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Fuckin' brain or what?
Shish, not looking extremely handsome in that pic.
I did not consent to surveillance.
I really want to branch out. I feel like I have so much more to offer. I have so much more range.
You're telling me, bro.
I look at you and I just see Frodo.
Drifted enough to king? You seen FaZe? Maybe retirement of the game.
I mean, I've done Joe Rogan, I've done Baron Harkinen, had me play Ben Kingsley in Shitter Island, another bald guy, of course.
And then in season 19, they had me do this cockskit with Chad. They put Johnny Sins as the fucking thumbnail.
It's all a piece.
To content?
Or...
I feel like if you have Alexi Al-Qaib, you can also have this animal.
Like a duo chosen one.
Kind of looking to stay semi-close to the source material.
Maybe I can be like Benadjessir because I'm pulling on the strings behind the strings,
you know?
Real powerful.
Right.
Yeah.
Back at Cologne in the SDY Convention, my big reveal was a close-up shot of my
head.
This shit looked like a fucking planet.
So, what makes you think you'd be a good fit for the role of Harkin and Officer?
I have no eyebrows. No makeup required.
I mean, the only time I've ever even been able to play a non-ball character was the borough skit.
And they had the camera guy stand up in a chair and make me look smaller.
Don't change an accent before the cast.
Look, you've got potential, but I don't know if you're ready to take the leap.
I don't know. I don't want to be typecast like Moses.
Typecast is better than nocast.
I'm 21, man.
Turkey it is.
I know a guy. He's a family friend and it's really good prize, bro.
Man, this is disrespectful. They're farming us.
Yeah, they really are. And you know what? I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of this whole thing. I'm gonna go tell them exactly what we think.
Jason, Jason, don't even start, man.
We don't have the budget for the special effects and makeup.
You, my friend, are bold.
That's where you really...
That's where you shine.
Looks like makeup's having some issues.
You might have to shave your eyebrows, how do you feel about that?
I see you've been playing with ten year olds again.
What?
Dona, that's crazy.
What? The one we won versus that kid?
Mmm, clap them.
Alter, but it was close.
How am I losing? I'm thrice as old as him.
Tell me though, you were clip farming or?
I wish I was, Dona I don't think I'll ever be good at CS.
Nah, come on.
Nah for real, Dima invited me to one of his pro vs bots videos.
That's good content, or?
Dona, I was one of the bots.
Well, I'll always be there to carry you in shore matches.
Nah, you know it's bad when you get uncarried by your manager.
Ohne, not everything comes with an instant dopamine hit.
Quick open!
See? Even I don't know if you're clip farming right now, or if your brain is actually described.
Have you opened the case, Antoinette? Or what if I fucking did?
Alta, seriously, you're gonna relapse and Jail's just gonna overtake you.
Oh no!
So what do you think?
One last thing though, there have been rumors that you're selling Fentanyl on cathedral grounds.
You too, NIP paper, McTam heat, onus homie Fentanyl, I'm fucking done.
Any more of this? We're doing call streams, Minecraft, and that's it.
That for me was a culture shock.
It's a lot, Chad. But, you know, their guys are out there crushing it right now. Jason,
Moses O'Toole, Henry, Henry G. Greer. Look at those guys. They're killing it.
It could be time to make them do the car she can manage it. I mean, Moses is getting
You know, Elon Musk money banking up to that guy.
What?
I knew I should have gone off the fucking Indian beer.
Listen, Chad, you don't have to sweat it, it's gonna be fine.
It's an easy game, coaching's not that hard.
On second thought, maybe we just go back to the desk.
Yeah, alright.
Okay, I know it might sound crazy. Ends the captain now.
You know I first got your pain markers?
Anyways, just translate exactly what he says.
Exactly.
Exactly what it says.
Ok.
Ok.
Nantian will see us now.
Ok.
Come with me.
Yo Nantian, get the DM.
Hey.
You wanna talk to him?
Talk to me.
Sorry, I understand.
Yeah.
You are the trans idol.
Fimo.
Do you have some students?
What?
Do you have some students?
No.
You are the sensitive.
Ok.
Okay, I got the damn.
So, you missed yourself?
You're the only one who didn't hear me.
I didn't hear you, you coughed?
No, you're the one who coughed.
Okay, I didn't hear you.
You didn't hear me.
Stop saying I coughed.
No, you coughed when you spoke to Nanjan.
Anyways, don't worry about that. Remember, you can all.
What are you talking about?
I don't know, I'm just checking.
I'm just checking, bro.
Oh, you can all.
He can definitely all understand it.
Do you ask where he is to Japan?
Well, that's the end of the days after you do this thing.
He never had a hope in his life.
He's literally a fucking opal.
That's the short of how they used to...
Well, did I say it?
No, he is the HL.
No, he's not.
Okay, do you know this?
What the hell is going on?
I want to speak to him myself.
Ask 910 how well he speaks this language.
Since I was initially curious to go in there.
Being needed to myself is good.
Obviously, it's fluid.
What the fuck do we need you for?
We'll see what we can do.
So, what are they saying?
They're saying he'll think about it.
Oh, that's pretty good.
This is male aura bootcamp. These players have paid $18,000 each in a desperate attempt to boost their aura.
I wanna be a better man! I wanna be a better entry fragger!
You're a piece of shit. You're decent. You're a piece of shit. You may not like it, but this is what peak, male, physical form looks like.
Which one's your leader?
Me?
Jesus Christ, you make Brolin look like Nelson Mandela.
You have to wear your failures like a batch of honor.
Are you a bot?
No, I'm a...involved.
What are we gonna say in the pre-match interview?
We're gonna fight them in game.
We'll cover them in game.
We'll put you in the corpses.
In game, right?
Yeah, I can see why they benched you bro. Don't be saying that on broadcast. All right young star. What are we gonna say?
And we're gonna come up, okay? They're overrated. Get in there. I trust each one of my boys to smash them
Hell yeah, go out there and give that interview
Any final words your opponents?
Yes, I
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Chad! Chad!
I see you've been playing with ten year olds again.
What?
Dona, that's crazy.
What? The one we won versus that kid?
Mmh, Clapton.
Alter, but it was close.
How am I losing? I'm Francis Alderson!
Tell me though, you were clip farming, or?
I wish I was. Dona, I don't think I'll ever be good at CS.
Nah, come on.
Nah, for real. Dima invited me to one of his pro vs bots videos.
That's good content, or?
Dona, I was one of the bots.
Well, I'll always be there to carry on short matches.
Man, you know it's bad that we get carried by your manager.
Ohne, not everything comes with an instant dopamine head.
Quick open!
See? Even I don't know if you're clip farming right now, or if your brain is actually described.
At the open case, Altonette, what if I fucking did?
Alton, seriously, you're gonna relapse and jail's just gonna overtake you.
Ohne!
So what do you think?
One last thing though, there have been rumors that you're selling Fentanyu on cathedral grounds.
You too? NIP paper, Mac and he don't assault me, Fentanyu. I'm fucking done.
Anymore of this? We're doing cold streams, Minecraft, and that's it.
That for me was a culture shock.
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Welcome in. Good morning, Capital Strike fans.
We are continuing on here with more of ESL Pro League Season 23.
Looking forward to getting into things here, of course, as we're starting to separate the wheat from the chaff.
We might say where I'm from. The 1-1 game has taken place here on the B-stream.
to kick off the day as per usual well into the routine here sat in our usual spot on a new bits and yeah, I think going to be some very interesting kind of games here today. We've got teams that have had some good results, some shakier results and indeed still a lot of question marks around how they're going to perform for the rest of stage two.
And we've already had some wild games.
We saved to say some games of the DeLessar standard as well.
That Quotto T was a rough one for the damn show.
We could get a little bit more of a look into that.
But, you know, we're gonna kick some things with Pena Rora
and you look at both of these sides
and they've both had very ups and down
kind of last six months.
But here's the B-sheet gonna pan out for the day.
Like I said, Pena Rora to start
then foot's 3D max to follow that.
We've got Legacy Astralis and Fury of Heroics
to end out the day.
That Fury of Heroic game as well in particular
should be really interesting because fury is still looking a little dicey over on the asian they got some bangers as well phase montage start
Navi bait
Mouses take on the mongols and spirit g2 at the end of the day
So plenty of good counter track across your screens today as always for best of threes here as we're starting
Like you mentioned to get through this swiss stage now in the middle of it in round number three
Yeah, as you can see here though, we get these results pointed out. You talked about fury heroic
that's actually an O2 game. Yes. So Furia going O2 after obviously such a, you know, great finish to last year and a lot of hype coming into them into this year.
They've not quite delivered, honestly.
And also being on average just lower than just number two overall rated by teams in terms of like the O2S. Yeah, yeah, very true.
It's SpiritWord. I think it's like 0.4, 0.5 of like a position that SpiritHowever, Furia, by how teams have rated them being like the number two overall team at this
the game. We've got a lot of
the players. We're going to
have to spend the funds or two,
then we have teams like phase
in there, the organization not
doing so hot. That was a
victory for pain. So I'll be
relevant to this kind of game.
Let's be real. That makes sense.
Yeah, I'll stinking at the
moment, you know, our little
team that could Monty as well
at risk of being knocked out.
So you know, gonna be some
dangerous games for sure as
and I'm not sure if it's a
good idea. So, um, kind of,
yeah, you know, both losing out
to the Mongols. That's pretty
funny. So they've got a little
bit of an enemy of my enemy is
my friend, uh, pain beating out
phase. It was a weird matchup
over there. Aurora being out
legacy also kind of freaky.
Don't remind me. Um, you know,
as you say, the the quad O T
that was just a mess in the
end, but ultimately a bit of a
head to head here kind of a
rivalry. They played each other
a couple times already this
year. Um and Aurora have
Yeah, exactly that. And then this is kind of where we're at at the moment. Got a bit of a clip as well to bring you. We spoke about the game that never ended, and this was exactly it.
This mental one between Aurora and Legacy. Now, Woxic, of course, in this spot, so patient, holding this angle, spots him initially as well, right?
And then, all of a freeze frame here, he's been holding the crack angle. He knows he's fought the barrel earlier that ladders in here.
This is to win in regulation for Aurora.
And, well, we all know what happened, really.
It turns away.
Take out.
And, yeah, ultimately a costume, right?
So one of these kind of wild things,
it was a game of fine, fine margins,
but we ended up going to Quad O.T.
And, yeah, exactly the 1,000-yard stare by Woxic.
We had, like, legacy, if you remember.
Couldn't find the bomb on site and all that.
it was a default plan for
short as you would expect on
the A bomb site. You can bear
with me here, guys, but not
quite perfect could have just
held the diffuse and then for
some reason the city just got
off the bomb and peak short
and died, you know, so lots
of lots of questionable stuff
happening over there. I think
one that Aurora maybe want to
forget quickly and indeed may
well have, you know, had a
lesson taught to them as they
face the Mongols in the
the following day and I mean close on on both maps but ultimately not able to take a map off which makes a pretty big difference and Aurora were a team. Maybe we're talking like six months to a year ago, but they would have contested against the Mongols right and this is unfortunately for me a team that's just had a very slow, slow down turn as they've not really been able to reinvent themselves and as you see the graphics that have been running across kind of the
on his screens, big expectation heading in towards this series.
This should be a long one.
Six out of 12 maps for Payne have gone towards overtime.
Two out of five for Aurora here at this tournament.
So we are expecting this one to potentially be
following the same suit to be a long drawn out affair.
We've got the map pool here as well.
And the way things are planning out,
basically this has been a bit of an issue
where Payne don't have a really
a fully fleshed out map pool.
They have three maps that they don't like playing
or they're not very strong on it,
in the likes of the Anubis, the Ancients,
and the overpass, but you've also got a Dust 2, which is not great on either, so they left out to three maps, which they feel solid on.
Aurora basically wins this Vita by virtue of their opponents not having depth.
Yeah. No, it is a pretty big issue for Payne, really.
I'm going to be curious to see which way they go.
I mean, do you float the Ancient? Is that a risk? Is that something that Aurora would go towards potentially?
Or do you just want to keep things simple? And indeed, both teams are going to keep it simple, actually.
the new comes out that's probably your best bet for pain overpass in as that punish that we talk about from Aurora interesting that they maybe don't angle towards the dust to write this, you know, more reps and less wins for pains is a bit of an argument for that map. And then inferno as a
in as you know, your clear handshake map here. So not for me super heavy punishes. I mean, yes,
they are yet to win over past pain, but I think it's a matter that they're slowly
trying to work into their map pool. And you have to be careful. We've seen number of teams the
past few days with like these low rep, low win rates. It's like they've just not managed to
figure out a win just yet. Are some of those results quite close? Is there something that
they could have changed that they may well have worked on? So I don't know. For me,
I maybe would have preferred to dust you out from Aurora here.
Yeah, I feel like they had plenty more options
or where they could have gone for a punish and did it.
I think this is kind of one of two things.
You know, we kind of talk about punish picking in towards teams,
but ultimately this is what feels like we're for Aurora.
I think they're just picking for themselves in a sense, right?
They don't really care about what their opponents are.
I'll kind of bring into the table.
They're picking in what they feel kind of really, really strong for.
But there is kind of, again, a bit of history in a sense as well
with that overpass between these two.
Back at Cracow, they did play against each other.
and a rural one, pretty hundredly.
So it kind of feels like you could go in that option,
but I feel like maybe again,
it comes down to kind of the recent reps for Aurora,
to confidence thing for them,
and they just backed themselves a little bit more
on the Inferno.
We'll see how this one pans out,
but the picture of painting attack
heading in towards this series,
we're expecting it to be a bit of a marathon here.
These two sides of a very long drawn out maps
here at Pro League,
and now they're playing off against each other,
it should be more of the same.
Yeah, really, as yet,
to have a super super convincing one at least on the aurora side of things and then you know pain coming in through
That first stage they looks okay there to be fair. They go 3-1 overall losing out to para vision who you know didn't make it in the end
But a lot of two ones and you know some closer maps
I think the G2 wins kind of legit for pain in stage one, so I'll hand them that but
It's tough Aurora for me they employ a similar kind of style right a lot of mid rounding a lot of
Just keeping things quite run by committee and depending on who's alive. Those become the loudest voices
And ultimately, you know that creates a style that could clash
Do pain have the firepower to match off against the roar is trying to get in your face potentially not right?
We've seen Wakadia. We've seen Zantara is looking really great as you would expect
It is just these sort of tea sides which
Sometimes gets owned in on to magic and some of the calls we've seen these like wild
it's not quite committing to their initial idea, but I do feel that pain are right on the level of like a team that Aurora should be, but if the floor and the ceiling as it were that we like to talk about, if they meet at the right point, pain could take this.
I think you're right when you look towards the pains that as well while it probably is said that they don't have the
Same level of kind of like the ceiling of firepower
You know like you mentioned was on tar as well with
Cardio what they can bring table these new pickups the painter brought to the side look really interesting prior to fantastic series yesterday
Look so solid and then come out that new can particularly really bailed them out of that map
VSM's looking really impactful in his own regard as well
We're starting to see a new lease of life on NQZ in particular where in the past for paint
It really looked like snow. That's a lot of the heavy lifting especially on T side. Yeah now it feels like we're not in that case
there is a lot more
Availability and output for this side so we shall see as this one gets underway
It is new to kick starters here in this matchup as his paint pick and I'll start of course on the T side
Yeah, not way in too long to get into this one
I think we wanted to get go in here as quickly as possible
Made in towards the door smoke as well to join it
It's all a fake out try and draw attention to the a bomb site pain not necessarily
Acting upon it
Interesting approach here at smoke that I feel you know, I've not really seen to be honest it
Drops down into lockers potentially just so there's no spot over there
They're gonna go flying in towards the angle. It was a heaven smoke. Okay curious very curious indeed
they try and fly through going for like a reverse hell thing. This is cool. I like it.
The Julees, however, just going to eliminate those stragglers, so it's cost them a lot to get down here
and get this bomb planted. Yes, good that they get a bomb, but from here on out it becomes incredibly
difficult. VSM's going to win a nice fight and actually doesn't take that much damage.
Snow's stuck on the site itself. He really can't escape, so he's going to rip a couple
nice as it were or you know the equivalent in Portuguese
Vamos! I suppose yeah that's what it would be
Vamos Corralho! Yeah there you go
Corralho and all that but either way I think things are
you know looking good here
great start and a very unorthodox pistol a strat that they've clearly been saving for a quote-unquote bigger game
as this may well be
oh
Just a little tease, he's like, don't worry guys, I'll give you some clippable moments,
just not quite yet.
We've got to get like 6-0 before he starts being funny.
I still wonder whose birthday it was, why we got the balloons.
Yeah, they're still there.
Yeah.
So whoever it is, they're kind of milking it.
Yeah.
You're a bit of a fiend for that when we go to a restaurant once in a while, you know,
say it's your birthday for KKK.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Trick of the train, all those at home watching, have you ever like book a hotel or a restaurant,
say it's your birthday or an anniversary and even if it's not and you just get like a free
cake I've done it for like when I like gone and like booked hotels like you know gone holiday
with like my missus or whatever booked a hotel and just as my anniversary and it's not you
just get like a free bottle of champagne I mean anniversary of sorts yeah exactly
celebration you know our six-monthly holiday or whatever yeah yeah it's our two-year three-month
anniversary. Yeah. Yeah. You're just very serious about these things. Yeah. We celebrate it every month.
Boxing's gone. Yeah. See you mate. Yeah, trick or treat. Do that. Do that for restaurants a lot,
especially the nicer restaurants. Yeah, this is it. Any Michelin restaurant. Yeah, if you do that,
you're getting something for free, which is what you could a course or whatever. We did it in
Belgrade. We went to a Michelin restaurant, said it was my birthday. I mean, it was close. It
was like a week and a half. Yeah, no, that's fair. Kind of still a birthday celebration of
Yeah, sure. But they gave us a free dessert, which is great.
So there you go, trick of the trade.
We had to rush because we had other engagements to get to.
Elgrade basketball.
Yeah, it was crazy.
It was pretty good.
Red Star Boat.
Highly recommend.
Often they got absolutely pummeled.
They did, but I respect.
We have one in the UK where it's like you only
sing when you're winning, right?
Which is like a sort of anti-chan, as it were.
Yeah, I try.
And even though they were not doing well,
they were chanting and singing the whole way through.
You know, whenever they'd score like some points,
which was not very often, like not being funny.
Like every time they would score a basket,
it would be like 10 more.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like a little bit of an arco,
I think they were playing the other way, so.
If you're into European basketball,
they didn't do well.
The games move a bit quicker,
as far as I understand,
and they had like double the points.
More contacts.
50 to 100.
Yeah, I think they had.
I don't think I've really seen a game go that one-sided.
I think it was like 110 to 52.
It was rough.
Yeah.
Not a good time.
No, not at all.
We are, unfortunately, in the tech pause.
I'm assuming it's on the side of Aurora, just considering that we lost Waxxx County.
It might honestly be a camp thing more than anything, which is generally an easier thing to set up.
They've got to get set up and the players are setting them up themselves,
which I think becomes kind of a small problem.
just because you know relying on players to to get that self. Oh, I it looks like it is a mouse thing actually
He's plugged his mouse in here that
If you've got that part he won't round in
That's a little bit of a roughy error my guy
Mate, one round in
Charge it this morning
Have a spare mouse, I mean that is the brand new
whatever it's super strike
you know multicoloured, like a white cool mouse or whatever
So a lot of players obviously trying them out doesn't beat my Gengar mouse mate. No, that's true
It's all about shape really add and I don't know. I like some heft
To the mouse. I'm not really a pro player. So I pretty don't feel as much
I used to like a little bit wait the first superlight I had to to like
I sort of the the Zowie like easy to be I think it was yeah, but I tried to use it recently
I've got it somewhere and it's heavy compared to I was like the these days that the light my
He's crying and snuck his way out. He was really, really considering. Oh, oh, he stopped for a second there and then they go in the back.
Oh, they've got a kill.
I'm going to say this might be a tech, but yeah, he has got a kill.
It seems like a bit of a loss issue.
Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Yeah, we've lost Moxick.
Right.
I mean, yeah, does that count?
It feels like they're gonna like, I think it's like an honorary system of like, just like, let it be.
Yeah. But now the guy that took damage is left. They can just be like, no one took any damage, you can't prove otherwise.
Yes, because there's only 4 people. He left.
Right, you just have to turn it off and turn it back on again, you know what Maja's trying to like.
Yeah.
Then you gotta plug your mouse in and, you know, if you move the mouse left and right, you can like aim and stuff.
So you plugged it in for a few minutes to give it a bit of charge and normally that will last that charge
They'll be a lot like a half. Yeah, if you put it on flight five minutes or even less it'll last like a half
But uh, something's going wrong here. He's gonna get under the desk. Oh
Can we get an under the desk engineer cam? Yeah, you know POV walk stick out work pro on the head
Yeah, yeah, yeah work me when I'm an IT engineer
Oh
He's back, that's good.
Tommy's turned it off on the PC. He's done one of them. That's a bit dangerous out here.
Not good for the old PC.
He's crashed though, yeah, sometimes Vegas can't be choosers.
Oh, he's getting back under again. There we go.
Halfway.
Can't be given a back. What's under there you think?
PC I reckon.
You've had to guess got pot gold
The winning formula maybe I actually think it might be like the dongles not responding. Yeah, maybe
We guys
Then you need a guy stood behind them like with his arms folded just like overseeing, you know left a bit. Yeah that one
That's very
Men on a construction site type vibe right now
And the Union rep comes along you know these guys wearing hard helmets when they should be
Serious business. I mean how many times you've been under you know, and you'd like
I'm plugging something and then you come up and you just nick the corner of your desk because you think you're clearer the desk
You know, yeah, very careful. It's dangerous work
Need a hard hat something's not seriously up his PC. They back under again
Yeah, I think it's the mouse dongle
It seems like that's why is it not responding is my understanding
Because even when he plugged it in why it wasn't working. Maybe not working here. Oh
I need my
He's using his phone's flashlight. There we go. Maybe or it might be a
Resign in to steam and all that. No, it's it isn't he's not crashed. He doesn't need to log back in
Yeah, but why is he under the PC then, you know, his mouse cables not working? We don't know that though. I do
Who set him you can see by the way he's reacting. He's plugging into the dongle. It's not responding
He's been he plugged back into the mouse. I wasn't responding
See so I'm shaking it with both the mouse the cable and the dongle. He didn't crash. He was in the server
He left the server though. You didn't crash though. It's different if you crash it comes up on the kill feed
I know ball yes, I'm telling you he didn't crash. He's actually his mouse isn't responding which is why he's now looking for but
The fuck was he thinking
Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.
Gentlemen. Excited for the show?
Don't shit yourself. This isn't the quarterfinals. Up or through?
All right, boys. Buckle up.
Our objective? To yoink Blade's Stratbook.
The crown jewel of strategic documents.
But where Blade goes, his Stratbook goes with him.
To make matters worse, his hotel room is a fortress.
Equipped with generational security.
This woman was suspicious.
Her hotel mirror was a two-way mirror, and someone was watching her.
The final catch.
At night, his room goes into full lockdown.
That leaves us one window, Blade's midday nap.
Navi's performance coach has been bragging on socials about the team's sleep quality,
By the looks of it, Blade's out cold for a solid 15 minute window.
Okay, so the plan is breaking this room? What is inside?
It's a simple list. It's simple.
Don't worry, whilst Blade has Gen Z security, we have Gen Z stars.
Look at the Blade, I'm the captain now.
Put down the weapon.
You're not here to kill the guy.
Sorry boss.
Oh, and don't forget the juice, good luck for it.
Sasha, please, please don't come back.
Please don't come back.
Hmm. Hmm.
Sasha.
Hmm.
Boys, no!
Why is he asleep?
Abort!
No!
Sasha, please!
I repeat!
Abort!
I'm going to go back to the
Welcome back in little time of
break to get his kicked off, of
course, as we get into the
action here. As we are back.
Also, you had that first round
on the woxic side, but
seems he's back. We'll keep a close eye on how the crosshair looks because we're
thinking a mouse issue. Pretty sure on that.
Either way, outside execute coming in here from pain.
As they look to
try and take some space with the vast majority of the team that being said,
Aurora are here and we've been we've been saving some strats. We've been
saving some spots it would seem for
these slightly bigger games. I wasn't the only issue is the boost kind of
You're still exposed like completely both of you like yeah, it's just a
Yeah, it's the draw away of the cross there, but
You're still both oh
Potential yeah, we go what's like all the way back in spawn
Answers back to its best. You will get one pariah
He's so alone in this endeavor isn't realize how good he's got it in a sense because you can wrap all the way through ramp
to just one and he's heard what sick he knows that he's upstairs will drop down
Oxycon the scout is just kind of the main issue for me
Smoke on top of the bomb. What is he up to do?
Big is there has gone for a full wrap around a complete positional change?
Oxycol give it a look and then I suppose got to try and hold this bomb
It's exactly what he's gonna go for 10 second hold to come through big is there is bombing away
Oh, no flash of the perfect time. The knife is out. Can he reach him? Yes?
Wow blind as well. That's pretty damn close, but big is our gets it doing the one on three
Oh, that is dicey that is very close indeed, but nice work from biggest era
Needed to bail them out there, and he kind of loses track of where that bomb is planted
It starts kind of well
It's three and a five force by fire or a matchers doubles really couldn't be important and watch it as well
that puts pressure on but
Again, I ain't win a nothing with a knife to just add a little bit more money in the back pocket
We do get a little investment by a roar of this one is for the most part a throw it around
Should be paying taken a third should be in the opposite word, but she'll see
Same start as the previous round. What's going on with these boosts man? We've been we've been hiding these we've been keeping these
See if they can find anything it's also gonna be with yeah the mini player
from the bottom who manages to find that one nonetheless Aurora getting their first kill they really have tried to fight for in the
past couple of rounds. That happened here and they are on semi-decent by certainly with an early
deagle kill it feels pretty good. Just feel kind of alarming that despite the the lesser firepower Aurora
still making these rounds competitive or you know expensive knowing however you want to put it.
Woxic, if he's 2k'd, should be dead alive because he's going to check and make sure
but it does take a dink. Woxic, he's getting off some damage before he drops,
Wokadia just wary of a player in towards vent. How do you go back into his position?
They are, let's eagle, we'll get one and AK, gonna be scooting us on to get up the ladder
but straight in towards the hands of pariah. 30 seconds now, a smoked single door
which will block off Magester who will double back towards heart.
He's made noise, they've got to know there's a lobby player, but...
...wesh, it's kind of clear there's not a lot of time. 20 seconds, we haven't got a lot of time to kill here, guys.
We've got to get this bomb down, they do.
So we'll clear the close angle.
Yeah, they do well there, they were so sure of him.
He went overlooked, he could have denied that bomb with low time, like you mentioned, so...
...great good job to find him.
Zuntaris is the one to watch here, MP9 and armour.
So creepy, looking to make it at the very least expensive and some money to be made by this mp9 as well
It's just gonna be Zintara's
Gets one its work and no more for him again though pretty costly as we've mentioned
These rounds from Aurora looking good and there's lots of kind of gimmicky plays going on at the moment
You know with these booths and then we've got like with Katie are hanging out in the vent
I'm very curious to see how these develop
pain of got some
Holes in their default it would seem that allow these things to happen. Yeah, I mean it's of the gun rounds now as well
Just because Aurora continually making these low by rounds
Slightly worrying and the expense of the coupe of the opening kills as well that
Kind of looked maybe slightly favor aurora in that sense
We'll see as Woxie wants to get a best guy like the idea and especially if it works
But he only gets the tag just on the corner of the door frame
I mean, honestly, really unfortunate, I think it's hard done by that one for one trades outside keeps numbers level but pariah and biggest error both taking damage.
Yeah, looking pretty comfortable for Aurora.
I would assume the one thing they've got going for them is the fact that there's some control downstairs. That being said, I think Aurora might stick to this as well knowing the game plan.
plan. Sulfly has been posted up down here for a few rounds now. I think they're going
to continue with that. It's not conventional to have a player always on B, but might be needed
against Payne. See how it goes. They're just not ready for him at all. Easy double kill.
Prior, Junior. A minute left, but probably a save as your best option. Yeah, the
thing is it's quite tough to save as well, because like Aurora will go looking a little
They don't have loads of money to properly hunt, but
You just short be defences and in doing so prior the only really place you can go is over towards CT spawn
It's looking like where he's heading to be fair
How do I kill be kept alive? It will be a buy around it, which I guess is nice
Like we're saying we were concerned about how raw or making the low to no buy rounds dangerous
And the four bikes go into place you look towards favoring them and there's exactly that and a pretty simple round all things
I mean it could honestly should have even been easier. We should have seen walks again that kill
I think he gets really hot done by it that it's a tag on to prior not a kill
Little free shot is nice. Okay. I forgot one was cause one of the newer ones
Yeah, I've not been keeping up as much these days. I'll be honest a lot more these things coming through
Yeah, it's also probably good for the bank account to not be as interested in skins anymore
It looks dead on
It feels like half the bullet hits that wall and then the other half should be going through
In the world like that, but yeah, that's very very close
Still contributes to the win in his own little way prior known about and doesn't really get involved in the scrapping
As I mentioned, I'll buy it back around.
One AK save, one invested in it, Galil.
Now, Mac 10, they're going to rush in here and it's all fly to meet them.
The first is good for these insta-traded.
You need to keep that kind of crosshair trained.
Or if anything, just keep holding mouse 1 as they're barreling in through.
Well, that's a nice idea by Woxic.
I've seen a couple of these connect, actually, in stage 1.
Not here by Woxic.
There's a lot of presence down towards B as well.
firm read on this team don't they they really know that they enjoy going towards the B bomb site and
they are bolstering up that defense downstairs. Ocardia not quite the third at Centares who
doesn't hit his mark not single kill for him. Some damage done across.
What's it coming in quickly with this AWP? He does have an aid as well well placed could find
a killed bomb as yet. To go down it's actually pretty far away from the bomb site it feels
trying clear things out here and it's just not worked because they're all alone. There is not really
depends on what Madge does. He's not going to go checking up. So there actually is a path for him
to get out and get this bomb planted. She walks it's already started moving up really smart stuff
there. Really quick rotate. Can't that have the bomb going down though? It dies on through which
She will in all fairness, she's just getting the bomb down, but guarantees a round nonetheless.
Yeah, nice work.
Making sure they pick up the right weapons, there's a couple of AKs dropped and orbs and all the rest, but...
It's a good effort by NQZ, three kills to him. If he isn't caught in No Man's Land, there's maybe legs behind that round for pain, but...
for Aurora, back to back in towards the full body,
he says, the main thing that matters for them,
they're just looking like the slightly more cutthroat side
at the side at the moment, since the money's been in play.
Yeah, not quite sure what happened to the bomb in that round,
I suppose, for it to end up in control.
And not straight out onto the site,
but maybe they wanted to clear things,
gambled wrong, not quite sure.
Either way, Aurora, yeah, looking very, very good.
like I say we've seen with the guns in play and also the earlier rounds as well paying going for you
know a lot of outside presence not necessarily needing it but it seems they like finishing B
and perhaps that is something that Aurora have prepared into this one because two players down
on B posted up and ready to go is also quite rare you know the amount of times we see a game
game of Nuke, just no CT playing on B, just always retaking that site as an option or
fighting a bit more outside, but that doesn't seem to be Aurora style.
It feels like a bit of a pause, but a pause there for pain.
You get loads of no-buy, you've got one eagle, a pariah who's very scary with it
and one smoke now as well, the biggest they're just going to throw to try and
aid in the cross.
We need more than one, that's the only issue and see what happens.
Antares is going to completely fall off and double back.
Move the U till, it's a trickle down smoke on main but Cardio will just push out in front
of it.
Next one and here's where the space can be taken by Zantares.
Two for and nice in EG, easier for Magus, he's off the Vandal too.
A simple way to shut down the Eco, make sure the only thing they're really looking
time out coming in in a good time before a rifle round still earlier in the game before anything's
getting away from them still on the T side as well where sometimes you're not expected to do as well
but picking up a pistol I think you have to be getting like six rounds you know just keep the the
rifle rounds as competitive as possible yeah this guy the issue right now is that I've been saying
since money's been in play there's actually only been one team in it and the thing is paying a
looking hopefully uncompetitive since Aurora had investments to work with. It's not a good showing.
It doesn't look bad in terms of the score line. It feels bad in terms of the
momentum of the game itself. Taurus smoked another fall across as well. He's got the
supporter walk, sick, a flash over. Make him a smoke. He wants to fight behind this.
It might break nicely for him, but it's can't convert on the flick
So having a look around these smokes, it's gonna go through them in fact
Awkward sometimes will get traded but it's woxic there with the office make sure things stay good
Oh, that's a small oversight. Magus here for the trade
But just confusing who's holding what for a moment there woxic gets taken down on the quick scope
So, Madgeur falls and leaves it all on to Soulfly here, so Payne finding a pretty nice contact round, thus far.
Soulfly creeping round, he is being watched by that low HP player. Can he capitalise here prior juniors in a difficult angle?
He now moves into the site there, they swap up, the orb going to have a look and the orb going to take him down.
Soulfly not quite confident enough to move in, Payne will get it done and some slight issues, some slight oversights,
Particularly from Madge I think on top of that hut really needed to be watching
They were both trained on the same angle
There's a window there for Sol5, are you going a little bit quicker coming up through heaven?
Committed to the action crew of Cortland and Rotations, look at how low the fire was
But Payne's a nice one to put on the ball, but it's still one that doesn't ensure loads of confidence on my side
It still feels like there's so reliant on the visuals to shine while the game fan itself being really good
So you watch the reaction test as a successful one for me when I was in QC
Double scoped and trained on towards silo
Aurora who opened up the proceedings and prior taking damage just prior to that from the flames
It's a nice start in response for Aurora
he was on the hut and the regress was really effective. This time three players go in and
not a single one is able to get a bullet on him.
The issue as well is that the first player peeks out, they jiggle peek on the corner
and they spot a player in the open on site. So all their attention is trained on towards
him rather than magic. He continues to fight them from up on high. I feel like they're
going to focus on the guy in the open rather than the guy on top hot first and hope
they get a window where it's ought to be. So it's a 30 second save for Snow. He was
Not near the park. Aurora will
tie this one back up. Good response
from them. Again, like what we were
saying about this paint side where it
worries us a little bit. It's just some
of these rounds are so unconvincing
about the game plan behind them that it
leaves a real kind of bad taste. They
do when it requires an individual to
seriously shine and they go for the
hand here as well. I don't think
they'll get to Snow's Angle in time
though. It's a soft one, but not a commit to one. They have flown through. It's been
alright. Nice start, yeah. I think you see that's just too quick. Pops head up in a nice
flick, but just bobbing and leaving. Dodging and diving here is a, they're so focused
on the guy on site. He's got attention. All right, nice work, Major. You can only
shoot what's in front of him. We'll really hinder the economy for pain.
The immediate response is kind of perfect, right? Aurora, it doesn't mean for me to talk about sometimes the blessing in disguise kind of round, yes, they've lost one, but
If they can win this one out, then they should have another one on top of it
Find yourself in a decent half and with potential to do even better, considering they didn't pick up the pistol
The numbers could look very, very good here for Aurora if they get this right
Woxic
to get caught as they go down,
not quite though, so they will
make it in. The first time we're
seeing a full secret move, but
once again Aurora just not
afraid to post a player
downstairs. Prior on the lurk
who is being held for.
It's got that angle of train,
so it's meant to be a
secret move, but it's not
going to be a secret move.
It's not going to be a secret
move, but it's not going to
So it's meant to be a sort of soft split towards the B side, but realistically it's gonna be soul fly
It's gonna have to come up huge now. They know he plays on towards his rafters from the previous round
The question is can they deal with them here windows are broken doors on open
Now they are now draws attention he might swing in for the fight and he gets the first nice work from them
I know he's up here
He's looking for more and a drive by tech now see him off on the cross what's it needed to hit that?
Here's where pariah can make his move. He doesn't need to go too early either
Patients can pay off for him just needs to spot him out and a couple of body shots
One more tag is all he needs and that's an awkward cover in the bomb to go down momentarily you assume
But what Katie is quickly down here three versus three ten seconds by the way
We've got to go. They've got to get this ball. It's stuck in an awful spot five seconds
Do they have time for the ball just about
That's rough, man. I mean, they had such control of the bomb and they let it slip at the very final second.
Maget tries to creep through, but he will be bested.
An unlikely round for Payne that they managed to pull off, and indeed some frustrations, I think.
Maget wants to keep them together.
One of the things I'll give Payne, the vibes always seem to be good.
You know, a closer game or whatever, but there's always a bit of a smile on their face in one round.
and I think they're able to sort of keep it together in the harder rounds as well.
I see that understands their position, you know. What games are easy, what games are difficult, but
that bomb going down took them a long time to get it back. I think they should have been able to
hold crazy moves now from pain. They look to just put their thumb in this wound and absolutely
bring pain to Aurora as they push through bomb plant going down. Nearly, nearly hitting
that plant at about 5.
Molly down, I'll keep Woxic at bay. So Stilius is reside in the ladder and waits. VSM will
double back to Coddough Lobby control. Another Molly in Source Heaven. There's a smoke
here this time and VSM is going to get caught. It's all on NQZ. There's just too many
body to find a diving down
waxing with an old scope crazy.
We'll see it off, but. It was a
nice idea by pain. I just think
it was a little bit too expensive
before that one goes down. The
spam through the main smoke is
massively important. Unfortunately,
there's couldn't I say the
doles nicely done by Aurora to
recover that topside retake.
It's also just around like that.
Doesn't. Quite come off of
you know, so they're winning the unexpected rounds, as it were.
The ones where they have a bit of a clearer game plan,
and it's maybe more conventional.
Counter-Strike, quote-unquote. It does seem like a horror.
Coming out on top.
Very difficult for Payne to really find a consistent way to win.
They're going to be back with a buy here, but it's not the best.
Here he finds the first.
Tech 9, trying to get close. Also going down.
down with some really nice aggressive moves.
Five versus three, straight out of the gate here,
Soulfly thinking about sticking around.
He might have had a good fight,
but he feels there's no point taking the risks
with how powerful our position is right now.
Oh no, that's a damp.
The Nade number's going up.
I think the max damage is 60.
Yeah.
I never see it hit 60.
That's one of the better Nades.
I've seen it a long time.
57 damage.
One of those damages was Nade
Hits it even better, even better.
Maybe that's why.
Oh, it's left.
He's got a lot of shrapnel on him and now some bullets through from solo flight.
Really nice round from Aurora.
Only the one Khajiitzii absolutely take those and get another round where they can very
simply control their positions and they're not really forced off the site themselves.
I think paying that initial idea, it kind of gets shut down by Aurora and then in
In the mid-run, as it happens when you recover this round, they just don't really know what to do.
Cute aggression, it's quite textbook from Aurora, that bit of a lobby hot look, and yeah, okay, that's very well.
The final round of the half, while it is an even game, and five laps each side is still pretty good.
You can still talk about squad and the chances here for a pain, and should be using this round.
Should be in the upwards of words, and far as for one, the Molly will force them away.
flash behind it as well. That's all fine.
Ankle 4 is not on the B site itself.
Oh, it's messy. It's labored. It's ugly.
I'll give them the B site.
Yeah, Crosshair just never matched up in the right place,
did it? Zintares is down here pretty swiftly.
To his credit, he's got some support as well.
They're all here, actually, so it could get very, very messy.
Come on, Placken. They come in, doors open.
They know that it's now technically like a man down
because there's a guy on the plant
and they have the numbers advantage.
and Torres to thin the herd.
NQC, all that remains, takes them first as they come up close,
but should be all good from here.
Get a player on that.
Bond with the kids.
Oh, man, making it a little nervy.
However, they will take a slim lead.
Five rounds in T side, still pretty good.
Excited to see what pain I've got in this second half,
whether they can match up.
I do worry though, we've got LaCardia,
we've got Santaris firing on all cylinders right now.
That feels like a T side that could be very, very hard
to deal with we're going to find out on the other side of this.
We've got some reactions from some VSM who can get fired up and of course have a little
fun as we mentioned.
The vibes always seem good over towards the pain side but the kind of situation that
maybe isn't so much that a decent start out the gates and towards their T side
three rounds to kickstart things but in the half of only five they struggled
once the guns are in play to really put pressure on towards Aurora now Aurora
head on towards this T side and they can get a pistol start pulling away I
worry for pain no absolutely indeed kind of the favorites coming into this
one one of the main questions that you ask in a match of like this
job. However, it's all rules,
right? They're not going towards
a they are headed towards be
here. Goosh lands on supplier
junior. Not much they can do
other than gather some info.
Push him away. Now they have
options are actually going to
go hunting him and soul fly.
The Adam dead to rights. Surely
just gives up the angle at the
worst possible time. Yeah,
so unfortunate. I wonder how
costly this can end up being
not so by patients will pay
Now for me, I had a bit of an inkling, he could sense something was up.
There we go, walk to the family as well as VSM will fall.
It's already bit by bit, the pain number is being thinned out here to 5 vs 3 unless we
see a miraculous round that should be impossible to survive.
Encusi does get one and gets out.
He will not get support from lobby itself, but he can't deny this bomb getting planted.
Yeah, just such a weird post-plan to deal with, you've got two Ts up in the rafters.
Not very common. Woxic as well doing his due diligence to watch behind and make sure there's nobody flanking in.
So Snow's on the Julees, but he will be deleted as soon as he reveals himself.
NQZ here looking to try and be the hero. Picks up those fallen Julees.
One more to find on the site itself. Meanwhile there's a fight potentially brewing up top.
Which is not going to happen. The glock's coming out on top of most of these exchanges.
It will be the pistol going the way of Aurora. Big, big deal, right?
Paying up the pistol in the first half. It's kind of their saving grace of the scoreline denied it here
So as he said potential to pull away
Yeah, that pistol we mean it honestly said to self off like a 10-2 first half, right?
So this is sort of what we're talking about
Paying that we're really worried about them like the wins that they were getting across that first half
For the scoreline doesn't look that drastic. It actually is
Made worse by the fact that they've got nothing
Really in that pistol before back on it are gonna go for the force though
One MP9 and a few greater pistols if you lose this for pain actually could start to spell the beginning of the end for your
Mach pick which is never where you want to be
Eagle
We'll get tags there's a couple of tags that come through so if I left really really
Get this lower control
It's pretty heavy stack down here.
Certainly scared for a moment snow.
On the five seven.
Can't be deadly from that kind of rain.
Are they ready for another man?
The answer is sort of Zontaro.
So it's just so crisp right now.
Really not missing these open
fragging opportunities.
open, fragging opportunities.
Those kills coming in, they feel unsafe, right?
They don't necessarily want to dedicate down here.
Maga, take some damage off Biguzera.
The bomb has other plans for the time being.
Still sticking around on the vent, though,
so maybe it's gonna be a B finish.
I feel quite indecisive here, Aurora.
They've got a lot of information,
but I think they're just worried that this is actually that B Gamble star.
hence why they're waiting for it. NQZ remains down at 20 seconds. They really can't make a
big error in a sense. This bomb does need to get down. NQZ could be part of denying it.
Might dive out. They just smoke in the way. You'll get one, but you can't get another.
If it was a deep par par behind silo, it might have led to something,
but we'll KD will see it off in the end. It's honestly not a bad effort by pain,
but it's a force by loss and it now will start to look really dicey for them. This is now
where Aurora can put themselves in the position to seriously pull away.
Very concerning, up to a ninth, the tenth should come pretty freely as that force by
chosen after legs behind it.
At that point, if we're looking at Payne's next government being at the 10-5 scoreline,
that is sort of a dual-tie situation you're my pick.
Not looking good, to say the least, I think that really sums it up as much as possible,
We're going to be the outside smokes here and they will look to follow behind them
Making one known at the very least but that's the team maybe not quite
Being spotted. What do the CTs do? I think they'll just look to try and overwhelm a certain area with their pistols
Should see smokes go down in the same vein Aurora. Happy to take a fight. You know, they really do want to
Ooh, start looking here. Wax it.
Light clear of the corner, but Pariah Jr. will be hidden away.
VSM will be hidden away.
One good clean kill to open up proceedings here.
Raises an eyebrow.
See if they can find any more Pariah dealt with.
Still, a lot of players just hiding round corners
for this CT side could get very, very messy here.
One spotted.
In towards hell.
Now another one as well, just as out of heaven and another in credit card, uh-oh.
Force Buy is getting scary, it's getting very scary.
NQZ scooped up on AK, he looks to close it, all on his own, it's against Wakadia.
The last man alive and it's NQZ who seals the deal.
What a Force Buy to be taken back.
I'm not even a Force Buy, a low buy essentially.
Five-seven and a deagle, it's all that's required and it's just too convoluted by Aurora.
They overcomplicate that whole situation tenfold.
They're just not needed at all.
It's completely unnecessary.
They could have easily just played with a pack-pizza unit
and gone down to a secret control initially.
And then they just double back
and you can see what it means as Antoine.
It's such a tilt of a round to throw away
when you have such space to use and you just don't.
Yeah, I've been around long enough.
You can see rounds like that developing pain
in some good spots. And as I said, one good clean eagle kill.
And Aurora gave it to them, you know, a lot of solo moves going on.
Let me go and dig. Let me try and find it.
They predicted rightly it would be wild to buy that it was going to be an eco.
Yeah. I think a couple of players just like maybe an opportunity for some eco
frags could be fun, taking their eyes off the prize.
Also great kind of read from pain, because they essentially at the tail end
that round have four players outside but they just know that this is where Aurora's defaults
going so put us in the best position to take some fights. I think generally the the market
you bring to Arale Aba is let's make it expensive right that's all you're really looking towards
you're not expecting to win around like that and end up do it's get fed easy 1v1s flip
side you usually Aurora go in for a buy themselves everyone's fully invested Barl
Woxic is going to keep cash on hand for an orb that will later on the line
But it's tough force by us trying respond with off the losing that
Torres
Heading the charge here
Towards the top end of that scoreboard best KD on the server by a good margin here and you can see why
Really not losing these heads up fights. It's a big big deal. Madge is gonna go down
down, things get really quite quick and intense towards this B bomb site. In a matter of moments
single door open maybe missing the sound cue. Smoke goes down but it wasn't at door it does
indeed you know cover the bomb planter but snow is out here regaining some control taking
some space for his teammates to try and work with. Hunter just two now, Sawfly has recovered
the AK. They have to be the hero. Oh just a little early, wins out the fight all
the same. How do you find his suddenly looking God is all fly
picked up the pace again. It's all going to be down to NQZ
misses his initial shot. They know his location. He's got the
kit. He's got smoke on the bomb. An overface maybe coming in
not a lot of time to deal with knife is oh, he gets the kill
just to add insult to injury. So fly. Why swing it man. Yeah.
He just, you know, he picked up the pace, he's taken all these fights.
No off switch though, no off switch for him and it cost him.
He just gets giddy.
He thinks it's an all but done affair.
The smoke and the kit he fuses, really nice length of zee.
He's very fortunate to get nice there right at the end.
Can't feel for Bacardi a tad, because it looks like he's right on him, but really well done.
nice couple of rounds to take that'll put pressure on for damn sure bringing it
back into the arms reach the two-round game but a nice opening by Woxic
nonetheless it's AQZ who wins that round who start off by well losing his head
thank you he's ever workadia pariah a move on rafters the shifts his way round
and this is a buy of course for Aurora off the back of that plant but
it's still a bit of an awkward one so flight is knife out he was looking to
a scoop up the AK.
Pryor drops his M4s.
He's looking for himself.
It's a little bit of a wild game here.
I mean, this is what we were expecting
coming in towards the series between these two.
A little bit crazy and a freebie there for VSM.
That's some tilt setting in.
Some of these peaks are frustrated.
Soulfly's got to lock in for those two rounds
where he's made some very questionable decisions.
Yeah, getting a bit annoyed.
Some of these players I would assume, GSM.
It's worked and flashed, sticks around, makes a drop noise in my thing, he's gone down below actually.
I think you're right.
I'm sure he did it on purpose, or if it's just because he's feeling uncomfortable, but all the same.
They expect him, meanwhile, walking all the way through towards hell.
Traderplaces, it is clever here.
Pryor's dead.
They don't have any idea.
He's dead tonight.
Or is he? That's the invulnerable spot.
Yeah, he does go down, but again, it takes a little bit of work.
It's cursed energy over there. That's for sure.
Everybody sees that and they just have flashbacks.
Oh, Woxic!
Not paying attention.
VSM moves up silently.
It's going to be down to Madge of the Captain in a 1 vs 3 now
and he does not stand a chance to get a bomb plant.
