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All right, we're going to go talk to a strawless now.
Let's see.
All right, we've got a strawless here.
We'll talk to you early in the morning.
I love the jacket, by the way.
You look sick.
This is a cool outfit.
Is this like a special major jersey you got under there as well?
Yeah, we hide that for now.
Oh, you hide that?
We're hiding it.
Keep it hidden.
Okay, well, I've come into the Major not just looking stylish.
You guys obviously come in, hopefully, with some great expectations of yourself here in
Stage 2.
I mean, earlier in this season, Stravus was just on the rise and rise, right?
Like you guys are looking great.
But maybe towards the Major, things started to slow down a little bit for you.
So how are you, what's the general vibe of the team coming into the Major?
I mean, I think it's fine.
Like we had a bootcamp the last week, so it went pretty well.
I think we got through pretty well and pretty much that.
Last few events we didn't make playoffs on Atlanta, so that's alright.
But hoping to get it back, get something good back here.
Well, that's a first for you.
Coming into this season, a big organization, getting to play tier one events over and over again.
We've seen some great performances from you and maybe some quieter ones.
So as an individual player, what do you feel like your improvement has been most from the start of the season to now?
What has been your biggest improvement?
I feel it's a little bit a little bit, but it's still the main thing about consistency.
Like I can kill three, I can kill five, so it's all about bringing that flower up, you know?
And yeah, I mean, I think I have good people behind me, you know, like Hooksy and Ruga.
So they always helped me out with the stuff, and I can always be really open minded with them.
So I think I'm just allowing, I guess, from tier 3, tier 2 to tier 1 in terms of step-by-step things.
So I wouldn't say there's something very specific.
And how important is it that you guys, you have that support network of experienced players,
like being understanding, you know, it's your first season.
So because I think there's some players that we've seen in the past who have gone into a team,
and maybe they, you know, understandably haven't had a perfect season because no one can expect that really apart from the likes of
Donk and these like phenom players. So how important has it been having the likes of Hoaxi and Rugga, you know, in terms of making you feel
comfortable? Like if you have a bad game, I'm sure you get in your own head. But how do they bring you out of it?
I mean, I think that I mean, I don't, you know, I think they they're pretty nice. I don't know. They always like if I have a
questions are like we do review or like I can always talk to them like I feel
like this is better like this I don't like or what can I do you know so I
think they always I give good feedback so that's the thing and I mean the thing
yeah I mean obviously like you cannot I don't know you cannot expect insane
numbers from a first season but at the same time you know you want some you
want some nicer maybe results some more consistency so also I cannot neglect
that could be going better, right?
Yeah. Well, I mean, it's been going pretty well.
So in terms of we'll lower the pressure on the questions,
because I think that's class series starts in the morning.
But so like, let's get to know Riu as a player, you know, as a person.
We know you as a player.
But you know, what do you like to do in your free time?
I'll see if there's anything like what's your main hobby?
Outside of CS, honestly, not too much.
Like I see the anime mouse pad.
So that one, that one's been there for a while.
But no, actually, I don't want like maybe I watched something on Netflix or like something from now and now, but like, I don't know I like to
Yeah, if I free time I just watch a show or something or like an amazing say or I just want some more time on sets
Yeah, it's not like I do something. I don't go fishing or something. You know in the weekend
So yeah, I mean you're in that early stage degree. You gotta really grind and I mean that's where that's where the hard work is done
But I'll let you get on the rest of me. You tell a go chat with the rest of you team now as well
something you really move over to the pick and board because they secretly put
in teams over here so I'm gonna get a close-up Sean see what we're putting
these teams all right foesie here we go the pickings are in I mean I was gonna
ask you guys like where should we put a straw list in the pick him so you said
three zero definitely okay okay I think for multi-zero three yeah haven't really
fixed it would you like to redo it shall we shall we redo it let's redo it okay
Okay, okay, let's take them over here then.
LimbVision 3-0.
So some of the games are obviously still ongoing.
So we'll need to predict who we think
are gonna move through from these matches.
But coming into today's games,
I guess we gotta predict those first.
So, right, we got these matches right here.
Who have we got winning Liquid FlyQuest?
I think it's a tough one.
I think Liquid hasn't been looking the greatest, you know, but I still think maybe they should
win that one.
Okay, we'll take Liquid out of the fly question and put him back.
Alright, so keep Liquid and then Tailu, then Vision, that battle of the Chinese teams.
That's a good game.
I think Tailu, they've been beating them kind of lately in the head to head, but I still
think then Vision, they're usually performing better at the majors and I'm going with them
there.
I go to Limvision then and then Big Energy.
Yeah, I have some former teammates in both teams,
but for my pick-ins, for the sake of my pick-ins,
I'm gonna have to take Big.
