there all to do in a one versus three and he flops his lines vsn sees it off but pariah that is brilliant
slamming them absolutely slamming them into the canvas unbelievable clothes lines
this this third shot is so quick as well
I mean, maybe one to watch.
He's having a great game here
against phase, you know, and
when you come up as a player,
these types of games, these
types of matchups have got to
be the ones that you look
forward to and playing against
these players. Sometimes you
can get slightly nervy, but
he's doing the opposite.
He's delivering. He looks
absolutely fantastic. That's
an isolated round of great
games. You know, he's
Absolutely fantastic. That's an isolated round of greatness. But the first half in general was pretty damn good. Yeah, we were brought up like two or three times for like some of the individual work he was doing.
Generally speaking, it was the space he was creating. We saw in that seaside like how efficient he was in terms of taking certain duels towards single door and giving them outside control or giving them main control or allowing them to wrap in towards the A site.
I mean, this guy's confidence is incredible. He's just brilliant right now.
I think this sort of position, I feel like we're now starting to see a pain size there.
Even the sort of the player comes to the end, they're kind of laughing, they're loving life,
and NQC is hitting shots. He's just picking them apart with the support of bigger Zera.
These pistols are being put to bed easily.
Pain or flushed the confidence right now, it is flowing through them.
I don't think they can lose from here, not on this map.
I mean, the thing you've got to remember as well with where the mentors are,
like they lose the pistol, they lose the force, Farron of Force comes a bit close,
that's got a field to it.
Then they were on the eco, and they actually won the eco,
so we've not seen them get a conventional rifle on rifle,
which is I think what they were waiting for
and why the vibes were still pretty decent over there,
Despite the fact that you know phase it managed a mini gap close as it were
But now they're gonna be feeling absolutely fantastic. This is the first proper rifle round and honestly it sets pain up in
Very good stead if they win this I think Matt is right around the corner for them
And in a pretty one-sided fashion as well so they can feel confident moving into it
Just to that I think they're not gonna be fully afraid of honestly. Yeah, especially all the afternoon look at the demo yesterday
What did G2 do well? Will do the same.
That Chopin gives you again.
Towards outside, he's having an absolute whale of a time.
He just keeps isolating duals as down goes Jacob.
And he's, you know, having a poor map for him, 6 and 15 for Jacob.
He used to be an underperformer.
He had struggled there yesterday on 15, I think he was, and I did too.
And we'll see.
Frozen. Nice final drop for the informed pariah.
And he also catches snow.
Oh, he nearly had the third.
the cross. It was in the right
spot because they were
crouches underneath it.
If you three, you actually kind
of got a bit of time to make
a decision where they want to
go to. Yeah, there's there's a
lot to work with it.
There's a lot, but the problem
I think that they have on the
face side of things is they
they lack some decent info
like some fresh info. Yeah,
I'm going to have to try
and get together. Be
confident in their call. Top
site is the player right
right? That's where they've got a chance. It's bigger zero who's also tagged a little
bit. And considering the time, they do have to go here. Weird angle from bigger zero as
well. So we'll see what you can do with it. Flash comes round. Here's them running in,
able to take the first. Did he spot the second? Not quite sure. He's now going to play the
time is the big thing here. Oh man. Garaghan just flies by, ignores him, jumps around
the corner, gets the bomb flash, able to reset the game here on top of each other
the back end of silo as well is the blade that they've gone for spreading wide and it's a phase
climb round if ever you've seen it oh my goodness how do they get away with that yeah they have no
right to no right to win that one phase but they do because there are maybe needs to be a little bit
more aggressive then knowing that he nets the first yeah fighting in towards that bomb is
probably actually where you've got a better chance yeah not to be in the end frozen his double
here is actually really important in the long term kind of prospect of the round. But yeah,
unfortunately for Biggs, he just could have gone a bit earlier. You've got to go before that bomb's
gone down. Still feeling good still enjoying themselves, which yeah, I don't even know they've
got such a nice runway and it's on the CT side as well. But that is yeah, absolutely, which
fair enough, I think because could get a little scary if this one drops. But I was just going
to say as well to be on the end of that that is kind of a classic phase round, you know,
like a little contact heavy, but just carrying it like jumping across with the bomb. I think most players are trained and taught
To take that peak. They know big is there is there. It's like, I gotta get this peak
I gotta kill this guy. Yeah, Kagan's just like, you know, little Mario bounce noises
He jumps around the corner and gets the plan
Yeah, you know so
But it works!
Strengths and weaknesses, right?
Indeed.
Yep.
Three round buffer, that pain, all over the phase, three rounds away, of course, from
seeing off their map pick.
See, Broke here we boosted up as he looks for a cross towards outside.
Early control, looking in the direction of our side, but Pain aren't playing it.
They're not doing any garage control.
Enki's usually the last couple of rounds to be playing through lockers.
This time he's deep basically by spawn.
on the smoke
Exploded behind it. You might just go back to his lockers position, which he's had a lot of success from
Very different from phase isn't it that they like working outside much more
Intuitively rather than just faking out sending one player. They've got quite a few actually
looking to make space
Twist very lucky to get across there by the way miss the timing on those smokes
It gives you double back to ramp right rather than sticking on and holding the outside control. So you're right
Very fortunate the second I was asking. Oh my god. He was tempted to kind of go back up top secret
Thank you Zee just commits an across angle he gets one for free
He's not the guy in towards either it might be the right call because the bodies are flying in here
There's Karakin for two. Oh broke. You're gonna find one of his own as well
This is surely the round surely the remaining two of the seven biggest era
You just shell up and save here dive in towards the A site and it didn't look excellent
But they just win their angels. It's another headscratcher. It's a it's a real quick contact flash
I think Karen might have even moved ahead of the flash that was designed for him
Yeah, the shots landing and
Playing together quite nicely still loose enough and a couple players that have the freedom and the confidence to do their
own thing
For the most part, FaZe, and what they do,
they'll taste of it here.
Will it keep them rolling to this gap close
and maybe to a snatch of a victory?
We'd sort of called pain early.
I never know. We may come to regret that.
Yeah, it's true.
FaZe lost off around showing this little something
about the character.
That second kill in particular towards Snowy
is really, really good.
I think you see in hindsight staying in towards heaven might have been the smarter play
Even as well for finding one as they're kind of diving through main
But then also on top of that probably holding for that
Kind of late player Swiss was still around secret coming back to join them in towards main
All easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but this is a kind of a nothing round
This should be a one-round game double M4 a
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It's not looking good, man. It is, er, the last defence of their lead in the next round.
And it's so complexing as well because Payne looks so comfortable in the rounds they're
winning. And then all it took was one 2v3 converted from FaZe and it's completely flipped the
script. It's just, again, sort of how FaZe can be. They can level up at a random
point. Karrion's having a fantastic game as well. But we'll see. There's sort of
a rifle down here, but it's only for one. It's not good enough for Snowy. The
last man of pariah all the way down on that B site. I think at a test of twists in a second
he shouldn't win this fight though, he'll be a tough one for him to win and he'll lose
his head. So you know if it's a pretty easy one for FaZe as well against that non-investment.
On round game, you lose this pain and I think you might cost them the map.
No, it's very true. And the whole thing gets very weird. Moving into map number two,
don't quite know what to make of it. As you say, there was a small moment of like, that's
annoying, should have won that one. Maybe I think it's two things, you know, it's not
some confidence, but it's also built the phase confidence up in a really big way.
That can often be the case. Okay, trained in on this all. You might see some action.
It feels like there's one or two players that want to go pushing in towards Lobby.
Meanwhile, the main crux of the attack is over here at Ramp.
BSM.
On the other side of it, does he have anyone nearby to support? The answer is no.
Oh, yeah.
It's pretty scary.
Kind of got a huge hit.
I think he's Z-Wall though.
He needs two.
If he goes two for one, it's fine. One for one, actually might not be enough.
Let's see if he flashes round. There's the first. He can't get the second.
It's actually a really effective trade by FaZe.
Sure, numbers don't favor them, but...
The fact that they can now as a three move in towards this lower site is good
Oh
Not deliver at all
You see gonna be here with the orp. He also misses a shot and we'll go down
They just keep this real aggression going twist not letting go of W the whole time
Crazy moves as the phase clan seemingly have found that magic have found that mojo that we know them for
games tied but like we said losing this for Payne might completely not put
confidence especially losing in that fashion like I said to PSN he put
these two there and he gets one. They've closed these kills around double doors like
NQC should be getting one for damn sure and same for Snow. Both of them should
be delivering at least one in a spot like that and they just get swung upon
they miss opportunities and they've allowed FaZe back in towards this
game. Payne gonna call for their second time out but this is a dire spot
actually now that the Brazilian Saturday. Molly's not great. He gets there are saved in a cave,
but that's as good as it gets to buy around is pretty rough. I think you probably want to be
half buying here, to be honest. Half by here, full by next and hope that you can just squeak it
out the tail of the regulation. But it was all lost and smiles a couple of rounds ago for pain.
And it's not anything but the vibe is seriously changed over towards here. And it's kind of
have all their own doing. Yeah
and I want you to remember where
the rounds come from on this CT
side as well. They found a well
I say they prior junior found an
absolutely nuts eagle round with
insane timing with insane mechanics
I think he's had a kill since then
actually I was on 17 kills after
that that mental move and then it
forces an eco out from phase and
then they're right back on the
You know as soon as they possibly can be and they've looked good from there on in
Fast towards a
We'll see yeah, Brad jr. Does finally get a kill back
But it's not gonna be the multi-frag moment that he had last time
Anybody else step up to the plate here lovely smoke figures there with an aggressive swing in vs. M goes down to the fire
Who's shot him up? Nobody knows it's one versus two all of a sudden Frank you see and he has gone on
Spotted frozen walks into the bullets on low HP one dink could have ruined his day
But not going to be the cage phase will see it off just about yeah
That was nearly nearly a fumble at the end there by just walking in towards what he was spraying
It's this double Molly that comes through
Go to them dying in it
As they wanted to dive out of heaven through the smoke went into the flames
games. One round lead for phase, what a recovery from them as well. It's so lacklustern the
first half. Especially after that parry around us or thought it was all but sealed here.
Anything but back into a buy and this is basically to keep paying a life here. Twists, you'll
have to look at the close angle zone. Nice work, the biggest error. Yeah, changing
things up a bit, getting aggressive outside. I'm from BSM. On that secondary orb. Yeah.
first time we've seen it needed a big change I suppose and you know some more
forward-facing not afraid to take the fight that being said phase have also
picked up the pace in the previous and into this round moving very fast getting
ahead of smokes just trying to force the first fight feeling like they need to
change things as we get to the tail end of regulation question mark could be
overtime on this one. BSM. Good Molly. Back end of the silo. He'll get Molotov'd out himself
though and Brokey peeks perfectly. He didn't even see him come round that corner. It's
gorgeous. Are there any more on the cards here? There's a player down below on the
control stairs. The Molly goes behind him. Snow has a chance here to get something done.
It's difficult for the first, but the numbers, it doesn't matter. Just going to look
through a bigger area and nearly melting again into fire. Oh yeah. Snow keeps the
kills coming it's all going to be on Brokey opens up single trying to bait them in. It's another
AWP to deal with though. It might be difficult at this kind of range but he just does not know
where they're coming from. Biguzera takes him down and Payne of course as soon as
the scariness is right around the corner they'll be back. Yeah an incredibly necessary round
taken by Payne and that's one that you hope can bolster the confidence a little bit. You know
only the two casualties three staying alive you're pretty happy with the outcome of how
you find that. Snow's second kill is really important too. The first was a little labored
but he regresses in towards radio. Shot broke, he was lovely. Just the second one here though,
he makes a great move at a great time. Just a cast Jacob in transition. He's just caught
us off guard. 11-11, a full 24 required here and potentially handsome. We have plenty
of over times yesterday and maybe we bring the curse to the mainstream of more here.
We'll see.
Yeah, the production team behind us
quaking in their boots.
One long day we can manage.
Two long days in a row.
You know, that might be strike territory.
Yeah.
Oh, doc, I'll pay.
They come to smoke and might be a second behind us
as well as they're tempted by the cross.
I think he's back into his, was formerly a strong position.
of lockers they're gonna sneak on by as they
Hug that smoke closely to get a safe passage towards secret
Big difference from phase probably the first team
I think we've seen going for a cross with the with the smoke as a team
Yeah, or as a core at least as a pack
Now either side is really wanted to give this kind of round to go
Making things out ever slightly
I'll spam away. There's not much more than they can really do, but they come back up.
MQZ has free reign to take some peeks. He only goes in for one, not going to bite off more
than he can chew in his opinion. He has his eyes on heaven, so he's reading this situation
really, really well right now. He's only five seconds.
I'm going to go for a lobby control at a not time as NQZ repositions, Pariah will support
and it should be all she wrote.
VSM from in behind, what a response of a round.
It starts with NQZ, it is closed by VSM.
That's the kind of round that payneed to get the impact from Pariah that we've called
upon plenty of times throughout this map and he comes up huge once again.
He keeps bailing them out of dicey spots prior and that A site that's completely his territory.
Matt point paint on their map pick when it felt like they might have just squandered this
opportunity and allowed phase too much control and allowed them in towards this nuke right
at the tail end.
They might be ripping it from their hands.
We do have money for a buy and we do have one more time out for phase.
But Swiss is going to bring a gillil to have a bit of utal caragon only has a smoke.
So they're right at the wit sense of this econ two things to know one. I don't know why everybody's so afraid of going down
Little strange, they've just not got that in their wheelhouse second thing we have that time out there
Cargain not the vocal one. I think it's it's maybe a coach time out. It's it's neo getting on the microphone
Yeah, you
I don't know what would you say right now.
That's locking, fellas.
Yeah, they're not locking.
No, hey, that's pretty good, man.
That's pretty good.
But yeah, either way, I think maybe
Mighty Carraghan slightly out of ideas
and just trying to go through the motions here
and let things happen.
Also worth noting, he swaps onto the glil.
That's good to see in a way.
Yeah.
Get twist on that AK, but having a pretty good T-side
as we know, because they're outside here.
Smoke's coming in.
He wants a fight.
He wants this peek.
Spamming away, he was close. He's about half a second too late on that.
Meanwhile, with all this noise going down, where is Twist?
He's worked his way into the warehouse real fast.
I don't know.
They do not. He takes the first.
Maybe he could have gone for some more, confusing the situation.
He knows another player around him, and he's going to check his angles cleanly.
And that's why Twist has got the AK, so that he can take the heads.
Call it the Canadian version 2.0.
Super clean here, and might just have given them enough to get into the OT.
They know there's those angles of possibility as well and twists
Like a shark's most blood in the water, but it loses head
Oh, I'm carrying out a nade out. I know all he was there to trade him
So he's stuck is the issue
Broke, he's gonna see him off. He knows that he can't escape from here, but it's pariah again
He stepped up before but not here frozen comes in late from single
And it's all on inky z. We're going out here
We said a little bit earlier that maybe we're cursed for it and potentially this game
of it and it does. Thank you
see the last man. That's all
that's left and he spotted out.
So nothing to come forward from
this. He'll have a late look,
but this is all but done over
time required here in our first
map of the day. Nothing but long
series for me and you script.
Yeah. I mean, you said it,
you know, it smells of overtime.
I, uh, one point I would have
said not, you know, phase on
a pretty strong streak and then
They managed to battle back really, really well done from them.
I think it's fun and interesting here as they are subtitled the most entertaining team in Counter-Strike.
They're definitely living up to that moniker in this one.
It's kind of a battle for a worse, isn't it, as well?
Well, yeah, yeah.
Entertaining.
I'd hate to be like a solid fan of this team, really.
Yeah, you wake up every day and like, what is my team going to do today?
Yeah.
Randomize your calendar. Yeah, you know, like it's like you decide what you do for the day
Sort of like the innisfilter's fun really
It's gonna be a good time mate. I'm gonna be I'm gonna be headed you know my head is first in the championship. Yeah
Mighty Lincoln going up
It's very simple, right?
Baze versus Ill Will, for the grand final of CCT17.
Yeah, that's what I need to qualify for the Singapore Major, something along those lines.
What a dark timeline that would be.
Biggest error.
Good on the secondary AWP here, funny enough it's not NQZ, it's VSM and Biggest Error
wield in the orbs and then you see he's been so good with the orbs as well you got a rifle
i'm assuming this is a kind of spawn base but as we get this late portion so it's around
thank you see there's no way he's going to be able to get himself an orbs he's kind of just
got to try and get something from this how about two no it's only one because of the plant it's a
team flash as well that catches NGZ by the way so that'll make his life a little awkward pariah
surely dead to rights there's just too many bodies a bigger zera we don't see him on the
the off all too much. But how's
going to deal with it? Well,
they're diving down then. It's
overtime. They're pulling out
the scared strats. Things they
did not go for in regulations
to try and catch their team.
Off guard or their opponent's
off guard, I should say. And
this is again something that
phase will do. We might see
that outside fast commit down
secret. They love saving a
couple strats for the OT. A
these crazy close games big who's era with a quick scope however make things a
bit more interesting taking miles into his own hands
Twisters left snow's gonna be watching for him here's him now as well but the
bomb is just gonna get diffused he's not close enough to the action paying
somehow coming out on top of that one big who's era with some crazy crazy
shots yeah two brilliant kills and biggest era honestly kind of single
handedly gives them any life in that round without the two kills taken
in the fashion that big as they're a taste them.
Payton did have a chance that round.
The post one actually did have legs behind it.
The first one's fantastic, but the second is all
it's on a crack angle.
Yeah, NQC kind of moving, it felt like as well, you know,
so really quick counter strafing.
He should have had two dead to ride.
That is a quick shot though, onto Carrigan.
NQC gets quite unfortunate, honestly, with that team
flash, really sells them down the river a little bit.
But who cares?
Payton found the round.
They open up some seedings and towards Oversight.
It should be getting at least two out of the three rounds on this CT side.
We'll see, both teams put up eight four halves on the T side.
Carrigan is bloodlust. Where was he looking?
Aiden Hand. It's an easy one for NQZ.
It's a great break though. The breaks usually come in like from the side on Nuke, right?
A little closer for a completely different angle.
So just not expecting it. NQZ holding very strong over here.
They're flashing in, trying to take him down. He will be unblinded though.
Yeah, it's too easy.
Take him to go quicker.
He's got to go, man.
He's lacking some confidence against that AWP, really.
And maybe lacking, you know, the confidence of the flashes
and everything.
And again, he just speaks to the dissidents
in the phase clan right now, really coming
to a head with a moment like that, all the same.
Five versus three should be Payne's 14th here.
Brosnan and Brokey, both actually had pretty decent maps
in our fairness.
Brosnan, in particular, it's got a bail phase out
a couple of rounds, two of which he got three pieces in, but surely impossible here. We'll see.
Brokey for the first. Nice final figures error. We'll try and give them space down towards lower.
And as Frozen finds Pryor, it's what opened the door a little bit. Bonn planted a two versus three.
Brokey somehow giving the luxury of getting out. He's also spotted them in towards that close
left. VSM playing a dangerous game, but it's all on the shoulders of Brokey. Now he needs
a quad clutch in his one versus three. Already with the first. He knows the shoulders peaking
out. Flash ineffective. He finds one, but a quick trade on contact pain. They allow them
to set up, but they know they could just overwhelm all of numbers on that AWP. Not a bad effort.
I frozen the Broke key, but it's too many kills to find in the two versus five.
Yeah, it's a lot of work. It's all overtime feels like it's going to be a lot of work.
With a resurgence, you know, it often happens to CT sides and teams that maybe
feel the pressure of regulation but CT side is especially right. You have this money that
you've got to worry about all the time. Come into an OT. Not necessarily the case. Maybe
you're AWPer. That's about as far as it goes. But if you win in rounds, if you win that
first round, you're sorted. So, yeah, it could be a flawless first half of this OT for
paying if they continue playing like this. You're right. Oh, nice made. Really nice
Karrigan has a lot of damage and from the heavens, pariah for two.
He continues to be a stalwart defense here for this A site.
He was tempted by the dive down as well, you could tell.
But NQZ gets a freebie outside twist, overlooks the angle
and NQZ just punished them in that previous round from.
And once again, it's broken and frozen in a 2-V-X situation.
This time, a 2-V-4.
Just not good enough though, the utility to get into A there.
Just really not good enough.
Nobody blinded up. It's gonna be frozen all alone here to try and clutch up a crazy highlight moment on the cards
He gets overwhelmed hits the shots that he can but you can only shoot at one person at a time in theory
Unfortunately, like I say though, just not good enough from phase with that utility calls a little lazy
Kind of wanting to get out of here ever so slightly
The same day it often seems to be working
They have hit this groove of like ice over time
We just throw the kitchen sink at every single round and force our way in
Sometimes at one time that may well have worked, but they've lost the x-factor dare I say, you know
He would have been great here. Yeah stable guy is gonna set you up for success, right? Yeah, and we just aren't seeing it now
spoke about paying as well some of these t-side rounds like pariahs individual
brilliance towards single how much space and control he was taking there
they struggled all kind of half long to shut him down see for now I was a bit
of a slower rolls a couple of those lobby that is waiting to see whether face
10 feet with a lobby crunch and if they do probably be at the loss of life. At the same
time Snow who loves a lurk is looking outside. It is a world he got spotted there on that
kind of crack angle. It's going to get down towards Seeker, they can't stop him there.
Jacob will be our first line of defence on this top bomb site. 45 seconds remaining
pain certainly taking their time looking uncomfortable on the T side you might say well time smoke onto
squeaky maybe make some decisions now tease but I think they still just have to go away
they don't really have any time to do anything else in the same vein they've got two players
outside so I guess they're looking to crunch mini it's question five to say the least yeah there's
really not a lot of time on the top not quite good enough Jacob unfortunately the M4 making the
difference can't break. You go
back into the site who goes
overlooked. He misses a key
shot, though, but there's just
enough carnage and chaos going
on. It's wild. What is
happening? Says everybody
involved. The CT is hitting
their shots and just in
slightly better positions. And
that for me comes down to a
lack of time and a real panic
from pain. Yeah, and a real
kind of lack of direction. If
we're being honest, right for
this pain side, they put
themselves in a spot where
they leave it too late. We
like and they just dive in and they're basically just all they're looking for
there is they're hoping that head-to-head doles go in their phase. Like it's not
really something that kind of reeks of a good idea or a good plan. It's not a good
call, as a sense. It actually is a scared way to approach it. It's just hope
that somebody delivers a multi-kill. Some hope that kind of our openers went
out there aimed doles and they just don't. Too easy the phase to dissect
that one and all phase really had to do in a situation that was be patient.
Yeah
Yeah, no for sure the round came to them
And their shots so we'll see as I said the pain not been here for a while
First round back on the T side looks uncomfortable to say the least
Thank you. See you boosted up here looking for the first kill. I just get it
It's close but nobody rounding those all important corners
And on top of each other here outside, a minute left on the clock.
Real progress made by pain so far.
It's a... again, but...
Burning a lot of the time here, but Karagin bold choice to try and take aim doors at range
and no losers' life, the AK nice shot from him and QC gonna find one of the AWP.
is looking a lot more likely maybe the beginning of the end here the curtain
being drawn on this nuke has paid or on track for the 16th they're five versus
three now but all three are towards this top site
oh man the ESM do you clear Mustang at a time like this 20 seconds pain again
he hasn't cleared it so over look frozen for two because there are ounces
one back but jake is gonna get one so would twist and one versus one it's
all on the IGL. Because they're looking for twists, he's going to find him.
That is a nerve-wracking round there, but Payne win it nonetheless.
And they close out there, my pick on Nuke.
Effectively, yes, but Stephanie still questionably.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, never easy on this map,
it would seem Payne enjoying the pick into it,
but OT's seem to be pretty prevalent on this one,
a double OT in their previous game in Stage 2.
So, you know, it's really quite a rough one.
You see around like this is what prior junior and you feel okay
That has to give you enough of a springboard to close things out
They won the subsequent anti-eco as well
But just the rifles man could not bend off so some
Decent signs from phase that perhaps the individuals waking up into this matchup
Just that team players just that dissonance in places a couple players with nades out when they should be ready to trade or
Not quite spacing well enough to help their teammates of the lazy utility
It costs them in the end these tiny nuances will of course make all of the difference
We got a D2 coming up next
What do we expect there again? Not quite sure phase have been slammed on this map just a day ago
And yet they pick into it
So we're gonna find out if anything has changed in the 24 hours since they played it previously. We'll see in a few
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Do you long to answer their questions? Fraggs.
Would they understand if you didn't?
Fraggs.
Fraggs.
Where you're not performing your duties, do they reduce you to a number?
Stats.
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What's it like to hold the drop of someone you loved?
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What the hell?
You're bringing me face to face with you.
What a day, hmm?
You look lonely.
I can fix that.
I swear I saw the sun in your eyes,
and I go back close on the ground.
It's so bad to be back to see what you mean.
And the cats in the green, they're thinking I am.
I swear I saw the moon in your eyes,
It's funny.
Bread player.
What have you done to my god damn aim?
It's talk shit, Chad. We're telling you the truth.
He did fell in love with the game straight away.
He always loved watching me play as well, that's when he got obsessed with the game.
To come back here and tell these cheating fucks that they may take our reload, but they'll never take our freedom!
Rez, where am I?
You're in a hotel room in Katowice.
A hotel? Looks more like a hospital to me.
Yeah, perfect.
I was turning into the Major, G2 was winning, and all of a sudden there was this blast.
Was this before or after they lost the face in the semi's phase?
In the semi's?
Yeah, spirit defeat phase 2 to win Shanghai Major.
Don't worry, we go through it all slowly.
Magic's popped off, I must be dreaming.
These are gonna take a little adjusting to them, okay?
no it's all wrong it's all right never mind it's cooked the world's different
now wait what what is that oh this whole thing what do you think so weird the
young produce yet to pick they both of us huh look over the pitch Josh should I
say steel
That's right, let's see it, it shows a black and red.
Wait, what?
It ain't 2014, Ankh.
Their options are limited.
Excuse me?
Oh, so here my story begins.
He was late, you go to school, man!
Hey, guys, I'm Twist.
I'm Frozen.
And this is Dynamic Duo's.
Playing B on Dust2 is, I mean, it can be rough,
but also I feel like it's one of the chiller sites, so to say.
to say, especially if you're a hard shooter, next thing you know.
First of all, I think you need to cross doors, so you need to HE door, or get a smoke from
the air guys to smoke midfield, instead of getting to be side, throw a molotov, molotov
or smoke if you have or something, just shut down that fur, like first time in B-pop that
can happen or B-rosh.
Yeah, it all comes down to the signals the enemy team is giving.
If the door smoke is a bit too late or there's a door smoke but there's no flashers
or anything, always have to be careful with a team in the walking the contact B, B-pop.
That's why you see a lot of players just in some molly, maybe flash off the wall, the
tunnel wall, and then smoke just so any contact players are eliminated really.
The biggest threat to B-players is actually B-split.
B-split is the biggest threat by far.
You gamble that the B-site, the players are playing more on the mid-side of the
map and then if you hit the good timing on a B-pop through the smoke the risk
can pay off, but most times teams are playing out the defaults.
It's a lot of utility tracking and economy management.
If teams can afford all this utility to prevent the disputes,
say for us, if we can't, we always
have to adapt in the round for what can happen.
And if the teams can play the round well,
you know, make cities use a lot of utility on the map,
then it will get to the point on the B side
where you run out of nades.
And, you know, as I said, you
have to choose either you play for mid or you play for B side.
and it just comes down to killing, right?
Then it can be rough sometimes.
Despite it being a smaller site out of the map,
I mean, you can get away with playing
one close angle to MP9.
You can only stay there for so long,
because you cannot stay there if they're splitting B.
You wanna make sure you get a small solo or M4
to make sure that you and your site partner
can have good crossfires and long range duels,
either window and car.
So if they're splitting B,
one point gets contact first with a better gun,
And then of course, double up is always nice for the B side.
And he's also really good at surviving.
When he has a smoke, I feel like I can always rely on him to buy time.
So I always have time to come back from mid and throw flashes.
When I play a side to the player, there's a lot of natural chemistry.
We're doing things that can be unspoken and we just play out for each other well.
U.S.A.C.S. Renaissance is a part of it.
Pedro might just be the tomb of Apex all by...
I'm really bad in English.
Siders on the action.
What the hell is going on?
Let's go, Nico!
Nice, Nico! Let's go!
Hey future pros, a classic Dust2 smoke today to block off CT for that mid to B take.
To throw the smoke, get behind X-Box and crouch down, aim to the right of this nail
along the right side of the plank, then crouching jump through the smoke.
An absolute classic with the benefit of landing on the box making it harder for the
CTs to contest.
Just watch out for smoke breaks, spams and flash pushes, then I'm sure you can take
the B site.
2 on the cars here and we honestly are anticipating maybe a little bit of a wild one.
Yesterday FaZe picked this map against Sheet2 and lost 13-1, only getting I think it was
21 kills across the entire team. They pick into it again here against pain, which feels
like a very bold move considering how yesterday's antics went, and they're now mapped down as
well, so it's a map of Dust2, they have to win.
Yeah, they must have had a really good scrim or something coming into this Stage 2 for
skinning.
It's older guys.
Yeah, I don't know. It's like, I appreciate and respect you being confident in the pick
and you know, maybe looking at yesterday as a flu because they're getting warm
and hopefully they've gone away and done some work on that map.
Well, maybe it is a case of you just forget about it.
Yeah, it didn't happen.
Come in with a fresh slate here, but going to be challenging.
I think they will be kicking themselves.
They couldn't clean up nuke there.
They they worked quite hard to take it to the overtime.
Couple of moments where it felt like pain should be able to take in regulation.
Strong first half from them.
Crazy, Deagle, Eco 4K thing.
but phase was still able to be
resilient as we know them to be.
And in the overtime, they let it
slip, you know, so I think they
will be disappointed in that.
Now the dust two has to turn up
in a big, big way, but I'm not
sure you got all these factors,
right? Talk about the result
yesterday. We also have the fact
that pain will be feeling pretty
comfortable. I think coming into
this now that they're a map
twists and Karakin like these online games probably really do get to them a bit because
it's just not the environment you know Karakin always working the crowd always playing around
those kind of emotions and you know making his wacky noises and stuff like that. So all
these factors come into now honestly point towards pain if I'm being totally totally
real. Yeah and paint don't mind this map is kind of the main thing on the flip side
as well. There is a map in which they've played at these smart times they just
win it right and so I guess maybe for the likes of phase it's like a confidence thing of like yes
you know we lost it badly but they're losing it too but like they took power vision the distance
it wasn't a bad showing like it's not like it looks terrible on a 3d max this map has kind of
become their home ground so again a lot of it doesn't really surprise me that much in terms of
the early stages we'll see though the only win they've had is against Bates in the top level
in the last few months of this year. So we'll see. Generally speaking, they've had some rough
showings in their own regard. And despite FaZe's woes on it yesterday, they think the woes of
pain will be worse. So let's see if that is the case. A T-Sat start for them and
looking tempted to maybe dive out towards mid here. So they'll be tested. He spots a couple
and he'll just tuck his head away. As will FaZe. Flash coming in towards short, but they're
They're very ready. Jacob while blind takes it. There was four players around that corner just so set up for it
Some good need damage to try and follow up, but we'll see headshots gonna have to land to great flash once again
BSM here trying to make a cross in trying to take a couple of names before they get in towards the site
Just come close. He takes that easy player in
Carrigan, but the rest of them not looking good big flick from snow runs out of ammo
Can't get another he had a decent chance
Honestly, if you had a couple more bullets, you might have found one more all going to be on to prior junior charging in from along
Takes that goose initially and is quietly finished off by brokeie face to take the pistol
Yeah, nice pistol for them
I get a little bit fortunate a few instances that that kill that Jacob gets to open things up
He's full blind, but you take him all the same
They just dive into all day a late move the need that comes through that she's really nice on towards phase
It does soften them off, but it's not enough in the end snow this second shot though is a stunner
It's so reactionary.
I think he even realizes he got it until it had come through.
But pure instinct.
Nema second. If you had a little bit more ammo,
that player on towards top site,
potentially could have been in trouble too.
That's a very easy start. Well,
we'll be forced by it by pain off the back of the kills.
They find it snowing the F-17.
He's flashed into the fight here.
That seems really overzealous for me.
Arguably even unnecessary.
Potentially, I think it's a forced by.
Maybe you have to try and do something, you know.
Doesn't quite work.
Could have been big.
The flash just made too much noise with the bounce and then, you know, appeared for quite a while.
It's not like it was the perfect pop flash that we love to see.
Spoke down on the sight here to just slow them down.
It's the CT side that have been loving this recently, just across the board in Counter-Strike.
It does work here, Fa is going to be forced back towards the middle, he goes for a drop
in, not quite been heard, biggest error, enemies in front, enemies behind, what do you really
do there?
And now it will be this saving notion for pain, nice pick up from NQZ.
He's good with that scout, fantastic round of nuked with the scout, a little three
PC got honestly kind of believes in him for all five as he dealt further damage, but this time I just take is one
The double sky and P7 will be reusing towards the next round
But it's a second on the board for face most likely a third is well considering there won't be a full investment
Of course paying towards the next
Nice sort of runway face have already done better than it is against G2. That's a good sign
He's got triple his kills in the first two rounds that he did the entirety of that mob.
So these are all positive signs.
Maybe for pain.
Let's punish pick against them.
Could be leading us in towards that the side of it on paper.
It kind of looked like it.
We kind of spoke about that.
The side of a mirage being the handshake.
Yeah.
to see really how the first gun rounds go for pain this one won't really be anything so it's another
proven intermediary kind of throw away around it's again the skypey seven saves couple of just
around it yeah take it loose take it fast i think pain will see how they get on really
a bit more aggression once again into the start of this round and the flash is perfect
Brokey was sort of stuck and I think got flashed and maybe just a small mechanical mistake for him to push forwards while blind
Tensely thinking he'd fully turned around either way. It's an opening kill for pain prior
Running out of ammo it's ugly
It's decent damage dealt but should have been a kill should have been a kill absolutely
They'll be kicking themselves to let that one slip, the numbers not go even.
The two towards phase are pretty vulnerable.
I'd say it's open momentarily, but as I say that pariahs doubling back at the same time
that the bombs are in that direction, you'll be the man to see this off.
They just got full HP, Karagin doesn't, so you're looking towards the youngster
to try and bolster them up here.
an aggressive stance too. Oh, it's another body shot. Now it's about can he spam the
body shots out, Parise. He's hoping he can. A lurk smoke that he wants to avoid, but he
over fights and over faces and Jacob will delete him.
Yeah, it's in two minds there. Do you stand and fight? They've got to have knowledge
that some decent damage has been done here. Maybe though, buying time for those rotations
could have been a better play. I thought you were the bomb going down. You feel
like there is no chance and NQZ he's got a prize he's got a precious AK here so
we'll be really keen to save that.
Mizarra in the action, maybe a kill on the cards for him but in the same vein he's
very low so not looking too likely will be a third four phase skin of their teeth
stuff as that scout could have been devastating. Jacob with a really keen
Opening pickup looking a lot better here as he finds himself the top end of the scoreboard
Oh death's as yet
So certainly not gonna be as rough as the G2 game for him. Yeah, it's a really crucial kill
He gets I like the idea from prior because of that tag in the lurks might that completely nullifies his spot, but
You know, we got to play around this week rather than full committing to the open fight
Also as well kind of so long ago in the round itself, but VSM should have got this killer
You're gonna keep it yourself. It's so messy as you run to the map, but man, he's doesn't have time to pull the pistol out
Yeah, it tells me knows he's under the chance there. I think as well in that situation where you're a little bit fostered
He actually just resets the spray. Yeah goes for a burst rather than a full kind of mouse one
I think he's probably fine, but
First gone on first look into what pain I'm gonna offer up here
I'd have it for sure
Indeed. This is more what we're putting under the microscope.
At least Moxalphum on site.
What phase looking to...
What's through this one? I don't know how we feel about that.
Molotov in front of it as well. Just going to slow them down.
Biguzera...
He sniffs this. He really does feel like this is going to happen.
Just not quite got the timing on it unfortunately.
The spam though is still pretty good.
No creating one and a half. There's a break-in. He's just caught reloading.
not ideal. Meanwhile, the tunnel
player might be the key player
of the round as he deletes that
be defender. It will be another
phase round. The touch and go
style looking pretty good here.
Yeah, unfortunately, that break
on the smoke is so costly. You
were half a second to for big as
there to actually get that gun
reloaded. He wins that easily.
That stops the bomb progressing
towards the B site and gives
you the numbers of advantage,
but instead because he's caught
The other way phase flying towards the site and delete the last blader be anchor and then doing so around itself
BSM and NQZ who are the known to be a players to save their weapons over by Payton base on the fourth
Very easy could have fallen apart there for phase but she's mistakes from pain
Only blame so for one it starts well, but it's not a break on the smoke. Yeah, that just completely
What's the biggest error out in the open for nothing?
Yeah, they're quite difficult.
These break plays for a while there, a good six months,
whenever someone would go for it.
It would be like the opposite guy winning, you know,
when we would catch it like in the tier two online space
and everything.
So I think you have to make it happen quick,
but also you need to be careful.
They need to be a bit calculated.
It's a really weird fine line that's just
hard to find at times.
And that's exactly what we see there.
Um, and yeah, I think you lose so much, you lose a kill, you lose information because they can now kind of see what's behind that smoke.
So they can be very detrimental if you're not careful.
Double up set up here.
Snow actually making your word apparently on the pain side of things.
Sure.
Second molly thrown into a short as well to slow carragant down as well.
So I need to be a little careful.
Fall back towards Winder, that gives them the opportunity of escape if necessary, as the bomb doubles back in towards upper tunnels.
The two players here
Snow and Pariah
Who players have very good maps in their own regards as well. Snow playing back a plot always difficult to properly clear this position
He has no U-Tools, we just want to take aim duels and how quick is the trigger finger really, let's see
He doesn't even take a hopeful pop shot through, he's gonna let them through.
This could work against him.
The boost up here will cost Jacob his life.
Nice and slow, it's for a second.
On the right hand side, he'll deliver and it's potentially more on offer.
He just misses his chance against Brokey, but Pariah's there to clean up the round.
Finally, Payne finds some success to build a pwn and it's off the back of the youngster.
I'm in quite predictable that dealer, Smogokafiel.
Mm, really not a lot on the offer there.
But yeah, it really is, you know,
hold one side, hold the other.
Maybe if there's really strong flashes behind it,
but seeing a lot of players getting used to that by now.
Yeah.
Still breaking in to be from the tunnels
is just one of the hardest things
in the game to do for my money.
But then the site is really hard to retake,
so perhaps it balances out, you know,
the risk reward as it were.
I'm out taking relatively early as well for the phase.
Now that it's in the first bit of success,
for pain, they immediately want to discuss why it happened.
And we kind of spoke about this a little bit
towards Nuke where these tag pauses weren't delivering
a lot from phase in that first half.
And of course, they didn't really put too much
on the table.
Open to kind of immediately pull things back in their favor a pop shot by Brokey
close but connect
Oh fuck himself into war's lower
Holly
Gentle the toes he wants to get in front of the flash here with his biggest error for two I need to bomb and he's got NQC and support
Spombing away along trying to get a trade out over here
Yeah. Oh, it was seen reloading
the shadow of course going to
be spotted. He takes a lot of
damage through the door. There's
just nothing you can do about
that VSM with perfect timing to
abuse twists. Pain may well be
back into this game. Then it
would seem Jacob. Anyone left
to recover in a couple kills
to find clean on to the first
second for the round. The
player that will be a problem
is prior Junior. Surely he's
just not going to expect a guy over here. And slow but short, you assume he's going to be
seen but actually no.
Pryor's angle is not brilliant, if I'm honest.
You just guessed the bomb and it was just sauntered towards the A site. Interesting not to just
cross fire this. Like you mentioned, kind of like suicide into all sorts. But they're
going to spend a couple of seconds now. Pryor's going around the corner, but there's no
bomb.
Yeah.
Now, where has he gone?
Strange.
pick it up they've let him shift walk all the way towards the A side or really
decide where he wants to go about this this is questionable but they are making
the right gamble of going back to A themselves.
He's going to be planted. Molly in towards CT. He is actually kind of exposed here though.
This is an issue. Swing on that corner, what are they going to do a lot but the
Nade or still deal a lot of damage to him. One versus two for Jason. We've got a
bar on this and Molly has toes which he smokes out but he'll still take a
a lot and in doing so forced them in the opening spanned by pariah they recover the round but
they should never have needed to recover the round. Yeah, no for sure. Definitely a weird
game state that they put themselves in. I thought the angle from in towards T spawn would have
been enough to like, you know, spot the player at least just goes completely unseen. So
even the bond plant there is a decent result for phase. I think it's safe to say there
was a time where you would have thought that wouldn't have happened.
I'm not going to be there as you, but this awkward fight in Longhouse.
So second for pain in a row, importantly.
There will be a case to close this gap.
I'm going to find out as FaZe will slowly but surely have to stomach this one.
Timeout coming in quite late in the freeze time as well.
So clearly something to talk over.
Is it for this round?
It's just got money for hero a K
Look towards up. I said it's too
successive kind of
That's our mouths. All right, they call kind of one after the other
Never a kind of a good sign that shows
There's a bit of worry for phase and there's anything but I was paid as you can see on the camera is there a little laugh and
Enjoying life this round feels like it should be a freebie
All the Brazilian roster
see if that's the case, but considering there's not really that much of a buy, I assume round
number seven should go the way of pain. Making this a one round game. It's a scout to work
with for Brokey. That is about it.
Speaking of throwing tools top mid, it's again this double open play of NQZ and Snow. You
know, because there it doesn't mind picking up in times, but Snow's looking pretty good
with it, so don't keep him on it. It takes a little bit of a tag on the cross,
It's only 8 points of damage.
Small jump spots here.
Time bits of info being gathered.
It's the lower tunnels approach.
The phase.
All done!
Perfectly timed, Abe.
The damage is insane, but just really, really well timed.
Now the rest of the squad should be able to get in.
Frozen, keen with one Beagle shot.
Can't make any more here.
Snow on his orb.
Hooks to be overwhelmed.
He gets the USP.
HE HELPED RUNNEL 2 FOR ONE WON!
Oh my god, never in my life!
Never in my life would I have expected him to get that.
2 vs 2 now and just pure panic.
He's out of there able to get this bomb down on B.
Frozen holding the lurking positions as a player wraps all the way around into T spawn, into the upper tunnels.
It's gonna meet Frozen here.
Frozen though has no idea.
Will go down. It's all left onto Brokey.
Surely not.
Surely not.
Highlight of the century this if you can make it work.
Oh, it doesn't happen. He gets a bullet off.
He does get a bullet off, but not going to work.
You still see the flashes of the phase magic, don't you?
How does he get a collat like that?
They were lying up and honestly, considering the buy
that they brought to the table there phase,
they made that very expensive.
A bump on three kills is not a bad effort.
Thank you. Look at this again.
Oh, Baraya and Snow.
That's an embarrassing way to lose that mid control.
Rookie will bring the AWP in towards the next round.
It's a real wake-up call for Payne.
On a low buy like that, nearly letting it slip.
Honestly, if that flanker froze this and caught,
it would have been a bit of trouble.
I'm crazy. I'm just, you know,
really from that little sad that it didn't work out for them.
What a rounded highlight that would have been, man.
Incredible, but just not capitalized on still.
But a shake in his paper for pain, they've got to now move into the next round.
Big Uzerah. Great move.
It's not the flashiest like Broke is in the previous,
but it's a nice clean two-piece that he's able to walk away from.
I'm really looking good with this early aggression in particular and yeah something you like talking about the the level of
Proactivity CT side. That's it man. He's so self-confident because that's such a risky fight
I love me six around for the potential of a third knows your support at range with the utl
I can be thrown over by DSM. So he knows he's happy to step in towards short and keep the aggression on
But yeah, you're just one on right always a positive sign and a real good showing of how confident side feel is how proactive they are on that CT
And well, I love that from biggest air because I can't believe he goes alone in that endeavor like he just swings out
Into a short gets one and then gets one of those lower as well
It's bad insult to injury like it's it's so risky, but it works brilliantly
It's kind of big as error in a nut shell
double one bit towards short that is a
a stunner of a HE as well and the spam to the smoke as big as there are finders
but he's on for the ace here and he might just get it no VSM will get one of his
own to break up the quad kill from captain fantastic there you go snows
behind him as well giving it some support
could be face killer yeah they're not needed in this round biggest area yeah
really solid and again great timing great finds on those hg's something that seems to have turned the corner of the pain
And with the wildest view model you've ever seen it's really wants to flex the skin
It is a nice one
Either way onto the pistols now face of
Lost the
momentum here lost the lead in fact and it looks set to fully concede it across the pain
5-4 on the cards unless we get some craziness with the pistols once again, and a quick
Two towards round they're gonna double back off that
Bit of an issue of utility
In chain smoking towards upper B
We have slight misery. I think just about one corner lurks mode. They're a little bit scared of this being
Well, a mid to B split, but it's actually a complete mid play.
You're smoked off CT, and you're about to fall off the pressure onto his prior and VSM,
and oh, the first test they pass with flying colors, Jacob will delete VSM, and it's
labored here.
It's really messy.
How is he not dead?
He pulls out the pistol.
What in God's name happened?
How did Jacob not trade him?
Well, prior gets three, and it gives them a chance.
sure bomb goes down but numbers favor pain. Tapping that crouch, moving around the bobbin
and weaving style that we are seeing dominate CS2 at the moment could make all the difference
here. Utility comes in and well, Twist is actually just dead to it. Couldn't get away in time.
Broke he then left to clutch things up under the window. First of all, fly in. George
has crossed there enough that he's unable to reset for the next. Payne will just about
seen off but that is all prior junior man really well held you know his teammate doesn't find anything
he looked absolutely dead to rights just able a new gen player you know you see him ducking
moving ever so slightly in between the sprays just to make it hard to hit that head which of
course is what the pistol is going to be going for especially i kind of love to see that from
from Jacob's POV just to understand like how it didn't connect.
It was pretty tagged up, but well done from Pariah.
Had no right to get away with more than one there.
Walks away with three and gives life back into the round.
It's not a bad effort by FaZe though,
considering the buy that they had.
That'll be that.
The take in by Payne, it was a slow start
in towards this map, sure.
But you now have put pressure really back on
towards the shoulders of FaZe where you lose
this gun round. You know, beer to trouble. This residual cash for
Karrigan and GQ. But aside from that, it becomes kind of thin.
So this is interesting. Bold move by NQZ. And he dives down off
the back of it too. No regard to any top mid presence. Because
they can also be. This could be dicey, but it could be a
bump off. In they come. It's a double stack here. And they
seem on windows. Will they clear the second surely not?
Snow for a second. He's on for the 30. Hasn't reloaded and
snow does so well and a twist ever or two in a one versus two. Yeah, that's really well done in from the
Kite. Look very very very awkward for a moment. They missed the window to catch them completely off guard, but still
about 50% off guard for sure. Yet somehow pain. Have the man advantage here. No flashes, no smokes. Two
I mean, one H. A. This is
given in the space, though. Yeah.
Just bomb now. It's it's really
going to be a problem made in
towards cars. It doesn't quite
land. He's confident to stand
strong. I peak his advantage
again. Just the adjustments a
little bit to the online play.
You'd see a lot of tier two
guys take that initial fight
just move away. Just give it
right and maybe try going for a
reaggress, but he's
win for Payne once again.
Third and final. Timeout taken by FaZe as well.
The first half.
Yeah, I know. It's an incredibly dark kind of showing right here. I think it is proof
it was really not all the confidence there. Snow getting three from that position is massive.