But his gap is closed exponentially.
Where has the lead gone?
Pain-proving why this is indeed a go-to map for them.
Yeah, lost bonus and a bomb plant will net some level of investment towards Eggman.
I don't think it's going to be the fullest of buys.
I really wouldn't mind attack time out being taken by Aurora to be honest.
There's a lot of pressure building on their shoulders and there's quite a few sloppy mistakes being made.
Overswings, overfights, I mean, it's dicey.
There's a steal from VSN as well to NoScope there.
At all the time in the world to set himself up for a clean kill, but
option to NoScope for style points and he gets a second behind it. Doesn't look too bad with the ult to be fair.
That slow map up until that point. Let's speak around from him.
I have to mention, why I was always going to be a little weird.
I had to take him all the damage, but Zantar is all dived down as he
scoops up an AK in half the body of Big Azera Snow.
One for him as he lurks in vent while Cardia making an arguably unnecessary move.
I just, I don't know what to make of it. There's so many questionable decisions coming out from the Aurora Boys.
Oh lucky to be alive very lucky indeed I mean still looking sharp but it's the
decision-making as it unfolds the magic tea sides maybe not the thing that's
under screw near the moment it's more just the supporting cast as it were we'll
get heaven control the orp is trained in on them but in mind again he is very
very low. They have nothing to help them out here. Yeah, they had a maid or a flash it.
You have a Zantara's though. True. Zantara's peeked by name. By nature of course. Yeah,
it's just cerebral for him. They dive down towards the A side, but I'm gonna come down
in just a second as well and they can leave Zantara's up on towards the Heaven position.
This is a strong place to play from and he shouldn't have more and he will. In
the road a VSM gets caught and I think if you're Aurora you actually just go for the
in the road of your pay mass that you go for the save it yeah and that is what
they're gonna do I mean look the frustrated style of Aurora the past few
rounds finally panning out Zintares go kill has been the name of this round it
does work 21 to 11 now team in the backpack a little woxic struggling to
be heard on this map so fly with those questionable decisions for a few
rounds that you know you don't necessarily want to point the finger at one player but
pretty well of costume. The strength of their lead they're still just about going to hold
on to it. Trader's there, can we get this orc back? There's what's it going to be. Just
about got it there. All the same, so Tarez kicks off Mack 10 to AK. Killed from Heaven,
not this one, the one before to take down the orc. Just really be aware, really be
be aware that the orc could be watching the orcs going to know and even the orb
didn't know his angle you know didn't know how exposed he was so hold on to
that lead it's slim pain are right on their heels here just one more slip up
and things should be even yeah just feels like they were about to get some
sort of run for pain Aurora just find around that keeps the pressure really
piled on so as we mentioned in the pre-show these two sides love and
over time paint 612 maps they've played have gone to OT 2 or 5 for Aurora in the second stage. I mean
Really again over time seems to be
Handed hand at the moment, but especially when these two sides are in the server. Yeah
Online, you know, yeah
teams that struggle to close things out
Mixed your emotions
This is a useful fake being thrown in you can immediately see the paint to not fall for it for us
second. The inspect ready to
throw the HG here so could do
some real real damage.
Centaureaus gives it a look.
Nate comes in. Six points of
damage does not make it deep
enough. Unfortunately, not
really anything to write home
about on that one, but he does
spot them. And now maybe they
have a decision in terms of how
they want to end. It looks like
it's still going to be a B
downstairs sooo, but it's a fake out with the nade, prior jr. What have you got good timing, good catch from him
gets a kill, moves into the hook,
Meanwhile, wakadia is still down below, prior jr. He does get traded eventually, and wakadia continues being a thorn in the side
Gonna buy a lot of time here. If not another kill, VSM has lost him. Oh no, VSM is just so busy
He's the furthest away he could potentially be from getting to that A bomb site that I think they have to save
Yeah, VSM's common, you can see, and he's baffled, like, I don't know where he's gone.
I've lost him, he must have gone towards outside, now he's doubling back for this, and Mokedi's
got a great angle, and Mokedi just can win that fight, it's just lovely work from Mokedi,
but it's so unfortunate for VSM, he's had a bit of a rough map, and I don't even think
that's a poor decision, he just, it's a coin flip if you look left or right, it
looks the wrong way.
Back on towards the side, and that'll be that, pick his air and NQZ will save,
is Aurora up to 11 with 4 staying alive.
Feldman is 4 pariah, gets 1 and gets the opportunity to continually punish,
but he's immediately put back in his place.
That's taken by pain.
They are running out of time, running out of chances here on Nuke,
and they kind of needed this map in the Vita process as well.
A few more rounds, all that Aurora require.
to be made here as well off
the back of this time off pain.
Do we actually forced by and
play to win regulation as the
majority of teams will. Yeah,
pretty pretty screwed to be
honest. It's poison chalice.
Tattoo goes hard and I didn't
know the CS go tattoo on the
hand. Pretty job around thinking
he got it when he. Walt's
first major I think was
age-old back band right or something that essentially it up he's one of those players
But yeah, I got back band when he was 12 or something. Yeah, I think if I'm right and saying I swear
I remember seeing him tweet that he got it when he like made this his first major or something along those lines
Never cheat guys never cheat you never know when you might be
Guys, I don't know that he has I thought he did
Fuck so
They could have made it stage one, yeah, to be fair.
Waxing, gonna open up here with the AWP.
Able to back away, really quite a keen start.
The AWP on the T side of Nuke.
Not something you see very often, but he's looking to take matters into his own hands.
They've got him out there, taking first peeks, etc.
And indeed, we'll find one, set up another.
So looking good. We keep our eyes on snow who is now a glass cannon m4 user
But really the only hope that they have and it would be absolutely insane for them to pull this off aurora of them
Well
In a key round to find the openers, you know, they lost out to some pistols at the start of this half
Making sure that that does not happen again
Right
We should get one for this off foot soul flight lovely little check
Bride did great work in the series yesterday towards single dawn. He's not doing too bad in
This map, but as a whole
They're getting towards the beginning of the end here a p250 and then for now snow
Saving is not a bad idea the p250 if it was unlikely they'd be given out luxury and I'll spot it towards outside red
Yes, that's right. See how he is just getting controls my job, but I lose his life for it
12 to 8 now for Aurora
Form up points to close out their opponent's map pick and set themselves up with a nice little buffer
Very concerning times for this side who have
Dwindled here snow. Yeah, good reaction needs to be a bit careful. It's an AK as well to screw poppy or take that
Four map points after Aurora and we said at the heart of the point if it wasn't for that pistol
Hain wouldn't really have been in a competitive state in towards this map and that remains
When there's been guns in play there's only been one real team in the server
Here we go then, duoed up by 4 pain on their map.
Pickle got the overpass coming up next, which feels like a nasty 1-0% win rate in 3-match
played.
Maybe some energy towards the tail end of this one could spur them forwards, give them
some hope.
There you go.
I found it.
Boss pass measure.
There you go.
Badda bing.
CSGO as well. Yeah, and it was one of them. They ended up finishing dead last. Like WALT.
I suppose that's why you were looking at like the notable achievements. It doesn't show up there.
Yeah. Do you feel like qualifying to the major but maybe-
I feel like that is a notable achievement itself. Yeah, maybe you can come dead last. Perhaps not.
23rd, 24th and yeah, no. Wikipedia standards.
It's out there as well. Well, that was the RMR hold-up.
Oh yeah. Oh no. Yeah.
Yeah, everyone just qualified with a finish like that.
Either way, looking to finish strong here.
to be done. Tarras to open up
against bigger Sarah. As they
have for many, many rounds
previous year. Cardia creeping
out cheeky move. It's a team
need as well. So maybe he's not
been fully given permission to
do that. Taking matters into
his own hands as he often does
that you know, we're card is a
player that they sometimes
just decide to free up
QZ in rotation, Woxic, swinging a fine, numbers go in the favour of Aurora.
It's just feeling like the beginning of the end, but there's not a lot of time here.
Why isn't there a weird angle too?
Checked by Soulfly but not seen off, back into a 3 vs 3.
So who's gonna sit there, he's gonna catch the gaff, he's gonna catch the entourage,
and up on site, there's VSM and he stands tall.
Or pain live to see another day in this map just yet not dead and buried
Still a bit of a road to recover
There's life left in them. That's good round. Yeah for sure. I mean some again
We would say questionable. They're in a position of power at the moment. So you'd say like
Interesting or cheeky, but not I think that they are
Kind of inexcusable a little bit from Wakadia. They're a man up. There's no need to go for anything that wild
Just take a moment and try and work with the advantage that's entirious once again giving you
Now I think they understand seriosity man, it's
12 9 if they get the 10th pain will break the bank
So it'll come all the way down to that final round to deny the overtime
We've joked on the OT, but surely we're not
To the most OT pro sides
It's not a bad idea. No one behind it, unfortunately.
GSM quite fast enough.
They're tapping into this double up sell once again.
He's like, don't worry, I will show you how to land the AWP shot.
It takes hours and hours. That's a big name to find.
Yes, true.
You can tell there's like a sort of frustrated energy about it.
And Torres really wanted to fly into the fight.
And it's also the most part is working because of how solid he is.
Okadia, that's a big fine. That's going to give them space towards the A site.
50 seconds on the clock to work with now and for Aurora, the lack of time nearly
cost them in that previous round, they just died regardless but they didn't give
themselves loads of time to maneuver around and they might be calling this
freeze again which could lead to the same problems.
Threads the needle, misses the shot and walks in for Okadia, a kill, a piece.
BSM's all that's left and he's seen off moving up the ladder.
It's honestly a really hard work map when it never really should have been.
Credit where it's due, Aurora climbed out some really awkward rounds.
On the flip side, Payne, it's just not good enough.
They really look a little lacklustre compared to what they used to them on me.
Yeah, I mean, certainly I think for Aurora,
maybe feeling that they are a bit of an annoying team,
he's side of Nukul, so maybe not enjoying playing that.
and Tares as we saw some frustration he's putting the team in the backpack for a number of rounds
and then there's a couple silly ones that slip away so he's kind of got that you know carry
mentality that can come in that it's like come on guys we're doing everything i can
i just need you to work with me uh and maybe as we've seen you know slight bits of friction
in terms of the louder voices it's not massive but there's enough of it there all the same they
managed to steal away their opponent's map pick they're now set up for a pretty swift
2-0 if everything goes to plan on overpass. However, that's not always the case for these boys. We'll see how it goes after the break.
No!
Nobody fucking can know you're telling me to go broke!
Come on, don't you dare get off!
All right, CTs have come back.
Okay, yeah.
Wow, this is getting popular.
This is going to be...
That's like the most popular server we have.
Oh, no.
How much time we got, Simon?
Okay.
Nice.
Okay. Nice. I went for something a bit ambitious there.
Alright, nice. CTs are pulling off here.
Holy moly. We're going to run out of weapons on the ground. Going for the AWP is a death
Yeah, let's go.
I got it.
This is chaos.
Fred, how'd you like the first map?
Were you were you hanging around?
I can't hear you over all the bullets.
This is not.
OK, never mind.
Just sit around and just be friends.
This is mental.
Let's let's turn the game sound down.
Just a chat.
Yes, let's go.
All right.
What were you asking, Jason?
Sorry.
How'd you enjoy the first map of the series?
Yeah, I thought it was going to OT. Honestly. They really had me.
Really had me.
What's the lore behind this map?
There's no lore. It's just like a really popular old school.
It's like one of the popular 1.6 maps that you just hop into and just shoot people with.
There's no details. There's no rules. It's just...
Swing and shoot.
I like how you can get up on the wall as well, that's a dangerous play.
Anyone want a boost?
Resolution, so I'll be back in five minutes.
Come on Zigzag, I'll pay the midu.
Who's your moment?
This is not.
Aww, Alex.
Sorry.
They could have been the sniper of course.
Yeah.
Dead now of course.
Dead now of course.
Whoa.
Where's Ata?
He's outside the map.
Oh, it's the Exigis.
What's he doing?
Nice, Alex.
Oh.
Nice.
Where's the orb?
Oh!
The orb.
Okay, Exigis.
of the server another server's full so I'm just gonna be there and take shots with the
ears.
Well I don't know commentary seems kind of hard at the moment there's a lot going on
here on this map.
And for us dead again.
My question is is Yanko up?
Is Yanko up 20 kills you?
Yanko's locked in.
Flatter all three four
Right, have you been are you getting better?
I think better
Grind it. Yeah
You feel yourself.
And so my fellow man, give us the major!
Give us the major!
Let's go for the end.
Off the camera, the GoPro on the chest
To the town, hey, hey
Woo, woo
The sound of the ballies
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Seven, six, five, four, seven, two, one
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
That's wrestling.
Get me out of here, okay?
Let's get the hell out of here.
Yeah, let's do that, let's do that, okay.
Okay, just keep your voice down.
Let's get the hell out of here.
Yeah, let's do that.
Okay, first things first.
I need to make something clear.
We're getting out of here.
Not all of the hostages are getting out of here.
Yeah, I know.
I'm sure we've all been through an awful lot,
but Bunchit just isn't there.
We only need to save one.
Okay, and I think it's going to be you today.
Are you up for that?
Let's get the hell out of here.
Let's get the hell out of here.
Hey, hop on.
Come on.
Let's go.
Hostages are being rescued.
And that's what it is!
Make something!
What is up? Welcome back in here.
We are set and ready for the German map, as it was.
Yeah, I didn't want to go too deep or too offensive.
I don't want to annoy anybody.
of course, but, uh, to getting
into this one. As we are indeed
ready to kick off pretty quickly.
That no no wasting of time. No
time out. Please. Please
hopefully walks. It's got his
mouse all fixed this time
around. Look like it by the end
of the map. You know it was a
little rough to begin with
for him, but it was mostly
there's an Tara's story over
there. He'll be looking to do
that again here on over
I'm born from the frustration of them throwing away a few rounds where he was like, I'm just going to become the terminator.
I'm going to take over these rounds and make sure I see them out.
Flip's on NQZ and a pretty decent performer, so looking towards him again as he's in the A site.
And that is briefly where Aurora are heading at the moment because they are the first spotted.
And he will take a little tag and now a big one as he takes a dink.
the
The essence of close to this range are normally pretty good, but he let me squander the first chance
That's a large antares back out. He'll open up proceedings right junior down below here
Oh, just deleted though as those blocks close the gap
Thank you. He's always good in these pistols. It would seem he manages to find the
first player who was lurking up towards a actually
Well, so fly
Brown winning position. It has to be he's not gonna get checked
Is he going to be needed I suppose? He wants to get in there once these kills and they come easy.
Smile on floor this round.
Yeah, nice work.
Promised I'll fly as well, making sure.
In a situation like that I had a couple of squandered chances at saying towards that first map
and it didn't look as clean as we expected from him, but that is where we can now start to see him open up his proceedings.
He has a kind of a map heavy now and again. We're doing crazy and potentially this could be one of them.
When we look at this series now as well with pain losing new, we really do worry for overpass.
It just feels like a really decent map for Aurora to head into
Especially they can get this seaside going nice and early a pistol if they can convert this force by round as well
And it can already be in a bit of trouble. We're gonna go for the triple boost. I like this
You say tucked against the railing as well. So you actually are
Pretty accurate with it. Thank you. See you waiting if he continues being patient
I get a chance. There he is. You're gonna tag
It's something though. Yeah, definitely something
I think that's it they take the shot and immediately leave it rather than trying to act upon the
tag or catch him on a repeat.
Tari's here going digging.
To pick up where he left off on new can't quite net that frag.
Double need on the barrels is not enough to find the kill, but a lot of softening
up going on here.
Yeah.
Oh, and even more so on towards Bigger's Era.
Priority was getting that smoke in towards the Biden and doing so, it nearly cost him his life.
It's all flight. He's basically alone in this endeavour towards B.
There is a little bit of support from Bokadir, but he's not joining him.
Smoke down for snow. This gives him the ability to get out, it's put.
So what flight is holding for this?
35 seconds though, we've got to make a decision. Looks like it finished towards B.
But Snow will tuck himself in towards water.
In they come. Fly by!
Mach 10.
Round the corner does well.
Polaya.
Getting one and Snow will fall.
And that being said, once again, the B site taken.
And another one where, honestly, if I'm paying, I'd be looking to save it.
Yeah, just take what you have into the next round.
They've done a lot of damage though, so we'll see if they can create something.
Probably going to get boosted up.
He needs a bit more room to work with.
Oh, there it is.
That's the healthiest player.
Yeah.
All the phone a moment if they do decide to go for this is not loads of time left on that bomb but
Looking to try and get another name not gonna happen that lack of utility is the big thing
prior feeling confident doesn't happen for him
57. Yeah, certainly on the exits could
Do some real damage here kill bonus on the cards playing for a headshot angle able to find one but traded
Not devastating but it's decent damage done in the end. So
So, the choice is maybe a Deagle or two batted up into this next round, could continue keeping
that Econ low.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
You could see Aurora, because you know, at the time on the T side on Nuke, we saw Aurora
where basically the best option for them would have been to fly into a fight and
to really just play as a pack and they didn't.
And they over complicated situations, they allow paint twice hit, then there's two
back to right rounds where they just move as a unit.
Yeah, nice work.
see how it continues like you mentioned there is a little bit of an investment here.
M4 around what was saved. Eagles, snow off on high. Oh, Santora's accounts for it.
That is a quick reaction. Yeah, a little curious. Briar drops the M4.
So they're going to have to do something with it to be honest with you. The one for one is just not enough.
I don't know what you say from
here. Man advantage Aurora
Zantara is flying a little bit.
I think you just again look to
save here. If you are paying
tries to send forward to the
next round. So the prior has
something to work with. Maybe
you drop him a good across. You
know, it's a strange decision.
Just trying to keep pressure on.
I suppose they've done so much
I gotta say this M4, it looks like Big Zero would just get round into the safety of mid.
And that himself was one of the ones on top as well, so a constellation kill to be taken,
he's now known quantity, and you can sort of see that a group maneuvering to try and
find his position, I think the scout's dead to the right here, it is, nice shot
from Woxic. Last round, Bigazera. It looks like he'll just about, even though despite being
a kind of a known quantity, it looks like he might just escape with his life intact.
I guess you've got that silver lining. You'll be buying in towards the next as well, so
Pryg going to require a drop. He probably just gets the M4 from Bigazera. This is
a good start. Three on the bounce for Aurora. And a bonus buy coming in towards the first
full gun round for Payne. If Payne lose this, they're already in real serious trouble
was map number two. Yeah, big one here though. Three rounds already on your T side looking
to just completely pummel their opponents could get up to five or six in a row pretty
comfortably if things keep going that way. Start to see some of the issues of overpass
creep out for pain or maybe that homework that were, you know, lightly crossing our
fingers that they have done. It's just a case of whether they've had time to
to do it on stage one and stage two being played.
That one freshly out of the vitality book.
They were really quite solid recently on this map.
Again, Paravision, I think it was.
That clue final with the utility usage.
And again, last time these two sides played
was back in Iron Cracker on the stage one
on this map, that was.
And that was a 13-6 to Aurora,
which is pretty dammings and Torres.
It's just not best to get them open, is it?
So we'll find one where he's really tagged up low here.
You now can't cross the safety
and surely they're flying to more fights.
There's a great supporting flash from Pariah.
And Torres does what he does best,
but Wacadia can't imitate as well.
And there's all good, full paint.
Flash is over, Madge will bring one back in tow.
Two versus two now.
There's a slow rotation, Pariah.
He'll be half cleared, half checked,
He doesn't capitalize all on the IGL.
Maja needs something heroic here,
a shoulder of the all spotted, gets their head.
Oh, and Maja isolates the fight.
Excellently pain.
That is a blunder of a round to throw away at the tail end.
And Maja does so damn well.
Timing just a little off.
NQZ peeks slightly early.
The shot baits him out successfully.
Exactly what he wanted.
It just weren't ready to trade off each other. That is a damn shame for pain. It's gonna be really, really difficult to deal with that.
From a mindset standpoint, just logistically as well, things start to get away from them.
The recon's kind of all over the place, able to pull an M4 out here, but also go down the middle pretty comfortably.
BSM deals with pushing players find some great timing for a two-piece and Aurora dry
Testing be as opposed to use the only player on B as well
So now it's like what do we what's Aurora doing? You know just contact rush B is
Very questionable very basic compared to the quite nicely worked rounds. They've had
She feels like yeah, do you expect that to work like seriously or are you just really?
trying to see where you can get away with. I don't know, it's strange. Yeah, really
trying to kind of like see what the limits are. And this incident is not a
good test to be taking. Well, I don't know whether Wakadia spotted the shoulder
there. It looks trained on the angle for Bigger's Era.
Look at this point, Bigger's Era is going to be heard.
I was up close flash in, but it's not even going to commit to the fight behind it now in on Quentin
Well, hey, he is very quickly up here. Here's a prius rifle. We can go huge and save for the deal of biggest error for two. Oh
Just for a major as a moment of brilliance biggest error answers with one of his own
Yeah, again, I think you know, that's an Aurora lost round. They'll definitely feel that not necessarily one that
I suppose had a chance in but also just the way that it opens is extremely questionable.
All the same, pain capitalized, not going to squander that opportunity, not going to let
it slip through their fingers. Curious to see now how the Aurora response looks. Air
Econ feels the burn despite four rounds in a row. Just goes to show it has been close.
It has been difficult for them in some of these rounds.
Not perfect, but individually standing strong,
which is good to see at the start here,
they just need to hope that tactically they can figure this one out.
Yeah, Dave.
Making it expensive, quite consistently,
I dropped in to be kind of the U-Tool mule in this one
as he can't pick it up, even a gun.
It is surely a useful vibe for him.
So he is the supporting element, true and true.
And again, I don't know what kind of the play for Aurora is there.
You know, you've got a completely shut down force.
You've got a nice round source B.
You haven't tested really what a formulated bathroom control round
would look like either in these gun rounds back to be.
We initially look it's okay, you're up close.
It's going to be really dicey.
It's a good trade. It's a positive trade.
Well, Katie going to get both and pick up an AK.
It's smart for Aurora. It's a good read.
I mean, I think they've very, very quickly figured out
that pain get bored.
They like making mid-round moves on the CT side.
A lot of the time is quite dry.
Because they're charging in here.
Will loses head. Key, key.
Trade frag there.
Prior upon the boost, keeping things interesting, though.
SoulFlight in the spot. They're moving in now.
Imagine that last line of defense over at short.
this kit's available. Smoke onto the bomb has been suspended here in QZ to HB. Will that
be the difference, Madge? Just waiting patiently. Smoke going to go down. Not too long of a succession
here. Tap comes in. He's not peeking. Playing it well. Second tap. Still not peeking. Goes
late. Takes the player. He was too HP though. The healthy man holding for the fight. Madge
He's just played it so well. He knows what's up.
He knows that they would indeed be looking for him.
And they take the round. That one's skin and the teeth stuff.
Not what Paine wanted.
Yeah. Jocked on by Madge.
Lovely. Kind of an eight timing,
but also just not to fall for the bait of the stick
in the first instance.
Those is the tap, or at least assumes it's a tap,
but he just buys the time.
Very well played for him as well.
Even if he gets into the straighter there,
it makes no difference. That round was all but lost.
He's done such a good job. It looked like he was even getting very very late
How do you feel about like how you set up there? It's like maybe it was just proximity and it was close
But I feel maybe getting the healthier player
On the bomb that late around, you know just in case he doesn't quite get the head
That's not how pros play it though. It's always the low player gets in the bomb just because
You essentially want your healthy player to be able to fight and generally speaking as well
Yeah, exactly. You want your healthy player to have a better chance if it's your healthy player on the bomb
They're ineffective because they're still gonna die regardless
Like whether he has two HP or 100 HP there
Magic double thinks him anywhere and he's dead because he's just a you know a still target
So you normally get the lower player on because the healthier players is there to fight and the hope is that
In some cases as well if magic swings out there his attention strong to the guy not on the bomb
So then it is a raw kind of head-to-head and I won't be one duel
He's played for himself perfectly, that's second one versus two as well, the magic is
one.
The first one he wins, off the kills, that one he wins, off the down the defuse.
He's had two big rounds taking on his shoulders alone, which is good to see, you know, he
gets a lot of Christmas imager, sometimes the calling and sometimes even in terms of
the numbers, but two big rounds that we can completely give him the credit for.
What was that first flash?
just missed I think cross out in the wrong place like it's a jump for either
he just threw it like a hair in his mouth maybe yeah happens are the best of
us this is gonna be interesting fires and Torres has got decent timing to be
helpful oh that is awful that is so unfortunate for big as they are I think
on purpose so a couple footsteps taken in towards mid just as in tires is
making it round that corner so really well done to draw attention away
from where Zantares was. Two more players here. At that one. Good.
Briar Jr. Left on half HP, done with by the scout of all things.
BSM. Two is solid, but not quite enough in this situation.
He's gonna be left down to snow, the young gun. Looking as comfortable as we move on
to overpass two and five at the moment. Finds himself on the scoreboard now.
There's a chance for redemption. But before I get the words out,
and Torres teaches him who is boss and nice work starts and closes around on
Torres yeah poor biggest error timing really getting the better of him this is
a really really good run by a raw out the gates on the T side of a path this is
the most CT side of map in the pool we're getting six rounds already a five
round buffer here in serious trouble doesn't matter how good your T side
this is not a good look at all a lot of things going right for Aurora and they are really on track now taking this series and
Kind of doing it with ease as well, which is they're probably even more damning thing
You at least wanted if pain we're gonna lose a bit of a competition pushes towards a third
Just something to fall back on as you drop in towards that one-two bracket, but this is gonna do anything
But and still confidence in towards your side
I think that first map is maybe enough for them to take this series honestly, Payne's
overpass not delivering and a team that they feel they'd already figured out right so there's
is so much like mental advantage for Aurora and you can see it here six already on the
T side probably set to be a seventh then we start asking the question how deep does this
go when will it end?
I'm creeping around not looking on the other side of the smoke so it could be a quick
move for VSM if he opts to push up the connector he's nervous to do so however big gap over
towards banana. They'll look to abuse that pry genius deagle. He had high hopes for it. So did we. It doesn't happen.
So for one, flank being held.
We just really have the number of pain on this one. Woxic getting the second flanker in fact.
Maybe the third.
He's bored.
It's kind of bored, but Big Ezerra also scared to peek it.
I don't blame him.
Just save the M4. You don't really have anything to work with.
around it for him specifically everybody else as kind of a decent amount of digital cash
He's done on the lesser end so he saves everybody else gets a full buy around him
Yeah, of course, what loss winners max loss winners as you would assume you're seven to one down
And in multiple cases
Score our seven to one is one that Brazil don't like
Especially not in this one as pain are already looking in a very very vulnerable state
Was that like 10 years ago now?
2014, yeah.
In Rio, no?
Is that correct?
Yes, it was, yeah.
Oh well, in Brazil.
I thought about it a little bit.
Yeah, and I'll prove to you, sir.
Wonderful day, as you said.
I remember that's the first time
I drank a beer.
Watching that game.
I remember.
I was...
What's in us that's legal in England. Yeah, yeah in your own home. No, you compare person
Up like it's like like in a pub
Well, it's camping. So yeah, yeah technically yeah in like a space, but I think it's like a licensed
Serving alcohol. Yeah, gotta be 18 then there's this whole, you know, we know the meal
Yeah, we have sort of in between is you know that change the world roast. Yeah, yeah when it's like
16 if there's an adult present that's also having a meal and also having a drink or something weird
Yeah loophole like that, you know, you're allowed to shoot a man with a bow and hour if he stood on the corner at 3 p.m.
In Wales, you know, we've got some really
Some really weird laws like that. They're just thousands of years old for some reason in this country
as one in London you it's illegal to
Clean your carpets in the streets
You're right. Yeah, I want to see your messy carpet. Yeah, you can't you can't dust off your carpets in the street
I would have had that probably comes from like victory. Yes
Yeah, it's just doing it and then you've got a dusty. Yeah dusty street. I
Watch the video of a guy like breaking like purposely breaking all these are old laws that no one even knows a law
Yeah, you're gonna sweep it like on carrying fish
Not a bag and stuff like that. Yeah
We'll see, anyway, they're diving in towards B.
Some of the VSM kills a piece.
The Torrid knows where one is, I was gonna say, but he's getting flanked.
But Pariah dives down, which is the alarm bell for Zantara to turn, and he does, and he rips ahead.
I might get more here as well.
Do they even consider connector?
It's looking like he's gonna be a no.
And Torris will go up.
The Barrel's play is probably dead to right here.
Oh, that's a nice find.
And he doubles back, Zantara's.
There is these spidey senses tingling for him. He has a feeling about a player lurking.
He's holding for it. It's Big Azera in behind. 45 seconds, they call for a freeze because
they're waiting to see what the reaction from Payne is. When does Big Azera go?
Is Magi going to be the one to test the waters? Oh, both of them are asleep for the initial
engagement, but it's Magi who wakes up on time. I mean, it's so out of character for Big Azera.
You know what I mean like with all this noise going on you would expect him to go swinging in and just at least have a look
They give some too much respect too much space to work with
See what Zantara is capable of doing Magir has drawn NQZ away
Will rotate quickly towards heaven here. So you have to be careful
Be aware of his quick movements. He doesn't have a kit available
And if Aurora just hide yeah, I don't think you can really win this that's it
What's the third molly he's picked up now he's picked picked up three molly
Yeah
It's a monster get some molly comes back throws over towards the wrap from spawn
Yeah, like you mentioned if you long you don't fight him. There's no way of winning it
eight one now
Rora continues this steamroll through Overpass and Payluck so checked out.
Everything they're throwing at them isn't...
How much of a fruition is that make of noise by Pariah?
Could have had one dead to right, but he doesn't and that leads to...
Yeah, actually, Zantara's getting a second behind it by being boosted up.
And never would have happened if Pariah had got his free beat.
It's entire is continue so you know not quite as crazy numbers you know he's like 14 and 4 or something so
You know a couple more deaths maybe on the card for him here, but in terms of just the domination to control the impact
Definitely continued. Yeah
You know opening doors as well. Yeah mad guy
Just going for it
absolutely brilliant stuff and
Well and Aurora T side that looks quite nice. Yeah, to be honest as we have
Criticized them not the only ones of their T sides. It's how we've had these like crazy over times with them involved
You have to bear in mind we had that quadruple overtime, but also there was an overtime on the third map as well. Yeah, yeah
There was kind of a mess
This is great by the way if scale so quickly into what the A site and they can kind of get their hooks in deep
through on the rotates
They don't even need to plant for bathroom or pariah
Again, this feels like one of those where it's like his timing could be everything so fly or find biggest error
Just doesn't expect the second play he doesn't
One goes down nonetheless, but it's flank upon flank here
Well KBF one the price in the background is diving in towards the scope of
Woxic and I think you see again left of the one versus two, but this looks like one he'll give a look into
to. Can't afford to lose it
though. There isn't any
residual cash for pain. They
need this one and watching on
the angle. He's quicker on the
trigger and it will be another
round and you can just see they
are dejected over towards pain.
They know this map and this
series is at a rapid pace
slipping away from them. Yeah,
not too much to add to be
here. It'll be the half by his pain. Looks set to concede this one. I just try and pick
up any round that they can. The overpass needs some work. And as we've talked about the main
issue with pain coming into this year and into this tournament, just that map pull
man. It's vulnerable. It's really, really vulnerable. And you know, they find themselves in a
position where they aren't really playing the adubus if anything trying to perm a
that way. It's tough. That is a
mindset coming into 2026 and
modern Counter Strike is not
great. A lot of teams new map
will come out. They'll kind of
work on it and they will allow
it to be played. You know, gone
are the days of like perma
banning the new map because it's
the new map and we don't want
to learn it and all that. It's
of something like overpass in your cycle but they've got overpass it doesn't look great
just too shaky and then ultimately anubis and ancient feel like two maps they want to be
banning and you only get one ban so the pool really suffers. I like this. Zontaris has found
one towards the top site they're looking like they want to double back magic just doesn't
expect him there the nade will get off how does he stay alive there and in doing so will
Wikipedia will make a little bit of a creep move through the monster pipe and he gets a kill of his own
Snow still remains on the site. He's got the support of pariah who opened up with a boost in towards short
Now double back towards the A site. It's a foot race in which they'll win so Bob will be planted by Maja
another really difficult retake for pain
Smokes down to make life awkward but a lurk one from so to try and get him out
Madro close with the orb.
Combat orping will work for him.
Washing dead to rights as he's backturned on Transformer.
1v3 turn 1 versus 2, it's all on parries.
A couple of nice moments for Paine in this tournament.
Looking for one again for the new gun on this side.
And Jill would trade places in towards Bank.
He tucks his head and he's overlooked.
Brilliant work coming through with another mid to late round adjustment
towards that top site, which works well for Aurora, double digits, and then they are absolutely
on fire.
Yeah, on the T side as well, which we've continually said is just like, you know, the most CT side
of mapping the pool right now, T side really, really difficult.
How am I to survive there?
That is, is that the sum up this pay performance?
I don't know what does.
I think they're dejected.
I think they know this map is just not for them.
Maybe they are to blame in a way perhaps the benefit the doubt that we gave them coming into this once we sort of eats
I was like, you know, it's coming you've had some time you can work on it still low reps. It's not like it's totally out
you see
Question he doesn't see them. I definitely got calm tomorrow on the radar though
You see him connect panic like one minute like you see him. I think he now might be known once he as well. Oh
He's given to my jet. This is my strongest praises he
Let's want to slide by there
67 HP for NQZ as that tag comes in
Okay, do you're in Soulfly left to try and pick up the pieces? Maybe they can
Soulfly tag blow. Jackie's known. Join his team in that, I don't think so. You don't expect a second here ever. Yeah
But they know that it's compromised deep, so it's like do you want to follow up on this?
Probably not.
Katie, however, off on an adventure.
Oh!
That's a no-scope!
Yeah, it's a no-scope!
Yeah, that's fair.
An immediate response is definitely needed there.
Oof.
25 seconds.
There's no bomb.
He's got to win this by a fight, basically.
I think it's happening. Molotov comes in, smoke on the top of that, and we've been very careful with these nades.
Brakes it, looking. He's just got the work. Yeah, there's no way right. This final player behind him. If snow had gone down, could have just run away and they would have won all the same.
down could have just run away and they would have won all the same. So people get to is
that going to be enough? Probably not. I think especially on your CT side, a lot of work out
here Aurora picking into this one for a reason and you can absolutely see why the combination
the series is very possible after this show.
I
Welcome back. I'm at one sided showing to say the absolute least Aurora look absolutely
incredible. 10 rounds in the first half of them on the T side of Overpass, no less than
a seed set of map in the pools. That is a statement and a half. All signed points
to Aurora closing out the map and the series pretty swiftly and starting with a pistol would all but seal that fate for pain
Indeed it is one step at a time now for the T side of the Brazilians
They have to ignore the score line above them grind those rounds out
and hopefully not lose any
All flight
Even indeed it's a lot of information. It's a lot of information the rotations now going to move away from
to be the hero in between these
two angles here. Good timing
for this, but he gets his head
cleanly taken off his shoulders.
The question of how things will
pan out now. We're Kadia down
below. I like it sneaky angle.
Checked. Yes, he does.
They're still not ready. Nearly
finds three. He's got a teammate
over on short as well to just
hold the line and make sure they
can't get any further. The
bombers awkwardly spilled
forwards on the left side of
the line. I like it. I like
it. I like it. I like it.
I like it. I like it.
I believe. So that needs
might be on the stairs.
Actually. Yeah. So okay, it's
all good for the bond
recovery, but it's man
advantage for Aurora. Right.
Reclaim the short space. You
got so fly. He's now left us
the last B bastion as the.
She comes through and he
will hit a shot. Only one
more to live on because there
are a couple of body shots.
potentially gonna get the plant he taps as he looks for the fights and it'll work against him
no bomb plant only a couple of kills that's not good enough i honestly they probably might have
been better off going for the plant then just having some bite to work with they would have got
that as a guarantee he goes for the round win rather than maybe the extra cash in the pocket
but it's just me a bit about a kid here he gets kind of double checked by NQC and it's a bit
of a flustered oh there is somebody and he turns around loses his head so does his teammate
all fours apart Aurora 11 to 2 now they are waltzing through this yeah they
just needed the round man it's it's fallen apart it's not happening this is
those generational comebacks you see once every couple of years you know yeah
we already had ours though for this week we had 11-1 yeah on the CT side and
then it was an 11-1 return that was fantastic we've cashed it in yeah that's
That's all for the year. We're not going to get another one like that.
11-1, 11-1 goes to overtime.
I said that now. We're going to have the record-longest game or something.
It's like 60 rounds, something along those lines.
Crazy work.
Our quality on the other day, I'll probably end up being the longest of the tournament, I'd say.
Yeah, for sure. I don't think there's really a chance for Aurora here to let that slip away.
Just the fact that, you know, it's like you're on the CT side,
picked up the pistol.
There's so many things, so, so, so many things
that pain have got to defy.
They also stink on this map, as we're seeing.
They have to be a grossly misplayed scenario
for this 2B squander.
But let's see.
They're starting to stale their way forward
through bathrooms.
They're pretty much feeling like they're
going to commit towards this A finish.
Probably a lot of U-Tool to use.
So wherever NQZ snow placed these smokes, that'll be slightly where the finish line is, and then they come softline for the first.
NQZ hits the deck, and in terms of that smoke, we're going to reload off up close.
Woxical loses life, but edges up in quick timing, as Antares here as well.
Decent trades though.
M4 out, able to hold the line as you would expect.
That's strong, the weaponry making the difference.
VSM, all brings it down to one.
He's on bottom.
Piki doesn't quite see me.
Here's his step.
Oh, and VSM will take him down.
Lovely stuff, 1v2, no keen celebrations just yet though, there's still a lot of work to be done.
How do you not win that one? The trades are really really effective there, by paying credit to them.
And VSM that I saw 1v2 at the end, it all starts so well, and when Madras and Torres get killed in peace they reassure the numbers.
I thought that VSM had overlooked it because he jumps over the box, he doesn't spot anything, but he taps the bomb plant, doesn't commit to it.
That's a great little play.
I don't know how to get away with it, but
you take him all the same.
VSM, bigger Zera.
In their way forward. This could be a bloodbath here in Towards Connector.
Molotov might make a bit of a difference off here.
That's when they'll die through. They're expected.
And VSM goes for two.
I recovered M4 worth its weight in gold, doesn't seem.
Double dink.
me to rotate away. Woxic as well. He could have caught Pariah and tried this, and that's the
bomb though. And because he's spotted, he turned down these doors too, and he's going to kill none
of them. That is so unfortunate for him. Snow and NQZ both really should be dead to rights,
but they're not. As the smoke comes down, there's nothing where KD can do. He'll have a
little look with the D. Eagle. He spots one towards Short, sees the head, but he can't hit
the shot. Somehow only the one couched Steve of Pain. They're pretty fortunate, but
I'll take them. Yeah, they most certainly are they most certainly are and you know, right place right time for
Aurora in the connector to kick the round off, but unfortunately the bullets
weaponry is not quite working out
So as you like saying it's thin margins, you know really uh quite close
Put a swung the other way pretty easily gonna be an eco out here pain should move up to five
lot of work to do
of course, but
I suppose if they can cleanly win the opening full rifle and everything
Maybe I start believing we'll see
Yeah, we don't believe
Just yet, but at least a nice steps and Tara is on the triple boost. He's waiting
When he takes a short control for now, it doesn't look like it's gonna be the case
And honestly, unfortunately, it looks like he might not even get tested there, spedding
themselves up for an A-Split.
A lot of connector, no reaction as well.
You can really see Paige trying to break down the puzzle a little bit.
Where are they?
Double mollies will give them connector control.
There's no information to be gathered.
I think as the time ticks on, they know that there's something nefarious brewing here.
Oh, and it's checked by BiggerZero.
Oh, I get the information.
It's towards B. A dive in with a pistol.
Soulfly will get one, but it's easy shut down.
That's the information gathered.
And now there's Ecos on the table, so they're hungry for them.
And VSM on the M4 is going crazy.
And I think it's blessed.
Cardi is 5'7".
Wow, good effort.
Sharp.
some guns away. I mean, the last thing you want to be worrying about is the money when
you're on this comeback train, so always good to make sure that is the case.
Oh, they're lovely money, too.
Taro's been a tricky discipline, but it works against him. Back in to the bye for
Aurora. And this will be a decent sort of tell whether there's actually any life
for pain. You can overcome this gun round from Aurora and especially if you can do it quite
efficiently too. We're in a really nice spot. Boosting over here. Woxic with the orb. I
like this. He's waiting to see if there's any mid control to be taken. Just creeping
underneath him. He's spotted ahead though. At least there's information gained but
no one's actually gone into his party. They've pushed through lower. That's kind
unfortunate it's a wrong idea it just both come through mid rather than going
into was party yeah and it's obviously a change of us using a triple boost right
that gives you full full vision so more of an info boost
I'm gonna use that information to their advantage and am I correct in thinking
we're up to four on a here I think so it's not a player floating around in
heaven anymore so really sold on the A hit seems like they would be correct the
bomb lurking over here just have to be careful not to reveal their hand too
earlier aura a spot long feeding into the off-the-earth and not careful as kill
comes in all the top is well burning pretty substantially woxic looking to
try and get one back magic reveals are we still gonna go here I think it's a
dangerously well defended bombsite and the R&D still rushing forwards, Wok 6 stands strong for 3
and Aurora hit 12. As soon as the guns come out, it's all too easy.
Yeah, it's a really nice gamble call. I was definitely still concerned about it when we're
seeing a kind of a pushing towards bar for him. It feels like they're maybe overplaying the cards
a little bit, over fighting unnecessarily but Wok 6 is so well. His isolation of
fight is excellent. The first, the second and this third one as well. The close
quarter shot on toward NQZ. That's the kind of arm we needed to see. Another
statement by Aurora. Yes, Payne. You've got a few rounds in Aurora off the back of
our lack of econ. What have you done to him play? Only one team in play, a
pariah. Makes his way in towards short. He takes immediate damage to the HE.
Well, this is it then for this series.
It's not knockout territory just yet for pain.
I think that's maybe why there's still a couple smiles on the face
because it's not all over.
This is a one-one game.
There is certainly potential to be facing some scarier teams.
Down below, however.
Yeah, nice little contact play.
Woxic still here on the orb, though.
He's the man.
Got our eyes on.
So far, CT side is going well for him.
This is the shot because they had to find Madra as well.
Suddenly the low by the the force by starts to pick up some more weaponry and
bolster their position. Yeah, it's actually getting a little scary, the
bomb's going back to B. There's no one here. They just immediately lose the B site.
You've got just Soulflab, he's rotating back up top side. Soulflab gets smoked
out. I honestly think they're probably just attempt to save and speaking
off. There's the smoke. It comes down. The B site's barren. Nothing so flag can do about
this. I think we're just going for a save here for Aurora. It's a pain in the
lid to see another day. A late move towards B, but a nice little adjustment in the late
round. Not bad just yet, but again, it still doesn't take away from how unlikely this
recovery is going to be contact flash clean eagle headshot you know they're still able
to create some kills here but I think Aurora potentially getting lazy with their peaks you
know and just very confident in themselves they know that the round extremely likely to
come their way by circumstance. Oh, so he's got no idea. There's an AK and shoring up
save as well which is a pretty big deal. There you go. No talks, they'll save. That'll be that.
Double a casualties but I never just slight upgrade, UPAK-47. Nice work. This is the kill we missed,
like, oh, it's a great shot from Bigger's error. So unexpected as well and also on the flips I
felt like Woxic was in a prime position to get a kill, he just misses the swing out from
from VSM and then can't capitalise on it with the break in the smoke.
Ain't out there just yet.
Still just trucking along ever so slightly.
The wheels are still on, but barely.
Woxy, look at that.
He's actually bailed them out a lot of rounds.
Oh, that felt like a freebie.
It's NQZ, you find Soulfly, but Woxy should have at least
traded, they've not got him before.
His teammate dies.
Fade away from Wikipedia.
It looks for a second, it's robotic from Wakadia, that is so damn sharp.
And the orb gets a tag through the corner of that wall.
And it leaves it all now, 2D goals on Wakadia and the AK-47.
How do they bear into 3 vs 3? They've got to rip a couple of heads, but NQZ and Pariah have got the right ears.
Eight clutch required for Wakadia. And is he going to give this a look?
I think so. Man, that sucks for the all pay. Really would have made a big difference. Could have been a heartbreak finish
But pain not going to be the case. Wikipedia sticking around here doesn't have a kit available as well
So maybe tries to go in for a late one. Gintara's just has to watch from the sidelines
Indeed get a bit bored as his Wikipedia
I'm not sure if I can get it.
Jolly not. Is he just been
spotted there? Just got 10
seconds. Oh, it's still close.
He was expecting a player. Can't
quite find him desperate attempts.
Not going to happen. Whether
that bomb might go off and take
some with it. I'll take big is
error. I'm out now from Aurora's.
They do indeed feel that they got
to get this one closed out
If it goes 12-8, that's 12-9, and then you're just in this loop of slightly weaker buys.
Yeah.
Like in a kit here, as you can see.
So, yeah, they really do need to talk things over.
It is definitely starting to get into a perilous position.
One that needs to be careful of.
There's two ways about that.
We shall see.
I mean, the beautiful nature of that kind of way Aurora are at the moment,
It doesn't really matter how they get there all they need to is just stumble over the line with one round
And at least looking a little bit more competent here than they were in the first half
There was so political on offer on their CT side
It just feels like when they're the take dictating the tempo and the pace of the game they've
Got a little bit more about them and that's across the vast majority of maps
We've actually a good run that we're getting here from pain it really begs the question
if we actually got a little bit more of a competitor first off like would we actually be considering the inferno at this point oh
Oh, yeah, awesome only a pixel to work with and I wasn't sure that NQC doubled back whether he had spotted
Yeah, I think he was getting ready to fight but obviously like just such a difficult angle to fight and it's kind of a relatively new boost as well
Well, that's neat.
OK, dear.
Lucky'd still be alive.
Woxic, getting aggro.
This is the bomb, which is spotty, but he misses a shot.
He keeps smoking towards the fighter,
and all he wants to do is just fall away with his life intact.
There's a gaff on the crack angle of the fighter,
a spam on the spokes, not far off.
Just try a slow pain down now.
still looking pretty scary smoke at the front and a bathroom they do have a
player that's pushed up here could catch Woxic flash not good enough too
obvious and he's easily able to land that one it looks done here it does
indeed low HP flanking it's a catch surely over now yeah the flash works
Snow left low HP with that bomb get dropped. It's all on to prior junior and he will fall easily
Aurora's timeout works for them quite nicely
And it will be 2-0 going in for the Turkish squad not quite pains day. Unfortunately. I mean, yeah, they needed to win out that nuke
We knew that
Valiant attempt to the comeback not going to be enough just that first half absolutely
dreadful, which is a surprise, you know.
A lot of teams on the CT side have overpassed,
even if you're not proficient on it,
can just stumble their way into like five rounds,
something like this, and then it's the T side
where things really struggle.
It's not the opposite here today.
Yeah, it's one of those things where you give a lot of credit,
in a sense, to Aurora.
Just that T side was so well put together,
and it was such a nice showing of that synergy
that sometimes the side do lack,
and they, okay, just lose track of a real good
showing of the identity with the flip side. We've got none of that for pain. There's definitely a map that needs all the work
for the Brazilian side and as a whole it's a 204 Aurora as they move themselves up into the 2-1
bracket and pain now find themselves on the chopping block in the 1-2. Cannot afford another loss here in stage 2 of ProLegal.