Okay, okay.
The personal pick-ins is better
than the personal relationships, I like that.
Okay, so this is what we got then.
We got Limvision Big coming out there with Liquid.
Okay, so we'll just pick it through then.
You give us your pick-ins.
So obviously we can start with us.
safe and sound, three zero, the easy boom.
Then I think the other contender is,
today the spirit, foot, G2, maybe legacy.
Okay.
Bedroom actually playing good also,
but I think I'm gonna take spirit there.
And then for these three, let's put them down here.
And then I think, let's see.
The vision I think they'll make it to stage three and then it might be hard for them
here
Then liquid if they do manage to win worse like list I think stage two it might be a bit too difficult
When vision to get through in liquid zero three, it's interesting. It's an interesting one for sure
You gotta believe to achieve
That's a wise word that boom even though they're
not playing with the full roster I think they've been looking very good honestly
maybe even better with Flymas is kind of crazy how Flymas is big maybe and then
another 0-3 I think it's got to be maybe either big or 9C but I think I'm gonna
put 9C there to be honest also then I think they didn't play now Fred
Stage 1? No. They did well on Astana, that's not enough for you to believe they can get a win.
I didn't really watch Astana, so that's something I'm concerned about, you know.
Then let's put BigHit 1-3, and also...
Let's see, it's 3 each here, right?
Let's put Manta and...
...Megadie 2.
And then...
...Game Illusion to go through...
...MIBR.
There we go, there's the beautiful shot of Fuzzi's pick-hams.
Honestly, it looks pretty good.
I think that seems logically sound.
Yeah, the Lim Visions is a wild one, but maybe they'll just crazy overperform.
But yeah, you guys definitely feel like you could absolutely be a 3-0 team coming into this event,
especially what we've seen from you guys to kick off the year.
Your individual form, I remember Pro League was just out of this world.
So, you feel like you liked us two a little bit more now, like after the monotons you
guys have played this season, you like it more?
Yeah, I mean I've never liked it that much, but I seem to be doing pretty good at it now,
so it's alright.
So why do you think that is?
Why do you think you've become more comfortable?
Is it just the reps or is it something that's changed for you individually?
I think just playing in a team where more people kind of play it.
All my past teams, it's been like one of our worst maps, not only for me but for the
team so I think just having some more people around me that are more comfortable in the map helps.
Yeah and coming into a major with Astralis probably a very different vibe for you because
I think the times you have been with like teams that are just like expect underdogs and get a win
here but now there's actually some expectations on your shoulders is that a very different vibe
coming into the tournament? It's different for sure like with Wildcard I think we were just
just happen to be there, you know?
So yeah, it's different, but no pressure yet, I think.
Stays true, it's, stays true.
Maybe when we get to stage three or pay us,
you'll feel some pressure, but.
I like when you say when.
That's good.
I like that.
I like that.
Just choice of words, but I'll have to often talk to one
of your other teammates while they're getting some photos done.
But you get to choose.
Who am I going to go ball there this morning?
Oh, you should talk to Jaby if you haven't already.
OK, I'll go talk to Jaby then.
Let's go ahead out there.
Thank you very much, Ruzi.
All right, I was wrong the way still talk to yabbi, but we've got a couple of players are in the middle here
So might as well. It's chance of them
You want to hook see I heard oh, yeah, the banana that's kind of the best moment of bananas coming out of the mouth
What's up? I was told that I have to ask you about a skit that you filmed this morning. What do you think it's appropriate? I
Have no words for this thank you when you see it you understand. Okay. Yeah
Yeah, I don't know like I don't want to spoil anything but
Yeah, I think Frank has done himself 30 in a way.
Oh, really?
OK.
Do you think it's major vibes?
Do you think it's like cologne major vibe?
I hope that no one associates this with a major alcohol
on because it would be a shame to the legacy.
OK, I'm so intrigued as to what this is going to be.
So I walked up to Rio this morning.
He was like, I'm going to keep this Jersey a secret
and then zip his jacket back up.
Now we're just walking around with them, but now we reveal it. It looks sick.
You're a big fan of it?
I mean, I think it's alright. The only thing is I'm going to get a bit of PTSD from G2,
but we also changed to like a red and black shirt right for the major and it went like shit for the major song.
But I mean, yeah, I don't know, like the pants are very baggy.
It's more for the young guns.
The zoom refit.