But I don't even really blame FaZe. Like, why would you expect there to be a triple
stack B at that portion of the round? One towards window, two in towards car. You
killed one car so I don't really blame that they completely overlook it. They maybe just
got to trade a bit better. The fact that he gets a third out of it is massive. Yeah,
twists, unfortunately. Yeah, jiggle peak, drop the shoulder, swing back in and catch them
into his tunnel. Nothing he really could do. It was looking dicey for paying on that
retake just because of the lack of Utah they had in the end. All right, an all-to-around
of players phase of kind of at this one slipper but a little bit there's no two
ways about it and we're in quite a commanding position at the gates but
since the guns are coming to play it's only be one team in it later utility here from pain
kind of like to see it and to regain some control break onto the smoke
and off the back of it it's a pretty deep set phase clan right now yeah
maybe an A split, maybe a take-long control, see what we can do with that. Just lots and
lots of different options, classic fake out towards mid. Two smokes committed to that
though. So a big sell over there and now we set our eyes on VSM. If any of this on the
pot flush through this, VSM should be dead to right. However, he's holding quite an
aggressive angle and potentially, you know, generally when you swing and clear this
close corner he's now moving into it Jason's gonna find snow on the road take
his VSM gets to for it it's an all-round the corner VSM single handedly has
given them a chance broke you catch him on the cross he tries to retreat but
re-aggression towards mid from pariah and he just clips him out of the sky
duck hunting from him leaving it all on the shoulders off broke he needs a
quad clutch in this round misses his chance and with 35 seconds it's a
retreat. Those are the bomb on his back, but this is not an easy choice. He has to hope
and just fly in towards B. He loves to clutch this guy. We'll see if he can deliver for us.
It's not flown as you suggested. Takes his time. He's it quietly for a moment. They're
giving him space though. I like playing together here. I was going to say they do
you know, take it slowly, but
I'm going to go down. Oh,
because they're thought about
moving through. He's still
thinking about moving in fast.
Just got to be careful. They're
holding to see if there's going
to be any kind of cross from
broke. He's relying on pure
mechanics to get this done. No
flash to get in. But again,
it should be relatively doable
for the pain. Boys broke. He
gives the door half a look.
He's pretty set on tunnels. Is
he going to hear any footsteps
here? I don't think so.
the game. They're going to be
the game. They're going to be
going to be the game back to
heavy, so maybe going to get
the drop on him. But as that
bomb starts ticking down, they
have no idea where he has even
heard one cannot land the shot
and will get taken down. It's
close on the diffuse. It's
awfully close, but they will
get it over the line. I mean,
one shot onto that player on
the bomb really could have
made the difference there, but
not going to be the case
here. And once again, the
clutch factor not here for
the hardest side to retake in competitive play, but Painter had such success of it.
Sure, it's an advantage to retake, but it's not the easiest.
It's a great flick shot from NKZ.
It's really bailed them out, but they actually miss it, so...
Crossing's a little perilous.
Well, I don't think there's way over, not less.
Oh, full blind, Big Asera.
Garragon that's brazen bolds maybe a little bit stupid it'll be costly it's hard to watch is what it is 2-11 for him 3-9 for twists 3-8 for frozen
Rookie and Jacob are the ones at the top end of the scoreboard but it's not a good look. Dust2 is still not short of at all
Flash in for Snow.
Really, really great retake of space there with the smoke and the flash on the back of it.
And suddenly Snow is able to defend middle, so yeah, love that.
Break comes in, Biguzera catches, Twist being cheeky.
Snow's still here.
I think his position is just so strong, they're not going to expect him at all.
And for one, not quite the second.
The 28p remaining is not enough to get anything going.
Pain looking good, took them some time to get going.
But once they do, they don't lose a round, so really great stuff once again coming in from the Brazilian squad.
Phase, maybe going quietly into that 0-2 bracket we're going to find out after the break.
He maybe quietly convinces us for a moment, but once they were comfortable, Payne able
to dominate, winning lots of post-plant situations, which on the CT side can be very difficult
on Dust2.
Yeah.
Aggressional middle here for Faze to try and send a message, but not able to find any
kills.
You know, your four are up to star.
We're kind of loving life and looking at our Payne look a little bit worried on
this map.
We've obviously seen that Payne have struggled on it themselves and we're thinking, maybe
this is our phase. You know, open the door back in towards the Mirage.
And they just guessed Emerald. Eight on the on the bounce for
the resilience. And they look for more. Let's see.
Carrigan caught in the open.
A swing by four out of the five.
It's VSM who seals the deal with the killer smoke for the cross.
They just wait for it to plume and now they can make their way over.
Flash, avoid it.
And they're diving through pariah that is so bold.
And he'll get two before he falls. Surely job done.
It's all on the shoulders are brokeie and there's nothing he can do pariah
I lovely move as the rest of the team barrel on towards the A site
He slips the net in towards spawn and then find himself two very important rotators pain
I said ninth round in a row now and it starts well on towards that
He said we'll see how long the street is I suppose
Just come off of the NQZ flash a really nice touch
So just mix things up in the pistol here and move through the smoke
Rather than keeping it conventional. It's just a go in a
Where is this going?
He's actually long.
Wait a minute.
Did anyone catch that?
I saw it on the minimap.
It kind of looked like it exploded next to him.
I think he just went into the longhouse.
He didn't take any damage.
It just kind of ran over.
It was just a little like explosion shape
or whatever on the minimap.
Maybe that's the throwing symbol.
Looking good here though.
the SMG's looking to make some money. It's mostly the rifles though. One kill for twist is all we get.
Any damage is good damage though I suppose. It can be beneficial for the kill bonus etc.
But it all comes down to this rifle really, as to whether a phase can survive.
Yeah clutching at straws I think a little bit. Sure, sure. We shall see.
Now we're of course 10 in a row.
I paid 3 B away, closing out the map and the series knocking FaZe into the O2 bracket.
Gun round.
I mean it is kind of do or die scenarios for them really now.
They lose this one, they're in serious trouble.
Already left on not a lot of utility.
One minute thirty-five in the clock, two players of nothing, Jacob has a HG.
A lot of their very slim amount of util burned in the early portion of these rounds.
Yes, that is true.
Trying to maybe net that first kill and it's just not really happening.
Pain seemed quite savvy.
So they're sat back, they're waiting for that utility to be expended.
That can be a really different game for the CT side, you know,
whether they're able to hold on to that util.
Big like difficult or not at this stage it feels like an or not they've got two smokes
both of which are on B so the A bomb site feels pretty vulnerable right now yeah that's a T flash
and I saw team Molly towards door so VSM looks like he was about to make a bit of kind of space
there maybe to have a little double check round then he gets stopped by his own team Molly so
but I guess the job's done that the close corners are cleared
to be they go
given frozen reside here the lurk smoke that'll come through frozen to play
in between the two of them 28 seconds they don't have a lot of time they've
got to go
frozen's right here as well turns away from the
block oh wow
blinded up he does a lot of damage gather some information but Jacob
Oh, gonna be left out to try here.
USP singing.
Has he done enough man advantage and damage onto NQZ?
You would say potentially, yes.
Very close to getting this bomb down as well
and actually going to be denied.
Faze, despite the low utile,
they get lucky the bomb comes to them
and they do perform very well.
Jacob with a highlight moment.
Yeah, two really sharp shots there of the USP.
I thought that might be kind of
chopped on, but these two shots
this third one in particular
close lines them on the
regressed through the smoke. Nice
work. Finally, for the first time
11 play, we get a round of
success for phase.
Now it's going to go to be a
springboard to many right
can't be a flash in the pan
time for that 10 in a row
that would be classic face
clan true.
face clan through. Just not lose until they win.
We have the reinvestment here from pain.
I'm not sure I'm a huge fan.
I think you look at what they've got.
Tenshi could have gone down the middle here and just been stable.
Hopes to go for instability and kind of a hard round to follow as well.
So come out quite dry on short.
Twist looking to have a shooting gallery presented to him.
He's good for one.
Carragans behind him though. I mean, surely, surely they're able to hold here.
Interesting little smokes from both sides just to really give as much cover as possible.
They will get the bomb down, plan it for sure.
So much damage, right?
Look how low pay not.
Haraya, one foot in the grave, snow and NQZ aren't exactly healthy,
but let's see, nice move by NQZ, that's aggressive.
But with the cover of the smoke on the front end of sight, he'll get one.
And the idea is he's kind of trainably
Connovations in the wrong way, he's exposed and in the open
The kills come back in, twists, frozen, Jacob all entering, it's all on the youngster
Snow needs a 1 vs 2 and he can't find it, frozen the vet
In this scenario, sees it off and retakes a phase
And a real sigh of relief because that was looking dicey
No, absolutely, I mean, really, really close stuff for me
There was a severe lack of utility from both sides
and I think it maybe is just that weaponry that makes the difference it feels like
but very very tough indeed
just the heads presenting for the m4s and the ak's
so pain hitting a wall here left to figure things out they will eco into this one
would have had that super strong buy like I say I'm not a huge fan of the the force in the
previous there any kind of momentum you can give across the phase is just not going to be good
No takes and chances for the Deagle to lose his life.
Easy one for twist in that long aggression.
I follow up Nades, little in QZ down to 52.
Deagle scooped off there though by VSM so.
At something at least.
This should be an easy one for FaZe to overcome and I shot from Broke to make sure
of it.
scooped up for nothing. Broke
he's well at one on the right
side of mid and he spots a
shoulder again.
I'll hit the reaction, but it
shouldn't make a difference in
the round. Jacob tapping away
and wins out the aim
duel of pariah. This round,
pretty simply, going the way
of FaZe the remaining two,
shouldn't have that much of
a look in.
Yeah, that was maybe your
only chance. Thank you, now
on the Glock.
Going crazy.
I guess taking down. So,
Within three now, it is coming close, and we did see on that first map phase mount a pretty substantial comeback, kind of tougher than this one it feels like.
Yeah.
And...
0.84 halfs.
Yeah, yeah.
Just didn't see that streak the way that pain out of the tail of the half.
And it's the start of the second, so this is definitely a harder run-off thing for phase.
Basketball's looking pretty good, though.
Yeah.
You have to be very careful, you know, you don't want to wake the dragon as it were.
It takes a lot of effort at the moment, it feels to maybe wake the FaZe dragon, but it's still there a little.
Couldn't quite get it over the line on Nuke, you'd assume surely if they get the opportunity again they'd be able to do it.
NQZ trained in, gifted, flash comes round, snow not blind, and the tag comes in and the finish is there as well.
FaZe try and take Maz into their own hands, and it goes south really, really quickly.
Frozen is still here to try and defend this B-bomb site.
He's being peppered by nades and bullets right now.
Meanwhile, Twist, Smooch.
Hello?
This is where you need that zoom in on the minimap.
Best friends.
Are you right in the corner?
Best friends.
Oh, my god, he's going to get out.
And now he's going to be like, wait a minute.
A room.
All of a sudden, there's going to be a room.
No way.
VSM wins it.
Crazy, bro.
Little Smooch in the smoke, unbeknownst to either of them.
VSM repositions wins the AIM duel.
Last couple, Carrigan and Frozen.
Open the hands of Frozen, he plays towards window.
They don't need to commit towards B here.
There's a lot of kills that they've found, a lot of space they've created,
but it's also drawn over the phase attention.
They're doubling back towards the A site, and the spam's a nice idea,
but that is now confirmation of bomb cross towards short,
and round lost for phase.
And now it's a saving mission for Frozen and Carrigan.
might be able to get away with it and QZ is here so patiently not moving out of
this corner will eventually give it a look there you go his patience pays off
just mr. frozen against the world and they are on the hunt if you look at your
mini map here folks they're after him you're gonna have to go pretty crazy here
I think he should be dead eventually it's a question of how many takes with
with him. It's only one. So 1127. They crack pretty early into the comeback attempt. So
not the best signs for FaZe, but they still have a tiny, tiny bit of room to work with.
It's true. It's just a little bit over aggressive in that tunnels player that cost them so much
control. Thank you, Z for one. He gets a leg on towards Jacob. He then gets swung
upon it all just kind of slots itself into place quite nicely for pain.
Kind of now and never really full investment in for phase.
You lose this year on these broken pain on 12 map and series.
And surely at that point there is no recovery.
Only a force them off that corner, needing towards low.
It's not what the other guy got out in front of this.
Quite rapidly scaled up in towards mid.
Oh
High boost up here. I believe they are on top of like the rice bags or flower bags whatever they are
Sandbags
There's definitely food. Yeah, it's like grain isn't it?
50 kg. That's crazy. That's my dumbbells
They don't go the high I know you're lying
What do you mean? I got customers.
That's fine. The bottom end of the term, Paul falls. Brokey will manage to get the trade out though, so the number is going to stay even.
I still, even though he zoomed in, I still don't know what's in those bags.
I mean, it's a bit big. It's like wheat.
You know, yeah, but it's not quite been ground down. I don't know.
Someone's got to translate what the Arabic saying.
Yeah, true.
Very true. End of the round.
Mail bag, baby.
Yeah. Or end of the round.
the round observers show it and I'll get my google translate like yeah yeah picture
up things uh look I'm not gonna work we're heading towards eight I'm gonna
look frozen's got a really good timing on this flank you can have at least one
maybe two dead to right that's the bomb at the tail end of the pack as well
that falls they've now got a reflight towards shore to get control on this
and broke he's got other ideas he continues to have a fantastic map his
16th kill Tim and Jacob lead the charge and I'll speak up the devil
Jacob who gets it brilliant brilliant work with that being said phase aren't dead just yet
Was too quick of a flash yeah, go go go go go. All right, what is it?
We bag see nice nice initially just came up on Google
I'm not taking first one by paying they use the time I was late in towards new can
Of course, I guess long-term ended up working out in their favor, but it did require us going
towards an overtime and I can't lie I do have that inkling here again I sort of
said it in a similar position in towards Nuke but this one does have that that
whiff of OT in the air. You're really gonna make production mud. I'm teasing it. I'm
tempting it. I can spell it slightly. Pain look a little
questionable. This should be a bit of a freebie for the CTs. That's a 11 to 9
You're on game. It's back in towards the gun round. You lose that 11 or them. We really are on on track for O.T.
So I'm getting that whiff of overtime in the air. It's
Like Tom and Jerry when they smell the pie. That's me
Towards the OT
I think after yesterday that I kind of want to fly away from the OT
North ends to CS just the just shy of a five-hour series we have. Yeah. Yeah with a quadruple overtime in there certainly
you know really tests your mental as to whether how much you do love Counter-Strike, how much
you do enjoy watching and commentating on it. Especially when the Counter-Strike devolves
into in the mud, gloves off, can barely see anything you know because they're just so
dirty.
And it was also one of those kind of games as well, that entire series to be honest.
There was no like real like massive highlight moment.
No, yeah, exactly.
It was just like a couple of trades here,
a couple of trades back, like no real like.
Which could be good if it's clean
and you're like, damn, these guys are clinical right now.
But it was the opposite.
As it goes on, we want like a crazy one before
to just keep energy up, you know.
Getting none of that.
Good timing.
There's two here towards B.
One of which being JQ actually has looked
much, much better on this anchor position.
Oh, he's going to lose to every of the smoke, VSM takes a chance,
and Fortune favours the ball, and now frozen surely dead to right.
A dive back in by Twistle net one.
They should be able to squeeze out a plant here, if they can cross.
Yeah, come and stay safe on the cross.
The answer is no, Twist gives his life to deny that bomb plant.
Very well played, very well held.
That was a nerdy moment.
How they've ever seen him above that smoke is crazy.
I mean, did they? Right?
true. It could have just been a real fortunate one. He was kind of in a weird angle though,
you know, not necessarily one that you would spam. So I feel like just the top of that
smoke, you know, doing its whole dynamic movement, maybe crazy work. But this is the round big
by coming in from pain and maybe one of their last buys. If this does not go their way,
and a half to figure things out. And again,
shine away from quick round,
shine away from rushes, even with some long presence.
They're looking to go for a later round burst.
Big user are trying to catch a timing with that flash.
I feel thinking that something was coming his way.
The case will join up towards long here, and it hasn't been paid off.
Carrogan lacks a days of cool with the shoulder peak,
the IP to try and see if there's anything coming his way.
So looking pretty good here as the man advantage is short-lived
They're not gonna show any signs of slowing down however and frozen a
Huge line of defense put up by him gets the USP out and he finds three in that long defense
There's just too keen to fight their pain that they really didn't need to be as quick as they were
Easily could have got you know the opening kill until scar again taking long control and just pump the brakes briefly
They don't even need to commit to long, but with bigger error up and towards short and he's up uncontested
They think this is the time to split, but it's just too easy
One smoke one flash behind it and they completely lose all of the long control
And the biggest error could do nothing scaling through shore because that rotate through CT
It's really well done from phase patients paying off for them. But yeah on the flip side. It's just for pain
It's too basic. It's too simple. It's too easy to read as well
and sure phase on playing at 100% right now. They're still not looking great in what we'd expect from them, but
Any team can overcome around like that. It's just too easy to dissect
Very very interesting now, would you reach over?
Yeah, you know when when you're right, you're right smell it in the air. I mean, it's definitely not guaranteed
Yeah, but 11 all should be guaranteed. Yep
all
24 feels certain it does really feel as well like the pain that they've run out of ideas like the initial
Starts this half was like, you know first couple rounds. Okay, something off of here quite puggy, but it's working
but
In the similar veins of pain in the first half we're seeing the same thing here like when phase about the guns and play
There's only really one team in the server. It's just t-sides of maps. He kind of stink on
generally what happens I think a lot of teams that have preference for a map
will have a bit of a game plan get some conditioning in early this kind of thing
and sort of stick to it and it feels like not much of a game they have like
rounds yeah but the overarching T side doesn't necessarily have an identity yeah
they're so relying on individuals getting a couple of kills right going kind
of like two for one in their trades which is not really something you can
rely on they go from it to be spent this could still be dangerous keep your
I trained on this yes pistols what?
NQC found the first no way frozen you have to go nuclear here, and he can't NQC
He's gonna get both with a glock by the way as the B site falls barren to Bain's hands
Bomb planted post plant set up and a couple of guns scooped up on the hardest site to retake
Oh
You have to go here if you pay that ink. Yeah, you have to give it a good try
The game hinges on a moment like this. No
Oh, he comes in. It's not quite good enough.
NQZ keeps them coming.
On for the ace.
The armless Glock ace potentially on the cards here.
Brokey sticking around.
There's kits that have been dropped.
He's looking for a late move.
Will be spotted.
Finds the first, but not quite the second.
NQZ, hero for pain.
And then the 12th, and yes, sir.
That's how I feel about that round.
Straight down the barrel.
What are you going to say about that phase?
Oh, that's how I feel about it too, VSM.
A armless Glock has ended the round with an ace.
NQZ brilliant from him, a diving over shot as well, but he just continues.
I actually did make it to him.
Yeah.
Look at what it means to him as well.
Just loses it.
I've got a long neck.
Yeah.
Crazy, man.
So deserved, though.
We won it round.
He will start this one off tight, same for Big Azera as well.
Look at the bifur phase to keep them alive in towards this series.
Five-seven eagle, double famas and a...
Broke, he's had a brilliant map, but we need more from him.
Now's his time to really shine.
Huge bits of damage done to the T's in this round, so...
That speaks to an omen of this being a good-looking CT round.
Not over until it is over.
I will say as well, I'm re-attracting the point you made earlier
for paying of where it feels like they're out of ideas.
That's another round which it just requires somebody to go huge right? It's just not it's not a sound game plan to have
Yes, it can work as we just saw but it's not something you can rely on but in a low-by-round like that perfect
Yes rifle rounds. Yeah, you do want a bit of the structure
Yeah, you want the push and pull and they bail out the util bail out the positions, but
Let's see this mid to a area is really really
the. The orb goes in. It's a
double swing. In fact, it's
twist to find the first BSM
trying to stay alive. NQZ's
Opel take down twist is really
we're waiting for a moment to
crunch in a signal to come
this meanwhile the bomb ever
wanted to be part of this mid
to short play. It is going to
be a very simple plan out on
the B bomb site and you feel
like this kind of has to be
unless they can take some of
stragglers really. NQZ manages to make it out of there. So we're into an even 3 vs 3. No kit available
for this T side. One flash. And of course, the dream to try and break in NQZ. Looking to break the
hearts. Carre going to find two. It's down to the one on one. Brokey. Can he get the frag? Yes.
Oh my goodness. Is there enough time for him to get to the bomb?
It's awfully close. I think he has got it though. It's going to be close here. It's going to
to be very very close they're a little unsure he's fidgeting around he's just
about to finish that circle oh my goodness right at the end broke he comes
up huge again he has bailed out phase on numerous occasions in this map and
that's another one for him fantastic work I thought that pain had done enough
but there not to be an unfortunate snow his shoulder just round the corner
Look how close that is milliseconds away from losing the series and go into the O2 bracket
But they live to see another day pain
Can't close out round number 23 so the full 24 in regulation required all Frank you see
AK for biggest error in price good, but then they do have to take a bit of a dip in firepower
It's a galeel for snow. It's a Mac 10 for VSM. So the money has run a little dry on that seaside
play from short walking straight into the crosshairs fully out of ideas as we've
said a couple times now and it's over time again the crazy broke clutch to keep
this one alive despite the the Glock ace from NQZ and you can't see it over the
line I smelt it and here we are but this pain side look really lost on the
T side. They have no directive in what these T side calls are looking like. It's so reliant
on individuals. It's all mid-rounding. It's all loose. There's no real solid structured
rounds being built here. It's not something you can build on, despite it being leveled
and FaZe having to kind of recover into this. At the moment, I'm seeing FaZe's the more
solid side. Rookie continues to scale up. Jacob continues to have kind of decent
moments. I'm slowly seeing Twist and Frozen awaken a little bit more. I'm worried for pain.
Yes, they're getting kind of like these crazy moments, but they're not reliable. At least
for a phase it feels like there's solid foundations there. Of all we go again. Over time across
both maps here. These two sides evenly match and maybe isn't a great thing. The grand
schemes of the top-level counter strike but the series the fun watch yes
absolutely true see what happens now though we saw pain just yeah really hit a
groove coming into the OT of nuke to be struggling with closing games I had
quite a lot of over times actually yeah so far in their their stage 2 campaign
at least it's just so loose the calling style against a very structured phase
see why they're not really too flustered by it yeah well man look at this it's a
good five-man crunch yeah it's a great re-aggression kind of a midway part of
the round it's an information gather go do something with it oh yeah and there's
oh frozen because there lives it and all of a sudden they go hey wait a minute
it's like too short maybe spotted a couple actually in towards middle there
They will take down big as error, but they get the bee control
Eventually I'm not going down just yet wait to see if there's like an over a friend's coming in
There's also maybe questionably no smoke for the door
So that leaves them in a weird spot VSM will eventually get it out
But you know step into a lineup and it's Russian. It's a mess over here. It's absolutely a mess
It's gonna be snow one versus three, but there's so many smoke trip to work in he could disappear. Oh, no double spray down
to win and it's pain to retake the lead pros don't fake but maybe in that scenario they should have a tap and a fight on towards
no could have worked favorably but frozen just wants to chance it.
I think it's a good idea.
I think it's a good idea.
I think it's a good idea.
I think it's a good idea.
I think it's a good idea.
I think it's a good idea.
scenario they should have a tap and a fight on towards snow could have worked favorably
but frozen just wants to chance it he knows this damage being dealt and he wants to see
does he have the gall to swing me on this defuse and he did brilliant from snow that
is so so close to the wire it's such unconvincing round though again from pain like it's relying
on one individual going huge that it doesn't strike that much confidence in me but if
It works, it works.
What over times are made of them?
I know, yeah, the chaos, the cluster of some of these rounds.
All right, smoke to the corner, guys.
Don't worry about it.
The corner is smoked.
The corner next to the blue bin is smoked.
No one's going to get us from that.
Don't worry.
That's it.
I think it was right in that corner.
That's it.
Either way, not gonna have too much of a negative effect here.
First time, maybe, ever, we've seen pain hit long by the way.
For reason we'll find snow, some advantage phase now.
Revenge for the previous round.
Riot, yes, the white bar ahead of this. He goes ahead of the smoke.
Honestly, 1v1's not bad there. I really thought he'd just die for nothing.
Something the same coffee said to be a cent twist up on high top side of that smoke on the burst will work favorably
because they're all cross from two versus four is not an easy one make that one all on the IGL
because there's got no chance in this one really the time to work of either on the jump across shake of a season over
It's tied again 13 a piece
Honestly because of how
Unconfident I am with pain on this T side if they got two for one this first half. I think they went out in 81. Yeah
They really do not like going long though. They went out. They sat there for about a minute
They failed a smoke that also the cross smoke was bad. Maybe that's it. Maybe they don't know a cross smoke lined up
I failed it the second time I used to get it in the general area
But yeah, really quite messy I think. Tag lands onto Jacob.
Oh, Harry got tagged up. Broke you with a missed shot.
Twist will take down prior junior in at long.
Got some pretty good looking moments here for Payne to be honest with you.
A lot of damage done. This is quick.
Twist was going to send it. He gets flashed out though.
He was thinking about it. He really wants to get aggressive into this.
They're gonna look B again, seems to be more of a favourite for Payne.
Brake coming in on the smoke, charging in, throwing caution.
Oh. Absolutely to the wind.
Why?
Plenty of time, there was no need to go for it.
They broke the smoke to try and rush through, but it was just bad.
They don't know what they're doing, man.
They don't know what they're doing.
There's no game plan on this T side unfortunately, but Payne, it's so...
Can I get it loose? Does Nate get it actually?
Oh, deal it.
It looks pretty good.
But it was like next to no damage.
And you see, he's crossed.
I don't think so.
So we get the same luxury.
You've got to be there to write and is that just a slip of the net there
from behind, seen off any one casualty.
It's a good half and phase.
It's very worrying from pain.
It's he sides.
They lack really any solid game plan.
But the city sides did look a little stronger.
Give them that credit, of course.
It was a hot minute go, but they went eight in a row at the tail end of the half on their CT side.
So a lot better there, but feels like FaZe are getting better and better as this game is coming along.
Then, you know, it's no longer a two-man show.
At one point, it was only Brokie and Jacob.
Now we've got Frozen in the play, and Twister's starting to wake up a bit himself.
Love that confidence from Brokie though.
Trying to find that first pick up.
Not going to happen for him.
Yeah, they're really solid and proactive here on the CT side.
We'll see if that continues to be in the case for pain.
A lot to break down on that T side in sort of, you know, a post-mortem, but done for now.
Unless we get another OT here.
Arrogant, thinking lining some smokes up, but it's early going to go for, I think we're a slow buildup on short seems to be the plan here.
Again, just immediately something that Pain never really went for on their T side, so we'll
see how they handle it.
Smell it to the OT, but right now that scent is kind of smelling up map 3, especially, you
know, FaZe, you found this first on the T side, I think the pressure gets to Pain.
It's not low to U-Tour, they're according to a retake here, Pain.
I think it's worth keeping an eye on.
on three out of the five it's the SMN QZ you don't carry one
They're just lobbing the molly with like yeah hardly any
Presence flash comes in
That'll confirm for snow. There's not really anybody around 30 seconds and we are
Starfished everywhere here on the T side of things jake up gonna get big in Sarah
Trying to pull off the aggression though
Five versus three 20 seconds man, but they just have control of nothing awareness of nothing once again
pain being picked apart in the OT
Yeah, this is a clinic by face
This is a map for the brewing for sure
15 gets punched in with that C4 going down
The SM and NQZ nothing these two could do now show up and save but this was done. We're gonna be heading towards this marriage
I'm certain of it now
Broke he wants to make sure of it.
Lovely find by him and by Jacob.
The two players would be consistently great
all the way throughout this dust 2.
Seal the deal in this one and give map 0.2 phase
an immaculate recovery, but a completely checked out pain.
The T side was not a good showing
and phase has just incrementally got better and better.
I think it's more so as well.
It feels like phase they've actually just figured out this side
and to the point where they're so confident now
What's getting thrown of them? Nothing's really catching them astray. Nothing that pain is throwing at them is catching them off guard
It's a little bit more like it for phase. It was a slow end that first half which worried us, but
It's then mostly one by traffic look at this
It is error to win out at the first by a junior and left alone on B though
Is that gonna be to the detriment here to a stable to line some needs up from this boost box position?
and great to see kind of comical in a sense that he's just, you know,
offending off the bullets, an advantage for the CT side.
That's the BSM flying in.
He's not able to find anything.
However, Big Oozera on the other side of the same smoke.
Bit more success for him.
Head still rolling, but Big Oozera is still alive over at this car.
It's into the 1 versus 1 now.
Broke looking to close it out here now, and he will get it done.
It's a third map going to be required.
Another overtime.
Absolutely wild.
Absolutely wild, but Payne just running out of ideas entirely into that overtime
in towards the tail end of the game as well. Not quite good enough in the end.
Has to be said I've had a bit of a broken masterclass.
Another couple of users on Twitter are going to be happy about that,
because if I'm favourite from his past, the reason hasn't been great,
but that is a lot more like it.
Faze are going to push us towards a third.
Payne run out of ideas and they drastically drop off.
It is a tough tough watch that tail end for Payne and I now got 10 to 15 minutes to try
and recoup the losses heading in towards the great decider, the great lift this test of
Mirage.
It's going to be a very very interesting map number three because Spades are starting
to look alive and they've got that clutch factor about them that worries me.
I don't know if Payne and the lack of directive on Seaside is going to be enough but
we're going to find out for now.
We'll get to a break.
See you soon.
No chance.
All done.
Nobody back here and we know you're going to do drugs.
We're back here and we know each other and you're broke, but for more, don't fuck it off!
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It's a lovely double-dink or double-gush from Mattis.
Yeah, happy about that one.
Cheat 2 with the advantage of chit-chat going on in there.
It was a little bit of typing.
Oh, a lot of typing.
It's a lot of typing.
Uh-oh.
Oh, get back to your seat, buddy.
Oh, have you gone?
Have you gone?
Was he AFK when the pistol went off?
No.
No, he's moved.
Yeah, but what's happening?
Okay, who knows but anyway, it's all good
Five seconds left. You might get to be peeking out into the open Matt. This has got the follow-up kill here for G2
We're gonna move in with the advantage
Oh, but if we're pissed around here, but that's all my car show. Yeah. Yeah, it is online counter show
I'm getting baited by a little bit. It's a knife knife knife knife. Yeah. All right
All right. Well
Double up like catwalk. Here's a flashbang good flash, but they're not so not a great flash
But you still get both kills actually where dad flash have you got out towards long ready to party
And he's in his seat so he can actually win this now you will win this cameras off center again
We imagine walking off and coming back and winning a clutch
This is just got aura right here genuinely unwinnable. I say that actually like fine. It's got a kid. It's over
Well, it's very winnable very very winnable. I thought he had an angle
I think he thought he had an angle to or else he wouldn't have played there his angle was kind of like his camera angle
Yeah, right off. Yeah, yeah
Also gotta be I mean he was out of his seat like halfway into that pistol run
I don't know what's going on. So yeah, he probably came back into this all discombobulated love that word
Makes me think of the shallow times. Yeah, though that that's a great scene. It's come on. I'm late. Just come
Why'd Sherlock Holmes?
the fight. But Danny, Jr. He cups his hands. Oh, sure. Breaking down his place. Yeah,
actually, like throws a little. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And then he has entered. I never
went I would never rewatch those were they were they worth a rewatch? I'd say the first
one's good. And this is a second one is a second one. It's it's what's his face.
Mark Strong is the villain. He's good. He's good. He's John reality. They're making
a young Sherlock show. Sure. I think we've had enough.
Bezinga. Bezinga.
You know, like Cumberbatch pretty much nailed it. Yeah. Yeah. And then they, then they lost
the plot. Yeah. Yeah.
The first, was it two seasons? Pretty good. I kind of like the crappy episodes, though.
Like the ones about the ladders. Yeah. I kind of enjoy them while also knowing while
I'm watching them, they kind of suck. They just, they got a bit too big for their
boots. Didn't they?
It was the one where they go to, well, I guess spoilers.
They got to like the little island prison like she's in control of everything and you're like how does this happen?
Yeah, I hate that. I hate that Scooby-Doo movies are great though. It was the real life one
Yeah, all of them the animated ones. I haven't seen the animated it's a tech
Yeah, that was goofy
But to the show Holmes movies point
It's high-richie so they're all entertaining okay rich just makes like
It's not gonna blow your mind with anything, but it's a well put together fun good time
Rump. Yeah, you don't need to sort of overthink it
You also did the gentleman. Yes, that was the death. I was good. I'm calling Farrell and that one. Yeah, that was he was great
There anything that satisfies when he slaps those little rascals around. Yeah, that was good
That would rascal is a good word for it the TV show of the gentleman is also good. I enjoyed that. Okay. Yeah, that was all right
What are we doing? We're just doing TV shows. Yeah. Yeah
Who's the Pierce Brosnan one that just came out on Amazon? I think that's guy Richie as well
Oh, that's my bomb. It's my mom land. Okay. I think yeah, I'm not blind. Yeah, I want that
That's really good. We should never watch League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. They made a movie. No the movie bro
Sean Connery with Sean Connery.
Yeah.
It's like one of those...
I went back and watched it because it was one of my favorite movies as a kid.
Exactly.
I went back to watch it now and I was like, this is not what I remember.
They've changed it.
This is not what I remember.
I remember it being so good.
That was like my top three movies as a kid.
Was League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Triple X,
the first one with Vin Diesel, and Hitch Black.
But that was very scary.
Wasn't that one of Sean Connery's last movies as well?
Like he really went out on a loan note.
Yeah.
Like you know the career peaked really early on but he ended on a bad place. I'm make small an error
Thank you now that really not a good movie, but apparently great comics
Speaking of comics graphic novels in city. That's an interesting movie. Sure. Yeah, that is really unique
I've never watched anything like that. Yeah when that came out. It was kind of like groundbreaking
Yeah, and I've watched some interesting stuff about behind the scenes about how he achieved some of that stuff the effects because
It does look like it's unique. It looks like a graphic novel, which is really impressive
So anyone that's into like movies and making movies. That's an interesting one to watch. There's an ankle to go for you
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I think we don't have any aspiring filmmakers emailing into the night. I assume we might be a
Channel now that I'm actually called engineers though. We have plenty of lower
Tell us what you want to be when you grow up
Yeah, because I I don't know what I want as you can tell by the music by the by the pause on the screen by the
webcams we're sitting at a little bit of a technical delay so anything you send
into the mail bag has a chance to be on it. And that's going to be a big deal
for you guys. Yes. And us. We appreciate it. What was that sorry Simon? Quick update.
So disconnected that's where we're waiting. Oh connection issue and then this one
will play. Okay okay. Got a coach holding up with the tech pause that's
unique. It is it's a different play usually the coach is trying to be
like out of the limelight as much as possible doesn't really be causing any issues but yeah
it's gonna be probably a bit frustrating for G2, it might be a bit of a sore spot.
Pretty important part of the G2 machine so I think it's safe to say.
Yep you need him for sure.
I think he's got to be when they made the changes G2 saw coming over was like okay well
now you've got a coach who's proven he can like run a program long term across roster
changes across lineup swaps and you're like okay now I have a little bit more confidence
that there's like there's there's something behind this. If we were doing a tier list of
current tier one coach. Oh current tier one coach. And we had S tier. How many of the
how many coaches would you put in the S tier? Well I feel like Jango's gonna have a different
number. Like I've got blade at the tip of my tongue. I think everyone has a lot of
respect for him and what he's achieved. Oh Sonic.
You
Yo, what a welcome back, we're in the knife round here.
as we are looking down the barrel this third map of course knife super serious
gonna have to be taken we'll see which way it goes we've got no x-ray on for this
as well as intense yeah it's it bloody it's nice out man it could be big it
was of London very big gear be familiar all right unlucky unlucky for London and
unlucky for phase it would seem as pain able to take that knife rounds see
what they could do with it but a very up and down kind of series here
both teams netting their map picks but against the odds and really I think just some disappointment
across the board from both squads and really showing as we hit this narrative of like phase.
You expect big things from them but Payne also have had a really shaky start this year
and maybe beyond actually for Payne into last year as well and you can kind of see why you know
just total disappearance from them as it went to the tail end. Regulation into the overtime
There was not a lot on offer from paying in the end.
Yeah, you kind of took the tail end for them, just severely underwhelming.
Which is weird now, on this slight handshake of a third-matt decider,
I'm leaving the way of phase. I just felt a tail end.
We got four out of five on the board.
It was really caragant. It was really kind of the bottom end in terms of the
fragging department. Everyone else had a really decent showing and things.
So let's see what they got.
CT side start, four paying off the back of the knife.
one phase they had some dicey moments on the T sides we saw in towards dust too but over
time was recouped a little bit and a lot more like what we expect of them painting a really
rough T side I think they've made the smart choice of going CT here and hoping they can
build some really solid foundations.
So
waiting as it's frozen, who's going to go wide first?
It will be frozen and he wins out the fight.
Could be a pretty big one to be honest with you.
The bomb deciding on what it wants to do and it will actually join
where there's already been blood spilled on plants.
The next goal is they maybe try and get out the palace here.
I don't know the setup for the CT side is pretty unorthodox.
They're ready for something in towards round maybe a footstep hurt or maybe just making sense
Frozen can't get the kill, but he confirms the location of these Jullies
You have to be careful of them now bottom to go down this four on three situation. It's definitely not secure just yet
You see given the luxury of a reload nice shot as well from prior
Here's the steps on a second. I don't hit the shot as well
I guess support of the SM to close line brokeie and it's out all on
on Karagin. What a recovery from Payne. How have they actually ended up walking away of that round?
The opening double go the way of phase off the back of Frozen.
I missed it. I was trying to hide it on. I missed it.
He was like doing the classic, you know, like laugh and then lock in. That's what we ascended.
He's a funny guy, man. Playing it up for the camera.
I don't know if we can replay the laugh lock in, but that's kind of how this
Let's have this round felt. It was a little bit of a laughing stock of this to start everything and they locked in and all
kills coming back for seconds and
Yeah, nothing really on offer a fortune for carrying that tail in I just can't believe that
May he throw that away
Yeah, it's tough man, I could definitely see it brewing in my mind's eye, you know when I gave it across to you in the
four on three I could definitely see it happening but
But it's difficult, it's very difficult.
I think, you know, phase such an up and down team in this series alone.
Long streaks from both sides.
Comebacks from phase more often than not is what gets it done.
Surely that is something you just can't keep relying on.
Surely there will be a map where you just get rolled over.
VSM to peek out and find the first.
Right, Junior, looking for a piece of the action as well over here.
Meanwhile in corners, they try and move up short kills have come in for bigger zero prior junior takes one down
He's looking for the next he's gonna get it
Pulling flawless you'd expect them to win against the low-bibe. It usually it takes more work than that. Yeah, that's really good to see
Just make sure that that round is completely
Kind of decimator out there being too much on offer
They can't around you want to be seen
The phase was still unconfined at the moment.
Star 12 of the ESN has dived through that smoke there from bigger areas to the top end
of the connective.
Really, really nice.
I think his star for pariah, map number one was his territory and a little quiet by his
standards on map two dropped off kind of quite notably.
Seeming towards Mirage, come alive again, that would be great and there he is, shining
tall in this Bianca.
It's not a easy job at the best of times, but he seems like he's dealing quite well with it
And the support of BSL on the spam through the wood goes from bad to worse
For phase as it's all left on the shoulders of frozen. Yes, you can collect the bomb
But he's got a 1v5 and so yet to even do a point of damage
Ultimately apart from frozen's entry in the pistol. I don't think we've really been
Worried about Payne's campaign here. Yeah
Is anyone's gonna kill?
Yeah.
Not good luck.
Carrogan with some more vocal using your hands to speak.
I know it's serious.
Is it gonna be enough to get them back into things though?
It's looking tough. It's looking very, very tough indeed.
Rifle's out.
This is often where things can level out though,
as the real counter-strike gets going.
But we're gonna find out.
looking really clean thus far and if it continues it could be a quick third map.
There you spot on.
I'll use off towards mid.
My pain is I want to take a fight but it works favorably for FaZe,
Twists and Jacob.
Trade positively for the T side.
Take mid control.
Start this round off in a four versus three.
There's nobody B.
Pryor has relinquished this control.
He's about to walk into a bar and bomb site.
Pryor might get a move in under though.
I don't think they heard the crunch, so he could get some ridiculous timing.
Obviously going to hear them bursting forwards.
I think he's missed the window unfortunately.
Yeah, I think he has as well.
Maybe if a player peeks out, though.
Let's all get them interested.
The rotation's now coming around.
Pryor in a good spot.
Can he get the next hole?
Yes, he can.
That's so clean on the left eye as well.
8 and 0. So clean.
He looks set to continue.
Can he make it 10 is maybe what he's saying
in the back of his mind here.
Meanwhile, the teammate's going to look to join him.
Lots and lots of utility available actually.
NQC looking to place this well, clear out some angles.
They're all very split.
It's the problem.
So you're going to have to win some one-on-one.
So far, so good.
Karagin doesn't quite know where the player is,
but he does get the info late.
Cannot make it happen.
NQC takes him down.
And it's a 50-50 crunch situation going the way of Payne Pariah, Junior.
Lots a saviour.
Yeah, I think you see his Cs off the round, but the Prey's has to go to Pariah.
What a showing from him.
That second shot is just immaculate.
Crosshair placement is second in honour, and it honestly buys them an entry back inside.
I don't think, without that second kill, I don't think they even properly give this one a look in.
They maybe play a proactive exit, but he gives them a pathway back in.
great work and in case you just make it short that's a land pain continue flawless
It's CT side looking good as it did in regulation on dust to
Instead of the CT side to worry about with pain
This is great and phase squandering opportunities once again. They should have seen that round out
Yeah, they absolutely know it
I mean it's something in a fatiguing series that you're gonna have to try and minimize those rounds
So difficult to deal with.
Only on the stairs. We'll force some fallback as the utility usage from phasing this round
does feel kind of curious. You know, the one smoker jungle, but it's quite a wide smoke
as it were. And then some utility to force them into difficult spots. They'll get smoked
off at ramp.
I think he's ears just begging to come push in this smoke.
Not gonna be the case, it's more powerless
where the main move comes in.
NQZ drops his position and therefore can't stop them.
Rolling forwards, but it's Big U's error
with an open channel here,
looking to find a multi-frag moment.
He will three for him.
The rest of the team able to work around him.
And again, a super clean round.
So just one round so far,
those felt like a contest,
felt like a potential phase round.
That's it.
It's really good to see for pain that they've completely kind of shrugged off the tail end of that map too.
It's very easy for that to still linger in your mind and you take it to be either be a bit ejected or tilted but they've just brushed it aside completely.
By even though the Brazilian roster who are loving life in towards Mirage and we said this was a handshake but maybe not in terms of like both loving it.
They play it a decent amount but to somewhat limited success 40% across the board.
Paying looking good. It's definitely sure this one up in the pool at least for now
It's a lower by as it dives out towards a but a break on the smoke
NQZ was ready and rearing and hill net one spam is close
NQZ's there again with that orb and a jump into wall stairs will cost them their life
That is lovely from pain making sure it is for the most part effortless
Building up a lot of finances building up a lot of good
I mean, it's a good. Feelings
here out of thought. Looking to
just keep that going. You know,
we've seen these guys with some
some pretty good smiles on their
face. They've got a bit of
intensity. They got a bit of
happiness rolling rounds. Some
joyful characters. Sometimes
need to catch themselves when
fades start that comeback train
but surely for a third map in a
row. It fades are going to
Let's just try and keep our heads on straight here.
Easiest set of building hits to like, some phase I suppose.
It's true. I think the pain, it just, you know,
into every single round, you're looking at someone like,
actually kind of the more sort of older players in the team,
yeah, yeah, Sanji, biggest errors,
I mean, especially biggest error,
so much experience, but you look into him
to just continue saying, don't get comfortable.
Don't allow them any opportunity.
A lot of retakes and he's scattered in towards the spawn and a dive in towards short by VSM
on the edge of that smoke going up the first, but a quick trade by Brokey keeps the numbers
level.
But it's good information gathered by VSM nonetheless.
Oh, and it's a missed labored spray by Jacob.
Down he goes.
Same company, so far frozen.
Nice find.
We're more required on this contact move if he is to make his believe in the round.
Junior Molly forwards. You know he's there. They will take the fight clearly against him as well. Biggie Sarah bested.
It's not even frozen. It's required. It's the fast approach towards connector that makes the difference.
Little back of the heel spot. Do you see? Trying to find an easier fight. Takes the bomb planter.
I'll show you the top. They're giving him full respect here. No real reface coming in. He knows there's one at Tetris.
the player. He's not quite sure of it. Rosen's done well there to just eliminate the fight completely.
Force NQZ further and further and further away from that bomb. And he gets this kill around,
but then he's got a real brief window to get the next. Karagin, not actually watching him.
Let's him cross in, tap onto the bomb. Karagin though playing this pretty well,
takes it slow and makes sure to find that frag. Yeah, can't start on his head well,
karagan there just making sure you kind of had to stick it as well that was the
issue with it not to be finally around on the board for phase a lot of which you
argue that kill from frozen gives a nice space to work with and the reposition
was actually really good as to it just drags NQZ away from the site it just
Kills so much the clock he was trying to utilize
It's more things that compile
First on the board finally
Well, it's east side, but they're hoping for the first and many
So sure up a little bit this teacher have something to fall back on
But eight four halves
For both of our maps one and two
I'm getting four arms all the time, wouldn't be a terrible thing to face, to be honest.
I'm not as confident with the early rounds, just letting the action come to them a bit
more. Basically make plenty of noise in towards middle here. Got that smoke set up to seemingly
go up short. They have other ideas with frozen again finding space at ramp. Eliminates Biggie
Zera. The move up connector now looks pretty confident. Shots landing. VSM good for one.
Oh, does get taken down eventually. The team's fallen down around it though. It's not
looking likely prior Junior. Wait a minute. I give this a look. There's cash available.
They're definitely buying into the next round. So I'm not giving a try. There's an orb available
there for him to pick up if he wants. He's kind of thinking about that. I think with
no kill coming in here, he's like, there is an orb there. There is an orb there.
Just going to drop away second round for face.
Continues to be such a threat though his 10th kill
And he rounds play but
Phase are putting back to back rounds on the board, which is good for them the buy around will be pretty easy for pain
It's only snow needs to drop over
Easily do pretty simply
Okay, in the back pocket of him, I thought I'd want to save it over, but nice work.
BSM, he was kind of the last line of the fence,
when he gets tagged out of the three points of HP and they're dead in the smoke,
not, unfortunately, loads you can do in a spot like that.
Faze in the core for a time out.
Moment to discuss.
Not even too much being said here.
All right, Karagin.
Faze, they've realized they're in a pretty commanding position with those two rounds.
they know they're finally putting pressure on towards paying and the finally finding gaps as well
A lot of which feels like it comes off the back of frozen
This space he's taken towards a is being so so important
No, certainly
It has to keep coming this is the problem, you know it has to
Keep delivering and I just don't know that that's going to be the case when pain are able to readjust once again phase with a slow start
They have
Yet to be massively punished for that to be honest, you know making it to two over times after slow starts one which you win
Feels like pain not doing quite a good enough job of cleaning up
Hopefully this time as we've said a couple times now. They're able to realize that and they're able to come back into things
Spam both sides that somehow they both evade
They could also just about avoid evades the HE that feels like it blows up right on his
feet just tucked on the wall, not any serious damage, no
know. He says that ramp smoke is
starting to fade to reposition but it will replenish.
Each phase slowed down. Ramp is where they've been getting a lot of luxury in these last
couple of rounds once so there's a real priority put on it now by Payne which is a nice little
adjustment by them.
Yeah, Frozen can't be up to his usual shenanigans. Smoke is going to dissipate here though.
The wall flash comes in, it's all good enough!
Frozen! Really the master of Ram for the moment, despite where they throw it in me, is still able to get that opening kill.
That all-important kill potentially.
Another burst of connector. Jacob already in a good spot.
Trains come thick and fast.
The orb locked in over at the toll booth, left incredibly low.
Molly surely has to find him, however.