We have to bid them farewell and so of course how the Swiss system works
but in the end I mean a really really good showing. The first map was pretty clean for the most part from Aurora
and especially that first half of map number two is a showing of dominance and kind of showing what we
assumed about the field at the moment that Aurora are just kind of head and shoulders above pain in
this current stage. Yeah, definitely just feel that way. I think it's safe to say, you know, Aurora
in this position of power where teams below them, they generally look pretty good, maybe a couple
messy experiences against legacy, for example, but that's a team that, you know, capable,
team. They've had a lot of
pressure on the team. As we've
seen in the past of beating
teams like Aurora, maybe not at
the moment, but it seems like
they've had a resurgence into
Pro League. So they're a
difficult one to put away, but
team like pain. Everybody sort
of knows where this team is at
at the moment. What to expect
from them and Aurora able to
beat that. But then when it
comes to breaking through their
proverbial sealing Aurora,
maybe struggling with that
into this year. So yeah, a
curious team to see, but I
It was one of those kind of really interesting series of fame where you know we've been highlighting yes
Especially on towards nuke as well the likes are kind of prior and through single door or vs em
But both of them couldn't really find consistent form those flashes of brilliance a moment here and there
But it wasn't to be in even the likes of NKZ as well
Yes, these moments where he could be incredibly flashy this shotgun style or pink
But we just never got to see and I think that comes down to Aurora really suffocating pain not allowing them
It's kind of really play their style a kind of strike
like, as we're having a college, you can just see just where Aurora always kept themselves
with a nice bit of breathing room. We will, I guess, get to see what it looks like for
them going forward. I don't know. Just yet, we don't know until the end of the day what
the games will be looking like for them in the, the ones that I guess it's whoever
loses out of house one goals, spirit G2. So there's going to be some scary teams
up there. It's also whoever joins them in this one, one bracket. He's like,
the next kind of bracket. You
know, you don't necessarily
want to be in the two two
because again, it's a similar
kind of story that there'll be
some scary teams. But that's
the way the stage two is. Look,
I mean Aurora are the team
that should be fitting outside
of those, you know, for the
dimension. Maybe not G2, right?
But your your mouse, your
Mongolian, your Mongolian
you're going to have to. Right?
Um but your your mouse, your
Mongols, your spirit and then
maybe you have Navi, but
Navi. I think we're in a similar
bracket to Aurora really. So it's
certainly a team that should be
beating out should be hopefully
pushing forwards. The only
difficulty maybe is like the
end up facing the Mongols again
in the two one bracket. That's
a squad that they sort of
a difficult run for Aurora, but
they should be capable and we
see some of the high highs of
what this team can do. Right?
Everybody fragging across the
board there on the overpass and
certainly looking very comfortable.
We don't see, you know, too much
out from their CT side, but the
T side was really, really solid.
Again, though, it's one track.
It's simple to deal with in
theory. If you can shoot back
and pain just could not
as well. And then take a look at this bracket. We were just talking about how things are panning out
in that other game that's going on the asian right now phase took map number one. That was a
1311 right saying over Monty. So right down to the wire in that one. I'm just going to look what the
score is map two phase or 11 seven off looking like phase on track for a two zero there as well.
But looks like we're going to have an interview as well in just a second. We'll be bringing in
We've got a lot of players
who have been, uh, knowing to
you are not ashamed. We will
we're thinking about it, but
not to be in this case, but
sometimes always good to check
in, but, uh, the tech issues
allowed or not is a different
story, but only our first game
of the day here on the beach
and we've got still plenty
more action as we are kind
of continuing to run through
these games of teams in a bit
of the middle of the park,
right? Still trying as you
kind of put it the week from
the chaff and whatnot. We've
got foot taken on 3D Max
of a banger. Both these sides are loose and wild. So we'll see how low our hands are,
but before we get there, we're going to break it too soon.
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Welcome back in. We are looking at our next series here.
We've got player arrivals from home, of course, getting the cameras set up
as it has been sort of a point of contention, you know, a lot of them, a little unsure how cameras work almost, I suppose, but either way, we are moving into the foot vs 3D Max matchup here.
Looking forward to this one, to be honest with you, I think, you know, both of these teams have pretty unique styles, it's safe to say, and 3D Max, a team that we have less expectations for, but they actually look pretty decent in stage one.
foot meanwhile absolutely flying but they're hitting a wall you know these bigger teams
trying to really really impress and they just can't quite beat them up.
Yeah and we caught this foot as well today we were just woefully unimpressed by them they
all fell up so so little in that Astralis game they just looked nullified in round
one of the stage two which surprised us you know they came in towards that game and
it was the pretty clear favorites to be perfectly honest and that's no sort of disrespect
to Astralis is more so the respect for foot. We've been rapidly climbing the ranks, but
since then a win over Heroic has put them now of course in towards this 1-1 bracket.
And the question is, can they continue to sort of find a little bit of, you know, further
form? Was that just a hiccup to open things up? Here's their run so far as well for this
side. They've got a win over M80 and Passion U8, 2-1 in both of those. Now 2-0 over
the game. They were going to
play a lot of the game. They
were a strollers into all stage
one were feeling good. They get
a strollers again into words
station two and well, they
obviously went the way that we
saw. They just got
decimated them be a rowing in
a three mapper and now they
look to continue that run of
things, and this is a side
that. It would be in Frank as
well, especially because this
is so used to playing online
because of how they come up
as being. These stages should
be comfortable for them, and
I mean, a bit of an annoying one against Astralis, a hiccup maybe, as they, you know, take it in their stride, 3D Max though, kind of an interesting look for them.
Ultimately, a relatively strong Stage 1 as well. They get Spirit, that's a tough bag, lose out there, and then they get Furia, that's also a tough bag, but they win that one.
going to get curious. The big
thing is Mirage perma band away
and that is foot's favorite at
the time being so it certainly
could be a little tedious, but
they have the ancient they could
lean on here. Another matter
that 3D Max don't like so much.
Um the inferno Banna way works
after he max so it a veto that
could be very, very interesting
and I think both teams. Able
to direct it in certain ways.
Yeah, he got started perma
bands, right? We actually
make it a little bit more
not enjoying ancient, which feels like a natural punish pick and also a map as well that full
of really been playing a lot of reps on. So we get the Maraj to get the Inferno. I feel
like you're going to go ancient here. Dust 2 is where 3D Max are going ahead. And then
as of the side there, you do actually have a couple of options and it really depends
on what you value more, whether you actually want to be going into a puggy map, which
I think that 3D Max won't. I don't think you're going to want to tempt fate with
kind of a puggy map as a sort of a decider in a sense. So you may be looking towards
Maybe we could see an overpass here.
It feels a bit better than letting a,
let me, I speak too soon,
the other person's gonna get banned out second wave.
So that's too ancient, overpass banned.
Nuke?
Oh yeah, Nuke I guess, but it's good for foot,
it's the real worry.
And then foot ban it out, okay.
You get the Anubis that comes through.
That was definitely on the lower stages.
I'm so surprised that foot let the Anubis come through.
They're one from seven on that map, we're on Nuke.
They've been not playing as much, but they've won all but one of their games.
Yeah, there's some interesting things to look at here.
You know, the Dust 2 and the Anubis maps that win rate wise, not fantastic for the foot, but relatively high reps.
I think there's a team that could shoot better than 3D Max, to be honest.
I think that a lot of it's going to come down to that with the way that these two teams like to approach the game.
So I'm quietly going the way of foot, I think, in terms of maybe even slashing a 2-0 here.
I think there's a lot of teams
at that level that have been
there for a while. Maybe not
having the same level of respect.
Right so I think this is going to
be a really, really fun matchup
and one where 3D Max, which is
something that we know can
happen from time to time with
the 3D Max side, you know, you
got a young team. You got the
new upstart 3D Max. But yeah,
we'll be able to show them
and, you know, teach them how
it's like in the tier one
here, um, and maybe even we
would maybe consider foot in
matchup and one where 3D Max have to watch themselves. Yeah, I think you're correct. For 3D Max, they also can't afford to play foot at their game. You know, we kind of even saw in that Astralis matchup. Astralis did not give for any time to set up and play the way that they like to play. They don't allow them to kind of go for these really
Puggy games and allow them to kind of dictate the the tempo. That's what 3d max afternoon
They have to try and suffocate foot. That's how you beat the side at the moment if you
Kind of get down to the basics and just go for a kind of a bare-knuckle brawl
You can't win against us at the moment. They've got too many heavy hitters long since been incredible
Demon of course continues to be as the namesake says and Krebbenny was the best rate of player and towards stage one
He was absolutely flying jokes was also within that top 10
So you look at that and it's like four different players who can have incredible incredible run of things
You're in real benefit that you'd argue 3d max have is that they win in the orc department
My car is seen at the moment a slightly more valuable than cemetery
So that's the one thing they've got to lean on for them
But generally speaking we know that 3d max like they're really
Uncomfortable style of kind of track that a lot of teams don't enjoy playing against and that's what they've got to bring
foot to play it
We're gonna find out shortly. I think we are just waiting for this map to get started
Hopefully not gonna be played by issues as we did have a few shaky ones
On I think we are actually so doing so we're actually a first over to the issue for a little bit for this game gets underway. Go check it out
If you wanted to learn how to clutch like a 1v2 or 1v3, I would also love to do that
Let's see. So even going in spec. That's how much I believe you've got this and it's dropped her as well
Oh, no, this is just a left click regular sorry. Yeah, just a regular
Looks good looking great promising. Oh, what a bounce
Let's go look at that prayer. No gaps gaps perfect
Thank you, we are cooking on dust too right now, and I'm gonna impress all my 5000
Are you ready to try and put it together?
I'd like you to try and flash me long and then smoke the cross love. Yes, okay
Of course, but I'd like to role play so can we go to spawn and can you can I ask for their util and you can even offer the util
You know we'll get into that. Okay. You ready? I've got a good spawn. I'll be like here and you're
You've got that spawn. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, okay
Uh, Freya. I've got a long spawn. Can you flash me? Of course I can. I don't know exactly how to do that now
How convenient is that? Do you know when to throw it? Like now?
Oh beautiful. I'm out. I'm out. Oh, I'm scared though. They might have an orb
Uh, hmm
Tell you what, I'll flash it, you can smoke cross
I can certainly do that
Okay, I'll keep my gun out, they might be pushing, you know
Oh, you should probably have a teammate playing at it
Tell you what, I'll molly car while you're doing that
Should be smoke
Cast molly, okay
Yo, actually, crowd now?
Proud now
Let's go, no way
No way
I will never not be able to take long
ever. That's crazy. Okay, but I don't get dissuaded for it. You're going to join your first matchmaking
Dust2 game and you're going to forget the lineup. It's just right of passage. It's going to happen.
It's natural. Yep, it's going to happen. I don't know if this one might be fun.
You want to like a mythic difficulty to finish our nades? Sure. Okay, this is a spec, Joby.
All right. See if I even remember it myself. Yeah, see if you nail it. Oh, you got it.
Does it do the dribbly down? It's not dribbling. I'm supposed to dribble.
Okay, but it's still useful. I was trying to do the full, like, you know, you smoke CT as well.
Yeah, it's this little blemish. Left click throw. So you walk up to the stairs, you go until the
stairs are all completely hidden. But you know, you can't see any more of the stair.
Yep. And you just look up and I'm looking at
like this white bloke.
Or a very specific mark.
I'm just I mean like there's two kind of stains on the wall
I'm usually looking for this and this and I'm just gonna aim it up there
Okay, it's reasonably for I think it's quite forgiving, but I don't know if we get the dribble driveliness that I'm looking for
That's what I'm oh wow
That's a real waterfall when we partner that one with
This one which okay. Hang on wait. Can you remember it? Do I middle-click? Do I do it when I'm crouched and then I?
stand up and throw or do I aim then crouch MC knows MC's watching he knows I
think it's middle click you see like this is just you know you put your cross
there in between all of these jibblies you do a left right click left right I
think wait for it I think I stand let's see that's not it not the one you
were looking for but it's what it's finicky but I was certain it's a
middle clicker. I think I do it while I'm crouched and I stand up. That's the
batcher. Okay, okay, okay. So if you want to put them together for I'll do it one
more time because I haven't explained myself very well. We hide the stairs.
Stairs are hidden. Aim at the stain. I'm still holding crouched. I'm throwing.
And then I aim I stay crouched I aim at that then I release crouch I release
That's a middle click right middle click I left and right and then you've got CT and all the wall
That's a really cool one. It's super super satisfying to throw and you feel powerful
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, would you would you like to try I will give it a go
I'd like to so
The love that you know
Huntsman by any chance back. It's uh, it's it's stained
What even I'm just trying to look at it from how she don't know I actually got it from so you know back in the day when you used to watch
ECS, I think it was yeah used to do face it points drops
This is before working in it. I got jobs 50,000 face it points and you bought this bad boy. Yeah, that's so sick
His name is Cole.
I'm going to go spec so I can kind of see what's going on here.
OK, so you want to crouch.
So you want to see the stairs when you crouch initially.
So you can kind of know you're lining it up.
So yeah, like there, crouch.
You know, a bit more stair, so a little more to the left.
You're going to go to the left.
Try and line up with, like, the second or third.
Oh, wait, I'm crouching this one.
And we want to make it just disappear.
There we go.
Boom.
And now we're looking for those stains.
Little higher on those whites.
Like, the big white square is your good.
Yeah, just to the right of that.
Left click throw.
Let's see, looking pretty close, pretty close.
Still functional.
It's not got the water for the water.
I'm gonna come to your side,
I'm just gonna find on your screen.
I'm gonna go.
All right, so here, bang, there's the, like there.
This is very exact.
Let's see.
No way. It did it. That's exactly it. Wow. Flawless. Pretty sick. Okay. That looks so
cool. Okay. It's so useful as well. Like the CT players can't shoot your boys on the cross.
Wow. Okay. Would you like to try the second one? So from that same position. Yeah, this
one's a bit tricky, isn't it? Yeah, but from exactly where you were, so do you steer
lineup thingy so you see the stairs now you don't a little bit yet but perfect and
then it's just in between those all like in the center of where all those little
metal things are pointing mm-hmm so a little more central like yeah that's
perfect yeah and then it's a hold down left and right then release crouch and
throw
boom that's both of them you've literally both of the way yeah yeah yeah we got
Well, hi news
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So we're getting there. I just want you know, we're getting good. We're getting a promising promising. We have a little bit of like a
Yeah, yeah, really good science
And I've got one more thing for you further and we'll finish on a high. Oh, yeah
We haven't touched the B site
B site is one of the sites one of the sites and
You know, it can be quite frustrating when your team calls be rush and no one's flashing. Yes. Yes. I've been there a lot
Actually more than I would like I'd like to change that and I think we can
Let's go to I'm gonna go to you side
Sorry if you press M and join me we can party hello
So
They always love calling the B rush and it's always me going first
You know the call to be rush and then they stop here
Yes, and then you keep on running.
If you're doing a full B rush, obviously this is not for the B rush.
If you're doing a proper B rush, you see this little window here?
Yes.
It's like square.
If you're just running and left click and flashing that direction, it lands in that
little cubby, so your teammates don't get blind, but you know, people on site will.
You aiming at the window, in the middle of the window?
Yeah, in its vicinity as I'm running forward.
Bang.
Oh, that's sick.
See?
That's pretty nice.
the back of the car. It's a
really cool guy, etc. That's
very cool. Can you throw it? And
can I hold the car just to have
a little look? All right, we are
back in well in for the first
time, actually. Little bit of an
issue just getting everybody in.
But now it does seem like it
is sort of touch wood. That's
what we say. Do what you do
for good luck. Cross your
fingers, cross your toes,
and hopefully we are underway
here foot kicking things off
and relatively clear favorite
the case here. The dust two is
an unlikely map you would say for
football. I just think they are the
better team at the moment. Yes,
true. Exactly. And this is the thing
that can just hit a little bit harder.
Masuta as well is playing against his
former size. We'll see how he pans
out. His exes he used to dives out.
Our next year for one and tapping through
the smoke will get dings. That's
pretty unfortunate.
And we'll go down on a bad start for
3D Max real punchy pistol round here.
Yeah, gonna be hard to retake in as we know smoke coming down as well
Kind of a lurking smoke from the CT end to try and make that work
I
Don't know what he's gonna be able to get away with the he needs his teammates to fully distract here
And indeed he does get one causes that charge forward to the Julius Amaka not quite able to deliver
But it's the Glock and Masuta against his old team that will see it off
Avenger dish best serve called nice work from Masuta is you know that first player diving out
Well, he's not the one who gets the kill he's ended up with three in the round really nice way to start out
Really nice pistol to be taken. You know, you look at a 3d max. They're the kind of rounds that
You want to be see and we did also say that we don't want to be going in towards a bare-knuckle brawl with foot
But the fact that 3d max can have that kind of a round which is a complete blood bath and still come on on top
is a real confidence booster.
Everybody speaking foot will
always overwhelm when it comes to
raw fragging power. That's a nice way
to start things off. Decent attempts by
Longstreet Cabrini.
What's up, baby?
Do you get the four-star with FAMAS and a few upgrade
pistols? It's alright.
Should be a simple one for 3D Max
to find a third.
But gravity gonna get tagged up by the Nade
that'll make him further vulnerable once
happenable now as well by the FAMAS.
So in terms of like the time and just sort of for the viewers at home, you know, you mentioned about the suit, uh, yeah
It's he in that full
French lineup that you know, yes, yes, didn't necessarily play with any of these guys
I know he came in with the likes of the the jacks the Mavirus
Devadoe there right he was the og full out of their first lineup and it was actually very very brief
but obviously they got the opportunity to pick up the Navi junior core and
And we've seen what's happened for them.
But yeah, even though he with them feels like a couple of months,
they went for initially came into counter strike.
And if I'm right and saying, I think that was a line of action
that went to Epic Land in the UK, they came out
too mighty catering for an event.
So yeah, I played a couple of lines and then I think the core
that side went on to the few of the things and now they're
sort of all gone there.
They're seven ways.
And of course, he'd be now fine.
a shooter with. Taking body's place within
3D Max. They've died out towards B once again, and a lot of damage has been dealt, but it's
just not enough to tempt for on the retail. So hopefully, the land of honest people see
how the series does. It's a bit of a. Maybe, but you can kind of see why they obviously
went for the move and what they picked up. Really strong team and I'd say it's worked
you know the the original French lineup it would have been a slower grind it feels like yeah
Vera still only 24 while yeah
A team for him at the moment is doing what he really is on a team from that remaining kind of a
four or five bar. Masoots was Jax who's playing with a honestly a pretty scary looking mix the
the Hashirahs, you know, borrowed Burf from Skye, Queenie, Xperna Love, but rumors I've been seeing on the Great Vine that Burf from Skye is getting picked up by an Org, so they obviously had something like behind them, they had the Kono thing and that went sideways, maybe you don't pick up a team if you've not got any money.
Oh, it's good advice. Yeah, nice to be honest. That's kind of maybe the first rule
And they decided to worry about that later and it's kind of cost them
What could be a decent roster but yeah, that's a different story of course we now move into
Another chance actually for foot as the previous round just sort of fizzle sound not really much presence
Which fighting going on?
So they could do some damage here 3d max have to be very careful. Oh
I love them. That's also a great CC lurk smoke that generally speaking CC with throw as long controls being taken so they can take that for free.
I think the thing is the few players out towards long will have spotted that that smoke is just not worked at all. So it really stops them from doing anything and yeah complete positional change up here from foot.
this. Oh my goodness. What's the plan for 3D Max's the question? Are they ready for a move? It feels like yes,
they're set up with the guns. There's a lot coming around this corner though. However,
they will fend it off. Texas East in particular up close. Now going to be down to just launch to
see if he can recover this one on two. Oh, let's see. Double back towards short.
He smoked on the cross. He's kind of ready for the engagement. One spotted ramp as well.
The bomb's made its way underneath him though. He doesn't realize it just yet. Now he's spotted
it. Flurksmoke, another ding on towards his position. How he's still alive I do not know,
but eventually he will fall. It's not a bad effort. Another round. All the French
as 3D Max are starting pretty well on towards their map pick.
At the gates in Dust 2, there's still some gimmicks here
from Foot, which are causing a couple of problems.
They may be ever so slightly over-fight.
3D Max called for a freeze,
and they were guns out ready for it.
I don't know if I've overwhelmed quite nicely,
but the first gun round, this is a good test
to see what we've got on offer.
Maca tries to pop shot through the door,
but a little behind the two crossing.
This is the big test we we did question when we look towards his veto about this map in particular
See what thought I've got for us we've got open play for cemetery
Soon as cameras froze that looks like it's not even looking
Yeah, definitely has I think that cameras froze just trying to show off the snatch
It's almost a no look sniper shot. Look at this. This is all instincts, baby. Yeah
Oh, I can't say it. Oh for that one. Yeah, he might have he might have reacted a bit quicker
Riffrel vision gaming
Feeling maybe yeah, I was gonna say I think the foot side in general is at a small freeze either way I
See what we can find here is 3d max
towards middle. They trade out a B meanwhile, but gravity charging in real clean. 10 seconds
to get this bomb down. Maybe want to focus on that rather than throwing a cheeky flash.
It's definitely close there, but they feel like they've done enough work to see this
one off. Gravity loses head quick though, longs looking to try and go in for it. The
AWP takes him. Not sure if Krebbeni fancies his chances. It's still early on in the
game and thought not afraid of throwing themselves into these situations.
His main noise on V2 for a flash in his face as well.
That might just prompt him to leave.
Thank you for long.
So don't think you expect the second player to be out until as long.
So he's just knife out round that corner and an easy one for Mako.
But that round is sort of one and done by gravity.
You by example for unfair play.
Foot looking a little bit feeble. I don't know if we're maybe the cryptomakes
I've been watching a lot of foot on their rise to success of in tier one and when
watching them as just a spectator and a joyer of Counter-Strike, cleaning
crisp and so dominant. The two times I've casted them this year, i.e. the
Astralis game and now I feel looking weaker than their usual selves. The thing
I'm seeing though is there's a lot of reads actually from 3d max. They seem to be prepared
You know they have an a play there with a man in upper tunnels
It's like okay usually when a happens they like to push through here. So really well caught and then
we had that sort of
Save of the force by round where they all stacked on top of each other again something that
Foot have shown in the past, you know that they like to just sort of group up and get cheeky in some of the force buys
and 3D Max were waiting for aggression, only one player with nades out, you know,
everybody watching for the push, rather than having a nade out or sort of looking
at their teammates, you know, not being lazy and paying off massively 3D Max.
Clearly done some work, but maybe feeling that they take a time out to figure things out,
both bye-wise, of course get their heads in the game here.
Well ding, Demon doesn't take as much as the sound might assume.
Smoke again, I know someone's close to the block, Benny, how is he still alive?
Demon will go down to the hands of Exorcist, but in order to carnage, Semitri had made
a move, but Exorcist is still causing problems moving behind, Semitri, again, another
smoke wall bang headshot
He's getting all the little trinkets on the kill fee
But it's still a numbers advantage for 3d max and exes sees he's double alone and basically giving them space towards the site
Two versus three I think once again, they're gonna angle to the save this is
Looking tough. I'm incredibly serious 3d max appliance on excellent countertrack in the moment
the exit. Oh, yes, it's
quick.
Go in for a bit more. Actually,
the actual come to him, so he
will get taken down. But yeah,
as you say, three max looking
able to get up to their usual antics. 3D Max definitely added more structure, I think in
2025, but traditionally, this crop of players also have some antics up their sleeves. So I
think they're used to playing against these kinds of teams.
And I take one level as well for foot. They were catching a lot of teams off guard because
it is so brazen some of the plays they were making. 3D Max, they're just such
a well-prepared team despite maybe the recent form being less than adequate.
I don't know what the feeling is like for this side.
And they've re-upped in the coaching department,
Wacink now in with an assistant coach, MBK.
I love that name, it just makes me think of like,
Monty Python sketches, you know, when they're doing the
stereotype in the French and stuff, but Wacink, it sounds like a very French.
It does.
Kind of name, I love saying that.
And you know, one of those where
before that as well, with likes of MbK and
nice veteran legend to have all this side to Miss Molly there by Macca.
She makes for a back side, but I just clip the wall. The bounce is ramped, which doesn't seem bad initially, but
see a position that they already hold a re-smoking towards
to be. Juggs is here. He's got
support. He's going to get his
head called. What a clearance
ecstasy and my suit. Excellent
works. Let me sure find one
through the door. Pop shots
aren't bad. Don't get me wrong.
The bomb goes down nonetheless
and another one which foot
will not want to give a look
into this. No way there.
very much in their DNA, but three stacked inside the smoke moving together as a unit.
Symbiosis over on the B bomb site is just beautiful to watch.
They'll keep it going. Flawless run thus far.
It's ecstasy, some Masuta towards the top end of things, but yeah, this is just
really great. Maybe that M4 going a little early.
Perhaps a soldier's teammate down the river and just gone for the bait play.
The second time out for foot already don't blame them though to be honest
Julio that's involved here as well to try in standing the ship that's taken on a
lot of water six and oh down that's kind of cruising they're not really doing
anything to an orthodox these rounds just looking considerably sharper you
look across the board as well for foot there's just no one really shining
long seven maybe a bit of a moment here and there but for the most part it's
also of exit frags or a non-impact frags you max all looking so good this
that is just maneuvering around the map is getting so much free space what have you got
for us off the back of second pause I'll be one of your stars I don't think that's intended
yeah that left side of mid is smoke guys don't worry don't worry that angle's covered
I'm not going to go back to the
first time in a while, but you
just feel like it shouldn't
really be happening at the
pro level for 3D max post time
out, bursting into be here. Is
it going to be effective so far?
The answer is no far too strong
and they will just mow them
down only losing one in the
process. Exactly what foot
needed, but as we see time and
time again, those be bursts
are just so up in the air
a way around there before
shadowing with that miss smoke.
It really felt like a complete
shut down. Jokes as well.
West preventing three from the
backside kept dipping his head
into the engagements and doing
so well. So immediate time out
in response by 3D Max, which
is, you know what the fair
play? I do just wonder, you
know, score lines like this
positions like that. Obviously
sure you have to assume that it's kind of 50 50. So does it
become like a research mission of like, okay, what are they
doing on the B bomb site? They continuing to play three over
there. You gather a lot of info. Maybe you set them up as
well. Yeah, I was now you look to slow things down, potentially
a lot of teams like to throw those rounds off the back of
pauses, because not only, you know, the court on court of
like, oh, we may be catching some off guard. But actually,
in a little lot of cases, it's like, it's two things is
players believe in that they are just better, right? So they believe that B hits can be a
great right? This is obviously, to be in a league competitive like this, they're going
to have this belief that they are better. And also, it's about like winning the mental
game too. If you win a round like that off the back of a pause, you just decimate them
in towards a B rush. Like you are going to get tilted, you are going to check out
a little bit and that's where you can win the mental game as well as the game
in the server. So that's where teams like to throw their sort of rounds in. It's
that real belief that we are better. If I run at them, I'm going to win this
this angle, no matter what their setup is, but fortunately not to be.
So back to the more defaulty style for 3D Max, which has been working so far.
And I guess they've also conditioned them to slow rounds.
Yeah, well, this is it, right?
A quicker one, try to catch them off guard just, again, you can't beat foot of those
type of rounds.
You can draw them into your game plan, and this sort of style, no one really likes
playing 3D Max on them, and they're kind of, they're flow, it's just an awkward
style of play as they slowly saunter around the ebb and flow of the map. With the punchy
arounds that's sort of more of Foot's wheelhouse.
Close and personal here, any weighing around this corner.
If you have a flash or they turn away from it, maybe turn away from their own flashes
but ultimately gravity is able to deny him that opening frag. Cemetery hit on the side
does get one. Looking for a bit
more though going to absolutely need it
and he is denied away. Demon down below.
Tank pretty low himself. No, gets the dink
but no kill and Launx recovers that orb, takes it out
and we'll be moving into the next round.
All by himself. 3D Max after a timeout. Right
back on the board. Yeah, that's it, right? Back in
towards these slow sauntered rounds.
You create a bit of space. You set yourself up
and then you dive in towards the execute.
That's more in the back pocket of 3D Max, the quick rushes and those very fast pace rounds
foot are going to feel a little bit more comfortable with dealing with because it's something that
they like to throw in to catch off a lot of teams.
7-1.
3D Max, T side, Dust 2 looking brilliant.
Nearly next to no complaints for this side.
I'll try again.
I'm dragging it.
Yes, it's quite nice candid picture as well of like the AK in its natural habitat.
That's got background energy to it.
This maps very, very rapidly approaching the rounds of being right off the foot.
Yeah, panic is being pressed. You know, you get the one round, it is kind of 3D max feeding it to you though in a sense.
Not necessarily one where you have outwitted your opponent.
And then they're right back, you know, so it's like, are you actually capable of winning rounds, or are you just capable of like holding house one when the kills come to you?
They get caught by the mack here. Gravity does charge through a smoke. It's a risky move, but it pays off.
Smoke.
Back over towards the cross. The one in this case.
Three players here.
Oh!
That is unfortunate for Kobani.
Caught at the tail end of that smoke.
Just above it.
Orb is here.
This is the opportunity cemetery.
Kind of needed that second time I'm asking for a deliver, but it's still positive trades.
The double orb setups maybe got something brewing,
a lot of ticks in the molly and
the HG behind it will leave
long, revealing bomb down. And I
think again a save for foot.
They cannot give this one a
looking. And another round for
3D Max with it just waltz
into wars on a side. They're
so good at scaling up
through. Diving in at those
last stages behind some great
utility. Yeah, I mean just
really overwhelmed seems to be
the issue for 3D Max. Sorry
for further moment. There's always one or two players getting caught off by the speed and
confidence of 3D Max. Does that come down to the map and not quite having that 110% sense
of timing? Is it just the fact that 3D Max is kind of on a heater in a moment? It's
really looking very well drilled. So potentially some chit chat in between games and certainly
You know beating fury yesterday that probably wakes them up a little bit to like hold on a minute
You know we might be so I'm house with yeah a good chance of qualifying here
Hey, I'm gulio. I'm using all my time bus and it's first off
I'm kind of surprised that he's got to set the head straight. You know. Yeah, it's not necessarily about tactics
I feel that you need
Like an eight four to really even have a proper fighting chance nine three does not feel in the wrong possibility
I don't think Gravity was spotted there by Cemetery.
Does briefly come something though, so look at that, it's a really wild move, and Creveni
was so wary of that possibility, Molly in for the cross, and Cemetery now gonna be
tested, there's Molly down, and a dive through as well by Makka, very aggressive from 3D
Max in the early part portion of
looking to go four men through the tunnel with a real lack of utile.
I have this one round where they played like three in the smoke,
got perfect timing, and I think suddenly they're like,
oh, maybe we're good at taking B, but yeah,
there's some luck on their side for that one.
It's a touchdown flash.
Going to be required.
There's contact available from the CT side, though.
The Orp is here as well.
Does get traded for any day after know about
because where did that flash come from?
He does well to take another.
Oh, moved in quick, but he's traded out.
It's all going to be onto Lucky.
Their highest rated player of stage one.
We'll see if he can tap into that here.
Two more to get through.
Moving slowly, but just about able to make it
into his safe space.
Will they expect him over here?
The bomb planted for him.
How does he opt to play it?
Here's one dropping down, but the AWP takes his head off
and Foot will manage to get there second.
They couldn't just duck in time.
Really was hoping that he could find one and dip back behind the bricks, but Cemetery
And it's a nice shot and such a necessity as well for foot. It just about keeps him afloat
Well, this is what I prefer. He's very unlucky with the second, but
She's good training off the back of this and infert. He had really just didn't need to fight
That is a really really good shot though from Cemetery. He's had some criticisms about him on the AWP
He's looking really damn good as a boost as well
Catches Maca, but knows is the foundations that boost somewhere else and they're gonna peek in towards him. This is a risk
Doesn't opt to shoot
Cemetery holding the crack here is he gonna see some action
Time being nothing coming his way meanwhile in the longhouse
kind of an unbeatable spot unless the flush is perfect which it is
Traders out now for the Frenchman. They will even things up
Be down to
Slow the roll in case 3d max attempt to buy a long presence, but for now it looks like a short play
Bob in the back of Lockheed will
Enjoying gravity the smoked out they got a minute to work. It's not in a rush
PD max, you know, they like slowing these rounds down
And he'll come up close. 2-1-1 is the split that foot are going for. 1-3-mid-1 anchoring B. It's cemetery on the door.
Orbs and anchors always a bit of a risk. It doesn't look like he'll be tested here. Open retakes even harder.
Flash in by Krimenny. That is bold. He actually just about gets 1. Is that going to be enough?
Well, maybe. There's a flank and that's the bomb too. Juggs surely single-handedly might have just done this for them.
gets one, he deals damage with an eight on to another,
and then he's gonna force them in towards the AWP,
and that's where that secondary orb of Longs can nail some quick shots.
He's looking really quick, Longs,
and primarily, of course, with that orb as well,
which he doesn't always pick up.
That's great to see.
Yeah, it's that big change up, I think, really.
The round's not working for them.
What can we do?
And indeed, it is the orb.
Just makes it a bit easier to catch those quick moves,
the timing plays as the Orc can creep in, get a shot off and try and hide away, your automatic
weapons have to commit a bit more to your fights which is tough because 3D Max is doing so well
in the pack with their trading. It's a lovely little change. Long's with the spawn out
towards Long here, he re-peeks in dangerous move but he will make it work. Shooter tagged
up, tries to go for more. I'm going to be punished, it's just absolutely impenetrable
here over to the block. Macca the only one left sprays down to pretty healthy actually after
that so maybe a slip chance. Now made softens him a little more. Not going to happen for
Macca eight to four at the turn of the half. I'd be pretty happy with that to be honest
foot with a keen recovery there. We'll see if they've given themselves enough steam
to work with into half number two.
Welcome back in a, honestly a really good start by 3D Max, but a bit of a recovery coming
through 4 foot, just for the tail end of the half just to keep the door open here.
I think we're going to have
to get to the next round. I
think we're going to have to
get to the next round. Now
pistol for me is still
required before I start to
believe, but the right steps
starting maybe I think a lot of
it off the back of that man
looks incredible. Yeah, the two
rounds make all the
difference, right? If it was
the 10 to which it felt like
we were headed towards a
certain point. We talk about
this one being over for
sure, but. See not the
case. Since pan out, like
you say, we'll see if the
trade out. Drops that PTP raid
boss. Importantly, meanwhile,
everyone be there's a little
luck with his jewelies up close.
It's all part of the master plan.
He has the bomb. That's really
all he's got going for him. No
armor here against four. You
feel it's going to be too tall
of a task, but need an insane
run of headshots. We're not
grouped up tightly enough for
that in my opinion. So it's
just not happen. Oh, he's
even on three burst. Some
reason I think he quite
I realized you're right and saying you're so swapped glocks as well.
So when I picked some of those up, that was on on the best back towards there.
He goes, honestly, in the position he's in, he can actually get a plan out of this.
Because Mac has gone all the way down to deep long.
He's doubling back now, but there is the world, especially if he gets the shot.
And he does.
He's so scared of one being close, but honestly, sick the plant, get the money.
Guarantee that if you want to buy into what's next round, you can.
They put some into now one versus three. Oh he's very open. How is he not taking any damage yet?
He's still trying to find a couple of heads with the clock. He'll eventually lose his but
It was an opportunity there for Krebberny. You could kind of see the
The doors opening for him in that one versus three if he just catches a couple of heads the cross is so close
Not to be an ultimate ends up being a really nice round for 3d max only a couple of characters
Yes, let the bomb go through which is maybe a slight hiccup
you're happy you extend the lead once for. Yeah, just keep the rounds coming really is
obviously what they're after. And I think that is going to be the case here with 3D Max
the CT side. Picks a very different picture. It's often the the T side of things where
a weak team, a team that doesn't find much success on this map are indeed going to struggle.
See what they do off this bomb plant by that they've got two glills in play. Interestingly,
the eagle coming out it was the Mac for a moment from my demon he opts to go for the
eagle instead get a bit more range I suppose which does speak to you'd say a long play
but it doesn't seem to be the case I mean he's looking that way at least
Kubernetes looking towards a casket down he goes to XTC's
very spits up. I don't always love rounds like this as well. You're full spot in. You know
that in terms of kind of generally speaking, your firepower, you're going to be out of
less distance to the side. I've just won the pistol. Going for kind of a default spread
thin approach, which is good on the gun rounds. Feel very good here. You want to be trying
to play as a unit to trade like that, but you yourself will also face a trade of
of your own. Oh, don't pick up a suit. It doesn't capitalise. Probably the smart move
not to commit to the fight.
Oh, that is a close one. Really important that they get that because we see to it's going
to be isolated.
Inflows coming out on top just about so able to hit the conversions now should be an
eco, especially with no bomb planning will be an eco. I bet my house on it's all
the same.
3D max up to double digits here, looking to close things out swiftly and start the
Convert by ancient
So
Eagle a few deagles come through in our fairness three of them. I mean every speaking these guys can rip heads, but
Up to the level that we've come to expect for foot
Really feels like we are this size cook tonight
This is now three maps that we've caught a pro league for them where they've looked
have severely underwhelming ding on towards Junk's and a dropper's gravity dips on back
at range and I think XC's are spotting towards the side, Longs is holding for him and Flash
there perfectly plays Dexter C's, he's looking for the second, he gets the support as well
from Maka to the shot down long control, Temefuse there but he's should be there to
right in a second. He gets
out, but it won't make a
difference. And the bombers
in the back lines here. There's
a freebie. And there it is.
Freebie gun collected and space,
but look how far away cemetery
is. Cabrini has to hold down
the fortress for such a long
time as it's the longest rotate
possible. Unfortunately, he's
only just made it as they've
now lost the site once again.
Yeah, it's unlucky to be fair,
So that's the idea. If anything, now with the benefit of hindsight, we can discuss, because this round's a throwaway.
How about being better off Krebbeny not shooting for a while and actually allowing Jugs to get all the way around?
I suppose when you need the rounds, you know, this is the thing they have to try and create wins.
Bomb plant, when it's kind of close, when you've been picking up some rounds, et cetera, could be valuable, but at the moment...
What I'm talking about is like, Krebbeni waits, lets Juggs get all the way into double tunnels, then kills him, then he dives in and they get a bar, and there's a 2 vs 3 in a post plant.
Yeah, potentially.
That's probably in hindsight that's not a move, but he also doesn't know what the rotation would look like from 3D Max.
Yeah, again, as like a player though, that's like a lot of moving variables.
The thing that they know is kill two guys, you know what I mean? Like just peek and kill people.
But it's kind of exactly that philosophy and thought process as to why they're only got four arms on the board.
Hmm.
3D Max are all playing them.
Tenfold.
Well, last chance to loot here.
With the AKs out, they've got a lot of early utility, some mid control coming in.
Not wasting any time as they move up short.
And I think they well look to finish there as things are ultimately unfolding here.
Some long controls, some deep long control, in fact, for XCCs.
really locks out a couple of
the ideas for fun and also makes
the nervous that you know if
they start moving up short. There's
going to be a flank quite fast
behind them. They really want to
deal with this guy over here.
He's around the shadows. Is there
a flash for him? Yeah, seven
trees got to moving in dry
shadows part of baiting around
it. Is there a trade there?
the line looking good. Lookie
backs his man and finds the
double spray down. No contest
at all. Yeah, there's only one
team in the server. This is a
miraculous showing from 3D Max
statement being made on
towards this dust to. This is
very interesting now. Foot
are so quiet. In a map in
which is by plugging this
Off this foot side, but it's anything but
Well, it was a four map point 3d max
So quickly to this point as well
Four smoke will come through so I missed one earlier, which was comical, but it was
Hopefully end up being a costly as well for foot. Yeah
Maybe max make theirs. That's a good omen
It's due to all lining them up, but he just got blinded. There's so much damage done gravity
going to go and check these strikes early. He really does not know how easy it could have
been to find himself like a quad spray down there. We'll get that bomb plan in. They have
control and man advantage looking very good. A quick kill needs to come back around 3d max.
I mean, look, they have plenty of money. I'd say you might as well go for it. They're
boring and just gonna save especially I think that hope they want to keep it out
the hands of their enemies I guess yeah through the max they're kind of the
kings of them in max and in a way on by everything is so calculated percentage
based counter strike and they know that the odds don't favor them in this one
they just win this though man yeah I actually probably would back them on the
reason it's about this open a retake as well let's see what you want eagle
Can't cover that's not true. If you're saving go and save. Yeah
Why is he still hanging around? Well the issue is for Macca the reason why he didn't actually commit to the savers
He's scared about the doors player holding him
They extend all the utile to get one in towards doors themselves, but they're scared about the guy holding to be side
Come on Macca didn't want to really want to show his cards
You saw him kind of jiggle peaking. He was sort of tempted by that idea
It dies for nothing. Still, like a bar back in, but it isn't all scooped up by cemetery
which you'll happily take. Couldn't really afford it prior to that.
A lot of U-Tilt, Flutter Owl, Flying Fall Long Control, and the start well though.
Masuta for one, that they expect a second. I mean, they expect him. Doesn't mean they're
going to find him, but it's a very quick trade as Masuta and Makka are now lucky.
all leverage that position to kills in their favor.
Semitre the last man dead to rights, 13-5.
What a showing, what a statement by 3D Max.
And they're my pick of DOS2.
They open up the proceedings in this series so damn well.
Yeah, really could have been a closer affair as well.
I think it is safe to say if, but I'd managed
to just pick up some steam in that second half.
But with that being said,
3D Max also let you slip in the first.
It could have been even more one-sided.
Ultimately, I think 3D Max will be very, very happy with the way that they have performed.
Not really having to sit up too straight and get their heads too deeply into the game,
the simple stuff working for them, the instinctual Counter-Strike working very nice indeed.
They may well have a tough time though, we've got our second map coming up shortly as
it's the ancient of favourite of foots.
We'll see if they can recover and take us to a third.
I
I
Casting the other game on the A stream, and then I flick over to the B stream game.
I was thinking about the video.
I was like, okay, Roar versus Vitality.
Okay, so we've seen Vitality float ancient before.
They did it against these guys in a grand final.
They've probably floated again, forced Magid to ban it out.
And then you were like, now fuck it.
We played, to be honest. It's been maybe two weeks we're playing sometimes, we try to do what we can do on the map.
And it was a good test yesterday. It was a good test against the fans.
Lots of runs.
And to be honest, we enjoyed the map, but we also know that, like for Ria, I think a lot of teams already have a lot of IUs to play on the scene.
For years.
years so yeah but it was enjoyable. All players played ancient like before so I mean yeah for us
it's easier because you guys didn't play like you played I think you played at the very start
against Navi also we did the same Navi didn't ban and we played Navi ESL pro league when we lost the
final initial pro league at Malta. I remember we were you first first time you guys didn't
ban ancient and we didn't pick it first time yeah then second time okay is if these motherfuckers
And you play Osia tomorrow, right?
You guys banned the ancient, and I'm like...
Why they ban ancient?
You were in such a mood to play ancient, bro.
In two days, are you in the mood to play ancient?
Well, I mean, I don't know if we're in the mood to play an Ubi.
They just said they don't have a map also.
At this point, we're going to play anything, bro.
The big back vertical, we're going to play it.
But that was such a such a long game actually. Yeah, you guys played so I would drop like 50 something kills
Crazy rounds. I'm watching them back on all the highlights
I is it feel when you're playing it because it's the seeding match, right?
Is it is it just more fun to play a game like that as it feels less stress or you should stress out in the moment?
Hi, Jello. I will let him talk a little the game started with less pressure
also like as you said we don't it's like not like a do or die game but it's
like of course a qualification game for the like quarter or semi so it's
important for us but when he started to just pops the heads like killing three
killing four holding him punishing me and stuff I just said when something is
happening now in the game and I cannot catch it you know like and he just left
left and right, left and right, and he's just punishing either my players, either me.
So I said like, I need to do something.
I'm doing something.
I'm dying again.
Like I couldn't even feel anything in an Unchained, and it was too long game.
And I was like, it started, it's ended very long, but I felt like it's so quick.
You know, like we instantly, I don't know.
I don't know how to explain this game was like the ancient map was my first
time that I felt he's like pressing above my head you know like with his leg this
this was the first time on my career really yes I never felt a game like this
fire but they recovered the statistics
Are you tired of overpriced underwhelming un-American produce?
Hi, Alex.
What's up?
We've got a speeder.
He's way over the limit.
This dude is spinning.
Calm down, little man.
We've got to be a piece of fry.
What? We're just gonna let him go?
We've got movement.
You are late.
Sorry, I had to get away from the team during the crack.
You've got the stuff, right?
I have a few snap tabs if you're interested.
Say, you got any more of those jump throw?
Alices, line of action?
You must be joking.
Do you have any idea how difficult those are to find these days?
Fuck it, I'll take some nullbites.
Give me a couple nullbites.
Get on the ground now! I will not ask you again!
Just get on the ground, sir.
Sir, please, just get on the ground.
I will not ask you again!
Sir, just get on the ground, sir.
Sir, please, just get on the ground.
Get on the ground!
He's got a bike! Look out! He's got a bike!
Why didn't he get on the ground?
These people have no honour, no code. They do whatever to get ahead in life.
They're not ready to face the consequences.
There's that guy again! Spinning! Let's go get him!
I've done enough for one day. Let's just let the kid have some fun.
Officer down! I repeat, officer down!
Jason Lake, Goat Lake, Boat Lake, Bod Lake.
Niiiiiice!
128?
I like your beautiful voice, I know.
And you put it.
This was so good until this moment
They need to talk shit to stay relevant
Play your own game
Hey future pros, rushing B is never the wrong move, well maybe it is sometimes.
Anyway, here's a long smoke you can throw from spawn that would help with those B rushes.
To throw the smoke, line yourself up with this brick, aim at the top corner of this
brick, then walk forward and jump through the smoke.
This smoke will land as your teammates would arrive, so it can be a great addition to a
Hail Mary B rush.
Rush on Future Pros.
Hey Future Pros, Ancient could be a great map to play, but taking space on lane can
be tough.
Let's look at a util set you can throw to help you take control of cave.
It's always good practice to have a teammate go mid and molly the jump up, or have them
getting info so you know you can't be peeked from heaven.
That is pretty much a requirement if you want to go for this play.
For this you will need a molly, smoke and a flash.
First, let's molly into the cave doorway.
I won't lie, this is pretty hard to do, so make sure you practice this molly
a lot.
As you run towards a doorway, try to position yourself a bit wider to the right.
Quickly aim in the middle of this brick and running jump through the molly.
You'll have to line this one up very fast to get it off in one motion.
Then if the enemy team knows what they're doing, they will likely molly into lane
as you are scaling, so use your smoke to extinguish this.
Finally, throw a flash up this section of the wall to land inside the doorway.
It will take you a few attempts to get all this in one smooth motion, but at the
end of the day. Practice makes
This is the next best thing. We'll see if they can live up to those expectations.
3D Max, meanwhile, on the flip side for them, one that they try and avoid, but certainly
not one that I think we would write them off on, given the way that they performed on that
first match.
Yeah, I think we, especially with how sharp 3D Max are looking, you just can't afford
to count them out. No matter what the stats are saying, they just look so dominant.
It looks like they've got such a good read of what's butter throwing at them, and
They just weren't fazed by anything that fell out of their sleeve and this is where now, you know
Maybe there's a bit of an expectation heading in towards this map number two and potentially could open up some doors
Now, you know, we've spoken about a few times with the ancient only a couple of times played by 3d max last time
They played it was against foot at I am cracker and that was a overtime loss
So
Maybe a little part and part of floating this for 3d max is realizing we got it so close last time
We might have a chance here now that we are kind of playing a bit better.
Yeah, maybe, maybe we're going to see.
It seems like they've since that particular matchup that they played
towards the start of the year as well, feeling more confident, feeling more ready.
There seems to be a lot of reads on dust to
just in terms of the general approach, not that it's like,
oh, we've seen this round before.
It was more like they like pushing at a time like this
or we show presents on the other bombsite
and a guy will go digging on the opposite bonsai right just to gather some information so really really clever from them to just know their opponent
and that I think is why we're still relatively confident you know come back to me in about 5 or 6 rounds and maybe I'll have a better picture
but still relatively confident going into map 2 it feels 3D Max have got the read on foot at large regardless of the map
I think he's been in this situation before. Didn't find success there. He's looking to
maybe take ahead. Not going to happen so fairly dominant coming in from the Frenchman,
not the way that you wanted to kick things off here. You know, your own map pick you're
hoping for a stronger showing and it falls apart pretty rapidly. Have to be careful now.
Heads left in does to hopefully not right. But with a round like that, it does remind
you with what you've been through.
It's kind of a worth possible situation.
You've just been decimated towards the opening map.
But it is their map pick.
But you're obviously still going to have something lingering
in your mind a little bit of, oh, they're just better than us
today, or is this a really good day for them, and whatnot.
And you want to come in towards your map pick
and set a bit of a tone.
Brush it aside.
Say, all right, it's one map.
It happens, but we've got a 10 to 15 minute break,
a bit of a time for a team talk.
And we feel more like ourselves
and you immediately get owned in a pistol like that.
That's gonna
If anything make you kind of further aggress into your mind a little bit
A couple here only good for one the MP9's there, but he's too low getting pressured
And unfortunately lucky couldn't route rotate over in time to bail them out
It's actually a pretty expensive round by foot three kills in a bomb plant. They will take that
But he's still around 3d max
I think really going to be happy on the foot side of things you bind into the next anyway.