I mean, it looks cool. It kind of is giving me G2 vibes though.
get that one pretty well for you and Cologne so I mean yeah but we changed it for the Paris Major
which if you remember that one didn't go so well no that didn't go well not not very well at all but
um yeah they were watching apparently whoever they are um but you know coming into this event um
you obviously have won it before so like coming into Cologne what's the what's the feelings you
know are you in the city again you see in all the the scene the cathedral um what's the sort of
thoughts that come in you had 50-50 win rates not bad yeah pretty good 50-50 chance in the major
But it seems like you guys are all in good spirits, talking to Fuzis, confident, coming
into this tournament.
So, obviously, the season was really strong for you at the start.
I felt like it was just a straight-up, upwards trajectory, then a couple of, like, hits that
would sail on the road.
But as the leader of the team, what's your general consensus of this season?
Are you happy?
I mean, I think we should all and all be happy with it.
I think we fell into the same trap that some other teams did where you start with really
low expectations, then you get a result that you maybe didn't expect to get and then suddenly
that's the standard for you, right? Which obviously is maybe a bit crazy to think like that, but
it's hard not to when you all of a sudden are in a final or something and then you just expect to
make playoffs every time or to make deep runs and then you kind of, you know, get slapped back to
reality in a way. So, I mean, of all I think it's decent, but I think this tournament also decides
a lot whether we will be happy or not. One of the things I really enjoyed about you in particular
this season is like anytime we get like a listen in or to listen to the calms it feels like you're
just no bullshit you know it's just like straight up like if it isn't good enough you're calling
that out and uh i really enjoyed this clip so is that your mentality and it seems like there's no
sugar coming like we're here to perform like i'm gonna try and just exert that in any way that i
can't yeah i mean i definitely think that i don't put uh you know anything lightly but at the same
time i think there's some propaganda against me uh from the teos about showing like how better
of a guy I am. I'm also cheering for guys sometimes you know but it's like that never really gets shown
but yeah like when I have to be harsh I'm harsh and sometimes it's maybe a bit much for some people
but you know we're in a competitive environment and I think that anyone who's tried that understands
that the waves go higher sometimes and yeah I think it's also important to be straight up
to get things fixed and to you know improve. Yeah and so Drew this morning who sent you and
and Roger a great help for him, coming in as a rookie to this level, looking at our strike.
You know, as an in-game leader, I'm just wondering, like, your thought process,
you've played with a lot of younger players, and so when you're looking at a player like Ryu,
who, you know, has been good and then has been over quiet at times, up and down,
you know, what is your approach to helping a player like that?
I mean, I've tried a lot of thoughts and thoughts myself, so I know that it can
change from time to time, and sometimes you're maybe trying too hard. I think that's one of
of the things I've learned that, you know, you can you can end up over thinking or over
playing even. And I think that's something he has to learn. But, you know, you can only
say so much. And in the end, there's a lot of learning by doing and you have to go through
the mistakes and through the emotions. Also, we had some problems with, you know, people
being nervous and stuff and hesitating. And, you know, we can talk about it from now on
and on to Christmas, but in the end, you kind of have to try it to actually learn from it.
So yeah. All right. Well, thanks very much. I'll let you go get on with the rest of your
immediate day. Hook see, I'm not catching a little bit. And I'm sure the jersey is just
going to be good luck. So you're going to fall in love with the black and red.
Hopefully. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Pain is in the building and everyone is having good time.
Everyone is laughing. Obviously, everyone can join us for the pickings that we're about to do,
because snow is just can't wait to get into it, right? Welcome. Welcome to I am Cologne,
first of all. Okay, thank you. Thank you guys. Hello, it's Nuzin here. Let's do the pickings.
I will say my my opinion. Okay, I just say my opinion. I feel like I'm talking to a rapper. Okay,
let's get into this. I will first of all, we are shooting this, I will make a disclaimer for our
guys that we are still shooting this when the last day of stage one is not over. So we don't know
the results of these six teams. This is the head to head matchups. But we have a lot of teams that
that are already through.
So let's start with, let's start with, for example,
three, zero, what do you expect?
I will just move this here because they're just bugging me
out once again, so just move this, move this.
And now it's time for pain to choose some three, zero advance.
And by the way, feel free to chime in and correct him.
I'll help you too.
Alright, let's talk about... First, let's ignore this. Let's talk about who will advance from these teams in your opinion.
And also, you can pick some of the teams from the matchups we don't know yet, if you feel like someone is going to for sure advance.
Of course, G2.
Yeah, FUT.
A lot of rookies on that team, don't you think it's pretty dangerous to put them here?
Yeah, maybe dangerous, but they play a really good counter strike.
We played against them in Atlanta and it was a very hard game, bro, and they play really
good CS and I think they will go to the stage 3.
Legacy, of course.
Our Brazilian brothers?
Yeah, of course.
We have to support our Brazilian friends, bro.
Let's put 9Z.
Okay, 9Z.
They don't have the hottest form lately, but you still believe that they're going to be
making it through?