It does burst a little awkwardly and he still gets taken down phase looking really good
Great move from them and it's that C word that conditioning frozen using it to perfection
Knows that ramp is just the most obvious patch for pain and he plays it brilliantly. Yeah, I love the little pause call made as well
Especially after that second smoke that's thrown by snow
very easy in spots like that for teams to sort of cancel and look elsewhere but
they hold them waiting, cast them napping, pariah with the AWP, cut one, look for a second he'll take a
tag, he's very fortunate to stay alive at the end here. All the nab ones seeing off bro,
she's trying to barrel down his position and they're tried by PT50, well me nothing saved
nothing gained for pain. Look where we are now. It's phase you are very quickly closing
the gap and actually making something of this first half and considering the six of start
for pain. I didn't really think that was going to be a possibility, but they've got a decent
kind of runway to work with now. There will be, you know, a buyback in place. There's
not going to be a super fantastic one for the biggest error and snow and a bit of
an awkward financial sports maybe just MP9s for them if they want a bit of armor and utility.
It feels like as well this pain side oftentimes take maybe not every single time but most of
the timeouts feel like they come when they're in like dire financial straits. Yeah. I'm worried
that some of these timeouts are just being spent talking about what we're going to do
guns wise and you know you get this and can you drop me that and whatever just because it
it takes a bit more talking. Rather than going over what appears to be a problem or adjustments
they can make, maybe it's half and half if I give them the benefit of the doubt but I
do worry slightly that the timeouts are not quite as valuable as they potentially could
be and thus phase are they going to be tested again into this round?
because there is gonna trust the mp7 we got a chance to
I'm writing saying was it speak to nqz and I am cracker when he was saying
Because there's one of the best mp7 users you see the program
Well, he doesn't want to the few people who'd been using it for a while prior to the buff
It's a weapon on it seems like a lesser investment for him. He's actually more than happy to be used it
minute gone here and we're not really moved anywhere on either side you smoke
at the window I'm feigned some mid presence and you see twists here they
can move by himself having one two and eight and well not quick enough NQZ
flicks up to take him down meanwhile the beehit coming in here they were
hoping twist would be enough of a distraction is that going to be the
case it seems. Maybe not. Cryo Jr. still over at Get Right, able to hold for one. Looking
for a bit more. He runs out of ammo, but so well placed there. Meanwhile, rotation's
going to start rolling in. Bond does go down. Molotov forces frozen out into the open.
Brokey can't pull off one of those crazy clutches. It will be pained back on the
board after a little brief hiatus.
Yeah, it looked like, uh, actually, some half days of life longer, but he probably should have been over at that end, but the one kill is a fine.
Pale Guarantee leader at the move in towards the second half, which is a positive thing to find, especially on that CT side and being at this being Mirage, as we know, has that CT lean.
And the phase on the flip side as well, how do they react off the elementum's cut short and then finally...
course back into this back and forth a little bit as we've seen for both of
these sides throughout this series it's so streaky
I'm worried for FaZe potentially if paying streak the last couple of rounds in
their favor
put you in an awful spot I mean you lose this one phase you're actually in
trouble for round of the 12th this is the last of your finances brought
here despite the three rounds in a row that you ended up
getting it did come at quite a cost which
has always chipped out the economy. Maybe going to be an air of caution for an ultimate of the half.
Certainly again feels that way. You know we've been a slow going kind of round some early utility out
but one of the big things Payne have maybe changed up is that they're just not looking
at mid at all. Really nice adjustment from them here as well in the fact that FaZe have loved
going for these connected bursts.
And well, they've got a man in the con.
They've also got four on A ready to go at a moment's notice.
Rosen dealt with goodness gracious.
A clinic in on the A bomb site and so well read
that FaZe would go back to their tried and true A hits.
Very well set up.
That's a lot more like it, full paint.
Those back to back rounds, and especially the dominance
of which they find that round too,
massively helps their scenario,
their situation. A bomb bomb might have allowed faces to be a nice true buy in
towards this final of the half but as you can see without it and with only the
one consolation kill it is far from good enough. Triple deagle. All right
double tech nine they've at least got a fair amount of utility.
It's true. I mean I would actually have minded like a hero rifle here. Yeah just
one to help the cause, but we'll see who's hands you put it in frozen, I guess. So no
one's really having a barn burner of a map is the issue, right? So no one's feeling good
enough to be like, actually, can I get an AK? You know, I don't know, it's really brave
enough to ask. We've had eight for an all four of our regulation half so far. I think
it's just in the air today. I think maybe this is the fourth for face. I think it
It might break the trend.
Right, Gigi.
One DK from Jacob will stop it, just your way.
Lives for now.
teammate coming in.
He's able to take the first, looking for a little more here,
and well, we've got VSM.
Spraying down, the AWP just kind of needs to stay alive at this point.
NQZ comes in with his AWP.
Karagin, good for one, but that is all.
It's going to be down to Broke.
Up against four, does not happen.
And the trend is a broken.
The smell of 9-3
at the tail end of that half.
We're going to find out here if things continue on for pain,
phase looking out of energy once again,
dejected faces over there.
And we'll see if the counter strike is able to deliver
in the same way it has all series,
or if it is the end of the road in the series for face.
I dream, I dream of you the way
If you want to believe, I need you to believe
You hold me, I'll show you what I do
I can't even show you the way
If you hold me, I'll show you the way
Welcome back in, that is a stunner of showing from Payne in the first half there, their CT
looking electric, they've got 9 on the board, now it's over to FaZe to respond, we critiqued
the Payne T side on Dust2, so there's still a little bit of a caution floating around
about where the pain are going to fall back into the same problems there and then.
But, wait and see, they're going to dive in towards the B site.
Only one man to beat them.
It's the IGL, it's Karagin.
He's there to try and hold down the floor.
He's got a bit of support from Short, but he's got to hit at least a couple of these shots.
Frozen will find one through the smoke, but backside down goes Karagin.
Frozen answers with another.
Through that smoke as they're still causing problems for the 3 vs 3
and the bomb goes down and a triple rotate through that short smoke
because they dive on through. This could be a board bar, but Rosa puts up another on the board. The Piki 50 not cleared. It's all on bigger
Zera to bail them out here. One versus two, and he can't get anything. Baze just about. Start well.
Yeah, that is close. One or two more well-placed bullets, right? Couple low players, etc. Really, really quite challenging to figure out.
win. It does not happen for pain. So time will tell yet phase come out another comeback or
not. It starts off well. It starts off lucky with frozen through that smoke. I'm very curious
now we do have a buy from pain to get the bomb down and get having an AK dropped across
He's got a full belt of utility as well at the sacrifice of VSM
Friar actually there's two players without armor and two AKs indeed so making one work
My job, I could go either way actually. No, yeah
Yeah, it's on to drop it over to
Prior on a eagle though is as good. Well, no, there you go. He's gonna drop it
Yes, I'm gonna HP VSM is probably it's better than 11 HP armor and the VSM
Now I have to take a little bit of a more ancient role where NGG becomes a supporting element rather than vice-versa
He's worth saying though
Pariah on a eagle is as good. Yeah as I kind of maybe like
Yeah
It's like it's sort of the equivalent of my mind of like an AK half armor is a pariah on a eagle as we saw in
Towards nuke, but it has been a hot-minus is then a very good map though
It's just it was pretty underwhelming and large and part on that seaside as well
slow group towards A here after their first kill looking to go for a conventional A execute
A lot of M4s over on the face of the hand side, no flashes, no kit, it's kind of the big thing
when you're looking at a retake here. Smoke will go down to slow them though, I do like
that smoke usage, pretty clever. Can they work around it here on the T side of things?
Well the answer is yes it's prior junior on the deal to find two but if Flurry of Fags
it's BSM in all the carnage to find that all important kill.
Mog them my king. Mog them. That is it. Androgenica whatever his name is and Clavicula
will be proud.
Of course, I've got the worst time man. Let's set up a camp.
I can't stand it. I cannot stand it.
They're also just not nice people.
Are they not?
No, they're not nice people when you watch like the clips and stuff.
I just see them mogging and one of them bolding.
Happens to the best of us.
Not for VSM, what a round from him.
A dive in towards ramp, potentially around this corner.
So he tumbles a chance there and actually jacos five seven gonna deliver on one himself
He's forced by rounds can be precarious if not play properly and biggest era
There's receive a little dink a love tap from short
The key thing is it's the bomb that gets dropped yeah
It's a lot of info over the CT side there. They're doing well here
I like the fact that, you know, man advantage plus a dink.
Actually not going to try and hold the bomb.
So they're not going to get that back,
but can they actually do anything with it, I suppose?
Is the question.
Anyone going to pick up the phone?
The SM may be in a moment.
Bigger Zera, good timing.
Fine from him on to Karagin.
He's open for the plus.
Comes in. VSM unnecessary.
Huh, I feel like he had a really good angle there to,
you know, spot and do some damage before they peeked into him.
Well, I think he's maybe on the level of like, look at me.
You know, trying to distract away from this B-play that's going on right now.
Because there is actually a pretty decent spot, though.
Bomb planted.
You can hear up close.
You can be really caught by this flash.
You should be dead to right.
But a response of a flash from the T side.
The Ryder will keep him in the conversation.
A little swift backflip.
But it's FaZe who recover off the back of twists for two and they will lose to the force by. FaZe aren't done just yet.
Well, the madness may well be set to continue here.
There's FaZe just looking absolutely fantastic given the chance
on these low buy guns, getting aggressive, getting in the face
this is BSF, do you know what I mean?
he could have shot some toads off and got traded maybe
it just feels so unnecessary
it's a wild move
yeah, it's a wrong read of that situation for sure
I think it's the AK they end up using
no it is
to get the kills in the end
so it's the red and white one I guess
hang on
it's Daisy
no, nice swing, nice find
instant response, Broke, you're a fantastic map number two is
No way to be seen really here he started I think it was only six for him and it's not really got much better snow
We'll swing back in and you see for two in quick succession
Oh the force by wars are very prevalent here. It seems it's this car again left in a one versus three
We kind of assume be being for a wild map number three, but this one is all over the shop
I think he will look for that and then just save yeah, no hope of him getting back into
this one really cheesy move from pain that they like going for is getting that first
spawn out middle before the smoke lands and catching the window player off guard
something that's actually caught phase twice now
oh you have a nap yeah easy me kind of valid oh
saving that one like that image that's the me me when
CTs are saving or yeah you know i'm dead that's the new the new background for the
for the PC. Will he get a gun? I don't know what guns.
I don't even see it. Oh, yes, well he gets it. The worst possible time made over.
Now of course in his life, NQZ actually a really good round from the two quick kills
and Top made a fantastic and he seals the deal with the Deagle at the end.
Nice work by Payne. They are so close to the finish line now.
It's so much better.
E-me-me-me, indeed.
Sounds like a noise I've heard before, you know, but I just can't quite place it.
It kind of reminds me of Iron Man charging up his...
Yeah, there you go.
...whatever they're called. Hand cannons.
Hand cannons.
Yeah.
Put that into it.
One of their big circles on his...
Yeah, a laser beam-circled thing.
I'm not really a Marvel movie person. I've seen most of them, but that won't...
but one that i could feel that they're not really something that you get deep
into the law exactly that some people's thing
he personally i really enjoy the pop culture references yeah
that really we've become game of thrones people recently that's our
thing
well i've been for a while now yeah
shout out uh... all shift x on youtube one time like the super deep
episode break down here we go
keeping them out an hour-long episode plus like a forty five minute break
down from this guy who knows everything
Trust me, it's good stuff. It's really good content.
Flash in, DSM going to be sent into the fray, and the first is good.
The second little labid, or get him on the less,
is left very low.
There should be a trade on the card, and there is.
But a dive down from bigger zero will give them space,
and now the A site's taken,
and it's all on the shoulders of Karrigan.
This was a forced buy from FaZe to stay alive in this series,
and they surely have squandered it now.
It's all in the shoulders.
He's a known quantity.
It's probably really probably worth saving this deal.
You may as well give this a look in.
Half armor, no kit, no util, and no damn chance.
Pain, map and series point for them as they hit 12.
A bridge too far this time around.
They've built quite a few long bridges to be honest,
to mount multiple comeback so far in this series.
One unsuccessful in the end, one successful.
And that's why we are indeed here.
But it's a lot of work for FaZe to keep that going.
slow start that this time they will not be able to come back from it's a lot to ask of any team
once in a blue moon this happens once in a blue moon phase off making headlines however thank you
see other ideas it's bsm to help him out there to remain for phase this will be all she wrote
and zero to a weights phase.
Very, very scary stuff as you know, we've talked about the graveyard
and things not looking good for them this year.
Hasn't been any serendipitous Cinderella run really.
Yeah.
And without that, they start to lose a bit of stock with the management.
I am sure.
I think you're spot on.
The remaining two, it's frozen.
It's broke.
He both looked good into the previous map,
but Broki's tailed off here in Mirage and Frozen's at his moment spot.
It's a long rotate over for him.
Tom will go down. Broki can't deny.
He will get one. He does deny.
The spam will find the head of Snow.
It still shouldn't cause too much of a rock.
His biggest error will go...
I think he will see Team Frozen's up close here as well.
A swing and a find.
Two versus three.
Maybe some legs behind this.
Just...
Don't fall asleep just yet.
NQZ though, here's all rings off for one and a miss spray seals the deal by DSM.
They may have squandered the chance in map number two, but Payne does a clinic on Mirage
and they send phase down to the O and 2 bracket. They are in a dangerous position phase.
Yeah, for sure, right? You know, the stage two is not even necessarily
the most challenging, you know, they definitely could have been within contention,
in this tournament will be a
real, real killer for them. And
now looking back at the
players that they have, but it
is this form this year. This
inconsistency very up and down.
You know, really, really
confusing. Don't quite know
what to make a phase. And maybe
they don't quite know what to
make of themselves going through
the motions. Are there moves
behind the scenes? Are they
waiting for the chopping block
to make an appearance here?
Difficult to say, but as I
and we've seen a lot of
changes. We've seen a lot of
changes. We've seen a lot of
real killer for them and now
looking more and more likely
as we've seen some flashes, some,
you know, fun stuff, but
ultimately, it's just not been
happening really. Yeah, I think
you're absolutely spot on. And
the kind of problem that we
you're at with phase as well
that a lot of teams if you're
going to make changes, you
wait until post colon. It's a
while until colon. It's just
what we're going to do now
for the rest of the year.
Like we've not seen anything
good since the tail end of
the year with the major
everything since then has
been so underwhelming such
It is a really damning position that phase are in there's a lot of things that are going wrong
And it's kind of from the top down as well. We're at the moment
I don't even know really how you change that this side rather than kind of like blow another project and restarting right and that's
Obviously something you also can't do because of VRS. So it's a really awkward spot
But flip side the successes for pain right that is a really good showing from them on that third map
I think a lot more confident they'll kick themselves for squandering dust to close that out
I think especially the way they were playing but for the vast majority of that series. It's pain. You've looked at the better side
Yeah, I mean their own map pick also goes
Sideways right so I don't know what to make of that either
I think there's still a lot of work for pain to be done
phase are gonna take a lot of the limelight because they are phase and the things that we expect from them and want from
Them almost as a community and fans of the game, etc
But yeah, I do feel that pain still not quite clean enough as a victory
Yeah, not quite dark horse contenders. They sometimes have been in the past and they're sort of beating up on you know
The the old man at the moment the team is just not looking too good. So yeah, we'll see moving forwards about pain
Again some great individual performances, but just a super loose T side style
That can be really hard to follow and I think really hard to find success on like round after round
Yeah, and they just like on dust two went completely missing on the new never really impressed on the T side either
So yeah, there's there's a lot of question marks around the squad
As a whole but within this series. We do see some some great showings and that mirage was nice
Yeah, I don't get me wrong like mid-round defaulting is imperative
It ain't got a top-level account of straight
But you've got to have some structure behind it and worry is especially as we always saw on dust to that
Telling the regulation was a rough watch is a lot around
It's just being thrown away for nothing.
So you have to spot on this still a lot more that needs to be brought to the table by pain before we're convinced
We call a bit of them a crack out where there was new look roster
Now they've had a bit of time to integrate the new players of ESM and prior and honestly credit to both of them
They actually do look really really solid prior in particular out of fantastic series
I might even potentially walk away with the MVP
He really looked good across the vast majority maybe a little bit quiet on Duster
But he picked his form back up into was Mirage
And where we look to now it's kind of once again getting this side back to being giant killers as pain at one point in their career
Well, right you look towards kind of like the early put portion of last year into telling the 2024
That's sort of what they were known for these guys was always punching up above their weight
It was big as air and these youngsters and inexperienced people around him now
He does have a little bit more experience the likes of VSM who's dotted around a variety of South American sides
It feels like the right type of rebuild for pain injection of firepower a bit more experience
Yeah, the one one that's going on in the a stream at the moment. So yeah, I think pain
They they do lack some structure. They do like something to turn to when
Things start going wrong for them really and I think that you know
It is eventually going to catch up to them when they're playing against some of the stronger teams
Even you know looking at the crop of like for or Astralis
I think these are teams at the moment given their form and given their approach that should be able to take a pain
that are very shaky, but you know if you do see snow taking over a game or prior
juniors we saw having a great series maybe they are harder to deal with. I just
feel like they're a team that you know it's tough but like you know five times
out of ten you're gonna be able to beat that team pretty easily and then maybe
three of those following times it'll be a bit close. They very rarely are
gonna get these like one-sided victories for sure. Yeah I think I think
They really have to kind of grind their way through. It seems that it becomes a bit of a slog for them
For damn sure. I think we're just waiting for an interview as well
We're gonna be joined in a second by one of the members over from a pretty good panel who told my biggest
Thank you very much for joining us because it's a pleasure to have you on first and foremost. Congratulations a
Long series with a good series all the same taught me through your thoughts a three mapper, but a really nice Mirage
Thank you. Thank you guys
Yeah, it was a tough game against them and yeah, I think the Mirage right now, we have it.
So I think we start to play very well the map and let's see.
Yeah, where are you guys feeling like, you know, your game is out at the moment?
We kind of saw some high highs and a few lows as well.
The sort of tail end of Dust2, the overtime and whatnot was a bit tough, I think for sure.
Obviously you've had some newer additions, especially in the life cycle of pain.
You guys generally like to really push a roster to its maximum reach and have the players in
for a long, long time.
So how are you feeling as a team with these newer players coming in now that we're deep
enough into 2026?
I think I just feel that we have a lot of potential and I feel that.
I really feel that.
But sometimes before this tournament we were struggling in my pool, you know?
Our map pool was really shit, you know?
And yeah, sorry, we changed a few roles and right now I just feel we are much better
as a team, as a player, as an individual also, and I think it's very important.
So I think right now, I can't believe in going through in the tournament because I just feel
that we are playing much better than before, you know?
But I feel like on Dust2 today, we had some, I don't know, nervous moments, you know?
And we were not counting some cluts or like 3v2 or this kind of situation that I think
the experience counts a lot, you know?
Sure.
I want to touch as well on kind of like what the goal is for you guys, right?
You know, you've had a prior in VSM in the side for just over a month, right?
So it's a pretty short time still.
So coming into tournaments like Pro League where especially when you're starting on
online stage what's kind of the goal that you as kind of the captain or the
organization is paying set for yourself for yourselves in the tournaments like
this you know obviously every team will say our goal is to win the tournament
obviously that's why we play right all competitors but what's kind of like a
realistic goal that you guys have for yourself is they qualify into the
land stage is it just getting the good reps on the about I really think that
the main goal for us is not like going through make playoffs or win the
tournament. I think right now we just have to play good, good counter-strike, you know?
Because we were not playing like that. We were, like I said, we were playing very, like,
shit players and we were not playing together and these kind of things and we tried to
fix it. And yeah, I think it's working. And right now I think my main goal, like,
IGL is like make the teams playing a good counter strike, you know, because I think it's the main point right now and
Of course if you play a good counter strike, we go through make playoffs and I don't know
We never know but I think the main point right now is that you know
Yeah, indeed. So last question for myself here really and just kind of a brief one as well
you guys I think as a team you know coming from this position seen quite
Adaptable to playing against different teams
Whether that's you know on home soil or internationally or just sort of like NARMR type thing right as you would have done in the past
How do you find playing against some of the bigger teams online?
You know who maybe aren't as comfortable in this new arena for the likes of a caragon and frozen for example
To be honest, I don't like to play online games
I feel the atmosphere is not the same, you know?
And I like to play online and yeah, it's a kind of weird,
but at the same time it's something that we made a lot
because we from Brazil played, in the past, a lot of online tournaments,
online qualifiers and this kind of thing.
So I think we were kind of used it.
So I think it's good for us because we we made a lot of this kind of match in the past so yeah, but I don't like that much
Yeah fair enough. Well always love to hear from you mate. Thank you very much for joining us and congratulations on the win
And best of luck in the rest of the tournament. Thank you. Bye
Always great to check in that is just the first game of the day
We got more kind of strike up on the bucket for you on next game coming up after a very brief break
It's gonna be legacy taking on Monty. You don't miss it sit tight. See you soon
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Well, what do we say? Only a brief break and we're getting our second series of the day
underway. It is heading in towards game number two here on the B Stream. We've got a legacy
taking on Monty. I'm looking forward to this one. We had a bit of a bomb burner for
kind of maybe the wrong reasons in towards yesterday's game. Let's say for legacy,
They love a drawn out affair, but for the most part, as you saw from stage one,
Monty looked quite clean.
They scalped a few big names and there is some expectations heading into all stage two.
Yeah, absolutely.
I think given what they showed us in stage one as the continually underestimated team,
there is a lot of potential behind them here.
I believe as well, pretty close in their previous matchup.
If I'm not mistaken, taking a map away.
Yeah, they did take a map away from Na'Vi.
So relatively close to fair, a lot of it off the back of this guy.
on the screen right now. Beamus, we caught him on that like 32 kills in regulation, which is crazy
in professional CS2, and then Lato on the other side of things. Also looking pretty good, but I feel
like it's been more of a holistic showing. We saw Nysim having some crazy moments,
Sadson decent on that open art doing his thing, mostly to good success, not quite enough in
the end, but he wasn't a massive detriment. It's just the odd round here or there that we
We were like, you know about that.
Yeah.
But yeah, this one should be kind of a banger
and maybe a clash of styles.
Monty also pretty loose mid-rounding, but not quite as fast.
They tend to be a bit more freezy, a bit more methodical
and really talking things over in the mid-round.
A lot of communication going on for them.
Yeah, as well.
And with legacy from kind of yesterday's game,
it was kind of like what felt like a big
underperformance in Lato, he didn't look great.
As much as he was great in stage one,
he didn't look fantastic yesterday,
but it was Dumau who was doing a lot of the heavy lifting.
he always is. I mean, Doom always is the star of the side and he does shine so often for legacy.
And they're going to look towards him to go head to head with the likes of a B-master of the world,
or if Rainwaker finds that form as he does. I see with the pools a few maps, they're definitely
not going to come into the play. I don't think we see it in Ubers. I don't think we see an
overpass. But having spoken to Gizmy, he did mention to us that they are starting to incorporate
themselves as a seven map team. So it is at least a little bit of a luxury for Monty to have.
They maybe don't have the reps because they're not playing as much counter strike
But they are confident at least it gives me his mind on all seven maps in the pool
Think we may have lost
He's kind of got the alijkan vibe going on
On his side a little bit. I mean not as bad as alijas was but um
Ever so slightly but yeah, when we look at his veto in just a moment before this
I like I feel like for Monty you do get a little bit more of
that. I mean, it's a great
opportunity to direct it.
Despite me not having great
reps, they play all seven maps.
Yeah, well, this is it, right?
That's something as well. When
we talked to give me that he
was pretty adamant on that's
something they're going for
that they're angling for, um
and they felt confident in
their training that it got
taken out. So we got a dust
to here. Interesting kind of
pick up from Monty actually
because it's not bad for
legacy traditionally speaking,
then the ancient. Not be
the new as the decider, which
again suits Monty pretty well.
So this is a tough veto to get
going for sure Monty with the
seven map pool quite clever
coming in with that inferno
band, not their favorites and
one that legacy really do like.
It's a fantastic way to start
the veto for Monty. Get rid of
the inferno. It's the map that
you know, you probably just
can't compete on because it's
become such a home turf for
legacies. It's a way to
really make them feel
uncomfortable kind of
That's the real curveball for me. It feels kind of rogue when you look towards legacy
The father's was one from three on it and
The one being recently which is nice
But it's over time against an IP who didn't even make it past stage one and then losses to foot and fair enough
Then loss of course to it might be on the start of the year and I might be all haven't been exactly great
Recently legacy have definitely had their number flip side as well for Monty
They played it twice, but one of them was at the fight lost to a strollers
I'm having a series we caught. Yeah, they saw that and said I think we can do one step better
But let's find out run the way in towards our second series nice and sharpish here as we begin things on a dust 2
legacy starting on the city side
Some short control here as they looked at trying net that first kill me while Monty with the outside long control not a lot
the game. He's not. Uh else
being said for this round all
five players in the vicinity of
this area. Comes in little peak
trying to grab a kill, but again
not quite. Waker will keep the
fear in them. Keep the attention
here. He's got to be careful
though. In rundown. He's dead
to right. Surely it's a
question of how many you can
take with him. The answer is
not comes very close. Meanwhile.
There is this push up long,
right? And they discover that
on retake going to be required. Gizmy rolls back around to cut off a rotation. Pretty smart
move from him to go back out long. The flash is a bit dodgy. Not quite good enough. The
crossfire on site is really strong here. Still got Lato on 4HP alive by the way. So the
heads are going to have to roll real quick for this T side. Beamus left low on the
P250. However, he's still able to get a kill. Gizmy stands strong and they will
take the pistol.
Yeah, it really felt like Gizmy was dead to right there.
How he survived for as long as he does, I do not know.
But he's got to put the team in his backpack a little bit.
Nice work from him.
Now we get to see Monty scale in towards this T-Sat at Dust2.
It's a chaotic pistol.
Even just that small move by Gizmy,
right at the start of the exit towards the A side,
just holding top mid for the rotation.
Small things like that compound well for Monty.
Four spy, four legacy, scouts, three, five, sevens and a deagle.
A decent amount of utility as well.
So it's still going to be a little bit of a precarious investment.
You've got to be a bit careful here, Monty.
He's missed cross, but a break on the smoke, nothing spotted behind it.
Spread out here for the T side as they look to try and figure things in
towards short. Seems like they will aim to finish here, decent
damage onto a zoo. Yeah, just, yeah, but you wouldn't expect it early on in the round.
Are they going to dedicate here? They've got some presence towards B, gives me having
a look. Through mid. Spots one there on the jump, doesn't want to be seen himself really.
I smoked down from legacy here, so...
I'm gonna slow this round down, but it looks to be a straight execute up short.
Once this...
dissipates, that being said, where is this other smoker?
Okay, it's way over.
Oh, another re-smoke with only 35 seconds left.
Eugh, gonna be rough.
Zoom out on the other side, ready for the burst to come in on the 570s.
Traded instantly.
Can't get anything on the site, he's sticking out ever so slightly.
Meanwhile, we have the scout here, looking to soften them up
maybe take a couple scalps itself. This looks decent for the CTs, you know.
Ah, however, Losers track the battle close player.
And maybe the stronger weaponry just being the difference, as you would expect.
Any kills to come in. Scout could certainly do it, but the smoke is away.
Oh, oh, wait a minute. Look at the HP.
Three for Azu, nine for Beemass. I mean, Nisman's side's not exactly healthy themselves,
but this is a doable retake.
A late dive connects something.
They just don't have a kit in the play
as you're going to find one.
The last man I said to them, they know he was a long player,
but he gets a body shot.
Time is ticking.
Beemass just needs to buy as much of it as he can,
playing in inside the smoke.
He's hiding in plain sight, and he'll see off the last.
That is a dicey round.
Monty, come on on top,
but they're not going to be happy in the fashion
that they did it.
Yeah, a lot of work.
a lot of work required for that one for sure. I think they will be kicking themselves to be quite costly.
But yeah, really quite close. I mean, the fact that they're able to take it is kind of the big thing
for me though. Maybe now, if they get this one cleanly, it'll all be forgotten about, but
But there is a weird investment coming in.
We've got an M4, got two smokes, two flashes, three flashes.
Really quite a strange investment here from Legacy.
Just gonna try and get something going, I suppose.
Yeah, it's like one end of Doom Owl has got rifle armor
and then around him you got art and Nyssen with USPs.
I've got a slight bit of utility.
But that is about it.
What have you got for us? You know what could honestly be caught beautiful in hand here.
Flash on the corner, gives me a little cross, lost all the line, he's lucky that it wasn't
really 4x5 firepower to keep him in a bay, but I was just going to take a tag and solo
that throw.
Bomb plant, momentarily hit. I wonder did he get it down, still a decent enough chance
to do some damage as all five CTs remain alive.
Mal finds Rain Waker.
The short smoke in.
There is one more available, so it'd be well thought if Bemus wants to place it there.
Do you have small decisions to make? Do we want to try and...
Hold on to what we have? I mean, they're buying in the next, right?
So it wouldn't make a lot of sense, but this already feels like a soft exit kind of situation.
You do indeed concede it across.
Despite the wackiness of the buy, they don't feel like following up on it.
They're exiting at a shore. This could actually really be dangerous. This could be very scary
here. Yes, we're going to get one. Oh, it's still expensive as it goes down to the bomb.
They dive in late here. There could be kills to be found, but head will stay tucked. So
silver lining of kind of the three staying alive, but it's still not super convincing
in this early portion by Monty. Yes, you're getting around on the board, but it's like super fine margins, basically.
And if you come in towards the first gun round, towards legacy is an opportunity to really put pressure on here.
We'll see, man, this is a real telltale of this Monty picking into the dust too, and it raised an eyebrow for me.
Not necessarily the worst map in the world for legacy.
So curious to see if they have a solid game plan to work off off here
Stacking up B burst to kick us off into the rifle proceedings clean find on the player up top
Lato is still alive over here though, and he's looking to make that the case for a while
Utility down another kill coming in. Oh, it's a team Molly has been a steps into it rain waker 3 HP
Does take one but instantly dealt with a B burst does not work has his common
CT side will hold the line yeah the current contingency plan there as well
was that they were leaving one into all tunnels the whole back plant the rest of
team can sort of scale in towards the B site but the guy in tunnels gets one tap
by Lato right there so then he can start continuing to be a nuisance around the
backside it's actually really well done it's there's a lot alive as long as he
It does, and even as well, Pirates hasn't just getting out some Utah.
So...
How big of an effect would that have?
We were saying that it weren't convincing rounds by Monty, and...
The first gun round goes the way of legacy, and they look to go two for two in doing so.
Santa will open things up.
Afro with...
The Trader Reserve will take significant damage, but a dive through.
They're so risky on 17 points of HP, and it'll bring the numbers back in favor of Monty.
to the right. Just one left over
on be here. Miss him slightly
more aggressive than his
teammate was in that previous
round, surviving paramount here
gap closing and he's maybe lost
jacket and they get way closer
to the expected. It's not who
flies through the smoke to save
the day. No bomb plan. No
chance legacy with some big
again. He continues to prove just how important he is to legacy success and it's not what you
want to see if you're Monty. It actually looked okay especially about for a fan of that second kill.
Put himself in a spot with his space to maneuver with but
a lot of that sort of self-serving round that Dumal has with that tail end. He just dives
through, sets himself up super nicely with the supporting flash and just like that
I can see a putting real pressure now on to Monty their finances are going to be in a bit of a ruin no plant
Out of that one for the seaside
So springboard to work with
Heck pause though
That's unfortunate
Ever ideal had a few of these yesterday in that
very very long series but it's only a brief one we can get back on the way
okay that's good accidental tech pause maybe or you know teasing the tech just
making sure it works I was pretty sure yeah be honest what what technical issue
crazy I will tell here as the five glocks nothing else absolutely nothing
else can they force out that bomb plant the stereotypical move is late up shore and just try and body block
the planter
There is a player already in pretty good position here is doom out
Set up and ready. He's got some support from down below as well
Surely you would say it should be a
Dio little dodgy they actually managed to get to kill the same with the Glocks
You're now has to be careful think landing
Okay, Rainwaker doesn't find it too HP the difference there now. I mean, yeah big deal could have been very very costly
Now you don't think so Afro with one HP and actually
I think you might just sit in this corner and save the AK. Yeah
You're probably right. There's enough money to buy armor and use them towards the next round
It's very little the worst thing we want. It's kind of like a
Win-win in a sense. You save the AK that's something
much, much, much later. Yeah, we're gonna be here for a minute. Yeah, I was gonna say we might in a few more than actually production, we might be here for a minute. I think he's actually giving it a late look, you know, why would you stop at 30 seconds then?
Because that's because he's gonna get a plot on towards a site one HP and a dream in a literal sense as
Molly in his back pocket as well. Where does this go over towards short?
I don't keep the orb of sadzen a baby. It's really down to what even considers this and he doesn't
We get side-swiped in the end
But I kill the plot on that situation is not bad and legacy just falling asleep ever so slightly
thousands to get a plot
Yeah, that is true. I think maybe decided to make the move because you just heard like so much info stepping around him potentially
Hard to say
We're going nothing wrong and they walked away with three kills in the bomb plant. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah
She absolutely taken out of your monseat. It is true. The gap is closed now though. It's the key thing so
Like you see in prime position to start
Upsetting the apple cart as it were really could be a dangerous look here if they can find some momentum
No, these guys are capable of you know
They really did have some crazy moments some difficult clutch moments and whatnot. Oh
Here's me tries but fails to get that first kill he ends up being first blood. Oh
Man and another one coming in through the smoke as well legacy just walking on water right now. Yeah, you're absolutely spot on
Spamming to find a little bit more fortune behind it.
Let's see, listen, deep flank brewing, there's no way you expect a double car, surely not,
but they will with a molly, it's gonna get spammed. Hang on, this is a 3 versus 3.
Listen, his flank felt like a good spot but it's gonna take a minute for it to progress
all the way around he's gonna have to shift because for all he knows they're
gonna fall back out along and they would hear him so he's really taking his
sweet time about this but he now should know that they're locked in towards this
pit position.
You would assume so.
Contacting up they've got the close smoke here.
going ahead of it though. It's a classic bad habit.
Satsin will capitalize.
It's exactly what he wanted.
Meanwhile on the site, Lato is still here looking, creeping around the fire.
But it's you with a smart move.
They read it. They were like, it should be a guy here, but he's not.
They figured it out.
Going to be down to Afro one on three overall.
Not a lot of time to work with.
They could get him off the time.
Yeah, that's true.
He's to get this one.
Doesn't this intakes him down so legacy all capitalized the two kills at the start the two kills that are the difference in the end and
Things looking pretty good for the Brazilians. Honestly there on a real keen streak time out coming in from them as well
Yeah, I kind of respect it
You know time out from a position of power rather than what a lot of teams do and they do it from a position of weakness
Sure Monty can make use of it themselves
But for legacy it's just shoring up this lead that they've now gained
We'll need the one round buffer but should be pretty easy to get a second.
No bomb there and finance is going to be rough.
Oh there's Monty Sy, best already going to work with the Deagles.
If even that.
Got shot by Nissen right at the end there but yeah, this is legacy looking.
Later that day.
Back to the best.
So, low to no buy, might be another SpongeBob one for this round as a whole, honestly.
Yeah, we're gonna see.
Is there a SpongeBob meme for eco-ing?
Yeah.
We'll have to find out, get deep, deep into the meme lore of SpongeBob, of course.
Of all times.
Just in general or in cartoons or just in general.
Yeah, that's a nice guy humble.
Yeah, looks after his pet snail thing Gary Gary.
In the house.
That's funny.
I never came up with that.
That's funny.
That's good.
Good, good, clean comedy.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
Comedy.
The people love it.
It's wholesome.
It's wholesome.
I never watched it growing up.
I actually didn't.
watch it loads the sandy the
shit one or squirrel so yeah yeah I
watched I like Pokemon Yu-Gi-Oh that was
like that was my kind of thing
galactic football I did actually watch
that in a similar level as well that was
crazy like to football was nuts though
that was a good one is so good in a
zoom 11 was also pretty good as well
that's another football one well so it
was kicking around in a classic that I
used to love before but primary school
was after yeah that's fair like everyone every day when you walk yeah
everyone's got a little everybody that Jimmy you're along with each other right
we're 20 seconds I can tell we've been buying some serious time here for a late
die towards B this in he does have support but it's just a good dicey
do my own make sure that is not okay so easy shut down that was such a
nothing burger of around and we got to sing well I think apparently he's
I think it's Ziggy Mali who sings that. I'm pretty sure it's Bob Mali's son.
Oh really?
Yeah.
I think someone told me that.
It's a great replay.
Life of a Bianca really.
You mean Bianca, yeah.
Yeah.
That's all the one on towards Mirage yesterday that ESL posted on Twitter.
That was really funny.
It was the guy bobbing up and down.
The game is solved.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah, that could have been a big trigger pull there.
I'm surprised we don't see more people shooting on the made.
Exploding the timing. Broke is one of the few people I see do it quite consistently and he gets some decent tags with it
Yeah, maybe just gives away where your op is early
Part of it, but yeah, it would be nice to see attempted once in a while and that would have been a collateral dude
Yeah, I'd have been a nice clip
Break coming in but no one on the other side of it. I like that boost idea though
It's kind of nice. It's a bit unorthodox because of that elevation
It's not an angle that is generally where the cost is placed and a lot of orbs end up double scoping in but nice work
He's gonna get caught. He's a little bit ahead of things there. What's not even there smoke?
Yeah, the CT smoke that so he wouldn't have known that I was going down. He's just really banking on
No one being in the spot to watch short. I guess a little strange
Free kill given away
Like I see will absolutely take that and they immediately change their setup
After that first kill, they see a man moving up short, so they're pretty convinced of a short play.
And they are half right here.
They're not fully finished there, but it's looking more and more likely.
Utility down. 35 seconds here now.
Legacy are just reading them brilliantly. Art in between the smokes, dissecting.
Oh, perfectly. There we are.
He does have a look. He does have a little check.
We'll keep them obeyed. It's just Monty falling apart at the seams here.
Yeah, what are these calls at the moment?
You have to question them.
Rounds where they just leave it later.
It's just so easy for legacy.
I mean, they've barely taken any damage here.
This is a full gun round that feels like anything but...
The last suit of Afro and Rainwaker.
Oh, and Rainwaker's case not long for the world,
and it might be the same for the all.
He might have done a lot of time here.
Austin had chased him out of the corner,
but Afro survives skin of his teeth to get both.
But it doesn't matter in the grand scheme.
It's another four legacy without breaking a sweat.
That round is done off the clock even before the fights.
That looks like a just a poorly called round.
Unfortunately, they just lose track of where these CTs are playing from.
An art does an art move, right?
That is absolutely in the wheelhouse.
It's what we've come to expect from him, and it works perfectly.
Oh, quick upshot.
Too quick, yeah.
Yeah, as it spawn was perfect.
It would seem goes back in for a bit more.
How can I get traded here?
So another early opener coming in for legacy.
Monty back to the drawing board.
Maybe it's over here on B as rain waker
is in the corner, ready, but not able to win the fight.
The Peaks are brilliant.
What more can you say?
Monty just disappearing legacy, rolling them over.
And how impressive we were with this and right well when we caught them earlier yesterday and the same thing again here
He just seems to be able to like
Know the stakes. Yes
Not necessarily like the guy that they're gonna give the resources and you know put in the good spots
But when it's like right and this seems making a place like holding his breath setting up here
We go and then bang bang, you know, it just never overplays his cards
He never makes like unnecessary movement. It's just a solid show and sadden
We're also impressed with him yesterday and now against a...
Bro, he has to tuck his head, but a quick reload and a second chance at it will see off gives me flawless again for legacy.
There are a few of these already in the early portion and even that previous round, while it wasn't flawless,
the only two kills that were found were exits off the time.
So in the grand scheme of where at the moment, there's only been one team in play for what is now seven rounds on the bounce.
This is seven rounds in a row by legacy.
The second they got money out, there's only be one team here.
This is a great showing on your opponent's map, Pig, no less.
Yeah. Yeah. And maybe just kind of the separation.
You know, we have a team like legacy who have competed in the top end
and, you know, one tournament of note. Yeah.
And it's a final week off or another. Yeah.
So, you know, I think you're really seeing some separation here
as to how legacy with a change up here
may well be able to refine that success again, a team that it's tough, right? When you talk
about them in the landscape of winning that tournament, doing well, placing well, giving
some teams a good room for their money, obviously have like the major run from them and everything
that sort of started this off back in Austin. And, you know, it ultimately I think is a team
that sometimes can go under the radar, then they're on the radar and the top teams have
adjusted and gone, right, this is how we play games. Like I say, this is what they like
doing we've got a sheet on them now and sometimes you can see teams like legacy fade into obscurity right
They have like a good six months they get figured out and they just can't be adjust
We are seeing them readjust ever so slightly here
Into this tournament
We'll find out in time. We'll see how it goes. Obviously they're down in the 01 bracket for a reason
It's true very very true, but this is looking like they want to make the right steps to recover in this umbrella
low-by. Monty missed smoke. It does make it into a CT, but it doesn't stay up on the ledge.
It's something they won't have to worry about, but it for the future could be worth keeping an eye on it.
That's a lineup that consistently misses. Either way, we're diving into us long here,
arting the pressure, and it's pressure that they can't really deal with. Down he goes.
They're gonna take a control here. Yeah, where the hell does Azura come from? He's so far up.
I don't think they're really going to be able to do too much about this as a flank coming in from behind as well
And they have just wow pick them apart
Pick the bones some more
It's in the last man standing
And he is now known about so surely not long for this world will take that but it's tag coming in
Hey, there's he doesn't have a chance really gonna move away
To save question mark, but they have loads of money. So maybe it becomes more of a
He doesn't just like, I think he assumes there might be another one somewhere near him.
So I think for him, he's just trying to sell the fake of going towards B and looking for
late exits.
I don't think he's going to give this a go, but as a late exit play, see if he can make
it more expensive.
You know they've got plenty of money, where the flip side, the likes of Monty don't.
It's a nice one to get, it's a bit of a random round as well, as it just gets
the back lines and causes such a
raucous.
Everyone said an attack time
artworks for them.
You make a fifth fellas Monty
you're not in trouble eight to
four though it's it's on that
borderline.
It is true.
Oh, the orb is close but not
quite will be spotted that
player however.
So they they bail on the idea
of maybe sending him in towards
lower which might have been
the idea that they were going
for short control, but legacy meanwhile so that's going to need dealing with it's slow
but sure interlower from the T side they're not really super convinced small
molotov but again not quite perfect sadson we'll stick around yeah look to
retake the space later on great work
probably it's just not quite good enough yeah after a fall that Molly went
deeper so it forced them around the corner allows them to kind of scale
down towards Xbox but sadson had a nice little gap to work with
Now what?
Oh, holding a smoke phase.
It's who could click first, and it is going to be Sadzen.
No one goes, gives me.
Sadzen against reposition.
He's finding one, dropping back, setting himself up for another,
re-aggress from Art, or catch the lurking Rainwaker.
It's always an issue, Rainwaker, on these lurks.
He's so prevalent with them.
He's such a problem, but Art's aware of it.
I think for the harsh majority of this, they force the all-bar into the flames,
B-Mass will see him off, but a 2 vs 4, still surely no chance.
Yeah, you would assume so. Art gonna spam away to find that.
Danza Femus, he's known about it, he is finished by Art as well.
Cleaning the end, it is a pretty damn good first half.
Without the pistol, it is a very different story.
Legacy looking absolutely fantastic here.
We'll see if they can snatch away this map in a few moments.
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Monty not quite able to match up on their own map pick. It gets very curious here.
Let's see. A short dive and a long split that'll come through as well.
Lato will open up the proceedings as Afro goes on. There's so much damage dealt towards these CTs though.
Gives me Azu and BMAS all low and Azu and Gives me go down.
to say about it. It's sad to
not want of his own this round.
All but done and rain waker
nothing he can do. It's about
to be a ninth for legacy. Make
a consolation kill or two without
be as good as it gets. It's
some sharp shooting sure. It
will not affect the round itself.
Look at this long flank by
Lato. He wants him, mate. He's
really after that kill. But
I mean it did in the first half with the pistol being one, but in terms of the rifles it really didn't get going
Now it may be dead on arrival
the second half of dust and you know I did kind of
Yeah a bit curious it's a
Confident cross legs
Look at my new crepes. Yeah crepe check. Yeah. Yeah, all black Tim's ready. Oh, yeah
Second time I've taken my Monty. I mean, honestly, like no surprises like that.
It's just kind of the worst possible way to come in towards this second half on the CT side.
You immediately just get run over.
It looks like the vibes are low for Monty. They feel pretty dejected at the moment.
A five round buffer most likely going to be six.
I mean, again, there's going to be some sort of a force by here,
here but that's not bringing lost to the table it shouldn't be scary or legacy to
overwhelm at the moment the way they're approaching it they're just brute
forcing as a unit like Monty can't compete
yeah it's too much to deal with at the moment the strength of this map for Monty
maybe going to fall by the wayside we shall see time I've taken force by his
is in. So, kind of now or never to be honest with you, if they win this legacy move up to
11. Flash is good, but Beemer's somehow able to find that first kill and he will not escape.
Close. He was mid jump. And thank goodness he was only one, full it. Two take. Spam coming
in here from both sides. Automatic weaponry on the T side, he'd say would come out
on top, but actually not a lick of damage done there.
That CT smoke gonna try and keep them at bay for now, but it's a nice boost here.
Replenish the smoke.
Don't make the move, yeah, that'll cost your life.
Gives me, he swings out and down, he falls, the deagle.
Of a slight tag, but Afro takes more to the scout.
At the same time, Dumas creeping his way forward.
Smoke hits all CT, Afro was trying to desperately jump down to block it, but he can't.
Rainwaker still found one through the smoke and a Molly backside can give legacy the opportunity to scale it
This is dicey you can line up to here. There's one quick trade by Lato
They're still taking a lot of damage here and his body to be found but Lato has given life in the round
It was looking lost and sadden or span the smoke to seal it. That was dicey
That was close but legacy overcome the level they're able to bring and just the
Automatic weaponry right it's kind of the big thing really
It's a common point to harp on, but it makes all the difference there in the end.
Legacy also just showing how comfortable they're looking, how effective they're looking.
If it continues here, if they can find themselves a really, really clean finish, I think we
really do start to consider the 2-0.
Ancient also, though, is kind of a curious one as it's not been fantastic.
I think what we maybe brought it down to is the fact that Monty got demolished on it in their opening matchup, I believe in Stage 1.
Yeah.
Have things changed since then? They were a completely different team into day 2 of Stage 1 when we caught them again.
Here's me. Here's me. He's got decent timing here.
Oh, he's going to get one. He just dips up, finds a kill and...
He's sort of sticking around. He's still not dropped there either
You know, that's new my shadow you'll swing out you'll find a lotto
It's a very weird round state that we're in this to a case now scooped up
Afro and gives me both don't have armors and realistically this round feels like it's sort of one and done here by the emus
He goes out in front of it. That's such a nice move by do now
He's an eight timing is perfect to reload and he's at that round with this Mac 10. He does. Oh do now
He's bailed them out massively bailed them out of what was looking like a lost round
Surely has to have heard the pin pull. Yeah, I think so I
Went for it off the back of that
Maybe we'll get to track it on the replay a little bit gonna be hard to hear for us
I suppose we don't have maximum deafening volume like these guys for you
Look it's some decent damage for Monty. Unfortunately. Just not quite gonna be enough
you need the rounds. You know,
expected to win that one, though,
so it's neither here nor there.
Don't get to save an a K. That
might have been another side of
the argument, maybe, but just
all going to come down to get
the bias going. I like that
taking a time out here, though.
I think they've realized that
both of those two rounds have
got close and they should have
been like this should have
been pretty cleanly effectively
taken. And now they're into
a spot where it is a full
bite to go in there. It's
going to be a full battle.
You till around it. I think
it's the right call by
legacy just to shore up the
offense knowing that those two should have been a lot easier taken than they were.
They still keep them on edge ever so they've got such a wealth of a leader 11 to 4.
Of course, you've got so much breathing room.
But we have seen these levels of deficits be chipped away at rapid pay.
So you can never completely write it off.
They just don't want to get too comfortable or overconfident.
Yeah, I totally agreed.
I know the utility coming out as a tension in the air as both teams don't quite know what
to expect here.
Afro looking, asking for another break as well.