We talk about confidence and belief coming into this map and you know a little moment
like that will help you out. We'll see how the guns go though. This is of course the
important side of the game. So 3D Max really have the number of thought enjoying just
Waiting for them. Guns up all the time from 3D Max.
If that's gonna be the case here again, they have good utility,
but I think they will look to take an early fight if they can.
Yeah, I think for foot they wanna start on the Cs,
to see how to be kind of back to their best,
and quite poggy, and boom.
Just, uh, lose there.
So you're gonna take damage to the flamies,
to be careful. They're taking me control here,
but we might get a re-aggress coming through
on the edge of the smoke as long as he comes out on top.
Blinded again, but an own quantity towards elbow.
Exhaustice.
Did he fall asleep there? Did he crash? I don't know.
But he did react. I'd say that for free.
And down goes Lucky, and down goes the round.
This'll be fun of their first.
I don't know what happened to Exhaustice there.
Ah, well, he's left, so that'll explain it.
Yeah, that's a bit rough to be fair.
Could have been a way back in, yeah.
Because he actually would have spotted the shadow of one.
And also probably got that kill on that angle.
I think it's getting more expensive for themselves. Yeah, it's just bad to us. They put themselves in a really good spot. I think they were ready for some aggression to come that way.
3D Max like to get in your face to begin with and see how that feels. See how that goes for them.
We'll see. I think there's a lot of
question marks here
Around this 3d max side this was an awkward round
Ultimately one that they were zero contest in but the thing is I actually
Still want to give them a bit of a doubt like the mid control is not excellent bar
It is that fight there break sees even just goes one for one
It buys time for the done I got to rotate over and it could have been a bit of a better haul
And then there was also no utility thrown either because of the crash
Yeah, that's a total but I actually want to give three max a bit of advantage of the down save XC's was
You know actually in that round as a knock crashed. I think he probably gets one at least
I'd assume gets immediately traded just knowing that what we know about about foot
But then she a kill in a better util down or even kill and time for the donut player to rota over and get some util down
And who knows what could happen then
I think honestly, it looks like any saving grace they can get at the moment. And that is quite a big one.
Yeah, 100%.
Looking good.
It's still early enough doors here. 3D Max.
Max. It just depends, you know, have they done the work? Are they just kind of going through
the motions here and feeling confident enough in their D2?
I mean, they haven't played it since January, yeah, which is kind of wild.
You'd expect them to have done some work in it.
Well, a look as well for them in terms of kind of like previous series, like where it goes in the veto process.
That's a look. Lost three games we had. Where does it go out for them in the Vita
process? Well Fury remove it, that's fair enough, they're perma. Spirit. Fury Max remove
it second wave. I think it's liquid. It was a decider. It was a decider. So not super
afraid to play it. Yeah. Again, it's also liquid. You kind of, you'd want to get
bit of reps on you. What are you worse maps maybe? Yeah, baby. They were just so bad they didn't even get there.
Demon is crashed open the speed bomb site, by the way.
Chromani to bolster it up. Looking good for 3D Max, a dominant pistol to open things, but when the guns have come out,
but have looked like a completely different team here.
Think you're right.
Now that go for a save the two and fours, but longs to go other ideas.
How good is the innate timing?
Great! It's fantastic! What a reaction! One and the second, 180s as well.
Assumed for third will be somewhere around here. How sharp is the sharp?
Longs sees the shadow, sees the swing. What a hunt from here. Relentless from Longs.
Nothing saved, nothing gained, and 3D Max now starting to look a little feeble themselves.
Foot are warming up into this game finally.
I think that's a good idea.
Still early enough. I think you
know, 3D Max will have had a
gut punch in the round prior to
this one. Still time for them.
But yeah, for definitely looking
more comfortable on this map. I
think that is safe to say, you
know. They're the ones grabbing
a few reads grabbing a few
catches of the aggression,
et cetera. Such as a case like
still potential though isn't there yeah with them being so close not gonna happen
and it's super super clean let's read really nice read pretty patience you
know you could in a lot of situations just dive in towards me and start kind of
following your way through tip that kind of front main control but instead hold
and wait expect some sort of aggression they get the whole team lovely egos to
take first time I can be taken by 3d max a immediate conversation required
off the losing control and I think you know for the experienced voices in the
side and you know the coach and all the rest if I'm to you Maxie I'm just saying
like we got hard done by the crash and you know that's unfortunate it puts on
the back foot and I made our next buy a little bit funky which we then lost and
got hunted on don't get too tilted don't start to get too dejected that's
a bit of unfortunate we'll get it back
to be careful not to lose your
heads. I suppose in a situation
like this. Big round on the
cards. You know, first one comes
in as well in difficult, but
also it immediately destroys
their econ. So they just have
to deal with that.
Really string some rounds
together as pretty much not
bit with the mid aggression nice it'll break on that smoke though to make sure the trade comes in
still mid control for the CT side looks pretty good oh it's all about this creep through yeah
saw him in toward shelf exorcise dead two rights they just were not ready for demon to come creeping
through that smoke only two remaining let's see looking for some timing not quite gonna be able
to grab it reveals himself reveals the play and now being softened up surely has to be finished
off what can he take before going down you would ask the first comes clean looking for
a bit more here and just panicking isn't he the crosser not in place he did the same with
the players going on into cave just shooting a little early not quite as confident I can
be while working his way in yeah he's just trying to free fire there it's unfortunate
as he's diving around Pilla, but this is a really good kind of move from foot.
You get the bomb down and you both double stack in towards Ram.
You give this site over towards Maka, and he does have a lot of time to create.
He doesn't have a kit either.
They need to bind on the corner.
It will bounce around and it will deal a bit of chip damage.
Tap onto the bomb to bait out the fight.
Oh, Maka, we've got the second.
He has a chance there, but he probably now doesn't.
The bomb is going to go off in the lack of kit
I'm not going to see the lack of life.
Warbock and Furmaker ready.
Robin's salt in the wound.
It's close, but no cigar.
Another one fourth foot.
And I thought back of the pause, no less as well for the 3D Max.
So that puts them in a bit of a position of worse for wear.
If you call a timer and then lose the round to follow it,
I can't help.
Yeah, it's tough.
It is very tough.
It's not good signs.
It's this move here from Demon really able to catch them
inside the smoke, or around the smoke,
I'll put it.
You know, 3D Max, again,
this is one of the things that we talk about, right?
The mid-devolvement, the mid-fights and whatnot.
Sure, it's what Ancient can be about,
but it is also becoming an antiquated style.
You have to freshen it up.
You wanna be able to pull off those rounds,
don't get me wrong, but it seems at the moment,
3D Max is just kind of the only spot
that they're going towards.
Yeah. That makes them very predictable and a bit easier for foot to work those nuanced moments that you would expect from a strong map.
It's nice to see some on the eagle.
He's just coming in, Makka takes a swing as well.
Look, he's 5'7", trying to get involved.
Oh, the smoke coming in to split them off.
You just have to be weary here not to go feeding this 5'7".
Super, super low. Keeps him at bay on A, I suppose, but no kills yet for the French.
They have a slightly smell the Ecos for right so you can see them getting giddy to fight jugs diving in.
I think it's good call from a cabrini just to rain them back into like you mentioned, just not worth feeding any of the pistols there.
Complete regroup and a move back towards what is now an empty beach site.
Masutes has made the move off.
He's gone to hold for a red room reaggression.
And that won't be the case.
A split coming through towards B, it'd be nice if you could have come through mid in that sense.
And obviously a position that had not been held for...
But it's the wrong gamble.
Smoke down towards Short, One towards Long, nice and easy.
Just doing all the precautionary maneuvers required to get a safe plant here.
And it probably ends up being a flawless round.
I don't think you want to look to diving and die here with your foot.
Don't think of a kill bonus, but at the same time,
you can use some of this armour towards the next round as a lesser investment.
to make sure that the boys
especially for the likes of a
gravity and the suit up.
Fifth round now on the T side
from book. Looking pretty
comfortable, so nothing of this
and towards dust too, but a lot
better here now. Nothing
going to come the way, so it
will be, you know, the
successful save out. Um and
of course for these bits of
armor, especially the two
some money saved there, in fact, into the future round,
but he's fought with Fiverrone out,
looking really quite strong while doing so.
We've had one round come super close,
but beyond that, it's been all about foot
since the guns have come out.
3D Max, yeah, maybe showing us
why this map doesn't work its way into their map pool.
Yeah, I know exactly that.
Just unfortunate, you know, that mirage is a perma.
There he is, guys.
It's also very nice in this veto process
because of how good it is for foot.
Yeah.
I think once in a while you're going to get a team
where you have that Mirage perma
and they're like, that's our best map.
We usually play against everybody.
Yeah.
It's one of the rarest kind of perma bans
as well to have in the pool,
just because it's a map that everybody knows.
I mean, even as well,
you kind of can probably make the decent argument
that 3D Max can play that Mirage
to a fairly decent level, right?
They're going to have some protocols
around it despite it being the perma,
just because everyone knows it,
even if it's from previous teams and whatnot.
Macca.
Folks head around into the red room, finds Longs.
He probably actually spotted Jugs as well.
Fall away, the timing of the smoke by gravity
to keep Probeni at bay.
There's a re-aggress as well as Nassuta just doubles back
to catch Jugs.
It's a little bit more like it for 3D Max.
Macca's found a place in Tor's pillar on B.
And that's looking like where that bomb's gonna head.
Smoke gonna fade in just a moment
towards B cave. So what is the play for foot now? Ready?
Spots one ready for the op as well. This is this is broken.
Yeah, this is really quite rough. It's seriously going to take
this on though. Goes down pretty easily in the end, despite, you
know, the info on both. Let's get it for his teammates. We'll
see this will be a wild thing. Five on two brought down to
for any more available here for the planter.
Not going to be the case.
It's all on demon to clutch up, tries his best,
does fine too, takes a lot of damage for it.
And surely with like a Molotov and some flashes,
it should be able to just see him off.
Molly in, tap the bomb.
It's beautiful and deep as well
to just keep him really, really at bay.
Not much you can do here.
He knows it.
And grab the open get out.
And because of the way they panted,
because they knew there was a worry of the two players
towards cave they planted safe for caves and now he's in cave and he can't spam it
that's unfortunate a default bomb were allowed him to maybe put a hit on
brush on that one versus two at the end not to be nice you worked around from
3d max a near fumble at the end with a double spray down but it's alright first
time I'll take him for foot I think more than anything just a little bit
precautionary just not allowing they don't want to allow 3d max to start
snowballing in there ago we saw what happens when they can do it on dust
to like it this side find a groove and they find a bit of form
It's so awkward to play against and foot don't want to fall back into the same traps
Try to cut the bleeding off immediately
Which I can respect
The conversation of three max it's a good round to build upon at least they're live it's
Easy with the finances boss of the confidence as well. It's around that they win in the immediate kind of
couple of fights they have, there's basically two heads that go their way and that's it.
Round over done.
And nice ones to fall back on, that just shows you your set up, your reading towards around itself was really good.
Flash in.
Look here for the easy find.
Poor Blanc, he's half blind and he's turning expecting a second and just staring into the wall.
Oh, the shooter.
Flips his lines on that one, gravity is here.
Speed bomb sight is lightly defended.
to fair read in that sense
foot. Wild swing coming in
does get traded. Still not a
huge fan of how this looks,
but lucky coming in today. Once
again, I think yeah creep
through that he's just missed.
It's looking to find the kill,
but gravity was was there.
Sure that one up. Jugs alone.
Not funny can do really. Let's
be honest. One versus three.
There's just too many angles
comfortable spot. He can smoke short here that he's got to I say this violence was gravity
and a still on players to worry about. I don't know if they know that gravity is like fully
in here. Yeah, it's obviously just now they're saying we spoke into his ramp. You smoke short.
Lucky just goes long. There's three angles you've got to be careful of the double stack
in here. They're just ever so wary of the possibility of a red room rap. But there's
There's no risk here. Gravity as well. The noise he's making is drawing attention away.
Oh, fine. It's a lot of this.
Not a bad effort, but it's just a completely impregnable crossfire. Really, really nice
work. And it's just because of where that bomb spills. As a diving out, it just spills
forward into a position which makes it like unreclaimable. Even if you drop a lurk
smoke there, you're still going to get spammed through it. It's brutal stuff. Nice work.
That's two really decently worked rounds back to back for 3D Max. The only thing
you can really say a negative note with 3D Max.
A couple of those endoes were a little labored.
A couple of those sprays were a little skewed, but...
Sure, aside from that, it's all right.
It's taken some time for 3D Max to get a good feel,
but they are starting to solve this one ever so slightly.
You know, every time they go mid,
Lungst in the same position, wants to end in the same spot.
So they're really doing well to adapt on the fly
and to learn or download, you might call it,
the enemy approach, ceases into a main.
I like this, but he's alone.
He dies.
I mean, let's put them in an awkward spot.
He's about to face four of them as well.
And he's also playing the slightly exposed angle.
His timing is going to be brutal.
One slip by, a second, and then he dies to the AWP as well.
And now they just pounce towards the inside.
No one's here.
Spoke down CT, Molly in towards the temple rush.
That's it.
This is a slight loss.
I think he's trying to play an off angle. He's trying to hopefully catch them
unawares rather than holding that sort of flat corner. Yeah. I think just hold that corner, get one or two
by some time for your mates to come in as it is. Yeah, he just dies and it's a straight save. So send
get one or two by some time for your mates to come in, as it is.
Yeah, he just dies and it's a straight save.
So, sent on a mission, maybe reluctantly,
maybe he didn't want to push, amen.
You know, perhaps he's been told to do that.
It kind of looks like a frustrated move, though.
You know, he struggled so far and towards this map,
but I feel like he's kind of desperate to get something
in his favor.
I think you just keep it, I don't know.
We're fans of, like, keep it simple, and you're going
for the kill, position for the kill.
If you go into paper info, do that.
He's kind of into mines and indecisiveness is often a problem often you're down
Hey the easy tools and the easy positions that I help out
Hello a lot more than a gamble like that
All it takes is one build and all it took the cemetery just opposed in the angle
Simple and effective that's foot guarantee worst case scenario a tie game at the half away
They're playing were probably expecting a lead though
So, they've just got an element of an edge over 3D Max, who call for their second timeout.
Two rounds to play in this half, and they would love to shore up the CT side with six
of their own, but at the moment, it still feels like quite a big ask.
There's not others confident, or anyone near as confident as they were and towards
us to a lot of vocal voices vocal voices yeah you know vocal vocal guys unlike
non-vocal voices well you know I hate those non-vocal voices or something
Yeah, that was non vocal voices. I did my head in. Yeah, sorry
Kind of bumping into each other
but certainly a need worth noting it was absolutely huge and I think makes a keen difference because
back out like no idea they're both kind of playing anti flash for my three maybe
getting in the way as well 3d max of the movement off the back of their timeout
and I'm making sure completely taken long something just has to give it up he's not
look good in mid for a few rounds now the only issue is though if you could
immediately give a mid control it just makes life so difficult on this map you
have to vie for it in some way but the one thing they were doing which I
I kind of liked it as a change up because it felt like Lawrence was struggling a little bit as they were going for
Reaggressing some it's they weren't taking it initially as the smokes are fading. They'll pop an in
We'll see cemetery continues to look pretty solid nice fine for him
Oh, this is nice. He was so uncomfortable and he's gonna be surely dead to right yet
He gets one more blind up to for Benny somehow some way the gods look favorably as Macca finds to
Jugs on versus to for him Macca tagged by the need
But where is lucky it doesn't really know where he resides
Juggs a creep around this corner 35 seconds a one versus two
He wants to go towards a he's kind of got to go now and it looks like he's committing to stay in here
Oh, he's nearly caught on the cross but I'm gonna be tapped but not committed 20 seconds jogs
Diving in for the fight and it's lucky it comes out on top. Oh, I was close
That was a little bit uncomfortable and it was nearly squandered but a 3d max off the back of the attack pause
We went around I'm gonna see that I'm gonna shoot him
Yeah, he's just full blind because he just hold the mouse one yeah, it's crazy the gods and he's saying
Double dink scrub in it. Yeah, and it's like
He didn't shoot for a while. He just figured he's absolutely dead to rice
nice against one and that makes a difference in the end to be fair 2 on 2 looks a little
better for my money. Here we go we got the run boost coming in they didn't find success
with this earlier on because I think they tried it and failed it. Ultimately though a burst
towards B a lot of resources used in middle to just make that kill happen gather the
info yes but lose control molly coming in lucky eesh a very very confident peak let's
I'd say at the very least,
each smoke's coming in,
gonna keep them at bay
and we have a slow burn flank
from Jugs working its way in here.
So it all depends on how 3D Max looks to play things
if they wanna charge in.
Or indeed, if they are kept at bay,
which the Molly does a good job of.
Great reset of the crosshair.
Should be a seventh here by all accounts, four foot.
That would see a loan.
There's only option to move forwards.
to the lions den. He will go
down, so it's a slim
advantage. Still decent from
3D Max though, given the way
that it started for them to
come back into it. We await on
the edge of our chair if they
can find anything into that T
I
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Oh
What is that?
Got one for hydration, one for the guts, one for the end of the game.
Zipping away on many different beverages, got one for hydration, one for the guts, one
for the enjoyment you know when you're kind of tilted.
Am I being confused?
Yeah I think so.
Loves this.
It's pretty trendy at the moment you know the...
Loves this, got biome and he's really looking out for it, gotta respect it.
Fair enough man.
Oh, but I will say though, wasn't that first drink like, you know, a Coke or Pepsi or something?
Fizzy drinks and dairy products, Sam's like an awful mix.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and also if he's having like, good problems, I would probably cut out.
There's someone who also has a bit of that, like, cut out the fizzy drinks.
Yeah, he can have a shit's later.
Let's clear off, we're off time in the toilet, and in this round, the water's just down.
Jugs and Semi-Chey kills the piece, Jugs makes it two.
Oh, and Semi-Chey lads it as well.
The bomb just at their feet here, look he's gonna have to charge in and the flash is perfect!
Living for a while there, it will eventually go down, it's Jugs on that 3P, 3D Max trying
to pick up the pace and get in the face, that's what you would expect from them, but
of course as we know Foot they love a fight and they do very well to hold the line.
Yeah if you want to fight them they will absolutely take that, they are more
than happy. It's going to bring a kind of puggy nature to rounds like this. It does feel with
where we're at. I know 3D Max had a couple of moments here and there but it does feel
like we're naturally progressing towards this third map. It just feels like 3D Max, while
there's moments here and there they just don't have the depth on this map just yet.
They don't have the reps and that about either. It follows the punish pick on paper
and they've not looked as strong as they were on Dust2DEMON!
Three nice kills for him and the MP7 of Cabani will come in with a support of Cemetery to seat it off.
Nice and simple, only the one casualty.
Nice and easy.
There's a wealth of a lead here, right? 9-5.
It does quite naturally feel like we're going to be heading towards Anubis in any moment now.
And we get a buy-in for 3D Max and while it's not the last chance there are, it's kind of close.
There's basically what? Two proper gun rounds?
We're at now and for seeing off this ancient and we quite swiftly head towards the new place.
Yeah, gonna have to go absolutely crazy here, right? Big change-ups needed.
Really needs coming out. Control coming in. MP9 goes fly in, but he will be deleted.
There's a lot of damage. Maybe could have done with an M4 there.
Oh, the mid-take, the late-mid-take finding success.
and a big fight lost in a main that'll be a lot of ground made up for some damage done even
thinking about it he's only got his famas it's not a big weapon to save it does depend is he
going to find an early kill will he try and go for this one versus three 3d max i think maybe
need some guns taken away from them right even if you don't win the round here but
Without him spotting anything, he has decided to back away.
Okay, he's not re-aggressing somewhere else.
Honestly, I think it'd be better off him just dying for the course, right?
Kind of, like you mentioned, taking loads away.
Well, like a late attempt on the bomb with the kit, you know?
Even just, yeah, he's got a smoke as well.
He could just keep numbers drawn towards the site.
He's actually now going to be hurt by a macka.
Yeah, he's dead.
Oh, oh.
No, he's not.
Is he?
No way, he wins this fight, that'd be so funny, he doesn't in the end, okay.
There's Justice still in the world, I guess a little bit, it would have been wild if Demon
had come out on top there.
Yeah, I think the better play would have been, and you could have a full buy-in towards
an X anyway, like why not?
Just buy-in, see how much damage you can do.
A lot of those players, until 3D Max, were confirmed damaged, it was like, you
know, scrappy head-teds, which 3D Max ended up winning, but they were known
quantities to have taken tags yes to buy back in place of foot and it's got an
AWP it's got a couple of rifles but it tails off quickly then so it's a fire
parker but if you've got a deagle loads got an MP9 with no util you lose this
round for foot that's the seven foot for 3d max probably eight as well behind
it's one round game at that point and this is where things start to become
problematic and we look back towards that previous map. The T side of 3d max was really solid. They were making life quite uncomfortable for foot. It could be more the same.
So you know, he's pulling out the cheeky angles. That's a lovely, lovely spot. Get the first and set up nicely for the trader. You knew exactly what he was doing. So yeah, foot showing some of that proficiency on this
the smoke though. They will
burst forwards to try and get
that be controlled. It's right.
Gets a bit tougher now. They
have to mount a retake with like
no utility. Just a few needs. No
kit, of course. Really Max. Do
they have a read on that economy?
Are they ready for a lack of
flashes to get back in? For
example, just going to be
straight heads up fights and
they have to be careful not
to give them too early. Lovely
It's a late cave presence that'll come through. We'll see if he can have impact. The answer is no
And they've played this very very well
Just cemetery hardly any time one jumps across and the next one trades. That's close on the USP. Yeah, it is
Good effort though by cemetery starts around a very very nearly closes it to
That's a beaver I have to be taking you can see what it means them as well
and no, that's gonna give you a little bit of momentum to give you a bit of a
a chance to scale back in winning a numbers piece advantage post plan
Lastly helps the scenario and like you're talking about lacking to see but I have to just kind of like
Incrementally scale in towards the site and take fights and hope that they trade effectively in this couldn't
Round game but
As we foreshadowed there's no money
4th foot, so this is a freebie for the T side.
Gamble stack in towards 8, whereas 3D Max are heavily leading towards B.
I'm going to go quick about it as well.
Utilova, Nade, Molly, Smokes, all of the precautionary measures just to make sure...
Oh, there's no one here, I didn't realize that now, bomb will go down and solo the
round.
Potentially for foot as well you could go for some level of an exit play, but on
flip side. Don't want to give away too much kill bonus either.
It's in their DNA though. Foot lover fight. Try and take a gun on the tail end of things and I
think indeed that is uh what they're gonna go for here.
Really looking good for the French side. The gap closing exponentially. CT
money becomes a big problem now so they really have to be careful and who they're
gonna be able to create anything into these future rounds you know is the
question right saving gets in your head quite a bit when money's working against
you it's a proper ride on that CT side from time to time they'll take one yeah
on the way out thanks to see something happy about that but it's all good the
rounds are very physical still come in that way. Of course. Yeah, of course. It was sort
of romantic Europeans as it were. Yeah, they do indeed love getting the hands out and the
reactions and whatnot. Yeah. French, Italians. Yeah, yeah. What they've got there's all
the other romance. Spanish, Portuguese, yeah, French, Latin, you might call them as well.
but they're romantic languages, I would say, so those four.
What Greek? I can't remember.
They're more Mediterranean.
No, because Greek could come from Greek.
Right, slightly different half of that.
Yeah, you're right.
Oh, I guess they're often Latin.
Yeah, right, right.
Do you study Latin or Greek?
I did.
How do you chance to study Latin?
Languages are not a favour of mine,
Although, that being said, you know, I was pretty good at speaking French, you might guess.
We had pretty good at speaking English, you know what I mean?
Caikilius S. in Horto.
Caikilius is in the garden, I'm pretty sure.
Right.
It's like the first enters of the first Latin book you have to learn.
Right, right.
Rough.
Rough times.
Thank God I don't have to do it anymore.
Three versus three there.
A couple of opening engagements.
I think really max is where they are now.
It's early enough in the round that they can cancel and go as well.
They're a known quantity that they were posturing in the direction of B hence why there is this lean here and long setting up a flank
Not committing just yet he's sort of actually expecting 3d max to cancel on the B play
He's been and his position now in the front side of donut becomes so strong
Three max are so patient and by them waiting as well
It's gonna creep into the back of long says my that they can move their way through a man
They could have countered and gone all the way through spawn hence why he's now starting to check
This is the benefit of the freeze. It's asked to really
Sew the seeds of doubt as you can see you've got the smoking tools man, so he really is thinking it's possibility
Come over the top here
See if they can
anything going on the fun side of things or if they start to think about the save yeah given the lack of a
the
utility and really anything that they can do about this. That being said, 3D Max is taking it quite slowly.
That maybe gives them more time and space to feel comfortable.
Good Molly.
It's well going to slow them down. Ten seconds left on this clock as the smoke
starts to dissipate. They have to defend that bomb and gravity does such a good job.
Launch's also going to get dropped.
The argument to save for him for sure in that. It's now
9-9
Gravity with a bit of I think the only Latin that I know or dentists for tuna you've asked
Believe that is
Kingdom come deliverance to me. Oh, there we go. They don't shut up about it
But yeah, it is it is a pretty damn good game
But yeah, it certainly you know felt a little bit applicable there is gravity went forward defended that bomb in
In the nick of time really. Yeah, he didn't realize it long touch and opportunities and I that bomb going down
It was actually planted on the side of the pillar rather than behind because they weren't really too sure of where he was coming from
Don't think he realized how good a potential that was for him
Bye and a dive to the XC you are dead. There's nothing you can do about it
Gravity it's a question of can you deny them pick up the AK the answer is no
They're gonna cross and jokes will be the ones who collect
5-7 on the outside of a smoke is such a scary prospect here.
Judy Max, don't do anything dumb here.
Just... please...
Break open the smoke, flash your way through this.
Wait for it to fade, whatever it is, just don't die through.
Gravity gonna find one.
The 5-7 are close.
I don't like this, Longs is pretty good for these positions.
Flash avoided, and a great timing on the swing.
Lucky for two.
That is really really nice to work by 3d max. I was so scared. Yeah
Yeah, about five seven up close one tap back close range
But longs they they really do the due diligence just make sure every possibility
3d max, I think definitely locked in we have definitely definitely seen them in games in the past, you know
Where they're against like a lesser opponent not saying, you know, they've been put this way
But like a lesser opponent or they're maybe just caught up in their chaotic kind of style that they can employ at
times. That's really well disciplined. Bones down to the smoke and the flash. Yeah. Great
need damage to keep this one off though. Exes is left on 5 HP before he's even seen anyone.
Aktens tries to charge in for the first not quite. How? Oh, dead on. Gonna happen? Yeah,
I'm also... perplexed. Yeah, that worked absolutely dead on. I don't know how he...
after all smokes really are brick walls. Yeah he has been CS2'd ever so slightly.
There's no commitment in this round at the moment. I think Max is turning the feelers out.
And retreat, spots the shoulder of one. The suit is in a pretty good spot but it's getting out of
Red Room is the kind of orc thing and Cabeni up close and personal.
This becomes really difficult to account for who can shoot versus make a lot of noise.
And he pulls up Yuzo at the worst possible time of Mach 10 round that corner.
That's a big ass. But they line up and Masuta's going to get two more.
Against his former side, he might be hitting the final nails in the coffin.
He got three in the round and he's bought them space towards the A site.
and now a 2 versus 3. So much damage has been dealt towards 3D Max, but they don't have the numbers.
And an AWP on a retake is always a horrible, horrible thing.
They're saving. That is 3D Max, two rounds ahead, and now two rounds away from the series.
Yeah, I mean, we could feel it, man. We could feel it scaling up.
3D Max have done really, really well here.
And Thut's youth and inexperience, I think, getting the bear off them once again.
great team, great fraggers, but they have struggled in a couple of maps to just get back into things, to just refine their identity and they play sort of not to lose at times.
Yeah.
Have to be able to walk that tightrope and everyone can do it.
Separation between a good team, a great team, and ultimately a dynastic team as well.
Yeah, true.
time out here for you know like they're just really trying to ride through
things hope that eventually the call will work what a fine from Masuta though
absolutely brilliant from him definitely bails them out the first one it's such
an oversight unfortunately from Krebbeni like he just doesn't need to be as
loud as he is he's jumping around in red room and pulling you to loud that's a
lovely one from Masuta the second two he's fighting on the back of the
trade of the Mac 10 going down.
Lovely work.
Looks more.
Of course, we're starting off with a sport of lucky.
They can be set to right here, though.
Easy kind of exposing no man's land.
So you'll go down to Jugs.
Early smoke as well towards the B doors for this aggression.
So the B players that should have been sort of covering
for this were not in place.
So very well done, very well played
on the initial setup from foot.
And they hold on, though.
I mean, they've not necessarily readjusted and the B bomb site super well defended.
So it should be a bomb plant despite the amount of players that they have all together.
I mean, it's obviously going to be a bloodbath here.
There's some low HP bars.
How do they now approach this one?
Exorcise right round this corner.
Good for the first.
He's traded round for more.
The orb getting involved, not quite able to find it.
He pulls out his secondary and it's all going to be down to the orb.
but Semitri swaps onto the M4.
Does not have a kit, but he finds the kill nonetheless.
Huge.
God, that's such a good shot from Semitri.
Homie missile, his crosshair just locks in on that position.
Despite the all being trained, it was not good enough.
Icework to keep foot alive.
I'm kicking for now.
The mid-reagress is really nice
if in the seat side too.
This should be a job I'll get taken.
Nice, meant to see so much fortune for him,
but this, this second shot, look at that bang.
Dead on.
Quick jiggle, Pete, just a check.
Confidence swing and fine, 10-11.
One round game is 3D Max over their third and final time
out.
Not what you want to say, you know what I mean?
You've been on this really clean track
to bringing things back and then taking the lead.
Yeah.
just have a 1v2 go against you and against the odds round it's pretty tedious and huge resurgence
for foot potentially that's obviously what they're looking to close off here make sure that it does
not happen but easier said than done this late stage with some pressure on them and now your
ancient really does get tested so far 3d max have had a couple individual rounds that they've
had to rely on. It's not necessarily been a tactical masterclass. And Foot are now asking,
what else have you got in that playbook?
Let's see.
The Utah. Coming through a big fight here as well. Exes,
first to fours, coming in. Well, actually, the line. All nail one. It's going to tag
I got on towards gravity two before dipping away.
Tempted by a bit of a re-aggress.
Gravitational looking, but he's going to meet the orp,
and he's going to beat the orp.
Cemetery gets one tapped.
Oh, it's picked up though.
Eamon gives it a go and he'll find success.
Whoever the bomb is pivoted towards middle here.
What do they have up their sleeve, if anything?
Again, it's wing and a pref, that type stuff.
3d max of the moment blossoms in. It's not good enough. Longs makes mincemeat makes quick work trying to draw them in as well
As there's plenty of players watching this red room angle
Not looking good not feeling good
This is any two that remain and they might even move to save
Big question marks for me about this one exorcise makes his way in to lane sure. He's maybe not, you know the most open position
position. Smoke comes in onto the B doors and then everyone
sits behind it like why are you conceding that space when you
already got a man in? Should have been able to trade back
game player please. Yeah. I don't understand why everyone's so
afraid when there's a guy there. We've you know about half the
info that you would want. I get that but I think you have to
join him and help him. I'm getting that smell again. That
smell it's waft in the air. It's it's the the smell of
overtime because this is sort of actually where this game
I mean, what does overtime smell like?
Oh, it's like, it's got a slight pungent aroma
of choking and weakness.
Yeah, sweat gameers.
Yeah, yeah.
Lack of shower, something along those lines.
I can see you there.
Okay.
That's not needed.
Because I definitely had a shower this morning.
All right, all right, well, I think you're right though, but 3D Max, it feels like a very scared round.
Oh, the flash went behind him. That's what I'm trying to show.
Yeah. No, I like that. I was wondering, it did seem like a decent flash.
Yeah, it didn't look like it turned away or anything.
Just half an inch too deep.
too deep scare 3d max there are for me as well really squandering chances here
I feel like as well if you let this go for the great reset to overtime foot will
be more reassured in themselves at that point real worry sets in I like
This move by Jugs is committed to the angle as well. We kind of have that like half and half by XC's earlier
Which you weren't a fan on
He's waiting for the fight
The maid and the flash as well. It's good utility. Just get off a bit of damage
But suit is lucky to stay alive honestly. Yeah, he very much is in all fairness
Big from 3d max to create that first kill and a great read from them as well XC's meanwhile this
to be a chance. Could be his
head on the chopping block. Two
players coming round. Oh, yeah.
Maybe spot a bit of a barrel.
Wait, does give a lot of
information to these ramp players
that it's cave heavy. But then
he goes forwards instead of back.
It takes him and is ready for
the next. So all of a sudden
two on two. A lovely idea from
Krebbenny is teammate desperately
left very low 20 seconds and they've not confirmed the bomb. They shift walk down. That's why they're
slightly rotating. They think they're long rotating back towards A. Now the bomb goes
down because that shift walk. Yeah, really clever stuff to just give them the space to
get the bomb down. Nice little nade. There goes the last piece of T side utility against
the odds here. Low HP bars going to have to make it work. Molotov comes in. Look,
He takes a swing, doesn't see anybody out towards long.
Oh, nearly it's the HP that makes a difference.
Five left, four longs, but it's all on the off.
Two shots, two kills is what he's after here.
Swap onto the M4 and trigger discipline from Maka.
He's one of the best in the game
with those patient trigger discipline plays
and you see exactly why.
Miraculous from Maka.
Needed a hero, and my God, do they get it?
And what a time for him to come alive as well.
He's bailed him out in two separate occasions in that round.
Krobeni, with that flank, he gets one with the pistol,
then pulls out the AWP and gets the cave flare,
which basically gives them the option of going in towards B
and then two at the end.
Maka, single handedly put 3D Max on his back for that round
and given the map and series points
and eventually that could just be the last final hurdle
that 3D Max he did to get over.
Round number 24 here, makes a sweet snake
and a brave move and it's a brave move
I'll pay off does he expect a long player flash round and he doesn't cemetery for one
They could plot it out
You have to be very careful on that
Sort of model. They know
they
Maybe at least gonna try and check
I've got have a look boss. Yeah, he just gets flung sorry boss. Sorry
and then they're going to be
going to be very, like, oh, nice
time. They've crossed each of
the remain, by the way. I'm
pretty sure. Jugs had pushed
they mean they've walked past
each of them. I think indeed
the bridge too far. It has
crumbled here. Jugs will
reveal himself. He's so far
away. It's going to take him
a good 15 20 seconds to
cleanly get into the bomb
site. Let alone get through
to be here. Laying the
inevitable jugs with you know,
quite an honorable. I see how
this is going ends the game a
little prematurely, but it will
be 3D Max to take it a real,
real great comeback from them.
That T side looked absolutely
fantastic. I mean, same for
thought both teams can't get
going on their CT end, but just
a real meeting of the minds on
that one as two teams that
clearly are prepared for each
other used to each other
But I will give it to, you know, the 3D Max side of things.
I think that they just had that slightly better adaptability against the opponents here today.
Yeah, it's a really, really good game in the end.
And it's a big win for 3D Max to climb because 3D Max, you know, were at one point in a similar spot to where kind of foot were coming in towards this year.
We look at kind of how this foot started to climb around and become a side that many people fear going in towards kind of making runs to playoffs.
maybe not going that deep in playoffs, but being kind of these group-state warriors who are really good at punching up.
That's what I've been doing for kind of the 10 in the last year in towards this year and 3D Max lost a little bit about that for themselves.
Now with a win here, it's still just proofing the pudding that we've got this edge.
We've got this ability to still be a kind of a top-level performer at the tier one.
It's that round from Maka that I think is the the real nail in the coffin.
That's the one that keeps 3D Max alive. You lose that. I don't think they're taking this map
And I think we'll go into a third but in the end a quad clutch from him means a 3d max
1311 right at the final hurdle the final round of regulation take the map and therefore the series
Well, what a show and coming through from 3d max
So that first map was dominant and then that one as well is kind of the opposite
But it's great for them that they can grind out these two kind of completely different play styles
Yeah
Yeah, and just to pick up like I wanted to say I obviously said it in the the call as it were
But Mac is seriously is one of the best side trigger discipline offers. So really comes in handy there for him
But indeed, I think you know a matchup that was set to deliver set to be really quite close
For again similar to the Astros game, although not quite as egregious
Just losing some of their identity
I think and you know when they have a couple of aggressive moves and some four spies that maybe don't go their way
Right where they're trying to play their traditional style
We said the 3D Max coming into this other series.
Don't allow foot to play their game.
You know, force them to go to your tempo, your playstyle,
which is a little bit more slow and drawn out
and this sort of ebb and flow around the map
to draw attention away.
And that's exactly what happened.
And 3D Max had their number basically all the way through us.
And they never allowed any of the stars to shine.
I mean, Demon, generally he's one of the main names
we looked towards on foot,
could not get in towards this dust too.
Now, his angel was much better.
He looked really, really good there.
But it's good that they limited the opportunities and the options that that for to work with him
Hence why it was such a stark showing
Yeah, and I think you know foot have to be very very careful not to kind of believe their own propaganda
But it's like they are this tier 2 team, you know, that has managed to really really punch up as the
Saying kind of goes and I think that they have generally looked
Very good at that
But now that they're starting to maybe get into the conversation around tier one
That's where some put this or start putting them some teams signs to respect them
You do get this thing where it's like, okay, now we have to play like proper counter strike guys
Yeah, we can't just do the pugging thing
We can't just fly in and rely on our new individuals and I don't know that there is comfortable doing that
Maybe they do just have to try and stretch this as far as they can or there is going to be a sort of teething period of
transitioning and trying to find a way that you can incorporate some of the tier one structured counter strike
Yeah, and that's going to be difficult for them to deal with I think not exactly
Exactly. I think with this foot side, you know, things that make them so dangerous is just the relentlessness of them.
And I think at times when they go back into kind of these like really defaulty rounds, which are a little bit more slower,
it just isn't what they like to do.
They love to play as a pack and kind of maneuver around and just kind of rely on their individuals, right?
Because they're so unbelievably good when you're going to play a bit more of a drawn out game.
Like we said, this is just 3D Maxis Territory.
This is where they do their best work, what makes them so unbelievably strong and we can kind of see it through these highlights as well.
That ecstasy is double was really nice as well.
We saw a couple of rounds which were odd stacked against 3D Max works in the favor.
We spoke about this clutch, but there was one earlier where they had a post barn as well.
Numbers is a vantage, but foot and no utility here on towards this peace site, and they convert it really well.
So there's just a few of these things that go really, really nicely for 3D Max,
and it's kind of a pleasure to see them play at this sort of a level.
We have an interview ready. I think we'll be joined by Macca as well off the back of a fantastic 2-0 for 3D Max.
so we can bring him in to the screen.
Here you go.
Makka, thank you for joining us, mate.
First and foremost, congratulations.
Talk me through that series.
2-0, very dominant first map.
And then even on the second as well, a little bit closer,
but a great close from you, and especially that 4K.
Yeah, thank you very much.
Yeah, feels really good.
It was an intense entrance, I would say.
Even though they didn't like give us a good fight
on this, it felt like it would turn around at any moment.
So we had to get our focus on doing the whole seaside.
And that's what we did.
And I'm proud that the team showed the great stage we can do.
Yeah, talk to me about thought as an opponent, then.
You play these guys at Krakow as well.
They're kind of the IT team, as it were.
You know, a lot of eyeballs on them
as they've just sort of shot up the rankings
and taken a few scalps and decent finishes in tournaments.
What do you make of them as a team in general?
How did you feel against them today?
I think they are quite dangerous team because they feel like they are all on the same page the way they play
and they are very aggressive at some moments and very sharp individually
so if you don't get individually into your game, you get like troubled by bad thoughts or bad things
You're not like 100% into the game because I get to wrecked by those guys because they're young, very talented, and very strong in the game.
Baralov, I've talked to you about you guys as well, right? Obviously kind of coming in towards this year, it was a bit of a slump, right? Let's say as a performer.
She made some big changes, brought a Misuta, new coaching staff behind the scenes as well with, but I especially like to be a bit of a legend.
But talk to me about kind of the impact of these new players in Misuta or new coaching staff that have come through and how they've kind of brought 3D Max back to the best.
So that's now two back-to-back big wins over Adaxa Furia now for
Yeah, so
Yeah, basically we had like a lot of changes lately since so we removed body and you know the
whole late coach
We bring a brought back
Washing with NGK and this is that that was like a good trick from Gen 1 so
They were on the same page and it was quite easy because was it was our old coach and we were on the same page
the way we played last year, Canada. So it is easier to work like this I would say. Big shout out to
also like you have our analyst Alex, he's doing a great job and our mental coach,
mental prep coach Melvin is doing like a very good work first. At least he's helping me a lot.
So I would say like it's a teamwork you know and the way we play also the guys they
They're doing an absolutely incredible job, they bring energy, they put a lot of hours
and everything to the game, but this is the major one.
Yeah, last question for myself, I just wanted to ask about the voices within the team,
the leadership and things, obviously it's changed around a little bit.
You had a body previously who I would imagine would have helped with that kind of thing.
How is it at the moment?
It seems like there's a tiny bit more discipline and freezing,
cancels these kinds of buzzwords, right?
I don't know if you guys use them,
but what are the sort of voices sounding like at the moment?
Who's more vocal these days?
I think depending on maps and size, you know,
we try to bring as much as possible my voice
into the game in gravity also.
Obviously doing an absolute great job in bringing
the coach IDs into the game. I try to help also a lot on that. And then those
players are listening quite well and we can play on the same page. I think the
coaching staff, NBK and Wasing helps a lot on being on the same page for the
moments and we try to keep going in the same direction.
Awesome, well man thank you very much for joining us. So congratulations on the win as well and now in the two
want to bracket as well. So best of luck with the rest of the tournament and hopefully we
speak to you again soon.
Thank you.
Well, so there we go, 13-11 and a 2-0 for 3D Max. I mean, again, always great to kind
of check in as well. And it seems like things have finally kind of figured themselves out
for 3D Max because I speak like the start of the year for them. And they were in a
pretty notable slumber side that we generally are used to them competing at least through
the early stages of these Taiwan tournaments relatively comfortably. Like they felt like
that could make it to playoffs,
but maybe the deep runs alluded
them, but that just comes naturally
the territory of how it competitive
the top end is, but they will always
kind of aside that were scary right
and punching above their way.
Let's start the year.
We never got to see it.
It feels like we're getting slowly,
but surely back to the best now.
Two big wins to two zeros as well
of a fury and for me.
That's massive scouts.
Yeah, absolutely excited to see
what they can do into the future
of this tournament.
Maybe into this year as well.
And as back I said, sites set
on the major of course,
But that is that done for that series. We have plenty of Counter-Strike still coming up to BO3's more to go.
So make sure you're sticking around for them. Legacy and Astralis up next.
There'll be some fresh faces in the commentary booth, but the Counter-Strike continues.
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the next match on your screens legacy versus Astralis is match three of four here today.
today. They are. Getting out
the cars. It's a happy face
whenever I've seen one. So
indeed legacy versus the
Stralis is around the corner
down. Welcome today. Today
welcome to today. Thanks
appreciate that. Yes me and
exciting. I mean, it's a
super exciting match for us
But this should be a really, really close one, James.
These teams have a head-to-head history,
but obviously, we also had roster changes recently
on the Astralis side.
So I can't wait to see how that dynamic might shift things,
but then also on the legacy side,
and the arts in there,
he's also having his debut event.
So a lot of fun variables in this matchup.
We're gonna have a look at the Swiss bracket
and see how things are shaping up across the board.
Of course, we have two streams today,
but on the B stream,
these are the schools on the door. So it's a day of two zeros. Can it go all the way? That would be a rare occurrence. But we'll see. Which logo do you like out of those?
They're all gone now. Well, you've got more logos here. Here is the Swiss bracket. I quite like the legacy logo. I think it's a little different from what we normally see. Actually, there's a few who are a little different
I'm going to go with the
phase logo Monty's logo, but
I do like legacy. If I had to
pick one that wasn't no V. It
would be like. About you. I
like I'm actually a bit of a
phase stand. So I'm going to
go with the phase logo. So
loving loving phase and
hopefully I mean the deep
Monty earlier today, so you
know able to kind of what
they eliminated Monty, but
they ensured their survival
This match, however, is a 1-1 match for Legacy and Astralis, so it could be worse.
It is worse for some teams, or it was worse for those who've been emulated because they're
history now, but yeah, it's a 1-1 scoreline for these squads.
I was wondering what he was doing with the tennis ball because we see in warm-ups for
Formula One drivers, for example, they will have their coach holding a tennis ball in
and both hands and drop in and he catches as fast as possible.
And it looks like he was trying to do that to himself.
These are the numbers for Dumau, who is going to be one of the ones to watch here for legacy.
He's got a pretty solid rating at present, and it's definitely going to be instrumental
in a victory in this best of three should legacy be able to topple Astralis on this occasion.
I'll be coming into this one as an underdog, rank 32 versus rank 12.
So do you know we'll have his work cut out for him? I think it's reasonable to say
Yeah, and I think Astralis generally they don't tend to lose too much for against these tier two level teams
If you could say you know full
Legacy tier two team again, I feel like with some of the changes the Rosses and stuff
We don't quite know where they're gonna stand at the end of this tournament
So she's it's more of a debut for them
But as we had do now just a moment ago
We've got some highlights here from stair as well a very very reliable player for Astralis
especially on the rifle. So I'm super excited to see what exactly he's going to be providing
for the team. And to be honest, it's hard for me also in general, it's not to be a fan of
Strahler since they added Hooksy to the roster, which was about mid last year, summer last
year when he got added to the roster. But you know, now once again, some more like a new
iteration of the lineup. So it's going to be fun to see exactly again how that's going to
to turn out. Yeah, this is an interesting one, especially looking at the people that
legacy have been beating of late 21 versus NIP to zero versus G2 to zero versus Paris vision
to zero on Monty. They are putting in work. So I think they may tell a story in the server
that it's beyond the rank they currently have. Here is the veto legacy picking dust
two Astralis picking ancients. So this is shaping up to be a hyper aggressive series. Then the
technical maps being removed one by one. What's going to be left? Maraj as a decider. All right,
it's going to be there's going to be some madfragging going on. It is the the golden
three, I think if you just want a wide swing on your opponent and try and take
over the rounds. And that may be really important. If legacy R2 take over the likes of
Astralis, the catch up in the rankings. Let's see if Astralis can put a rising star down in legacy.
How do you extinguish a star? You need a giant fire extinguisher, I suppose.
I guess, yes, that's what I guess.
That's one of those videos where it's like one Superman versus 100 Harry Potter's or something.
Like one star versus the universe's biggest fire extinguisher.
I don't know how big that would be. Very big, I would imagine.
Anyway, look for our foresting which is
We want all the flames here as we start this series legacy on that T side with a lot of utility
Oh P250s re-playing top mids
Got some teammates in tow as well
Is he having a look through the lower tunnel?
The key rotating over now is who can see to drop a smoke towards be this is a
Fascinating setup from the CT side
Yeah, everybody's paused at the moment as well. So it's very tense right here
This is
legacy's map
Anxious next that's going to be a very strong first trial listening because of the purchase finding triggered and all the cts ready to go
But somewhat blocked off by this smoke. So
They're kind of going according to plan there for legacy more ways than one
Bombs going down the cts don't allow it to happen
They're sprinting out of the smoke onto the site here in this in the back defending now
out where you're seeing what you can do, but it's like there's too much there to handle.
So a fun opening from the CTs. I agree. I really liked that. It's a better round though, but
I guess by legacy, you know, with that B hit, it's kind of the perfect place for them to
finish the round.
An unfortunate team kill for the CT side during those exchanges, which was maybe
one less than they really needed there. You can see Fuzzi was put down by Stair by
Accidents ended up in a one versus two as well, but anyway shit happens as they say
On investment for the second round here for Astralis
So this one should be relatively simple for legacy again lots of great scouts
They've got really good momentum for the most part coming into this series
They'll definitely be confident. Oh
They're all lining up for deep out
Don't pass off of them, but again, the threat is minimal in this round.
We look to the third one to see what Astralis will have to offer on their CT side.
Thus to a map where Astralis are currently 38% with 8 maps played, 67% for legacy with 6.
Yeah, I think this is a good map for Astralis.