Yeah, of course.
I think they were playing some good counter-strike.
Maybe I was watching Astana, sorry,
and they played really good against good teams,
and I think they will make it to the stage three.
They beat Falcons, right?
Yeah.
Okay, so we have only two spots left for 3-1, 3-2,
and Bear in mind, I still remind you,
those are the matchups that we still didn't see Pan out, so.
I have to...
Getting harder.
Yeah, it's hard because I have a lot of good teams.
I think Astralis will.
Astralis will make it. Did you practice them while you were here in Europe?
Yes.
Okay, don't share the results, but because you're putting them 3-1-3-2, you must have been impressed maybe a little bit.
Because they are saying yes, yes.
Yes, okay, okay, okay.
And let's take the Big 0 opinion about this.
Big 0, what do you think?
10 gaming, 3-0?
3-0, 3-0.
Yeah, of course. I'm not sure if this can potentially happen, but what if teams, no, it can't happen,
but if it happens, if you're matching each other in 1-0 game, who is going to go 3-0?
If we play against Spirit, you win.
In 1-0 game, yes.
I have to... Oh my god, it's hard.
I think...
This is why I'm giving you these questions. I don't give easy questions.
I think if we play against Spirit, of course, we can win.
And if I have to choose one more team to put in 3-0, right?
Yeah.
I will put Legacy.
Okay, so this is kind of like in case, obviously these are your two top picks,
but in case you face each other, that's where Legacy comes in as well.
Yeah, I think so.
I think in place.
Okay, I like it.
Start with 0, bro.
Yeah.
What about one more 3-1, 3-2 team?
I think game religion are playing a good counter strike right now and Betj Boom also.
They are playing really good CS.
But I will go with Brazil, bro.
Brazil again, MIBR.
This is real patriot, you really believe in your comrades.
Of course, bro. Cologne, the last Cologne I think,
and the last major of Cologne was SKN, the Champions, right?
And yeah, Brazil have the way.
I mean, Fer was here, he didn't have the way.
Yeah, don't say that, bro.
I want to pick your brain, maybe because I can share a little bit as well, that what
happened with gaming gladiators, in your opinion.
I will just quickly go here, so it didn't go that well.
Did you see those games, and what are your opinions on that?
Yeah, it was not good to watch, to be honest, but they know it.
But I think it's hard to say because from outside it's so difficult to give some opinion.
But yeah, I don't know about the focus on the game and all the work they put.
But I think right now it's another time, you know, if you want to go through any stage
you have to work a lot and do like your life and I mean I think they were not
prepared to go. It definitely felt like it but I ask all the time when when
teams arrived that if they got surprised by someone in a stage one so I
will spin that question who disappointed you the most in stage one
Apart from gaming gladiators
It's okay rain we got this okay relax you need to reset right now. It's the major okay
It's the major reset we got this okay everything is fine listen to each other play with each other
That's the only thing we need to do here, but we need to be here for each other. Let's enjoy the fucking moment
It's not over we can win this okay
Looking for something, anything. He's got the first kill. Now dangerous for Cylurth, he can get one more and then he gets the dink on top of the hallway.
And that's going to help him out with a grenade, and there's who he fired on.
This is legacy holding on. Sands it on the peak, doesn't get the shot. Awkward fights now. Rain waker in the donut needs a heart, can't handle it. Now a clutch forgives me. Can captain come up clutch?
Watch looks good looks real good up against
He's fake a real look
Yes, three shots left
Two of the kills USP gets the job done. He had three shots and still delivers
Okay, why is he living?
What is he trying to do?
He's about to...
GOOOOOO!
We missed it!
We missed his horse a lot!
To get another round!
Okay!
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We don't slow, when the lights go
Chase them all, we start to throw
Voices go, we can't go slow
And that's foot flawlessly through into Stage 3.
Were you expecting a little bit more in the server from 9Z today?
anything you want to say to the fans out there that's right thank you so much
for your time the event is cologne 2019 and formerly known as ESL one the
confines of this are a semi-final we're talking about a game where in which this
man himself was featured amongst the likes of zipx magisk glaive and the
of course, which is what we'll be talking about.
On the other side of the equation, vitality,
Zywu, Alex, Apex, Indike, RPK.
Now this was once upon a time,
and this happened, and then you went to join Vitality.
So what are we looking at right here?
It's, I think Cologne speaks for the Astralis,
got to just mention the one that just got away.
The one we never really managed to finish.
I guess we got everything else,
but this one is, we had this weird thing
every time we went into Cologne.
We thought we had like the form,
we had everything going for us,
couldn't really make it work.
So yeah, it's the one that got away.
So you get all the way to the semifinals, right?
It's the best of three.