Nothing on the other side of it.
Ah, it's the third one though.
They never expected them into the false sense of security and indeed you will find the
first kill off the back of it so we're pretty happy with that.
there an attempt to trade? I don't think so. I think they're looking to ignore him if they can.
Oh, actually, Satsen spotting like the arm maybe. Not a lot of Afro on show there, but he still will
find the kill. Yeah. What's the playing field? V4? Just shy of a minute. The legacy to the
Cypher where they want to finish and what the defences are looking like. It looks like a
A. Lee will be the play this timing on the smoke there. Very least fight gives me this
we're going to make the move regardless and he loses his head art in that IGL head to head
comes out on top that'll give them the numbers that'll give them the site the plan to follow
it in just a minute moment.
Plan comes through looking pretty damn good here for legacy. If you ask me CT's really
split and it's rain wake who's quite far away from the action.
They also feel like they just need the rounds.
Yeah, it's honestly, I really feel like it's a lose lose scenario here.
Saving and re going it was next round, but it's map point.
They are not committed to.
I think saving is the right call, but actually will lose the orb.
Oh, trying to go for like an active save, I suppose.
If anyone peeked into them and he actively died.
Yeah, it does cost them.
one.
Choose one that we like.
Yeah.
One time not really sure what
that means, but it just means
like, you know, especially in
competition like never got going
never entered into the game.
I know in the higher part of
world it means a person who
has no magic but they're from
a magic family.
That's my bag, I got a Harry Potter ball knowledge.
Yeah, I've read the books.
Yeah, I mean, they were good, man, they were good.
Movies were alright.
Yeah.
We're bangers in there.
I'm like Danny Radcliffe.
Bigger one time.
Can we see him do that rap thing?
I have, yeah.
I mean, he's got some skills to be fair to.
flash. Just to try it. Recall a bit of mid control. This double short play is very common
these days at the pro level because it's just difficult to play it.
Honestly, I'm not going to overlook it. It gives you explosive short presence. So, Nyssen,
that's a really important kill. Keeps the numbers level as they're still looking to
put pressure on their art. All in this commotion is lurking towards long.
Not lurking out just yet though. I don't know that they're really going to be able
to do anything with the art's position over there, of it coming down to where this bomb
wants to end up and slowly leaning B. Rain waker, this is a bold position. Could be everything,
you know, you need to get checked. It's everything or nothing. Yeah. Or he finds like a double
kill to keep them in it. Everything or nothing. Utility right here, though, this is the
big thing for the T side. They've held on to a full belt arts hands and Molly close. All
it needs. Art wants to go first. He's dropping his utility here to his teammates. Go in completely
dry rain. Wake goes overlocked. Oh, what check miss him knows. He knows the eyes just a
headless chicken at times. And sometimes you've got to pick up the pieces behind
him. Absolutely brilliant stuff from this
him and that has to be the moment of the
map that now makes the difference.
It's the Molly out.
Mike Overlooks in the tunnels, but
Beemus maybe missing his timing.
Make some steps here.
Will be seen off.
It's low HP on a couple of these players
though. Definitely not out of the question
as they're slowly but surely making their
way in.
Art versus Beemus as Art looks to try
and play this time.
The flash doesn't work, Beamer finds the head, he's got to get a kit, he's got to get on the bomb.
I think he's just about got it there, smoothly done, no panic, stays calm in the clutch.
Oh, that was very, very close. Nissen, while he gives them life in Tours of the Round, he actually gets stuck in a really tough spot.
Because he knows the player tunnels because they've just fought from big box, so he can't go and face him.
He's actually on the ledge a little bit, but then at the same time he dies from doors. Art flies in.
Discipline
I hate oh, yeah, you know, I'm like, oh here we go big big moment and then the second
I got a face of the earth. Why is he looking there?
Yeah, shoot his teammate till me off the face of the earth honestly
That are not gonna affect towards the T-Tel economy as well
Yes, there's orbs and a couple of AKs in play, but a little for do now and listen
The near hero of that previous on just a vehicle
A chance for Monty to recover just a little bit.
Find this one that's a sick.
The seventh end is a bit of a freebie as long as you don't let them plant the bomb here.
And in doing so, it becomes reachable.
Still a 5 round deficit, but it's at least in your mind you can picture how you recover
it.
to the side of the map, but
it's not going to be that easy.
I'm going to go in quick here.
The one contact flash comes in.
Do now going to get dropped as he
tries to move into CT.
Really picked up the pace, though,
and I mean, the CTs are just
not in position to deal with a
lot of this.
Four and four bomb plant. Can
they mount the retake? We
must all the way out towards
long. So at least they've got
control of that. They know
that these players are
corralled into the site
itself. Nades and mollies
and bullets raining on in.
he's going to have to get into the conversation quickly, Sadson dealt with. It's just not going to happen, miss him. Slowly moving in. I think they will have an inkling that he's got to be in one of those lurking positions. Can't stop the bomb from being diffused. Takes a kill, but what is that? Another round for Monty. Still a long road ahead here, though.
That's one taken as well for them just to make sure it's not too expensive.
It's one where, again, now it's going to give you a little bit of a springboard.
The bomb plant is still something which can both drop even a half by for legacy.
Opalitech 9s, a decent amount of useful as well, isn't it fair?
Get a little bit more of an aggro pop of around.
Let's see, sending them towards long.
He flashes to retake long and in they come.
Tech 9, so now B-mask all by the second as well, he's turned, he's got support of an
AWP at range and M4 up close as well.
The idea of a long pop there isn't bad, but there's just too many bodies.
From Monty.
Tech 9 and a dream.
Okay.
That dream's dead.
Can they get anything here?
Maybe we want to die now and get the round over and done.
Yeah, ultimately.
Save us some time.
Indeed.
Very nice of them to do so.
Five more rounds on the cards here for Monty.
Legacy looking to close things out here and now and you know, take a time out.
You'd assume they've got something up their sleeve that can net this final round.
I think we've had enough crazy comebacks for one day.
True.
Very true.
Yeah, four eight four half. No no. Oh yeah four. Yeah. Five five. Oh nine three. Oh yeah.
It was the final map. Then they couldn't bring it back. Yeah, because it broke the uh broke
the tree. Yeah, four eight fours in a row. The recoveries were pretty consistent towards
that previous bar, that third and final map, feels so unlikely here, but I'm completely
discounted.
Settle the smoke that I come through, but I'm all behind that'll slow them down for
now.
They're not committed to this play just yet, but for legacy, but all five are in this
direction.
They don't have map to go anywhere else.
I think they are looking to pull away, but the bomb's still hanging around.
So what is the move, okay?
It's going to be a mid to be.
They go in contact heavy.
They've got the smoke out.
Two smokes in fact, a little shaky.
You know, they're not quite communicating.
We said, thank you very much.
Red like a book.
That's very odd.
How just fall for the T side?
I don't like.
I don't like how this is looking, dude.
Like, yeah, we got the contact.
We got two smokes in the same place.
We have the it's a safe.
It's like a safe.
Oh, boy.
Saving before alive is an awful look.
And just the rounds felt like I had no structure, no idea behind it.
Yeah.
At all.
That's not a good look.
It's really not a good look.
OK, there is life in Monty.
I mean, I guess you just get to reuse the buy in Tours next.
And with a bit of loss bonus as well,
art can bring something to the table.
You might actually just be like a tech man by for bolstered utility
maybe an MP7 but
We'll see he's got 2.9 to work with
It's a four-on-game
Yeah, that's very art it kind of like lives and dies by the sword doesn't he really where it's
I'll give this a go, it feels like he died by the sword, it is kind of funny, it's like
the Indiana Jones thing, that guy flipping the sword and everything and then Indiana just
shoots and all that, I feel like art sometimes is both of those characters, depending on what
he wants to do in the rounds.
I'd trade.
We like it quick out long here. I mean, this is a good mix-up coming in from them.
Oh, the Flash is nice. Can't quite net the kill. Both sides got to be careful not to lose a player through this smoke.
And ultimately, nobody will go down on that little fight.
First try doesn't get out of there alive, though.
Bobbin' weaving through the smoke off of the Flash.
He could be good.
Surprisingly, isn't actually. I think you went into the tad bit short.
The 4v4, they reset. The issue is though with this reset, is that legs each don't have control anywhere else.
Like, Azu singlehandedly has all of the Tons control and information.
They're gonna double back in that spot.
If they can ice it, that fight on towards Azu, they get a plan out of this.
But at the same time, as you can see a bit of a movement on the minimap,
I think Azu might have a bit of an understanding of what's going on.
Turning the feeders in towards short with Rainwaker.
That's a big fight. This is a dry one as well. He should come on the top. Barrel spots it. He knows first and a second is just going to elude him.
They just have enough time as well to scale through, but a flash would try and slow them. It gives me wants to catch them on the entry.
A good U-Tool from him to be fair. He's going to be sending towards the fight. Head spotted for the first and the second with the support of Rain Waker.
Shut down by Monty. That's a clinic again on that retake, but legacy looking lackluster.
Yeah, they're starting to stink man again similar to pain in our previous series running out of ideas
really just
Throw in things at the wall see what sticks not love it is right now
I'm gonna be the one say here, I think smell over time on this one, bro
Yeah, you feeling that yeah, I
I smell a legacy like stumble over the line around like this kind of vibe. This is what I'm smelling like a
Soon gets to dig headshots. That's that's what I'm how to smell it
but honestly Monty are
Look at a lot more alive. It's kind of the Monty that we were
Expecting such hoping
Into Wars this map, but it's taking it only until now only until the pressure is really on that on death store
and they pick a dust through that they've actually come alive.
Yep.
Smelling big style.
I don't know why we're smelling these things, but you know,
feeling in your bones, perhaps.
Yeah.
There has been a bit of a stinky one.
That's true.
From all the way here from wherever the boot camp in
to sunny England.
Yeah, that's like one day, one or two days of sun, chucked it down on a rain yesterday,
but it did, it did, it's grey and miserable today, it was cold when I went to get my coffee.
Yeah, well, I don't mind it so much, I think sun every day it's a bit of work and it's
hot, it's beefy as well, doing stuff in the sun all the time, I don't like sweating.
Either way, maybe legacy starts to sweat a little bit.
Yeah, Afro though, we have sort of lost track of them.
He will manage to find one.
Has he got the information in for his teammates to work off of?
They're looking to try and boost.
It gives me, he says, ah, I'm good.
He's going to go charging in and he will indeed find more heads.
It's the eagle of art over here.
Too many targets, would have been nice to find one.
Doesn't get that.
Ten rounds now for Monty.
That's a flawless one.
Yeah.
Gulp.
Legacy are just non-competitive now.
How quickly.
They have fallen off a cliff in terms of their form. This is damning incredible. It's due to Monty
Honey kind of do fight what's in front of you and they just do it so effectively is a
Really lackluster showing if I'm right. I think like you have one more tack pause to work with
I'm surprised you haven't gone into it to be honest. I'm surprised they're just letting this progress and play out
I think you would be right now.
I mean, you're backing towards
the buy. This is it. You said
you smelled the overtime lost
round here for legacy and I
think you would be right. Yeah,
we're going to see. Right at
the death right at the tail end
here. Monty can keep this role
going and keep convincing us
time will tell
it's him, what's up Al?
forces rainway care to move
will be spotted slightly
doesn't actually take any damage you get so far ahead of that molotov he takes no damage at all
what is legacy zen game looking like?
oh, I'm in the corner
little bit space for them to now work with maybe committee to show they're
gonna then the field is out and towards me oh my god do mount give me walking
into that I don't even think that was really realized because gizmy doesn't
comment and after being flashed I don't think spotted do my would just
suck on by Lato's up close he's gonna catch his head this is better five
versus three generally you would say unloosable from a spot like this but
Aslu answers for one of his own, there's a player holding the flank and Dumal gets yet another, an oversight from Monty, might just cost him here, flashes in towards the site, the bomb down as well is going to make this difficult as Nissen gets in the back lines and he catches Rain Waker with a flank, he likes to use himself and finally the legacy after a long time of answering, see it over the line.
I mean, I'm still concerned, but it's great that they get it over the line.
But man, I'll have that T-Sci struggle at the end.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know, it comes in as a map that they generally should have a bit of proficiency on.
So the fact that they're not able to close things out cleanly does come as a surprise.
I think in the end, in that very final round to add on really losing track of them out.
So they're looking to get away with that, you know, they just have that crazy 50-50 call.
that not even, you know, feels like a crazy play like 70-30 or something, but they managed
to get it working in their favour, the most annoying round in the world to witness of course
more Rain Waker. But ultimately a really solid try from Monty, might give them some
confidence moving into this next map. I'm very, very curious. Time is indeed going
to tell on this one, folks. We've got Ancient coming up next. Monty were clapped
on it last time out. Maybe Legacy sees some weaknesses in the game. We'll find
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I'm just saying, if you heard Taz say that, there would be five threads on Reddit.
That's not wrong.
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Well, Alexey, they're coming at you pretty fast.
smoke down from the CC cross, he's setting some bullets in, Navi arriving on the rotation,
it's going to be a 5v5 on the retake.
Ooh, not as deep of a break as they wanted on that smoke, so no significant opportunities caught
in transition. Five on four for Navi, or for G2, excuse me.
Ooh, and heavy god has a fight with him, and he's got a bit messy, but fortunately the
temple duo have found plenty of kills. One back from Mikaze, he's doing what he does best
on ancient unable to find another third. There it is asking too much.
Malphyrus and Makazi. Malphyrus 1-0 up. Okay, Malphyrus the head to head round one.
Three kills on the pistol Makazi, only two. Alright, I'm gonna take on that
responsibility in this game. I'm gonna look specifically for Makazi and Malph's
fights in the game. Okay, I appreciate that. I'm gonna keep the counter for us at the
moment. It's 1-0 from Malph. Okay, great. Okay, I'm glad we can count on you to
do that because I can't count. Should we count that? Or are we just gonna
the mid one all of them all matter because they engagements and that he
actually really owned him yeah nice little one tap wasn't it look like
because he slipped on a banana peel.
Wooo!
Like, he just gave up.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Oh, there!
Apologize for that.
Apologize for all of us.
Alright, Matt.
There he goes.
Flash was good!
It was a good flash!
They've still lost two for two.
There's McCarthy though.
Look at this.
His moment.
Coming around the back.
He's not dead.
Now he is.
He's got a lot of damage.
He could go down.
This is a 1v2 that he could very well have a shot at.
That's not some past just been chilling. He's like flex clear guys. Yeah, I think it's clear. Don't worry. I think it's like, yeah, we know
I'm not sure if they're gonna be
Taking too long to go for this bomb plant. No, no, okay
Okay, cool. It was reposition could come as a bit of a surprise to some parts because that smokes up on long
It's just faded now
So now you start your investigations
He's gonna work. It's a little too quiet, right?
What's to create some safety for heavy god and now you know it's look for the flank
You just want to make sure that heavy guys not gonna get pushed at some weird timing from here on out heavy god
You die if you get into an engagement and some pies gonna play the clutch
Yeah, which is okay, but this is an I feel like an easy read for him ever some pious is
Run down MP 9 jump in but some pie steps out with the sound cue and the Leo will win it out
So a 2-0 start for G2 comes down to the 1v1 though something that's sort of
imprinted to the back of my head on this map about Navi is it's just always the
fast retakes like you can see even in this round it's more towards a but even
here in something fast and they'll just keep coming you know they keep sending
bodies uh push through smokes because they don't want you to set up in
post-planned situations especially on a like yeah it's more towards the a bomb
side because they want to come in before the ball even goes down exactly
because once those smokes pass you can't plant the bomb like if they
denied to you. Oh, all right. Hello. It's not bad for a bit. He's more of that and hasn't
been able to do so. Have you got a lovely double entry with the MP7 that secured it?
There is a little bit more of a threat because it gets put down.
Comfortable. No retaking this one.
So that always needs to be, you know, the G2 players need to be aware of that. If
they do go for some fast A play, whether it's a rush or just a fake mid-take,
into an A execute like you need to count on Na'Vi players pushing through those CT smokes
with flashes popping behind them and you just need to be ready for that fight almost you
know even before you get the bomb down.
We didn't cover this game obviously but I thought I'd just bring it up for the class
here in case you guys didn't see the result.
Pain, deep phase earlier today 2-1.
Oh I saw it.
So sent phase to the O2.
I told you they're not making the major.
It wasn't the last map, but 13, well, spoiler, 13-5.
Yes, yeah, the other two maps were close.
From there, it was a beatdown, but it's getting worse.
Two twists to the tweet as well.
I'm saying he's not happy with his own individual performance
or the team play that fades the display.
He was just above Karrigan on that final scoreboard.
Wow, that was interesting.
Now we get a mid-fight.
Here we go.
Karrigan's like, what the hell?
I thought I had a great game.
No, he went 0.7, 0.7 on the wall.
Okay, Hunter already across. This is a lot of early friction.
Hunter's already borrowed deep towards Red Room.
Some pirates and mobs can edge their way out.
You've got Macasse towards the dozen position.
And Matt loses his head, a nice tap from Hunter.
Still bit there to pick up the piece.
Malb's removing a reaction onto bit.
I've got him right where you want him.
Right where you want him.
the whole map and a whole lot of time also for G2, so the most important thing in this situation is
not to end up running into a stack, so I like what they're doing now, they're just taking their time
seeing if a re-aggress is going to come from Navi, maybe they can make it a 4v2.
Well this might be the next best opportunity, someone like Makaze coming in just to investigate
over in middle I mean if you're Navi at this point you're trying not to have to
push and move across the map while also having enough information to know what's
coming
they're playing blind for a lot of this round G2 has stayed so so far back no
sound cues until that smoke pops and now we start working into the A bomb site I
imagine this is just gonna be a quick save call from G2 plants a save the
weapons try again in the next round you got the op on wonderful you don't
to risk that I say I said that but my cousin is gonna come over and just see
if you can get something quick yeah like if you get given something you might see
if you can deny the bomb it's covered good parthing safe no one else is
moving so yeah my cousins just see if you could scare them that's a pretty
scary smoke but you can just go through it don't buy us good awareness doesn't
overreact yeah without any kind of pops of flash bangs without any footsteps
you know the retaking really coming in so first or excuse me fourth round of the board for G2
picking up right where they left off
yeah now if you haven't really been able to kind of reset so bled was asking for coming
to this map right like let's let's get it back let's be ready to fight let's all be let's all be
locked into the fight not yet boom maybe they need to call a locksmith because they seem locked
touted the moment by G2
Okay, yeah
Well workshop that one
Or get a battering ram. I think you needed to throw it in a little bit more conversation happening, you know a locksmith's
Picking locks or do they just kind of like so I locked it? I locked myself out in Malta five minutes after getting the key
So it's an achievement. Yeah, it was pretty fun record the landlord give me the key
And then he went out and I didn't realize the door automatically closes and lock
So I was like calling him five minutes later. I was like, yeah, lock myself out
Oh dear
Did you I called the locksmith? Well, I did call the landlord. He was in a different country
So I got locksmith. He actually opened this door with two plastic sheets. It's pretty insane. So they are kind of just professional
Pete lockpick. Yeah, exactly. That's illegal to have a
Lockpicks in the States. If you're not like a locksmith with a license
Guys have your priorities
Jesus
I say there might be some details to that law that I don't know about but just you know
You can blow off the far door. No problem though
All right
Some bias actually pulled this back
3d5 for G2. They brought back. They might need more than a locksmith at this point
the head shot you know he's temple sunny P 1v2 you pre-aim up sunny P's just gonna
let this one go they've done so well beautiful Navi on the board both teams
really losing that round you know everyone lose the other ones retakes
though where you're just like I feel like that just shouldn't have shouldn't
have happened that way you know I should I feel like it that should have been
pretty much Navi completely locked out of that bomb site with no way to get
like you get three kills so so quickly you now sit in a three on two lose one
in CT spawn lose one of the jump up over because he's good at this video but
that's what he's really strong I mean Matt is or whoever just died well actually
in CT spawn I was the one that's around like why are you there though you
know he comes into the classic mccase versus balbs it's spanning while flashed
Through a smoke and that is the
Zero from ops we took him 20 bullets three zero actually three zero from up Jay's double-checking. Thank God Jay
Resid you've had one job. You said this is one of you
Yeah, I miss one of the you know, we all make mistakes. Thank you Jay. Yeah
The chalice awaits
Well, buddy, you're about to find out.
Sasha, please, please don't come back.
I'm going to go back in here.
Welcome back in here. We are
now looking at map number two,
ancient coming up in just a few
moments here. Legacy looking
really clean for the most part.
There was a mini comeback from
Monty. Had us worried it was
awfully close, but legacy do
to the post and Monty I think never really getting going in the first half second half a little better, but only once they get a fire lit under them right so.
Not quite impressed with the dust you pick that came out kind of their favorite map at the moment as well legacy therefore in a really good position and we've looked into this you know why it's the pick come in over this map or that map.
And it feels like they have a game plan against Monty. They've gone away. They've studied the Astralis game, which was about, uh, you know, five days ago now.
So, um, so they've gone away and studied. And hopefully they will have another way of getting a one-sided affair.
Flipside is, though, for legacy. They've also played this map at Pro League and they've got a win on their belt.
So I'm assuming whatever they saw against NIP themselves, they were pretty happy with.
with and they sort of think of a combination of the two factors that they're pretty solid
win you know 13-10 not bad against an IP but then again it is an IP so you don't want to
reach too heavily into it but then also the really defined loss that Monty picked up at 13-3 against
Astralis a combination of those two factors and maybe even just a little bit of time looking
in towards the tape last night and figuring out like this is a map that we think we have a
little bit of an advantage on we can find and expose a couple of gaps I think generally
speaking when it comes to his legacy we're basically looking at this side in terms of just showing up
the two sides a little bit as we can see the CT side was actually really quite strong there was
enough there that made us feel quite confident about it it was just a maybe kind of ever just
like lack plus three years. Gee but let's see either way we're getting this show on the road
as we're about to begin map number two it is ancient to pick off legacy and basically now we're
looking to see whether Monty can respond. Enough light to power a city from the flash there
of course as we get into things, it does feel the book is pretty heavily in favor of legacy
for this one. So going to have their work cut out our Monty. I think they know that as well.
Fresh Lake kind of team. This is the difficulty though, you know, we saw in that very opening
matchup. Yes, they were able to bounce back in stage one, but at times this team can be their
own worst enemy, right? And very much struggling to get back into the series against the
Astralis is that going to be the case here against legacy their first, you know, big test
Coming into stage two as a team that they could potentially take down
Oh
Zewoo clean
Lato right around the corner also going to go down. Oh, Zewoo finds himself three four kills. Wow. That's too easy
Headshot machine fazoo that is really nicely done
Okay
Not a bad way to start it off, especially considering how, maybe underwhelming you could say he was in tours that first.
I mean, looking across the scoreboard, Rain wake up by him, the Bianca position has never really got to that much.
He struggled, but in terms of kind of the KDA, I mean, that's a 14 and 18 for him.
That's four off rip to get the pistol on the way.
And we kind of said, we looked towards Monty.
How good the response is going to be.
That's the perfect way to do it, a near flawless round.
Yeah, pretty much perfect. We'll see if they can tap into that for most of this game. Hopefully
to give us a competition here. They can indeed do so. It's going to be a forced buy out from
legacy here, aka for Dumau. Worth noting he was electric map number one. Is the star
on the side and continues to prove white? Yeah, starting to get this conversation
the moment I think in Brazil similar to a couple other scenes in the world you know there's national
scenes that's still going where it feels like the team does exist the big super team you might
want to call it it's just getting all the pieces together there's a lot of people tied into contracts
and whatnot I suppose yeah fortunately Brazil's contract situation means that it's sort of
next to impossible you've got kind of like two different scenes you've got the brazilian
scene where it's like hindered by the contracts I mean though the way kind of brazilian law
works and the buyout system means that those buyouts are incredibly expensive
they're part of their contract in terms of the wages too and they got the
Polish scene where like a lot of them stuff like each other so that super team
never never being built French scene yeah yeah exactly similar some sort of
sort of vibes there a little one-for-one the bomb still yet to go down a lot of
pressure being put on here the bomb will get punched in by Nism and the
second attempt of it. Honestly, a bomb on that situation isn't bad.
Lato finds a kill on BMAS and that's what now they've done for him to work with.
And a one-for-one trade is positive.
Dumal and that AK put to good use.
And the tech man will add further problems to Monty's tally.
It's all in the shoulders of Afro.
He started this round off with a kill,
but I don't think he's going to be getting too much more.
They're so isolated as well, legacy.
It's the perfect way to play.
Do not give him a damn thing. What a response.
Yeah, and something that's a little bit curious actually in terms of
Comfortability on this map that I would have liked to see a lot of rifles
out from the CT side, which I do get.
It's like you're fighting against, you know, armed opponents and whatnot.
It's kind of the general rule of thumb.
Not like ancient. You got a lot of retaking that goes on.
So you need someone who's on like the full belt of utility.
Hold on to that full belt a kid as well to just give you more and more time to work with
I don't think that they necessarily gave that the the right amount of focus and in the same vein also not
Getting in the face of their opponents to try and make those rifles really work for
To man advantage for example that would put you in a very good spot. Yeah, no, I agree
Couldn't flash you to the end of fights or
And a molly's to cut off angles
High Power just wasn't good enough, doom out.
Crosshair was trained, he was waiting for a pixel to work with, and as the Molly just maneuvers a little bit.
Nice tap at range, no bring double, go the way, oh legacy.
And if I'm honest, they've gone for a four-spy, which is the right call.
You're in double eco, you have to reinvest into this, but not looking good, and we've been talking about it.
It's not the pistol that's the most important round, it's the four-spy.
That's the one that dictates the early tempo.
to the B bomb site here. It's
where the remaining Monty players
are. Could get messing five
sevens. Deadly deadly pistol
ought to be underestimated. Lato
though. Lovely and clean from
him. Waker will take one and
But they do very very well there to just kind of get the utility out and send one man slowly
Just have a look around are they here? The answer was yes, but they they gather good info with the patient play. Yeah, super job
That's it as well on that kind of contact move in towards the site very easily can be
caught in transition or
Corner fighting behind it wasn't it's time. It was perfect. So unfortunately now it's around before it's a nothing wrong
can't see how a thing to fall back on. Third should be taken with ease. In rounds like this
I kinda like teams to buy just one flash. Just pop yourself into it, even just pop yourself
through this mid smoke, right? Something as small as that or a map like Ancient in particular.
I like when teams play for a gamble-stache B and they pop into wall's ramp. They go
F4 contact. Arts can get tinged so he's going to very swiftly fall away.
Quiet round here. I think, unfortunately, as well, Montecur going to be slightly boring.
I'm not going to give like kill bonus across because the round's just not going to happen.
Maybe holding outside B.
The specs, it's either going to go mid actually.
We'll fight ever so slightly.
Oh. Some guns taken.
That round's not happening, but we maybe have an AK being saved, maybe.
Now it becomes a Protector.
Oh no!
Yikes!
Great Waken area, she's got the AK, can we get out?
Yes.
The answer is yes.
Okay, they save an AK.
But it's a third round for Legacy, it's all the owners on Legacy now to just fully
take control of this first half.
Could be a similar start to this too, where you know, Monty just did not give
us anything to write home about.
One rifle round picked up on D2.
Yeah.
kills though and you know nothing brought in towards that round you'll take
that to be perfectly honest this is not the worst thing in the world for Monty
was nothing round anyway so we'll help in some regards but still on that sort of
matters full buy-in open play for Afro doesn't have loads of you till to work
So
Just gonna squeeze
I have to go up by
It was a long deck with that save AK arts diving in he's so blind and he's in the flames
He'll fall but as we get caught by a hian the same time saddson's awful ring out for one
Man advantage to you side here
They've frozen for just a moment to get this utility out and make sure there's nobody else around
Going for some crazy plays and with that bomb going down with smokes in the way
With a lack of anything on their side as well. No lurking flanking presence on T will save tail between legs
We're looked at Lee here
Start of ancient has been rough a difficult one to deal with a bitter pill
It's just not looking good legacy of picked up where they left off and yeah, honestly look
pretty clinical.
They're rapidly approaching a quite dangerous junction now right where it's kind of this
point in a return.
Legacy of putting up so many rounds already in the early portion of their map pick and
having stolen away their opponents.
It's a multi-sided feeling they're not properly awake.
The only time we've really seen them streak was that tail end of Dusty where at that
At that point it was too little to lay unfortunately, right?
You know, if they had actually put up a little bit more of a foundation in the first half
and then streaked in that sense, it would have been okay.
On the foot side too, the concern we had of our legacy was the T side.
And right now it's the T side that's looking very comfortable.
They're not pulling any punches and onto your struggling to kind of beat them with the pace that the legacy are throwing out.
So the first time I'll take in here, it's definitely a worrying position for Monty.
I just haven't really felt competitive this series so far.
Time out, I'm gonna have to pay dividends, honestly.
It's also on the other side of things, an opportunity to talk things over,
which I think they will be happy for. Big round on the cards here.
As you said, an important juncture.
Various now as to what... Monty might change up, you know?
we've not seen a little bit of aggression from them.
It's not towards lane, which is quite a common option.
They're just really talking things over in the mid.
I'm just coming in, getting some control in our shelf.
Just not on the other side of it.
Like I see it running quite well.
And move into the idea of,
let's just make sure we all stay alive here.
Early damage on towards R,
but it's keeping our train with the mini map.
The bomb is not commited at all, it is not even left spawned.
All these moves towards B ramp early, or A main aggression, none of that is committal.
Even now as well, Dumau is in elbow, he's not even doubling back for it, it's a red
roof shot that I've come through off the back of Rainwaker's aggressive move to drop
missing.
One minute and no one's even near the bomb, somebody's got to go and get it and
side where they want to go with this. Yeah, strange to say the least from legacy. Even
the fact that you could bring it to Elbow, like Lato could just drop an Elbow and then
start maneuvering around. Now it will be picked up by Sads in. They're going to commit towards
an A here. I'm pretty ready for this though on the CT side of things. I mean, we're
on high. It could be a real game changer. Surely got a spot of shadow here. Just get
awkwardly bashed and seen now as well. The pre-fire will be enough to take him down.
Art meanwhile creeping up donut here.
Catching but not landing the frag on Beemus.
Can Beemus stay alive? Can he buy more space? The answer is no, but the AWP,
the M4 here to try and make themselves known. Bomb being faked.
Seven seconds. The Molly comes in. Oh no, that's it.
Hello, Dumau. A real, real blunder from him.
him.
Satsen having covered in a sense going to go down after time as well. You have to hold
it there. It just it just goes to absolute pandemonium.
Yeah, you've got to see.
Obviously didn't know what time it was.
Yeah, I think maybe you realized you can see him kind of panicking and flusteredly dive
back into the site. But yeah, that is a squandered opportunity. That's a real mistake made.
That's never looked good though from legacy. I mean, like you said, kind of the bomb
being left into a spawn for as long as it was with like it felt so indecisive from the get-go it was
maybe that early default call of let's just poke and prod see what we find but
definitely not what you want to see that's how level is tough to watch but Lato and Doomow they'll
make up for it to open up here towards round number seven and somehow Arbor skin of the thief
gets out alive he honestly I feel like every time I'm looking at R he's like 20 HP or less
I don't know. I mean there was even getting damaged from I feel like every time I look at like it's really like how
Just in the nades for sure. Yeah, um exact same mid approach for Monty
There was no one really mid last round for legacy I get that but that doesn't mean that they don't have like an idea of what you went for
So this time they're much better set up for it really quite a strange decision from Monty in my opinion be bombsite
I can be completely clear T's will discover this eventually
So the creep coming in the boost is on decent timing.
He's probably dead here.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Sad to say, maybe he got his knife out slightly early.
But they know about it.
Nisimha in the open does get caught.
Trade's not going to be good enough.
I mean, the damage is really good.
The span through the wood could have done so much.
As you miss, judges, the whole thing, Afro to save.
Yeah, he's trying to smoke into us long.
He didn't really expect legacy to be as audacious as they were
in taking that forward starts that forward position the post plan but it's
all he's gonna want to fight doesn't matter how low he is you gotta know your
opponent in that sense so it's a fifth now for legacy once again extending that
lead to three this is already a pretty solid T side being put on the board the
way they're playing as well they're looking in kind of a prime position to
guarantee a lead at the half at that point one two and pretty serious
even six a piece on both halves the team the CT side against NIP then went four and one
on the CT side so you'd from those numbers you'd make the call that their CT might be
a little stronger and in doing so there get further worried about the situation that
we're in even now pretty even to be fair honestly when I'm pretty even 50% for legacy
on their their halves in the three times they've played it this year you know
about them he investigates I bring any bells to job at a school no I know the
Fermi paradox now it's just like some lady who would you know go and
investigate science one of those types of rain yeah but not as cool
way cringier
Well every time someone like looks something up or answers a question
We all say it investigates. Ah, I don't know that one
I'm not a postman
I think we'll stick with game of thrones
Astro double opener for him in some response from Lato
This is still a lose-we-round for Monty despite it
It's a period being a 5S3.
The molotov will force the AWP a little further back.
He's going to get clear properly, Lato.
Oh, he's overlooking the angle.
He's probably dead to right in a second.
He's not considering this.
Yeah, he's dead to be mass.
You've got to commit to hard clearing that.
But the issue is, is that Lato is alone there.
So there's just too many angles.
Honestly, I don't know why I feel like
if you're going to contact it, you know, 3VX,
feels like a good number to just all get together
and try and see what you can get away with.
Probably because he did a contact play earlier against the low bind.
It works on his mind. It's like...
Yeah. I've done it before.
Satsang will catch Asu.
Hmm.
That will give them actually a bit of a runway here.
It's just a 5-7 on site.
It's a bomb that's trapped in cave though that's gonna get kind of freaky.
Satsang swaps to his secondary pretty quick there.
Bomb gets dropped across now for the plant.
Uh-oh. Two versus two.
I froze got a kit and we do have rain waker with a real speedy flank here
Will he be considered of course is the big question push forwards coming in
Sadson gets the catch and it's all on rain waker one versus two loose information
Does not survive sadson with a beautiful round and indeed he gets the attention of the coach
You definitely would after that four piece from him overall. He did get left hanging on the fist bump though
Yeah, yeah, but he did get a head massage
So I'd all get us better like how often do you see a little head scratch head massage that action going on?
That's a rarity a fist pump. You know, it's a normal. Yeah, you know
Anybody's getting those it feels pretty bad to be left hanging, you know
Yo, he's you know, he's he's got a great one there with the head scratch not money you're getting that
You know take what you can get
I'll drop the point that's really quite passionate about these head scratches
You know the coaches you've got to show attention elsewhere. There's four of the players
You know what I mean?
He's got to give them the fist bumps because they didn't win the round the way sudden did
Yeah, I suppose I need lift the corn guys. Yeah, that's interesting. Just did yeah. Yeah, you should be doing that exactly
Gotta die to get three points
I had to get three parts. I love that man
Legacy in a really commanding spot it's a real concern with we're at the moment
Four Monty and again like I said even when it was in that four versus three in
favor of Monty this is a loseable round from when they were even in the five
versus three position. He's bonded it. Afro, two openers, goes untraded, so you put into a
decent spot, five versus three then it's a two versus four and you let it slip
through your fingers and I know that I wasn't that plastic but it was gone
scooped up. Once you kick themselves letting rounds of that slip, dare the
rounds. I can change the ties and flip the momentum in your favor.
Not capitalize as a
standard to spam
should be a known quantity left the left hand side, but I've got
also trained towards the right. Oh Lato a laser beam from him.
Just the leads as a next round, buddy. We'll see you then.
Geez, gets a little notification from his heartbeat sensor.
That is crazy rain wakers managed to battle one back in towards mid here, so the numbers are even now
Spacken donut here really important spot for him. He's having a little look lots of also checking
Which side does he keep on that so though?
He's a terminator right now. He's PC. He can't miss what is happening admins do as a favor
That's insane
This man is not real
No kit available for the Monty boys as they are gonna try and give it a go on this important retake here
It could be a very devastating half-school line if things do not go well for them
Afro takes one is he seriously gonna stick around here and not think about the save now
He goes down it's seven to two
really strong position for legacy to be in and nothing going right for Monty. I mean worst
possible time to suffer around at the hands of Lato. You know what I mean? If it were a
bit even or whatever you go down, I guess there's not much we can do about that, but
if there's nothing you can do about those kills, it's 6-2.
onto the second one. Oh God that is mental from Lato.
I've been, he just dial into that PC and have a little look around.
He's not right. Oh, he's relentless. He's relentless in his pace.
He must have smoke in hand and the smoke actually ends up going in a nice spot to slow down the role of legacy.
But you can see on the roll there, they're still steamrolling this half.
What do they want to do with this control now, I suppose, becomes the question.
Afro's deagle looking for a head.
Trying to be the hero.
Will be an A finish.
They've still got two players here despite the early kill.
It's true.
So...
Leaving mid open and hoping for the best.
Yeah.
You know, they might get the best.
see Afro. Close unable to get the kill also lucky to be alive. He's going to trade his
position towards a main here with a lot of presence on top comes in. It's all about
right way from top though. Is he going to go over? Look, the answer is no, but again,
they just cannot get anything going here. Monty and Lato all about him. I mean, do
miles not far behind him to be fair, but the past few rounds have been the Lato
So, show?
Yeah.
There's one thing about Doomars that are consistently brilliant, but later, these are pop-off moments
that we have.
Yeah.
I think he's maybe higher rated at the moment, potentially because he's having like these
more explosive maps.
I'm not sure if it was just a head-to-head that we got at the start, but he was like
highest rated.
No, no, no.
Doomars definitely the highest rated on this team.
This tournament?
This tournament actually being interesting.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Let me check it.
Yeah.
The monkeys learn to use HRTV in real-time.
I'm lost, man, that's just...
I don't know, I need a few minutes on, I don't know it, by heart, you know, I need a few
minutes on HRTV to find where I need to go.
I need to do one by one.
I need to do one by one, I need to find where I need to go.
There we go, there we go.
Events.
Yep.
So far, 1.6 and 1.07 for stage 1.
Yeah.
And then, ah, there you go.
OK, so he's high-rated in stage 1.
Yeah.
He's much lower-rated.
Yeah.
OK.
That's an even, I guess, across the board.
Yeah, yeah, they battle for it.
They battle for it.
Ah, doom out.
Stakes is clean.
Nice swinging towards elbow.
Raising play art!
Oh my god.
Doesn't get loads of kills art,
But the ones he does is just hilarious as he flies in towards cave off the back of that catches both of them with the pants
Round their ankles and they've won the round. That's it. And let's be honest now
This is about to be a ninth on the board for legacy. This series is done. Yeah, I mean
They have figured out the ancient it would seem ancient just not looking good for Monty
Oh and legacy feeling pretty confident in theirs
so I think you were kind of right with both of hit the
key points in the fact that
There's a recent map to work on why did they get beat so hard?
And then Legacy have also got a map to work with themselves where they played all the rounds, gone deep into the straff load.
That one worked, that one didn't. How could we change it up?
We were really happy with our A-place, maybe we lean on that a bit more.
Monty meanwhile, it's not letting the ancient happen.
This is one of the things with like the seven map pool.
pool yeah it's kind of a myth in a way yeah it's because it's just so hard to like maintain work
on every single map and you kind of do just have to look at a couple maps and be like
we don't really like playing those you can't practice those let's try and shore up the
map pool in other places he's just he's just a bloodbath kind of the way it always looks for me is
like you have a six map pool right and you have one that's a perma ban and you have four that
are quite strong one that's decent one that's maybe a little bit on the weed ground right
Oh, we'll come back to the point of second decent trades. That's the essay I've taken to save. I've come back to that point.
I mean even what you're saying though, feels like more than what teams actually achieve.
No, no, sure. But in theory, that's where the six map pool looks where you're kind of like three to four. They're like really strong.
And then you have like one that's like decent, maybe like situationally and then once a little bit weak.
What we've got here is just a few maps. They're obviously glaring issues.
I'm very concerned. I think it's the safe point that we're brewing here.
This is a one-one side of showing from Legacy and Monty are nowhere to be seen.
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I hope you enjoyed those bangers, as I certainly did to be fair, you know, getting in there.
Like techno house, kind of.
It's like a soft house, yeah, maybe, you know.
Yeah, a little bit of, it reminded me of Jim Skin, you know, this guy, he's been in
my algorithm, wholesome guy, dropping the shoulder, you know, I'm working on that.
Kind of the UK's protector right now.
Good little dance move, yeah, getting us through the dark times, you know, recession
I'm not going to win. Yeah. I'm
kind of interesting about this
retake, especially in the case
of kind of Lato and all like do
you actually want to give us a
go like arts raid boss here
do these and armor. Lato is
what we're going to find out
in the future. Yeah, I'm kind
of interesting about this
retake, especially in the case
of kind of Lato and all like
do you actually want to give
Lato as well has been dropped the smoke.
You actually want to give this one a look in.
This one's nowhere near the fray.
So this looks like an aggro exit play.
I don't know how good you made that.
Do you even really want to be getting any kind of fights?
They're going to exit out towards mid.
Lato will get one.
I'll stick around here.
I don't really know why.
definitely get the rights yeah he is okay and now for us all hi is there's two
points of HV so it doesn't even kind of draw bodies towards the site for them to
go down to the bomb he's just a goofy guy I really do like love like seeing the
way his brain works it works it's it's funny I mean I do think you know he
you have the real high moments and the low moments.
I always feel like, as I was saying earlier,
like I turn away for two seconds
or look towards the minimap or,
you know, start fathom a point
and this guy is somehow half HP.
What are we doing here?
A dive through and there's the flash.
That's the one thing I said,
I like teams on low bars of this, I have a flash.
Well, we'll see, now's a good time.
Now's a good time.
There it goes.
Going out, middle necessarily,
Yeah, he's far enough back that he can survive in theory.
He gets one before going down.
So here we go.
USPs actually doing a bit of something.
Three kills for them.
That's all they'll get.
But I say all they'll get.
It's pretty good.
They drop at least one rifle, if not two.
Think only one though.
I'm trying to think Izmi is the guy that I couldn't quite
picture what gun he had to start with.
Either way, it's pretty expensive.
Yeah, and you see it does affect Izmi.
He goes down onto the glil.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's for a gun.
I'll just...
You'll use that.
Yeah, I'm gonna say that'd be so wrong.
Contemplating if they needed more utility.
Yeah.
That's why we would need a Galil.
That would be no little rogue.
But anyway, they're diving in towards B.
They're gonna go quick here.
This one drops a smoke, trying to slow down the roll.
He does get a fade away, dink shot as well, which is good.
And we've got the spam and a flashbang from Lato.
He's nailed two.
Art will fall to the flames, so they've taken the site itself, but how does that fight between Lato really work in towards cave?
It could be a big one if they can boost up on top of this box and find a gap.
Oh, that's it though. It's able to just roll around and find the important kills.
Trying to fight fire with fire. They've not even got the bomb down yet, you know, it really did not get started there for Monty.
Despite a keen kind of find
and able to isolate the B bomb site they just couldn't keep control couldn't even buy enough time
This is just really why you have a lot of pressure
I just don't think it's a great map for Monty's first answer 10-4 with the rifles. Yeah
Rushby, you know, I'm not even getting any cave presents or anything. I
Just don't think that they're necessarily that proficient on this map taking a page and I might put there
Yeah, even doubt.
Rush B.
Rush B every round on Ancient, to be honest with you mate.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
True and real.
I am actually an A site anchor as well and I feel like that's how a lot of teams play
against me when I'm playing this map.
Just use specific vehicles.
Yeah, yeah.
They see my name and...
Yeah, the aura.
Yeah, yeah.
They shit themselves.
Okay.
Scared of my raw ability.
I have the same, I have one gimmick and that's all I do which is I stand on the
signed by boost. Yeah. That's all I do. It's the only thing I've really got going for me.
It's just not an angle. No one can play it properly. Yeah. I did play in like a face
at a match recently. Right there. Exactly. Stand on there. You just wait with a molotov
in hand and the second you see a shadow, which you will on the swing, you just throw
it on the run out and you dip into the cave. Honestly, it will actually get you
to level 10. At level 10, though, you'll get owned. Yeah, this is it. I literally
One game at level 10 did that and got inch to swung one taps and I was like, no, all right, cool
Not for me then. Yeah, no FPLC this season
Yeah, yeah, next year next year
All right on T
Back to be we go and back into the loving embrace of sadzen as he just continues to really shine
Yeah, I've been looking pretty good actually
Quietly good behind it's labored. But yeah, he drops the bomb eventually 20 seconds left
Oh, it's tough to watch man. Just everything Monty doing, going wrong, nothing working,
no kills, the bomb being late. I've been getting plants, it's just hard to watch. I think even
if you are a fan of the legacy sides, it still, you know, it feels pretty dirty here. Monty
is not giving us anything at all on ancient and within the series itself, just a small
Surgeons
I can be because legacy took their eyes off the ball once they hit a small line similar to this
Maybe yeah, so I can give monty at this point then rushing B again. Oh, perhaps this is the time. Okay. Okay contact flash is pretty good there
Five on three. They're gonna get the bomb planted that's something they've not necessarily achieved just yet
Okay, do now
Losing his mind there on the crosshair
I had a hilarious swing as well where smoke comes down, he flies through it and gets a kill and then gets incisorated.
They're winning big. This is it. He waits. He's like, yes, yes, I'll play discipline. Don't worry about it, guys.
Yeah, no, I don't do that anymore. I don't do that anymore.
Yeah, no, I'm definitely, yeah, no, I play safe.
This is 2022.
Don't worry. I understand.
You know, it worked for a bit and then it didn't. I got sort of kicks or whatever. Everybody was hating on me for a while and all this.
I don't do that anymore.
And then it's like the score line like creeps up and he's like well like six rounds of head
Good for one full blind as well as it'll fall away and
More or less unscathed takes only a slight tag make sure taken by Monty, but
opening kill and pretty both of they sight here even two towards B. That's our
Nysim. I mean while he hasn't got loads of kills Nysim is just so reliable on
these anchor positions. A actually might be there better move Molly down the
thing controls do my little help and said they're gonna play behind this he
wants to catch one on the cross he just about spots the back of Afro he's
made his way towards Red Room off the back again and they kill with a
this shot by Sanzans not gonna help especially two of them probably just
the same thing the remaining legacy players are too far away you know you
got all these rounds and whatnot but just feels futile so it will be a
Monty 6 I think I missed it how did I die pushing through a smoke no I don't
I don't all you know you got you got something just won yeah my from we were
spectating yeah and then he didn't like insta-trade yeah yeah yeah that was it I
was wondering whether it was something a little bit rogue just used to that but
that was a bit more caught off really or tame tempered he was probably holding an
open angle when he shouldn't have been what do you mean let the orp take first
contact yeah that was true
Don't worry, I got it.
Brilliant.
You don't have the angle on that guy?
Sorry, I got it.
My radar's on like 0%, sorry.
I don't check that before.
I don't think before I do. I don't want any distractions.
Yeah, he's got the smallest FOV.
Brilliant.
I mean, it feels like we are just biding our time
until legacy is off, but then at the same time,
are prone to letting leads slip so how many times we said that the past couple of days you know what I
mean like we've had so many of these comebacks actually it's actually meant to slow them down
I think you're right though we've had way too many yeah I actually was going to very just be like
this is guaranteed to happen for legacy yeah yeah we try and use the like cast the reverse casta
the curse. Yeah. You don't necessarily believe in it, but you know, sometimes I'd be like,
oh, it's really going overtime. But actually my head, I'm like, please, please for the
love of God.
Us going into quad OTS. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Oh, I think I saw another overtime here and
I'm like, oh, more counter strike on the way guys. Yeah, I'm not eating in six hours.
You know, blood shrunk is that an all time low?
Yeah.
Right, we're moving towards B.
So he plays here to meet them as well, and, ah, go on.
Do it. You know you want it. You know you want it.
Oh!
Oh, he gets so down by the HG.
He's gonna get one!
Pistol pulls out. He goes to dive through,
but he meets Rain Waker at the entrance.
Raki does get two for his likelihood.
Oh!
That's powerful! Miss him!
That is naughty!