I don't think it's a map where you know, they would be considered to be a bad team
I think they actually can get and have have gotten quite creative in the past in terms of how they
Play the CT sides if they're having trouble, which I think to me is a point of the signs of a
of great calling and
Because that's like some of the hardest
Some of the hardest calls to make it's making the CT aggression that's actually consistent and reliable if you're getting kind of you know thrown into the
into the washing machine of T defaults, where it's like you're not quite sure what's going on and they've put you on bad money all the time and you can't kind of get a grip of the economy.
But the ops in the hands of busy right now.
They're showing presence on mid.
And we have a cat setup as well that's ready to challenge the T side once they get that cat control part of the default.
Us two is not a map where these teams have met each other before, played a number of times
around October of last year, but not here, it's an alive still and look how much useful
there is for legacy. They've got plenty of space to offer half
truth and lies, executes. Great presence of mind from Hoocie.
Did he see the back of that player? Or was that the border of the X-ray?
We'll soon see. Oh, they got a lineup perfectly for him.
He had three opportunities. None were taken though, but that's a lot of dots on the radar.
20 seconds time aside to get a little bit low.
Debbie asking questions and now they walking to beat this is the last attempt they're
going to really send it here because time is a problem.
Who is he?
Ready with the AWP and being entertained by Abby instead.
So there you go, 3-0 up for Astralis and that's a great start to that CT side.
And this is going to be a fun one here, James.
I feel like, for me, this feels like it should be a three-mapper, but I could totally see,
actually, if Astralis have a good Dust 2, that has the making of the two-o then.
How do you say it?
Because Astralis' ancients are pretty nice.
Yeah, they're 13-3 legacy.
Quite a few months ago now.
I'm sure legacy have learned since then
Again, that's tries getting very aggressive on dust to elbow spotted. That's the warning that saddened needed
Well, that hasn't gone to plan then and yabby is in trouble now
This could be a troublesome rounds
Probably some few rounds for Astralis actually
Already proving to be quite painful
Bria will be traded immediately, plenty of time as well for the T side.
The trades will continue as Astralis have to take risks, have to go for that second peak
because they're so far behind in this round that the numbers of legacy will prevail.
I kind of love it from Astralis.
That's obviously very risky to go aggressive on the CT side like that.
You can kind of see legacy really really felt like they they were very much looking for that because once they also killed the orper
The initial kill also the rifle with you
Just as he goes down as well
They they threw the flash out recognizing that this is it kind of felt like they knew what the setup was from Astralis. So
You know, that's a that's that's the problem for Astralis. It leaves a lot of economy very early on here
source of comments about the striers is New Jersey on Twitter people complaining about
it but it's essentially it's got the classic layout of a football top.
If one issue is that is it is very black which may make it feel a bit barren and boring
maybe for some rather than that it's a standards football top essentially just like you might
see from any club. There's a classic Eric Hansen era black Manchester United away top,
which may be a long time ago, but maybe memorable because he fly kicked somebody in the stands
wearing that top. But I thought it was a pretty cool top versus a normal red. Hopefully
no one from Astralis flight kicked somebody in the crowd. But if they did it would make
the top more interesting wouldn't it? I suppose it would be iconic.
That's the learnings. D-Mile making some sound, making noise. And obviously this pistol
says so, Astralis are really committing to defending this mid push and if they could
could actually get a pick and just get a kill. That would be very nice, but still legacy, making
the way up Catwalk now and they found a really good opening onto the site. They're taking
some damage here, though. There's no pistols down just yet. Can't imagine that anything
should really go too badly here for them. They get the Catplots, somewhat guaranteed.
Now for the CTs, their chance is really just to get a kill and they won't be able
to do that. It's unfortunate for Astralis, but legacy looking kind of nice now. 4-1 up,
and Astralis now, I'm sure they're not thinking about that aggressive round that was, I suppose,
the, I guess, I mean, I don't want to call it the mistake, obviously, because they obviously
did it for a particular reason, and they just get caught out, they got out front.
But it's really set them back here, James.
Yeah, a stunted growth at the beginning of Dust2.
I'm loving the CT aggression we're seeing from Team Soap.
Again, we saw some great examples with 3D Max vs Furia yesterday. Definitely one worth watching if you missed it.
Perhaps this one will be as well if Astralis could pull their socks up.
Gabby tears to try and never mind.
Lato's guts somewhere to be.
AK is deleting the CTs around the B bomb site and this one is beyond salvage, most likely.
3 on 4 bomb not planted.
If there's opportunity given, then maybe they go for it but nothing's being served on a
plate.
I think Saturn may have just seen something, certainly does.
That could have been made even more expensive for the CTs but again, I just don't know
how much there is in this one for them.
angle from Lato, nice boost over the wall. There were three Nadas, just one, they're
holding the AWP and plus two just becomes more difficult for Astralis.
Really nice pace change from Legacy, just like hitting mid with a super fast round. Now,
obviously, if that was like one of those rounds where Astralis were aggressive in mid
and cat, that would probably have gotten blown up. But I think it's a legacy there,
they can feel confident that Astralis probably wouldn't do that because now there's
some grounds behind, they don't have that early economy to kind of work with, or the positive
economy to work with. So they're just likely going to need more of a passive stance. So
they get that super fast mid timing, where often time only three would be towards long
for the CTs and they haven't brought an extra player back to spawn yet. So that was a great
call from legacy. And now Australia, you know, I talked about the washing machine
being in the washing machine, James of T-Calling, and I think that's kind of where Astralis find themselves now.
Man, that thing on the headset just makes me think part of his plant is on his head.
It catches me every time. I'm like, whoa!
I thought it was a leaf as well.
What's going on?
HEE used by the CTs to cross. Hold on to utility, they may find more valuable. Okay, that's
the promising start from HootC. Remember, this is a round of an AWP for the CTs. So,
somewhat disabling the maximum capability of the T side, maybe something they can
build on, perhaps legacy looking for a more prompt round. All things considered, they've
got a lot of utile, which is great. It's so important to have Amoli or HE behind the, well,
the boxes where Yabi is right now, you've really got to stop that position from being
a thing if you're going to push up on sites. And he will stand in those flames. His life
is made very difficult indeed, but there's a second frag now for the CT side. They've
must AWP however. So I think at this point with the angles that legacy have had the main
threat of this round is dealt with.
Yeah, it's definitely looking like the round is certainly secure but is there an extra
killed to be had by the CTs. Not yet. Stare. We'll have a shot presumably once the smoke
goes away. And here he goes. Stare. Hit a D. Oh, that's not bad. That's not a bad shot
at all. A little bit of extra damage doesn't go amiss, but ultimately another kind of good
protocol. I think from the T side from Legacy, understanding that if they can get long
control they can kind of scale and you don't have to worry too much about the pistols. At that point
you've got to control the variants quite effectively. You see that here on the site with
use of molotovs and you're smoking off the cross so full control from legacy in this tea
side six to one now as we get the full buy again from Astralis. Let's see if they can
Let's see if they can do a better job here surviving the variants of these two rounds.
Astralis is getting more committed to the long position.
Who's he posted up?
Now we see Legacy moving through to that short control with minimal sound cues.
Good timing for Astralis with the smoke.
Tony if you get a smoke up like that you can really post up behind it and cause many problems for a T side who are committed to an A push
It looks like it might be retake Taurus where you will see what Poozie is willing to do in this scenario
He has flashes, but no one to flash. There are smokes all over the shop stairs out of position
So they have to approach short from mid I think
Oh, let's go to worry about Oz here. He's in a very good position. Are they going to
check for this? Well, now they know where he is. That's a big frag from Oz. And this is
going to waste a lot of time because, and this is Oz, a goal now I think is just to
create delay. He knows that they have to try to kill him and they can't go deep enough
to go for that fight. They're just going to press on and get sandwiched by the
cap position. And now it's just Fusey once again alone without really any way to
do impact in this round. Another great round from Legacy, and it did feel like Astralis
kind of had a good sense that they were going to have to play a retake on A earlier on,
and their retake approach did not work at all.
Some of these rounds must feel brutal for Astralis. It's like, it's a bit of, there's
bit of gambling with the the play you choose to make versus your opponent choose to make
and they just managed to thread the needle on that occasion through short onto the bomb
sites long as taken great smokes and no way back for Astralis just an invitation far enough
to lose your weapons and put you in a dire situation in round nine because he's still
of the AWP, which will be important. How many more can he get? As I asked a question, it
is answered by Lato. He'll urgently move forward, perhaps to help keep that up out of the hands
of the remainder. It will no doubt be spread across the map to some degree. Wow. Very
ready for dust to our legacy. Looking fantastic so far. Feeling unstoppable on this on this
first half at the very least. We'll see if it continues through to the end, which isn't
too far away. Human arts being on the squad for about a month has played all of 12 maps
for legacy. At least as far as dust two is concerned, they're looking pretty coordinated.
Yeah, this is a great debut event for him, a few coming into this pretty prepared.
I mean, they're getting some big scalps so far.
Yeah, be given some more.
This is really the only fragging that mostly is happening.
I feel like it's exit frags or rather, sorry, frags after the rounds already lost from
the CTs of a Stralis.
And I was kind of crediting them that I've seen them do a pretty good job from
this position. Again, it's why it's so hard to make calls because your economy is kind
of broken. So when you do get it by rounds, you don't throw it away, but you kind of feel
like you need to get ahead of what the teams are doing. So you're disruptive. So they can't
just run the rounds as they kind of want to run them because they're doing it based
on their understanding of how to exploit your rotations, how they think you're playing,
and if they have a really good read on you, if you get in their face before that
comes to fruition then you know that's one way to deal with it, but it does make
wonder will we see that mid aggression again
time for drastic action here on Dusty for Astralis
better angle it's a big brain peek with AWP
they've got a distance advantage on that he's further away from the point of
engagement through that door so he gets it gets a little bit of extra model of
the CT to see before he gets seen wonder if that's just a hard counter to the
habits of Fuzi if he plays mid as well how often do you see peeks like that
Now, your 4 vs 5 on the CT side of Dust2,
I think your options to try and find an advantage here will be limited.
Two per sight, it will be.
Oh, just another peek.
They're so ready for him.
Dozen standard chance really.
Waiting to swing together.
Wonderful.
My God.
He mails mainly there to take the crosshair away, but he'll take Yabi with him flying
AK-47 and Astralis will once again leave relatively empty-handed.
Yes, they may pick the AWP with them, but they're not really able to get enough done
with it alone.
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It's a Danish company.
I'm in Copenhagen the two most of all things are extremely bougie coffee shops and Lego stores
I feel like
Strahler's needs to get those two seconds later
I'm lost you
My word oh
Ooh, ooh, ooh, I smelt some frustration. I mean, that's a given, really, considering how things are going.
This is a nothing game of dust 2 so far, and we are into the 11th round.
Yeah, I mean, it's just not working out. I mean, the, that mid-peak was in the previous round, just wasn't up the one, and...
It just seems like legacy, they're not winning because of better mechanics or anything, they're
winning because they're just playing better reasons, openings and tactics are on point,
right calls at the right time, good protocols, good decisions like that all peaked from
the previous round, like you just have a better angle there so you should be winning
that duel.
That seems to be what legacy of, I mean it's just, you know, some Dusty mastery
we're seeing here from them. You never know, sometimes it's the most unlikely
rounds that are collected by the CTs, so we'll see if there's something to be made
of this one. They are stacked towards the A side of the map, and legacy are
yet to choose where they'll finish. They are information gathering.
The warning, it always helps if you if you can visualize up someone's about to pass mid.
Boom.
And I can't imagine I would not want to be on the cc side right now.
This is just one of those games which is not enjoyable to play.
Stay racing over.
Art's posted up on Long-Warrickly though.
He's not going to be hopping on those boxes.
Have an effect go at it. You can see the urgency. He's doing what he can to try and win this run for a squad
But this is griefing. This is griefing
Like a non
This is like one. There's just one team on this map right now
Other team is is nowhere to be seen. I
I would compare this to eating a really dry tasteless cracker like a whole pack of them
really slowly and just you have no water like your mouth is mega dry and you just
Gotta find a way to choose, man.
Gotta find a way to choose.
My legacy did 13-8 G2 here as well.
No, save one.
2-0 G2, 2-0 Paravision, 2-1 NIP.
You know like it being a put in some work
They have lost dusty only in recent memory to Aurora and it was an overtime game
Maybe a glimpse of hope in the last round of this half a five on four for Astralis
Heavily fortified B bomb sites
We have triple orbs.
Okay, they'll be made.
Okay, so they just spent the extra money using the spawns,
having a look towards B,
this and having a look elsewhere as well.
Always Brazil with the multi orbs.
Never mad though.
More orbs to marry as far as I'm concerned.
They'll go back to a more normal setup now.
20 of Utah, they can absolutely create space.
they neutralize the AWP. Last time they headed towards A, although the AWP was down or long.
Now Fusey's a more usual position, but still having no success.
Their cap play here is really nice from Legacy. Fusey must hit shots,
does at least get one kill there. Any three players left, Nissan? On the railing above,
able to punish the player jumping elevator. Duma also gets a pick so now suddenly this is looking
very scary for the CTs. Coming from long and two from CT.
How much you till left here? One single flashbang for Ryu and we'll see what he can do with it.
Finally there's a ticket. And now another peek. Nissen finding another headshot.
Zatsen is going to be taken down close to the bomb now. Nissen at distance
has to find these shots with the AK.
And he's going to go down, Great.
Shot coming in from Hooksy.
And they have just enough time here for the defuse.
Very, very slightly,
but they'll finish off the half with two rounds.
Something to work with, but is it enough?
We'll find out after the break.
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Don't talk to friends, don't go with the flow
The one you came for is for the one you came for
So we head to the floor and then we find a scape
Up to the wave and the missions they've done
No place here
The one you came for is for the one you came for
We're having a one, one, one
Just in the heart of Spaulding
Hit it in the body, finger
Just in the heart of Spaulding
Hit it in the body, ring it
Oh, open the heart of Spaulding
Hit it in the body, ring it
Two rounds and a dream, a chip and a chair as you might say in poker, that's essentially
the situation Astralis are in on Dust2.
A nightmare half is over.
They like breaks once again, perhaps they can have a better time of things now.
the long position sands him falling back relatively easily, keeping the five alive.
Watson CT with a flashbang.
See if he could find a way to use it for his squad who have some plays on short, but
Humile's got a lot of problems coming his way down.
He goes deleted immediately.
Second one spotted and the numbers are just too great for Astralis.
This one may be over already.
There's a pistol though, so legacy, I'm going to be threatening, I'm sure they're going
to feel very confident here as well.
That's it.
It's a dual-dead baiting, and he's dead.
So never mind.
I think with that kill, now it's looking pretty incredible.
Is Nism actually going to save?
I mean, he's got full untouched Kevlar.
There's also a 12 and 3, so...
But I gotta maintain the KDA, James.
Alright, perhaps we have a real match, or a real game of dust to do at the very least
on our hands.
Revenge time for Australia.
the numbers in the right places. Overwhelming force in the number of jewels there.
That's a innocent one, 13 frags for their squad.
Fuzi's the slight standouts on the Astralis squad with 10 frags so far.
We'll see. I would expect that will increase considerably on the T side.
But they'll need to build rounds to give him the space to do that.
All some great work from sadzen and it will really the whole squad of legacy.
in that first half.
Maybe we'll see such from Astralis as well.
You can see if they can keep the consistency.
What's the wire out comes in from legacy?
Again, looking very well versed on Dust2 and difficult to beat.
Got some flashes in the hands of arts as they wait to explode on shorts.
We'll see if they get challenged at some points.
Nissen's asking questions in the long doors and now we get the pop flash play looking
for information and Astralis are ready for that.
Very ready for it.
Here comes Nissen.
No easy kills though, DSP now he's been spotted.
Unfortunate.
Yeah, legacy, you know, I think they're really looking to re-asset themselves.
They haven't had a great start to 2026, but obviously with some of the changes that they've made and I think they're in a good spot, especially with the form they're showing this tournament here, James, we've seen, as I mentioned, really competitive matches against top 12 teams where they've been beating them, as well as just having very close games.
So I think they're really looking to reclaim all those VRS, there's lots of VRS ranking points.
Much work to be done.
That's too ancient and mirage the maps for this series.
Yeah, I'd be collecting the bonus money with the MP9.
Four frags with the SMG, the Mac10, sorry, four frags with the SMG.
Nice bonus money.
I see a Pokeball up there.
Nice to look at what is around on the shelves.
Empty bottle, hopefully not for Pete.
Steve, be there hanging there for a bit.
Double Mag 10s for Astralis in this situation, so they're going to go fast there.
Yeah, he's looking to take one for the team.
Oh, it's going closer.
Oh, my God.
Oh, man.
Oh, I just noticed, just hold down Mars 1 as soon as he gets flashed.
That's going to work out really well.
Three players here on the long take now for the Astralis side.
I mean, it's going to be hard to finish out the rounds.
Actually, now they've lost value down the cat.
right two frag four, doom out.
saddened, somewhat new sort of the scouts for the time being.
this is closing on foosie.
and they're back to winning ways then.
see if they can keep the wheels turning legacy.
three standing at the end of the round I think.
So many Brazilian squads with familiar names spread across them.
We haven't mentioned art too much in this map of Dust2 just yet,
but we'll see how things develop across the series.
Saturn will continue with the scout, meanwhile Fuzi on the other side will have the big green gun, yeah, we'll see.
Oh, he's gonna flick on this occasion.
I will Saturn find a way to be useful in this one, I wonder.
I think as well, you know showing the presence there is it I think it's encouraging that you maybe would see
What can courage the T's to go be which is where they're kind of stacking because you're kind of suggesting that all we saw around with a 2 3
set up
but
We're still gonna get Astralis just working on the cat control default
so
What's really interesting here is that
Astralis might still think okay, maybe B is the weaker side and
And they have the option to go back there
So see if that's the read because that is the game plan for legacy that they this they stacked B
And so they're looking to have the stronger defense there
Halfway through the tunnel and they are going further
With the minutes on the clock, this is some really good timing
still have three outside long doors though. I wonder what his play will be. We asked about
Sadzin. There is the answer. Oh my god. What great timing forcing them back. Oh, the deletion.
So quick from Nism. The pace is too slow. They're being dismantled one by one. Unable
to answer once again, white man from the T side, from the CT side, start to rise again.
Bomb lost 15 seconds.
Frag hero there for Ryu, but it is going to be game point for legacy.
Man, this thing was feeling at this round.
I mean, great timing on the push.
We're looking for a peak and they initially got the peak from sad sin with the scout that hits this
You know that was that whole play was to trap sad sin and punish him for peeking and being to skip the kill
And then they can burst into the B site and then you could then you got an ISM wrapping around the back
You're like, where did he come from?
Really nasty there for us rather now. They're against the
against the ropes on this map it does to and
And the fast long take coming on through here for a legacy
will be passing very very quickly to punish that fall back from off and look at the pace to wait
Lightning fast
This provides opportunity then for Astralis that bomb needs to get planted however
But the timing from Dumount is perfect.
Right in the bum.
And he's done.
Fuzzi's turn to drop on with the scouts.
And it's Sazin now with the AWP.
Big swing.
That makes it awkward now for Lato.
He goes back into the choke point.
He's entertaining one of the three.
He can stay alive and continue to do that.
Never mind.
We've got two kills for Australis and Sazin having to exit.
Impressive, I mean unlikely pick up here from Astralis, obviously they got to do that
again and again and again, now in Dusty but it's encouraging to see.
You would have expected that, especially after the entry where Art was punished.
Really aggressive pathing from Rai is very nice, smashing the legacy site.
Nothing keeps the AWP though.
It keeps the AWP.
Let's get this.
Boom.
Alright, here we go.
Looks like another long take is coming through.
There's no challenge for you here.
CT's went with cat control instead.
Lato's posted up. Lato's also.
Well, they know that it's been conceded long.
They've got the sound cues from that short position.
And they've got some map control elsewhere also.
And again, after a long take things often slow down to some degree in exchange of grenades.
And that smoke will be quite a nuisance for Astralis
They've got no mid presence whatsoever Astralis
You see on the radar yabby looking through those longs doors that they entered from
And we see previous rounds where the CTs
Where legacy have had really good timing on Astralis and taking the game away from them
You've got to be careful their lurker has been eliminated perhaps they've got nowhere else to go
Scaling all up.
Art does have an incendiary here, so this could be really annoying and potentially lethal.
That ramp position, and this is that spot that you mentioned is really important to
monitor yourselves, but they don't have the utility to remove the CTs from these positions.
Legacy in a really good position to get these kills at 4 vs 2 for them.
Yabby trying to deliver for the side, he's going to equalize with the AK.
Now the plants.
What do the CTs do? They try to jump up here, near sim, reveals his position, now it's a
game of patience and timing. Is he not sure of the second player? It's coming from long,
near sim with the boost on Palato, and there it is, perfect timing from Fozzie, beautiful
bet, and Stralis are going to clinch one more. They've got to do so many of these
He's clutching though James, it's kind of rough.
Great work hiding in a car position.
Just allowing them to focus a little too much on the site itself.
Popping up with great timing.
Very good effort from Art though.
Playing off of his teammates around the back as well.
It was great for Yabbi to deal with that short player and then the rest.
That was as important, more important, certainly for Astralis.
reach half the score of legacy. Some of these rounds will be easier than others. Case in
points. Again, legacy looking to explode with flashbangs. Again, there is basically no margin
for error now for Astralis.
There's also going to know that this is going to be an eco and so they're trying to be really
careful in how they approach this.
But showing that mid smoke and suggesting that it be split, how has the CTs moving, they're
going to smoke cats.
Right now, you know, they seem about to find out this is a stack and they're probably
already feeling it.
That's what's happened here.
Female stolen AK.
That's like hot potato with the AK. Oh, I'm trying to get out.
You take out one player here, that would be nice, but...
Well, sometimes you gamble and sometimes you lose your money.
Yes, another game point for the legacy bros.
for the CT squads. HG2 cross the doors as per... That's the second molly you might throw
when your teammate throws one in those long doors just bouncing off towards blue. So if
If someone did make it out there, there's nowhere to hide.
20.
There's a Stralis to have so much utility.
We'll look to clear out that short position.
Maybe beyond that.
It hurt to spray from mid earlier.
Do they realize there's 218 on the A bomb site?
Seems those two might be enough.
Remember, this is Game Point for Legacy.
Currently 5 on 3.
That trade will be fantastic for them now.
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It doesn't really matter what he decides to do.
Essentials not even playing for the bomb.
trust in kensas or to do that essential wrapping around to make sure he can never
escape not even necessary opera covered for the tea side free adbp for scissi
and four rounds back as bait
have you damaged and clicked it, since he's at 28 and Makata he wants to be a disruptive
force on this banana side. He's been kind of left to his own devices so might want to
back away. Thanks he went on a utility retrieval mission, comes back with a full belt.
There weren't any scraps in Banana either, everyone was just sort of chillin'.
Yeah, they've managed to get some chip damage for those H2s, unless you get one towards the E2 stairs.
Especially on Sizzys AWP, who just got it for free, and he probably wants to find a way to put it to good use,
but now he's got to be really cognizant of where exactly he's standing.
Is it possible? Is it popular to nade this spot?
Yeah, you want to find something on the way in.
It's always going to be like a little bit more of a supportive element on Inferno,
With AT&HP, like even more so passive, you're just like, ah.
There's not really anything great for me to get involved in.
So Molotov held on Mikaze at the B bomb site.
They know Alexi's in CT spawn, they've heard the footsteps, they're coming through.
Yeah, Alexi trying to get out through CT, good utility held on for the final 30 seconds.
Alexi B also putting a stop to their attack with bullets.
So that should be it.
You can play passive now too, you can go hide behind a box, you can play for time on top
of everything, but actually they're saving 10 seconds on the clock, backing off, Bait couldn't
get anything done and now they're going to lose a lot.
Really nice angle from him, he just completely locks the door.
They should be, you know they're pushing banana, pushing banana right now, but Lee
and Lai is giving him an escape route, are they going to be able to turn the corner,
deep nade over towards logs, nothing done yet and both players survive thankfully
for bait 12-7. Five rounds for Navi to close out this series.
Not a single care in the world for Navi, how things are sailing much nicer on the CT side?
They struggle to get the same amount of impact on the attack.
This BD fence has been super solid for Navi in this half.
Whether in banana they're able to find openings or even when they play from the
the site, just Alexi Makazov is having utility left, not even losing the bomb site, and Bait
just has no solution, no adjustments really. It's all down to this, and CZ makes something
happen on the AWP.
Oh, he can.
For Bait's fate, let's hope so.
I think Bits season first right?
Yeah.
Oh well, nothing happening from Sizi.
Just death at the hand of Bitt.
Now 5v4, Navi with the advantage
to try and close this series out.
Block smoke in the apartments on the balcony.
So utility for Bitt left.
Two smokes and a flashbang to try and get your way in.
You need like at least three times as many flashes
for that to be effective against any defense
that Navi's going to have set up.
The three-quarter smoke tossed.
Emma playing on the extended balcony.
Flash is going forward.
He is caught by a little bit awkward,
but bit most down two.
Emma up in the apartment, and Navi have done it.
It's just MPL left.
They'll give it a good go, but his former team
will take the win today.
Navi secured a two and zero versus Bates.
Very comfortable there on the second map as well.
Navi gonna be feeling good that business was handled.
I think also important when for Navi to write a clean 2-0, it's been a bit labored to kick-off.
Do you think that stilling is okay?
What?
Oh jeez, that's huge.
Like your mom?
Seriously, how do you recover from this?
I don't know man, looks like a long run. We need a quick reset.
I don't know, maybe it's a secret that you've got to keep
Nipo, take out the cocoonber
Counter-Strike is always based on calculations
That is something we live by in Prime Strongest
You've had them all fucking died!
You got the reward
But you also got the risk
Identifying that is easy
Keeping the odds in your favor, that's the hard part.
Danny had this philosophy that he grew,
same page, same direction,
which always began in the present.
The way that we would anti-strat,
the way that every piece of good synth was meticulously planned.
Practiced over and over and over.
The way that we understood every tendency of our opponent and how to paint it in our favor.
We knew exactly how far to push them and the odds, and they hated it.
We knew exactly what fights we were supposed to take.
And when we were supposed to take them, we knew the exact probabilities.
But this is CS.
Sometimes, you just have to say...
Fuck.
You are my hero, come on!
You are my hero, come on!
You are my hero, come on!
You are my hero, come on!
You are my hero, come on!
Who's back?
Bro, you can't imagine how it was.
Bro, he's always had a high pitch voice.
Only you can hear me.
Look straight forward and act normal.
Listen, bigger Jack.
My sure has his aim pointed to the left side of the f***ing head.
Alright, someone tried this before.
Well, how about today, big head?
Do I have your attention now?
nearly nearly that could have been your cell production could you at least take
out a bystander I'm not gonna do that for what reason budget reasons and the fact
that these bullets are reserved for you nice okay I'm sold
you see Erasmus I've grown a little tired of these double standards the
The joke is, literally anyone else misses a shot after all, you will miss a shot, you will get an equal race, start playing, you will get an equal race.
You get a chance?
No, you never race, not even against equals.
Clearly I haven't seen you play lately.
Oh, believe me, I have watched it.
Here's how it's going to go.
I'm going to bet every single fight until you lose this game.
People are going to be suspicious.
Oh, they won't know this effect.
The costus won't.
That's where your life leads to trade.
Waste those bullets. Waste the bitch you just lost.
Adam or Rasmus, I'm starting to think you can do this without me.
Perfect, get watch, now do what you do best.
What are you doing?
Do not contest the Erasmus.
Go on, you get chat, clutched around and we'll let the fans really see that big brain of yours.
It's nothing major.
Down on the ground, it's nothing major.
That is an amazing segment and a great way to come back to the action.
We look to our second map of the series then a strong performance from Legacy.
Can Astralis match it as we move through to map 2 in this series?
Are they going to force us to go all the way to a map of Mirage?
First comes Ancient where Astralis are 86% with 7 maps played.
That's not too shabby.
must your company up. Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely a place of
comfort and and you know what they're going to be they're
going to be looking for a place of comfort because they just
got absolutely been over a barrel in that last match of just
two. And now it's time to take back the series against
legacy who are looking quite sharp. We're coming into
this with all the momentum. So as we kick off at the
pistol round we can see the strollers from that T side
where they will get to dictate the pace and in the
To mid, they go. It's Glocks.
Enemy spotted.
Enemy enemy spotters heading towards B.
The city's a hero as well. The molly hasn't landed.
That means there's going to be more space than you might expect.
Well, so much space, though.
They all survived down to a two on two.
arts in the back with Dumau.
Looking to stop this one from being planted, trying to combine
together. And that's down to who see he will be the last one to
fall.
Right then.
Legacy, let's see how good their ancients is. You know,
that there's definitely an element of uncertainty with
respect to what we should expect from their performance
because, you know, it's the Art Stabby event with them.
So there's definitely a lot
that we have to just witness.
And one of those things is going to be
how does the CT site going to go for legacy?
They've got that opening advantage.
And no bomb down, so Astralis deciding not to
invest at all in this round.
Just a bunch of glocks and a flashback.
And they're going to get spotted.
So the game's been given up,
Straight onto the site, the MP9s and the HEs doing what they do.
Any round is very quickly over.
When do you think you lost?
Manually putting the enemy spotted command in a game of Counter-Strike.
Ever.
Ever.
1.6 probably.
Yeah, I don't know.
Broken headset, no mic.
There would be a reason.
I just thought to myself, I haven't done that.
in bloody years.
Quickly onto the binder, this is a Tromps third round
and that's a lot of utility heading towards the top of mid.
Very quick execute from Legacy to take mid control.
And again, it is a bit of a gamble,
especially for the CTs in terms of where they put
their forces at the beginning of the rounds,
picking the right time.
However, they have lost Nysim and almost Lasso near the B-Ramp or around the B-Ramp or beyond the B-Ramp.
There's a lot of map control here for Astralis and they're being caught off guard legacy.
This is not looking so good for them.
Early problems once Astralis are in for the buy.
And so far, we've seen very fast rounds from Astralis.
kind of worth noting you know the very fast moving through mid with the glocks very fast you know hit
onto the B site with glocks and now really fast onto the A site so we haven't seen anything that's slow
yet from them and so we're trying to punish it try to get rid of those guns but yeah it's worth
it's worth mentioning because Astralis on the CT side when they did have some control
early on Dust2. They also decided to try to play fast even on the CT side of Dust2.
And so it's kind of cool to see that they are a team that are trying to go aggressive first.
Because I actually think that is by far the more risky approach.
And it's less risky to do it the other way around. Where you start out slow,
you get more of a read as to what the opponents are doing, and then you play fast.
But I love it. I respect it. And
And Satsang has AWP now, and he's going to be locking down the A long part of the map.
Charles once again, fast-paced, straight into mid.
We have seen comments from Saw recently talking about ancient and that essentially if there
is a fight in mid, it more or less determines the round a lot of the time.
It seems that legacy are not fancying that variance at present
See if they have a look there later on but for now
They've got a two-man set up in doughnut without keeping the CTs honest around red room
Being very proactive this time our legacy
See Nyssen how far does he go here towards the B bomb sites?
CTs looking for info three players around red room for Astralis and it may be them who have to
Make a further play at some point. I will be heard rotating over towards A however.
And it seems that legacy might start to have a sniff now.
Elbow spotted, bomb spotted.
But which way is it going?
Really tricky when you lose maids.
And now questions asked by Doomow, moving into Intimid himself.
And there is that swing from this end.
Not gonna make the kill happen though, that spells trouble for legacy.
Now, please eat reveals to play, bursting out from the side.
It's gonna be an easy frag onto Lato.
And this makes things even more tricky now for legacy.
Do they just hold on to the rifles at this point?
They don't have any position to work from.
Where's the AK? Where is it?
I think many might be expecting a third map in this series.
early doors though hard to say right now but an interesting approach from legacy
not challenging in mids astralis have been there and maybe this because they're aware of the util for
astralis they make it difficult like if astralis are going for mid the mollies come out quick
there aren't so many places to stand but maybe legacy will have to make a stand
in regards to mid-at some points this might be the rounds now as we see Dumau in that position
perfect timing no molly on this occasion does that mean that well it does mean that
Astralis are more interested in a different part of the map and this is again this is the gamble
on ancients. Look how quickly Art is looking for that information. Got an MP7 though. I
mean I think for the most part he can hold position but he'll need to rely on his teammates
to do the work here with the mixed bag they're carrying. Good start from Sanzin who is close
to the second one. He will get there as well. Again, art still has to be careful. He can't
give them an option to rotate out. He just needs to communicate to his squad.
Now he's got the perfect timing with the flank. Hold onto the spot. They have no idea. And
now he just has to survive. He doesn't even have to do too much more. Nice him defending
spawn and for you with everywhere to look at all at once, jump out from cave. No bullets.
And that is a wrap.
Good retake from Legacy, and they're quickly back on top of Astralis preventing any dangerous
tea-side momentum.
You know, their terrorists win.
They're controlled by Art there, really, really securing its satan sea here, just holding, I
mean, this is a little bit, well, definitely quite scary, but total control.
Getting animated early.
Yeah, what's Yabbi doing?
What is Bro doing?
Great work by Arts.
By Legacy overall.
Again, understanding how fragile his position was as well.
Not overdoing it.
Just getting the info.
It's time for players over towards B. And the CTs will know they've got a window of time
where afterwards they can check Red Room.
They're losing a player on the ramp.
Okay, they needed an answer.
Art is a great man to do that.
Naisi's SADZIN racing over to make sure that there are eyes on this position.
I'm going much deeper though.
You would have had maybe slightly superior angle, that's the bomb spotted now as Lato
keeps an eye on things.
I see Jull to the death there.
He's got the help from Art now as well, but the meat and potatoes of this CT defense
has been isolated.
They're going to have to push through this mode to support you now.
there and now just out of review. Working with the sake and then they've looked off the bomb.
So that's not good. Not good at all for us job. This is chances, but see if the clutch
can happen here. Good connection from the first, but the trade is ready to deliver
the killing blow from do mouth. So very well held on to there.
And as I was going to say, James, I want to explain, you know, we had that half
clear essentially, from things missing. You die here, exactly, yeah, you die here, I'm
killing him there. So I'll explain why that happens. So that happens because you're trying,
in your mind, you know, you have to do a lot of things at once. And so you want to move
on to the next task without giving yourself the effective amount of time it takes to effectively
do the first task. Because having to clear like multiple positions at once, you've
got to be really quick. And so you actually, what you're trying to do is you're trying
to check that position, then your brain has to register someone is there and you have to
actually click on them. But oftentimes we're already thinking about the next thing that
we're going to do right after that because we have to be so fast because there's too
many things to do. So we're not giving ourselves enough kind of bandwidth to actually complete
that task. And so that's like a leak that happens sometimes when a player is feeling
a bit in a rush. So that's why I'm thinking about the next corner as we're
clearing that one. We're not fully focused. Yes, more time. That often happens because
there's Quoniss you check. There's actually no one there. So you kind of get in, you know,
you can get into a full sense of security sometimes with that. But Alexi seems to be
taking over this off now, James.
Oh, let's see.
This is an important round, I think it managed to be true.
This will be an important round to win, it's not a given.
There are helmets on four of the five players
here for Astralis.
They come into this with intention.
out the utility. We'll make their lives slightly easier. They've got three mollies, again,
a perfect storm for this particular bomb site, all these tech nines, and they've got the
AK for stair. These mollies will start to stream in, the CC positions will be compromised.
Maybe this double set-up is just what they needed. Now starting to rotate over, Demal
can hear them coming they're gonna post up AWP first we've got a great big situation
will it be enough though to drive by from Hoocsee now what does he pick up the M4 or the AWP
what's closer he's got the AK from his teammate
has he been heard he has been heard by Nysim you can see how he moves on the radar they
know where he is i'm pretty sure maybe not 100 percent as Arthur Lato is still being careful
I was like he hoping that he would and when he got to don't I just keep like walking then
through red to like slang because obviously it's ridiculous to play to make it a 1v3,
but maybe a 1v2 that could potentially make sense. But yeah, it's a tough one for Herksey to clutch,
and that's going to, you know, you were talking about how that round was kind of instrumental in
sort of cementing this takeover from legacy and they get it, and they're looking really good.
Right now, their money is still pretty close to being broken. So this fast round into the
to be sight. Could this be what Astralis need? Well, that's not a good start. Yaby goes down
straight away. We use quickly in there to try to trade it and try to claim this space,
but they can't seem to get the kills that they need. They might just get the plant
though.
It should be a reasonable secure of the round for legacy. I just have the numbers
are just too great. And that's fine. I don't think I'll be too concerned of the bomb plant.
Just about keeping the money up, sitting in a good spot for these rounds. But are the alarm
bells sounding for Astralis just yet? Bearing in mind this is their map pick. Perhaps they
are as they take a timeout. And at this stage the bomb plant for Astralis of course
will be crucial for them to get the toys out as they would like to. But this is looking
pretty good for legacy. And I think this will be very encouraging for them. Opportunity
knocks as far as 2-0 might be concerned. Yeah, I was thinking that we would break the streak
of 2-0s today on the B stream. I feel like, you know, it's not the B stream without
some over times though so maybe you will get those if not the 2-1.
What a Stralis, they've got the Yord back out on Fuzi, see if he goes for any early
pick up attempts.
Apparently he's providing the support layer of nades for this midtake and the CTs they
are not giving it for free here, Arte is still out there, Ato gets burned out.
alive. And in the meantime, quickly, the rest of Astralis moving into B and Lizen's right
on the other side of the smoke. Oh, it's too perfect. It's too perfect for Nism right now.
A double at his hands and now maybe even the triple, but where's the bullets? You see,
he's going to get a 1v2 clutch to play with.
We'll find the 1v1. There are flashes being deployed by Sadzen.
He's got such a good angle now.
There is a smoke in the hands of arts going in the right direction though.
Rounding the corner now.
He's going to be forced into the open.
He doesn't have an angle to stop this bomb from being planted a swing and a miss and
they just can't afford to lose these opportunities, these rounds.
need every round that they can get now. Legacy building quite a lead if it keeps going this
way perhaps it'll be insurmountable moving into the second half and again it's been a
rare round where we've seen that big clash in mid between these squads. Legacy for the
most part have avoided it and where they have gone in, Astralis have been elsewhere but
on that occasion there was the big flashpoint this time I'll move through alone trying
to make it to Donut, but he's being hunted, doesn't get there. That's the very insane
dude at once. Lato now, seeking. Abel's just about to get the first frag, but unable to
escape. Trains will continue through the smoke with the bomb. Finds this in, not with the
bomb, but he found the bomb. Only one with the bomb now.
Now on the other side of the map, needs to find a way to help his teammate, but
Stralis, no, there could be a rotation.
Yeah, this is kind of a kind of an interesting situation.
As they're actually making his way through Red Room.
So Stralis, they're not in a rush to pick up this bomb.
And now that being smoked off,
that's of course going to slow them down even a little bit more.
They just have to wait that one out.
And this does buy time for Dumao to kind of activate.
Nyssen can't go anywhere.
What does Dumao decide to do?
He's still in mid.
He knows that the tease when that smoke goes away that they surely are going to have to
go for the bomb.
DOOMOUT is very cautious here, really it's all on his what he's able to do with this.
He goes for the jiggle surely eventually here, moving out, and Nyssen gets domed here, DOOMOUT.
He's got to deliver, and they're going to bypass him, they're going to know precisely
where he is.
All by.
Ah, not planted so.
It'll be a tough one then.
Trying to isolate the trade frags.
Oh, so far so good.
Looking for a flank.
Who remain for Astralis?
He has a kit.
And he is pulling stairway by just holding.
The calculated risk for Dumau.
But that clock is ticking now.
the bomb is not planted for him. He'll have no cover when he does go for it. Oh, I'm waiting
for the exit, but Yabi is very smart. He makes no assumptions whatsoever. Trying to be sneaky
didn't work out on this occasion. A crucial, a critical round for Astralis. So few and
far between in this first half, you can see that they are very concerned how things
have been going.
Yeah, very wildly rounds here.
Okay, scholars, they have been losing this mid position a lot, except that last round
where they got that opening pick.
I was really nice, but do you know, looking to challenge as it's a super fast round again
into the B site.
It's straight in there and he's going for the spray down.
Looking not too bad here from backside picks off one more big damage coming in from both sides
And that connection evens it back up two against two bombs still needs to be planted and sat them with the instant rotation
Looking to join this in
donuts
Full focus on CT spawn a double swing as you go all the way as you wait for the smite to go
So scary with the edge of the silence that may be conceding the position so far so good though
Fuzzi with the op on the radar surely think his hand was exposed
He's lost his position now
They're both posted up and ask his turn to go through the smoke finds an angle drops nissan
That clock is ticking
to go through. Oh, it's so awkward for all concerned, both facing smokes. Really, down
to the 1v1. That's got so much impact on how this looks at halftime. How much momentum
there is, how much of a lead there can be. Down to that 1v1, both sides pushing through
through the smokes, Fuzi getting the better of it, that must have been really tense for
the squads to watch, but it will be a three round deficit now for Astralis, a full spike
in the last round from Legacy, maybe a chance for a fifth. Has it looked great for Astralis
but half time? Anything that will matter is the score.
It's a good one for Fusey to win as well.
It's a redemption perhaps.
Aggressive CT smoke on the T-Doorbad must suggest there's a push or should be a push from B, but really it's a push from A, and if they play this one slowly, you might just get into an accident here.
Oh my god.
Art is going to find Fusey.
Hello?
Okay, there we go. And if I son, eventually does what it's supposed to do, but they don't know there's more players on the flank.
Mr. Trotter, surviving the smoke here. Now, Lato has announced his presence and they're all gone.
All of them as an 8-4 finish. They're the legacy strong CT side.
We'll see if they can close it in a 2-0 fashion in the next half.
I was never meant to stay It was you that pulled me in
I promise me that we'd be okay
All of your lies I was believing
You were dead most of the time
And I was never good enough for me
Let me go in and out of my mind
Let me go in and out of my mind
Like crazy
Well, I'm not gonna end this way
Why is there always this struggle?
For you to know
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
You got it like crazy
You were always blind and I was always wrong
Wraithing, baby, wasted out of love
Wraithing, baby, you're living in a picture
You were always blind and I was always wrong
Wraithing, baby, you're living in a picture
Wraithing, baby, you're living in a picture
You were always brave like a fool
You wanted to be here forever
Remembering we used to have it all
We were so good together
Why can't we both feel the same?
Well, why do I need to wish things?
You were that much of a time
But that was never good enough
Let me go around in my mind
Let me go around like crazy
When I go the headwinds way
Why is there always a step
For you to go
Go back like crazy
I do what I always find
And I was always wrong, crazy
Baby, when did I not go
A bumpy road for Astralis, but perhaps there is a horizon for them, clawing some crucial
rounds back late on in that half.
The pistol will be an important one, otherwise Legacy will quickly be into double figures
and looking at the odds. Some non-believers in the Astralis comeback. Let's see if they can change
those with the action in this all-important pistol. Large focus towards A and Fuzzi will be
repositioning. Oh, straight into a headshot. Maybe through the corner of the wall. He will need
some help but all the cavalry come in time. They are on the way but that bomb is already
already closer to its mission of exploding.
Donut control now from the CTs and that's where this retake is really now coming from.
Everyone through donut positions all over the place to worry about as they spring
from that position onto the site and Yabi is going to take it taken out as well. So it's not
going to work out for the retake of Astralis. And instead, the worst has happened. The second
off pistol has gone in legacy nine rounds to the four of Astralis now. And at the very least,
they did get the bomb down, James. So you've got to expect to see force by lots of, you know,
Eucalyptians, potential like to attack mines or maybe even a rifle. We do in fact see a little
So there's danger here
Yeah, this is immediate alarm bells for astralis
Again these squads currently one one in this stage
Will us be safe
Yeah, just feeling like it's not going to be enough.
The double figures are on the way for legacy.
They put themselves in position to have a great start to this half and that is exactly how
things have gone.
Maybe the CTs can turn things around, like if they, you know, if they, I mean they
need immediate success on the by rounds. But if they get that it might not be so difficult
to come back.
Yeah, I got to say I respect that Astralis as a team generally they seem to do less force
buys than other teams in this scenario. Because I think Ancient is a pretty decent map to
find success from the force buys on the CT side. But instead you know clean 10 for legacy
Indeed. And now we get to see a full util from the Stravis.
No, they're not going to have full rifle.
So fortunately for you on the SMG, but fast mid control.
And the CT is there.
And they're also in aggressive on B.
You've got a push from the C.
And he's kind of walking past some T's.
That is a full take, a full solo take off the site that smokes all over the shop.
He is drawing huge attention that only leaves Hoocsi over towards B. Down he's gone, but
they have taken a lot of these T's with them.
It seems that there is doubts for the remainder of legacy.
An elaborate setup.
When it came down to moving through the other side, too many jewels have been lost.
Astralis Denier bomb plant here, I think it's game on.
I don't know that it will be pressure on that to the economy real quick.
That leads to opportunity, for the Astralis side.
A chance of a 2v2 on either of these bomb sites.
Astralis willing to take the risk and put Fusey towards T spawn.
20 seconds to find these CTs, Bell rung.
all wrong.
Sats in found as well.
So four surviving at the end of the round for Astralis.
Again, just got to focus on the round in front of you.
But that went great for them.
Four surviving.
No bomb plant for the T's.
On to the next round.
Yeah, and a really chaotic start to the opening from Astralis was really interesting.
And I think somewhat confusing for Legacy, and I think they were able to really read
what was going on by seeing, you know, Hooksy where he was, you know, for example, but
Saturn's going to have the AWP here on legacy.
So see what he's set up to do.
He's looking to get something done from mid, but that is so shut down by
Astralis right now.
Again, they're happy to be aggressive everywhere, actually.
Aggressive outside of B as well.
And Arts just kind of trying to figure out what's going on here with that tech nine.
Huxi once again peering down but walks into Satsun and that's a gun to be collected.
Oh, that's fang.
Such good timing.
Onto Fuzi there, and now we've got enormous problems here for Astralis.
Gabi and Stair remain two versus four.
Gabi rotating over to join his teammate.
How can they possibly come out on top here?
I'm not planted.
he goes into the smoke. That'll be helpful. It's also awkward though, four legacy arsonism
quite tagged up. Great transfer there from stair, but it gets punctured. At least Yabby.
Did they hear that tagging? I'd say did it, no. Allow the others to post up. Yabby trying
to do what he can. You can see how desperate it is going for that two versus four. Coming
up empty-handed however puts them even further back if you ever had an AK there
impressively got the head shot but yeah certain five might be another fast one if
Astralis can't get a grip on this half but they don't have a lot of money to
to have the best buy in the world's it could buy up and maybe that's put in
part what they're trying to figure out here like well how do we how do we
approach this round we're not gonna have the ideal setup so what's the best
way to mitigate that and then shoot improve our chance of the win
really nice from us
if music is getting totally caught there was definitely a big problem and now
we're back into it we'll see what Astralis have so a couple SMGs and a
full util but the big mixtex have been working out for them I would say
I know they haven't closed on these rounds.
And early dump.
You till on mid, but that's right when the A site is getting bombarded, so they're gonna
lose A instantly.
Nobody home.
Key under the welcome mats.
Legacy.
That's for the hostile takeover of the A bomb sites.
Very very quickly indeeds.
Lato being careful with the position of the bomb plant, we've got Nysim looking to lurk
into mid later on, a 5 on 5 then, Sads in post it up with AWP, there are still some more
flashes here for the CT side, and some smokes as well if they can find a choke point, but
the numbers will trade here, 4 legacy and Fuzi finds himself alone, 1v3, he doesn't
have a kit, there's no way he can win this round, surely.
This is on the B bomb site. I'm not sure what he's up to. Maybe expecting the save. Either way, it's match point for legacy.
Legacy just holding the right opening there. That sucks. I mean, to be honest, again, this is one of the things that's usable. If you're showing a timing, which requires three players, and you know, in mid, for example, one of the sites is going to be in a rush of one of both of the sites are rushable at that early timing.
Legacy just cashing that one in and I'm going to challenge this, D-Miles doing straight out
into mid, he's got some flashes laid over the top from T spawn and he's going to get
nukes but he's going to at least see that the CTs are abandoning presence in mid.
That's good information because you're always trying to figure out where is the setup.
There is one of them in cave.
So close.
Awkward.
Will there be a trade, foosie?
Death really trying to get a better gun.
Punish for doing so.
Hooksy and Stare remain.
Flash in the pan this whole series feels like.
We can see instead 5-7 and a Desert Eagle 3 HP and 69.
Bomb's got support from D-Mal.
Bomb being carried by Sadazin.
They're trying to stay active.
This is a dangerous round for Legacy as well.