Atmosphere in the lengths, this has got to be crazy, correct?
It's always great.
Like I can imagine.
Dust 2, Vitality, 16-8 with a heavy T-side, first half.
Then we go to this map known as Inferno, map 2.
It's usually where all series go to die,
but in this case it was-
Or it lives.
Yeah, it lives.
If actually it comes to life, perhaps you could say.
And Vitality would be the ones that go to cry.
You split pistols and you go back and forth on OT
And then I need you to build up in this moment to this round.
Where's the headspace of the team? Where's the headspace of Device?
I think Device, coming into this specific round, he's had a rough game coming into it.
I think overall for his tournament was still okay, but I wouldn't say we were not chokers at that point.
It's been an issue for us to make things matter specifically in Cologne.
And we have another semi-final here, and Device has not really had a good game,
a good game, but then he magically and over time decides to pull out an ace with his off.
And you know, it's one of these things where I could just tell that we've maybe lacked
him a little throughout the game and it was great to see that he, you know, turned up
for this one, managed to pull the ace off, er, it routed the team. I think even in the
game because you like, glaive rocking his shoulders, like, yeah, you got this buddy,
you got this buddy. So, er, it was a very important moment and, er, you know, I'm, I'm
just, you know, it's shocking to see the guy that can pull this one off.
not only in the moment for the team and in the stature of what's going on in the
lancis itself but for an individual player like device if you're having a
rough game and you have a pop-off on it like that where yeah you might have gotten
away with a little bit of murder there with a two like a clat there towards the
box but overall yeah that should boost your confidence. Of course I mean it's
it's for him it's always been about the confidence I think if he's turning up for
tournament he doesn't having you know the feeling or can't feel himself for the
team then then I wouldn't say he was struggling he was never really played that
seemingly struggle but he would just play a little bit worse but as soon as he got
this one going I mean it's relatively late in a game or in a tournament to get
this type of highlight but it was it was in a very important moment is in
overtime and you want to be making it to the third one and I think that that kind
of skyrocketed for him and you know the fact that he's even you know now he's
got like a small mural for himself you know he's he's kind of in the history
books even though that we have in one clone I think it's still still very
impressive I was even thinking when I when I got here and I saw this for the
first time and I saw his name on that one. I was thinking, what play was that? I could
better remember it. But then when I re-watched, it was like, okay, it's the one against Matali.
Now it makes sense because it is actually quite outstanding.
Now they're not watching the major with us here and I do mean device and company. Is
there anything you'd say, any message you'd have in an old teammate if he's watching
right now?
Well, keep fighting buddy. You know, you've had a great career. I know it's at a point
where you probably would have wanted to go a little bit further, but you're a good
That's right, it's Coloma, baby, it's the major, stage two.
Count the strike!
Now just make sure the fire is in the mine!
I am my precious!
But he's not doing it for him!
Welcome back to IAM Cologne 2026. We're nearing the halfway point at Stage 2 at the Major,
which means that today we're going to send some more teams into Stage 3,
and unfortunately some teams will also go home.
I'm joined by Stukku and Dupri here for the first segment of the day,
but we're going to talk a bit about what happened yesterday, obviously.
Just a bit of a recap to figure out where we are currently at the Major.
Yesterday Stukku was there too, we sent home some teams,
Unfortunately, one of those teams that we are no longer going to see was Gamer Legion.
Biggest surprise by far to me in States 2.
Yeah, we were watching that game and we came to conclusions that Gamer Legion just did not arrive to this tournament whatsoever.
Snacks mentioned it a couple of times as well that they just, I guess, peaked at the wrong time in Atlanta going all the way into the final.
And that put like a target on their back and high hopes into the major.
It's unfortunate what they showed and I think they're perfectly aware of what happened.
But they just need to reset because the next season awaits and you know you have to take this break and
Rebrief we also had a late night thriller
I don't blame any of you guys if you wind up to watch that one
He got pretty late yesterday Peter a foot taking on G2 and foot qualifying progressing heading into stage three beating G2
Quite convincing on the third map. Are you impressed by by foot so far? Yeah, I am
I think it's it's nice to see that they can continue playing their own style and that they they play with the confidence that they
They've built up throughout this season so far and take it with them here into a game where, you know,
a team like G2 is, you know, around that caliber.
Some people would say they're very equal. Maybe some people even judge that that foot is a little bit better as of right now.
I think it's it was an interesting match and I think it was just also a showcase of skills specifically from
Krabbeinie where he like just, you know, took charge of everything like it. As an Ingemede and having that much impact
that's very special. And you know, you can just tell by the fact that the foot guys, they
They also in the interview with other jokes, they said that they were expecting this.
I think they know what they're capable of and for them making the 3-0 is not that much of a surprise.