And another form as well as he finds the third.
That's surely curtains.
It's all on Afro.
Listen, single-handedly has shut down the B-Pop.
We spoke about this B-Pop earlier for Monty, and we didn't like it.
And this one's exactly the same, it's all an Afro.
25 seconds, you'll get one.
Now into one versus two, he's lost the shoulder for another.
This bomb needs to be planted.
Time is of the essence, and where is this last guy?
Does he realize he's fanking? It doesn't matter.
He's seen off at the end, and that is, honestly,
a pretty effortless display from Legacy.
It's all the tenors on ancient,
they're just fine with this.
Yeah, I mean, a real good example in that round as well,
where there is an art, there is a Nysim, you know,
they have the Yin and Yang on this team,
and that's maybe why it's going to start working.
But yeah, Legacy making absolute meant to be out of Monty.
There is no other way of putting it, to be honest with you,
Monty's ancient seems to be a real pain point,
Legacy ready to that.
And they also dominate them on it,
not quite as dominant as that Astralis game in stage one,
but pretty damn close.
the rounds just really handing themselves to a fantastic showing. So, yeah, it's unfortunate,
Monty, the little team that could in stage one, even making it through to stage two, not a huge
surprise, right? The dark horse kind of energy to them, but certainly into stage two here, not
looking too good and unfortunately living up to a few expectations that they would
meet their maker as it were in this one. But look, they took a map off Nabi,
so I expected a bit more from them here against Legacy.
I think they've now got to commit to a Sigma pool. I think of a being a being honest, right?
I like the idea and we praise that the veto process quite good that bad of inferno felt on paper like this is a really nice map in which
Legacy like we don't like as much. We don't have that many reps this year
Let's try and get it out and force them into a bit more of a us-favoured veto
But it works against them right because when you look into the lansha which legs you pick into legacy of not looks great
I'm out themselves. They don't have loads of reps under their belt
They're like one from three now two from four
It's one of those scenarios where it feels like because of how poor you looked at that part in the past
But now at least in this tournament
Let's probably actually put it as our perma ban and workshop it off of the tournament
I think it's probably the play for me now
That's two maps in which they've never even got a foothold in that is not a good sign
But it's still playing more kind of strike right and off the back of that game
I'm looking forward to seeing what these next two series can bring that one was unfortunate to bit of a non-starter
to be able to do that. I think
that's a good idea. I think we
have to see how we can do that
faster. Yeah, No, it is true. It
is true. I think we still have
you know, playing counter strike
to come, but we'll have to see
how these two teams continue
on in their life cycle and
whether they're able to, you
know, ultimately stay alive for
the Monty side of things. Um
but yeah, getting very, very
curious now. We've got Furia
I think going to be very, very interesting heroic.
I've kind of been surprising some people, I think.
True, bait, the little team that could,
off in the 1-0, right, over the win of a furia.
Now you get to meet the battering ram of Donk,
so best of luck in that one.
But that is us done for the first two games
of the B-Street.
We're gonna be throwing it over to our commentators,
it's James Barthoff and DDK,
and we take over for the evening shift here.
Like we said, plenty more CS on your screens up next.
We've got Foot taking on heroic,
Hopefully we'll stop there, Kai, and screw if we are done for today.
We'll see you tomorrow.
No chance at all.
Damn guys, we almost had this.
Thank God that's over.
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Our lives meet together through all kind of weather
And our hearts grew strong
Our love was a chance encounter
A glance across the street
Flee from moments to strangers meeting
The meeting that swept me off my feet The buzz of traffic, the bright city lights
You talked about marriage, who you'd invite We talked for hours and I brought you flowers
And our hearts be strong
How can something so special
Being mere happenstance
Was it destiny calling
Or just life's little dance?
And just like that we are back
We're going to have to go back
the action will continue with
halfway through the day here on
the B stream and now we have a
change of the guard that is down
and myself here for matches three
and four after a long day
yesterday. How are you doing
today done? Good. And then good.
Yeah, yesterday we were delayed
maybe three hours might schedule
because of that one crazy series
of five hours for a vessel three.
But yesterday we were on schedule
are hoping that finally we would have a good season of Formula One, but it seems that the
cars are maybe the worst they've ever been. So hopefully the rest of the pro league matches
can brighten up my day. Now this is to have the schools on the doors. These are how things are
looking at present phase losing to Payne who continue to impress. Monty losing 2-0 as well.
that will be an unfortunate matchup for them. Foot and heroic. Furia and 3D Max are what's
going to close out the day here on the B Stream today. We saw some really exciting action,
I think for the matches that we have covered, I think we saw the best matches so far,
or at least the most engaging matches yesterday. I don't know if you would agree,
but we saw some great output from Furia in a loss of surprise loss, if you will, Dan.
Yeah, we did we did see some great output from fury. I mean there was a bit of a struggle for them. And I mean
I'm generally not too worried about teams like that
Maybe dropping series early because you know, there is that element that as the pressure kind of mounts
That's when they get better. And I know I fully expect that you know, they're going to be kind of where they're supposed to be
towards the end
So we've got a game show it
We've got a game show which is vrs or tour de France
And I'm basically the Steve Harvey of this operation.
So it's gonna be down to you to decide, is this graph
a VRS graph of one of the teams in this current state
or is it a route of the Tour de France?
I think it's Tour de France.
All right.
He thinks it's Tour de France and...
That's a lot of volatility, James.
It is, yeah, it is.
But is it...
It's a striless VRS graph.
Oh.
Okay, all right.
You're not PASCO, do not collect $200.
I was in there somewhere in France.
I don't know if I saw the Tour de France.
Oh, that's absolutely Tour de France, man.
I'm calling it, even on the host.
I'm saying Tour de France.
Yeah, it just looks like France to me, basically.
Oh, I was lying.
Yeah.
I hate this game.
They suck.
I over-committed that.
It's fair to say, you know,
It's like, it's like you're playing Ceci Mirage and your short guy swings alone about anything and just gets popped.
It's got to be Tour de France.
Because one of them has to be right, otherwise this would be just a sham.
Look at that right angle, that's nasty.
That first like big right, like if this is, I mean, are we talking like a top-down
super, super bang?
Is this like a top-down view of the roots? Because those
those turns look nasty.
But you know Tour de France, Tour de France is crazy, you know in Tour de France, between
days of the race, some of the cyclists will have blood bags before they'll start the race,
they'll make a blood bag and then they'll, to speed in their, to hasten their recovery,
they'll do a blood transfusion of their own blood because it's got a higher oxygen level,
so it allows them to recover faster.
That's the edge in your sport. I want a different sport. I'm going to go fishing instead. So you think this is going to be as VRS graph?
Yeah, I reckon it is.
All right, then. Let's see.
Oh, wow. Wow.
I do the VRS graph when I see it.
10 points for you.
Yeah, I know that, like, James, because when they added more, the delay, I was like, and they had that crazy David event. I was like, hmm.
And then I made like a screenshot of their graph a few months afterwards and I was like,
look at this. Look how many places they've jumped. And obviously they made like this huge
roster change or huge roster changes that mean you can do them all the way kind of at
the same time and then in full and switch roles. So, and, and, you know, their results
kind of plummeted. But then from there, it was just like, you know, they just,
you know, went all the way to the top and sort of stabilize to the top. So I
just, I just know their graph.
very nice work. I can't think of much more boring than looking at a graph. I prefer books
that are entirely comprising pictures. Anyway, here's the veto for our first series, which
is Foot vs. Heroic. Excuse me. Nuke, picked by Heroic. Ancient picked by Foot. And Mirage,
a decider. This is going to be an explosive series, especially the last two maps. I
I like this series. We've seen lots of Nuke as well, which is great to see.
I feel like Overpass, while it's not picked in the series, it is kind of rising in the ranks as well.
So we're getting more technical, but we've got those explosive maps like Ancient and Mirage to come in this series.
But first, of course, we will start in the more technical area of Nuke.
Yes. Yes, it's here. So it'll be really fun to see how the form looks just off the get-go.
Are you walking in with a favorite?
Hmm, I, I, I'm.
I really like foot as a team.
I really enjoy them.
They play a kind of counter strike that I, I get a lot out of by watching.
So I would like to see a good performance today from foot.
I mean, I like to see great performance from both in fairness to
for it to be a good match.
But yeah, first is I, I always
expect good things from them, regardless of who your opponent is for the most part.
And this is going swimmingly for them so far, but the pre-fire from Jugg's not quite getting there.
That's going to give Heroka Window, which will firmly and quickly be closed by the remainder of
foot. Yeah, I think I'm also on the same foot train. It's just kind of cool to see the
trajectory of a younger team that's kind of refined itself over time. And you've got some
promising young stars that are really exciting to watch, so I kind of share your sentiment there.
Your foot's mad. That's what you're saying. Yeah, show me the foot. Yeah, I thought so.
I felt like I could tell. Technines and utility are out for heroic in this second round. We know this
This means this will be a dangerous round.
Junkster's got a flash.
He will look to deploy.
Team is close enough, though.
He could wipe them all out here, especially with the M4A4.
The Julees to pick up the slack afterwards won't be enough.
The catch Junkster at Cemetery is in position, which leaves Crescent with much to do.
Notice how he's not revealing his shadow.
He's been very careful about that.
term. Yeah, I think you might just be pulling up boots while you go fishing. Although I
say that he did get one at least.
Those spray downs, it's ramp always remind me of just like a classic spray down you would
see like a 1.6 movie, which is like the classic eco spray downs from 1.6 in general. And
it'd be kind of cool to have like a highlight clip one day where or like maybe like a just
retrospective of Counter Strike where you you see like all of the different Counter
of strikes and virgins of that spray down because I felt like it's so you know the round brush
so iconic you know.
I'm sure it will be thinking about the next round.
to mouse to one a big Paris vision to zero after beating passion you a to zero
it did lose to Monty and the strivers before that in recent matches only rank
I think 18 versus 13 for first on HRTV.
So I do expect this to be a competitive one.
And both teams, definitely a lot of comfort here.
Rourke, perhaps more, 75% with 12 maps played on Nuke.
I mean, that's pretty solid, honestly.
And they're generally playing like pretty good opponents
to be honest as well.
So you'd expect, I think to see maybe
the most solid performance here from Heroic or rather of all of the three maps in this
series, you'd expect to see them the most comfortable here.
So I think just in terms of the trajectory for the series, how things are supposed to
go?
To be honest, I think if they pick this one up, I do think though that Ft have that
surprise factor about them that some of these teams do.
I think, you know, like bait, for example, is similar in that sense, or maybe even paying to an extent as well, where they're kind of able to punch above their weight a little bit and just show more breakout performances because these are ultimately, you know, newer teams compared to like a heroic or, you know, in yesterday's case, a theory, for example, there's more unknown quantities.
I wonder what to expect from Fertz on Nuke specifically, wondering how viable a 2-0 is,
how possible a 2-0 could be here for Fertz.
Lost 13-2 to Astralis at IEM Crackout.
Liquid 39, the other matches versus K27 and Bet Boom.
So there's a question mark there for me.
We shall see.
We've got a lot of good numbers on Mirage, however.
But before we possibly get there,
let's see how these squads do in this by-round.
Cemetery's in a good position.
Got great info.
timing might be all right now as we exchange outside this may force the hand
off the remainder demon carefully having a look looking to keep map control
release by time for his squad
down ramp they go into the lower sights and start on the the back the push
with the AWP it's gonna be tough on that demons got a great spot but he's
lane kills it would probably end the rounds it's one for free no trade it's a
reset the situation the jiggling here USP comes out that's some decent damage
there as well so that should enable the remainder of foot to be able to bring
this one back in the young star though with the AWP could be the X factor in
this round but down back on the site his teammates are having trouble getting
that bomb planted and now he's gonna do it all by himself no time though
AWP can be saved in this situation, but if I finish unfortunately for them, but at least I'll keep the AWP I suppose
Yeah, that's always going to be notable
Headed straight back to the ramp for a defensive position. I think was the time they had left on the clock
If the rifle is tried plotters, maybe a sacrificial lamb expendable man, but the open deed will be saved
Now they'll be looking to see if they can get a pick with that AWP before they lose too many pistoling players.
Or in an ideal world, not much utility to do it with though.
We have a risk with a boosted position. See if cemetery chooses to go deeper.
Perhaps he'd have support from the flash if he did.
Oh! Just see the barrel eggs flying in the air.
It looks like a commercial for some jeans.
A very bizarre one.
It's almost caught on the rotation.
That's so unfortunate for the T side.
But again, the CT side is going swimmingly well for foot so far.
As long as it's locking down the south side position.
Oh my goodness!
Look at it from the barbed wire.
And it's going to need Egyptian magic to get those scars out.
Well, this is not going well, they can't get out of the yard.
So much time to save.
What a odd scenario to be in.
Could be in the scenario no longer it seems.
So a lightning quick start to Nuke 4 Furtons.
This has to be concerning for Heroic.
Again, the third map, Mirage, that I mentioned earlier, our foots are 83%.
However, the sample size is 18 maps.
That's a lot of maps. That's a big, big sample size.
What's happening there?
64% on ancient with 11 maps played, I think, is also a big percentage.
If people underestimate how significant that region is, percentage-wise,
it is more meaningful than you think.
So, yeah, Nuke is not a map that Heroic can really afford to lose.
It does seem that way for sure, that the series, this is where the series is the best for them.
You can lock down the outside again, cemetery with the AWP coverage all the way back.
I like this though from Heroic, trying to split onto Main, but it was staggered there,
starts going down quite quickly, allows the CTs to focus their fire on the oncoming attacking.
Now this again, just not really all that much left.
They're struggling to find openings and trades.
Some of the basics here just aren't really going all that well for the Heroic side.
Another round where it's like, okay, well, do I try to save?
I've got a minute left to do it, it's just not ideal.
Oh.
Hello?
Constellation prize there.
Because he doesn't have the bomb.
Denise the holder's okay.
These are,
yeah, this is,
There's not much mileage on this car doesn't seem to be going anywhere. It's almost remaining in pocked
And this is the pick of heroic
So far not so good, but I mean hey
Sometimes new could be like that again chip away the city economy, but they've got to do more chipping
I'll say
Lots of things going wrong nothing
Going right for heroic at presence
Yeah, like you need like one thing to happen, like, you know, an entry somewhere, if something
some hot like create a whole, if something to work with, but they're just kind of like
left in these later on scenarios with nothing.
And it's right, it's kind of tough to when you're on a tea side, and you have no basis
of like the kind of your conditioning is working. And so, so then it's actually kind
of harder to even read what the CTs might be doing, because usually if your condition
effective, like your defaults are gaining space, you know, maybe you're getting out of secret,
maybe you're kind of shutting down lobby control. You kind of like limit the options for the CTs,
which makes it more readable as to what they might do. And when nothing's working, it feels even
worse because now you're not quite sure what they can do. And you're now starting to have
your confidence get a little bit more affected every round that you lose.
Hero AK, but it made me detect nice without being the heroes of this round.
So many of them and so much to do.
heads downstairs. Look at the TVs and stereos. Oh, it's got such a good opportunity in here.
Oh, great burst at the end. Kept a few bullets. Even more reposition. Will there be anything
else left here as young star manages to stay alive for now?
The third kill would be something.
He's been spotted- OH!
Nasty!
Okay then.
I think that rifle's gone down the vents.
Yeah.
But Krebbenny, he could take down from any range.
So this is a dangerous one.
And again, he's trying to use the clock- Oh, I can't believe what I'm seeing!
The third one!
Exactly the man he was looking for.
The CTs should know where the bomb is.
Cemetery.
The last one.
Oh, he could be found.
He could be found!
I can't believe he's clutched that!
What a ridiculous round!
Actually, I feel like, hang on, press the timer button, hang on.
He's like, let me...
Last time right now.
Yeah, this is kind of pretty crazy.
I was going to make the point that one of the ways you deal with that scenario I mentioned
before where nothing's been working is you go for a shock and all rush somewhere.
So just like, just simplify it and just you want the variance to be crazy.
Maybe it works, you maybe it doesn't.
But if it does work for you, then you're kind of able to kind of reinvigorate the
team a little bit.
And I mean, that's an insane moment of the tech nine, dude.
I don't know how it could look that good, but it does all kinds of weird things on
you.
Do you remember the falling tech nine from get right like a million years ago?
course. Of course, I do. So, I mean, that's a fantastic crowd, it's a really good highlight.
However, how much does it change your situation? Have a good buy, a full buy, this changes from
the timeout saves of one rifle if they are lucky. It's not around they can expect to
replicate to recover something in this half. So it needs to find success in the normal
rounds. Because there's more work to be done to put the CTs on the eco. So while that was
a stroke of genius from the youngster, there is much more work to be done here for Heroic.
I mean, I do think it does provide a little bit of relief. Obviously, if they get reset,
this round is going to be very tough to deal with, but
they only need to get four rounds or so, have some breathing room, and try to go
I don't know if it's up for attack again.
Krox is going to get a hold of it.
They actually heard the sound cues above the burning, and that does distract them.
So the defense is still pretty good on this upper site.
Very important swing there from Crizzan.
A 2 vs 3?
The bomb though, it is out there on the upper site.
It has to be recovered.
Crizzan looking for a potential flank.
Good contain though from the CTs, from Furt.
Looking to make sure they maintain control of this situation,
but that's a great pick from Crizzan.
And now there's a real chance here we go again. I can't have two in a row like this, but
I'm not be able to survive
Timing was really good. How long was cemetery last coming last round was really good for youngster who finds himself in the clutch once more
He's got half the information as to the positions of the CTs this time. He's carrying the bomb
This time he doesn't make a demon from the back, we'll leave two standing, see if they
can keep chipping away.
That's really unfortunate, not getting the bomb down at least, good looking this round.
You can see they heard him burning there, up on the top and he drops down just as
that last kick of burning is triggered, so actually acts as a distraction which
which is kinda crazy.
And it makes a huge difference.
So the good times continue here,
but for heroic, I mean, they still have some guns.
The problem is, is they only have one smoke right now.
That's gonna be deployed.
Oh, no, they still actually have it.
They have one smoke.
I thought it was one at the beginning around,
so my mistake there.
Delcrebany with the opening pick outside
certainly makes things a little bit tough for the T-side.
Krebbeni hoping I'll gravitate towards him. I mean, they may feel like they need to deal
with him to construct the round at the time remaining, and they have done exactly that.
What does this mean for the CT rotations? They know that they are heavily compromised
outside which can give more routes to the A-bombs sites and those routes are being
taken by force whether they're taken ultimately or not. The bombhead is
heading up at present I don't think it's been seen I don't believe young stars
fired a single bullet yet so there's a lot that's also not aware of. Again if
they lose by elimination they might be in trouble here.
It seems to find a good timing.
It's very tough though because the cemetery has been kind of effectively out of the round
the entire time as he was on the lower side, maybe available for a secret play, but now
he's over at the vents.
See if they can make the timing work here.
Actually able to get out of the vents.
Smoke on to main.
Looking for the retake.
Huge opening kill.
He lost the pressure on Youngstar now, as he is trying to do what he can with the gillilts.
Logs able to take down Khryza.
Youngstar again is up to him.
Oh my god, 5 HP.
It's so painfully close for Heroic, but they just can't get it over the line.
He really needs to make sure he landed properly on that occasion.
I did think the player on the roof would end up being in awkward position once he's
got to give a sound cue and drop and help his teammates.
to the wire. Heroic are getting closer, but they're running out of rounds to get more
than closer as we head into round 10 with an 8-1 scoreline. Monster half from foot, score-wise.
Heroic are, again, narrowing the gap in the rounds, but not converting the rounds to
that one round. A miracle from youngster. And again, they're keeping the CT spending,
but I've heard they might break them, they'd be too late for this off.
So I'm going to carry it back in the garage.
Seeing what you can find, it's not too much for now.
I wonder if we'll see Herera going for a heavier secret play in one of these rounds.
They're going to go a bit upper again, long defending from the top of the hearts, getting
burned again.
He is in a very tight spot, has jugs there for backup, goes down, up the jugs, Kobeni
up high as well, very nice from Kobeni, stays up as well, buys some time for Cemetery
to begin working his way around on the rotation.
He's going to go through the vents again.
He's flying from a young star, catching him completely off guard.
Oh, it's demon in the vents here.
They're guarding the pivots.
Oh, this is very scary, very low, Crisen.
And this distraction works wonders there.
Allows cemetery to get a pick from the back.
And now, Crisen, has to look between two angles, which is very difficult.
Found the utils to give himself a chance.
in bullets. Find two players can be done. Three bullets. Oh, someone needs to tell him he's
going to go for the onesaps, but it might work because he's got 11 HP. It's the perfect storm.
They found shelter. What an interesting scenario. Frustrations persist, however, as that is
another round lost for Heroic.
Again, this is a map that perhaps they will be the most comfortable on
compared to their opponents in this series.
That's kind of the problem with Nuke sometimes, is that Nuke,
that the T side is, I think, a lot harder overall,
like the principles of how you play a good CT side are pretty
spatic and easy to understand.
And so you could have a pretty strong CT side whilst being a team
that's not as specialized on this map.
And so I think right now heroic, you know, they're getting the worst of some of the variants for sure the foot also
I mean, they're really flexing right now as well showing how good they are and it's very hard to win duels against them
You got to have great timings in a great micro timings around some of these plays and
So far we're just not seeing
Then reach that level heroic to get the advantages because even when they are in spots to win rounds games
It always feels like maybe it's like a 2v3 or something like that so that there's they're not, you know in clear advantages
I don't think we've really seen that very much at all
Maybe maybe one time and then they lost that round in the after plan. I think it's a 3v4 retake from Fert
Both of these teams are 0-1 I think we should also mention so
Yeah, you don't want to just get pounded in your first two matches
But that is what is happening at presence.
Little change of angle for cemetery.
Oh, that second kill would have been so much.
Faster paced round from heroic at the starts.
Minute 30, scrambling down towards B.
That is a big problem though.
though losing that second player really handicaps what you're able to do in terms of crafting around
constructing around pulling players out of position it's just dry peaks here from the T side
racing into the bomb site demon might have two here but at least have one bomb plant tonight
great confidence with the one tap as well closes the door but which side of the door is he
You know, the terrorists win.
Oh, Fila finds out the hard way.
Yeah, indeed.
Yes, yeah, it's painful.
I mean, it's the thing that the foot are very dangerous on these,
on these jewels.
Like they're very hard to beat.
Like you said, it's around how a lot of dry peaks.
And that's very tough.
Yeah, very tough indeed.
Pharoah is just finding nothing here.
They need, they need, like Russ just even starts to have some confidence.
I think that's likely beginning to be an issue.
Staying absolutely smashed in these doors.
Everyone on the CT side is obviously a positive, is very positive on the KDA.
Not a lot of kills coming in.
Well, heroic.
Benny.
I believe that he's played this forward position so far, let's see if XLB can listen for it.
Oh, that is so painful.
5v4 early here now again for Foots.
Exchange of U2 for later.
On the CT side, round the squeaky door.
Comfortable comms and again, just trying to creep in is not going to get past the
likes of Foots.
are ready. There's no Utah, it's such a difficult scenario for heroic. There's no
execute to, you know, possible where you force the CTs from their positions and
so on. There's just one flash and that's it. 43 seconds, hoping that the CTs
get too greedy for info as your Kickstarter if you will. Get that
engine going.
This christen spotted on the outside.
He's got more to do though.
They may all be heard by now.
Just straight thing, looking for these CTs who are dictating where all these fights take place.
And that will be a monster path from Foots.
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Oh
And we're back. But I'll hurry back. Were they ever here? I'll be in the room with us.
It remains to be seen here as we move into the second half of Nuke, where they are
going to be working from one round. This is going to be a very difficult CT side if they
are to bring it back. And with the form that we see from foot, it seems unlikely, but here
we go.
I need a movement to avoid any potential flashes, or just showing his arse for the fun of it.
For Benny's the grenade man, he's got the U-Tilt, the P-250, he's done right about
to do that for this one, and is unfortunate, a very unfortunate star 4 foot, getting absolutely
mold in the heart and elsewhere.
That's what the doctor ordered for heroic shots of adrenaline.
Very remains.
So we're going to see some counter strike.
That's good.
Unless he can emulate what youngster did earlier.
He can't.
One of the problems is that, you know, again, with so many rounds to work with, they just
need the variance to go their way two times.
So it gives you such a, oh, no, what's happened to the lineup?
Yeah, it gives you this really good spot as the T side to be feeling very confident,
being very brazen with your jewels.
As long as obviously they just don't be sloppy around their game plan and the tactics that
they know how to execute, it's going to be very, very, very hard for Heroic.
On the subject.
Quick.
Come on down, Ben.
Yeah, he's a little bit isolated, though.
He just commit to the bomb plant, commit, commit!
Oh, that's enough.
He'll be happy with that.
3 HP and a dream.
So if the HG collides with you and then goes off, it can do 101 damage into him.
So he could have been a goner there.
On the subject of line-up stand, I remember, I'm not going to say who it was, but I remember
having a conversation with an IGL that was talking about one of their players where
they went into a game and they, he had specifically said, okay, you're going to do this line-up
and this line-up.
This is what you need to know.
He went in and said, oh dude, I changed my res, so I can't do the line-ups now.
During the match obviously not with the cross there, but sometimes like if you're top middle mirage
She can throw a smoke for top connector by lining up to the
The grenade with the aerial and so on so I guess it was stuff like that, but
It's hard out there sometimes man
Yeah, it is it is definitely out there and
And that bomb bomb was genius.
They don't care about the CT economy, you know, because the CTs could have four
buys every round. It's like, it doesn't matter.
I just have to win two rounds.
So this doesn't really matter very much.
It's making its way outside.
That's the point, man.
It is way to credit card.
This wasn't denied.
Good util for the CC squad.
I wanted to say side and squad at the same time, apparently.
Nilo's playing for info here.
Trops off as soon as there is presence. He's got a flash and a HE.
Oh, youngster. That would have been an important one for him here.
compromise. The Nilo is all the way compromised. X-Valus, Trump, Shugster, urgency rising for
Oek as they try to charge the ramp. That makes it so awkward for Cristhen, the MP9 and 16HP.
He's got more support though, but D-Men made this win the whole round on the ramp.
Cristhen can't take a fight here. He can't duel with 16HP. They'll lose everybody trying
to take D-Men's position. Standing alone on the ramp is plenty for F.U.T.s. F.U.T.s.
It even genuinely seems like he might be one of the players
That might just have an explosive upward trajectory. I mean he looks so insane
Can't wait to see you know how his career goes and obviously one of the driving forces behind first success
Okay, 12 to 3. The first byron for the T side, working out a charm.
Yeah, first I've got places to be.
Told that the match feels quite uncontested at present.
Just the feeling from watching it, but hey, this is a big buy from her.
I just got the AWP and all the toys they want.
The X-Flouds seems to only have a USP for this round.
But I guess Sacrifice is well made.
Okay, he's been gifted a 5-7.
Someone has shown him some mercy.
So charity for X-Flouds.
Defense here on the round, all on Nylo.
Oh, he gets instantly taken down.
Doesn't get anything there.
Youngstar as well, it's getting pressured.
And you don't have to just let them have access to the lower site.
And he's not going to get a look in here, let alone a shot.
No 5-7 magic, nothing.
This is rapidly looking like it's all over here.
My God, they are getting destroyed.
It feels like CS is no warm-up.
And what do you do then?
I mean, you have to go for it.
You don't have a choice actually.
There's no question to ask here.
You simply need to bear witness to what the remainder are able to offer.
They both have kits that have released that something, but the pick of nuke may be
Disappearing off in the distance
Unless they can find two more, jugs is quite low actually and they do have a lot of utility
They could pop a grenade in that direction
They can look up towards control or
There it is, just too much to ask here a one-sided affair, perhaps more dominant than the fury game
And we saw yesterday that was a smash and grab from foots.
And the bright side for the T's they have the sight but losing manpower as the seconds
take Jimmy is there for one trade and Roland aggressive caught out by Fosey Jimmy's had
such a bad time on back default I mean he just keeps dying in every which way possible
now Spinks 1v3 surely there's no entry way for him.
Oh dear oh dear I mean he's got the time.
Oh my heck.
I remember those players when there's 1v3,
everyone spinks in the situation, loves a clutch, loves the challenge,
only good for one this time, and we're actually tied up, I can't believe it.
Strauss is just keeping a lot of pressure on in these spots, you know,
like even there, the double swing, sure, you're giving him two fights,
maybe that's scary because it spinks in a late round,
but like they were on phase by, they had protocols in place to make sure,
even if he gets the first guy, second dude's right there ready to trade.
I mean at the end of the day I feel like Astral is the seat beside we've just seen a lot of very good team chemistry
They're working together to play and off of each other properly
They don't have to continue to do that, I mean it's still a possibility for mouse
But probably not a possibility within this round, only one hero below and two Tex9s to boot
Yeah, that is about it, they need a bit of a miracle here right now
One round posted in the second half there, let Astral is right back into this
They're about to take the lead here, they're the favorites
favorites. They ran up at 21. They're soon to the boots in and took his stare, finding
his confidence as well. Long-ranked spray will find the head of Brawl and not dissuaded
from the engagement as well, but takes advantage, falls back towards the red room and that is
just textbook play. You've done a damage lot of information either, ascertained they're
on towards this half-byte. No one needs to be giving up rifles at this point. Play
the structure, play together.
You saw what they were playing for, right? So now you played three strong over the
towards being a stair spotting in red room. He's in a position where like he is no reason
to kind of hang around and fight if it gets uncomfortable. All that matters is getting the
spot. If you see them going mid, you rotate him back to a suddenly you've got reinforcements
there. So yeah, Stralis are in a very, very good spot here. They're around to lose.
The problem is the team like a Stralis, Harry, they are known for giving up disaster
I'm not that worried about this one.
I'm not worried about it.
I just want to make sure we get a solid chain to the universe.
Yeah, exactly.
I like a bit of excitement, you know?
I mean, the smokes go down.
It should be a clear path for the bomb to get planted.
It's going to get a bit dicey.
They don't bomb, though.
A lot of damage being done.
Let's spray through the smoke.
Bomb's still not going down.
Once again, the Molotov on back default.
Oh, it's just disastrous right now for Maus.
There's no way for anything to get done.
Sure, one kill falls.
Exertion! Keeping the economy humble at the end of the day, but not really.
There's been such a big build-up for Astral so far. They finally have taken the lead in this map and
Honestly, a disaster. The mouse has let it slip this far.
It's exactly what happened yesterday.
Oh, no.
93 is even better than yesterday. We had a strong scoreline. Everyone was looking incredibly comfortable on the map.
All of a sudden Astral is getting to the fifth gear.
And they are one round away from map points here. That was the half by though.
We do have DWP Vitorgy, about a couple of concessions here.
Not fully equipped on the utility.
Spring's trying to make his way towards the cave.
Tip of the spear up against Hooksie first.
Trying to deny the pressure. Flashbang comes through.
Fancy to peek here.
Flash from his teammate doesn't catch him. They're ahead of it.
So first advancing, we had some time here for Mouse.
I finally adjusted to deal with the pressure that's been coming towards Kat, I mean Hoaxie and Stair
Having put in a decent bit of aggression towards there, at least getting one and done
But this round not so much, meows
Find themselves in a favorable position for the time being
Yeah, see if they can hold on to it
That's the question
Players like Fuzzi will have to step up at this moment, see whether they can have some impact
Bring things back to an even keel
So we're going for a contact play once the smoke goes down. We're speaking of smoke that's replenished
And 50 seconds remain
So we have three towards B for Astralis yabbi solo hold
And mouse really hasn't even put any pressure towards a for a majority of this half
Haven't really been there at all. Have they know it does feel that it's
Partially telegraphed what's gonna go on. It's a bit of a rinse and repeat although as I say that
The bomb is making its way towards mid, so selling a fake.
Yabbi seems interested. He's starting to bite, and this is going to be beautiful.
For how's the try to get on the site?
We have referenced it. Yabbi's been playing pretty well today.
He's not quite positive yet, but he's close.
Takes his way out of the temple.
Say a prayer, Malachi. You might be giving this one up.
All of a sudden, their advantage is shrinking.
It's down to brawling. Very low HP and Astralis might have done this, boys.
The man advantage given up as Fuzzi confirms the round. We go map point to the Danes and
Mouse give up yet another round can not get going on the seaside whatsoever
Really good on yabbi there to stay and wait just a little bit longer because as we said before
Mouse has really been focused on that B bomb site trying to sell that fake. It was a good idea
But when yabbi's just gonna come out and get three kills that way dude unreal
What a play and all of those players we referenced in the first half unable to have any impact hook see was well zero nine
Yeah, yeah, I'd seen it 17 hours still isn't a great school. I'm like where he was. Holy shit. Has he ever come back?
They're actually one run away from winning. I know it feels
It just feels weird
Looks so strong in the first half, but completely capitulated. I need to do they've been so focused on trying to like finally win this lane fight
It's kind of almost where like the game's been won and lost for mouse
And now what you're gonna go a in what is essentially the final round of the game
It doesn't have to be a little
Lobby a scenery a little bit. I suppose serving Brawland's gonna try and show some presence a be at least
What you tell us you got available to him. He's just got one smoke. So maybe not never spam
Try and keep them on this side of the map. You're gonna try and ascertain some mid control
Spinks has snuck out. This is great space taking they obviously need this round
See if yabby can close things out
It's going to be a question of how many can you have you get.
Oh, all of a spin, so I can just backstab and close this one out right here right now.
Freebie.
They're not close enough to pounce on the advantageous Shia possession.
Very good space for the Red Room as well, and over they come.
He's going to have to connect with at least one of these kills though.
Posey pushing forward with the P9.
He definitely don't want to drop that, and now, even numbers, at least mouse control
the site.
dispatched of over in donut slowly pushes up trying to get a timing kill
will do exactly that and kills continue to fall both ways a two-on-two rolling
beautiful shot on the IV now fozy and we mentioned step up more than he was
second I comes out but spanks is there to make sure that mouse it doesn't
drop out of the mouth map quite yet damn it is the hardest round in the
the game's again number 13.
Felt like there was a chance there
with that tech nine kill towards Red Room,
from the sniper.
But it is down to Spinks finding that space,
getting the backstab kill,
gets himself three in total,
takes his kill count up to 21 here,
and one round away from overtime.
I don't know.
Astralis, this is your best opportunity
to close things out where you have let them back in
and see if they wanna explore their options
over towards A once again.
Spinks couldn't believe his luck.
Yeah, I mean walking down to completely open bomb site, and then you have even getting activated until post plant.
Good trades all around.
So what's the call now? Do you just do more of the same?
Surely you assume you don't get that same level of space, right?
So now you go back to your basic game plan, lock the B lanes.
Well, he is the lane fighter again.
Spinks will join them in the B lane.
He's actually gonna be ramp.
Taking matters into his own hands here. So you're not baiting in these last couple of rounds
Trying to find that space and there was an opportunity to have to leave but
Capitalized on it. Good damage from the AG
The round reset here Torgy flashing towards the B ramp of our spinks a second bar to the cherry
Boost up the op might be able to catch
I was gonna say the back lane player up of who's he does
Relocate with perfect timing
Shame to flash ruin that because I don't often see the lurk smoke nowadays. I was curious like the idea was for spanks
It's very powerful smoke. It's so good makes everyone super uncomfortable on the CT side
Could be the last round of play let's draw this a group in a clear mid
Can you right read
Exertion is still playing back towards elbow.
Crosshairs lined up to timing was just not there.
Able to avoid losing his life however.
And there's still going to be two CTs to maintain this A bomb site as utility runs over.
You gotta be looking at Dona here right? You saw that mid-degree
aggress from exertion.
So you know that's the first point of rotation.
The guns looking at Dona as a result at a five on three allows old bomb get stopped
All right, this is the round how he's been waiting for deliver the goods bra
There's definitely a chance, but if the player big box, I mean, what's the timing gonna be like here towards he focused on reading
Who's he back site Jimmy fat nice little tap to end regulation 1212 heading into overtime
weird to be an overtime not gonna lie I thought this was gonna be over very
quickly yeah I think we all did but at least try to woken up now and then it's
definitely true like they've had a turbulent last year lots of different
rosters and ideas structures but overall now this is like in terms of like
you said earlier that he watches everyone's actually enjoying this roster
now they actually have some potential we're seeing it since the mental game is
Strong as well being able to recover a 93 deficit.
See whether they can open things up.
Lini here is going to be Spinks though,
who really has turned it on in the latter stages here.
Now, ancient once again, look at all this space, Harry.
Oh, Fuzzi's seen him, but a morning shot gives him room.
Very Niko-esque.
Look at Brolin go all the way out through A.
This is good.
I mean, it took miles and a while to figure it out, right?
They were getting hard fought on mid and lane that means there's gaps elsewhere and the gaps have mostly been over here at a
Sarely's able to trade back with one smoke over towards doughnut
This could still get weird
You're a little strung out here if you're mowers because you have spanks in B saying like guys
I still have be like it's always an option. Look at how committed the bomb is you don't feel safe trying to get it out of there
Exertions worried that when he gives up elbow someone's gonna come crawling into it
You kind of feel shoe-horned into going for the A-play even though spank still is the B site
He's gonna have to come in on a backstab. He should really find anyone from this
I'm kind of nervous for mouse here. I'm very nervous for mouse
30 seconds left yeah be catching spank sound the timing so that flank won't come into play
Those go down towards the one that's up. At least the bomb should be able to be planted
Jimmy's missed his timing
Oh, it's all falling apart.
I mean, sure, Jimmy, I have a chance to spray down one,
but with the one-on-one, Ryu definitely
has a position advantage.
10 seconds left.
So one needs to take the fight, and it's going to be Jimmy.
It's going to be a nice shot to the head,
and now somehow collect themselves
to find the first round on overtime.
Like a Jimmy.
He, like, he prefired the side box,
and it tagged the Ryu, which Ryu thought he'd been
spotted.
That's why he swings.
What a round. What a performance there. They needed that.
Jimmy, 18 kills, 13 deaths.
One of the top performing players in stage two so far.
He did that, felt like that round was theirs for the taking.
He has to step up in the Tourmont clutch, but he gets a job done.
And third smells back in the lead here, 1-0.
It's one of those really awkward rounds where you're like so successful
on both fronts that you don't really know like what the right call is anymore.
Oh, that. Oh, yeah. Be hold it together, my friend. It's all good. Frustration's mounting.
It's just, it's now it's hard for Astralis. It's nice that Mao's like the ones challenging
them again. Right. The idea now, because the obvious solution might be what they need
a guy. Hey, they need a guy holding. Okay, but that's going to take resources away from
me. That means you can't go for these like super active lane harassment, shutting
down the mid play. So they're just going to stick to their guns. They're leaving
A open, they're calling the bluff of Maus, believing that they don't run it back again and this mid-play comes in.
Astralis are there, ready for it.
Last time Astralis tried to go for this exact same mid-play.
Yes! Let's go back!
He's coming in through, just don't worry about the other side. He's gonna be ready for this one.
He's coming, he's coming!
Constant rotate. Let's begin. Recyte your baseline.
But then Black Ritical began to spin.
Let's go!
After a lightning fast game 1, we moved to the second map of the series.
Heroic got utterly, utterly deleted on their pick of Nuke.
They are in all kinds of trouble in this series versus a foot to look unstoppable at the moment.
Yeah, it was not a good look. It was a very bad look.
It was grotesque. It was disgusting.
But they can put it behind themselves now.
And any trouble is, as we discussed in the previous series,
we're going to move into ground where you'd actually expect to perform better.
better. And they looked really sharp in the new game, in terms of just the mechanics and
cohesiveness, synergy, very, very good. And now on Ancient, you would expect that to look
the same. However, I would feel like Ancient should afford more opportunities for Heroic
to be successful with their Util, with just finding more advantages, because they couldn't
find any opening edges for the majority of the last map. So I don't know, I put
more confident that we'll see a
closer game, but I still expect
personally for it to dominate
based on what we've seen. Yeah,
that's we moved to. Move to
ancient. I'm gonna have a quick
look. If a lot of maps that puts
our playing so a 13 six, so lost
13 six to Astralis on this
and 13 to Paris vision, B2, but they beat liquid legacy, 3D Max, OG, ecstatic. That was a while ago,
December, not that far ago. Well, let me look at the heroic side then for ancient to see who they
are winning and losing against. 100 thieves, Astral losing to G2. They got wrecked by a bait,
at Collusion of Poker. They lost 1392 phase and 1362 parry vision on this map. So it's
not, I mean, it's winnable for them for sure. It's winnable, but it's just a fashion in
which they lost their map pick. Lacks promise. And Footgeck started quickly on the T side
of ancients. They've got the numbers here towards the B, the A bombsite. I'll never
stop saying these bombsites the other way around so I feel like on ancient B feels like an A and A
feels like a B. But there we go. Well, I feel I feel you on that one. That happens to me,
seeing I think I think I'm a bit better on this map, but it was affecting me for a while.
Plus, I think I'm in the clear. However, it's a pretty tricky situation right now for heroic
on the CT side, fairly isolated because of that red smoke and and that does leave young
young star in a very pivotal position. He's got to get something out of this spot here.
The bomb is here as well. He can get both kills. That'd be insane for Heroic, but he's
going to get traded out now. Susp on the site. Good opportunity here. Playing around the
crates does excellent damage, but it's demon in the 1v2 now. 45 seconds to work this
map as he duels away and he actually goes down. So great opener from Heroic to get
off to a good start right away here on ancient yeah that's exactly what the
doctor ordered because things were looking terminal but maybe they can be
better now nice stuff promising start for heroic let's see what I've got in
the tank then. Full buy from foot. Now they're sending it straight into way. Straight into
way. Nilo's got things covered, we've got time for rotation as well. X-flat up close.
As his young start. Moving through but Jax is ready to pop him. Be careful about rounding
these corners versus these Tech 9s. Two plays in Donut, two in CT for the CTs. All the utility
has come and gone for this T side. Now, can they retake without heavy losses?
Should be pretty good here in theory. B plays very, very low already. Looking for progress.
They're getting good right now, Sus.
Gonna wrap around the smoke and suddenly big problems.
Crisindo, able to trade those kills very quickly,
but there's no time to defuse.
It took too long.
He's going hard.
That's a disaster.
It's dangerous.
Yeah, that's unfortunate.
Why must it be like this?
Yeah, it's the formidable opponents in foots.
I just love their growth.
They're so dangerous, like it's very enjoyable to see.
We were...
Commentating this team late to last year.
They've become stronger.
Their rank has gone higher.
And they are showing you why.
Start looking to commit to some kills up here potentially,
but no, he's going to fall back behind the smoke.
Doesn't spot that early timing.
And Fert will get the position.
Fert don't actually have much U-Till left.
They've only got one smoke left.
So we'll see what Fert are actually going to do here,
because, yeah, you can see they're not interested
in continuing to work them out.
They want to try to just get into a site.
A user U-Till, the little U-Till they have.
And Nylo closer to the MP9, looking to be able to one.
But I like this proactive play from Heroic going through mid.
Trying to see what's up.
They'll have a fast timing through Donut.
Now he really has to hold here as long as he can.
Maybe get a couple kills, but he's going to be unable to do too much.
Just do some damage, but very quick on the flank, young star.
Active round from Heroic is paying off.
Wow. They don't know where he is.
Oh really needed to be quick of that one nine bullets in that magazine
Now where is Susp's got to be careful as well?
NHP symmetry is carrying the bomb
Does he think is the safest bet in this scenario?
Doesn't want to run out of time
completely for a bomb plant, but perhaps he is suggesting a rotation elsewhere. Can he catch
SOS? Absolutely, he can. Played the clock. Dangerously so. They took the risk, pulled the CT out of
position and clutched around. That is a very, very key round, especially after what is now a
failed force by about a CT side. What's crazy too is that Heroic actually did a very good
job in terms of being aggressive and I mean they had very very fast timings on the flying
through mid with a lot of players you know so you can't really ask for too much more than that
for in terms of just setting themselves up to win the rounds but when it came down to it you know
we just didn't get enough damage from the weapons and and once again you know I really kind of find
themselves in the similar territory as they found themselves on Nuke but hopefully for them they
They can mitigate it and not allow themselves to just fully get into this string of rounds
where they just can't do anything.
Furia versus 3D Maxis to follow after this series.
Oh, they're going to keep on going. They're going to keep on trucking, heroic.
This is quite the commitment.
How are they going to make this work?
They've used their utility to clear out the B bomb sites and it surrounds.
It's a lot of presence of map control.
The MP9 will be heard, so that is the warning for fuck that.
Something is afoot here.
No pun intended.
Oh my words!
Juggs with the team kill.
Tritted out the kills here and read that's important as a nice and dangerous CT setup
for Heroic.
They've got the bomb there too.
It does need to be recovered.
I don't know that they can hold onto it.
It's in the smoke right now so should be easy to be grabbed by Juggs.
I like this round again from Heroic, some good damage both ways.
Krabeni caught from the side from Donut these MP9s are causing some problems
That smoke is actually going to absolutely send the rest of it straight into the B site
HBS is quite low here across the boards
Really increases the variance of this round income of CTs one flashbang
It's left for suspect he wants to choose to use that
that. Now suddenly things looking absolutely terrible extra makes his way around the corner
and he's going to get flashed as he tries to fall back off of that angle and jugs. It's
going to go down. Great trading coming through from the CTs. That was very, very close, but
heroic. They do make it work here, James. And I've got to say, I love that they forced
and I love that they are trying to be really active on the map constantly. I think
it is the best approach. It's working for them right now. And hopefully this is a good start now
for them to start to build that confidence up. Yeah, that's a fantastic ground for Heroic around
all of purpose and determination. As you mentioned, not just an aimless, all right, let's give this
a go and see what happens. But they came in there, came in there with a clear plan
to the beginning of the round and just a general pace at which they wanted to approach
that and the aggression required. You can see what it means to them. They know that they
are better than the results on that first map. They're picked off nuke. They were on the back
of the milk carton for that one all five. However here, they've taken a daring force
by and put foot in the bin. Dimitri Krebbeni forced all the way down to zero for both.
If they can get some pistol work to open things up as heroic did in the last round, that pop
in red room was very nice indeed.
I'm going to send it into the B side, Saspis, moving out, turning a cache of players on
the side of the smoke.
He doesn't get the timing to you right, but he's going to get one at least, trade
it out.
It has at least made some good work here on the T side.
Then you two players left now for a foot in trouble.
Good spray through the smoke.
Juggs is all on him.
He's got the gillil, and he's going to walk straight into Youngstar.
And that's going to be three players surviving here for Heroic.
That's actually a great result.
Starting to stabilize on their CT side.
There's more firepower to come from foot.
You wonder if things will get better here on out
for Heroic.
I'm not sure if we've seen a match without male biting so far.
In...
In Issa Pro League.
I love the focus from Heroic, especially after a...
After a difficult first map,
a shocking way to lose still in the zone is great to see.
Everyone's lost before.
Probably learned the most from loss.
I think the smoke may have made it awkward, so after that one frag, you think, oh here
comes the danger, no!
bleached no trace of those players. No trace. Hey, heroic there. They're really finding this,
well, their way to a stable CT side so far, which is really encouraging after that horrendous nuke.
And I like also, you know, we saw after staying, getting really active to win that force by,
They started to play the strength of the utility and they're going to have to start mixing things up in terms of their default and where they find openings and just like test more parts of the map I think at this point straight up B hits.
Maybe not quite as good before getting some picks on the board.
we'll see and also heroic it'd be really really cool to see some more aggressive
moves from them just if you put it in the right timing we'll see whether they
ought to do that or if they continue to continue to be a little more passive
Whether reinforcements are required seems that neither will be playing it safe knowing that he could be
Under threat
Nothing seen around the B bomb site safety in numbers. It will be for the CTs, but the fact they expect
Have them visualized. That's a great flick there from young star
That leaves a bomb in an awkward situation now as well so many CTs still alive. You really don't want to lose that objective
so they need to pull
The CT's away while cemetery will be able to rotate, but so this is starting to look difficult now for the remainder of foot.
Although Krebbenny has found an angle. That's a really important one and he's done more than that taking over this round now.
Becoming more and more expensive for heroic two on three. The T's have the angles.