Other of these players could rip them to shreds, especially with the health that people have.
So low health, do you know how it's going to have the AWP?
The CTs have picked the right bomb site as well.
Twenty seconds for the pressure.
Four legacy to get their skates on.
There's the first kill.
This may not be done yet.
Now there's pressure for Saturn to get that bomb plant.
it's got to be by elimination. Off-way there. He's got to commit to it. Lost their charge
at him. That's the move, the AK. Oh, he's the Eated one in the face, and they will live
to fight another day.
Damn, that's a nice shot. And with that, we're kind of actually repeating, I feel like,
what we had on Dust2, right? Because I think Astralis were down something like 12-4,
I think anything you actually get to, I think 12 sticks on Dust2, something like that before
eventually being toppled by legacy.
So, again, it's a very similar horrible situation for Astralis.
Not really getting their performance in today.
Nice.
No pressure.
Let's take again here from the Astralis site.
That's so challenging.
I like looking to find some frags here, but the plate out of the cave as well was a problematic.
Are we also going to be putting through there as well?
Finds an extra.
That's just a couple of rifles here.
to do damage. But the CT presence in mid is pretty strong. So they're going to be clawing
their way back. I'm going to get some more kills. That's some buying time for Nissen.
still a winnable rounds.
As you see, they could really be anywhere at this point.
However, we can see that's their setup fairly well to defend this.
Good timing on the AWP.
Heels off Nysim.
You know that the other player's got to be somewhere nearby.
Either he's going through cave or he's got to be with this surely.
Pick up as anything.
No money in the bank. They are broke.
This is where, I mean, it's a mixed bag here, this scenario for Astralis again, keeping the
teas off the bomb plants. You can mentally think that each round is worth two because
it'll be a half by at best, but again, you can have an execute with tech nines and such,
Especially on the B bomb site, that can also be expected by the CTs.
We'll see how it goes.
CTs doing everything they need to, before the time being.
In regards to making things as tough as possible for that T squad.
Bites a nail biter for some.
I'm not saying anything, I'm just letting the tense music do its work.
Well, now you've said something, you've ruined it.
You've ruined the tension.
Oh.
There's no more tension.
There is only Dan, P.D.K. Kepadia.
Well, that sounds awful.
That's horrible.
And now there's you as well.
We'll see, we'll see what can be done here as Astralis continue, we don't have too much
to play against, just some Glocks and an AK, here are AK on stats and they saved.
And it's going to be the A sites, Fuzzi's posted.
Everything should be fine right?
CTs have fast rotation into Donut, everything looks fine.
Brush all this here.
Oh my god.
Instant Swarm.
Instant Swarm.
It's too risky to try and stop that plant from being planted.
Yabi's swinging into the site, creating space for his teammates to start to flood in.
Miss him.
He's swinging a miss with the AWP, which is now being lost.
Collected by R, that'll definitely be seen by the team holding the angles.
angles start trying to beat the bait now as his team pop out and cut these numbers down.
Ryu and Hoogsy both heavily tagged.
Arrow of the gun is spotted but Arts angle is being held.
Lotto down to the pistol knows their tags.
That clock is ticking. Hoogsy in the smoke it may be the blade to finish off the job.
Indeed it will be a big 2-0 for Legacy. A very tough series for Astralis.
I mean, damn, that's a rough one.
That's a rough one.
Satsen, he knows those AWP angles.
He was so ready for that with that AK, look like.
And what a blinding start to the day for the legacy side.
It's a quick two map open and close case against Astralis.
And Astralis is not an easy opponent.
But today, they felt like they were not
able to find the right reads.
I think, you know, going all the way back to Dust2,
They were, you know, if we look at that aggressive CT round from them early, I think around like round three or four
They they got reds. They got red by legacy
And I think that just tended to continue throughout the series
so a big props to I think the calling and the preparation from the legacy side and
In terms of the individuals everyone's just on point. So cool to see their rise in this stage taking some scalps for sure
Yeah. Yeah, this was a very confident victory for legacy. Again, we're seeing a rise of a
number of Brazilian teams all at the same time, which is great to see. I can look at
the pressing loss for Astralis. I don't know how much, how many high points there are,
how many positives there are to take away from those proceedings. It's just utterly
outplayed it for like by legacy. Again, that's too very impressive and very curious to find out if
there was a lot of hard counters there from legacy based on demo watching and so on.
My asthma is very weird in this moment when I'm talking, but anyway,
yeah, that was a strong performance from legacy. Surprising, I was expecting a closer affair
between these squads. I thought it was likely that we would be going to a third map,
But no, Legacy decided otherwise.
So they'll be going to a 2-1 record,
putting Astralis in that 1-2 dangerous area
where you can no longer afford to lose any games.
We'll see what lies ahead for both.
But again, while we wait for an interview,
that was the first of Legacy that we have seen on the B-Stream.
And again, it was full of confidence.
And yeah, this Dust 2 was really impressive.
They seemed very prepared for Astralis.
who simply did not have an answer for them.
Yeah, that's how it exactly felt.
It wasn't really a game that was won on the clutches.
As much for me as it was won on just happening the right calls
and understanding how to play the advantages against Astralis.
And how to create those advantages, of course, as well.
And kind of knowing what Astralis are likely to do in a lot of given scenarios.
And obviously, it doesn't hurt that they definitely had the individuals there
behind all of that ready to back all of that up. But for me, Legacy definitely looking like a very,
very dangerous team in this season so far and in these Swiss stages. So I can't wait to see what
other upsets might be a possibility because of course there's still more matches to play for them
as they will move up with another dub. Yeah, we will have more action from that region of
of the world coming your way as we have Furia versus Heroic next on the B stream. But again,
this was, I mean, I don't know what the takeaway for Astrolysis from this one. I suppose they'll,
I think Dust2Especially is definitely some demo watching to look at like how Legacy approached
around with them and trying to figure out why they were so confident in their rounds
versus the opponent there. It was really, really good stuff from the squads. And yeah,
I don't know. It was a depressing series to be on the receiving end of for Astralis.
I think we have arts ready now for some questions to be grilled by Dan and James. Arts, welcome
to this side of the broadcast. Your side of the broadcast was pretty damn good.
It looks like you were completely ready for Astralis, especially on that game of Dust 2.
It was extremely confident.
Was it, were we seeing a lot of hard counters to habits from Astralis?
Because a lot of those rounds felt quite dominating for you guys.
Yeah, hello guys.
I would say it's kind of Astralis changed up their game plan a lot, so you cannot
rely only on the end threats.
So it's a mix between a strutting and just being ready for the game.
It was one round in particular, James and Dusty, I wanted to mention.
Astralis is first buy and they had like a three man setup in mid.
They kind of looked like you guys were looking for that setup.
So that seemed very successful and that was what enabled you guys to kind of take over the off.
Is that one an example of an anti-strap from you guys or do you just kind of have a read on that one?
Yeah, definitely it was an example of end-threatening because there are some set-ups that out-teams tend to repeat
and you have some tales that when they do that and you can just check for this kind of place like if you're playing the set-up mid at rest
when you pick on top mid, you can just clear the first guy and you'll know the set-up if he's not there, you know it's not the set-up
so just kind of play around that but you don't make all your round based on assumptions.
just try to clear that, that's one of the setups they do.
You spent a long time on Furia, you spent a long time on Fluxo, and now you're over at Legacy.
We see a lot of Brazilian teams doing really well at the moment. There's a lot of notable
names from the scene across different teams. What would you say the Brazilian scene is long,
long, long established, but what would you say the scene is like now overall? Because we've
We've got a lot of teams on the rise, a lot of teams wrecking people from different regions.
And again, for us it's great to see the success of players who have been in the scene for
a long time and all these different teams, but there can often be roster changes and
people hopping from team to team.
Do you think there's a good level of stability at the moment?
And what is your opinion on the top-flight Brazilian scene at the moment versus other
countries?
Yeah, I would say Brazil has a lot of very big player base, the same as Russia and Eastern
Europe.
So they have many players and at some point you're going to make some good teams.
So as of now we have like Purya, which is the best team by far, and they are a very
strong team, competing in the Tyres events, all of them, and have some teams fighting
for this kind of spot to be in the Tyres events like us, and they are always struggling
to get through the tier one and a half to tier S. So just like a small step that if you
take you have some good points you can keep playing tier S and showing your game. So there's
a lot of teams that have strong players. It's very good teams that are working to get
through this step of tier S. And I would say even in Brazil there's a lot of teams
there and Argentine teams as well. You see 9Z with the new hankies from Valve. They
They are having a lot of points, and they may be in the near future playing in some
TIRES events as well.
So the Valve change also helps out the teams a lot outside of Europe.
Nice.
I've got to ask as well, how you're feeling about Legacy's trajectory.
Now you've joined the teams, you've made your debut event with them, and you guys
have had some really good wins already, you know, PowerVision G2, you know, 2-0s,
you beat NIP, and now you just had this result over Astralis.
How does this team feel to you right now?
It was great. I have to say it's good to be back on this kind of tournaments, playing these kind of teams.
It's just adrenaline and just happiness from competing. It's just overwhelming.
So it's very nice. It's good that we're playing well.
I think it's just the beginning. Of course, it's just the first tournament.
There's a long road ahead of us, but I'm very grateful that it's working out.
And the guys are also buying the idea of me IGLing them and doing what I tell them and we are talking so it's a good mode, it's a good type of role.
Before we let you go, I'm just curious, what do you think of the current map pool in Counter-Strike and is there anything you would like to see that doesn't exist in that map pool at the moment?
Yeah, it's just the old question, right? The map pool is quite the same for one decade, decade, decade, but Valve doesn't have any metric to change maps.
Of course, if you ask me, I would like to see some new maps, some new, entirely new maps, not just recycling old maps or being recycling overpass, recycling dust, recycling anubis, vertical, it's out of the map pool,
pool, train is a map that came back, probably cash is coming back in the future. So I was
recycling old maps. So definitely I would like to see some new maps.
All right, there it is. Okay, we'll let you go and prepare for your future matches.
Congratulations on a great series today, and good luck for your future matches as well.
Andrew, new team.
All right. Thank you very much, guys. See you.
Okay. Thank you very much to Art. Nice to have a chat with him and get opinions on,
Well, the Brazilian scene at large, that pulls an all sort. So it's it's cool. You know, we've
got a lot of nostalgia for maps like cash and so on, at least on a casual level, but the pros
want something fresh to dig their teeth into. Again, I think a big learning curve, a long
learning curve is really good for counter strike, but everything comes with risk. So
let's see if Valve are cooking something up because surely they must be doing something
looking considering what's in the game at the moment, which isn't a lot, especially years after the release. There must be something that's actually happening in the back. Don't you think that?
Yeah. I mean, I love the logic there. There's got to be something, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, we have to do it.
No, there doesn't, James.
Somewhere with some kind of programming lines or something. Anyway, we can have a wider conversation.
I actually have a whole presentation that maybe I'll do at some points on the things that valve needs to be doing
I did hints with an email I was writing to them the other day which I haven't sent yet
But anyway, we'll get into that and that's another time we're going to take a break when we're back
It's going to be Furia versus heroic our final match of the day on the B stream
Don't go anywhere
No chance, all done.
map in the first round. They're back. They are so back. CT side overpass will relieve
some tension I think. That's a nice comfortable place to be. This isn't going to be 13-2.
No. Safe to say. Subtle's kind of expecting some rounds here in this very comfortable
half. The best half right now in Counter-Strike. Yeah, surely. Surely it can only go up
from the previous thing as we see right now it can at least be the same baseline
spa very low yeah but it's a bar it's on the floor
back get up do some curls spings and get a double no that would help me get himself 600
dollars that they're probably not going to buy in the next round but uh try and remove
some of these players holding the smoke some flashes a jewelies anything would do at this
point nobody's home yeah they're not giving you anything they're very aware possibility of
this maneuver the flank spotted and should be dealt with momentarily but there is always a chance
he gets a couple because he's you know yeah run away run away just run away why we choose
their time you give him a minute oh that's a it's over in it let's oh he ran away yeah that's
beautiful well done you've absolutely cooked him get him get him okay well it's fine so he
still gets your 700 for by a deal with the other that's who creates what Kevlar is not the end
into the wall. You should buy it. Just hope he kills one. He screwed for the first four
rounds of the game. Unlucky son. Yeah, you might as well force around that concept.
Take none of the flash. It's not too bad of the Kevlar. Do something fast and poppy.
The Mongols are kind of shaking mouths around to start this game. Very convincing.
Just matter of thing. Keep it up. As you said before, I mean, CD side overpass. Definitely
the map where if you had a bad start on your first map, this is the type of place
that can build confidence can you get you really inside of the server and now it's
taking pace although the tech lines come out expect us on the little bit
quicker they're taking their time walking up through connector not contested
yet but the door being heard over the Sarah spots out one it's spraying eight
opens the smoke two more teeth push out no kills to be found falling back
smartly don't want to get overwhelmed by those pistols speed of overwhelmed by
The pistol, the monster push comes out late and now the real connection can start.
It should all still be well for the Mongols.
Although as we say that, plenty of kill and damage coming in.
Somehow dropping down to just Techno.
Oh man.
I would say, hey, let's get chaotic.
Mongols shouldn't join them.
Bear in mind, Torgy's low, Spinks about to helmet.
Still, plenty of opportunities to convert this to be Techno.
Got to cut it down to size first so if that goes over it doesn't quite catch him.
Seems to be aware of the prospect of stains.
Still can't convert it. Speaking of conversion, we have got mouse with that force by in the second.
Brawland finding a few kills there. Spinks finding one as well.
They take two M4s in the next round and that's even worse than losing the pistol.
It's the monster with its Mazzino not able to kill a single player coming out of monster.
And Moclos just, they buy into what Maus do, they just run in, player after player, swinging.
So down the whole time they could have frozen, they have more util, they have better guns.
So you kind of have to pray you win this round if you're Mongols, otherwise it's going to cost you two.
And then you're in the mud once again.
Oh they are, definitely in the mud.
I love the run boost with the CZ and it barely hits on the molly.
That's a lot of alone by Spinks, rifle not picked up in time.
Okay, on four, not yet out of the mud, but Wellies are on.
I'm tank converted from found as well so two player advantage or excuse me single player advantage after blitz goes down
All right
Needed a bit of a miracle here. The Scout has delivered the CZ of all weapons as well. You didn't see many of those these days
See we're about nine ten
Shame and more ways than one
Bucket, you know what wellies are when you said that oh, no, but wellington boots. Do you know those are?
Is it boots?
Boots.
Boots like shoes.
Oh yeah.
They're not shoes though.
What Americans call wellings?
How does it happen?
Do they have a mud in America?
Can you be in the mud in America?
Like dirt?
No, not dirt.
Not dirt.
Like wet dirt.
Yeah, wet dirt.
I mean yeah, we got mud.
Wellings and boots.
How do you even...
It's like tall, blue Americans in the room, apart from Buckethead.
It's Trace.
Trace?
I know.
Alright, let us know.
Like tall boots.
They go up to here.
Rubber boots.
Rubber, they're rubber.
What's the fire department used to use the fire we're going all comes back to that I hate fire
He does a
Volunteers to kill it himself. He loves mud. Oh, I do love my
Well, mom was better learned to love it because that's exactly what I found themselves a forced by victory for miles
converted upon into the
Saved and for that's it for the wrong goals drowning in the mud right now. Oh, that'd be dirty
see this is you right this is a nice rump isn't cz beautiful work of it they had
a five on progress but second cz don't see many of those you're right case
rato is playing them in some pistol rounds recently so who only pissed
right super he was getting some clips it was actually cost 400 or 500
that's great I think they got reduced I want to say I want to see as well I
I can't say I didn't buy it.
Rush, do you know?
Sorry, say that again.
How much does the CZ cost? Is it 400 or 500?
Not 500, no.
No, it's cheaper, right?
Sure.
I'm checking. I don't want it.
Okay, thank you.
We're getting to the bottom of it.
We should be totally accurate.
Oh, please just miss the timing.
Yeah, it used to be 500, but I think it got reduced.
I don't know.
I'm on the Counter-Strike Phantom Wiki, which seems like a reliable source.
Hold up.
Okay.
Jimmy, stop it.
Loose 500 was it before before I don't know I never bought this car. I was 500 was
Baseline
I don't know the kill reward went up. Okay. It was a killer went up, but still no one uses it
We've got a chance to know if the Mongols it fellow one of those rounds. That was
Completely over by the now
She's converted that spray
Lovely work from way downtown
very well handled 3-1 that was the eco though managed to get a couple of opening
kills at once again but Hugo I hate to say it even three rounds it feels like
you've done the bare minimum right now that's an acceptable half
this one expressed the the gravity of the situation knowing that they've had
this bounce back given three rounds away it's not ideal now the pressure's
on them and the device not good they don't have the nice and all copes
Zera down to a Famous. No one really warmed up yet. They better got any kills on ancient continues to be woeful here opening kill
The Jimmy continuing that very strong form we see from him all tournament long
And this is for a place in the playoffs the first team to go through it is looking like
Mouse might be the favorite 3pr right now. This is yeah, well
Stonishing form like who else have you got like the interns of the form we're seeing today
This would be my favorite came in today and we said a thousand Mongols are the best two teams
Yeah, they saw the games we see Mongols hadn't dropped a map and the facts fury and no motivation spirit looking a bit ropey
Navi same story
Mongols just getting owned by mouse. I feel like you have to say mouse as of right now would be my favorites
I'm with you. I'm with you, but it's like to me. It's like the Falcons Henry
It's like I know they're not here, but just talking of them generally
Holistically, I've been like for me. I'll never predict the Falcons to win a tournament until they want a tournament
Okay, because they have won a tournament mouse. I'm joking. That's what EPL mouse have won EPL
But not in an arena true. This was a good counter
It was a studio, but there are hundred baby's on but that's a good point. Yeah, and here's here's the point, right?
Our spirit looking good. No, but if you give me a mouse v. Spirit be a fire email
I'm going to Max. Okay, because I've seen that before that's fair enough totally fat. So it's like all good points. All yeah
No answers here. I'm all for it. I'm all for it. Like go go mouse
They're playing great. I'm all for one fan
The interview cyborg said if anyone's sure anyone's
I feel so bad if anyone's cheering for me someone cheer for us so sad, dude
They have nice guys. They're nice guys. They always do well. They don't really mess in the car. They're a good team
You just got to harness that though. Yeah, use it to your advantage. How? I don't know build a character
Come on become a hardened veteran by just being this light
Just
That's one of it because here we go arena. Here's a here's an argument
Maybe I like this one arena is smaller than the biggest stages right? This is it's gonna be a
one to two thousand people it's not gonna be a 15,000 person arena of people
booing you it's gonna be a nice friendly and sweet and we got Roland Roland we
tried to sit or shit hungry no but sweet is a very proud and sweet or so I don't
have many players to cheer for these days not gonna be booing no so you know
they won brolin is one of the jewels in the crowd yeah sweetest yes right
now with you yeah so I think not only some support here a little maybe less
Pressure I think this could be mouse is taught. I'm with you. I'm back on the mouse
And it took 30 seconds, but I like it Jimmy once again willing to take this fight towards connect up all the same results
Finally an opening advantage for Mongols for one down in the CT side
Feels like a two zero all day long already. I hate to say that five and that's a second
I know I know I hate like I said, I hate to say it, but I can only give you my thoughts
Okay, do you want it? I'm not stating the mistake. I wanted to cast a Mongols guy
This is what you call hey listen, you know what you can't win them all sometimes you lose quite hardly
But there's still plenty of time. I mean guys we can't count Mongols out quite yet. They have a player advantage
before it's true
So where's he making noise dropping down?
Heavy stack into the bathrooms and a decent crossfire at that so
Torsi
Potentially getting caught up with taking the smart route going the outside of it
I mean, the A side's wide open. The rest of his team, towards B, sell a fake, potentially,
is.
Brolin's gonna take the first contact. Techno will secure the kill onto the opera and Menzino
behind the toxic barrels. Keeps the defenses strong for now. Bomb dropped. No real entry
way. Four mouths to try to get in. Spades going for that bomb. Completely flashed off.
Oh so much noise. I mean Shirley Shirley Shirley Mongols would be able to sweep this up
Flash was so good. It speaks goes through that smoke. That's what I was worried about, but they've beaten
The previous map so that's true small victories or victories nonetheless, and no bar has been
Walked over or limbo dunder. Who knows?
You've got a couple of AKs here as well. It's there being killed. Oh Jimmy did actually land a headshot
I'm fortunate if he doesn't get that open up, but a nice set up towards the bathroom,
staking down the locked in player trying to suggest a activity in towards B, comfortable
round for Mongols.
That's when they've had all series long to be honest.
But I mean your point already came up once more, four rounds now for Maus on the T
side.
You're feeling good about this half no matter what happens, and there's still
the entirety of the rest of the half to play, so sure Mongols get a round win,
they have a better position within the economy at least compared to mouse but
it still doesn't feel like right if you're watching as a Mongols fan you're
still not full of a lot of confidence for how the series is gonna go yeah they
just are winning out now this is a very important round has to be converted
here it will shatter the economy of mouse you've got all the firepower
advantages you could ask for you at the AWP two AKs on the defense they
have a couple of glills, it spinks half HP.
In terms of utility remaining, one smoke, some flashes,
you have to convert this to your Mongols.
Otherwise, I don't think there's much hope.
Nine-tenths.
On the right spot for the potential hit
to come in, CZ utility being thrown over, falls back.
As Xerion pushes forward, flashed off.
Not gonna be able to find anything.
Techno whips a spray, although the opp is there
to back him up.
How many more can he find?
He needs something else towards long,
not able to connect.
And with the rotations coming in through the dumpster,
There should more than ready for the push through the smoke
4v2
Turned into a four on one
Obra's era the new blood in the team
Looks like he wants to take a go at it, but hopeless for sure falls back definitely the better call
That's new on the team. He's gonna have to save here. It's not one of the hunting
Certainly no winnable, but this is speaks again to catch him out
about that mouse playing, like they're the dog in the house, the big dog.
This is what they needed.
You know what, maybe having this tournament and being what many people consider to be, like, the clear favorite, knowing that you're in a position that this is your tournament to lose,
maybe that is kind of what mouse needed.
Maybe they needed to have this type of position at the top to really have a look down below and see that they can do it.
Yeah, they never go into the tournament as the favorite.
I think that only ever changes when they beat the favor a couple times
They've taken that by touting vitality. We've gone out the other side of the bracket
And then suddenly it's like oh shit. We're meant to win this. Oh god
But now it's you're going into Broly thinking we are the best team here. We are the most proven team
Yeah, case for have don't always an X factor, but yet to be proven as a five-man call
As a five-man unit our spirit
it. Same for Mongols. And again, yeah, you've got around in circles, like who is who's taking
out these two teams? Who's the best team? I can't even tell you G2 have looked better
as the tournament goes on. I'm not saying anything more than that. I was going to say
this, okay, and that's going to be spirit versus G2 is the closing game of the day.
That's also back. So that will kind of let us know where we are with things. So we
good litmus test and I thought there's a chance you can win that I know that's
crazy I don't think there it looks that convincing
you know how to get a kill there that's right site compromised over the shop and
rotation is coming in they're gonna give it a go they're gonna at least try to
look into it you can get it open and kill here although I'll talk to work 910
definitely doesn't help with that you've got to put the rod in the water
Unfortunately, you've got to give it a look in, but what can you really do?
Yeah, exactly. Like, it's so desperate.
You just need the firepower for the next round, so you can't really go for it.
Conceding a six, though, feels terrible.
Like, this is...
Winning pistol, yes.
Yeah.
Winning pistol, making six-two down on CT's side.
Really not a good place to be.
They will save the AK, the M4, and the WP.
Some of you tell convincing finish from Maus once again, couple kills with Jimmy and Brawland
all that's required to be defense crumbles once more before players survive from Maus.
Money starting to build up nicely, no choke today.
Same thing they've made a misstep all series loss.
Correct.
That's an important thing to bring up as well.
It's not necessarily Mongols just playing at such a low level that Maus are stopping
and Maus are playing at a very high level.
Mongols aren't really all there right now, but you can't take anything away from the performance of those just on ancient alone
They're opponents pick and they didn't even get a look in like every I said in the first map every jewel
They took they had the advantage whether it be from spam damage to start names going through alley you flashbangs
Everything they had the advantage. It was one of the best performances. We've had all the EPL long
Definitely check that out
Let's see whether they can keep it up here six to try now so good here
Oh, shocking Techno and Jarl Surtian just whiffed that.
Yeah, he did.
Yeah, he had a good time.
Again, he had the advantage in that duel.
Yeah.
Orp on the boost covered him to get out middle,
and so Mounds will still take it,
but a man down need to trade, and they need it clean.
Techno still offering up a fight in the bathroom.
Orp might get close peaked.
This could get weird.
Good flash, though.
Problematic, and he unscopes.
Brolin' on the hunt.
My days.
Oh god, he's gonna get pushed.
He's dead.
Oh, I'm on his glass.
In game leader moment, I'd say.
It's just unfortunate, the flash,
and where it's supposed to go,
he gets to kill a lot of hit-ong,
but it's a bit unlucky.
Oh, beer.
9-10.
Repeating the angle.
Trying to get some information.
He had torgy towards the bar,
from as if the bomb on his back.
There's no chance to win this.
8-0.
Binks hits these.
Oh!
How's he?
Go for the jump spot, but it completely gets caught out.
And now Mongols, once again in one of the better situations, we've seen them in this map so
far.
You need to make sure it doesn't crumble down at the end as the hit comes out towards A
and spray from Blitz, connects in the end and towards E.
Forced to fall back, forced to save 15 seconds left on the clock.
Mongols finally showing some life, and a round that I would say is quite convincing.
Of course, you know, it could have gotten Harry there with the whole brawl in 9-10
situation and back long, but at the end of the day, you take every round when
you can get it at this point. A clean round is nice for the money. Give some room, but it comes off of what?
Two big issues for Maus. One massive whiff for the ocean and then Brolin missing his flash
and trying to overdo it. Are you going to get those kind of opportunities again?
Find a third, but they need everything for the rest of this half to have a fighting chance.
That's cool, a timeout, just a...
I got my front building, I don't even know what I'm doing.
Dude, I, that's so relatable.
So relatable.
What am I doing?
What am I doing?
Sometimes you just do stuff, you know.
I've gone for the double flash, looking for the...
Double flash?
I'm avoiding my own flash while he kills me.
That's so relatable.
Interesting timeout formouts here.
I mean, I feel like there's certain, in such a good position, I just want to
breather after the pass though.
And Mongols you could tell the faces look stress, you know, there's not a lot of joy going on right now. There's definite
harsh feelings I would say over in that camp. But back into the game 6-3 so far three more rounds of play within the half.
A bit more presence outside of monster compared to the previous.
Get on models, we're not going too aggressive towards the monster pipe, I mean you can't
give up any sort of opening duels this early on.
But they do need to be ready for the aggression that's coming already out Spinks.
A nice spray to open up but maybe you can find one more.
Instrated back and copers there are actually able to double up, so a three on three.
Mouse stopped in their tracks for the time being.
Yeah, there's lots of time at 303 and a map as large as overpass spreads the defense thin
Will come standard is kill towards you get this calm with the flick
well done
And now you really believe the clock Mongols what a gamble wouldn't be a bad call here
But obviously lots of time I was gonna let it breathe and that puts doubts in the mind of Mongols
They don't want to play to in the same position exactly calm
I got no utility to stop any sort of push really. It's not one of those maps where you can just group up
We're trying to retake the gatherer they plan you got no one home. You're not retaking these bomb sites
Chutel so
It's two
Well, I'm all toughs get started lease
Nothing else would do he gets one route over
We're starting position. I mean you have to imagine that's gonna be almost impossible for him to get much of anything
910 blows open the smoke but
Is he more than ready for that and completely surrounded and drowned out?
Now is looking fantastic today and not messing around.
Are they just doing all swinging for that final player?
I was here to win here to win decisively 70 rounds on over past Mongols.
Just a glimmer here in this first half
off very dominant ancient.
I was making a mockery of him.
Yeah, this is looking too easy.
Lost pistol, he's 7-3 up on the T-Sat of Overpass,
he's a dick.
And just a reiterate, just joining us,
CobraZera and yet to have a recorded
Overpass performance with Mongols,
showing, not looking too comfortable,
barely had a chance to warm up an ancient
called absolutely battered, 13-1.
And, you know, it's hard to hold Mongols
to the same standard that the Senzin roster had,
but to talk about the core,
there's still a team that's managed to take maps
and take series off the best teams in the world.
The one team they haven't been able to beat is Maus.
They haven't dropped a map to Maus in the last 12 months.
The last time they, sorry,
they haven't won a map against Maus in 12 months.
Really, the last time they did was at Shanghai Major.
They won a B01, only to go on and lose the B03,
2-0 in the quarters.
So Maus won four B03s in a row against the Mongols.
Eight to zero in maps.
And I don't see much of a world where that changes, I mean...
Hugo, do you see any waveform angles really into this map like...
Take home with the Doom and Gloom gang over here.
You're the mouse fan.
Right now I am.
Well, I mean, at least an opening kill this round.
Jimmy taken out.
Oh, make that two opening kills, okay.
5v3 situation.
He's taking out the two heaviest hitters for this map so far.
Got a task for you? Okay.
or it's half. Could you look into the archives and look into when the last time
brought up taking the Swedish week? I think it would be like a Malmo or
something like that. I don't know. Yeah, let me just get to my, I don't know how you
can find that out. I can do it. I could, you could find that out. Well, what is the
last Stockholm major? Is it me? Yes, sure. I will get our stats going. Okay. I'm
gonna see if I can race the stats going. I think I can do it. Stockholm major
with what NIP? NIP? What's he on NIP? Because NIP were in the Stockholm Major playoffs. Okay,
well, there you go. That's probably the answer. See, this is why we do the research. I thought
it was a good challenge. It's a good challenge. It's a good jewel. It's a good jewel. I'm on it.
They are going to be safe. You got some time to look into it. But I think we're going to,
now let's do, when we're going to try and get brought up in the interview.
And obviously, Swedish Rina just want to find out. He was fanatic about that.
That's okay. So it might be at the mouth.
He wasn't in stock.
Counter-terrorist win.
Yep.
I'm digging deep.
Going way back.
SCO's are you?
Oh yeah, you're racing SCO.
He is the best of the best.
SCO's flush.
He is the one of the best, boy.
You're not gonna be here.
You're not gonna be here.
Okay, I'm so sorry.
Well, you had a time-out now, too, so you extra breathed.
Oh, I'm not watching this game.
I don't care.
I knew this would take all...
This is honest.
...take all his intellects.
Hey!
He's in there.
I mean like
75 it is still a bit of a death sentence on other bars, but all you can do is
Keep on marching forward. Okay. I've got it. Here we go to my knowledge. Here we go back masters Malmo
I got caught that 2019. Yeah, how do you think he did?
In terms of individual how do you think team for Natick against the all Swedish team did team vitality in the grand final 2019
or grand final against final. I would say they lost and Alec took it.
Did they really? So the last time he played in front of a Swedish crowd, he won in Malmö.
To my knowledge, less has been worn more recently. That's the last I could find.
I think we'd be able to record. Stalker majors. Yeah, he was in Fnatic at Stalker majors.
Okay, so Malmö was the right call. That's good intel. That's the first question.
So, yes, six, seven years. It wasn't on purpose.
Fnatic, Krimsh, Jw, Brolin, Flush, Golden, pretty 17 actually, 16.
And they be Zai Wu with Alex.
I remember him.
Yes.
In the grand final.
That's awesome.
Hugo, SEO is saying that in 2022, when he was in IP, he played in a venue called Space
Arena versus iBallers with Jw.
Oh, sorry.
I forgot about Michael.
It's the last tier one event you've played.
Yeah.
You're right.
I guess you did play there.
It's on the edge.
Are you going to get me on a technicality?
Everybody gets a point. I think it's the point was still stand the last week at a tier one event was seven years ago
That is great. That is correct. But uh, yeah, that's great. It's everyone wins. Well done betting. I think we all do
We're all interested. I think that's good trivia
Yeah, it's massive shot at the SEO
My bucket had closest one out to nine ten because at least one shot able to hit before this hit starts come in bro
And he leads trades back looking to book
his first arena in Sweden since 2019
2v2...
Marchin' on in, bomb not collected, yeah, CobraZera finds himself an interesting spot as well as a backstab from Mnzenyo, not quite able to land a kill.
CobraZera almost compromised, converts at the right time, exertion 30 seconds left, plenty of time to work with, first kill secured!
But it is Mnzenyo to close out a 5-7 half in favor of Mao's Mongols. It's do or die.
I
I
you shouldnt see what i say
yes we are really fucking good on city side ok
i dont need to be having it in your head
i want to eat this and i want to work with some pizza
alright so she is to leave in prolam on some pizza
Jimmy. Oh, it's Jimmy. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. I missed it. All right. I
Mean, he can't be in higher spirits than that. Oh, no, I'm rightfully so he said he's got a fucking good CT side boys
Strong one. I'm kind of on board. Okay
Let's see what they've got. You've seen it from miles
It's still being dickative as to whether this comeback is alive. They need the bomb plant at the bare minimum I would say
See what they've got sphinx though with the hot hand or tournament long number one player in the tournament
Jimmy, I think, is top five as well.
Yeah, Jimmy's still doing very well.
Mongol's taking their time with this pistol.
Should be spotted out by Torsey very soon
when he's not able to connect a shot.
He's not going to land in his favor.
Mazziniar opens up.
It's going to force the push out from the rest of the team.
Spinks tucked in the corner, taps away at one head.
Somehow, still alive after this.
Whoa!
Wait!
He's top three!
No!
Wait!
Okay!
And the only one left is Blitz.
He's denied from him.
But how does he get away with that?
One of the rounds of the day maybe the tournament holy shit
How has he was completely blind recoveries? You think he's good for one then his head on a swivel 180 headshots left and right?
Spinks we said he had the whole hand, but my god, that's red hot
Look at this a hand on fire at this point. I don't know how he gets two kills on the 180
I think those straight back to lights disgusting
That says it all. And that's the mock-out blow you get.
Double-coping from that's it. That's the haymaker.
Only even more sphinx.
Informed for the playoffs.
Multiple mouse players putting up a fantastic run here in this season.
Oh my goodness.
Omen's in you have something to say about this round at least.
Reality check coming into the sphinx.
Oh!
Armourless Deagles do connect.
Okay, still advantage mouse.
This is throwable, we have blocks in play, we have no armor.
I'm still favoring mouse in the round, but great.
I'm just gonna have to be very careful here.
Yeah.
It's all about the trade work.
One for one would be fantastic, but mouse takes space back.
As long as they don't over rotate back D,
they're in a strong position to stop this from short.
Yeah, good point, depending on where they plant.
They're going very deep though, Henry.
Maybe two Ds.
Jimmy's rotating over.
Exertion to B.
Watch this now.
They know.
They figured it out.
Berlin's flanking.
He's going down B, but they still have one on the side.
That's info alone.
Mizzino coming out.
Yeah, it should be four.
Obvious that Mongols are pushing out long.
Mizzino continues to just take heads off his shoulders.
Three in the round.
Bomb's starting to get planted.
Jimmy on a fast rotate towards the dumpster.
Stops the plant.
No more shots being able to connect it for the time being and it's all up to
Mizzino would have needed the ace.
Nice try, dude.
Nice try. That's the thing. Like you've got no Kevlar no Kevlar.
The players arrive, they sit down, they plug in, they log on.
Fury and Heroic are preparing for war and it will need to be a war because they are both 0-2.
just been getting beaten up in this stage of the bracket. Definitely a surprising place
for the likes of Furia to be ranked number two, just eating L's all day. Heroic will
come into this one as an underdog, rank 18 versus rank two. But I think both teams will
be frustrated and surprised. I mean we saw a recent Heroic game and there was definitely
some frustrations there and no doubt for Furia as well. Zero two, Dan. The loser gets
eliminated now.
Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of crazy that Furia in this position is hard to imagine, but
we've seen some of the Furia games. They haven't sort of seemed their usual selves.
So now there's no other opportunity to save yourself. You must prevent the drowning
now. Grab onto anything that's nearby to keep you afloat. And they'll have to
do so against Heroic. I mean, Heroic are definitely a good team as well.
I'm not having some of the best that's amazing. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, right. Um, but not having
some of the best performances, you know, but they've lost against mouths. They lost against
foot, you know, heroic. So for me, that's, that's less, you know, suspects. I know with
very lost against 3d max loss. That's why they're here. Uh, and, and to be honest,
like 3d max are playing pretty damn well. So consider me a fan. 3d max are awesome
right now. Yes. Watch the game earlier as well. Big time. Anyway, carry on. Yeah, I'm
just so just I sort of making the point that heroic. I don't think a kind of out of sorts
as much as as fury are. And so that's where I worry for fury here because I mean we might
have honestly a really close game on our hands. Let's see how the veto turns out. But this
should be a really fun match up because you don't know what fury are going to
do when they're they're the pressure of elimination against them. And for heroic, I think
very much the same. And I wouldn't say he would have been playing that poorly. So this
should be a good one. Yeah, I think for fury are just doing what they normally do. They
should be okay. I don't know. I mean, I guess if that were true, it wouldn't be in a zero
two scenario. So it'll leave that to them to figure out. But I mean, both these squads
start playing teams who are difficult to beat.
Heroic losing 2-1-2 foot is, you know,
and there's nothing wrong with that,
obviously, Maus 2-1 as well.
So, yeah, I think they've all had some difficult games.
I mean, we saw, I think we saw Furia bait,
if I remember correctly, either way.
I mean, they've lost 2-1-2 Mungolus, 2-1-2 bait,
and then 0-2-2 3D Max in recent matches.
And I do think that their teammates put up a hell of a fight.
I mean, it wasn't like they got ran over by any of these squads.
Furia made it dangerous, but just didn't come out on top.
And it will still be dangerous coming through.
So I think looking at the teams that both these squads have been playing,
I'm not sure what to expect in the matchup.
They met recently in January.
They are both capable of smashing each other on different maps.
13-2 on Dust2 in favour of Furia,
13-3 on Mirage in favour of Heroic.
And Heroic are going to pick Dust2 into Furia,
despite losing 13-2 last time.
Overpass, of course, the pick of Furia.
What else would you expect?
Let's see what a deciding map is going to be.
And again, Furia do play lots of Mirage, but bearing in mind
that 313. Not surprised that they go from over past pick here in the initial ones. And
heroic all band Mirage. So in final will be the deciding map between these squads should
it be required to see if the two zeros continue on today's broadcast. What do you expect
from this one that it's tough actually because I think heroic can be volatile. Like I was
just I didn't actually see the match that they played a first hand against but I was
looking over the match results and on one map, they, you know, it was like a 13-5 and then a 13-3,
and then a 13-3. So it's like, you know, they, they, they seem to struggle sometimes. We're just
going to have to see kind of what like where they're at here today against Furia. Dusty,
as an opener, I think is encouraging for them. This is where they've gotten some of their best
wins, heroic in terms of the, you know, recent matches over the last couple of weeks.
And they have, they have proven to be able to play a good overpass. Obviously, we know though
that furia are pretty dangerous on overpass. So this has the makings of a great series,
but it also has the makings of a series that could go flat. I think more so,
more likely for heroic if they're not able to kind of find their form early.
Yeah, I'd be the dust to that furia played with 3D max yesterday was awesome by both teams.
It was better than 3D max. I mean, but also not just because they won, but I think because
they understand what is necessary. I mean, they're playing a great Dust2 of late, but also,
very necessarily to top all Furia. You have to be really active. Like, you've got to be fully focused.
Both teams charging through mid now. The CTs, maybe looking to avenge the loss to 3D Max here,
versus throwing that way they're approaching mid. But X-Flight has a chance. He's found a
one versus two. With all those frags, it's a lot of opportunity. But as I say that,
that Yuri will finish off the job for Furia.
One thing that's worth noting,
because you mentioned that,
Yuri at 3D Max starts to game yesterday,
was that Furia actually got it to overtime,
even though they lost both pistols.
So it's a kind of just,
I think further reinforcing Furia's resiliency on this map,
as well as just overall strength.
And so yeah, this,
I think this could be the best map of the series even,
I think it's got the makings for that.
Just seeing the form of these teams
this map in this tournament, but you never know when you get to the head to head how the styles
will really interact. And so, so far the styles are interacting pretty aggressively. I love the
mid-push. Honestly, it's great. Colliding. Yeah, I do think it is an asterisk for that game,
that it went so far considering that the opponent won both pistols. So again,
I think this Dust2 should be full of promise.
And the way things got started, that promise is being delivered upon already.
Heroic, no bomb plants will not be opting for the force fight.
Molodoy, expecting this, is going to go USP only.
Waiting for his AWP money to come through. Oh.
Okay, the MP9 will come out late.
Nothing crazy going on.
What often you see, that used to be a more common thing where you're up our words, maybe
buy a pistol or just go USP sometimes if they're expecting a lack of helmets on the opponents,
keep all their money. But MP9 is not a bad shot as well, because of course the strongest
thing heroic have is their numbers.
Yeah, it's super easy to clean up there if you're kind of doing a good job for the most
part.
Next clouds.
Ooh, that's okay.
Looking a little bit dodgy right now.
You don't want to be losing this much money on the CT side.
And I mean, to be honest, with so much time left as well, this could very well be
a converted round from Heroic.
You'll see what they do with it. They're taking all the way back to V and it seems as though
Furia are respecting this possibility. Yuri's on the site and you've got Kateratu. You can
respond from the mid-doors fairly quickly as well. Tense stuff here. Furia trying to
evade disaster.
They've got no Kevlar.
That's really going to be helpful for Yuri.
Won't require much.
Finish off the job there.
I think it's a good thing to be aware of when you've got a Glock versus full armor.
That's sometimes you need three headshots to do the job.
to know that in advance as we saw the third shot there at relatively close range. Anyway,
enough about rounds like that. We've got Molotov on the AWP immediately. He'll have no Kevlar
because he bought the MP9 last round. Not that as a criticism, of course it's not.
That's super, that'll be enough.
Apparently in CT spawn.
How many VRS points do you think is a nice amount for a win?
One million. That's helpful.
Great. Well, if somehow I can win this match up,
I'll get 37 VRS points.
Here we'll lose 25.
So there's a lot of VRS points in this match up here to be won or lost.
That's a good idea if you're there.
Actually, I'll hold that thought on the 37.
That's an important jewel from your kinder.
The remainder of heroic around, mid and short, it's ranked off for now.
If you ask someone to pick another between 1 and 50, it is very likely that they will
pick 37 more often than other numbers.
I learned that on the internet, must be true.
40 seconds remain for Heroic, who need opportunity, not be given by Keisarato.
Yuri's here looking for the transfer, doesn't have help on the other side, the smoke will
soon be gone, can't start to make it to the bomb site.
One versus two and a bomb plant.
Opportunity knocks for Heroic.
The clutch, big box position, the Susp, bolt of HE flashbang, through and out, by Iken-Dar,
forcing Susp to move.
So one more spot that's not necessarily needing to be cleared.
has to be everything this angle oh suss he gets baited by the sound cue of the
HE and he's gonna get no scoped as well oh but is there time for this one it's
close but looks good diffuse comes in and that HE oh my god cheeky smart from
fallen. So 3-0, start for Furia. Honk. Range for a no scope of AWP. More or less can't miss
from there. Some utility. Some pistols. The Mk10 is very curious for X-Floud. There are
only so many places where that can be useful. Jeweling Top Mid is not one of them. Multi-flashes
but 4 is able to find a transfer and pull out the AK to at least do damage to the third.
a lot of info for his squad as well. This is a great output from Furia.
I like this from Keisarato, getting his way back out there, but he's going to get caught on the spray.
Good boost. Honnished. Molodoy, just a hair off on that shots. I mean, other shots is he going to
get it. It's a pressing fire being laid down from long. Molodoy, I get caught on the rotate back.
back. Young star is looking for this one, but he's been entertained for too long. Yuri
will take him down from the side. And now, X-Large and Crizzan, trying to find space onto the
site, but the smoke, HP, so many problems here for them. And he continues that around
for Furia 4-0. And I'll give you a number, James. I'll give you a couple numbers.
five. The last time these six, seven last time these two teams played it was 13 to in favor
of fury on dusty. That's a month ago. That's a month ago. Not too far off. Not too far off
long ago. Good things for for for fury. It was a good start from fallen with some really
important Frank so close to a third by info and damage on the third and remainder of
Anyway, they will charge straight out into Long again, Fallen falling back with your kinder.
So Long is heavily compromised.
Before we can talk about Short, Kcerato standing top mid.
Gonna make sure it's clear I suppose, checking for a lurker in the lower tunnel if he doesn't
see anything.
I wonder what Yuri will be willing to do.
in a tunnel. Right, we'll leave one person in position on long. They look to explore
the rest of the map.
Oops.
We're looking to go. We're trying to get out of here.
The Kindos trying to be scary, trying to make himself look big outside the double doors,
and inviting some clearance, utility, we will get the CT smoke, and smoke on cats in kind.
He's fallen and watches over the position.
He is a Sentinel of Catwalk right now.
of the flash.
I'm sorry.
That's why you might avoid it for a second.
Just a second.
This is high risk of falling.
The bomb's swinging through again.
He's got the info and Kasterato is here to clean house.
Prison left alone on long.
A cold start to this game of Dust 2 for Heroic.
Prison with a quick two though, but he's only got nine seconds remaining.
seconds remaining and fury are aware of that. Your kinder is going to be caught. And this
has become way too expensive for the CTs. This is a no man's lands. That smoke is not
a brick wall. You can't wait too many frags at it. Yes, they lose the round. But I mean,
all those frags at the end, they do matter. They're running at them like, I'll have
you, mates. I'm trying to just get everybody at the end. Unsuccessful, of course. But
The fragging power is there. There's no question.
But Furio, they're just playing a better tactical game right now.
EWP is going to be deposited to Youngstar.
And indeed, that damage will go a long way
if they can just find that initial rounds sooner than later.
I really want to see what the CT money is like after they rebuy all their weapons, like
are they now in a position where they're heading to eco if they lose a round?
Look at the money!
They just got wrecked!
Yeah, Chris is giving them a potential lifeline, but it's going to be hard to realize it
because they themselves don't have very much, but here's the op, looking for a pick and
opening which is so huge.
Here is the H.E. and Nagy there.
One opportunity gone for an opener.
CT is looking to go walk about through B tunnels.
Mollardoy is posted.
Oh.
by that for an awkward bounce.
Oh, dear.
He walked in front of his crosshair.
That was the angle that I was holding, James.
He walked in front of it.
You hate to see it.
This is...
I'm getting perfect storm vibes.
They're all on shorts.
Yakin does alone.
I mean, he can delay with the incendiary.
We've got Fallen towards top mid.
It's simple guesswork to figure out
where the T's can be.
There's only two places.
Lower tunnel and short.
He's got to deploy that incendiary.
But in the meantime, they're wondering.
They're wondering. There's only three left. I'm telling you, it's happening. It is happening.
All those losses at the end of that last round, they might pay for, but the bomb has been lost
on the other side of mid. There was a smoke for Crizzan, but that would be an unfortunate
way to use it.
They know. Got the knowledge. Well, it surely gets another one here. Boom. There it
is. Trade, though. Exiled in there in a perfect position. It's a two versus two.
seconds. They got a run. They've got to run. And K Serato knows he just has to delay. He's
gone in Sendier. He still, he still has it. But he has to get out here. The spray is wild
and successful. And my God, the opportunities, the opportunities in that round.
That was exciting. And I've got to say, you've got to give big props to K Serato
there because you know, the first guy is again, the sacrificial lamb. He is just
trying to pull that crosshair away as far as possible,
in case the rest of us still manage to get the transfer afterwards.
Look at that.
I got to say, that was one of my favorite memories that's happened so far,
because, like, there's the timing of that walking in front of Moladoi.
I don't have time to talk about it anymore.
I feel robbed, but Moladoi is getting active in the lower dark.
We've got to respect it and the enemies are respecting it as well.
I'm sure there is a utility.
Coming through to force him back.
And just showing that it's a possibility, Jake, just striking fear into the hearts.
It forces them to take it slower to clear that position even when he's not there in future rounds.
Still opportunity for Heroic to break that CT economy.
Keeping those frags coming.
They strut to his movement as well after fragging that first player strafing at the same time
and spraying.
Really understood the mission there.
Doing his damn this to avoid the trade frag that he knows is being attempted really matters.