I think they showed us yesterday exactly what they're capable of.
That is playing some very solid counter-strike.
They'll be rejoining us once we get into stage 3 with all the top dogs so to speak.
Vitality and the likes of such are joining us.
For now though, we can check in on the pickings as well.
I think there's been quite a lot of surprises so far in this stage in terms of, you know,
game or league and going O3.
I don't think a lot of people expected that pain.
I see, you know, also a team that a lot of people picked to go O3.
Tyloo have been playing well, Big have been playing well.
So safe to say that some of these lesser known teams and some of the underdog teams,
Martin, have really done well at messing up everyone's pickings, pretty much.
I just want to skip the segment.
I'm watching in my name, bro.
I think I'm going zero.
I did not, this has never happened.
Like, okay, I made some gambles and I'm completely,
I like taking it to my chin, but I didn't look too much into it.
I just went by the gut feeling, which was clearly wrong.
But if I go zero on this stage, I'm actually impressed by myself.
You're super cooked.
Thank you.
You're more than you overcooked.
I'm saving my energy for stage three.
Don't worry about that.
Yeah, we'll have to watch how that progresses.
I'm sure you guys at home as well are currently sitting with a bit of sweat in your palms,
know trying to figure out whether or not you're still in contention for that.
It was so lovely Diamond coin that none of us are getting anyway. However, let's
talk about some of the big topics and the overall topic that we had so far
during this major and that is the rookies right. There's been a lot of rookies
coming into to this tournament. We saw some of them in stage one. We saw a lot
during stage two here. The foot is a great example for rookies on their lineup.
You see it on your screen right here. There's so so many. So in terms of picking
out some of the rookies. That may be a bit of a tough task, but I want to drive back
to stage one. There was one rookie that stood out to me and a player, I'll be completely
honest, I had no clue whatsoever. Asep from Thunderdown under. I think they did a pretty
good job, you know, messing up people's pickings, so to speak, but I also think this guy did
a pretty good job at showcasing himself to the world of Counter Strike. I'll be honest,
I've never watched him play before, but he did very well in stage one.
Yeah, all things considered, coming from a region of Australia, it's going to be always
stuff to perform at such a high level, especially coming into the major.
It's one of the only, well actually the only team without the organization coming into
here so they don't have the structural support of some other teams that can use to be, you
know, as leverage to perform well at these events.
He's been impressive individually, he's been pretty sharp, he's playing like very active
in his sports, kind of like playmaking ability is definitely there.
He was in it, he was as well pretty chill, pretty talkative, so I can assume that he's
similar position on the server as well. So he's kind of like helping everyone with Alistair and with X3 with the experience.
So I'm also impressed by him.
Unfortunately, we have a little bit of a low sample size on his performance because they were going out in the tournament pretty early,
but they won nonetheless. Even how he's enjoying himself right there, like he's screaming at the counter parts.
I think it was against FlyQuiz as well. So there's good beef and he has a charisma on the server, off the server.
I'm starting to like this guy.
I'll be I'll be completely honest and this is just my you know humble opinion
You know whenever you're watching any Australian play counters right?
They always come in with a certain amount of attitude and a lot of the energy that we get from them despite them not making two states
To it was nice to see ace in play another one is is dillard is I think that's a player
We haven't really spoken that much about for for bedroom. He's still in contention still gonna play later on today
A player that you know have had some visa issues
Etc. Etc. A lot leave for him and lucky for bedroom
he showed up at this major and so far Peter he's been doing pretty well but he kind of goes under
the radar. We speak more about Flemish, we speak more about Bumich but this guy being a major rookie
he's doing a good job. Yeah he definitely is. I mean it's it's it's very clear that you know
there's some very big names inside the Bed-Boon team that you know kind of overshadows him a
little bit but you know he's been solid you know he's he's had a decent tournament he has some very
impactful like the plays inside of the game that they've been winning and you know it's a Russian
player that's been around for a while you know it's been a while since he's been picked up by a
a team where he can actually maybe also showcase a little bit of his skill you
know and for him to go to the Major and have a steady progress as he's doing
right now you know nothing completely out of the ordinary but just being stable
and helping his team win the games that's very important and and it's
also just you know the team is looking solid right it's also a team that's
had a lot of issues with the ESA and VISA and having a lot of issues just
feeding their main roster and it must be pretty good for him to feel that he can
come to the Major now and without the visa problems he's the one that has
depression and that he's not has to be the one that's sitting on the sideline.
That's a really good job so far and it will be interesting to see Bedboom play
later on and see if they can fair in two States three. Another one you wanted to
touch upon Martin is Luchov, a player that is getting finally his Major debut here in Cologne.