The individual performance has turned this one back in foot's favor.
starting shot from gabbani finished off by demon and indeed this change of
approach looking pretty good for them and I mean what we we should be interested
to see in the next round is how is mid dealt with because we got this really
nice opening there it was a very light investment from the CT side and that's
the early 4v4 with so much ability to pivot because they also
So it's kept one player towards P during that time.
So the heroic one to double down on that position a little bit more.
And we'll put look to emulate this opening back into mid.
Wow, it's so fast through the fire.
Longs with the kill on to flouts.
X-Flight is going to be in a great stead now to take Red Room if they want.
The prison getting active.
You like to see it?
Yeah, again, they're going to find.
Well, yeah, they're going to find a lot of info.
Smoking on the other side. Oh, how does he come out? Bester on that duel.
Toss hasn't seen a second play up. And this round could collapse because indeed they're
coming from both sides. That leaves Nilo in the clutch. One on three to go for it. He'll
hopefully find the kit on the way.
Bounce is posted up for a second AWP unless it's a disposal service. Okay, he's been
spotted. And I don't know how much is left in this one for him. So we're getting to a
tight score then. Four to four. More rounds on the board than the last game.
Yeah, and we saw again, like, that's the focus was on mid for Fertin. That was where that opening
came. So I think the question again is on heroic. What do you have to kind of respond to this
mid-play because too much value is coming into the hands of Furt because of that.
So it's interesting, right? Because also at the same time for Furt, you kind of want to confirm
whether or not the CDs are doing that. In most cases, you don't want to just like assume and
then gamble rush something, thinking that they won't have players because they focus on mid at
that timing. So I can't wait to see what the adjustment is for Heroic if there is even an
an adjustment.
I've got pistols to begin with, though, same.
They are going to be charging into mid, so let's have it then.
Oh, see ya.
Keeping it simple. Simple is often effective.
And sendries are so important for rounds such as these.
It's compromising where the enemy can stand.
You know may opt to hold onto his rifle definitely not gonna make more than he is carrying
So first we'll be heading into the lead late on in this half
But average of frags for most part for but steam and a little quiet in comparison to his teammates
So if they're taking control of this off, so far again, you know, we call back to that
mid-challenge.
That's a piece that has to be solved.
There are definitely different ways to solve it.
As the CTs, you could perhaps be very aggressive towards B. That could be one way you could
try to solve it, but yeah, perhaps you could have more of a set up in donor. I think that's
a little bit more risky though. But we'll see what they choose to do now that they've
got weapons back in their hands. A couple players this time, they're going to go and
challenge the smoke or they just give it up. And you know what, it might be a faster
timing from foot towards B, but the bomb is actually still towards T spawn right now.
Contacting in.
As he survived here, Chrism naded off the angle trying to support his teammate, but Suspble
will be able to re-emerge. Ex-Val and Chrism with the frags, Lanx looking to even the
The score somewhat. Chris is looking past the angle.
IHP will be good enough for Lancs on this occasion.
Or will it?
Jugs being dropped makes his life harder.
The nades continue. Nilo still has an incendiary to deploy.
The bomb plant comes through. We see it.
Indeed we will, but it's not Lancs.
Banting that bomb starts creeping through the smoke.
Gives you advantage for a second, but the trades will continue all the way down to the last man.
the CTs are the ones left standing at the end of that duel fest.
That okay, super interesting. You have foot trying to make the rounds
opening kind of look the same timing wise. And it's genius to contact up into B
because you think, well, okay, well, if the CTs are expecting us,
everything is looking the same to do this like mid timing that we've been
doing every round. We can we should surely just get a walk up, be
But the B bomb site has been held really well by Heroic in this half, and in fact that's
where most of Heroic's success has actually been.
So we'd expect Ft. to maybe return to the mid-opening again.
Again, it hasn't really been fully...
There's no successful challenge from the CTs just yet, but they're investing a little
bit more this time.
Getting two players into don't
This would be a very interesting test for heroic
Versus the likes of puts should they be able to get that far
Neck and neck in the first half of ancients
Reaping past with the bomb, unseen by the CTs, there is a hole in the defences. Even with
five people alive, how's Lanc's been able to get here? Looking for a second, he'll get
the first at the very least. They're not players, they're still standing though, forcing things
back into their favor. Their numbers are very high now. I was looking ropey for a
moment and they'll know that there was opportunity, frustration, not catching
one of those plays in doughnut, but sometimes it'd be like that.
Really smart though from Furt in that round because one of the risks of going for the
doughnut opening there to help deal with mid is that you leave this opening through red
and long exploited it, but I'm lucky not to get more out of that one.
Very nice round from Heroic as Furt aren't really looking great on the money here.
And you can see the opening works so well, we're doing it again for the CT side,
But that means that only two players can respond immediately to the speed push in go the T side for trying to get these openings again
The B holds are just fantastic from heroic
Three versus two now for them
Presumably quite game from demon will finish with a two round lead for heroic a half time
They have a much better look on this map than they do on the rent pick of nuke
Let's see if it can close things out after the break.
and then we'll see what happens in the next round.
A great first half from heroic as them two rounds in advantage moving into the second
Now that they move on to this T side, but foot are ever dangerous.
See if they have any tricks up their sleeves here.
Tricks up their feet?
Yeah.
Feet sleeves.
Sleever wizard.
Trouser leg.
starting the slow. Yeah,
Chrism looks like he is waiting to offer a lie. There's already three players over towards this B bomb site.
Oh, that's a nice pop from lancs. He's like, Oh, what's that creep in mid? I see grenades over towards B.
Is that enough clue? Perhaps this is. They've seen the bomb now on that A bomb site and demon will start to rotate over.
Lancs will concede his position somewhat. Krebbeni dropped pushing through B as Chrism holds that mid area.
all in CT though. The remainder of foot, four on four retake being attempted.
Flash in, nice defense from Nylo. He's done great work there. A demon against everybody.
But the USP lost the penchals here to find, and he won't find any of them at all. Hey,
Roark, that is two pistol wins. But the first half, they did actually concede the following
round. We'll see if they can make it clean this time. But the bomb went down. So,
foot are going to have a bunch of cash to work with.
Really good look for heroic.
And I wouldn't even say they need the confidence that they, that you can see they're really
animated when they win these rounds, they're encouraging each other and so on, but I wouldn't
it ever looked dejected. Despite the smash units looking at previous game, while we have a
clean USP round here, we have some mail back questions. Caleb Beard says, what do you think
is the most important trait of an in-game leader?
Well, I would say it's leadership quality. You need to take full ownership of the situation
if your teammates did not succeed you need to ask the question could I have communicated it more
clearly did I have buy-in for this and what could I do have done to communicate have communicated
better there we go double mac 10 for heroic in round 15 they're coming to this full of intention
They'd be defaulting at the beginning, with a flash into mid from Sust, keeping the CTs
honest around the B bomb sites.
They will be enforced.
They will be, oh, went for a jump peek at the worst possible time.
There are smokes for the squad, preventing unable to hold his position.
Traded by Nilo.
to try and make things better
for the CT side. We see jugs
pushing through a somewhat, which
will allow cemetery to move
absolutely closer to that B area.
It's a go.
The CT is definitely getting a
little bit of a bit of a
CT is definitely getting a little bit worried. They don't have much information. They do have
Jux in the 4 position, they may, but that doesn't give you all the information. They could be in
mid still flash into donuts. How is this interpreted by Furtz? You know, Heroic really
trying to throw them off, but they are still committed. Three players towards this B site,
which so far is where the bomb is going. So Furtz, somehow, I mean, maybe they're just
sticking with this, but they do have Jux on the flank moving as well. So this is helping
to confirm the information. But are they in good spot to defend here? They've just popped a smoke on
the ramp also. However, any of their positions will be compromised. Demon might need a multi-frag.
That's the bomb carry though. Don't expect he's going to be peeking any time soon.
Biggest handle has just spotted there. The flank has been dealt with. Chugs was so
careful with that. But Nilo is still ready. Four on three. Four at a roic.
looking to move into double figures. They're keeping the numbers high, although lancers now even
them up somewhat. There's no kit here for the CTs. Running out of bullet state, both are down to the
1v1 though. Instead of waiting for him to win this round, oh, he's just switching. The rifles,
the pistols are all changing as the peak comes through. It looks quite ropey for the CTs really
on that scenario with no diffuse kits fumbling on the sites and heroic are
storming to a third map yes not a good situation four-foot for the foot
basically think of the the Monty Python foot for some reason I think it's it's
the most iconic foot I can think of.
I need to look that up.
I'm too, I'm too young to know what that is, Dan.
Pipe in.
Yeah.
You what?
I don't understand how that's possible.
I'm pretty sure I'm older than you, Dan.
That was that was the first thing I thought you were going to say.
Oh, it's just, it's just not such an iconic British thing.
I don't know.
I just don't know the foot what the foot is.
Okay, well in the meantime heroic are looking to consolidate their advantage compound the advantage
It's the bunch of pistols how bad could it really be they're off three sevens three five sevens on board
And cave seems to be a little bit scary still one more player in position demon
Anything else? Oh, it's all free itself up to him. Another kill. This is getting kind of
worrisome. There's the molly, but unable to get an extra one demon on the way out. But
still, three versus three. Next cloud, it's going to have an easy one. They're a jugs,
but still some chances. I mean, that K position, you kind of don't want any of the guns
to be collected, but they may have to risk that going to the B site and longs is looking
to head them off.
I don't recall if it was first we were crediting for careful rotations previously.
Maybe there is a feeling of defeat on this map.
Oh my word.
How?
How?
Show me how to do that with an MP9.
Two on two made one, Lang's trying to have a monster clutch with an MP9 which will be violently denied.
Tees keep moving.
So I don't know how long this second half is going to last for,
but a great way, this would be a great way to answer that first map.
them truly it doesn't get much better than this and they hit a really honestly hard first
half as well there's a lot of very very scary scenarios wasn't it easy by any stretch and
foot active in mid here they are more concerned about taking mid control it seems then Roik
were in the earlier rounds of their CT side. And Heroka just listening, they're sort of
seeing, okay, well what are the CTs up to here? Now it's time for counterplay, get the
layer of flashes in to start clearing these mid positions. Cemetery though, you might find
a timing here actually, it's now the T's are coming in to re-clean mid to get a pick.
An opening pick here would be everything for them.
As a side, well does he have an HE note?
Denial of information, oh jugs, keeping an eye on the mid-cross, he knows it's been compromised
let's see how the CTs respond that will pull Krebbeni towards Red Room, a 2-1-2 setup
for the CT side now.
But again, deciding to dictate where the fights take place, but once more they are curious
for info and they may have picked the right time to do it because the bomb is headed in
this direction.
They could line up for him as well.
So great pick by Youngstar, but Jugs sees both players, I'm pretty sure, on the kill
cam.
And that's pulling full rotation.
X-Flow in position, though.
Beautiful second frag, dismantling the reinforcements four-foot.
Multi-frag there could have been perfect.
for Benny will pick up the slack and do exactly that. 18 seconds to get this bomb planted.
I think they know where he is. I think they've got those sound cues. How far does he go to
reset the situation? Will he pursue the bomb plant? Who is that second man? There he go
for the wide swing. Where's the cover? So hard to pick the right timing and he'll
You'll do the best you can, but the numbers game will prevail.
Rook looking nice on the ancients.
Looking nice.
but it's already a dangerous team but it's so far getting outplayed here on ancient.
I certainly appreciate that, you know, Roka really finding their form in this series now.
We are going to Mirage, it really is going to help to set it up to be an absolute banger of the game.
Manford to bring it back seven rounds in a row.
What do they have to find here?
Heroic everything's been working for them.
Not a single CT round yet.
nice from Krabeni, but Heroic arc cracked on this T side.
Almost no utility remaining for Foots at this point.
and the second map of the series.
Again, a simple foot's notes on the first map, which was their pick.
On the second though, they have savaged foot.
They're doing the same thing where they have a faster opening, they get that kill,
and then they sort of just sit on it for some time, seeing what the CTs may do.
Longs being boosted on A.
Again, heroic of pause for so long they could be anywhere at this point.
So the info is just not good for Fertin, so they're very spread out.
Laws of Utah on B.
Completely locked off this site now.
Ferts are in a lot of trouble here. It could all end in this round.
They can't find some magical kills to get them back into this site
Looks like they're running out of what little steam they have left
Rounding their way on to the bomb site. They know once behind them
So we've got a three on two as far as the bomb site is concerned looking to swing on to Nilo
But he will deny them leaving junk in a one versus two
after getting smashed on their pick they do exactly the same or close enough to
foot and force a third and deciding map of Mirage
No chance, all done.
They'll be back here and we'll know each other in good parts.
And the football world wants it all.
anything from the strap of this stage. Everyone's hitting their shots. The space has already
been found and that might be the round already. Rio needs to be very clean here. He does find
him. Ocean goes down with nothing, but the bomb has been planted.
Compact to be brown, about to appear here.
35, all the space, bomb, bomb, but it starts on everything they need to make this retake
happen.
Brolin getting a little bit of damage on the Abbey. They do choose to no longer
fight aggressively in CT, four players grouped up, making their way towards that staircase.
Flash comes in, Roland peaks with the perfect timing, avoid it, that's a 3K!
Although Jimmy does get that last one as Roland does fall, it's once again fozy, he's trapped
with no way to try to retake the op.
All the way in the back lines, does collect the kill, is able to fall back with his life
this time.
Such brilliant teamwork then.
I'm playing ahead of the initial flash gets the information three players are there takes the first one down whether knows you can
Repeat we've said flashbang landing perfectly gets himself three kills in total now
It's five and four advantage for Astralis and even though they had that advantage
They'd lost the bomb site so much space early on so difficult to recover
Well handled from mouse
They were to lose it to be honest and one flashbang is the only bit of you today had and it sets problem up for
blinded
Stralas kicking themselves. So blind. He's shocked he even got away with that.
A beautiful sequence. Shouldn't win that round. And Fuzi, from a safe pair of hands to a saved
pair of hands, he's done nothing but hold this awful half. It's true. Eventually you're gonna
have to use it. Very serious look on the side of Stralas. I was trying to mention this
before but we got cut off by the round. The body language, even though winning map one
and you know having a comeback on map one, the body language this entire map so far has
just looked less than good, they just seem very sad.
I mean it can happen. Counter-Strike is one of the words they use for it.
Oh it's fine. I feel like that summarizes it. I guess it's quite a sad situation
jail you go from pure joy that recovery into another situation when you're just so
deep in the mud look it feels like it's over but bear in mind it was 9-3 on
ancient and then bring it all the way back but they are on the CT side so
doesn't look as promising what have we got to work with here at MP9 the hook
seats coming three and nine stair one and eights Ryu three and nine so yeah no
one really stepping up who's your seven and seven most of those who's
been save kills. I should fine but as Hugo mentioned, you need to see some
impacts. On the AWP they had to stand a chance here, need the rest of these rounds.
What's the play? Establishing the bait and switch here on the ramp suggesting
that it's playing for the smoke but someone is deep and tucked away.
It's going to be Yabi this time. We might have a palace pounce though. Oh three
players and I think that's exactly what we'd get. A couple of smokes go down,
send it for flashbangs
I mean ready for the second it's still gonna be hard to crack open
Side of CTM. Let's take care of beautiful timings. You may be making a lot of noise
We'll make the way out of the site stare long-range flight than four dozen in spades
Although a beautiful spray from Jimmy keeps us into even numbers Molotov goes out towards jungle for the airbag. Oh
Oh, yeah, he is still tucked in towards that ramp.
Bob not planning for mouse yet, towards he does collect it.
And this is the exact timing he needs.
One, two, Bob gets denied.
Brolin exertion, still a chance to try to sweep it up,
but with only 15 seconds left, it has to be now.
It has to be here.
Brolin, a beautiful 2K, and now IGL versus IGL.
Both have the braze, but which will have the bronze
to pull it off?
Bob gets planted, hooksy.
Let's get aggressive, AK vs MP9, Brolin spraying, not quite able to fully land the kill.
But the readjustment and a nice 4k means that Mao's still remain strongly on top.
Beautifully played from Brolin, that info gather as well, the little jump.
That made the difference, he was in the dark, he didn't know where Hoocsi had gotten to.
And despite Yabi's excellence on ramp, it's another Mao's ramp.
That's going to break the backs of Astralis, that for me is the ramp, that maps over.
It's over. As it's over, let's get back in the DHL map.
If there's a lot of mail for Buckethead, I'm going to start firing.
You can pass if you want. Buckethead, you cast a lot of NA games.
You have your eyes on any up-and-coming NA players that can break out and save NA.
Break out and save NA?
I want to keep it bar low. Up-and-colors.
I won't name a specific player because I feel like I have a lot of people in mind.
people of mine but a team that's doing really well in like the advanced circuit
that's slowly making a push towards like a solid tier 2 is lag life's a game they
have looked incredible recently they did just make a roster move so gonna see
how that plays out but a shout out lag I mean they're doing really good things
they'll better that's nice I got a good one here as well from Austin fuck it
how do you get your hair to look so picturesque I'm envious of the
immaculate flow of your hair his nice hair to be fair it is Texas
asking him. Oh, it's it's genetics. You know, shout out. Shout out. Shout out to my
soul spray. Sea salt spray. That is true. When I have my hair long, that's what I'm using
as well. Go for more of a shave look these days. Sea salt spray is the go.
Hing, since he loves you.
I love you too.
This one's open for anyone here.
Will Maus be able to keep it together
for the second half of the Mirage?
I think they might.
This time, it's actually a very valid question.
It's normally the first map they choke and throw away.
If we're going by previous results,
they should be absolutely fine to close out the second
and indeed the third.
Yeah.
Are you actually a firefighter?
CJ is talking about you fighting fires here.
Oh yes, I'm a volunteer firefighter.
No way, that's cool.
Yeah man, it's a-
How often do you get called up as a volunteer?
Has it ever happened?
Do you ever get called up?
Yeah, we usually-
Are you saving like cats or are you putting out fires?
Mixable, if we've had a lot of,
we feel like the plumbing department right now,
a lot of like busted pipes
because the weather's been so shitty
for lack of a better term in New Jersey.
But really quick, Bootsy, it was definitely not shitty.
MP9 sprays down one, not quite able to connect
with another one, but a two on two
does leave this round open
competition until
he takes out foes a yabbi the only one left
you saw magic come out from him but maybe
his hat is empty now
as this retake
definitely going to be hard especially when the timing is
leading towards
he's favor spotted in the back
and around 10 to 1
so even better than the first one
they had 9-3
and that means an even
order famous last one
Surely you can't check this is unjoke. I need to get more into this fire fighters. So did you do any like real training for that?
Or you just like look I'm available. Let me know
No
You state mandated training for it's the same volunteer and paid you go through the same schooling
It's just one gets paid and one does it for the love of the game. Well, they hate to fire. I hate fire
fire. Okay, water fan. That is great law. So we're going to explore that later. But this
is the final round. Let's see whether Strauss can do anything with it. Clutching the straws
here and skinks, reading him well. He's going to be good for one, though, but decent damage.
About four and four, I would say favours the T side. He's going to spread the defence
thin. Stored two players in towards B and that's exactly where we're heading with
Torgy patrolling the connector with the AWP on his back, Zershin up towards short.
And you can make it a 2v4 right now, I still think the T's have the advantage just based
off everything we've seen.
Zershin going for the infill, Zershin misses it, I think he's spotted them on Cat with
that jump, he does, falls back towards Bench.
Oh, oh, don't play your knife out now man, you gotta be ready for the fight that's
coming, Zershin opens up the site, at least there's a stab back, but nothing can
come of it.
1v2, already one collected on the round, needs 3k to close it out, but the bomb repositions itself towards A, completely open.
The story of this half has just been fozy, being out of action in the post-planned situations, always ending up on the wrong side and-
I'm gonna try it now.
I mean, you have to try it now. Before there was chances to save, but 29 HP, an AK, not his preferred weapon, but in the situation, you gotta do what you gotta do.
Clearing out through jungle, mouths aren't going to give up any sort of fights, especially
with the noise being made now.
Torsi should have the sight line from CT, ready to go.
If not Brolin, firing off with the AK.
11-1, the good for mouths, the bad and the ugly for Astralis.
We'll have to see if there's a little bit more magic left after this break.
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Already took the sign home
I thought it was just me and Paul
I missed my time
Baby don't look for me, we don't have to try
I'm already with them until I last goodbye
We got so much fun
I don't need to dream or fantasize
Dance myself just to realize
All that it took is time to go
I'm gonna wait just to be home
Let me touch your son's bone
I'm gonna rip the sickle bone
I'll leave his spine in the dark
I
to give me the right direction
you got the ability
and I know I need the liberty of war
It's a good one.
Stunning result from heroic brings us to a third map in this series.
And it's going to be a good one.
But absolutely a dangerous team couldn't quite find their footing.
I can't believe I've done that.
But moving into Mirage, this is the map where they have the most maps played.
and they have a 75% win rate, so they are going to be feeling it, I think, going into Mirage, James.
Yeah, on paper, it looks good, but, um,
they're each opponent winning their, winning their maps, especially the fashion in which they were done,
at least in the second half of the, of ancient, and the whole first map.
Maybe things that we aren't going to be reading on paper.
So, I mean, the main thing is that we have got a real match, you know,
It was looking dire after game one.
That's, we talk about one-sided matches, but my word,
I think that was the case study of a one-sided map
of Counter-Strike, utter domination.
But again, to come back from that, I think it's fantastic.
They looked great psychologically from the outside,
it's heroic and now they will feel confident, I'm sure.
They're not going to be looking too much at these numbers of a foot.
They're going to be expecting to make those numbers a little worse.
Their sample size is small, which means that their true power in terms of momentum will be a mystery.
They could be, I mean, this feels like a 50-50 for me, like I just didn't want to expect.
And I think that's always making for exciting matches.
Neither of these teams want to be going 0-2 in this stage of the competition, that much
is for sure.
So, yeah, I think we've got a juicy decider on our hands before we head forth to Furia
vs 3D Max.
Yeah, I agree, and I think Marachi is just going to be such a fun place to be because
I think especially for foots, they have such good mechanical players.
I can't wait to see what the likes of a demon will do with with this map and in terms of some of these performances
I think Raj has some of the most fun, you know gun battles
So looking forward to seeing that and also looking forward to seeing you know heroic and how
How they come into this one as well because it was actually quite a struggle in the first half of ancient
But they they overcame it and got a 7-5 first half in their favor
So it's a really cool to see that there's more resiliency because on on map one on nuke
They got a completely trounced and that they just did they never found their way back in but
Look at the knife rounds here now
See who starts wet
Insert London joke here
Yep
Goodly enough I have seen
My friends finished
I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, there was a there was a wrestler who wore he had a like a sock puppets
What was his name? Santino Morella? And I just made me think of that. He used to be used to be in WWE
many years ago
Anyway
Better focus up stay alert
What? Get ready for the action to come. Who are you picking for this one? You have to pick.
What?
Yes, yes.
Yeah, I think I shouldn't be disloyal to myself and what I said at the beginning of the series,
which was leaning towards that. So I will continue with that lean. But yeah, I mean,
heroic again. They did more than reassure themselves in that second map. I think it's
fair to say. So I do think it's wide open, but I am just wanting to I want it to be competitive.
I don't want to see one sided this side. And I don't think I will. I think they'll
be fighting tooth and nail to not be zero to. So let's see. In fact, talking about
let's see what we have a little time. We have some more questions in the mail bag.
So flood says hi James any chance of ever having an event in Switzerland would be epic easy for
but.
Best regards primo now I will say.
When I used to go on the European circuit for street fights for I did go to an event in
Switzerland that was called beats by contest then I took a flight from somewhere in Switzerland
to can in France for 10 pounds one way to go to World Game Cup whatever yet that
was. But it was never a second beat by contest and then as a complete different genre. But
I think I think there's a few different ways where things might be possible. I think I
think VRS tournaments are quite attractive for many more than would otherwise organize
a competition. So you might see it could be a VRS competition if you see the right
people. If you have the right people in Switzerland, let's go back to Mirage for
moment. X-flat will start a proceedings. Actually, demon will and the numbers will overwhelm for
the time being. Foot have seized the A bomb site. It's a quick bomb plot. Nice and open
for defense. We have a lurker though for the CTs. Youngsters coming in from that mid
position. He's one of two that remain for the CTs who have even the numbers up now with
Nilo dropping one. Cemetery's gone, leaving lancs and chugs both in that jungle position.
Creeping forth a pop and another pop for young star. He makes it look easy
They look to the right they die from the left and the round is done
Well, that was pretty clean as I was ready for a tense to be too, but
Make it look really good. It's tough from heroic there
I'm excited to see how this one develops
We haven't had a lot of AWPing in this series, you know, except, you know, the basic stuff
on on new, but nothing, I think to the extent as what as to what is possible on a map like
Mirage. So I'm also kind of stoked to see more activity from the AWPers with these
two respective teams. We are jumping out of the window here. Getting a bit aggressive
for Benny. He wants this. He wants the aggression. And that is exactly why let's
Let's get a pick. Let's get a gun down and in the meantime, there might be a hole now
for these players on Palace to kind of walk out.
Just want to leave space.
He's experienced the quietness that heroic are experiencing trying to defend of four players
That's that smoke lands they will find themselves all out of position a fair chance they get back into jungle though
And I can give them a rotation over towards CT should they desire one the bomb is definitely going to get planted though
and now the teaser and CT
There are no flashes for a swing, but they don't need one because there's no CTs in there
just yet. Milo, Nilo on the rotation now.
Chris is got a kit here, which is really important.
He also has all the Util.
So speaking of flashes, we've got Jugs playing anti-flash, Jelance is going to eat
one.
Oh, he avoids it!
But the second one as well!
How has he done that?
At least Chris and Sospalon 2 vs 4.
They are at risk of losing everything.
Support comes for the T's, but to note of fail, that clock is ticking.
Christian has a smoke and a kit trying to desperately get to the site, but the peek will come before the smoke pops and they have lost everything.
Big round, that's a big one to pick up there, just straight away, just in the action.
We've got the opening pick from, I think it was Krebany, no demon, it was the demon here with the help of Krebany.
That really kind of opened up some space in the map.
Boom.
What a huge eagle shot to us. That's an impact frag. Now look who holds the D. He gets christened.
How good is his hearing to avoid the first and second flashbang there?
True.
Clowns locked in to turn things around and put the city economy in the bin.
So do you have any other scenario?
I would see where you would have an event in Switzerland would be an exhibition.
And I'm thinking like for what industry, I'd love to see a watch industry more involved,
There's too many building old men in dusty suits in charge of things.
And I think they'd have a heart attack, not understanding the nature of this game.
So to do James, they should do the World Economic Forum.
Davos event should have kind of straight.
Where's Davos?
It's in Switzerland. Oh, is it?
Yeah. Oh, there we go.
So maybe an exhibition.
I don't see anything else really happening in Switzerland.
Last place, though, I flew to Zurich recently for a day.
Expensive, man. It's expensive out there in general in Switzerland.
They've got a good cross-ons in the train station in Zurich.
You come out of the airports.
a nice place, good rail system. Actually, I got a train to Germany and I got fined 60 euros
because I changed train to go to a little village where there was a company in Germany.
And when I got off the platform, there was an earlier train that was there,
so I just ran onto it and I thought I'd buy my ticket on the train.
But the inspector said, you have already committed a climb,
So I must find you and I thought okay, I'll take the fine
But he didn't take he couldn't take a card payment
So he he rolled me he did me a ticket and I had to go to like the booth at my destination and say I need to pay a fine
By the time the train got there I had bought a ticket on my phone and said here's my ticket so he ripped up my phone
Oh my god
Also like getting fine because the tickets and stuff in Denmark is
this. I've already committed a climb. Yeah, that's my German accent. It's the kind of
sounds like I was forced to make up. Yeah, it's working. I mean, he's Austrian, but we'll
forget it.
It's actually solid. Can you make more on the source of my impressions because I
don't think I'm going to see much in this round. Bombs down. Bombs down. What are
going to do? All you can do is cry.
You crying yet?
I should retweet today.
Bone Thugs and Harmony song that was done with Arnold
Schwarzenegger singing. So check that out. Oh, in in your
own time. I'm assuming so. Yeah. It's pretty incredible.
So you can find that on the internets.
So let's start for Heroic then.
Not the way you want to begin the CT side on a deciding map of Mirage when you had momentum,
and now it's been taken by force.
We're going to be back into the fun stuff now.
Z fun stuff as we get the the rifles back out
Long long series why she I guess it's not really long series the first map was extremely fast
But third three went up really important round for a great minute of EP to be seen
So far
Well, there was some cap presence and an X-File dot seeing also that there is very little
in mid where are the T's and once again foot going back to that trusty A attack.
This looks really good.
A late lurk from Krebbeni through the underpass is going to be on the way at some point.
And these takes just seem to be working.
All the retake work.
They surely need to try and get a pick before this bomb is planted.
Cabrini on the big flank, he's going towards CT spawn as well.
You rarely see the vintage flank through B onto that short position, they even get to
come in from the back.
And it's the T side who are looking for these frags before they get the bomb planted.
Blanks can run distraction now as we see a rotation into mid from X-Flight.
looking somewhat desperate but quite narrow in these margins where both squads down to a 2 on 2
and Krobenes made it all the way to CT spawn. There's only one for each side now. Sailing HE over
but it threw triple he will spot that last man. A tense one again small windows for both teams
This opportunity is taken, only one man standing at the very end.
Time on the road.
This was a pretty crucial round to pick up, so I think I can see someone in the chest.
Maybe there's a quick bathroom situation happening.
Yeah, huge round.
Laser focus.
what do they have to work with? Well, that best is going to be a half buy.
Or actually maybe even a full save depending on how much they want to actually have in the
next round. And maybe they want to be able to play with the AWP now, you know, they haven't
been able to do that on the CT side yet. And that might be a pretty important
factor in helping them in some of these rounds and how they can approach the rounds.
The often you can have obviously the AWP guarding the B apartments, for example,
you could have it be more passive and just kind of play further away from it, or you could have an
op that's a bit more of an aggressive stance, you know, maybe pushing T main. I mean, T main
clearances in general, even with rifles, could actually be quite valuable. If for heroic, given
that foots have this timing where after the first mid pressure at the early timings of the round,
they sometimes go into a fast maneuver, like mostly T ramp oriented. So taking control of
that position could be a way to effectively blow up some of these these A-takes that uh
foot had been relying on so far.
I think some town queues inviting a challenge.
Pop flash being set up.
Very sneaky positions that heroic are playing at present.
not shy to have a look with the AK as X-Flood realized he's collided with someone. They're all
looking for each other. And now the kill feed will start to get lit up a big swing from Crizzan.
Lightning fast as we're down to a three on three. AK is collected by the CC side.
And Demon claiming all this forward space on the B site is really nice. Gives the clean out
for the B site for Furtz.
And I mean for the heroic side to be honest,
I mean they're gonna go for this, they'll fall by in the next round.
They have a couple AKs, 5-7 connection, okay.
Now it's time to get a little dangerous.
Do not have a kit though, so they're gonna be really quick here.
This crossfire should do the damage and it will.
No problem for Furtz in the end, but a good look though,
despite Heroic having very little in their rounds to work with
and they are going to be buying up again now.
I don't know if we'll see an AWP though.
I really want to, I want to see it, just give me the AWP.
Yeah, I like how purposeful the setup was from the CT side.
Well trained, even in the unlikely rounds.
Want to make it as difficult as possible.
Loving the pop-offs we're seeing from both squads as well when they went around.
Strong buy for both teams.
One of those big smokes in mid that allow the CTs to play behind it.
Give them some extra info, extra confidence with their decision making in the mid rounds.
Lounx seeking to destroy, sweeping through.
Look at his crosshair flying around on the bomb site.
X-Flight deleted by Lounx as well.
Now that it's open for business young star just trying to hold map control at the back
But the angles are being taken away bit by bit. Oh, and I know thought he saw something right a corner of the smoke
The shucks was faster to respond
And young star has the all but do they want to commit into this if chrisen can get something going maybe but young stars
can get taken down
It's the AWP recoverable. It might be recoverable. That might be the play.
Chris is moving closer, but Cemetery is on the angle.
If you walk into this position, you are going to die.
Chris has a cognizance that this could be held.
Okay, well, we'll get the pullback.
AWP.
Looking to be saved.
And it looks like it should be successful.
Successful.
That's the way they make up to Cubs.
I know, they're so strong, like, look at this guy.
Leethal.
Leethal way more of his opponent than the other way around.
Great angle from Cemetery.
Trusts his teammates to have his back.
A team that more and more people will pay attention to every time they play.
They're doing a great job of acquiring fans on their rise in the last six to nine months.
Certainly an enjoyable team to watch.
I think this is a good testament to that principle we talk about sometimes where
some of those teams will switch off of something that works because they expect the other team
will just counter it because they know that you've been doing it all the time. But
So far, Foot have just been hitting the A side again and again,
whenever they feel like they need a quick win.
But Deus is going to be definitely changing the situation here very fast through the B apartments.
Cemetery, oh it's just too easy, just so ready for that young star looking
to catch players running forwards, but meets the AWP.
Done by Crescent, right?
The portans trying to halt some map control.
Now what does X-Floud suspect of this scenario?
Minut 20 on the clock and Flutter taking liberties with their map control.
Fallen back from the B bomb site though after that trade frag with the AWP.
Our Crizzan looks towards that short position demon waiting for a peek.
He knows it's coming.
And I compound the problems for heroic utter deletion. They are getting mangled now
out.
Too easy right now for the first side. It's just really found
that for a while. I think this is probably why they have a 75% win rate on this map.
They look really, really solid.
What are they doing here?
You know, they can't get anything going.
They brought the AWP out.
They're trying to find ways to get openers with it.
And then every time, maybe Heroic could think about getting something going,
that a hit comes in and it just gets smashed.
I think the question is, how do you surprise Furtz?
How do you make them uncomfortable?
How do you catch them off guard, get a 5 on 4 to fall back on?
like they, they, you know, they're trying to make plays, but footer waiting for them to make those plays when they try to make those plays example cemetery with the AWP posted in B apps in last round is waiting for that CT push.
So like they're trying to take the game away from foot, but footer expecting it and punishing them for doing so. So then what, what option do you have left after that you're being out with it out foxt by your opponent from round to round.
You try and be aggressive and they're waiting for you to do it. Like what is what is the correct play if you're heroic?
Yeah, and I said it's definitely hard to tell at this point
Switching into more B heavy openings
For as well. So keeping things unpredictable
Do you have someone that's ready to receive any play towards a and can look a
which has been there's a mid-round timing around like one 10 when those a
hits tend to come in
then with a red game he gets a pick on to the sights of B
there's nowhere they can stand that he isn't ready for love the timing of this
boost as well as soon as they smoke the window pop a player in there really trying
to do the unexpected no one is checking this whatsoever they think it's denial
of information but there's implementation of the enemy ex-cloud we'll
have a lurk and demon is waiting for him if they are just being waited for if
that jugs is here for sauce for sea wonders what he has to play with and
And again, they're pulling legs off a spider.
It's kind of gross.
Yeah, I mean, it is.
It's brutal.
It's a master class as well.
Yeah, you know, you can, yeah, you can just see
they're kind of prepared for everything.
They've got, you know, if there's a,
any play to be made in mid from the CTs,
they were looking to have that kind of delayed midtake
as part of the default.
They've got, I think it's Kribbeni waiting a wrap
because A ramp, I appreciate ramp, I was talking about it.
That is one response that you might see.
The CT is actually trying to like two man clear that.
So, you know, trying to just offer up information,
offer up counterplay to all of the stuff that you expect,
while still like creating action to drive the ramp forwards.
As we saw on the slow kind of constriction
around connector, so it's just-
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I wanna see that, yeah.
machine a jump peak. I mean, that's a hell of an angle. Yeah, they are so well versed
in Mirage. I have you defeat that if you die to that pick, honestly, like I would just
turn the PC off at that point. That's crazy. Tiny micro correction. The kill from cemetery
from from cat to ticket as well that's like oh i understand that that he was the or per on that
angle so if i shoot here i will kill the orper and that's the again it's like you know you knowing i
think you meant made this point yesterday when you're a top level orper you know all of the
the tricks and like how the orper's going to be playing so if you get a little bit of information
you can deduce okay well that's what this means so yeah i watch some demos of of my man cemetery
here, because there are definitely things to learn. Beautiful work, beautiful angles,
a timeout from Heroic. They try to figure a way to claw things back. I mean, it's like you can't
look for information, you can't make a play. Because when you do, they're waiting for you
to jump peak. They're waiting for you to have a look around ramp. They know how you're going
to respond, where you're going to position yourself, and when you look to see if they're
coming, they're standing there waiting for you to look, and then you get shot in the face.
So I'd love to know what they talk about in that timeout. What is the way forward
for Heroic? It's hard to know. It's really, it's very hard to know.
You've got to start getting weird with it. They're going to stack the A sites, so.
But still staying to this B lane opener, that's a foots, because foots were mostly doing A.
For the first five, like four to five rounds, it was all about the A. Now they've kind of switched to mostly occupying the B apartments.
And this time, Kribbani's given up a T-Ramp as well, so no presence towards the A side of the map, so...
CTs, maybe I just guessed wrong here.
They're gonna fake into the A as well to hold the CTs there for longer.
But Krizzan sees everything. Nice shot!
Couple more of those and you'll be in a good spot, maybe.
Oh, and he has got another one!
Great efforts.
Looking for the lurker, Lance has been dealt with.
Our symmetry needs to decide how he positions himself versus white swinging players, a tag
through the wall.
There's to be a symmetry here for the CT squad, but they do have to pursue a tight
choke point.
Will he be ready for the food symmetry, has a swing, but the numbers will be enough
for a road to survive.
Doesn't matter how they win rounds at this point, like every little piece, every
little thing they can take from their opponent just gives them a little more space moving
into the second half. So that is a really crucial second round for this squad.
Yeah, that's a very unlikely, but the great thing up for sure. They stacked the wrong
site too. So I mean, it's just awesome, awesome to win around like that. And best possible
The scoreline, of course, the half is 4-8 for Heroic, they've got the AWP back onto Youngstar so we'll see what he's able to do with that.
He is moving boys on take-hit right now.
Looking for a faster pace here towards the B site, the incendiary will slow the aggressors.
Bomb here on the back of Longs as well.
And then Ace being thrown into A here, they're getting running distraction on the A site, making it feel like those A hits.
Oh, here's the push, Crizzan has to defend this if he makes right there though
And he's gonna be able to stand up for one himself
Slow rotation for Susp
Waiting for a sneaky player, but all three that remain are on the bomb site now. Youngster spots one in the apartment
May have the info that all three are here
Do they look for another kill before they get our bomb planted?
Youngster down to 11 HP, the molly will force him forward and he'll still fight something from it!
He's still going!
Traded by Cemetery. Plenty of time to plant this bomb.
Crebeny having a look at Cemetery plants.
Cemetery delivers. Susp moves forward into the wrong angle. Crebeny's ready for him.
And Foot will take one more as we head towards the end of the first half.
At least the CT side of Farak they were able to pick up some guns in that previous round
that they won because obviously now they get reset on the money so hopefully that is going
to help them to have a little bit more going into this final round.
So yeah look for that three round scoreline.
The savage is always so aggressive.
window smoke just in time. The next house is still out there. Deliver's one and looks
like he gets away too. Five versus four early now. You're asking about how to how to get
those for the heroic and they found it here in the last round of the half.
Another oppressive map for heroic. But maybe a third round is on the cards for
them. Cemetery walks to here's the Myers. That's the way to close out the half if this
can continue. The bomb is lost on the ramp. CTs will be slow in their rotation.
40 seconds and that will at least make it so that CTs have to consider the B rotations
long so it's gonna get hit up quite a bit.
Smoke it and he'll recover the bomb.
If there were a world where it could pick up the bomb, you could have run it to B, but
that's looking extremely unlikely.
You can't get to it, it's too deep.
Spraying for everything is worth it, it gets very little there, long 15 health and no
time.
I'm going to just try to improve my stats perhaps at the end of this first half.
And that's a wrap.
Heroic with three, that is something to work with, but it is going to be very
difficult here in this third map.
We'll find out.
Okay, off to the break.
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How much is left in the tank for Heroic?
What is the main question here? They clawed a few rounds back towards the end of that
half. It was a difficult one, but the big question I suppose is, is the worst over for
them? Will we see more of heroic in this second half? Can they be in charge now? Because
my word again, they were somewhat crippled versus foot on foot T side, whatever they
chose to do aggressive passive heroic had their number for much of that half. Maybe
things can be different now.
For the top mid swing, Chuggs.
Kravani looking to get these openings and they will launch helping out to extra angle
from Kat.
Youngstar takes that as a cue to go into the ace site.
He's alone though.
He's got a tension of a couple CTs, so creating some distraction.
It's a teammate still trying to work the mid position.
Krebeni is going to just get out there with the duallys looking for the long range engagements.
Takes down XFOD 11 HP.
And Youngstar's in trouble.
Gets also dropped by this Krebeni dually action.
And there's a complete shutout for Heroic.
The worst has happened here now.
XFOD 11 HP against five players.
Yeah. Sometimes your opponent is just having a good day.
like they'll have to concede round 14 and play from a 3-11 score line.
Yeah, Bomplarm would be nice, but how do you get it? That's the thing with Glocks, I mean,
that's usually some of the best values that you can get. Can we just get onto a site?
But the problem is, so much you tilt.
to do this. He's so ready. As
his long from cat. Oh, boy spray
down. Five cats versus five
pigeons in a low ceiling
environments. And the pigeons
are dead. The match begins in
heroic and they have much work to do. Their team are very capable players. And
especially with AKs in their hands, maybe that can be the difference maker as we
see a mixed bag in this particular round for a foot. But again, in the vacuum
of this match it seems to be difficult to catch foot by surprise, especially on
Mirage. It is a game of two halves though. So again, let's see what
heroic have to offer they've got a good amount of nades as they take their initial map control
but again they are expected
minutes and 20 seconds as we have heroic working midst
excited this round is looking for any CT aggression t ramp but is this not happening
just yet might actually go back into an A play here just like foot we're doing
work still working their way through mid neither now set up in connector
here we go the rest of the team now making their way back through T spawn into that A hit indeed
foot don't seem to know what's going on just yet
He reached the 42nd mark and immediately but starts to reposition, but in the wrong direction,
it is so quiet over towards A. The deathly silence, trades a potential feeling of confidence
towards B which has no presence from heroic.
They're all here looking for their opening, shots forced into the open, cemetery ready
to trade and keep it possible. Keep it doable for his squad. Probeni pre-fies the Panus peak
and stops the bomb from being planted. Ten seconds. He's going to commit to this. He
comes off the blood and comes off the round as well as Futs outmanoeuvre heroic yet again.
So crazy some of the frags that they're able to get. Like getting the Palace player there
is insane. I mean, that's obviously the duel that prevents the bomb from going down.
and her foot they're already ready to win this game we just put it to bed
instantly against heroic making it look kind of like nuke almost with how
dominant is being for them another crazy series in that respects
Oh, what did he get, boys?
Yes!
Nothing going the way of heroic in two of the three maps of this series.
Foot in full control.
A minute twenty one man remains youngster with the bomb hiding in a corner, holding
on for dear life. The cops are here, the helicopters are out, the dogs have been let off the leash.
There is nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. A dominant series overall, foot with two massive
games. Losing the middle one, taking each other's picks but my words, I mean you can
see it on the body language, heroic, were just launched into space on more than one
map white foot in that series, mega stuff from foot.
Yeah, and I think for heroic, which is felt like things were just off.
They couldn't quite find the right rhythm, the right way to challenge many rounds.
And that meant that they just had these crazy shutouts
where both on map one and map three,
almost no rounds in the board at all.
So something maybe going wrong in the heroic camp here
that they'll have some time to figure out,
because they're of course not going to be eliminated just yet.
But a strong victory here for Furt, two absolutely dominating maps and certainly a team to be feared by everybody you gotta watch out for them as they will move forwards.
Damn guys, we almost had this.
I can go with that, Silver.
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This is the thing
guys guys guys guys guys this is like the worst series I think two maps in a row I've played
in this team let's do a fucking redemption okay like I'm getting okay three who wants to
uh he's playing in this two of two of the worst that's a big call redemption well listen if
you're a strier you play a lot of overpass this is your 15th overpass this year with
this roster. You know a 9-3 school line is pretty damn common. So your job is to dig
this out. CT side, win the pistol, win the force, win the eco, flash in. And, um, well...
The fourth map of the series is, of course. Yeah, not a hot start if you want to secure
pissed around however I don't want to be that guy you've already known how to
hook see who's he knows what's up he did get gooshed which isn't great you
could say terrible save imagine save the dual burritos and armor save the
flash kind why not yeah be gonna try to get something done with these do is
Although with smoke blocking at the site, no one can really access any point,
rolling, dancing around the pillar.
Then he gets warmed by the CTs, although no kills will fall.
Oh, stair, okay, nice little double.
I mean, it's really just for fluff at this point.
Three kills might get your emotions a little bit better.
Did he have armor then, stair?
No, stair drop.
He was the one who dropped that.
I was going to say, if he saved, that's an M4 with Kevlar.
It's all good.
He could still have dropped an M4.
Well, we maybe have an EK channel.
I know he does.
question. Yes, actually, I'd like to what you have to say. Hello, my name is Victor and
I'm a 16 year old player from Denmark. I recently reached face at level 10. I have 2,000 hours
of counter strikes and not a good amount. I was wondering, is it too late for me to
try and become a professional player and join a competitive team? If it's still possible,
what would you recommend as the best path to get noticed and find a serious team?
Okay, Victor. You're only 16, so it's definitely not too late, but you haven't been playing any team-based counter-strike, although we haven't farmed first yet.
That's hard. Maybe not that hard for it.
Hello. Okay. So, most of your counter-strike is going to be through the Valve matchmaking system and, obviously, base it as you've just highlighted here.
What I would, I think Denmark has a pretty strong infrastructure as far as team-based
counter-strike is concerned.
So I don't know what the programs are that exist in Denmark that you can get involved
in, but I'm sure you could find them pretty easily.
I would say start getting involved in team-based CS, right?
Because I imagine you're going to have good base-level mechanics, you're 16 and you're
playing a lot of counter-strike.
So your crosshair placement, your aim, all of those things are going to be up
there.
What is going to be the difference between you and everybody else is how you conduct
yourself as a human being.
at the time of person you are and then there's certain things that you control and that you can't
write your communication your attitude right those things they're not anything to do with
your crosshair in its placement but they're still huge in terms of what you can give as an individual
in a Counter Strike team so my first recommendation would be look for what exists in Denmark what
schools of Counter Strike thought you could get into and then if you struggle with that
and I had the doubt it used to be back easy back in my day here you go I mean you know
I like what you're doing about the like being a good person, but also try and find people
you can play with in ESEA, try and get into competitive play that's not just playing punks.
Because I think that's the, sure, with academy teams these days, you're probably going to
want to get in a system like that so you can be bettered in on what needs to happen,
the culture of a team or the way a team plays.
Otherwise, yeah, if you're able to get in team structured counter strike on any level it plays very differently to Pug Cs
So that would be my first record there. It's definitely not too late. You're 16, but I will say this
You'd be nice to your mom and you need to finish high school
Yeah, anything else after that when you're an 18 19 year old man
You could figure it out, right? If you want to give it a crack as long as you finish high school and you're nice to your parents
I think it's okay. I think it really is a such a very good life. I think it's the baseline
and play TMCS.
16, that's a good A-shot.
Ask the question.
Yeah.
It's not too bad.
It's probably just beginning.
Yeah.
Just beginning.
You could get good now.
So good luck to you, Victor.
We'll see you at ESL Pro League maybe one day.
Season 42.
Actually, that's a bit far away.
I was going to say.
32 maybe.
That's not that far.
But from one ESCA player to an ESCA caster, take it away.
Look at that.
Oh, what a segue.
Alright, well, 11-3 to score line. Astralis need to secure this gun round.
I mean basically this entire series hangs in the balance. Now basically, it does.