30 seconds remain. Double smokes out through mid, heavy util will keep three players on
beat or fury up. The chain flashes, fallen, eating all sorts, and they're ready for Molotoy
this time. They've got no smoke for the cross. They've got no smoke for the cross,
unless they throw it not already. Okay, they have, they have. Everything's fine.
to calm down. I'm very calm. Thank you very much. I guess it's safe. So finally, they've
managed to do it. Again, we have to go back to that prison rounds and also the round where
we had see the big OOPSIE with Yuri walking in front of Molador at the wrong time.
It's all led to this.
Five players alive is kind of nice too. We'll have to see if they can manage to maintain this.
That's weird.
Such a good timing on the chain flash.
The frag onto Molodoy.
Mega important.
Not an easy guy to put down.
Enti saved though by Furia.
They understand the opportunity and they look too deny.
Different look maybe this time from Fallen.
Swinging along with the 5-7.
He's well equipped though.
Long door smoked early and he's got one in the hole.
Moloadonium 4 will offer support.
I have to make up for the shortcomings.
Keisaraso trying to show some shoulder pads.
Bait a reaction.
There is that reaction.
The seeds will have to disengage then, wondering if they're falling into a trap.
Oh, great timing from your kinder.
Well, I thought he's got no support flashes for him, but the smoke will do.
And mid to late round, that's such a good thing to be aware of, the rotation from
that long play up always looking for it
execute into the B bomb site but there are no bodies behind it
now the CTs are wondering is it gonna be a reheats because there's a pause
or is there a rotate they can't do anything but just wait and here it is
the play has revealed the hands has revealed and that is a big pick from
Molo doi yukinda also drops one and Molo doi can help out now he's got
got some assistance. Oh, no. There's an HE under your kinder. Now, it's just Molladov. Molladov.
There is the last man standing. There might be a tricky situation for him. Oh, my God.
He's actually gone for the jump spray and it works. The old Kukli moments.
I know it's the back. I know it's the back.
Good work for Molodoy to stay alive.
Hell, they're a stressful one. I mean, you can see it's a stressful one.
The CT utility, more or less exhausted.
No counter flashes, no nothing towards the end there.
Just raw-fragging.
Molotov coming in clutch.
I don't know why that happened.
Am I thinking about Molotov?
I don't know.
So Furia have survived the crucial tests.
They've been at the brink of breaking, but they have only been spent.
All right then.
that will hold the angle as the oh oh they're attracting they're attracting
this Molotoy rounds the corner you'll catch one at the very least suspect
looking for a jewel but you don't want Molotoy any other ends nobody does apart
from youngster apparently and that's Katerosso my bad
Get messy out here.
Molo-Doy.
Molo-Doy.
Great spot.
Spots the skin.
Spots the elbow.
Sees the rotation.
It's a tag on either end, so both orbs are low now.
But this is good for Furia.
I mean, they have a good sense as to what's happening.
The cat plate, this could go...
could go I mean could backfire could be brilliant old if they keep walking down
there no okay but the shot in between the two plays the classic move that's
just this long play and again you get some like prison style headshots maybe
this is doable but the smoke missing the cross and there's not just one but
two ops posted on this you're never getting across although did I speak too
You see, Nylo does find his way onto the site with a headshot.
He's going to at least secure the bomb plant money.
He's going to find a jewel.
Taking the fight to them before they can set up too much.
At least that's the intention.
Creeping past the baskets, looks at his left,
drops from his right, Nilo did his best.
But it wasn't to be, Fury are continue to dominate on Dust 2.
And we've overpassed around the corner, it might be time to start worrying, if you are not in the Fury camp.
It's not normally...
Yeah, it's definitely crazy because it feels like Heroka being so close to maybe even
being at an even game, you know, we had some of those rounds with lots, I mean, they've
been doing a lot of economic damage, but they just can't quite convert the rounds to truly
punish Fiora.
That's, that's, and it's so frustrating when you're in that position where you
just can't find that one round that would allow everything to be a little bit easier.
And you can start taking more initiative on the map.
You can start kind of controlling things more.
But that's just the reality that they are in.
Other chance at this one.
Young Star with DWP.
Molodoy still in mids.
There's a quick rotation.
Is he going to Katz or is he going to Long?
It will be Katz from Molodoy.
Just a one smoke in mid from the T side of heroic.
Keep an eye on that.
When it's furious T side, see if it's one or two smokes.
Well, it's doing a pretty solid job in this long position.
Be a holding position, finding the right time to go for pushes.
I guess they might be found towards top mid, but he got down the first place.
That is a key frag as well.
The 4v5 risk is being taken by Heroic, but now the odds are crippling for them in this
round.
Two unanswered frags in favour of Furia.
Looking for their ninth.
Ooh, this walkthrough timing is actually quite nice.
Should find an isolated player on the B doors.
Now there's a scoping with connection for a young star.
It's got to do more though.
He's alone.
He is alone.
And he's cut off from the bomb.
Actually, no, the bomb's right next to him,
but he's going to have to frag his way onto it, presumably.
Unless the CTs want to give this space, which they will now.
They've got both sites.
And Prince is looking to just save this all.
But does he think he has a bomb?
I don't know.
But either way, he's going to be looking to get a pick here
onto the A site.
He must think he's got a bomb.
I thought he might because why is he going to cat otherwise, but...
Yeah, he's definitely going for a determined push.
Oh, boy.
Oh, my word!
See survive?
Just about.
Just about.
Skin of his teeth.
That was an unusual scenario.
Just about, just about skin of his teeth.
That was an unusual, unusual scenario.
That was very odd. Yeah, it really was very surprising.
Yeah, I'm not sure.
Not sure what's in there.
I don't know if there was maybe like a grenade
that make that noise that you've picked something up.
Oh, I don't know.
But he survived. That's the main thing. Someone survived when he rounds for heroic.
They're score-wise, they're not surviving. They're drowning. Maybe with concrete. Boots.
dust too. Opal definitely provide them with opportunity however.
Molodoy ready to go. Flashed off. Ice Lays to fight though. Knows how to hold those angles
correctly. Yeah, it's just not enough. And yeah, it's not enough. They'll smoke it up,
but.
Here, I kind of just chilling right now. They're going to recommit to long because it is a long
push, late long take. No, quick flash. Able to see. But I have a player that's holding
for any pushes. I believe it's Nylo.
I'll have you moving back to a B hit. Youngstar is here, so, because CTs get too curious,
he might be afforded a pick, but the flash instead.
20 seconds. CTs are very far away. The ones that are not on the bomb site, that's the
bomb spotted though. Okay, Serato now. He needs to buy as much time as possible, but
ten seconds for the bomb plant and I think he will delay enough. Indeed he will. The
young star is not going to make it there so it's going to be another timeout win where
he's holding on for dear life but this time he won't. Where's your awp bro? Such a struggle
versus fury and again the game they lost against 3D Max there were some many an awesome round
like it was a it really is about how good 3D Max were in my opinion which is widely
you regarded as facts. Not just about
Fury taking the L but again they're a tough, they're a very tough team to beat on
Dust2 right now and this is showing you why. Not impossible but you need to be
completely screwed on at all times.
Yeah Youngstar is so little mighty he's just a native man, no Kevlar even. He
can't even afford the clothes.
Yeah, it might just be a stop at this ticket. You know, again, the last faceoff between these two it was
13-3, I believe in favor of furia
Like we're headed for that
I guess it was free
That's a meaty one
Is very it's this succulents
This is the
the dance at long doors how long will the two wait there for the grenades on B
invite falling to push long doors it looks like it will and he will be
caught off immediately there might be a second round here for heroic it got your
kinder on the A on the A bombsite and there are five T's coming his way he's
gonna flash and that's about it seems they might respect the smoke or will
They're lining up very nicely.
Oh, it's worries for a moment. Only one drop slow.
You're in case the Rota have got much to do.
I don't see any HEs in spawn for them.
Smoke at least.
You're on a stumble or the high explosive.
Smoking is bad for your health, James.
Chiffy, you guys know.
It's a nice pick.
The shutdown though, and at the end of the half there is some glimmer of something, of hope perhaps.
We'll see if they can change their face heroic in the second half.
Oh, I'm a small song, I'm dead, I'm a small song
Just wanna go down with the flow
I'm the first to play, go
You get to take the box, I can feel you take over
Here's the limit, one, one, one, one
One, one, one, one, one, one
Yeah, in my body, ain't no one
Oh, I see my heart's going
Yeah, in my body, ain't no one
Oh, I see my heart's going
I'm a little scared of the body, but I know what it's like to be small
I'm a little scared of the body, but I know what it's like to be small
So what's the small talk?
Actually, what's the small talk?
Just what I don't know what the thought is
The one you pay for is what I don't like to pay for
So we head to the floor, and take the fire escape
I want them to wave you in the dish, and they've got no place here
And when you can't find someone, and when you can't find
We're just running away from life, what?
at the peak, there are clouds, there are eagles, some vultures maybe, and perhaps soon I'll be eating
your carcass. That is the viewpoint for Heroic in this game of Dust2. They have been on the
receiving end of a beating from Furia and might not be over as we move into the second half.
Furia in full control at present. First map of this series, Loser goes home.
Yes, yes. And you don't want to go out like this if you're heroic, right? You don't want to go out, which is just not even almost making an
appearance in terms of your performance. If you're going to go out, you want to feel like you at least played very well. Of course, there
are a lot of VRS points on the line for heroic. If they win this series, they would make, I think, 37 VRS points, which is pretty
massive and that would be a loss of 25 for Furia. So Furia have a lot of motivations to
not allow this game to slip out of their hands, you know, beyond even just being eliminated.
So we're back into it. And again, the last time these guys faced, it was a 13-2 for Furia
or 13-3, sorry, for Furia on Dust 2. So a couple more rounds and I reckon at least
improve on that.
smoke for the top of the door deploys who made that one very specific fury are charging up
long molotov I think you got stuck on the wall there by accident a free frag three versus
four those flashes could be really important but Yuri just can't quite connect as he wants
to fall and trying to hide while he reloads, leaving Cacerato in a one versus four. Heroic
storming to a victory. You can see the troops being rallied by the war cry.
There you go. That's what you need to have happen. No bomb down either. So, you know,
any kind of a force by is going to be weakened for the T side of furious. So that's going
feel nice? I'm curious though, you know what does Heroic like to do or what would
they like to do in this scenario? Some CT sides would actually get quite
aggressive and maybe you like push Cat and just try to take fights early and
get those opening kills and it just shuts the round down completely. Also
gives you fast rotation to B if it were a B rush, so being aggressive here
around Cat I think I like a lot and Exiled will do that but he won't see
very much.
Beautiful position.
Oh, great support as well.
Very well done. Simple stuff done well.
Leads to a prompt round for Heroic and the team starts to smile again.
Momentum is finally felt in the series for Heroic
and it's been relatively one-sided in that respect feels nice now he in these
rounds is to deny bomb plots for OI because they look to catch up or really
weaken the round between the full buys and make life a lot easier for them on
paper at the very least on Papyrus
Okay, next part is going to be the player to receive the action there, on CDA side along
with Youngstar.
Look at you just delay this, deny this, cat control, and it will make Viria second,
you know, give it a second pause.
And pausing here for maybe another 10, 15 seconds or so is actually also good because
it can suggest the rotation away. Again, they can still go and drop mid for a B split, so
as CTs you always have to be wary of that. That's why Fury are pausing still.
Ritzen is still holding a smoke on Long.
Youngstar's got a flash by that car position.
X-Floud in CT spawn.
Heroku will fall back towards Long to play for the retake because it is very awkward
to defend from those spots.
We kind of are looking for that rotation in a classic position.
How they approach that short ulterior then, heroic.
How many bodies will they throw?
Oh, you can they get deleted immediately by Saab.
That's a huge win for the CT squad.
They're in a 5-1-2 situation.
Kira can barely respond to these jewels,
lightning quick again from heroic,
Reminding themselves of how good they can be.
That's the start you need.
Okay, so we are starting to build something here, heroic.
They're laying the foundation for a CT site.
Man, what a CT site it has to be too.
That's just gorgeous.
Beautiful.
Nice.
as in getting hype, he is getting hoipe.
5 to 10 here for heroic, and we're gonna
detect nice the mag 10s.
Or a mag 10.
These rounds can be dangerous too, and we might just see a B-pop
from Furia.
Yeah, they don't need to be correct too many times.
That's the problem.
All thoughts are being thrown through the smoke by heroic
And this could be another very profitable round for the ct side
Case the rato belly breaking ground on to be deleted again
They're catching up quickly again denying the bomb plant is fantastic for them. Furia are having no mileage in these rounds
I think that's all about how they play
Oh, sorry, james. Yeah, it's now it's about how they play this this t-round
I think the bee pops it's actually interesting James because we saw again with the the matchup that's
Fury had on dusting its 3d max, which was a great game
You should really check it out if you missed that one
We saw both teams trying bee pops like that over and over again
And it works like one of six times if you combine all the times each team did it
So if you're here, you know, they got they got a throw the bee pop in there James
Yeah, yeah, they both teams ran into brick walls on a number of occasions as far as the bee bonsai was concerned
But, yeah, I mean, the leaders is being reduced too promptly, but now we've got the full full
buy for the most part, ignoring Yuri's one grenade.
You may have dropped some on the floor earlier.
They do that sometimes.
Furia have some nades in T spawn someone to go back and collect depending on their position
anyway
I think we'll see furia try to set the pace in this round
on both sides. You can start having a look towards B.
Control has been secured by Fioria then.
Around a one minute mark there and.
You got X loud, who is likely to receive a smoke here in CT at some point.
Now three smokes remaining for Fioria to work with.
There it is.
And you get a second one here.
So is it a B split?
We've got a fake, basically.
It's a Pinocchio.
How about this in that interview?
You can make it as well to be and still though,
young star cognizant of the walkup cat gets away one player but look at case
or also you can to go they're making openings here for furia so 2v3 though
for them so it is going to be rough but it's a cat plant to work with prison
rotating over towards that short position
all of those going to have some problems tease need to find a frat
quickly there is molotoy he is being looked for as you know we're both of
them are doesn't matter. CT side come in for another retake. They are quick, they are swift,
they are decisive on these retakes on the CT side. Like if you just tuned in you think
maybe this was mostly a close game, but it's perhaps a tale of two CT sides here on Dust
2. But again, there's been such a fast comeback for Heroic. They're not messing around
of these retakes.
Yeah, and something that's also a worst bearing in mind is that this is the first half where
we've seen any action or life from her at all. If you think about the first map, they
got destroyed. And the first half of this map, they got destroyed. So they're turning
up now. We'll see if they can make the game theirs, turn it around into their favor.
So a long way to go. And again, you know, tech 9s, the AK and fallen. This is a dangerous
round. Next round might get caught there on the timing. He's going to get taken down by
the tech 9 young star able to actually not x star. It says teammates able to take down
a player that on coming through me. If it is a B split here is causing chaos on the
B bomb site. Nilo trying to hold it down and it's going to be eventually a fury
owned B site and rounds and just like that all the success James is going down the drain
they made the B work on this occasion they don't have to be right too many times as we said before
and you can see the immediate courses are levels going through the roof for heroic stress is rising
abusing the numbers case or asset managing to squeeze out that grenade and get the frag afterwards
didn't look likely to me 3 HP only Molotov is all too good at that
they've got to deploy HEs at a very least if they want to make it over towards B
especially when Molotov is on the server you can't out going for a big swing great pre-fire
but the CTs are long gone so is their map control of long
So the aggression coming through from a rope on the CT side not deterred that will award
them a early pick in this game ends. I mean for Furious it's a more straightforward round
they're just looking to scale from long here I don't think we'll see anything else initial
cross smoke as a world where they can rotate off this because currently what they've
shown would certainly have heroic thinking this is going to be a long scale.
And then are they faking it?
Okay.
So much time left.
So many CTs focused on this A bomb site.
Starts to get into position.
I think that's what I'm slipping away from, Fury.
There are so many CTCF 30 seconds, they still feel like a long time.
Three might be enough for Fury, they're trying to start coming from your kinder.
They've made it a two on two.
Three Fury players with space on the clock is dangerous, but there is a delay tactic
on the bomb site and the Bologna is just waiting, he's got nothing else to do but
wait for a flanker in that scenario almost gifted the info by the incendiary
well the sights on fire I guess I'll look at long and now Nilo's alone versus
Yuri and Molodoy he has repositioned though
also has a kit just needs to find a better side of the duel with Yuri
Molodoy might be not far behind but Yuri will finish off the job there
And that's game 0.4 Furia
What a round for Mollidoy and for Furia in general, but I gotta say James
I'm curious what your thoughts are about this said Mollidoy
He he goes and grabs the bomb and then he just holds for this push
He has the bomb you think he's got like 13 seconds left
I would think that he is immediately just going to plant but he had a lot of minds to go for that
There's a Molly on the side. He's got nothing else to do
Yeah, there you go. That's all he's got to do. Just look at long the sights on fire.
I'll just look at long. No problem. Well, I apologize to be done.
Gangstar is going on. Go on, Dan. Yeah, you're opening this one up for the scene.
This is all you, Dan. Internet casting.
The work of that delay sometimes.
Ooh, young star is going to be surviving this one, but this allows us 5v4 advantage.
Heroic, they've got to be feeling the pressure right now again.
This is elimination for Heroic, if they lose one round, they are gone.
You know James.
How far does X-flat go? Once this smoke is gone, Youngstar has the AWP. Oh, he's just
going to go in relatively dry. Bomb spotted, Yuri's shadow will give them everything they
need. But there's 45 seconds on the clock. Kcerasto and Yikindar. They've got information
And with the utility as to where some of these CTs are, and with that, they're going to try
and make it happen.
Of course, Youngstar has got a very good angle.
There is a flash for Kceratov, and the CTs are rotating in on this delay.
Now there are four, and there's only one you can die with, 20 seconds and a bomb.
Is this an up-save maybe?
There was one on short, which I don't think fallen picked up, so it should be to
his left here. Indeed, it is still up. He's to get away quickly though. Being dong from
susp and that will be denied.
Broak doing it. I love it. I love to see a young star with that opening pick. Here it
is. Nice little micro flick there. And just keeping the aggression on top of Furia prevents
them from really getting into their rounds. And again, when your back is against the
wall to elimination, not just losing a map or a series, but just being eliminated. Obviously,
that's a really nice thing to be able to still be confident to do, to be aggressive on the
CT side of Dust2. And four more rounds is what they have to have to go for now. And
again, you know, we do tend to have a tradition of daily over times on the B stream, and we
haven't had one yet. So just, you know, throwing that out there.
Will it be B to solve the equation for Furia?
Eventually, I wonder.
Small tech pause for an issue to be resolved, rather, before we resume.
That's the way around.
But I'm glad we're seeing a comeback mounted by Heroic.
Again, that's necessary for the mental when you're looking at the series overall.
Full rounds, no errors, big buy for both sides.
That is a giant bottle.
Is that a giant bottle or a very small man?
I think it's probably a big bottle.
I think it's probably a big bottle. Maybe a liter and a half at least, maybe.
Yeah, to be honest, that's the move I think. For me, it has to be a big bottle,
otherwise, I will just rive all up and die. I just don't remember to keep refilling my water.
I've made a point of chugging water on these long days of commentating,
but for me, you can never chug enough water.
You will always need more than you chug.
Anyway, I don't know how they escaped unscathed in that scenario, but more power to Heroic
to continue their comeback.
Ten still standing after long is taken by the whole Furious Squad.
They have a minute 30 though, so let's see what they choose to do.
It seems that K. Serato will be the first to go exploring.
got his compass out.
It seems to understand what the CTs might be up to.
Yeah, they've got all the info now.
That's the thing, though, with this long position is that even if the CTs know it's coming,
you still are able to, I just slowly scale.
There's definitely variance to it, but it still works as legitimate rounds.
And in mid, we've got Kcerato, who is the mid like, okay, he's trying to make it look
like a rotate out, and that they're going for cat control.
And the one thing though is that the CTs have catwalks so they can, they know that nobody's
going cat most likely.
And Susp has gone very deep into B halls as well, not really seen much, which is
allowing Heroic to focus on this A bomb site. 30 seconds and look at the utile of the Heroic players.
They can dump on the site if they want to. That's a great transfer from Chrism though.
Crippling Furia in round 21. Heroic are closing the distance.
The whole squad now. But look at the frags coming free from Furia. How on earth. All of Heroic are here.
And it's just down to Sus. How have they done this? I need a slow-mo of this entire round.
I do not understand what just happened. They had all the info, all the rotation, all the CTs and yet,
Fury are prevail.
Shants all done!
HANA!
HANA!
Nobody fucks here and no utility to go broke!
I don't know what you want to do!
Damn guys, we almost had this.
Thank God that's over.
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What's nothing to do with it? Gun out, a spirit move in.
I mean, surely G2 should be able to have a decent chance here.
Some pious.
What do you expect this?
Long backstab.
I see the shots though.
Sure expectation diverted.
But no killfalls.
Now they know they can push in.
They have to try to find Mattis.
How do you behind the box?
Oh no!
Kalei in the spray!
Surely the defuse just comes in.
There's no way the bias can stop since the Molotov tries to come out,
donk on low health,
but it doesn't spread.
The defuse comes in and the bias
maybe overplayed himself there with a backstab attempt.
It's just kills at the end.
It's also classic.
It's like, I'm on a big flank, can you live?
And what does Mattis do?
He just wide peeks out through cave.
I know, he could have played a side, turned, he whiffed,
could have had that one for one tucked in,
but it's like the only way you screw some bias over.
over is by dying. Really awkward death for Mattis. It made that round so hard for
Sumpias. He was able to peek wide enough to molly default. We're back on, but Mattis
kind of put him in that position. Two whiffs from G2, right? Sumpias also
whiffed on flank. Oh, G2 getting a little bit hairy here down the stretch in some
of these late rounds. They win an eco, only to butcher that postplot.
And once again the buy isn't perfect for him. Have you got MP7?
The dying moments of this first half.
I think G2 shouldn't have...
G2 still should feel confident in this matchup.
I don't think there's anything out of reach.
A bit sloppiness does, you know, net them with a negative round total compared to spirit.
spirit but there's still good things being shown right now even if it is just
kind of catching spirit in awkward moments a bit of a mid clash about to
happen flash through out in red hunter full blind amounts trying to play it
forward they put donk on the case so you've won the mid fight again it's
often been the protocol for g2 and they can't get out through mid to just
walk it in to be today has missed the timing on this matters has the drop on
in and that is a free kill on the entry.
Yeah, but Magic's unknown.
Surely they have to swing him together!
Donk?
He's killing the back line as well.
So Sumpius, a clutch from him already, but another one needed to tie the scoreline.
Bomb goes down.
Shiro and Donk surely have to play this together.
Sumpius repositions in towards the cave.
Back behind the box that failed Mattis last round.
Six bullets on Donk.
So if some pies doesn't peak it's down a shiro to cover on the AWP
In the cave, how are you getting out?
You can't
Spirits running at a time too they got to go for the fight
They have a very good idea the position shiro completely locked on the sideline
So he doesn't drop those tappa kills shiro doesn't lose to a jiggle. That's why I say shiro
If you're gonna jiggle shiro, you're done for you're dead. So donk straight on the diffuse back turn shiro's got him
lights out here for G2. Another post plan picked up by Spirit. These are difficult rounds,
but Spirit are winning. Keep in mind we may be isolating mistakes from G2, but Spirit are
still capitalizing well. He saw the barrel as well right before the wide. So Spirit
in a great position at the moment. Can they sweeten the deal on the half, fast out
mid-hiff of mouse and D actually gets control of mid this time around as well
no gun fights to make G2 go down a player early early on this is good but the
same type of lane control coming out set up presumably for Jaguar magic stuck
in the corner dogs get caught out by hunter G2 in the best state early on
that we've seen so far. A bit hairy through the wall spray. Oh, tapping back and forth.
Sumpias won it. He got more damage off. Guess he'll take the trade. He's
a bit efficient there. Donk just tapped the player out of middle. Of course he has.
They're coming up right through the smoke of the ramp. Yeah, hearing something deals with
Sumpias and there's no one near the trade. They even blockade. Three on four and the
door is shut in your face. See, Donk, the Red Room probably makes you a bit nervous as well.
Well the idea that he might have begun this rotate early.
And it's given G2 just a moment of pause here to reconsider.
G2 hesitant.
Gonna go quiet, maybe you just, oh well not that quiet, heavy god spam.
Flash in for Taneer, doesn't spot anyone now, but there are two players on the backs out of that corner.
Might peek into him. Taneer, information gathered, that's the best thing you could have.
Molotov goes down a block of the push. 20 seconds left.
Oh, G2 and a world of hurt.
They have to come in now. They have to try to deal with two players as well before they even think about getting the bomb planted.
One is good. Shiro there to reply.
And Tenir.
Good sideline towards ramp. Heavy guy tries to play behind that pillar.
Attacked through the wall. Pistol comes out.
It's all converted.
Spirit.
Seven. Oh.
This game started 3-0 for G2.
And yeah, think about how costly this early round so we were sounding the alarm bells
Do you think that stealing is okay? What?
Oh, gee, that's huge like your mom
Seriously, how do you recover from this? I don't know man. Looks like a long run. We need a quick reset
Niko, take out the cucumber and...
Here we've fallen, you don't need any introduction and we're going to talk about...
I was going to say one of your favourite maps. Is Overpass one of your favourite maps?
Yeah, I'll tell you so. I like Ruppers a lot.
Where does it fill in all time for you?
After a train.
It's very nervous.
I'll try to do it on a train with you then.
And nervous?
Well, we're nervous now.
This is where, on the CT side, are you just letting the players call the openings based
off of the flow of the game once you get past the opening game plan?
Yeah, so I would say that this role here for the right form A, I think at least
on CSGO it was the position with the most opportunities for higher ratings on every
single position in the game.
Sure.
in position is one that really can do a lot on the map and it gives you
opportunities to be playing well and I would say that his job is literally to
knowing how to play effectively different areas so there will be rounds
where you want this rifle to be effective on this area like he's gonna
be aggressive it's gonna have some plays sometimes that's two sometimes that's
three even as far sometimes security bring four players here if they know
other things are gonna play a big game if he needs some options being
aggressive on fountain aggressive on playground I think that a second
their way of playing it. It's just really a block in the infotainment in the beginning of the round.
He's going to be trying a smoke here to make sure that they don't know what we're doing, right?
Sometimes this smoke-motic combo is going to be just for taking it.
Sometimes he's going to be playing around it.
So he's going to be trying this a lot of times because then they cannot really win him.
Because if you only throw this when you're going to use it, people are like,
okay, he's coming, right? So he has his own game.
And then I think there's a secondary game where they're going to pair up,
for example, on toilets, outpropos, rifle, or even on those parts of the map.
But I think that most of the time, it's all about this rifling understanding which kind of pressure the other team wants to apply
and which kind of things that he can punish, for example.
Okay.
So, for example, I think I know that Jekinder is going to be looking for what our opponents are doing when they go on A
and he's going to be trying to understand where he can have impact, where he can punish something.
And then everything that's happening here sometimes is going to bring Yuri back to A.
So the less aggressive they are, for example, if you go more like VP old style,
or Jame and Feynman playing super passive, and they don't really care that you're going to come A,
then you will normally have this Alper playing retake mode.
The referee is going to take as much as he can, they're going to throw a defensive smoke,
and then you don't really need the retake guy to be much away,
because they're playing so passive that they can play more 3B, you know?
So this retake position, when he's playing more passive, or playing, for example, here,
on long passive. It gives you indication from when this guy has to come up to A.
Or sometimes you can also think like, I think they're going to take out this map and go back to B,
so UD is PAB, so we don't really have only two players on B now.
Okay, yeah. Let's say you're doing a more passive setup like this. Is this the type of thing that
you are happy to turtle up across the map? Kind of like Nuke where you're giving a lot of
map space? Or is this type of thing we want in this scenario have short control
so that we can flank up connected behind? I personally think that the passive game on
Overpass is more suitable but there are teams and I've seen I think that on tier two even more
They're much more challenging right they're gonna be taking space
This duo is gonna be taking short together looking for kills
And I mean it's great if you're catching the lurker off-board or getting a fight forward and of course it's worth it
But I also think that if the other team isn't playing a high level
You're gonna get punished a lot doing those things and then that's where I think thirdly up is a little bit better
But I eventually I think the best case scenario
You know how to play both but I think teams should be playing passively first because otherwise
You're not going to get there.
No fundamentals if you don't have the passive stuff down.
5v4, T side overpass.
How confident are you in a round with them?
Because it's still a very C-T side of the map.
But off of one pick, are you like 70% of the time
we should be converting that?
Like what do you think?
I know it's hard to put numbers on it, but...
Yeah, I would say that if you find this queue on the rifle,
there's two ways the CTs can think.
One of them is instantly rotating towards A
and going for a three-man A defense
where they're going to even push up stuff more or even gamble away, but that's going to
be not played too much in my opinion anymore because the CTs already know that the pressure
has been applied on me, and they know that the T's know that you're rotating A. So sometimes
people are just going to say, I'm going to solo with the LPA, you guys stay 3B, hope
for them to go B. And then if you are trying to be smart as terrorists, you're
going to say, OK, they're coming to our Z, let's go B. And then if you don't
have due diligence, or if you just think it's a normal round, if you go 5B, 3A
on B and then it's normal. The rifle Q on A doesn't really matter, right? If the players
on B are playing well, if they get multi-kills, then the death on A doesn't really matter.
So you know, it's not too easy to understand what's going to happen after this first kill.
And I think short presence is important on this moment. So the same way that sometimes
you are capturing some control over A and you want to have lockers, you want to have
long, on some situations you want to take a look on short. You want to make sure
that you have it. I think nowadays on CS2 cities doesn't really stay here much
because the positions that you can stay here are not too strong anymore.
Back in the days you could stay on top of this rail here, right?
You were watching Monster, you called this TV position.
This position is not so great anymore in this game, because of the high of the...
Really? Okay.
Yeah, it's not as good as it was before.
So, you know, nowadays I'm still checking for this short area to give me more reasons to go B
or open up the map, but I feel like it's already giving up to you anyway.
But still I think it's crucial for you as T.
Okay, I got a Q on A, I open up short again,
So they have to be scared of B and then you can think of end game and then it's pretty much like all the other maps and
I'll just gamble gambling decisions that the cities can take but yeah overpass. You can't really do much of fakes as well
I don't feel like this map is too great to be faking go back faking. It's hard to play that too. I
Feel like one of the things that is good for though is like the seesaw
So not like a full-on like let's throw the nades and then we'll just rotate B
because they're obviously going to beat you on rotation.
But it's just about putting the pressure and then taking space,
putting the pressure and taking space,
because if you do have all control, short control,
and bathrooms on the T side.
Yes, they have your shorts on this chair.
It's over.
Right.
They have everything you want.
Yeah.
So as you're pressuring A, you can have a guy searching short
to either cast rotations or see if the site's empty.
That's one of the things in the modern game
that Super Key is your lurks knowing when to be active enough.
Yeah, that's very micro decisions
that microtimings, micro-understandings where they might have gone for a 2A, have to check
it.
It's worth to go for this 1v1 or 2v1.
But yeah, we have a word in our team that we call it Pinocchio.
Pinocchio?
Yeah.
And basically, we're trying to sell a lie, you know?
So for example, if we kill this guy on A, and I know that there's a chance they
can go B or T to A, sometimes I'm going to tell the A players we're closer to
Pinocchio A, so they understand like I have to apply a little bit more pressure
however I can, in order for them to be a little bit more convinced that it's A.
And then this is the micro timing for the B players, you know.
They are doing the lie, they're selling the lie on the other side.
And then the lurkers have to capitalize that this is all they can do, you know.
They're going to communicate that I'm done, this is all I can do.
And then they don't have these opportunities to be going for those kills.
It's an important keyword.
Interesting, yeah.
That's something that I am.
Yeah, okay.
Well, cool.
Thank you for giving us some of your thoughts on other maps.
That's it.
It's a good map. It's hard to play on pugs though, but it's a good map completely.
Yeah, just don't play it on pugs.
It's hard to play on pugs.
Yeah, it's hard.
Caustic.
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Oh, that's an extra point.
Welcome back everybody to the ESL Pro League. This is your final match of the day on the
B-stream and Furia are moving on to Overpass against Heroic. And it was a Heroic comeback
four Heroic on that just two, but it didn't come all the way unfortunately for them. They need to
come back here on Overpass to have a chance to avoid elimination against Furia and force a third
and final map. But James, we know the Furia is a bad hand on Overpass, so it is going to be very
difficult. Heroic will 100% beat Furia by the way. Anyone who watched their last few games knows
Fallen is arse, Yuri is arse, Molodoy is arse, it's over GG.
An actual comment from HRTV. I do love me some HRTV comments. I guess that guy is currently not so
correct. A solid first map from Furia and again overpass is, it's dangerous waters man.
It's like being in the wilderness and you know there's a lion somewhere but you just don't
know where and even if you did what you're going to do probably not much. Let's see if
heroic and do things the hard way now after getting beaten up on that first map going into an overpass
where if you really are it just they just look like predators it's going to be a tall order to
find a solution on this map in particular but hey looking at the I mean the sample size for
first one heroic is small. On
overpass 25% from formats
plays. They beat passion you a
13 five on overpass. They lost
to a status 10 to 13 five to
13 versus phase. And seven to
13 versus game Legion all
matches this year, then
plenty of lessons to learn
from those ones. Unless
going into today and there's plenty of data from this week to absorb from
fury on overpass so it's not like they're going in blind maybe they will be
blind though as they start on the CT side and fury have at least one flash on
the T side case the R2 has fallen the grenade meant for the squad
Monodoy raid boss with the P250.
All right, Sphereia.
Moving through the playgrounds.
And overpass is kind of like their playgrounds.
Yeah, for the most part.
3D Max, the only team giving them trouble
after recent matches.
And passive from the CTs.
So it's really just gonna be about
when the spot comes through, Snilo,
who is going to be trying to spot from the bank area.
Has he spotted them just yet?
No, no CTs are moving on the map just yet.
Now they're going to start to move.
Information has been relayed.
And it's going to be tough here to hold the site.
It's going to be a guaranteed plant.
Yeah, they're abandoning the site and the heroic.
I just think it was interesting
and had no intention of heading towards CT
All going through connector to basically squeeze the site from both ends case to wrap them will be lurking on long and maybe a flank will be on the way
Let's see what the CTs are able to do for a main now as they look to close in on that bombsite a one tap from
Well, I'm very confident with the p250 up close
Roic going to their demise
Into the blender they go as all the standing for Roic at the moment look at him charge sus
you'll get one frag at the very least but it's furia who are standing at the end
of the pistol
he's like pistol there we go the old contacts a long
now I rock let's see if they'll do force by or a save
but like the saves are much rarer we saw strahlus opting to do it quite a bit
earlier. Yeah, we'll get the force by instead. Where are we?
Youngstar's got 600 though. I just I just I do want to mention that
because a scenario like this, you've got to have your AWP on
the by rounds, and he's keeping that money in the hole. So he
can afford it later on. And that's really key because not
every team does that. And it just hurts when they don't.
Oh, he's higher.
Hey, well, you know, for this match to help his team clear the connector position.
We're in water, haven't been fully cleared.
We actually had him talking about that position, the water position and water control on that
content piece just prior to this match starting.
It's good to keep your eyes on these great content pieces between the matches.
Yes, you might have to wait a little longer, Mr. Fallon.
Although, I say that. Youngster's got a smoke as well. And there it goes. But it's closer
to the smoke, so they can't eat the flashes off that one. They don't want to change flashes.
More coming through as well. You want to rotate his position maybe, but hey, I wrote you're
able to hold on to that bomb site. Not forced to use their utility earlier. And this will
likely be a very early round for them. Indeed it will be not enough time to plant that bomb.
Re-standing for Furia at the end of the round. Just outfoxed by utility. You just had a
feeling for them. That was a cheeky one.
Well, so interesting that James is that like, you know, so the typical theory would suggest
you don't smoke off monsters because you want the teams to come into the site.
But you know, you can drop smokes in this game.
So it allows this mind game where it's like, when he's just one guy trying to make himself
look like five guys with the smokes, and so you know, they're trying to pull what
they think is a bluff by going through.
But in fact, it was not a bluff, which is kind of an awesome little mind game there
on that one.
I'm going to go back to the right.
in a distance on the A bomb site. Kasterato is moving off that long position. Prison from the back
will kind of freeze, Furia, and make things very awkward for them. Like what I'm seeing from Heroic
so far, looking competitive very early. Get over past a scary prospect for them with how the
the first map went. The promising starts. 49 seconds, Katerasu now on a 1 versus 2.
He doesn't have Kevlar. Maybe he continues with the Deagle here because he can't really
take a fight. He's just got to pop the head. That's the only opportunity he has there.
37 seconds. A lot of damage done.
Yeah, it's not bad. Not the bird.
Not the bird.
Ooh, full clock save and a flashbang. Where we going? Where we going?
Going towards, uh, towards A. I would imagine they would want to try to overwhelm the bathrooms.
You can get those close-range fights potentially steal away weapon can be a nice way to
Create some more opportunities
of
It's the spot.
And if he's close to distance, Fury are trying to get close.
They are being held at arm's length and punched in the face.
You'd be pretty good at that, James, like holding people, you know, away from you
with your long arms and hit them in the face.
Oh, more of a strangler than a puncher.
Okay. Okay. All right.
I did jujitsu back in the day with a Brazilian jujitsu.
Let's see how this round goes then.
Furia will be well-equipped in round five.
Prison, they are lighting up nicely for him, but that trade will be good for Furia.
Youngster looking to equalize.
I don't think we'll make assumptions of whether a CT isn't there.
Youngster showing plenty of presence now.
Going to be too concerned. Yuri can hold the angle as he boosts your kindar.
So look into the B bomb site.
Not seen just yet. Youngster catches both of them.
The start gets even better for Heroic.
Two versus four for Fury.
These guys have to get damaged. They need to keep that economy honest.
It's starting to grow.
Quite a lot, it's already very healthy.
Couple kills.
It's all in case Arata to do that, he's got three players.
On this site, ready to attack.
Eight health now.
Getting whittled down, piece by piece.
And Nylo, the next man to find.
Case Arata, he's on the corner.
He might get a look in on this, but no,
the denial is through.
Nylo's already...
and waiting. And indeed, yeah, heroic. Having a good start to their CT side here on Everpass.
Mordor looks tired.
Thinking of better days.
I'd have losing rounds, I'd have not having an AWP.
And that's crazy.
I thought the guy at the bottom would be looking at connector.
Where else can you look from there?
That's like the only...
It looks like, I think, I mean, he seems to be looking towards shorts.
That's a surprising case of a push.
Maybe he was holding down to be dropped.
That's, yeah, that's interesting because, because, uh, Youngstar had just, uh, a cheat
and smoke connector too.
So you know the presences around there as well.
So that's, that's, that's surprising.
Well, I got a bunch of technides from your primitive sites who happens.
quick one then all in in position with the one flash bank ready to send the team in with the
hg's teacher what keep on coming seems that the cc's are quite expectant here and it just gets better
heroic laughing with the current situation five to one incoming everybody standing at the end of
the run look at the money as well two players three players above ten thousand basically above
of 11,000 excuse me. They have not had too many problems in the city side of
overpass thus far. This is I don't think many were expecting such a situation.
Hey, maybe that guy on HLTV was right. Maybe. I feel bad now because I've
been big enough to hear it on overpass all the time.
Rightly so.
All the way with the AWP again.
So we'll see if the fortune can change for Furia now.
Oh, that's a key duel to win by Crizzan.
He will evacuate the connected position, but.
That's a very good pick to get.
Fallen's alone in the connector position with the bomb.
Oh, actually, no, he's got teammate.
Never mind.
Dora's been blown up.
He's just chill with the 5v4 now.
He low 7 for 1 at the moment versus Furia on overpass.
He's going all the way.
A long, he's going to walk around the back.
Oh my god, this could be disastrous.
Does he hold here for a moment? No, he's just going to not show any respect whatsoever.
They have to deal with him now. There are 40 seconds and they've been pushed from both sides. That's crazy!
But they've both been dropped.
Three on three. It is still the CTs with the map control though.
X-Flight heading towards the A bomb site. He's got plenty of U-Tilt.
No one's close enough to connect us to hear this rotation. It's us but a side of B, playing
near the tunnel. Next cloud to be able to rotate over and run distraction. Then there
was one Kasterato, deleted by Heroic as well. Two standing at the end of that one, but
again they've got plenty of money and the rounds keep rolling in for Heroic.
the time out coming through here for Furion out.
Ooh, that was almost a backfire there for Nylo on his team
because that situation, I think you're expected
to get at least two, because you can kind of set one up
and then insta-flick to the next player with advantage.
But it's still worked out.
And what's really, I mean,
what's amazing about that push from Nylo as well
is that Furion will just still kind of
beginning to execute the next stage of their default,
going for the bathroom's control
after securing the connection control.
So it's just to catch them here
before they've gotten to really execute their rounds.
It prevents Fiora from doing the thing
that we heard Fallen talking about,
the content pieces that we've, you know,
recognized that they do very well,
which is controlling the information
and see-soring the CTs,
making it seem kind of impossible to know
if it's A or B or not.
And that's what's Fiora were trying to set up,
but they got caught before they could conclude
their setup.
pistols again aside from the pistol round I'm not sure if we've seen a bomb
Plants from Furia.
No flashes left.
Put a few smokes in the molly.
Yeah, unusual circumstances for Furia.
You just wonder, how far can this go for Heroic?
Really serving a taste of their own medicine to Furia in this second map.
Also, it's interesting for Furia to be tested like this.
See if they can keep level heads and claw back again.
Let's not forget, this is an elimination match.
Both these teams are 0-2.
Loser.
Sent straight to the bin.
25 seconds, all the fury are still standing,
closing the distance and they've still got smokes,
which may create some variance for Heroic.
Yeah, it's like in a little bit chaotic on the site.
TT's holding though.
Three very very weakened players,
prison on the back. It's in a great position to lock it in. And locks, it will be away
from the T's at least. Damn, Heroicaw, they're doing it back, they're doing it back to Furia.
Can Furia look like they look like on the previous map?
Yeah, this is great stuff. Everything being shut down. Access denied. This may slow the
map control for fury up in the upper area of overpass.
It's not much really going successfully for fury just yet.
Nobody with many kills or anything.
Round nine, one from eight.
He sees the thing to get cheeky.
The monster tunnel.
It's tough to repeat that when there are two CTs standing there.
A brazen play from Heroic.
The Fury just can't quite seem to get a clean opening.
star might be a victim to be had, but instead he will victimize Mordor. They're just getting
absolutely dismantled. They're all on the way to 16k. That's too much money.
This is a nothing half for Furious so far.
There's just not much to say like there isn't.
Again, they're not planting the bomb, which is an indicator as to how far they are getting.
Then they are not planned. They're just losing by elimination round off the round off the round off the round
It's crazy. Yeah, it really is you just can't find any openings in any of these rounds
I mean it's and
And in some of the rounds where you know, they're trying to play slower and maybe build into something that they'll get kind of just
Either they'll lose the the duel or they'll
Get disrupted in another way
So, I guess it's ending up from here I suppose, it's four rounds that are possible for Puria,
if they can find any kind of success.
Again, these sprays from around the boost position have been problematic.
Youngstar, he's feeling ready to go, he's going to fall back to Dice to site, give
a longer look in. Make sure they're not getting split on A just yet. But Furia have their setup
changed. They've got the water control, but the player there for pivots. And now they've
got front bath as well. So this is the point where Furia can try to work the info game
and try to create an opening.
What's the butyl also?
Heroic's still keeping 3 towards B though.
No one but butyl on Heroic again.
Not going to nervously dump it.
Oh, spotted one.
X-Floud.
Oh, he turned away for the flash to come through, but Fornir is just sending it in
there.
He's such a useful tool for the squad.
The risk taker to get the information, allowed the rest of the team to clean up, and on
this occasion has offered huge advantage. Finally, an opportunity for Furia, a chance
that's around, well, around more or less.
Yeah, so well done. I mean, it's exactly what we're talking about. You know, they
managed to get water control, they leave a player there, they go show themselves from
Bath, which creates urgency. You know, they force young stuff to bank. And then, you
they throw the smoke away. So at that point you really can't know if you're the CTs, what's going on
unless you take water control. And what happens, the B-CT players try to get the info on Short B.
And that leads to the first opening pick, a superior that Fallen turns into a triple kill
entry so that's that that's that's a classic theory around on every boss
Every round counts now for Furia.
Now, I can see Heroic will do with a try to fight for connector control or water control
more severely to kind of get into Furia's face a bit more.
just prevent that scenario from that end state where Fury can kind of just like force you
to gamble on the site.
I'm going to start.
On CTO the past.
Oh, he's seen so much Yuri, but they've all moved out of position.
You know there's plenty there, it might not be a surprise.
Oh, he's run straight into the biggest H.E.N.N.I.D.O.
Nilo, either way, he's a goner.
Utterly ruined by Furia.
That leaves Krizzan in a 1 versus 4.
That looks chaotic and brutal.
There weren't many Furia players on the bomb site, but still.
Down to 16.
Well, at the way, an Yuri unable to stop that last man.
He's got the bomb now.
40 seconds. Can he find another one V1?
Needs to keep them isolated. Isolated they are coming from either side.
There's one more.
Molly for con. This is crazy.
Surely his rotation is heard by Fallen.
Oh, the bomb was in connector.
He has just rotated to a much better position.
10 seconds to get that bomb planted.
Can't believe he's won that.
That's an utterly ridiculous round.
And I think the comms will be quiet for Furia.
How did you...
I don't even have any words for that.
That's bananas.
That 1v4 clutch.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
A 1v4.
That's insane.
Prison.
This seems so guaranteed.
I mean, the bomb was available the entire time, but they were waiting for the peaks.
Oh my God.
There's two players dying water.
That was everything.
Now, oh my God, paddock sets in two rounds for Furia.
Can they make it a third one here as we close out this first half?
What a half of heretic as well.
That's when you thought they had CTE from that first game.
They have come out of the corner, swinging.
All the haymakers landing.
Being overpassed.
One versus four, unbelievable.
How does that round get away from them?
Okay, so we're also looking for a trigger discipline, but Griton's snap is oh so quick.
And then there were three.
Kindar dropped. Running out of players to go and rotate that bomb leaves Yuri on an island.
40 seconds, sus playing retake on the B bomb site. So they're essentially walking into
the stack on A. Yuri being tagged, I think they might have heard it. Down he goes. Molotoy
with your one v four not enough seconds to really clear the clutch here. Oh, my words.
I mean, oh, my God, that's not a thing you need to know about that half for Furia. That
It's utter dominance from heroic. I can't believe what I'm seeing
I
Oh
Furia need to find their way back in this series.
They got to get the map out.
They got to find a cartographer.
How can they navigate through this 10-2 deficit
that Heroic have put against them on overpass?
This is an insane situation.
But, I mean, we got to wake up here on an EPL
so that Furia can find something, Gips.
Yeah, let's see if they've got anything to offer us
on this particular overpass because that was anyway well no time to talk about it
because the heroic of charging into the B bombsite now can they abuse these numbers
fallen running out of bullets case for our tommorow doi will finish off the job rush B
they tried and if you're real one i don't know what more common there is for that round a quick one
Just ask one way to describe it.
Pretty simple.
Smashbox.
Like those.
I like a fast fun pistol round.
And we're going to have another one because there's a lot of pistols in this round.
Attack nines.
It looks like they're going to send it to the B site.
We just want to crush the barrier with the ruthless aggression and there you go.
Entry's hard.
This is a great, great take from Heroic.
He said, do it again.
Do it again!
And the bomb site has been cleared.
Bomb needs to be planted quickly.
Smoke for the balcony.
On the toy wondering where they are spotting the bomb carrier traded
Where is your kinder? He's at range with an mp7
Neelo maybe walking into the mouth of the beast here
Kindar in a hyper defensive position
Minutes on the clock Neelo has time to clear some options
should he choose to plant on his bomb sites?
Honestly, James, if there were a world when Ila would end up at A, that's like you came down with the most giga-brain playable time.
Like, he just, he just, he's just holding here forever.
You know, it's like, man, I've literally cleared 30% of the map around this site. Where is this guy?
Maybe some team comms there, because it looked like he was headed towards A for a moment,
but perhaps he was just clearing part of the B bomb site.
Again, good use of the time there, making the unknown known, disengaging from the bomb
site entirely.
The Kindard doesn't have a kit.
He doesn't have any health.
Does he have a chance of winning this round?
If Nilo is not showing on the site which he isn't, I mean, the only way he wins
is if there is a kit on the site and Nilo, I don't know, acts of God his computer
explodes or something and you can don't understand that as well. 11-4 heroic.