Yeah so if people are unaware there was this unfortunate situation just a year
ago at Austin Major by Blast where he qualified there with Bestia but due to
visa issues they were replaced by legacy and it was kind of big drama that they
didn't manage to get visa in time and we don't know who's at fault and it was
heartbreaking story to say the least but now he's finally here on 9z and
actually he's been playing really really well prior to this tournament as well
he's been one of the standout players for 9z for sure he's been at the spearheading
that win against Falcons over at Astana so that was pretty big surprise he's
been extremely impactful, he's been extremely talkative, I've been watching these guys on
their prior events in Barcelona as well and you know, these guys aim is something different
and I speak for Nainzi as a whole, like these guys are on incredible level when it comes
to mechanics and these micro movements and micro decisions, it's a little bit of an unfortunate
situation with their like macro decisions and kind of like preparation, there are some
clear weaknesses right there in my opinion, but Nainzi are pulling through with individual
prowess and Lucho is spearheading that for Nainzi as well.
Well, no doubt.
You know, a team we have to look out for and a team that is also still very much in
contention to make it to stage three.
A guy that already have made it and a guy that has pretty much the perfect major debut
you could ask for.
A guy who's yet to lose a game at the Major, Peter Dukes, we spoke to him yesterday.
One of the foot guys, we could pick anyone of the rookies from foot, but Dukes in particular
I find very interesting.
He's had a great, I guess, 13-2 professional car strike, very young, I believe, 17 years
of age.
So to be 17 years of age, you know, to come up here to the disc and speak fluent English,
speak with us, you know, show a bit of attitude, Peter, that's the guy to the rock for.
Oh yeah, for sure.
And the whole team, I suffered, you know, as a team to look out for, but Jokes, you know,
he's also playing a lot of tough positions.
He's on the agency prospect list, so he's definitely one to be looking out for.
He's an anchor, you know, and he's even, you know, he's sort of looking, in terms of
So Statsy is looking close to the likes of someone like Hevigar, you know, an anchor
that we've been praising a lot.
And I guess that for everyone at home that doesn't know how hard it can actually be to
be the anchor at this specific level, then this is something very extraordinary.
And it's incredible to see that such a young guy in such early stages of his career already
having these both numbers, but also just in fact that he's showing up the way he does.
He used to be very cool, he used to be making a lot of good decisions, and I think that
by far one of the guys that's also going to be very interesting to see
ProQuest 3 in the future since he's so young but as a team you know the foot
has just you know taken the stage by storm. As said you've got to pick anyone
from foot of their rookies and you know cast some highlight on them they've done
a great job and obviously are qualified and progressed into stage 3. We also had
Sinners and Sharks full of rookies unfortunately for them didn't paint out
too well in stage 1 and then we have something interesting coming in we also
have rookie debuts in stage 3 there's only two of them one is playing in
In mouse, another one is playing in Aurora. We obviously talk about Celix and Soulfly.
Out of those two players, is there one of the two that we should pay extra attention
to? I feel like Soulfly. We've seen him play quite a lot. Celix is relatively new to the
scene, but I watched Celix at the CAC a couple of weeks ago and that kid got some heavy aim.
Yeah, Celix is, for my money, the better out of the two. You have to take into account
the roles and the structure of the team. I think Soulfly and Aurora hasn't been too
bright as of late and also he's coming into a team in positions where he's not going to be pulling
too much impact but so for my money Xelix is the one to watch out for and look out for in Stage 3
for the rookies. I really admire how Maus decided to promote him from the Maus NXT, their academy
lineup. Our specialist. Exactly, it happened multiple times in their careers and it happened
one more time that they found it jamming the rough. He used to be on this Maus NXT very like
demanding. A lot of resources pointed at him to perform well and he's coming here and he was
slotting in a lot of Roland roles because that's the guy that he was replacing which creates kind
of like this question mark in stage three because Roland is actually going to be coming back for
Maus and he's going to be maybe taking some of those roles back. I'm not sure how it will
like interact with Xelex and how he's going to affect his preparation but definitely he is the
one to look out for. I think there's a lot of stories that we can make out of any rookies that
that we mentioned today because their story is starting right now.
This is the first chapter of their big career prospect and I'm here to witness it and I'm
so grateful for it.
I very much agree with the sentiment that in terms of individual player, you know, skill
cap and skill cap maybe, Celix looks to be the player to watch out for out of the two.
What I have noticed, Peter, is Soulfly, you know, despite being a major rookie, despite
coming into Aurora who, as you said as well as recently, have struggled a little bit,
he has some personality.
Like some of the interviews I've listened to, like he's not afraid of calling out, you know, not necessarily team members' names, you know,
but calling out the team saying, we did this, we shouldn't have done that.