And a decent start. 4v4, as Malo's kind of recollects their thoughts. They're
grouping back up, back towards T-gon. Aggression out from the CTs here into
bathrooms is good with the timing. A minute left, you're gonna have the clear
out in bathrooms, no, at least a little bit of an idea of where Astralis is trying to play
too exertion though. Apparently it was exactly where Hooxie is. 180 headshot.
50 and 5, good. Now here from exertion. Spinks has been on one as well. This is where I'd
usually tell you go to wrap it up. Well, we've got a bit of a walk-in situation here
for Mous. They've had a great series across the board if you ignore that second half
of ancient. Mouse is popping in, flash up high. Instead of provide one kill is not enough.
So Ryu, can he redeem the redemption arc already ending in this round? And so will Astralis's
hopes. And Miss Boozy 3 and 11 had a poor series from the two international pieces
of Astralis. It might get worse before it gets better. Jumping in over the top.
No kits. And Mouse is waiting, hiding out. Don't need to give him this fight.
Fuzi's got to force it.
They're dancing.
Dance of death. Fuzi hits one more before all is said and done.
Don't ever cook, Torshi.
Oh, what's he looking for? A kit? A molly?
That's something that Torshi can just run through. In fact, he has...
Oh, my God. Torshi?
No, no way.
You think you ran back?
You ran back.
You didn't run through. You ran away.
Hey!
You're still trying to save the day.
He almost overcooked.
I would say he did over cook lucky to pick up that round at the end, but either way
serious point a serious point
He knew yet time
Calculator yeah, what are you talking about animates that we're enjoying at the time? You know, I mean, that's weird. We're pretty yeah
That's what weird
We are back, it is time for our final, fourth and final match of the day.
It is Furia, it is 3D Max, two teams looking for revenge, seeking revenge after some early
losses here, they're both 0-1 of course if you didn't catch the Furia game recently,
they lost 1-2 to Bait, 3D Max on the other side lost 2-0 to Spirits, so it's going to
be Furia and 3D Max to get them, one of them needs to get themselves to a 1-1 scoreline,
Well, I guess I'll arguably both of them need to, but only one can, Dan.
And of course, you'd expect that to be fury on paper, of course, right?
But so much weirdness has already happened.
But yeah, this is the point when yesterday is like, oh, you know,
not too worried about them losing today.
I think they're going to write the shift.
You know, they're a very good, capable team.
We're going to see right now, because like you say,
they kind of need to do it now.
You don't want to be in the, you know, just like the two losses spot
where you anything is is a is going to just knock you out any one game. So here's our top
10 players of stage two, though, James, we've got real some interesting names and faces to
fury a players despite losing. Yeah, despite losing. I suppose the overtime's all helped
with that. But you can see that they are performing. They're pushing up the big numbers,
which is fantastic to see. Donk number one, who would have seen that coming? But yeah,
Yeah, it's good to see two furia players in there. So three max may have their work cut out for them
If case right, so your kinder at our can continue that's kind of form
Into this series. So, yeah
It is going to be an interesting one ranked two versus rank 14 these teams last met
last year, late last year. 13
13, 6, 2 and new in favor of
fury. That's a while ago now. So
we'll see if three Max can take
them by surprises. Bates did
arguably yesterday. Mollidoy and
Macca. These are how the numbers
are shaping up. Mollidoy is
going to be a problem today.
That is for sure. He was
fragging out and he really does
Maca is up to the task for his team versus Furia.
Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. I think three max they've been,
their form has been a little bit shaky here in that so far in this stage. Of course,
losing against spirit. You can't really blame them for that, but they had the
VO2 loss against Astralis and they had some other, you know, closer wins. Maybe
they should have been a little bit cleaner here and there. But again,
as the tournament progresses, the better teams tend to get better. So, looking forward to seeing what
will be on display here. And also looking forward to seeing where the maps are going to land us as
well in this series. Because I think Furia, for example, there's been certain maps when they
played against debate. They got completely destroyed on the Dust 2, I remember. So,
we can see the map pool comparison here to see where the edges might be for these sites.
to be able to do that. I think
we're in for an interesting
matchup. I think stylistically
these teams should hopefully
match up well. It's just about
if I think with these teams at
the upper echelons of
counter strike at present, I
think it's partly if you can
keep up with them, especially
when it comes to the late round
plays, which are only getting
tougher to deal with when
you're on the CT side, so
on the ropes the entire time I think is ultimately the question which we'll have to see once the maps
play out but we'll see where this series will play out. Mirage is banned as it is ancient so
perhaps we're going to get a little technical with this one well maybe not with the Dust 2 pick
coming out from 3d max I think these snipers of fury will be content with that overpass the
pick of furia straight into the deep waters if you will. New bispan. I wonder how much
a new bis we'll see in stage two. It'll be interesting actually to count the new bis
from stage to stage and see if it rises or gets less picked as we go through. But nuke
will be the deciding map. So it has got quite a technical series. Something that
Furia will be ready for, but I do wonder, especially for the CT sides for 3D Max, they're gonna start on the CT side of Dust 2, but it's more the other two maps if we go all the way, where I'm looking to see how they cope.
Actually, Dust 2 as well, I think with the style that Furia will bring, again, the denial of information, like is it a trick, is it not a trick, I think it's going to be tough to deal with, that's why, one of the reasons why Furia are as high as they are,
Of course, part of it is also just the sheer firepower they have on their team with the likes of Molo-Doy who's had many highlights.
Hard man to put down.
He is absolutely ready for almost any one V1 flicks or no flicks doesn't matter.
He's going to be there to wreck.
Molo-Doy has a very, very high ceiling.
The maca is going to have to meet that here on Dust2. We'll get, I'm sure, many an off-showdown.
But we are looking at Furia starting off in this pistol on the T side.
3D Max on the CT side, and we are going straight into A long hit.
Oh, out to Kindar is also out as is Yuri. Now I see starting off well, trying to give
himself some range. That's a nice defensive smoke as well to keep the CTs up, but too many
peeks from Lucky. Oh, what a delay. I mean, I did try to brief you, but here he is.
is with some nasty frags tying up the numbers. Still only glocks for Furia, not opting for
a P250 there, at least that I noticed in this pistol round. Can't comment on the players
who have passed already, but Maka has gone for the information play. As again, Furia, dictate
that pace.
We have a smoke, so they could actually go to B and smoke CT.
That is a possibility.
So if that's what happens, Makka's play here doesn't end up helping out too, too much depending
on the timing, but his timing is not looking too, too bad.
And Gravity's in a spot, the cat play, but yeah, they can still drop down back into
mid, that's an option.
So he might decide to do that.
Okay, they're going to turn back into Makka.
If they can take him out, that'll be a huge kill.
to go back to to a
Yeah, I think they know that if they can take out my cut be the B bomb site is open
They can do it eventually
But the CTs ever had time to get closer and surely case the rafters going to get off to the races with the bomb
He's going to try and defy belief and go towards the a bomb site
So where do these CTs go case rafter hops around the corner are there sound cues for the CTs?
Well, he did actually make a little noise there
But it's still going back and forth trying to figure out which way to go shifting towards B
When will they realize these are precious seconds without the kit?
Both coming in from CT spawn
What angle does caseurato up to take how does he find the one be one? He's got plenty of sound cues
They're almost lining up for him. There will be a trade from a suitor job done for 3d max. Oh
My god, that was that was almost almost a ridiculous timing
But the bomb goes down and so it's actually of course a very dangerous following round now
You're gonna get to keep buying up and
It's gonna be interesting to see what 3D Max do for their opening
Because oftentimes with these ranges you tend to kind of sacrifice getting some utility and just off to get the M4s
So you can fight better at the range of
ranges of dust 2
Imagine imagine if he picks that one. Look at that. You know how important that is
They know they're in for a big fight here
That's when you know you're an underdog and you've had the start that you really need.
So you have two nades left for the CTs, two smokes,
the flashbang.
Going this is going to send it B.
open sesame in they go lucky is super blind and that gives them position to trade once his first
frag comes through once I've taken many losses for the CTs well rung through the door but it seems
they might not fancy going for this one that is a lot lost very quickly indeed and uh it's
It's almost prop hunts now.
Just trying to hide as much as possible.
Always good to see the French in Counter-Strike.
Yeah, that's a long history.
Long history of French Counter-Strike
being right at the top of the game.
I still miss the existence.
I still miss the existence.
I'm sorry, but I do.
How many people in the chat are like, who is existence?
Do you mean any of these?
I think they're in the NBA.
No, it's Happy.
Happy coaches in Valorant as well.
Another French, famous French in game leader.
We're just looking for CS.
Those were good days.
Resistance played in the days where you might drop an AK to pick up a silenced M4 and a T-slot.
That long ago.
Here we are looking to have a way better start than they did against Bates.
Well, they struggled to get any ribbon going.
They've successfully forced away the CTs from Kat, so now the options of going through the
later long retake or dropping into the B-split all become possibilities, the CTs have to
figure out which one is it going to be.
The gamble stack on A though.
How many questions will Furia ask before our full commitments?
Cavalty's got sound cues. The chain flashes though.
The chain flashes are timed so, so well.
Bing-pong, he eats a huge flash.
Maka eats a huge headshot.
There are more frags here for the 3D Maxide.
We've got to fight on our hands
and they've got some weird angles
which are going to be hard for Furia to deal with
starting to rotate over.
at least your kinder will.
He's shifting back.
He's trying to bake rotation at least in parts.
This will pull some players out of position and make things way better.
Fallen spoke about Pinocchio strats in an interview.
One of the clips on the stream and there's a perfect example.
Even if not everybody rotates over towards B.
It's the mere fact that your kinder running into B halls and
shifting back just weakens the stampede of players that were on that a bombsite and makes
it a little easier to small details just open the door in ways that otherwise would not exist
for furia.
It's also really cool to because if you think about how heroic played this, really max
still in the last series. If you think about how 3D Max played this round to they stacked
the A site and that kind of makes you impervious to what the other teams doing where they
They are putting you in a spot where you're having to try to guess what they're doing
based off of the information.
Instead of just saying, I actually don't care what information you're showing me, we're
just holding this like format stack on the A site.
It's only after the CTs get contact, get a couple kills that they're like, okay,
now we can start reacting off to the information.
And then still, like you say, it falls and is throwing in the fake there, the
little fake to create timing.
So, yeah, a lot of cool stuff in that round from an information perspective and Furia.
They could be really really difficult to deal with if they keep kind of getting, if Fallen
keeps getting the wins here from the in-game leader battle, that's going to be tough now
that Momodo has got North 2.
Another phrase for non-Furia teams might be a what-if play.
offering some what ifs to outmaneuva their opponents.
Suta collecting an AK on Long.
This is really good map control early for Swabidimax.
Gravity absolutely needs to stay alive.
Just disengaging from that mid position entirely.
I wonder if they might boost him behind that double-stike in CT spawn, but he'll be fielded
towards shorts.
There is much interest from the CTs.
Four CTs here, long as being abandoned.
How far will they pursue this?
Oh, the bait is brilliant.
Pull the crosshair away, abuse the numbers, 3D Max fighting back, taking everything away
from Furia.
I love the disruptive plays from 3D Max there.
Really really good.
Just slowing down the momentum that was building for Furia is always going to be good.
So hard to also find the right rounds to do that, to be aggressive and like wear more
timings.
Tech pause coming in.
I thought it was maybe going to be a furia tactical but it's actually a tech related issue.
I'm on Nailbites Watch.
Because every match we see someone nail biting during the pauses, at the freeze time etc.
So I'm just waiting to see when, not if it happens in this game.
What's doing in James you can almost make a you can make an evergreen segment will it but we'll we'll they bite
Where in chat they can give like a they can put a wire on end to see are they gonna bite them?
They are in a clip and then it and then in the clips where they don't they like pick their nose or something
This is disgusting James
I think the players might be unhappy, but maybe it would change the habits who knows
Maybe it would all be for the better.
I don't think the producers would approve this.
Oh, you never know. Content is content.
I've got no from production.
We play the aggressive move, Steph.
Makka doesn't catch Molodoy there with his USP.
That round is probably going to be kind of dicey for 3D Max, but
really nice timing on that one.
And look at how much stuff they have.
They've got all the stuff.
3D Max has recovered the economy.
The stocks are through the roof.
Stimulus package.
Oh.
I think he saw two.
No one positioned towards B for Furia.
This may slow down the round for them.
I'm sure Makka will be rotating over, urgently. Exorcise could be in some trouble. Makka has
a flash, but he wonders about short because they are devoid of info there. I mean, I don't
know how he can really help Makka in this position. Actually, the moissade would be
Perfect how deep does it go very deep?
Somehow doesn't connect with them. Oh, you're going to see what's happening over towards be so again
This is just killing their time because it's hard to throw out the what ifs if you don't have the sufficient map control
That rotation from be all the way to long for Maca
So again 3d max taking the fight to a furia now furious spotting 3d max
basically splitting the B halls and now they've got to spend time clearing that
out before they can even get started on what they want but masseuse's push gives
them a window into this into this round maybe a four on four
to go for the re hits on to be potentially and they're the push there
from three max route the long doors is going to confirm exactly what's going
on big damage done by that HG that was perfect fallen with the trade though
So it's a 1v2 in the after-plant.
This is going to be very difficult.
It's got to be perfect on the timing.
It's got to be flying to worry about as well.
Maybe peek into this one, ready for it.
Is it the first player?
That's what he had to win that one to make it possible.
But very well played by 3D Max.
That HE went pretty hard.
The timing on that one was just phenomenal.
That's an intense moment when you see it's a lost actual Furia finding a way in, but
you can't be afraid to take the fights to Furia and make the plays you think you need
to play.
If you become afraid to do that, then you become a victim to Furia.
Trophy for the shelf.
So a very important round for 3D Max. It's currently in the lead with plenty of opportunity.
Now that they've put Furia's economy in the bin, stimulus package continues for Furia as
sorry for 3D Max, if Furia will be walking to shallow graves around the B bomb sites.
We got kind of wrecked.
We're going to be back to seeing how the default works now.
I think, you know, if we have done a lot of the, you know, the typical kind of cat control
plays.
The only thing I don't think we've seen too much is like the long scaling delay long
retakes and then scaling into the A site. I don't see too much of that, sometimes maybe
dictated by what they see when they get that cat control. Forward smoke, that's gonna delay
the cat's play a little. Because if you throw the mollies now to kind of do the forward
Clearing on Cat, you're not going to punish anyone who's falling off, so they get to
reset the position for free, so this actually kind of forces Pirae to either
wait it out and then go for the take of Cat or to go clear mid, which they
started to pressure mid a little bit, pulling Lucky down.
right then short is contained a response as of yet from the CTs now what do fury want
to do with the mid position which way do they want to send this CT are hopping in to deal
with him there's the answer wonderful timing the suitor now you can see him holding down
two jobs. Gravity needs to stay alive now. My suit is caught on the site, though. That
is a really sick round from Furia. So good. So good. I mean, okay, exorcist will get
Molodoy, some exit frags to be had, but yeah, brilliant rounds, because the problem is
As far as CTs are concerned, it can be two different things at once.
It's just so hard to know.
The drop down, you know, because you know that very often like the CTs have to respond to the initial mid smoke
by pulling a player down as they did with Lucky into CT spawn, so...
That's beautifully timed by Iphuria.
Can't do that every time, but...
I think it's safe to say we can probably expect a lot more cat control defaults from Curia.
Oh man, I mean just the timing of that round was so good.
From our perspective, how are we going to deal with the mid position? Boom. Decisive.
But still works to be done because 3D Max have plenty of money to buy in this round and perhaps the next.
So they can still hold the fight, but how do they keep growing different looks at fury
up?
They did well in an early rounds, well earlier rounds to, as I mentioned, set the pace of
that round basically with the threat around be on that particular round where fury had
no presence towards be.
But again, if you are to manipulate CT rotation, you have to have that presence.
Otherwise you have no threats.
Is that a He-Man in the background?
I wasn't paying attention to his background.
I like this.
There we go.
Was it a dude from Thundercats?
I think, I want to say that's probably a character from Beach.
Not Lord of the Rings then.
No.
Mac is getting aggressive.
Okay.
So this might be one way to deal with the default.
Just try to get these early pick offs.
He knows someone's there.
So, okay, trying to force them out.
Can he get this kill though?
No, denies.
Give me a wall bang.
Good D.
Look at this.
Gravity holding his six.
Surely that's a wall bang.
There's a demonstrator line up if the dude's in the corner there.
The stalemates.
It's getting scary now.
Again, this answers the question of how the CTs are going to take the fight to Furia.
They're just holding in the middle of mid, and there's a minute on the clock.
This is bananas. Now they've pushed the long A, and Furia are just stuck in the B halls.
This is crazy and awesome. Molotov has been picked in T spawn.
This is what's required to face Furia and they're doing it.
3D Max are ready to defend this B site as well, they're in position, two players hit.
Furia though quite good on the entries, typically into this B site so far this game, the gravities
in the smoke and the variance starts to increase and he wraps around the back and that's
two fantastic kills and that's going to round it out for 3D Max to take it and
so awesome to see the aggression there.
They're not allowing Furia to do these cat defaults.
I love these rounds.
Round from Furio, round from 3D Max.
We ask the question, they give us the answer immediately.
But it's great, and I did think that this particular matchup
was going to be quite an interesting one.
Because 3D Max understand what is required on their CC side
to have a chance of beating Furia on a map.
They know that you can't allow Furia to set the pace,
Because if they have the space and time to do what they want,
it's so difficult when they execute to understand what is really happening,
to have your people in the right place and to deal with people like Mollardoy
swinging orps at you.
So to take control, I mean, you can't do this every round.
But that is such a sick round from 3D Max.
That was so enjoyable to watch.
Again, just swarming.
And it was a perfect round to do it, too,
Because look what it's done to the money for Furia.
Again, every time Furia look like they're about to take some momentum,
3D Max comes in in the perfect moment to steal away.
So I believe that this HE won't be enough,
because you can see on the radar they've got a double smokes there.
One for the door, one for the Xbox specifically to stop that HE from working.
It won't go through both smokes.
Not every team does that, but Furia do on this occasion.
That's what's necessary if you want to stop those HE AWP plays.
It's helpful because actually it has prevented the 3-match from being out of position properly here and they're still looking in mid, which does create a potential opening into the B sites.
from them maybe it means
maybe it means more great grenade dumping as well in that short position from the CTs because they don't really understand how many people may have gone there
space now being taken in the mid position while B is compromised 3D Max find themselves outside the site versus pistols and lucky is in such an awkward position with the AWP
but they're still all standing through DMAX bombs getting tossed in the suits looking to round the corner lucky low and now gone
At all point, be retrieved, basoota.
Anyone firing at him?
That one is gone now.
Surely the remainder will overwhelm.
Indeed, they will.
Just the one loss, not too shabby for 3D Max.
I thought Fury did so well there to get onto the site like that.
It was a really nice round.
And I mean, also, I think kind of fortunate for 3D Max that they didn't get killed there, I think.
because you saw the kind of confusion where they were not sure,
okay, or at least they were feeling,
oh, this is like a big mid push
because there's pistols,
they're expecting everybody to be there.
So the fact that they kind of worked here,
but they still take all of the kills to their credit.
That's gonna be a 6-3 scoreline now.
So three more rounds left in this half
as the guns come back and we'll see.
They're run made by Yakindov into long.
We haven't seen this very often
and he'll get dropped instantly.
Yeah, that one wasn't the parkour he was looking for.
That's two looking better and better for 3D Max at the beginning.
Here's the pick of 3D Maxine again, now showing us prowess versus Furia.
Chunks.
Faken by Fallen.
They're up in position on shorts.
Well, the door is not announced yet.
The scope might do that to get back into position.
Yuri lost now.
Smoke blocked, which gives Makka a lot of space.
Just dropping one by one now.
Really, Makka have successfully limited and stopped Fury up in a number of rounds here,
They're looking at quite a nice score line as we head into halftime, almost.
This is another great round from 3D Max on their CT side.
And although I only can do ready to just save the AWP at this point,
K-Zero too, as well, they can definitely buy around this in the next round.
But very solid situation now for 3D Max on his CT side of Dusty.
There's also another map that's furious it's trouble against Bates on oh my god, they got me for it. Oh
How do they know who's there? Oh
Yeah, I can smell the fear
And this is looking great for 3D max that is the hell of a flick from Macca
It's not gonna be a war bang as well. Very clean indeed.
Hey, am I just going for a cat plant here?
Which could be possible.
If given the CT setup, then no one's actually like Goose on the side here.
The incendiaries are always unlimited for the T side. Those are very important for clearing positions like Goose, but actually might move into that spot right now.
Are we going to cross that? No, not yet. Pistols are coming in, and pistols are being denied.
Great transfer. Cutting the numbers post plant 2 on 4 for Furia. Trying to do what they can.
And they need to do a lot if they have to survive this one. Molotoi out in the open. No cover.
And he will be sent frustration for Furia in his first half. On plants it will be
some money for the last round. But again this is such a good look for 3D Max.
They are very satisfied with the proceedings thus far.
I really enjoyed this game of Dust2. We've seen good things from both teams.
We've seen struggles for 3D Max Overtime.
They've been able to control limits and annoy Furia.
Now lead by five as we head into the last round of the first half.
A good buy for both squads. No AWP for the T side.
A little for grenades for Molodoy.
Again, there's two nades in mid to deny information for the CCs.
And again, 3D Max have charged into B-halls.
But there might be a fast round on the other side of the map for Furia.
Moving up behind the push there, up Catwalk will see the timings any good.
For this final rounds, Gravity is going to have a very nice timing presumably.
That's my teammate there as well, the H.E.T.S here.
Dispersed the smoke.
3 vs 3 though, so Fury are holding on for now, they need this round desperately,
The Tatsumi Yukinda looking good, taking down Masuta below.
And now it's just these two players, Gat, back up with the AWP.
It's gonna be hard to move forward with that, it's the last round,
so they're going to do it or try...
Quick incendiary, time is up, the essence.
And, oh my goodness, two quick kills coming out of nowhere.
This is how you do it, if you want to make it happen.
All of the way now, Galeel will find one.
he just has to make sure that this other player can't get gets off this bomb. That's the spray. He's going to deny it. Another round for Furia four to eight at the end of the first half.
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It is a good start. It's a great start for 3D Max, but it's always about how you finish.
The second half begins. We see plenty of frustration for Furia.
They have some good rounds as well. They constructed some nice work on the T side,
but 3D Max understood the mission and executed with brilliance to have a four-round lead at halftime.
The pistol may be a big swing round here.
3DMAX could potentially run away with their pick of Dust2, should they be successful in this round?
Then again, Fury, I could start the flight back turbo mode, especially if they can stop a bomb plant.
Yeah, it's definitely a tough, a few Dust2's Fury I've had recently.
smoke from the 3D Maxide onto the B doors trying to fake B. Then go A. Three players on A. Lots
of noise has been made so we'll see how long it takes for that B rotation. In the meantime,
the A defenders have to connect some shots but they're getting destroyed.
Oh my God! All the Glock headshots at range. They needed more than one but they're just
It's looking really sharp with those glocks.
Sarato and Uri remain.
Who needs long range pistols when you've got numbers and aim?
Dish Bosch.
What is there to be done?
Uri wants none of this.
This Kevlar and Jules.
So it will be 3D max off to the races.
Very enjoyable game of Dust 2 so far.
Guess his bonus money looking for a bit more.
Again in that scenario, Kevlar's worth more than the frag.
Okay, Siratul will do whatever the hell he wants to do.
So let's see what the CTs choose to do.
Now that they have lost their pistol rounds, the urgency will suddenly be very high for
us too.
Very tough situation here now.
Get their pistols and see what they can do, but like you're looking for a quick take
over on this A1 position, it's going to get it.
They're ready to go. They're ready to fuck.
We're going to get that long scale, the A long scaling.
But wait, the CTs are coming. They're lining up. They're going to get absolutely sprayed.
I don't know. Yeah, the flashbang was being lined up, but
you saw the wide angle on the pet and you just spelled disaster for Furia.
This was a non-investment for them and again, I mean, you might as well gel somewhere and
you know if they come they come but otherwise, you just save your Kevlar here.
Just not a great scenario to be in.
They'll make them pay a little at least.
Well then, the road to come back is long for Furia.
Can't make too many mistakes now on this CT half.
Quite curious to see how 3D Max will set the pace.
One of the ways it's got his big gun out immediately, which is what you want on a
game with us too when you're six round behind especially.
So it looks pretty standard from the CTs although more the way to get active there on catwalk
doesn't get the fast timings looking for us to get it get out of there and get to
the chopper.
Suddenly, we have some cat control sign to be worked on, 3D Max is suggesting the B splits,
but the smoking is now so commonly to just distract and usually you get a second if it's
It's for real.
Flash points on Long.
Fallen makes a second bullet for the team.
Cratch peak with the FAMAS winning the duel.
Exorcise is not going to be happy with that.
I think he only sees Fallen there.
I don't know if he sees Yikinder at all.
If he sees a second player there, 3D Max might get their skates on in this scenario.
35 seconds remain and...
Got a number of players heading back towards T spawn.
They're saving? I guess they're saving.
Yeah, yeah.
Interesting. I mean, after Fallen gets that kill, they...
By the way, why did Fallen not pick up the AK? It's not an exit.
But other way...
Who wants to shoot the French with the French gun?
Yeah
Yeah, what once fallen pushes that in sees what he saw with the two man push it is then I guess they're just like well
They know what's what's coming so
They don't want to open a door wide open they don't want to let food a kick open the door and make them broke
And again, I think they lacked position
Yeah, that's that's a really bad duel to lose
partly because all the position of the remaining players and I think they're relying on exorcise to
For them to have map presence
In combination with their ultimate goals, so the lack of him there increases the risk
But they have more or less a resets in this one after losing one player
up. I like the decision, especially with the lead they have, not taking it for granted.
They respect their opponents. Just enough contacts all the way through. Oh, so close
on that one. Yuri's ready to strike. Should they push past the angle at least? It might
be forced to reconsider though. It's not a committed play, the bomb is down outside the
B tunnels at the moment, so that would be indicative of a B play most likely. It lurks
smoke to be deployed as we go back into mid control. They might still finish B, they
forced a B defenders to use some utility. The re-hit on B would definitely be pretty
really nice because of that.
There's a B-split smoke.
Mine games.
It's almost a mirror of the last round, but with less time on this occasion, but it seems
they're going to go for it.
play in your kinder is he's got a counter flashes immediately for the team and that's going to
utterly ruin the squad. He was just waiting to throw that they barely break ground on the B bomb site
again essentially a mirror of the previous rounds with less time and your kinder is in position
He's got two flashies. He's outside the doors. Just pops it in. Off you go. Swing and delete.
Solid. Very solid hold. And suddenly, you get the time out from a 3D max. Maybe it's not to feel like
Viria gaining some traction here. They need to break it. And it was really good at doing that on
the first half. It was the case that every time we got to this point where Furia start to get
that momentum in hands, you know, then the very next round 3D Max finds some sort of disruptive
play to kind of just exactly target what's been successful for Furia and then to just put Furia
back to square one again. So see what 3D Max comes up with this time. They are on the T side
instead though. And I think so far what's been cool for Furia is that the success is
coming from playing like passive dust 2. They're not having to get active, which is quite risky
on this map. It's not something you would want to have to do very much.
Just keeping an eye on a lower tunnel push. You're wandering at home or wherever you
are? Might be watching from jail.
Those are people who got phones in jail these days. Why not watch
Counter Strike?
I should take the series Oz today.
Oh, and like how the BC.
Yeah, classic prison HBO show.
I mean, it lefts.
There you go, Joe.
There he seems to...
I mean, it's early in this half.
We've seen 3D Max run for all intents and purposes the same strat on two occasions.
Save with four people in spawn, run this again and get ruined as pretty much the same outcome happened, but with more pages in the book.
So in the data we have, the early data we have from Furia, they seem to have 3D matches number so far.
They're very clear up on what's happening on the position from your kind up.
If you mirror that with the drop into CT spawn that we saw from Furia in the first half,
It's a pretty cool alternative in terms of expectations.
Exocys trying to stay alive.
He will plant the bomb at least, or they will, which is a goal achieved.
But again, it's just so interesting to see Furia in the first half, that execution in
CT spawn off of short was excellent.
And then Nekindar holding an angled, expecting shenanigans and immediately punishing big
brains on furia. Where are you going? Yeah, like you said, they got the bomb down at least.
So that's nice. So that is a win really. Okay, seven to three, seven to 10, I should say,
as a comrade, furia on the way back more the way getting even more aggressive this time,
for something lower dark and we'll see if you can find it. Makka takes a shot from the tunnels,
gets smoked off, and with that smoke you would absolutely imagine that someone will come away
of Molodoy, gets flashed, he's very careful, a whiff, and he's going to be able to escape.
Scott free it seems.
It's got to be your life flashing before your eyes if you grab a seat with that jump peak
thinking, oh, I'm just in the middle of the air, and I may be about to die.
Somehow gets away with it though. Great airstrafe.
But as the seats will continue to show presence on long-hoping for a better result this time.
They all say hello back. Paulin is still here waiting to greet you once again.
I wonder if this duel will continue to be important.
for the construction of 3D Max rounds.
Yikindar running away from long in a background,
but nobody pokes their head out as they are headed elsewhere
because he's not fancying their jewel on this occasion.
What do you fury and make of this?
Here are reading their movements fairly well.
There's 20 seconds to get the bomb down now,
and then you have to be made.
They're going to drop, and Yikindar knows.
They try to do okay, so they're going to get to them,
but Yikindar with the defense.
And now a spray as he falls backwards, 15 seconds to plant here, delaying might even just do it, but that's an instantaneous kill.
Yuri has to defend in another instant entry.
Wow, okay.
I feel like there's so many ways for them to lose off time, but they make it work.
And that's a crippling round for Aphuria to lose. They do have a lot of money though.
And I guess that's good because the AWP is gone.
So we might be seeing the ability for 3D Max to adapt to the challenges Furia have been throwing at them in these rounds so far.
Again, the 1v1s that we had towards long have been pivotal in the construction of rounds for 3D Max, and he lost those 1v1s.
But this time, Exocys goes elsewhere and the goods are firmly delivered.
Pick in a 3D Max body.
OG announced earlier on is on loan from 3D Max.
So he'll be playing for the OG squad in the near future.
Yeah, this is really good.
Yeah, and it's such a big map for them because Overpass is next and we all know how well Furia
can play Overpass, so this would definitely make the series feel a lot more simple.
I think it's worth noting, an amazing fury at 11-7 at a presence.
You know now we've got Molotoy who as opposed to being active mid and cat he's he's holding
down long and things that have fallen working with the kinder towards the site with the
rifles and Molotoy can't make it through after it's getting a pick on two exorcise that
will be long control now for the 3d max side kinder in that car position case or also
playing on the site, very worried about the short position,
which has a smoke on.
That's their defense, a smoke for short at present.
Makka waiting for rotation, but loses.
The Jules have fallen with the AWP.
That's really important.
What do you, Fury, understand of short with that?
You can start walking back, but you can't do it fast enough.
Now Kacerato's on an island, and he will be mollied as well.
So important to nae the back of those boxes
as you approach from long, and the nades just continue.
Air strikes for both sides.
Kcerasso popped up, lucky drop, three on two retake, fourth Urea, gravity with angles towards CT.
That smoke will soon be gone though, spotted by Fallon.
Gravity's lost his angle, but Masuda's in to pick up the slack.
1v2 now, gravity trying to burst.
He's got seven bullets to deliver on these two.
He's going to be real careful. That's great on the first one,
but Uri will be the last one standing in this one.
What a back and forth affair.
Oh, they're like, confused.
There's some really awesome plays from both sides in that exchange.
I particularly liked the quick thinking with the boost from Fallen, boosting his teammate and kill being delivered.
Fallen also with this kill, that was also a very pivotal kill to find.
And there's that boost we were talking about, just getting Kcerato in position.
Very crazy round right there, but the the bomb did go down, there's enough money for a 4 buy,
But if you win this one
3D Max are not gonna have a lot especially if they can deny the plant
If you could get some momentum again, it's still possible here on Dust2 for them
As once again, A-Long is taken away early on and there's options here for 3D Max
They can just slowly drift out just leave a lurk on this position
They can scale from this position you can put here one player back and go for an A-Split up cat as well
Lots of options from this long take
Makes the season of lots of backup now
This is the round we saw before.
Akka moving around, trying to understand the climates around the map.
We have three players holding on a four furia.
Again, concerns of course towards short as long as compromise and they start to stream in.
Moi towards Akka.
Oh dear, that's going to cost him so much.
The flash comes out for Fallen, he collects two, could be good for a third, indeed he will
be betrayed by that incendiary.
That absolutely decimates 3D Max and now you are worried if you're a 3D Max fan.
Because Furia are closing the gap.
That Molly has really got to be mega, mega precise.
I
Think impossible it looks it looks like he's in the fire
It's yeah, it's it's really strange like a lot of people throw it from on top of the barrel around a corner from the long doors
You you aim at the keyhole of the door
You can aim at the same place and sometimes it feels like it spreads properly and sometimes it doesn't I don't know
Perhaps there's a better one. I'm not aware of
I've seen more of the way here before, but now he's against pistols.
Okay, okay, careful, there's three deagles, so you gotta be careful here.
I guess I have some fun, but never mind.
Every frag counts there.
CTs, follow.
And I just want to get rid of...
Oh, I didn't see him there.
Don't get rid of as many teases as possible and stop the bleeding.
So damage for 3D Max in this round could have a part to play in potentially closing out
this map.
So there's more than a bomb plant at stake.
Your kindar popping through, but Masuta delivers once again.
There's a chance for Lucky, he's got to commit to the bomb plant here.
Can he reach for that rifle? Does he prefer to deagle?
I'm sure it's three targets.
Flash up. He expects, oh they've almost lined up for him perfectly.
They didn't connect though, they will be the two frags.
I can't believe this, you know, off the back of that molly that didn't spread fully on the
car position.
Of course, you and me have still won that round anyway, but, you know, now we're here,
we're in a spot where it could all be slipping away for 3D Max unless it can suddenly start
to stem the flow.
I'm not so sure about the house gun otherwise in this particular rounds, 10, 11.
He's always been very active here James, he's moved around a lot of dark bushes, he's
been all over the shop.
Yeah, and that's what you want Muller the way to do.
He has so much talents.
I'm going to cease his position, but standing on the floor, you can throw a running mid-to-be
smoke.
Just so you know, look at all of that.
My word.
intentions. Is the phrase that comes to mind?
Left and right cash on the slope.
When it's a go, they've got the cats control now 3D Max.
Replays on B committed to be a theory.
So this AD fence is going to be pretty rough.
It's going to be about, I mean, it's going to be hard to hold on to either position actually.
Long is looking to be split with the cat as well.
I like this though, Molotov is coming closer to Long and can assist his teammate here.
They're going to have to have an explosive defense on this position.
Interestingly, three mags put that smoke out on the corner of Long, but also one in to be at the same time.
There are only two defenders here. Molotov is alone now.
No support flashes, I don't know, I think maybe there was one that came too late there for Fallen.
And now Mouladoy needs to stay alive, able to escape.
How much utility is left on the ramp, I wonder?
So maybe use against them if there are still pieces of junk there.
Open plants.
Oh, there's been a point.
Oh, this is a scary one for gravity.
He's missed his spray playing against the headshot positions.
And now they're multi coming in for lucky.
They are falling one by one.
There's loads of you till that smoke.
Oh, they don't know that they may have needed that on the bomb site.
So if the junk starts to come, the flashes are here.
They swing.
You're pinned off from the back.
It's going to be the checkmate in this round.
You had concerns about whether they could defuse, but your kindar is Mr. Big Brain for Furia.
And the score is tied.
A good first half from 3D Max, but that's not enough to take down Furia.
They've got to find a way to solve the problems in their second half.
Really well played, especially that's the base on Cat here.
This is the case that gets the kill, but his teammate
hops up onto the box and immediately like, wide swings really fast.
So if that first bullet misses from Lucky, you're not going to hit the rest of the spray and you get instantly killed.
Really well played. 11-11.
Kindle is looking for a tap. Molotowai presence as well from Cat.
And drops. Maka.
And that is a huge fight before early here for Furia.
As they look like they've fully taken control of this Dust 2 game, right at the end of regulation.
Imagine if there's no bomb plants in the last round.
Grimax would be hurting.
If there isn't one in this one, they'll be hurting anyway, I think.
They have short control.
They have a lot of utile.
They've got mollies as well.
There's enough to construct whatever rounds they may desire.
Now, they should see the trajectory of where that smoke came from, which may give them an
idea as to the defences in this mid position.
Hiring over towards B now, and there's trouble for Caster Atto and Uri.
It's a great spray from Uri.
He's concerned about the tunnel, so is Caster Atto.
No one is there, though.
And they've done a good job holding.
Reinforcements are coming through mid.
41 seconds, gravity of 6 HP.
Slash is eating headshots, eating leads.
Furia, find themselves at game points now.
One half is not enough to put this team down.
Yeah, this is tense.
Three mags still in with a shot, of course.
They just haven't managed to find their own rhythm now and lost a few rounds ever
since that Molly.
That key kind of Molly miss on the car and all looks good.
Molodoy's been rotating around all over the place.
This time he's in a different position every time,
and now he's going to get a connection.
Gravity goes down early in this round.
And with that, Molodoy can just run that mid position.
He's going to swap out, potentially.
Yeah, he is leaving.
They're expecting 3D Max to double down.
Now they've lost their player
to double down to a different position.
Those are some really important frags as things turn around. Molotoy now, Battle Sniper mode, he has heard. Exercise is able to deliver.
That's a really important jewel to keep 3D Max alive. Too much to ask, surely for Furia. Yuri and Keisarato.
Does the AK make the difference here for Yuri?
There's a kiss on both. They've got so much to do though. Smokes. Oh.
They're such a problem.
A big swing then, but the flash lands are exactly the same time.
It's not to be in this round.
It's got to press on.
But the timing of all that utility is fantastic.
A sigh of relief for 3D Max.
Work done on the first half maybe was just enough to keep them alive in the second.
Now they can apply their learnings and maybe make a better future for themselves.
Wow, they actually did it in the last possible round, especially when they dropped a player early against Molotov. Impressive stuff there from 3D Max.
Again, really I think a lot of pressure for them to actually take this map.
Overpass up next, Molotov again, aggressive cat, denied by the early Molotovs from 3DMAX, aware of the shenanigans, they know what's possible with this Molotov guy.
If you ignore the pistol, they only won... I mean, that was only the second round, they really won in that half, and they won both pistols.
Still, Fury have been able to force an overtime.
Good point.
Very calm on the map at the moment.
I saw a lot of this from Furia.
Just very patient CT sites.
There's a pot flash for the AWPer that could be watching.
And Molly as well.
Okay, so they're hitting a fast B timing off of the cat control.
This would very likely catch the CTs off guard, but can they defend this B site anyway?
here is in travel couldn't position itself properly and now fall and it's in that special
mode but there are so many targets.
some revenge now for 3D max hopping off that short position eliminating the remaining
defenses. But we see a stronger 3D Max in this overtime across this T half, I wonder.
Surviving the strength of fury up. There are more tests to come. 22 frags for gravity,
Masuta, new man Masuta, good level of frags as well of his team.
This is impressive work from 3D Max, I think that, you know, as I mentioned, the timing there into D, very, like very unusual to hit a timing like that, I think.
Offer the cat control in that furia, which I don't think mentally prepared for that
You could kind of tell by how they got it like lost their lives on the site
They've fallen not in a great spot because he has to drop down from window
So he's got no space to work with on the or his teammate goes down instantly to a flash
It's not ready for that and I have to say I think for the most part in
Regulation 3d max were not I think constructing too many rounds that we're gonna work that caught fury like that
So really encouraging for them to see that they can do that into this over time
But still many more rounds of overtime to be played
As fury at look to get themselves back into this one
Still all the money to work with
full send straight into B flashbangs are good but they are on the receiving end of all the
joules lightning fast in and out of the
beep-on side leaving lucky with much to
do
the plate for furia ultimately if that
should be a good but it's occasion
here we are survive and I'll be quite
handy for them
I'd like to call here from 3D Max, I think even though it was catastrophic, I think maybe
they felt a bit confident about the B site and also just hitting like a mega fast B timing.
I don't think we saw that once from them in regulation as well, so credit to Furia being
prepared to defend like that.
Gravity.
Yeah, you can't get what he's looking for there on long.
a doi on the other hand looking to find something lower dark again he's it even
though he's not going to single kill from doing that it is it like you always have
to be worried that he's there you always have to spend you till most likely
to to actually clear him off
look at the movement of fury up
You know, maybe considering four overs towards A for a moment.
Again, we have a similar round constructed.
Smoke almost forces Molodoy into this position.
No off angle.
Like you might otherwise see.
Let's not keep the CTs entertained for a time, but what is the play?
Four man on shorts.
Exorcise creeping through mids.
43 seconds left. Where is that third man? Where is that middle guy?
Yikindar.
Oh, the flashes. The flashes. I think he was, he may be seen there by Yikindar.
Wondering where Exorcise is now. What does this mean?
He'll slow things down at the very least.
He's picked off Cacerato and left.
Yikindar stuck in CT spawn, but he looks away at the wrong moments.
to be another round for them. So two of the three in the first half of overtime once.
Very tense indeed. Must win for 3D Max back foot once again.
I'm enjoying how Furia are playing really, really passively for the most part. It's just
more of the way he's active usually at the beginning of rounds, but otherwise the team
settles into playing very passive. And then it's kind of it is that tension where it just
builds because they don't really have the full information. They have to be quite reactive
and the timing battle in mid was crazy. But into the next one we go and the shoes on the
other foot.
Lots of detail in the default from Furia, forcing all the doorpangles away, forced all the
way back to the A-bond sites. Exes cease alone on long.
The minute's on a clock. We'll see if there's presence on mid-later, but the way their position
would suggest they're heading straight into Wards B. So it looks like Furia are content
with the job they have done, putting that third man away after forcing the Info player
away from that short position and they're not wrong. They're taking heavy NAV and Stowe
and the spray is glorious. Masita goes ahead of the smoke and Furia get utterly ruined.
Molodoy in the clutch though. I make no assumptions on this one.
Yeah, I think that's there. 30 seconds to go. He is surrounded. CT is on the front,
on the back. The tapping comes on through, but the trade is ready to go. Maka delivers
that one and 3d max pick up that first ct round and in some of the fashion to how 3d max got destroyed on this kind of a
push so we'll fury it doesn't seem like these shock bee pushes are working for anybody yeah
big train in a small tunnel
Very fast target acquisition.
Not hitting the mark on this occasion, though.
Macarooning towards short.
I've wasted a flash.
Tagged through the wall.
Won't be enough to drop Kcerato.
He'll still be dangerous.
Early exchanges.
Takes the season, you can dive over towards long.
On my new utility, it looks like there is a plan after this.
grenade dumping that we're seeing.
They doing it?
Okay, they're doing it.
They're going to Longhouse.
To see if he's spotted the angle not looking good
and he gets taken out for free.
Oh, they're faking it.
The bomb's going back to B.
They're threatening that way.
They're going to scale slowly, but...
I could fix down Molo though in mids.
This is going to be quite interesting.
Oh, I think Kistrasov might hear this. He'll hear these players from the long. He'll hear them charging towards short.
And perhaps he's giving them some noise back as well.
Unable to stay alive for long though. And he needs to speed up on the other side then.
They have been sold alight once again.
The rug pool has happened.
I can't find the scammers.
Closing in on them.
And the first jump across draws across nicely.
You keep that in from the back though.
And it's a wipeout on the side.
The depression setting in almost at the end of that one.
That was a really strong situation.
3v4 on the B side afterplug.
Man, 3D Max storming back into this game.
What are you thinking, James? Another overtime or 3D Max?
They're capable. 3D Max are very capable.
It's like it's coming down to narrow margins.
They're both making plays, 3D Max being proactive, they're being sold fake sometimes, you know,
like it's...
It's winnable by both, so I don't think you can really have an expectation.
It just needs to be in the right place, make the right plane, win the right rounds.
Can you see him?
Looks like...
He did.
Either way he makes no assumption.
And then there were three.
It's like there could be five players here. It's a good mentality to have.
Exesis, it really needs to find something as they jump up. Looking for it, but so far,
it's not coming all too easily. Exesis needs it, so he's going forwards. He has a good
angle for this kill. He gets the kill. But where's the trade frag? Yuri tries to make
it happen. Quick flick from Fallen delivers the second kill on the trade. And now down
Macca caught out in the open and it's overtime to now between these two sides to decide dust to
It's so important for and gets that second kill there
That became a very diabolical situation for furia, but this is why it's so hard to
Like you can't really pick up something between these squads because 3d max are not trying to make plays against furia
They know that they have to they can't just stay static
They're bringing the fights and that's why it's so close
It's really great to watch.
Where else was he going to be?
Well, I guess he could be towards me.
He didn't try and shoot your teammates, so he's probably going to shoot you instead.
Where's the gamble?
Of course, the sniper will take a nice spawn towards B as well.
I catch a CT going to platform, that's an early 4 on 5 that 3D Max do not need.
Again either the CTs will try to get information somewhere, they'll either stack 1-3 somewhere
or they'll just sit 2-2 and play passive.
passive. Those are the three things that the CTs can do. Those are the three options.
Stack A. Usually it's because A, if there's a 2-2 split of the CTs, because they're not
info pushing but they're just sitting on sites. It's usually A this week because usually
it's one player long, one player site. Stacking three on A I think is definitely
the right choice if you're just looking for a default good choice.
The tree is a scientific anomaly. It is a non-solid tree and has obscure utility, especially
flashbangs that allow you to pop out and look for a transfer, but the mollies, he's got
nowhere to go.
Italian barbecue of a different kind. Lucky says hello. 15 seconds, he needs to stay
alive now, but be enough of a threat to stop this bomb from being planted. Fall
of spots one. The cover's gone though. He's got a frag out, but there's too many man on
road and it's 3D Max to take the first in the second.
I always find it very satisfying when we get to see Fallen Orb.
Yes.
In kind of any context, there's something about it that just feels very satisfying.
I gotta say though, I would take Molodoy Orping over Fallen right now because he is also incredible
to watch.
And we haven't seen all of his highlights yet, but there's a lot of excitement.
And he's just a nasty piece of work with a sniper rifle.
He is a nasty piece of work, as we would say in the UK, which is brilliant for Furia.
trail by one there are five on roads and Masuta is the only man on this bombsite. Counter flashes
are coming in and he may have a chance to get a frag here. They're also blinding some
outfiles a second. The support flashes are doing God's work on the bombsite. He should
have been gone long ago. That's those flashes came in instantly.
I'm going to say that B bombsite is cursed. I was looking at that like, okay, they
I've got a 6-5 in this only Masuta here.
Maybe this is the round where the B hit actually works, the fast B hit, but no.
3D Max with two rounds back to back.
That's going to spell a lot of trouble for Fury, and now they've got to figure out what to do.
Molodoy working on the mid connection.
And aggression, we saw a really good aggressive round on the regulation, but as Mako goes up, looking for Molodoy...
They are going to escape, resets the positions.
Now maybe, will we get a B hit again?
The bomb is actually making its way back to B, so B split perhaps, we get the cat control
now from Fallen and it's co-conspirator, okay Serato?
CTs, I think I'm gonna look for info here, okay gravity's close.
Not looking for info play, that would be certain death.
has got the tree flash once again.
Absubby less fire.
Need goose position this time.
30 seconds.
Creeping through the smoke.
Running an important dual.
In mid-Anday, how do you call?
How do you decide where to go?
Gravity getting barbecued on the B bomb site,
forced towards cart.
Doing cartwheels for all the wrong reasons.
And then pause it around for Furio to secure.
There are two more players to find first.
Yasuta and Makka.
Yasuta's patience finds the lurker.
Block is ticking.
Makka needs a miracle.
find one.
Furia, they pick up one more. Just one at the beginning of this second over time, but it's
gonna be a tough second half for them then. But that was a beautiful round from Furia.
I mean, I was really curious how they were gonna play off of K-Zerato with that double
smoke. It looked like a fake, and I thought they were absolutely going for a B hit.