I think the play makes a lot of sense, you know, given the fact that in a
moment I walked out and found the two players ends up going down in the trade
and you can that doesn't have a kid he doesn't only health it's got MP7 like
these he's so so low percentage for him to win a fight by retaking into B so it
makes a lot of sense what you know he's chosen actions there
the shotgun orange of B side which is very successful from heroic and they
keep a couple mac tensors so the heroic can keep just running at positions and
It's going to make it very oppressive.
We only have three helmets.
So this Mach 10s will be particularly devastating against Cacerato and Fallen, who are helmetless.
Utility will play a big part in this round for Furia.
me to hold on to it for as long as they can but there's so much utile for
heroic again if you are pretty can be pretty good with the chain flashes but
we saw that was true of heroic as well
kinder he's got to go down the stairs surely can't take shortcuts here it
could spoil the whole party they're closing in now and again that crucial
you till all the smoke has been missed
there are worlds where that that smoke is deliberate say line up in monster for
your kinder they actually checked for him he's been spotted tough spot for the
cc's now
kinder hold on a second your kinder and molotoy are somehow doing this down to
the 1v1 27 seconds commit to the bomb plant on B we didn't see what happened
a bomb site but you have to wonder how it got so far. Your kindar threw through the monster tunnel
beyond the flames to his demise. And for your kindar not really getting good spots to work from
in these clutches and another one for heroic looks like they're destined to force us to a third map
at this point this in a lifeless game of overpass from the furious side.
The vitals are bringing alarm bells or maybe even flatlining really.
less of a bang and more of a wimpart
full fury on overpass
many were expecting a smash we kinda built it in such a fashion but heroic took a fence to personally
and so it begins
The long way back, Kindar, ready?
Oh, the great timing for off the flash!
That's a pop flash, you Kindar, just keeps on jiggling.
Oh
Spread no
No
Spiritually they spiritually out of this overpass here right now cuz heroic are about to boot them out
Just more do I left
It's not a ghost or furia, or even furia, it's just a ghost or furia, it's just an apparition
poltergeist pushing over mugs and doing not much else in this game of overpass.
I totally agree, it doesn't look like there's energy behind the place, you know, or at
least...
Yeah, just like not carrying at this point almost.
And there you go.
13-3 they're gonna have to care for the next map or they will be eliminated heroic on the way up
It's all done.
Fire!
Fire!
Don't break the barrier and you'll only turn into a brick.
It's all done.
Watch it all.
Now you need to do formula one neck training.
I think that's the only way to get more buckets on that head.
But all right, all right, all right, all right, spirit versus mouse grand final.
It's only a few days away.
Your final this formality could actually for anti grab is on for a second.
I was expecting it's broken my brain.
OK, it's interesting right now.
They're playing smoke blocks on either side, right?
Be main as well as a man.
They're highlighted by our lovely obstin rush the Ranger and MC.
You can see their zonty to the block.
You can see magic is gonna block B and that means a cluster of us peas were ready to fight in middle. Oh, dear
Is he observing?
This can't go well. Is no one
Supervising it Russia you were really allowing this to happen right now. Yeah, just yeah. Hey, nice. How about that?
I think it's a currently important job. I know don't mess this up. Can't be worse than rush. Surely
Whoo!
Rush ain't that bad?
They've sauntered across middles, silently, and it looks like they're gonna split hay.
Sure, thinking about peaking at mobs.
Does push them off the angle, though.
Space conceded.
Tempor molly, surely.
Smokey, we're not molly.
That's exactly what happens.
No other util to be named of.
Some pie is opening kill, trying to push out onto the site.
Traits back and forth.
us leave us with a player advantage 4g2 bomb to be planted shortly and two ct's
rotating in both through their spawn very challenging we take it boys you got
no you too you have got a donk though I would take that any day not every team
has one of those a dual burritos from magic's might not be able to really shine
in the type of gunfights he's gonna have to take however slowly creep it
on no kid in the hands of the two remaining players they have made
headway into the site. We need to find these gunfights fast.
Okay, they've played it so long. It's hopeless. Tapping away.
But he has to stick to defuse now. Doug, more than ready for some pious, cheeky angle.
Why was she here to get that pistol? That's the contingency, isn't it?
Bit of a statement though towards a main lovely shot at from Donk, but it will be a pistol
ran in the bag. If the trend continues, Spirit have been forced by every second round
regardless of what happened. So I'm expecting them to bring out the 5-7s at MP9s yet.
Well, were you guys watching Ancient? Yes. Yeah, fun stat line was G2 won both the pistols, won all the
conversion rounds, only won one actual gun round. And Spirit still ended up winning 13 and denying
double digits. Is that the Sampias clutch? Sampias clutch was the third round of the first half.
Yeah. That was a nice clutch from Sampias. Oh, it's a very nice clutch from Sampias. And he
Played well that entire series. Obviously just didn't get it over the finish line towards the end.
MVP, we love it. All right, well, they have forced Henry G. They're not using the virtual system in this one.
I've seen it a few times in tournament.
Floy made control early, so basket's Molly the main vision denied.
This is one of those massive rounds. You really do need to convert this if you're G2.
It's feeding out the map right now, waiting for any initial aggression presented with nothing.
Exploring options towards middle, but T'Nia, happy to give it to them, just taking his head around the corner.
Lurk smoked through his threatening, T'Nia's about to get bonked.
Unless a timing for you to be insane, but he's lost.
There he goes.
It almost was perfect if he just didn't make that noise, but now...
Forts of his teammates to try to defend.
Nade, buff, Shirro's being surrounded as well.
Oh!
Oh!
There it is!
Oh!
There absolutely is! Can't get the quad!
But he has set Spirit up to win this round, snatched it away in facts.
And it's Donka Magix once again in a 2-on-1 up against Cream Pius.
Put himself a couple of flashes, 76 HP in the bomb and is back.
Plenty of time to work with. He can definitely pull this one off. He is a clutch master.
Currently 4-0. Buckhead, take us away.
It's almost the exact same situation as last time. The same three players left.
So Pius still needs to drop down and plant this bomb. 30 seconds. Time to work with, but
Spear's starting to get curious. They're gonna push in through camera.
It's a big box of some guys.
It's a upside cake.
Magic.
Dude, that was an ridiculous sequence from Shiro.
Sure kind of made his name online, didn't he?
With Cloudbunders during the pandemic.
And Baby Gambit, what have they called it?
Baby Gambit.
Baby Gambit.
Baby Gambit.
Favorite Academy team.
Baby Gambit.
Baby Gambit.
They were quite good.
That is, I would say less than ideal.
How good?
5'7".
Yeah.
pound. That's kind of the game. I think so. No, just take it over from MP down. I agree.
Yeah, I'll coast on that. Henry. Hugo didn't agree initially, but then we talked him around.
He thought the Diggle maybe I think was what he was going for. Oh, oh, something else. I don't
want to throw a deal. We had a debate about it, but I think we all agreed to five seven was the
best guy. Okay, 500 bucks. Yeah. You can't argue with that parking. Okay. So much. Yeah,
couldn't believe that was that blitz. Yeah. What was he thinking? I got a lovely opening
We've got a run boost in there, but it's gonna have to be the force bite in response here the nightmare situation and convincing pistol
Mowed down to the five sevenths a execution looking very likely here boys
We have all five places out of that problem is you could Molotov cake and smoke camera. I suppose
But you can't really do much else you're hoping
Have you got and Mattis can carry you through this one Zontics is held on to his utero
I still got a smoke page here flash at this point
He is essentially just playing for info and then he can use that you to defensively
So this could work quite nicely because on ticks. There's the goes the smoke on a timing
Exactly right didn't drop it at the start of the round. He's held on to it now
He reposes position as well. You wouldn't all be expecting this one. So smoke camera
Molotov and guessing cake, but they're hoping to catch a timing flash comes
So I think she's gonna get to you every shot. Oh well done. Yeah, I'm not talking well with the flash
I think
Good spray down shiro combines two more and it's all clean from there too clean if you ask me
way too convincing perfectly played by Zontics and off angle you're just not
expecting especially when you're going through that smoke and that's the
opposite why the fact is poison just before they completely commit is
absolutely everything timing was a little off at the flashbang as well G2
sort of pushing out before I think that's the kind of the play though
they're trying to have a surprise pounce element right yeah that then they're
taking a gamble that a player isn't behind the smoke fountain or Zontics
position essentially right and then the scaling is meant to be you're in their
face so look at this from Malmes and Spawn Rush get this this is that's it
right it's not a boost here you can look at the quadruple boost let's see get the quad boost
there's nothing here sure
I mean one for on each run yeah if we start if we start building maybe 10 players
yeah get scurried get those guys from scouts nice to come join okay full eco
Everyone's favorite. That's for our audio only listeners. I didn't watch the first map
You said it was pretty convincing though
We've all these time I did one both pistols and go absolutely over the gun rounds. That was the yeah
I'm going to the whole thing G2 were able to do the pistols of conversion rounds, but then one
So we didn't have that slow star. We saw against Bates. It was like no
I'm struggling. I had like a 20 and four scoreline being thrown around for him. Donkwon. Absolutely nuclear
He's okay away again. Okay, I'm repeating what happened yesterday at all
The scary thing about this map is some in-game leaders play the position Donk plays right because it's so you too heavy
But donk just plays it like an absolute weapon right he plays a box
So to near be middle pure as you rotate on the orb you've obviously got zontics back to his old spot
So he's gets take over a and then magics has the
Anchory spot of B main
All right. Well, we've been on some rugs now on some heads
Oh, no
It just looks a little bit clumsy doesn't it? Alright into the blend up
It's on sixes. Okay, let's say locked in the best time to buy a millimetre
It's going to be another clean round here farming up that cash
Plenty of money to go around AK's on the deep ends here and yeah, this is where G2 need to lock in show
Is what they've got this is their opponents map pick already a map down
After winning the pistol it's been very convincing nothing but one-way traffic
So the AKs, I don't think we have Cream Pies all available.
I wonder, it looks like Sam approach right now.
So some pipes is going to go for the Insta deep EWOX smoke, then we'll likely get the
Molly in the hole.
There it is.
Matt is throwing it out now.
There's the Nade.
That stops the pushes.
But from there, this is where G2, alright, I think Heavy God's very good at taking
baskets control.
Oh, well, uh, maybe they've watched your demos.
He's caught that in his back pocket though.
He's got control of it at least that's it. Is that a large smoke from the tea side? Oh, yes, it is
Yeah, it's got a massive gap in it has not landed. No, I think it's a good idea to throw against Donk
So that he has to help magics on B. But yeah, if you're not throwing it correctly
It's if anything is giving the whole game up. You're not showing any seeds of doubt
But let's see what they've got going towards mid. Is this a beast? I think it's making off temple
Maybe I got a camera. Yeah, it's a camera smoke. Oh, wow
Wow.
Oh.
His aunt is going to be rendered useless, so we'll be able to march up through mid.
And it does seem to be an A-split once more.
That means I don't have to come through the smoke.
I think they try and take some space.
So look at the B-defense right now.
This is the key.
Trying to push through the temple.
Sniir.
Good spray!
The transfer!
Wow, dude.
Well, let me and now the last three teas. They're stuck in the box of
Absolute a lot less damage than we thought and actually dog goes down heavy hitter out of the round
For the favor of the teas 3v2 with the post plan of the look at the HP on all of them
Have you got only on 11 HP himself?
Everyone is low certainly possible here
Kid available for zon'tic to be joined by shiro as well only a couple of flashbacks between
Oh, is there any?
Yeah, he's re-used down to Zontics, and I don't think he's checking Jail, even if he does Mattis, confirms the rounds, and sure it is too far away.
No kits, trying to lock them in here.
I don't think he can just want to go for it.
No, I don't think he can just want to go for it.
None of this point.
That's a tough round to lose. Tania stops what was meant to be the exciting part of the round for G2, coming through Temple, behind.
Yeah, he's definitely considered the possibility and absolutely owned it, and then from there the 3B players just get run over.
It's a little bit disappointing for the V-Defense there spirit, but it's a 3-2 T-Side map ever so.
I have a tactical time-out by the bug on screen.
Yeah, Humpty's at the server right now.
Okay, so is it a false tag or a tag?
I think it's a bit of both. I think it's just a happy coincidence the time-out happened as the tag issue occurred.
Yeah, so Spirit called the time out, but at the same time Hunter also has to restart his PC.
Okay, hopefully it's the operation. Okay, I was going to take some time.
Well, mate, if you have to get out of your chair to restart your PC...
Like this time?
Nah. Or it's a supercomputer and it has its own room.
It's got one of these computers from my 30s and 70s.
Poor Hunter, man.
We'll get him up today with something new.
Well, if you're just joining us, last game of the evening.
Could be one of the games of the day he's back. He's already back that cat computers on
Green is bright, too. That's the windows login screen right there
Malps had a mouse play in the first map. I
Mean basically I shot out, you know a lot of the time
It was dying. Yeah, it wasn't even Malps is fault per se most of the time
He's getting sprayed through smokes getting sprayed through the wall
They were spamming perfectly towards bucket onto the B bomb site mobs died to that
four or five times I want to say it was just really unfortunate the times that
he was able to actually take a mid-fight he was there for that initial trade or
to get an opening but he only had that opportunity like twice that's one of the
problems right with that type of position on the T side if you're not
getting one of the two best spawns you're gonna have a really tough time
at least being able to go fast and I also think going up against Duncan
that's a bit of a mental battle to get past to the CT's don't have the
same level of concern obviously spawns are nice but double orbs seems to be the
remedy to spirits issues early shiro and magics equipping those will still try to
get hunter back in to get this one underway they brought up the double
orbs last night against beta from that mistaken
I think it's a good move on nervous
I think we were all expecting
an exciting game of overpass
from the Furia perspective. That
was not what we got is hoping
for a close game of inferno. Now
Roic winning the knife round.
They'll get to choose what
side they start on.
Based on what you've seen that.
What are your expectations
for this map?
Because every time I get blasted by reality, the reality of those last two games is not
really what I was going to expect, but, especially over parts, I think that was an anomaly, kind
of felt like that was an out-of-body experience for the Furia team, but it didn't look like
they were in their bodies James, so that's what I can do.
Have you seen the bad body snatch as well?
I haven't.
Oh, it's really good.
I think I saw the one that was a remake even though it was really old, but it was, I thought
it was a pretty good film.
So you should watch that.
Enough about body snatchers.
It did feel like maybe Furia were body snatched in that previous one.
Certainly by Heroic.
Let's see if they can fight back now.
Again, like, Faroe got smashed on the first game and then Furia were missing in the second.
Now let's see if both teams can offer something in this deciding map of Inferno.
Next Flour is very alone.
Nice bait, though.
They've exhausted the utility.
Have Furia.
Still have two flashes, two smokes.
I wanted to get this out of the way before they choose to make their place.
Still have Yuri towards top mid keeping the CTs honest.
How far does Cris and Goa wander?
Does he answer?
He's gone now.
X-Files is being attacked.
He's being attacked.
Okay, so Rato trades, gets his team onto the site.
What a guy.
That's the bomb down now.
He retakes it, let's see.
Not really.
It's got to be the USP headshots.
That's what's got to do it here for the Heroic side.
The Yuri's going to be coming in from...
Oh, hang on.
The double pull set up.
Still alive here.
Katerato is running, distracting a little bit for Yuri.
A hard kill to find at range, but it starts on 8 HP.
It's going to get nailed to the wall.
that's a clean, pretty clean V round from Furia. Quite straightforward I should say.
Yep. Baited the U2 out once it was gone. In you go. Very simple. Close towards the
end. Last CT didn't know which way to look. Took the wrong option. If you got that frag,
it may have been time. It would have been a close one. Not entirely short, but it
may have been time. Either way, that is in the past, we focus on the future.
Fourspy from the CT squad, mostly a Fourspy, X-flat is at the 400 in the bank, but there's
a lot of junk that Heroic have to throw at Furia, but the same could be also said for
Furia. And hey, let's not forget we have these recent changes to Inferno. The graveyard
is now off limits. So perhaps we will see more late post plant action on this map.
That's a banana presence has been felt.
not all too urgent or feeling that it's too urgent of a feeling though and they
will be floating X-Floud back towards a top mids being taken and no players left
on banana by Furia so we suggest we are going straight through our chip wrapping
into the site. Oh that's a fine though from X-Floud before they can come in
that might actually deter Furia from committing to this play onto a
Chris and Bruce and Junk from the season's born area, we have your kind are wondering but they are seeming to move into the stack and
the fury of fans will be in tears once again as after one round
But a deja vu on the previous map some early struggles for fury up
I think you're losing James. I think they're getting in the mess
Yeah, it feels like heroic of firing on all cylinders in this matchup at the moment.
And you question if there will be an answer for Furia.
Five-seven's going crazy in that round.
Carrugs seem to have more of a killer edge, more of a... they seem to be more energized.
I think that's that's definitely helping them here.
Sendier, he's gonna isolate this, uh,
composition and now starts into pit.
He's going to deliver a pretty good recovery here for his team.
Guess one is definitely more to be had though.
Still able to hold onto pit.
That's actually a really big win.
And DiBri is now taken back by X-Flight.
Although he's lost his teammate there on pit.
So, I won't have to fear Grey God anymore.
Doesn't matter.
Viria, everyone went right back and
will be showing a bit more life here on Inferno early on as we go back and forth.
Yeah, frustration for all.
Some important frags around the library position for the T side.
About the time X-Flight was able to trade it, he was the last man standing.
It was always going to be difficult from that point, and indeed it was.
Scrappy one, then.
Maybe the back and forth will continue.
It wasn't so for the previous two maps, if you will.
Let me find parity between these squads on this deciding map.
I think the forces will continue until a consecutive round is won by one of these teams.
Again, 0-2. It has been a horror story for both.
You could argue that the horror continues for both with how the first two maps have gone.
Both teams have suffered.
Again, if you're joining us late, it hasn't been great.
Being wrecked on each other's pick.
Now it's back to the wall.
So the 5-7s out again as well as some rifles for heroic offering some initial map control towards banana
Top mate a comes through a moment away
Looks pretty ready
It's a Nilo in that position to spring after contact made by young star. He's been dropped though
No, he's about to be isolated by the numbers Nilo
Yes, poor for some damage and the push comes on through a reheats from
the tee tee side of furia
And they're gonna take down sucks. They don't happen on the control. So
Broke are going to definitely feel like this is a committed place away. Oh
Youngstar could find some timing. Oh
I stuck falling back but all is well
Prison waiting over towards B. He's looking to wrap
On a smoke is gone
He has no idea. There's no one on long. I can see that. There's more consideration for
him at the moment and that may mark the end of this round. Remaining three surely want
to save and have another go. Not much left to pursue in this particular one. So Furia
move to three. The next round will continue to be dangerous.
Yeah, yeah, it's very interesting. They didn't if that so they
didn't sort of consider that possibility. But hey, I mean,
if you're a did get into a really good position there
winning top mid.
And as you said, there will be another go here for heroic
Do you want to see Inferno continue in the map pool, James?
I mean, it partly depends on if there's something else on offer and what that is.
Again, we saw the comments from Art earlier who said that he would like to see something new in the map pool,
which is a good shout.
We've seen we've seen new maps experimented with in casual modes, but then not make it to the actual map pool.
And when I did try to have a conversation with the devs about that many moons ago, they were a little coy.
Out their intentions with that map.
Was it canals or whatever?
Oh yeah.
Which just disappeared now.
So I don't know if it was meant to be like what the plan was with that, but it is hard to...
Hard but not impossible to introduce a new map, you know, every possible is a new map once upon a time.
start with a almost a hero rifle for heroic prison running destruction allowing the space
for X-Floud to make them hurt a little more.
Oh trigger discipline is so good from Yuri he sees the USP's like nah I know what this
is that is so so key that's experience that's a difference maker and no chance
now it feels like the remainder of heroic walking on through just getting
toyed with
getting all the bullets this needs one more bullet yeah that was that was
pretty, that was pretty crazy that you're not checking logs there. I get it though,
oftentimes if the first person doesn't check you kind of, you kind of assume as
the second player that everything's safe. But yeah, Furia is in a position where
they can kind of start to stabilize and continue this momentum. Because you know,
they haven't built too much money just yet. Now the CTs might be in a little
bit of trouble. And I've been enjoying the top mid takes from Furia that
There's often also looks pretty good
The fastest just not the map anymore as it wants to lose the fury I don't think
Very seven to one at the beginning of this game
Oh my word, those are the first two frags for Cris and I know.
Oh my disgusting! What in the world?
Those are all his, like, he came into this round with no frags
and he has just lit them up.
How many did he even see?
Oh my god.
I was just thinking, James, I literally was just thinking about that one
before Cris and I had on the first map.
And because I was thinking like, you know, this guy,
they've got some really dangerous players.
That's how they managed to spank Furia so badly and overpass since oh
My days
What do you say about that one
What the hell man, what does that like what do you do with that?
Do you go next I guess
Yeah, I mean there is money for Furia, so
So they'll be happy about that because like what is going on?
Where's the report button?
Oh, you can hear like they're just desperately trying to run away like, no, run away!
What the night?
It was mental.
You saw one of the four people?
One
I just don't even get it he's got good sound settings
Deeply copy copy those sound settings if you haven't solved your sound yet in CS2 copy his settings
Yeah, it's not about a child, that's not bad
Hey, well, I guess we just move on because we all just move on from that like it's just you know like it's normal
Don't know, exchange?
Oh my god, he's, there's karma James, that's karma, that's horrible.
You're a fucking prison.
Yeah, but he has got three HP though, so this, so this, he can still, he can still do damage.
He can still shoot through smoke shapes.
Yeah, he can.
into an asterisk on his own.
Listen to Lurly though.
It's the McClock Yuri keeping the CTs on S towards A while Fury will get busy on Banana.
I mean, typically at this timing Fury would have taken top mid so I think a hero could
really feeling to be play at this point.
Although, we are going to get the fake presence for showing us footsteps and now we're going
straight into the ace of the map.
They're hoping that there's two players on the A site, I mean that is exactly what they're
looking at having to attack into.
How good is the setup for this?
got one player in the apartments. Absolute key player.
Sus staying alive as long as he can. There are too many positions to fury on
this occasion and yet it's nothing to pursue at this point graveyard or not
you're like your odds are still really bad in this three on four, three HP cousin.
Just got to cut your losses.
We're in for a long game of Inferno here.
And to be fair, you know, if we look at this round and we think about how Fioria managed
to win it, it is reminiscent of what makes NT rounds good on overpass as well.
But it's just actually a little bit easier to on Inferno, I think.
Set yourself up on the T side because it's much harder for the CTs to to fight you. They're giving any release like you
Well, the bulk of your default in banana or top. So if you if you have really good utility for the most part
You should be able to force the CTs back
So it just feels like it should be a more consistent opener to play with information, which I think is where
That's one of the strengths absolutely for a furia
I'm out for a week
They say discuss the way forward
Bear in mind
How these two that prison rounds 4k on banana
Again, that's that's an odd round if you will outside of that they have one round
So things aren't looking good on this CT side if you again you look at
Replicable rounds there are I don't think we've seen any in this half
They won round two and then they won that one that 4k on banana
So, considering how many rounds are left, they need to find a way to do more.
In that sense it's kind of worse than it looks, unless they can change something before
it's too late.
So let's see if they're able to do that.
How has he dodged all of that?
What easy to do.
Well, Chris is looking for a transfer in the smoke once again, and they are going to aim
their AKs in all directions and make sure he is absolutely gone. X-flat not far behind.
Zipped up as well. Nilo quietly falling back. I'm not sure if help will get there in time
if it is on the way. Susp trying to understand what is happening towards top mid. They'll
expect that Furio will still have good control of the map elsewhere. They'll still have
options open. Asking questions of the B bomb sites after those two frags. Youngstar holding
Util for his teammate and moving into position in the smoke. He's just going to go for a
try swing here. Renave's coming through. Nilo trying to look away from these flashes,
but he can't escape your kinder. They are ready for that smoke push as well. Just
No good options left on the B bomb site for Heroic at that point.
Nice round from Furia.
Ready to fight on Banana, and Heroic really wanted to put their commitment on that part of the map too.
That's one way to try to disrupt the T side,
is get a couple of picks by just going super aggressive, get the T Banana smoke, push it.
It comes like this.
I thought one prison was in a smoke shame so it was all over for fear to be honest
But this guy in a smoke I could see it happening again as well
Why not at that point
But again
Troika one two rounds neither of which offer confidence for future round wins
to think it's maybe partly why that time is coming through. There are problems for them
to solve as quickly as they can. So far not so good. You kind of are so ready for that.
He's so ready. He was waiting for that play long before it happened. That's a scary prospect.
If you understand that on the heroic side, how do you get even into parity when you
I know that one step ahead, let alone one step beyond furia.
It seems to be a tall order right now.
Despite the successes from earlier on.
And that banana controls three.
So mixed up from heroic going more passive.
You can do retakes setups like we're seeing kind of here, kind of a.
It's pretty early timing so we hit that position but hey they're going to get a pick from that
because Heria is also moving quite slow at the start of this round.
Heria do not yet have top mid control so Herok know what's going on at the moment.
But Herok actually pre-emptively pulling a player towards our side because I think
it smokes.
Worried about maybe someone walking through the smoke.
20 seconds to go, and Spirit still hanging out at Banana.
Chris is the rotation man.
Positionally, MP9, no support flashes for the B players, going through the smoke in
mid.
Top mid to have, maybe you had to have a look at mids, he's gonna risk it, 27 seconds
and the flank, it will be then.
Youngster on the way as well,
but again, the push is coming in all too soon.
Nilo gets a very important trade.
Reposition's 16 seconds to get that bomb planted.
See if he can offer anything.
Yuri's stopping cruising on that flank,
and there's no one else coming from that direction.
Two on three for Furia.
Had the remainder come from CT.
He's got a flash, but I think there's application for him.
Mordoi, nice to hold on to this position.
Backsite, there's the first one.
Nose of Trains coming.
And Yuri holds it down as well.
Brilliant stuff.
2 versus 3 for Furia.
And this T-Side is really looking so much better
than Overpass.
I still don't know what we saw in Overpass.
Agreed.
I'm trying to forget.
But this is a really big clutch showing big strength now,
peeking into the cc's, scf2 often demands
not just holding your position
and it will be a struggle of around 4 heroic
the 5 7s, some smokes
an mp9, tasked with full util over towards A
with a pistol stack on B
Let's start with just the one frag.
Damn, it's getting called out.
Look at this creep, it's going so far up Archside now.
This is uh problematic.
Hello? Goodbye.
And that's a bomb site for free pretty much.
They've worked out what's going on, they've done the SWQ, they've done the puzzles, they've
figured out where the empty bomb site was.
Maybe they asked Claude.
What are you doing in this scenario?
The CTs. It's so dire for them right now.
Well, it's like peeking Blana with AWP, showing a bit too much flesh there, youngster.
Yeah, 8-2.
Furia enacting revenge for a dismal overpass and I can't see a way into
then a mild recovery in this half-war heroic. You never know though, we've we've
been surprised before in this series but it just looks very difficult. It's kind
back to normal for Furia, making life hellish for the opposition.
Yes, just kind of stuck on the CT side. It's definitely a map where unlike overpass, you
don't really get much in the way of options on the CT aggression. It's also similar to Dust2,
I suppose, but maybe even more limiting in some ways than Dust2. So it's hard to take the
initiative when you're on the receiving end. News like this. Looking to receive some aggression
on banana. There's fire absolutely everywhere. Have us some more. Furia, once again, they're
looking like they just want to scale over. What a shot there from all the way over the
top of the wall and he's dropped himself, Crizzan. Problem no longer. Falling with
entry. It's just going too well for a furia.
U2 usage is really, really solid for them. Timing of the flashes. When they decide to
peek, just so, so strong. Fallen goes in as the expendable person, but clears the bomb
site. The great power to have. His roles are really exciting. And I think, you know,
the guy in the flashpoint with his experience it's so so strong for his
squad to have that split decision-making the guy's story just fallen who often
delivers man what a doig just turned god mode on for that peak
oh no you are not holding on to that officer unlikely at least oh there we go
He will actually take down your kind of but there's more players coming there coming for him. He got so much money
Hunts begins
Oh, it's good flicker desperate
The op is gone and with it also the chances dwindle for an extra round at the end of the first half here for heroic
Like they're taking turns map by map to smash each other over the head of the ham
taking turns to smash. So, yeah, we have to do unlikely rounds for heroic. And that's
it right yeah one of them was you're a race yeah she's foreign this way yeah
so the chickens in the house if you ever go to Bermuda in many areas there's
as chickens walking around doing whatever the hell they want.
Here's the Fiji, through villages you'll be able to see bulls walking around, but yeah,
you can mute up chickens.
This'll brown chickens.
Back to Phenonomy Go for some pressure.
And the easel game's been great from Furia, I mean that's obviously to be expected, they
are a world class team.
And I mean that's very good from Heroic, yeah the reclear, that's gonna tell them exactly
what to do.
Get their asses back over to A.
20 seconds, Jules being lost by Furia, a desperate third round on the cards here
for Heroic.
Okay, Serato finds himself in a 1 vs 4.
There'll be something at the very end for Heroic, but it's less espresso, more depresso,
ultimately in most of that half.
Yeah.
pro league and well, this has been an interesting series. It's been just each sides taking turns
getting wrecked on their respective maps. But on the third map, it seems like it's fury
at the other ones doing the wrecking. But we're about to move into the second half and heroic
to see if they can save themselves because this is this is it. This is the final map.
If they lose this series, they are eliminated from the ESL pro league. So they got to
make it count. It's a good pistol.
You're having a sticky beak.
Second mid.
Good timing there.
On the peaks from heroic.
Looking to mount a comeback after a stifling half.
Okay, once that second half begins, it doesn't really matter the nature of the rounds you
won in the first round, because you won them, and win them, they did just a few, gives them
a lifeline going into the second, but it looks terminal in the pistol with those frags from
Fury up, trying to make their way through CT spawn, but the CTs had all the angles.
Yep, they definitely did.
They got some nice headshots in that round since there's no bomb down either for that
T side money, so that's gonna feel uncomfortable.
I mean, given how far behind they are, you almost want to force by every single round
to have a good chance at coming back in this one, especially to, you know, have
something to show of yourself before the CT economy can get started.
But yeah, without the bomb plant, maybe it's a hard call and they decide
to go for a full save.
So just blocks.
Molo do it.
He's hungry.
You don't have to do it.
Molo do it.
You don't have to do it.
Oh my god.
The Glock.
He's wounded.
You want to do the demping, I'll spray it up.
Okay, so Rasta is in trouble.
The, okay, Baiton switch might work out.
You're repositioning.
Help is on the way.
Press the emergency button.
ambulance came and ran over heroic. I do enjoy Fallon's role. The freedom he has to play
this role on the squad is really fun to watch. Just all the things, again, he just gets to
like use the big brain plays. It's lots of tiny things he's doing. It's quite unique.
I'm quite enjoying what I'm seeing. Even in that scenario there, just running around,
baiting jiggling drawing attention just like
But again, it's not so simple because you've got a lot of roles
If you look at say say nitro is he in the him play a lot recently
You know if someone's gonna take the crap weapon to take the crap weapon, right?
But fall it but fall there are many layers to
to peel
on
Fallen's onion and it all tastes great for furia
It's the onion's caramelised house.
Yeah, fallen is a caramelised onion for furia.
It's the jar of caramelised onion.
And the lid is nowhere to be seen.
It's overflowing.
I
Pick on to your kinder though. That's that's certainly a good start for heroic on this gun rounds
All I'm taking his onions
Then talk to me on my onions ever again
Well, it's like is this gonna be a bee hip
see how well this one turns out for them fallen he's looking good still mp9
long range no problem he's on the first plan
really important he got that last bullet on molodoy as the word ray turns
around this blasts you in the face curia have lost position on this bomb
site then here he's rescued in AWP but for whom
They'll be falling back, tail between legs, it's so important to keep three alive specifically
if you are on that save.
Yeah, totally.
Difference between your economy stalling or... wait, difference between your economy growing
versus not having the ability to actually buy.
Also, I guess, James, if you really just need two rounds, so they just need to have as many
gun rounds as possible, and that will increase the chance of those two rounds happening.
So maybe boring for them to not run into their deaths, but...
Yeah, I feel like it's exceedingly rare to not convert a lead such as this.
I was just thinking about your earlier question, what I like to see Inferno replaced.
Maybe with the right map, there's probably more counter-strike to enjoy where there's
less saving.
So I think that's probably where the pool would need to go with a minus inferno.
I just can't imagine inferno being missing for long, but I mean, we'll see if you get
the right map.
That gives a similar feel with different layouts.
Who knows?
is under control. Well, it's actually split half ways at this point. For equal full control,
they've got to get past the half wall, but wonderful gets any retakes here. Four has
full util on the B sites so but the problem is you can just kind of week
already so not looking interested in that oh my god Chris he just doesn't
carry just out there full swing spray down onto graveyard the coffins even and
they are certainly thinking about that B site they have to collect the bomb
though let's price and pressure seconds for fury but this is looking like a
good round for heroic yeah this is definitely the green lights into the
B bomb site. Their rotation is starting now. There is a lot of utility. The kid is waiting
for a hopeful default plant where the HE will land before he even gets there. I like it.
He's got a molly as well for the retake. But they need to time it with D-Smokes. There's
no utility left for the T side. The re-smoke here would be a death sentence for the CT
so that's not going to happen. Crisen forced into the light able to elevate his position
not expose himself. Not sure if they were expected to be up here. Yuri will deal with it regardless.
Two frags for him. Youngstar and Suspremain in a 2 vs 3 Molotov. Carefully moving up Banana,
but that bomb is ticking quickly and only Yuri's got the kit here. He needs to keep
aware of that. Youngstar on Banana doesn't need to do much else. A nice frag from Molotov,
He will not be able to get there in time
All the back of that's a prison opening just white swing spray down of the coffins
Catching
They've fallen off gut nose. Yes, it is
How many more times maybe that
How many more times?
I think at this range of series, we've had the opportunity to cast so far on the B-stream.
Yes it has been very different to all the other ones for sure.
Probably a peculiar experience for the the teams as well.
Sometimes we're gonna have an odd game, sometimes things are gonna go wrong.
Molotovoy with a Hero AWP, moving through the apartments.
JW vibes.
This will never, I will never not think of Fnatic.
When I see an AWP in a position like that.
Doing great things over at Highballers.
I'm going to go into this pipe.
Fallen's like, I'll have to go.
Just finished with the PG-50.
That is dangerous for Fallen.
Ooh.
Straight cancelling while moving backwards is one of the more difficult ways to find a frag.
articles, a base to find a frag, Nilo showing some skin, Volodoy not firing, what do they
make of that? Heading back towards the B-bomb site then, there is not much defense to be
offered here, big swing from Fallen to no avail, and now I think it's time to save
that orp once again. Off they go. I don't know how long around this will be though because
the hunters starting immediately. Yeah, their money's not amazing, though. They might keep
it relatively chill.
We're definitely coming back from a more workable position. In the previous two maps, they were...
well it was it's not just that but it's like a situation of oh your time to get
the big at the end of the first half you're kind of screwed so definitely
definitely lots of work with now
What do you want to see, James?
Maybe you can manifest it.
It will happen.
I'm not sure what I want to see.
I want to see more of a comeback from Heroic.
That's what I want to see, actually.
I want to see a close-score line.
I want to see both teams fighting for a W there.
Feel like Heroic is still in survival mode.
Keeping Furia off match point.
And Furia just waiting for that right round to win.
We've just seen like lopsided halves for pretty much this entire series.
Ever seen much of what's felt felt like a back and forth where it seems a wrestling for control.
Double peek won't be enough to drop Molodoy.
And things look difficult here in 4-Heroic.
This time they chose the right options, Furia. Open aggressive angles, delivering the goods
with the first two frags. Can still be turned around for a while, because unlikely as it
may seem, a second player heading over towards B though, or Furia will still leave A well
defended and they know Molotov is lurking somewhere. The bomb has been shown on banana.
Esurato moving into CT. They're going for the rappel to B.
Okay Esurato will deal with that. Now they need to decide where to go.
So, Nilo doesn't have time to hold rotation, so they've found a way into a 2v2, but of course, with time on the clock, the CTs have all the luxury of the angles, and there is no time to properly clear a path through the bomb sites.
That's fallen, waits for that bomb to get planted.
Oh, just about getting there, but not in time. Does Nilo have a chance? No.
I was a stubborn stubborn one
That's the really crucial round stop that momentum piling up for the heroic side
Let me go furia 12 to 6 now and making life very difficult indeed for the heroic team.
get chrisen in a smoke that's what I say
Caster out there thinking they're a quick little peak there trying to get some bullets down to t ramp but
But, doesn't have to do the backflip again.
Four players working on banana from heroic.
And, uh, yukindos on the other end of this.
Fallen, with support, you tilt over the top.
Flash, yukindos.
Playing the half wall here.
Fallen's cut off by the molotovs.
He can't help him.
This, uh, B bombsite is really under a lot of trouble
Fallen getting in front of the smoke here.
That might be devastation.
It is.
prison takes him out.
Well, that's a wrap.
We're safe again, James.
Think we are.
I wonder if you if you replace inferno with cash,
it would be popular with the community, which is crucial.
What would the retake scenario be like?
In cash his current iterations versus inferno. It'd be interesting to look at like
Historical data although, you know the game has changed very much
Yeah
Yeah, it really has chickens a lot
Since since the old cash days cash was always a map that was
Oh my god, this is disgusting.
If it was CSGO, then I think that maybe the pros, if you just put cash in as it was, maybe
the pros would be a little tired of it.
If you put cash in a long time ago.
However, with the new smoke mechanic and the CT incendiaries, if you will, for what
is worth. But I mean, really, we're talking about the smoke mechanic, you drop nades now
as well.
That provides a much newer dynamic to cash. Like if you're the ceases of smoking a main
and you you drop a HE, you know, it's a completely different approach to what you might have
had earlier. And that may bring much fresheness. Like you used to have the wall of smoke
in mid for the for the teaser to take it sometimes. But you know, it's just a completely
different Kettle of Fish with the Smokes and CS2. So I would hope that Valve take that into
consideration before doing anything crazy to the map. If it's going to be an overhaul that just
removes 100 FPS for everybody, I don't think anybody necessarily wants that. Change for the
sake of change might not be necessary. I think maybe like you could do, like Overpass has had a
lights, touch up if you will, but nothing crazy has happened to it. It hasn't been overloaded
with detail like Inferno was when it first came out, but I would imagine they've learned from
that because it's not a single-play game. We're not playing Shenmue out here, we're not trying
to pick up floppy disks and DVDs. But if they had ideas for changes, they could keep them
and implement them in the future should it be required. Do a light touch up, remove those
bloody flaming barrels and just see what happens. I mean yeah it's not a new map that many players
will want but you do need to have maps that the casual players want to play otherwise your game dies.
That's why Mirage is never getting removed anytime soon.
Yeah well I think I think cash as well is interesting always because it was kind of a
a similar map to the cache. Sorry, it's a mirage in some senses, like, you know, just
a client like it also does to in some senses as well. This is an accessible map map. Yeah,
it is like you got you got a mid and you got the two sites and the way they're connected
from the mid is pretty straightforward. But it's different enough to mirage and dust
to that it feels it does still have its own novelty. And, you know, the holds
on the on the respective sites that the closed site in the open site are both I think like they were
really fun and I don't know any other sites that we have that are similar that are in the map pool
to the cache sites I can that I can think of at least a piece of fair you can do a fair bit on
your own which is helpful um yeah like on a on a casual level you can you can solo take
mid. You can solo take map control towards like vent area. You can be a nuisance on A-led.
There's a lot of different things you can do which gives the casual player a sense of freedom,
which is important. You can also lurk and just be unhelpful to your team if you want to
and stand behind squeaky, wasting everybody's lives before you play. You know, there's
something for everyone. No salt. But yeah, there's a lot of stuff that's fundamentally
needed for the filthy casuals.
I remember a map. I remember the worst game of cash
overcasts. And was that in Asia?
Yes. Oh, yes. It was a it was a regional qualifier for a major.
Yeah, it was a I swear it was a Chinese team. Right. And
cool Olympa.
Yeah, and no one like we were in multiple over times and neither team would go mid on the T side
Yeah, so they would never they would never split a bomb sites and
I was losing my mind. I'm just like
Guys just go try to split site. Who knows what might happen. But yeah, we're like 30 rounds in and no one had gone mid it was
crazy
It was so bad and it was also really tough because we had just
we just traveled there so like to get to Kuala Lumpur you know you just fly
into into Singapore and then you get on some transportation like and you know go
out over from Singapore over the bridge because it's like a city-state and then
you go over this bridge and you get to Malaysia and you know straight into
Kuala Lumpur so it's like it's like a very long travel day and then I think
we had basically like we did that in the next day basically and we had
like a 14-plus hour broadcast day or something.
Yeah. I had to stand up because I would have fallen asleep.
Even if I was talking the whole time,
I would have just passed out from jet lag.
And I almost fell asleep standing up and just fell over.
It was crazy.
It was crazy.
I think that was some of the most challenging stuff I've done.
I probably have a better grasp on how to deal with jet lag now,
going in that direction.
But, yeah, it does help to go a little earlier, but, yeah, it's a complicated issue to solve, but then when you're commenting...
What's going on? And you cannot stop him!
This dog is designed for violence!
Smiley face.
Beans.
Smiley face.
Ha, ha, ha!
It's creamy!
Hey, did somebody call me?
No.
Now let me guess, your mates betrayed you
and literally nobody has faith in you anymore.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
Yeah, what?
What the hell?
It comes from your bachelors.
But you can?
Yeah, he's very bendy.
Do you want to see?
No, I'm just here.
Oh my god, man, I'm...
What the hell is this?
We were waiting for a camera to be charged and be operational again and hey ho it is charged
and operational again so we continue.
Let's go.
Pistols for Furia.
They are at match point now.
But these rounds are proving difficult for them.
Heroic are mounting a comeback.
I only need to be right once to fury up.
But that might prove it will difficult in the short term.
And that's all that heroic needs to focus on for now.
Yeah, up and on we go.
And so fury, they're not challenging this at all.
I'm hoping that her is walking.
I'm so walking into the pistols.
They realize that money was quite so wrecked.
During that break that we had just now.
Presents opportunity five rounds in a row.
OK, OK, collected.
Yuri's found a present.
There are flashes for the CTs, I mean, the flashes are smoked off, they make it go over
the top.
They were stuck in CT, and there's the AK once again, the USP, not like this, surely!
Yuri's still standing, there's 20 seconds!
What are the options with the bomb?
That is such a key frag, the Julees no less.
Well, with a Desert Eagle, one versus two, is he going to peak this angle because he's
going to be on a timing.
Oh, dear.
So close than yet so far.
It made it hurt at least.
It made it hurts.
That's what you've got to do really around like that.
make it painful and if I could rock pink headphones then I know if it's really my look.
Yeah my dry robe is pink. I've got a massive dry robe, I wear it for shotgun competitions
And the inside is the brightest pink wall you could possibly have.
Nice.
Yeah, I own pink, no problem.
I've got a custom skin for my McLaren, the sim racing, and Hello Kitty colors, but anyway.
heroic can opening the a bomb sites and
Furia will have to scramble we've seen many around in this half where they've they've gone down to three out of position and had to save
There are reinforcements on the way now as KSR also goes through the smoke towards the a bomb sites and fallen might do the same
Suspense been holding an off angle towards long. This is allowed them to come through
Kindar alone towards be offering a smoke
They've been expecting so many defences here now.
Kaisa, Rasu and Yuri putting in work, following Yukindar remain both on long.
Two on two.
Heroic need to survive.
No more Etox, that's an incendiary from Yukindar.
Where will you throw that one?
It could be in Pothix, we've gone out.
Wait for the Peaks, that next round just delivers F to both of them.
They're shooting that for him, that's a very important round to pick up and...
Yeah, I think you're right as well.
There's like a world of that period also just decided to save too.
So now it's a more of a tricky scenario because suddenly this game is looking like it's...
I mean, three rounds?
That's not too many.
We're kind of getting there, especially given that this is just five sevens
But sometimes the way it works out is it that it's this round that the CT side would win. So
See what they can marshal
Yeah, we still have to look at this as a strong positive though
Like it's not a given that they win these rounds, but the odds are obviously far greater than versus a full buy
There's so much value
In wrecking fury in a buy arounds and taking all those guns away. It should make it a lot easier
There's not much utility left for furia at this point unsurprisingly
So it is starting to get somewhat competitive and again it has been survival mode for heroic
But they're getting close to it being something greater than that
Already caught a bit of damage from three players to you
That does make a difference in these rounds
Oh, young star. Are we with the first shot? He gets dropped.
Okay, now they're spotted on the flank and suddenly 4 vs 3.
The bomb is rapidly picked up, but if they run into the B site, there might still be problems because Yikindar's here with the 5-7.
There they go through the smoke. They know the CTs are desperately rotating.
Yikindar just staying alive for the time being.
Oh, there's no one checking! He's got a second one!
There's only two of them left. There's only two of them left. Are there rifles to collect?
Maybe not with the rotation coming in from the CTs, but you really can go white. Oh, Molotov
has found an AK. He's got a smoke grenade as well. This could be it. Susp versus three. Heroics
fighting to stay alive. They're all coming from the same direction. Can he isolate the
fights here? The slightest jiggle. He wants the 1v1s. He's trying to buy time, but the
The wide swim from K-Toroto will be the last frag of the series.
Furia survived a very difficult, lacking series for both teams, arguably.
And you've got to feel for Heroic after such a close affair.
Trying to come back again and again.
It just wasn't enough and off to the airport.
I said you've got to feel for them, but I guess production's not here for them.
It's getting in the home.
Yeah.
Man, I mean, I think this is one of those series where Furia will just forget and be like,
alright, you know, this was not the best day.
Sometimes we will have a day that won't be the best, and this was it.
So on to tomorrow.
Fighting for their lives in ESL Pro League at present, they will live to fight another day today.
day today, but that was. A
series that felt like there
wasn't enough sleep for
everybody. You know, it was just
like a bizarro land, the
backwards lands, you know,
winning each other's picks and
one one sided affairs. I let
come back there from heroic
just unable to close. It was
just, I don't know. It was,
um, I would say not the match
we expected regardless of who
one was just peculiar then we see furia rise to a strength that we have seen even in defeat
on in previous matches but then again difficulty just finishing it off at the end as heroic fight
back on the T side only to come up short but again furia had enough chances they only needed one
and it was the weird one when they're running around with the pistols and so on
I don't know I mean I don't know if you have any other thoughts on that Dan but it was
was a peculiar series, if you will. Yeah, it was looking at the stats again. Yeah, it
was it was a peculiar series. I definitely felt pretty awkward. I think for both teams
at various points, like so awkward on on over past a theory, it looks very frustrating
for them. And they kind of like, it's kind of like reigned it in at a certain point.
Like, yeah, not winning this math, but they knew they were good enough for inferno.
Well, we've got a schedule for tomorrow.
Foot vs. Bates, Navi vs. Legacy, Furia vs. Pain,
a South American standoff to close out the evening on the B stream.
And then we've got plenty of action on the A stream as well.
So it's going to be an explosive day nine on both streams.
A lot of action coming your way.
It has been a slobber-knocker of a day, Dan.
loss of action today, not as many two ones as we've seen in other days. And I think everybody,
well, maybe everyone for Fury will be straight to bed. Make sure they're well rested for the
carnage to come because there is more work for them to do. My words, indeed it is going to be
heroic off to the airport. So any final thoughts before we disappear for the day then?
I'm curious what team you're looking forward to seeing the most tomorrow because we've got
a few on the B stream. I think for me it's pain. I'm actually pretty excited about pain
right now. Yeah, I think they are a team. I mean, there's more than one team who have
who have been on the rise and have been going beyond like pushing through the glass ceilings.
And I think pain have been doing that relatively consistency, which is consistently,
which is great to see and the journey of discovery to see what their
peak on any given day can be is a great experience to get something great to behold.
So yeah, I would agree with you. I'm looking definitely looking forward to seeing
what pain can offer tomorrow. They're going to have their work cut out for them. That much is for
sure. And I think many teams will as well as quite a few of them have their backs to the wall now,
fighting for survival once again. So we're going to close the day out. We'll be back tomorrow
with more action on the B stream. Don't forget to send in your questions to the mailbag.
I think that's one we didn't get through to today. So we'll pick it up for tomorrow.
So make sure you stay tuned. Thank you for tuning in and we'll see you for more Counter Strike
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