But for some reason, they changed their mind. They walked back out into, into War's
So, really hard to read furious movements there, that's for sure.
And now we're back into the second half, we're going to expect perhaps more modulation addigons.
He's holding mid for now.
And it looks like we're going to get another B timing.
Let's do it again!
Wow, CTs are in horrible positions on this occasion.
Sometimes it is the luck of the draw as the night starts to stream in, Yuri's good for one, but Keisaraso is blind and on fire, and not gonna last long on this bomb site.
This should be it in this round. People save here, normally.
Should be it.
Yeah, you can does got a lot of junk to throw at this problem.
All nades will confirm nobody's home, surely?
I will intenduaries as well.
There, 3D Max swing during this deployment.
Exorcise just from the corner.
There is a flashy elite at great angle.
Pursuing the problem, trying to get that info as well.
Only two remain.
I'll look to keep that AWP money then.
There's the sniper exit to the premises.
That's 3D Max getting to game points.
Okay, so that's one of the very few B-Runs actually worked out.
Well done to 3D Max, because that's a piece of this map of Dusty.
Clean entries.
3D Max. Can they get it over the line? It's been very difficult here on Dusty so far to
do that. But they have such a strong position to do so. All they need is two rounds and
they're good to go.
to get everybody on the same page. Gather their thoughts. So many over times in this
It's a really good thing.
Yeah.
Double orbs for round thirty five fallen and the molotoy.
Only three frags between them.
Everybody firing for the squad.
I think it's true of 3D Max.
Suta and Gravity are listed more than others.
Here you're acquiring two from two
And we're going be drinks we're going be again
A door keeps CTs far away, Molodoy is starting to head over, he's got no support flashes for
his squad however.
Here we go, abuse of numbers, the molly will land, but only Yuri is able to get a frag
and again it's brutal.
up. What's the push before they get too deep? Keeping it simple, and there might be no way
back for this one. Double AWP retake on the B bomb site of Dust2, 2 vs 4, with one grenade
Which is a smoke
How do you do all this?
He knows what the set it looks like that's really one way to do it and I see
Attempts that trading but still there's so much ways to let just kill time here
Nice shot. My goodness from fallen. Are they making this actually happened?
It was close. It was close, but it wasn't enough 3D Max. They got the goods here on Dust2.
It's going to be a big play for Cento, he needs to try to get at least one, maybe two
here.
First spray, not even going to fire a bullet.
Magic's beautiful shot opens up the ramp
They do have a way to go down if they do choose so what a clothesline that was yeah
Taking this reset this round. They know they've shown so much presence rotations have to come through
And looks like the round might be done already
Zontics put the follow-up kill molotov down the vent five on three no damage taken thus far
We have the woman in mark, but it feels like you're already considering the save in the CT side
And the upper bomb site is completely wide open, two players down towards lower.
You took that gamble in at lower and you're just hoping they come to you and if they don't,
you're fine getting out with three guns, it just feels rough to, right, round off so
early.
All the MPL.
A bit of a tenuous spot here.
Hugo.
Open up that mail bag.
Let me have a look.
Have a rum and a rum bag.
I'm not doing it here.
I'm not right now. This round is gonna be just a save, it's gotta be some bangers.
If you'd like to get involved, dhlmailbag.efg.gg
Any questions we'll do.
We're looking for interaction. Got Buckethead here today. Woo!
And for now, a couple of players remaining. Will they hold on?
They have an AWP and M4, smoke and a flash.
I'm hoping, praying that Dong doesn't come looking for them, but he is on the prowl.
Uh, close range.
Ah, okay, so this is alright.
You got nothing for me?
It's barren.
Barren, it's barren.
Okay, we're sending you questions now.
I'm just going to work with you.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, no!
Everyone goes.
That's a rough one.
Okay, you're partial by territory.
Spirits are officially online.
4-3, take the lead here on the T side, third map, hedging ever closer.
I feel like that round would have been a real clear sign to bait more than any other thus far as to what's going on,
that it is just Donk for the most part being left out in the yard while the other four go and play in the lobby.
Problem is, like, Spirit probably feel that too, and so maybe Donk, it's a bit more support out in the yard this time around.
I feel like that would have to be your way in, it's like, go kind of take the yard away,
Deal with Dongxi and not look it over your shoulder and then focus on the lobby component
But spirit were paranoid about that type of move. They've got more guys out in the yard with him
They have also
Left a pretty healthy contingent of players ready to deal with any antics out here in the yard
They've got a play down secret early
Spawn the cross to in Maine
That's a both teams kind of aware like what the adjustment was going to be in this round
Back out from secret
Don't get in control towards garage three down at lower for bait. That's another one of the gamble stacks
In a fairness to them. You got pistols do what you think you could do to get the round one
but Teneur get in the opening kill.
There is a flank coming through.
Oh, a bomb is here, right? With Shiro?
Yeah.
He's right here.
Oh.
Why is he here facing him? You've seen that's the bomb.
He's dinked as well.
He's readjusted me and
it was a collect the second kill.
It got a little dicey for a second, but
Beautiful follow up from Shiro.
Still nice.
It's still over.
Well, it's definitely over now.
Essential.
We'll do what he can, but there's the Deagle Kevlar here, we go five to three.
They kind of need to win the next couple of rounds here.
I think they're going to stand the chance, it's getting out of hand now on the T side.
Looking too comfortable, too many clean sweeps and money is swelling.
Almost $16,000 on all of them.
So no more eco to Team Spirit for the remainder of the half.
It's just night and day compared to map 1.
Spirit looks so much more comfortable all around.
I'm sure Bates economy hasn't been great for a majority of the game so far, but...
They're giving up a lot less of the easy kills.
Donk isn't just getting absolutely obliterated.
I mean, yeah.
By virtue of the map, I suppose, you can't just run around,
deathhunting like barrage.
Magics.
They're giving it a go, though.
And it's gonna be a triple kill for Alex.
Alex, no molly in huts. They want it to rush hunt.
They're two players close up.
Well, that should be it.
He said they have to win the next couple. This is a very convincing start.
Five on three, Zontics and Shiro.
Almost nothing to do, but as mentioned, they've got 16k.
Might as well try and wound the economy here.
Every little bit you can take away from the CTs, Ken.
Yeah, that could be very bad.
Seeing as they're fully invested here, if you can even get two kills, that would be worth it.
still time to work with so shiro we'll have to do most heavy lifting here I would say
hoping a CT makes a mistake it's on six same story I can get any avenue of approach
here or anyone give him an inch certainly world with a dink or do follow up MPL that's
Round, as mentioned, I'm sure all you can really do here.
Hope for a couple of kills, no real point saving,
they will hunt them down.
It turned off follow recoil, and bait stopped winning.
True, what am I saying?
Good observation.
True.
Bring it back, question mark.
Oh dear.
Ha ha ha.
In game two, we'll not be happy.
Yeah, we'll be happy.
We'll be happy.
Round nine.
Russia, you convinced you like follow recoil?
You got it?
I did use it for a little while and it does feel quite good
I'm still not completely sold. I have it off at the moment, but it was fun music
It's like changing the four by three stretch for a while. It's just fun, you know, I
Feel you is rats still going MC. They still rat away still going they're rating away
Maybe next time I will check in
Good idea
Hello, man
It's a bit it's a bit crazy with 60 players. I will say that was only 40. I was only 40. Okay 40 players
Okay, 40 players a little bit mad, but it was fun. What's the right amount of players you think? I'd say 24
Works
Don't moving outside alone
Welcome to magic
team setting up the top
You already baits. It's quiet. No rotate ramp available. Central might need some support.
Magics in Tindia are walking in as they fake the topside. Central commits to position.
They don't clear. This is poor spacing here. Magics unable to trade. Scared of the rotate.
And in that time, Sissi moves in. Donk's got a kill. They can bail.
I can't. That's exactly what they will do. Reset. I still can.
Oh, look at this. He's going searching for Donk out in the yard.
They want to try and find him. They know he's here alone.
Donk playing smart. Not in a hurry. Knows they've got eyes on him right now.
And in this silence, they're getting scared. He could be lower.
He could be anywhere. Donk will play late.
Since he's all still roaming.
And they drop B. There's the paranoia of Donk freezing. That weakens this topside.
25 seconds the hits gonna come in any moments out there
look around says he not able to hit the shot although kills do fall on a it's
still spirit in favor until maybe out to get one more sprays down dunk she
left pushing out of help by himself 1v1 essential up top mile top goes down bomb
needs to get planted five seconds he taps it he tries to go for the kill but
Unfortunately, forum essential just a little bit quicker.
We have a tie game.
That's sick.
What a cool round to watch, actually.
Just the way the spirit slow down and then bait.
Do panic.
They do over rotate.
But still, that player of CT-Ven, Alex, holding so strong.
I think we're going to check in on the rats now.
Let's see.
Oh, we're checking in on rats.
Rat check.
Always looking beautiful out there.
It is good.
Look at that minimap.
It is crazy.
Get out of spawn, Sassy!
This is what CS used to be about, back in the day, community browser,
hanging out with the boys, playing the mods, playing the fun maps.
I love how enough of that these days.
I love how everyone's still on the server, still playing.
Yeah, that is cool.
Even my barb at today, it's like the same thing.
Swedish guys said CS used to be all about community.
He said that?
Yeah.
That's an accent, that's good.
Yeah.
Don't know what it was for all.
Sweden.
You would have battled and sure as a hit back shot, too.
I think they learn a really valuable lesson from that round where Spirit tried to fast-pop A.
And that's that if we actually just wait for them to be the initiators and for them to run the strat,
they can't do it. Like it's only when they fed them kills in the open and try to be the team
taking the initiative that the rounds got away from them.
You've seen them move into like a way more passive setup on their CT side.
They're kind of letting Spirit play and then just have faith that they can shut it down.
The Tonk once again makes his way towards secret.
Sissy is at the bottom of the staircase, might be able to catch him off, that's exactly what
happens.
Falls back now, three more Ts, group up towards the staircase, but a bit afraid to commit.
Beautiful Nade.
Massive Nade, if you don't mind me saying bucket head.
I don't mind at all, you know, a massive another kill for Sissy, trying to triple
up.
This is the shot, trying to regress.
a good kill from Tenere and Zontec able to trade back to make it a 3 on 3 with all three
CTs pushing lobby. Here come the three musketeers. Spotted. Zontec should go down these times
very well to even get one there. The round is well intruding on lower plant coming through
courtesy of Tenere. Shiro to back him up. They know where both of these players are
coming from. Bear in mind they've been spotted towards the ramp room. Very difficult
retake. Very unlikely they win this round. Let's see what they can make of it.
Tenere and Crossout. He's just running into clearance with the Util. It's down to
Shiro to hit the shots on players crossing what she will Simon wasn't there for the first
though so still a one-on-one towards the end Alex Shiro trying to bait Alex has to make
the move here oh shiro I like that I catch his hip while going for the defuse sure new
exactly I was gonna play the CT has to make the aggressive play try to make sure to peak
so why not just catch him off guard while he's making that initiative very nice spirit
secure at least a tied half and the money for bait once more.
MP9s, FAMAS, 2M4s, no op in the round.
Spirit of back, but it's still a competitive game.
They do more with less.
I've seen a situation where they have done more with less, so maybe history will tend to repeat itself as MPO.
self as MPL.
Ooh, waiting perfectly.
Time sprays now one!
You're gonna have some huge damage on the dock as well.
Alright, so we're gonna do Truth and the Lie.
Now it's a concept that I'm sure you guys are familiar with.
Still works here again.
Can you imagine?
We don't need that kind of talent in CS.
Nice.
Oh, yeah?
Report.
Windows go from 6-0!
No way!
It's a class they did!
This is terrible!
This is madness!
Dust2 was an environment which could have been taken by either side.
side, they both had chances, but 3D Max were able to claw things back from the brink of
defeat and win.
It was a really interesting game with us too, if you didn't see all of it.
It was back and forth, there were adaptations by both squads, some shows of excellence
from both squads, but ultimately it ended up with barges into the B bomb site.
Some failed, some successful, but 3D Max send Furia 01 heading towards Furia's pick
of overpass. And my question for you, Dan, is, are we going to three maps?
Oh, I would imagine so. I would imagine so. You would want to give Fiora a pretty big edge on overpass.
They are very good here. But I don't know. We'll see. We'll see what happens.
We'll see what 3D Max brings to the table. They have a competent overpass that can stand the test against.
I think I think what is really an intimidating T side from Fiora.
That's that's where they look the scariest is how they can kind of push and pull you out.
they can starve you of information and really find the perfect timings to fully exploit it.
That's what they do so well, and that's what 3D Max are going to have to deal with.
There it is. We saw so many good rounds constructed by Furia, both on the T and CT side, but mainly
the T side we're talking about, and Overpass is a favoured battleground for them, so we'll
I think I wonder 3d max you know secretly deep down they think okay this is a series we win in three maps
We win map one we win map three now the first one is secured. Maybe they could be free-rolling in this one
We shall see I don't know
Maybe I mean that they've of course come into this one with a plan. I
Think after they're being pushed to the limits by furia and overcoming that in dusty will definitely be encouraging for the squad
but we'll see if this is a surmountable challenge or insurmountable for 3D Max once we get into things.
I would imagine people would assume we're going to a third and deciding map of Nuke,
but as we saw in previous matches here on the B stream that is not guaranteed,
we've seen a few surprising 2-0s in other series, so we'll see if 3D Max have what it takes
once we get into Overpass.
I'm with the plan. It was nice to see while we were on break, a rats map on the first
stream on the A stream brother. That was really, really cool. I spent so much time on
rats maps. I loved that was just that was my happy place running around on a map on
a rats map, just doing anything or nothing. Good times. But anyway, overpass begins
Fury up, streaming into the air immediately.
Yikindar says hello to gravity.
Excites will save on your back.
We'll try to say more to the rest of the team running out of bullets, though.
But Lucky is here overwhelmed with the angles offered by fury up.
They'll take the bomb site three on two.
Masuta and Maka coming through.
Timing there for Masuta.
Oh, pops a second head as well.
Masuta only play with any HP.
Mordoi, oh he gets his fire drawn away by the Julees swimming in the wide.
Theory I'm not going to be enjoying that, I mean that looked like a really good take of that sight.
Masita's timing was just too good for Monster.
start as you mean to go on CT side as all the toys for round 2. Buried weaponry,
then seal of utile. Furio of course come into this one with intention and they
are getting started really quick. One of the way dropping Masuta lightning fast.
I think it might be a bit tail between legs as far as the A site says concerned.
I wonder if they're going to even give the CTs time to respond. They have taken short
B at least. But, Firiya are posted up for the full send.
See, it's a pretty good spot.
No to take that one, but the fire is too strong from Furia.
Pokonor in to be looking good.
Another doi.
It's timing.
I seem to catch gravity there, but it's down to your kinder now.
Oh, the plan isn't yet open.
It's not a good look there for Furia.
Once again, the beast like fails them, even though it looked like they had everything
they needed. It just falls short.
That two man spraydown from gravity was pivotal to turn things back into three maxes favor.
Have a look at this. This is everything. The MP9 no less, godly weapon still. That's
a huge spraydown. Makes all the difference in that round. And that is very pivotal
early on. Very pivotal indeed. Lots of comms being barked out by Fallen, but that may make
a world of difference to 3D Max. If they are to win this, of course it's early, but that
may be a key round. We'll see how these rounds continue.
Avoiding the reset on round two is very important. Everybody on the scoreboard for 3D Max,
3 of the 5 for Furia, early on.
Reconfiguration of some positions.
Lucita going back to the A site for the time.
Start from the 3 max so far.
And map up. This is where you expect Furia to do their biggest damage.
I think there's T side, but obviously they haven't had that money yet.
That's when things are going to get really interesting, but.
We are.
If you get 3D Max to build that bank.
So they are prepared.
Your warning shots.
Down from the bathrooms.
I wouldn't be too worried about these pistols.
It's going to be a bait. It's going to be a bait masseter. Don't fall for it.
Thank you for the glill. Oh, just about checking as well.
What's French for let me ace? Giverdrey ace.
God, it's embarrassing that I'm not fluent in French, honestly.
I said I don't know what to do with it.
I respect the replay. I'm not really sure what we were observing, but...
You got a good view of that jump peek.
Okay, so this is where I get tricky here, James. This is where Fiora tends to be pretty dominant.
I'm gonna hop to open with an attempt at water control.
Oh, great timing.
I think this is where we see how important the pistol rounds will be for 3D Max again.
They won both pistols on Dust2 and we're still taking over time.
They've had a great start here.
And Furia may look to begin the dismantling.
the old machine is, Furia.
But the timing on these 8Gs continues to be great for 3D Max.
We are going A, though, Furia.
3D Max make of this. They are rotating lucky over.
So, I have three players to defend A.
But with the luck in Moldova towards Monster, it always makes it possible to pivot if necessary.
29 seconds.
T1 on Long.
Some U-Tilt.
Tilt T1.
Have a look at Makka and Masuta.
They are moving away from the sites.
Looking for a flank, it won't come soon enough.
But now he surely hears multiple footsteps.
Makka will need to help if he can.
But the defences are falling down to a 2-1-2.
Makka jiggling in all the wrong directions.
Perfect for your kinder.
Masuta trying to close the distance now.
A wide swing from your kinder. That's the bomb carrier.
And Yuri's not going to get there in time.
They're going to win by timeout.
Dude, Masuta is on a mission right now.
He's almost quad...
Okay, so quad killed in the last round.
Three kills in this round.
Two insanely pivotal frags with that Galil of his. How long is he going to hold onto that for?
Furia take the time out. I wonder if we're going to get a replay of some of the suitors kills there.
Those were so, so crazy.
He is nine. I think he's nine for one right now. Kills to death I think.
Great to see people drinking loads of water.
Yeah.
It's important, if you dehydrate it your brain is going to be the first thing to start being a bit crap.
One way to put it.
But yes it does slow you down.
To be dehydrated.
What on earth was that?
Is that like a big... I guess it wasn't a clap, but it looks very close. They were right next to each other.
The suits is really stepping up here so far on Overpass.
Oh, drills they are on CT site.
Pretty max with an aggressive A-opening, but it looks like it's going to be the guess-over
run here for Urea.
Oh, my words.
about great timing. Hey, it's one of those rounds. You pick this card, I pick that cards.
And it's done. Yeah, the money's not spectacular for CTs. I think they've got good discipline
as well. 3D max. Good round hygiene if you will. I understand that this is a lost cause.
It tries to be as efficient as possible. Looking towards the rest of the half.
One of the duties accounts strike there.
Furia will discover their first round, close to one earlier on, but again, if you think
that 3D Max are a heavy underdog for this particular map, and all these early rounds and successes
for them are really important, there is the first round for Furia and again 3D Max pretty
much holding on to almost everything just losing that one one defensive play up
Yeah, I got you.
Maka on.
Let A.W.P.
At least your French is less than mine.
Let A.W.P.
Yeah.
You gotta be fine.
Okay.
I tried fighting for water. Oh, it gets traded. They got a better setup to defend the site
this time. Maybe not. Maybe I'm telling lies because it's not doing all that well. Lucky
trying to see what he can make happen here. The teammates are off quickly on the way.
There's four T's to contend with. I'm starting to get involved in the water play. Great
flash timing coming on through. You can't deal with the trade as Wilma Souter is
still on a tear right now 10 for one that's his second death now though the
maca with the AWP this is looking absolutely terrible for him he's gonna
yeah he's out he's out save the or I mean sorry save let all
Oh my gosh, it's hurting my soul.
I can do the vowels in French.
Oh, hello.
Oh my god.
Hmm.
Oh, that word was.
I don't know what it means actually.
Starts with a P, the French, no.
Starts with a P, ends with an N.
I think it must be a root word.
Oh, that's a close one, gave us the teammate a haircut there.
Yeah, very close.
Saw you have a look.
I'm all adored it was having none of it.
We're taking advantage of the B site now.
This, like, water monsters control into the B takes.
It's causing problems because 3D Max haven't been super successful
on either holding B or retaking B.
So I do wonder if this will encourage 3d max to try to shut down the water position more thoroughly or maybe shut down door
Perhaps that could be also another way to handle it as you do get a look into water from there
Is what you can kind of split it between the short player and so who is who is guarding the door?
So
It feels like we're at least at a point where 3d max need to consider the adjustment because this would be the final
Bye if they can't win this round and I mean XCC sounds of 5.7
I wonder if Furia sort of read that?
As I was reading, water control, B needs to be more of a focus for the CTs because they have just, Furia was walked into B control, fairly easily, because no forward space was taken, because B was a focus this round, so good conversion from Furia on conditioning.
Really Max, securing a fifth round, Furia trying to give them minimal time to respond, but respond they will.
What do you land on? It's the story now.
I was just going to say the bathroom setup was really good.
And that was the weakness, the one weakness, because I think just like you highlighted James,
Furia trying to basically give the least warning possible until they're on the site.
But the issue with that is that they didn't clear bathrooms.
Obviously the trade-off there is that if you do clear bathrooms, you're showing players, you're using util, you're kind of announcing what you're doing
So it's more likely the CTs will be able to rotate onto the site, etc
but you run the risk that if there is a setup there and
You know the performers they did there that the round is in jeopardy, and that's exactly was exactly the problem
The game of risk counter strike
I think the right option is at the right time.
One of the ways on the AWP, get the hills out, some amount of necessity, some in order to
acquire grenades.
She doesn't fire.
Molodoy.
Maybe a change of pace then for Furia in this one.
Different look to throw at 3D Max with an orb of the rune in the hands of Makka.
Masuta 11 kills so far.
It's not a change of pace as Furia looks to charge into the A bomb site now, I'm assuming
they're spotting one by the truck, you know someone's there, the flashes continue though,
supports on the way but not in time, but maybe quick enough to secure the bomb site
to at least try to slow down Furia, that's for sure.
Hester Ato looking for rotations and now they come to Trigger discipline, looking
for a second, won't catch the first though, four on two, bomb not planted just yet.
Considering their options, inviting the CTs out and being real careful, that's a great
shot from Malibu, he's alone now. One versus three. Looking for more. And you'll get more,
but not in the way he wants. Frustrations continue for Furia.
3D Max are looking awesome on a lot of these A-holes. Just the play around A in general
is really good. And it's interesting because, you know, we'll, we now start to see the
adjustment from Furia. Okay, this is probably not working as well as we'd want it to
work. We just start hitting the B site again, which was going very well actually. They got a lot of
success off the B hits. And if you think about like what is the most successful round, it is
anything that involved the fast B hits. So it might even be too predictable for them to do it,
but at the same time, they will have tech nines. So it might just be worse just running it and
scene. At 3D Max, they got map 1, they're 6-2 up on the CET side of Overpass. This is
actually such a great performance from them. I think Mesuta really started off this map,
just like an absolute chuggernaut, and his form, I think it's been a huge, huge benefit.
He's 12-4 at the moment. His teammates are also now really stepping up as well.
And the setups look great on CET side too, like really nice timings. They're clearly very
very comfortable.
You man goes past the fountains.
You man makes his way to playgrounds as new man being heard your kinder with a flash.
What a great choke point for him.
The HG could be troublesome, maybe too much utility though.
Can he find the kills?
Of course he can.
You man with three, shutting down this tech nine push from Furia.
It goes from bad to worse for the squad, given no space whatsoever choked by 3D Max, fifteen for four, Masuta.
I would love to get any kills in.
And again, I wonder if, you know, what we're seeing here also is that, because I'm thinking
to myself, you know, what was the logic for the A hits for Furio with the tech 9s?
I think one of the pieces of logic, if we follow the continuity of the rounds, how
they've gone so far. Is that if indeed you get this B rush that the opponents will expect?
Oh, hello. Okay. Yeah, if you get a B rush that your opponents are expecting, then you would probably
expect them to play less players towards the A side of the map. So that means that they're
probably not going to be defending that deep as Masuta was. Because to have Masuta out here
Normally, it needs to be two other CTs playing around the bathrooms,
maybe playing down into the door position, so you probably don't expect them to do that.
So 3D Max making all the right calls and looking super confident.
It's crazy that he throws the second grenade in their faces and manages to get away with it.
There will be another frustrating one for Furia.
Rifle's out again.
Oh, this is interesting.
The I think, you know, they have water control theory that they can try to fake fake be here,
potentially. Again, I think 3D max are really it's like they I think they really are suspecting
still, but a B play is exactly what Fury will do. So Fury don't have to do an enormous amount
to sell it, but Fury are claiming space fairly slowly towards A. So you're going to get a timing
now where really Max will start to ask some questions.
He's made his way up and Masuta is on the way as well and Exorcise is getting closer
to a rotation, but he's going back and forth.
A 40 second mark is just the border you cross in terms of urgency.
Here we have Utile, they're posted up near the toilets.
Also near connector.
Again, I've got no presence for a retake.
It would be, I mean, sorry for a rotation towards B. They start to stream in now.
So, this is gone for the CT squad. Gravity sees so much on the streets. Gravity's wasting
instant trades. CT's nothing too bad now, though.
Okay, so, in your kinder attack, you've got to collect that bomb and make their way back
onto the bomb site, which gives exorcise a great angle, allows them to reposition
somewhat and he will clutch it for the squad. A cheeky smile. They know they are doing
really well on overpass.
Yeah, no joke. Ah, this is looking great for 3DMAX. They might just take this in two maps
if it continues this way.
Just giving all the right moves. I think Furia just a little slow on this hit onto the A-site.
When they actually got to the site, you could see 3DMAX had kind of positioned out of
B.
be more prepared for an A hits and maybe now comes the faster timing towards the
B sites finally it's been a long time since we saw a B hit they were very
successful early in this half gravity with some spray down they're gonna give
up the site this is actually very intelligent playing the retakers pretty
effective with the uterine rifles fallen caught in water it's not much
left now for the Furia side.
Loads of Util streaming in from 3D Max however, Uranion 1 vs 4 desperate times.
Just the one frag, they got a bomb plant and that is a happy man right there.
They know they are doing super well, 3D Max on a tear, edged past Furia on their pick
of dust to and running away with this game of overpass that present it must be said they
are running away with this series as well.
And I'm too could be 10 to that would be absolutely shocking.
You're really going back to what was perhaps working for B maybe more so this round.
Now that they have weapons, they were getting the entries on the site really really well
earlier.
So maybe with the AKs they can make it happen again.
I'm trying to look around the playgrounds. He could get a good timing if he gets some
good luck on his side, too. They're really deep still.
Minutes on the clock, Kacerato, making his way into the bombsite.
A calculated risk, Fallen starts to rotate the bomb in now as the grenades continue to
stream in.
Always eaten, the flashed Kacerato, deleted by gravity.
Bombsite cut in half by the smoke, TT still defending.
adding by the barrels his exes these 40 seconds now high urgency your kinder trading
second frag for him
Masuta will be dropped a last round for fury at half-time and they've got much work to do if they want to sniff at the deciding map
I was never meant to stay
It was you that put me in
Promise me that we'd be okay
All of your lies I once believed in
You were there most of the time
And that was never good enough for me
I've been going out of my mind
I've been going round like crazy
I've been going out of my mind
Why is there always a struggle
You look so
You got me like crazy
You were always fine and I was always wrong
Crazy
Baby, where did I not go?
Crazy, I think you were too lonely in the future
Like you were always fine and I was always wrong
Crazy, you can't leave the tension
Where did I not go?
We were so good together
Why can't we both feel the same?
Why do I need to waste time?
You are dead most of the time
I never said we're good enough for me
I'm going out of my mind
I'm going round like crazy
When I got a headless way
Why is there always a show
For you to say
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Like crazy
We are back here on Overpass with 3D Max vs Furia and what a stunning blinding starts
that we see 3D Max's having. Can they close this against Furia in 2?
About to find out as we kick things off with a quick monster rush coming in from the French.
Exorcise, first man to go down. In fact, everybody's going down.
If you're saying shut it down with this push.
Gravity needs to isolate fights, he will, but he won't win the duel.
An angry Furia in the second half pistol.
How much does this change the trajectory of this game of overpass then?
Because there has been so much for these boys to do. Well, there is so much for these boys to do.
After the
calamity of that first half.
Let's see if they can do it.
Comeback trail will be long.
Or Furia, or it'll feel long. Maybe it'll be quick. We'll see.
No bomb plant means no force by for the French side
Eating utility damage as you cannot hear as many legs in the playgrounds
What supports for his m4a4 of the empty nine of molotoy
Right man for the job of the SMG extra money heading towards an undoubted AWP
Yes, the Anger, the Fury.
Let's see if that energy is going to persist on the server for the Fury.
I'm curious, you know, what the CT size can look like.
We didn't really get to see much of it the other day because they won so quickly with a crazy strong T size.
It's also worth noting this is the first pistol they've won of all of the pistols so far in this series.
They've lost the three preceding vessels
They start from Molodoy, head for Rato's here for support as well
Not only him others to run distraction at the same time, but this is a fly thing back three max
We're done with this one yet. Molodoy trying to stay alive gets to smoke up there eventually
We'll see if they could deal with him is he makes we dropped in the meantime
I'm not using Kindle, getting tagged, I think they've heard it.
He's found one in the smoke, but they will return fire.
So violence.
You can see the stress for both squads.
Someone 3D Max is smiling.
Someone like, ooh, glad we won that one.
They just want this to be over.
Focusing until the job is done.
By Kanday on Overpass, no less.
Versus Furia, no less.
Yeah, starting to look a little bit scary here for Furia now.
10-5 for 3D Max.
as a now they get there on a better end the economy but
office in play from all the day
and you can certainly do a lot with an all-period fact
i mean forlorn's famous
i think for
and whatever pass came in like twenty fifty twenty sixteen whenever it was
he dominated with your promise map
actually passed down the wisdom tomorrow i want to imagine so
it is a run from three d max they're gonna try to evade the entire set up
and just get straight onto the a site and
this is not dissimilar to some of the
A place we also saw from Furia on their T-side.
I think one of the boys heard something.
Look at the rotation.
Be kinder and fallen.
He must be close enough.
Flash, but he will still deliver.
I love how he jump peeks even though he's completely blind.
Just the automatic movements there.
Four on four.
This would be such a big round win for Furia.
But this is one that 3D Max cannot let go of.
Three of the four are here now for Furia.
As the smokes are still being deployed over towards B.
A case, these are cut these numbers down, they have done so, but there's still more to do.
Expect much though from the remainder fall and trying to gamble and find the right time to jump through the smoke.
This will not be an episode of Airwolf.
The Kindar.
Here is the win.
They only do so much. 1v3 with the Deagle. The series is slipping away from Furia.
Ooh, very very good round from 3D Max again. I mean getting on top of the A site so quickly
I see that was a good way to shut down Molodoy and the potential danger that he had in that
round as the AWP player. And this has overall been I think a hard series for Molodoy to
get into. On Dust2 we saw a lot of impacts but it is all about 3D Max right now. And
looks like there's no one home on the B site all the furia walking through the door position now
or into the squeaky door position connector
okay there's everybody
information pull up really nice
really urgent spray there from maca trying to steal the weapon away
Kindar will hold on to that with all his might.
Looking good for 12 of.
This is surely insurmountable.
I mean, we've seen many heroic comebacks in name, not the team.
This is surely an insurmountable scenario.
has thrown his pistol away and now he's dead. I think he's looking for it to jump over someone's head
and try and knife them. Oh then, seven match points for 3D Max, seven opportunities to 2-0 Fury up.
Well, they are one step closer to 3, Max, to having an incredible, incredible win here
against Furia.
I mean, again, this would put Furia into the 0-2 part of the Swiss bracket.
It kind of sucks for anyone else who's 0-2.
Get up against them, Max.
Could be over right here.
Max. Oh, they're going to lose two players. Instantaneously at the start of the round.
Five versus three here now for the French as they look to close down on this B site, but
there is a defense here. They have a lot of work to do. Inquisitive spray from Kateratou
Fallen trying to be that difference make up. Will you be able to escape around the
That corner in time to pre-fire from Makka can't get there fast enough, 3 on 3.
Still gunning for Fallen.
You'll see two of the 3 less info, at least surely Yuri's gonna commit to the B-bomb site with Keisler also now.
Seconds to go.
trying to ice out the Furious side, Acerato has to deliver.
What the jibbling ends, 30 seconds now so that the CTs I know that they have to make
a move somewhere. But again, Acerato is alone here. First kill, where's the trade fragger?
It's got to be someone, Keisarato, expectantly looking, and he's going to find it.
Beautiful work there from him.
20 seconds for Lucky.
Oh, but it's all on Keisarato, and he gives his team everything they need.
Well, there's the first test.
There's a few to come.
It's a great start as well, a 5-on-3 very, very quickly.
How did this one slip away?
I have the rifles once more, plenty of AKs, plenty of utile.
No warp to contend with.
On the other side.
great angles through that wood to the tunnels and connector.
Bomb is left in Teespawn, all the way back in Teespawn.
This is very far away, I gotta say.
I love that combo.
There's a molly on the side of Monster, and if there is a CT there, as the team makes a spray as they exit the fire.
Just random spray you're seeing there. Minutes on the clock, lucky collecting the bomb.
3D Max spread out across the map.
They're clearing Divider, but at the same time the CT is also clearing this position.
Ykindar taking the lead.
Can't see anything and now of course Furia are expecting it to be B.
At the same time Asut is walking into the A site for too long. Ykindar with this trigger discipline here seeing how many he can find from this.
He just has to wait until they start moving.
There we go. The first one.
trade is being sought, exorcise, starting to make his way forwards, insta-case-eratos-crosser.
Finally, they deal with case-eratos. Two versus three here now, one versus three, Makka. He has no time for this.
He's going to have to give it up.
It's a great read from Furia with the toilet presence. They hear the smoke on A, but there aren't any bodies around the toilets,
so they know that the play is going to be B.
The capitulation begins. They had seven chances. Now they've got five.
Things are escalating quickly. These are the nades I was talking about.
First, there's an HG. There was no one there, but then the Molly as well.
Then a teammate to spray through the smoke.
Adira is awesome.
I can see it on cash if it when it comes back as well
For now the focus is overpass where has the success gone for three max where has the momentum gone
You've taken them to the limit now. It's time to go one beyond
I'd be hard on this particular round though
As surely the money is starting to run out
although the chaos of
of insufficient buy can be enough sometimes to catch your opponent by surprise, you've
got to play to win. Don't play to not lose. Do whatever I want. You can do whatever you
You want that? Absolutely.
It's
this is a tricky situation for sure.
The furia
there are I mean the other teams in the O2 right now you got phase.
You got Monty and you've got heroic.
So it's not a fun place to be.
That's where they're headed right now into the into the O2 bucket.
No one wants to be in the bucket.
I'm trying to think if I've ever been in a bucket, so I don't think I have.
It needs to be a big bucket, though.
The tech pause, before we resume, time to reflect.
These situations are interesting if you have an extended pause, because you can just reflect on all the rounds, all the habits that you've seen, maybe pick up on something or find a new idea.
Something to make the difference
We go back into the match
The tough series for furia
What the one they were expecting and again they could have won dust two as well very very much so
Perhaps the landscape on overpass would have been different however that is in the past
It was really down to the wire. I'm assuming we're going to get more viewers who went here
for the first map. It was awesome. It was great. We saw wonderful things from both teams.
We saw overtime. And now here we are, 3D Max with the keys to victory. They've been taken
the way one by one, by Furia.
Yes, isn't it the case also that Furia, if they do qualify
through the stage that Fallen has to, the coach has to stand
in for Fallen.
Yeah.
A bit of extra detail there.
See if he can get his team that far in the first place,
because it's going to be very, very tough, but we're back
into the action.
Here on Overpass, 3D Max, with a pretty terrible situation.
Max is on the hero AK, so he is the man to watch initially, at least for the 3D Max side,
as his teammates will throw the bodies at the CTs that he can trade, and the CTs get active here.
I don't want this economy getting out of control.
That's a painful one for gravity.
No one to find by the barrels.
Molledoy is behind enemy lines already.
As Furia know exactly what the plan is here for 3D Max.
This will continue to be a problem.
If this persists in this half,
then we may be in for a long ride on overpass.
But I see wait for them to line up, or it's going to be a nice one for Molodoy, on Collective.
All the warnings, I mean, this is a warning, this is like a nothing round for 3D Max, right?
This is a warning for them, the liberties that Furia are taking around such as this,
they must be conscious of in their future buy rounds, but they can't allow that
to cripple them and their intentions either. They need to find a way to balance these things
out. A perfect round for Furia. No losses, just money.
And the money almost doesn't matter at this point.
3macs just need one more round. So with the lost bonus building up, they're going
to have, and if they get any bomb blasts, they should be in a position to kind of
just continue buying now for the rest of this half.
Try to get that one round they need to take it over the line.
So here we go back into another buy round for the most part, Makka on the tech nine.
I'm for pushing event.
Sucks to be you.
As of approach or opening from Furia on their CT side.
I'm guessing keep them scared
That's really maxed out good like decent control now working on bathrooms
Clarence you can do how many can he get if he's I mean able to find anybody
Hello awkward spray comes through and it's a trade. It's good news for 3d max. What do I post it?
Long spray, Yuri getting the better of it.
More players, 3 max lose, the less likely they are to plant the bomb.
This could be a big flash for him though, those exes he's checked the hard writes.
He needs to be far from the angles and the taunts and he is the timing to working out
for him.
That's a really important frag, fallen still on the B bomb site.
There is a window for him to take this now, they don't have the utility that
They've got one more to leave, Lucky will throw.
There's no smokes once this one goes, and Molo is just waiting, salivating the Lachance, drops the more players.
20 seconds to get a bomb planted, but we've got stereo frags coming through.
This might be it for 3D Max.
It's down to the Tasman.
Fallen versus 3.
Keep his team in the fight, his silencer may betray his position as well.
Clear in the angles.
That's walled down. He's got a kit.
Where are the other two? Can you find them? Nine bullets in the magazine and Lucky will complete the job.
3D Max 2-0 Fallen and the crew of Furia on Dust 2 and Overpass.
Very strong result. Very strong result indeed. I think for me not an expected one.
You have a pass strength from Furia. We saw that yesterday.
Definitely something that is pretty powerful but they just couldn't really get going against 3D Max.
Again, you know, big credits in the suit up. He put forward some crazy rounds in the first five or six rounds that really I think put
But 3d max in a very dominant position going into the into their first half momentum
And then they just managed to continue that good read from furia and throughout
Just besting them in a lot of these important in battles
So just bringing a level to this series that they needed to to get the victory and to prevent themselves being the O2 team
And that's the bucket, Furia, and now going to find themselves in.
Yeah, that is a fantastic result for 3D Max.
And it's great to see teams rise to the occasion.
We need to see more of that.
We've seen plenty of it in ESL Pro League thus far.
But again, that is a disappointing result for Furia.
But again, I think always when you've got the bigger brand,
the bigger name on the server with a loss,
you've always looked at them as losing the match.
But 3D Max fought hard.
They fought two for now.
It was very clear, if you didn't see the Dust 2, 3D Max's CT side, knowing that they have to take the fight to Fury,
they have to take the game away from Fury. If you allow staging areas, let's say for Fury on their T side,
then you often won't stand a chance, but they didn't give them space.
They were super aggressive in the right ways and were able to go all the way and beyond on Dust 2.
It was a fantastic map of Counter-Strike and a great example of what is necessary to beat the top teams in Counter-Strike
Yeah, really impressive performance on Dust2 as well as great to bring that one up
and having to go over times to take down Furia here and
I mean Furia to their credit they won both pistols as well and
and this was a still an exceptionally close game, so
So, yeah, really impressive if you're to have that performance, especially after a map
of Dust2 heading against Bait, which really was not looking very good, but looks much better
here today, but just wasn't quite enough for 3D Max, who I think, again, based on the previous
performance that we've seen from them on the Bstream in this tournament, they're getting
better every series.
And that's exactly what you want to see for any team that's looking to make a deeper
run.
Yeah, really, really good stuff.
I think for Fury up the long run is the bigger picture for them.
They were outfoxed by a very good opponent today.
I don't think they'll be too concerned about it.
Again, I've got to give huge credit to 3D Max.
We saw some great plays on Dust2 from Fury on the T side.
Honestly, if you tuned in and didn't see the first map,
you should go back and watch it.
It was really engaging by both teams, well-balanced fights.
I expected some good action in this particular matchup
and it's ultimately delivered with surprises as well,
which are always good.
Yeah, definitely an enjoyable series.
And of course, it wouldn't be the B stream without over time.
So we got to have that as well.
Yeah, that was really good stuff.
I don't know if any, any playing for, I mean, Masuta again,
considering how new he is to the team,
he put off a lot of frags in this series
and really did his team good.
So I think that's there's not easy to do and I think the higher your opposition the more difficult that's probably going to be
So considering they've got a guy on the squad for around 11 days
I think that makes the the victory all the more impressive
on this occasion
exorcise just
Just looking at the numbers here about who the big performers were overall, but my suitor had a
fantastic job
I'll have to wait for the start dates a little bit further, but yeah, I mean they both I mean I can't I'm looking forward to we're gonna have
Exities for interview. I'm very interested to ask him about the action on dust too because it was stressful in regulation
being the
lurker around long
Jeweling with fallen was proving quite difficult, but again like a great
performance from Missusa really great work from him and
And again, it's not easy to do when you have just joined a team.
And again, Boddy, who was previously on the squad, has been announced for OG on loan.
So they're holding on to a number of players, but I mean, things are looking pretty good with this five at the moment.
Yeah, I would say so. I'm loving what I'm seeing and it's just getting better every time, like we said.
So looking forward to seeing what the next matchup is going to be.
I need to find the Swiss bracket. We'll take an update to look at that at some point as well after we're done with the interview.
Having kind of reviewed what the potential matchups will look like, but yeah, very exciting stuff.
Absolutely. I think we'll just run a corner from the interview.
So just a few more seconds.
Oh, we've got gravity for an interview, I believe, so not exorcise after all.
Okay, so are we ready for the interview?
Are we going to...
All right, let's go then. Let's get into this interview.
So we've got gravity. Hello, Bonsoir.
Hello, Bonsoir.
Congratulations on a really big victory.
Talk us through that game of Dust2, because that must have been stressful.
I was going to ask Ecstasy about his role on Long,
because there were some rounds where he was constructing the same,
the same, what looked like the same rounds,
but there were some jewels on Long, which kind of broke.
But I mean, the bigger picture, like it was a hell of a back and forth.
you guys are very very good on Dust2, but Affuria are a formidable opponent, but talk me through
that experience of the Dust2, going through overtime, how important was it for you to win that game?
I think there is two key things on Dust2 that we didn't do that well and they do well, like the
first thing it's like the game plan we had around long in the rounds, how Maka wanted to
to call, fallen, just played well and killed, exercised most of the time.
We wanted to fake on this zone.
And also some things, it's about like the, our defaults, who faked any strat for Makka
or anything.
We were just not going enough, we were just not taking enough space with Lucky, honestly,
at the beginning of the game.
And then we took a tactical pause and I was thinking like, wait, we are missing
something on the map.
I'm not playing like usually, I'm not on the same spots, on the same timers.
And I said just that to Micah, and then we fixed that, and it was
more easy for us to play in T-Side.
So on the CT side, you guys were...
I mean, it was a very enjoyable map of Dust2 to watch, but on the CT side,
the aggression that you guys showed was savage.
And I think it's very necessary to have that approach to a team like Furia.
But is that mostly prepared in advance or do you just have a feeling as to
What the next play is if you're gonna surge in mid you're gonna be in lower tunnel. What is that like?
That's a lot of Maca honestly. He's putting all this type of front and he's feeling it well
So it's on Maca. It's both preparation and both feeling, you know, it's not only one things like it's
It's it's like over all things. I think but Maca is doing a great job on that
How's Masita feeling on the team right now? Obviously you guys haven't had him for too long, but it looks like every game things are getting better.
He looks really comfortable in this series I would say. So how's things developing with Masita?
I think he's very comfortable in the team. The coaching staff that we have right now, he know them, he was with them before.
So, I think that's helping him a lot, even for us also to understand how Mizutay is working
because we have a coach actually who knows already how he's working.
So it's more easy for me as an teammate for him, like for example, when I'm playing
on B on Duster with him, it's more easier to prepare the game.
And just overall he's a good player, he's killing everyone, but what else?
Were you expecting your overpass in this series to come out as strong as it did versus Furia?
Yeah, honestly the two last overpass we had against Astor is the spirit we fucked up.
We had the round in our hands and we fucked up.
We had always the advantage, not always, but many time and many key runs that we
had the advantage and we are just losing them.
And today we didn't lose this type of front and we had a better level in our 6th stage so we could play T-Side finally and it's feeling good to finally play on T-Side.
Well, I think we'll let you go and have some well deserved rest after a fantastic victory
over Furia.
You guys are going to be one-one now, so good luck in your next match and we look forward
to seeing more because I mean the action today was flipping fantastic, so well done
to you guys.
It was great to watch.
It's very enjoyable.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Cheers very much.
Congratulations to 3D Max for a sick game of Counter Strike versus Furia.
Again, I don't think they'll be too bothered by the loss.
I mean, I'm sure they'll be bothered to some degree because they lost.
But I mean, they lost to a very good-looking 3D Max.
And we see how the Swiss bracket is looking at present.
So that is a big fat 0-2 for Furia after losing 2-1-2 base as well.
So they are headed to a lower portion.
It's going to be a long road to recovery for them done. Yeah, 11 and a elimination match
after elimination match for them, not comfortable at all. And like I said, you know, you're going
to be joined by teams like phase Monty and heroic, I believe. So that's not easy. I
mean, I definitely think any of those teams can can certainly turn it up because again,
when you're backs against the wall like that, you know, who knows what's going to
happen. But I do think fury have showed a decent level so far. It's just that they have to kind of
find that extra gear. So, you know, time will tell, but it's going to be exciting counter strike.
That's for sure. I'm sure we'll get to cast some of it.
Indeed, we will. We'll be back tomorrow with more counter strike action for you. I think the
A stream is still going, so you're welcome to tune into that. But for now, we're signing off.
We'll see you back here tomorrow, later.
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I don't know how to do this.
I hate to be a pessimist boys, but this one is done unfortunately wrap it up now
Before I started up start the engine
Good try like that. They're making moves that they're trying their best to flush his positions out
There's two man set up into what they mean has been a real thorn in their side
Again money's broken go for the half-buy
It's awesome. Just not a good time. It's like the first set of rounds are going wrong
Like they're the ones you're meant to kind of have a bit ironed out, you know kind of down pat
Like first few rounds of the game. You're all meant to be on the same page
It just sets you off on like really uneasy ground, you know, like the rounds you're meant to have rehearsed
Oh, they're five man 80 middle. Okay. It's an idea. It's an idea. No one home zero damage inflicted
Ah, what are you getting at, guys?
Fucking for an ace, that was styling on him.
Okay, that was an idea.
At least that was a concept, Harry.
A five-man nape.
Did zero damage.
She wrote most of them down.
And it's the last round of the half. They're hoping for 10-2.
I don't...
Five-nade mid-window?
I don't really think anyone's really going to be playing around the mid-window anymore.
True.
Oh, someone went on the space program as well.
Someone went down there space program as well
Double all set up the clothes things out dogs loving it. He's like he's a big a new bitch fine loves that
Dude is too easy. Just just freebies all over the map double off out for spirit as well
He's gonna flush him out. No, we're not quite
5 and 4. 11 to 1 looking incredibly likely. Fair play though, we have to commend Bates
for their showing on Mara... sorry, what was the first map? Was it Mara?
Good, yeah.
The way they look there, beautiful.
Yeah, everyone was very busy.
They even had their moments on Nuva. It's just a Nuva... clearly a map that is
in their playbook, one they weren't prepared for I would say.
But it looks like we're crashing hold unfortunately.
A chance to both of them going down.
Don't have you till to go in.
That's good.
Nice Molotov.
Sendering making a lot of sound here.
An old battle.
A chance.
A window.
Vashiro right behind.
He tries to go for the nascar.
PL.
They're looking for a mat kill.
Two on two.
I mean there is a chance I suppose.
There it is.
However, it is bait, picking up their second round,
Spirit look unstoppable, but maybe bait can run
a little bit momentum as we head into the final half of the day.