I expected more. I was disappointed in this, you know, to have that kind of personality as a rookie,
where you stand up in an interview and you don't necessarily just say the right thing or say the thing that people want to hear,
but you actually, I guess, you know, speak truth, that's a pretty remarkable thing to do as a major rookie.
Yeah, and I think it's even more extraordinary for him because it's like, you know, there's a Turkish lineup,
and it's the team that he's been looking up to like his entire career like he
probably wanted to go to that specific team for like as long as he can remember
the lineup you know and he's been looking up to Santerres, Voxic, Major
probably you know and to have the courage to go in and speak your mind
when you're talking to your potential idols and talking to the ones that you've
been looking up to that that requires some character right but I guess that's
fueled by the fact that he just wants to win right you know he's you know a
a guy that that's coming to this lineup has just been put in a role where he's more like he's just a soldier
That's you know, he's gonna be like doing a lot of the dirty work
He's gonna go in together with the pack try and create, you know a lot of the space to at least
leave it some some of the pressure on Santaris and I think that
self-life has been looking
Decent, I'd say I think I think he's definitely maybe a little bit on the path of what we maybe expected to have a guy coming
Into a team like a roar, but I still think he needs he needs to you know
there's all public issues like a lot of issues in Aurora right now that I think
it's not making things easier. I think it's gonna be interesting to watch how
Aurora is gonna unfold here at the Major but we'll have to wait with that a
little bit. Now few things in life are certain one of them though is that
everyone is coming in here to play and everyone is coming to win. We have a lot
of games happening today but we're starting off with a little bit of
action over on the B-Stream. MIBR will be taking on Bait in order to try to stay
live at the Major. Loser will go home. Winner will play again tomorrow. But for us here
in the A-Stream we have a good one coming for you. Astralis taking on pain gaming. Astralis
who's off to a bit of a rough start. Pain gaming you could set the same. Elimination
game coming up after the break. One will go home. Another one will progress for tomorrow.
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Match up today with bait and Alex 666 obviously a couple things to go over here as we move forward
How are you feeling today?
It's just getting started the day. Yeah, I feel you on that
Let's talk a little about the match versus gamer legion three maps. What can you tell us about it? Well, how did it go?
I think we could close the first game like first map easier
Mirage we choked so hard on T side and CT side and nuke
It was easy, I think but not on CT side not on CT side
What do you think it is that makes CT side hard for you?
We lost our crucial round at 1-1. I think if we won that round we could snowball the game.
Maybe to do half, maybe 8-4 or 9-3 for our side.
But to lose that round, maybe someone was not mentally prepared.
But on this side we were fully confident.
What has been the hardest part about the Cologne Major for you and Bayton?
I know, maybe because we had a long journey, like we were playing tournaments like straight.
Then we were coming home, we maybe had like 7 days and maybe 5 of them were training.
So yeah, we were just playing too much and we don't have like too much time to gain new strategies.
So maybe people are like getting more used to us to play our like maybe best maps
and that's why we were playing maybe losing our maps right now, like best maps.
Yeah, so this is one of the last tournaments and we are just playing, I know, with our old strategies or something.
So you get all the way to this point as one of the favorites going through into the Major, everyone is excited to watch Bait play.
Now you're on the verge of elimination. Tell me how important is this match for you?
for you?
I have no idea.
No one of us has any pressure, so we will just play our game, we will see what's going
to happen.
We are not playing super good team play because we are having close games all the time, so
we will see what's going to happen.
Maybe we will be more confident, less pressure and feel better.
Good luck and best of luck today.
Thank you.
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So...
More and more of those best of threes for survival, MIBR taking on bait.
And for MIBR it is that blend of both Brazilian flair and of course the import
where LNZ calling the shots. It's Sarny has already continued to bring his A-game.
I'm excited to see what they bring to the server up against the resilient and the tenacious bait.
You heard Alex in the interview there, of course, the youngest member in attendance, Sizi,
on the bait ranks as well. Will they be able to survive another day of play? The question
we're going to get answers to over the course of these next three maps. These guys put up a fight
yesterday, Chad. We watched as they thought their major was going to come to an end in that third
and find it final map nuke yeah when alex was just talking to trace during the pregame interview and asked you know
Well, what's supposed to be tough?
I'm surprised and go well our coaches in here the fact that they were able to bring that back on the T side of nuke
I was a huge comeback not the biggest comeback that we've seen so far
I'm sure you know maintain that mantle for some time, but look today's matchup
I look the teams drop my flies right now up there
We're losing them left right and center and there have been some more upsets in this stage than the previous
I thought that stage one would be harder to call but stage two for me is all over the shop
Both of these teams obviously from stage one, but now Bate from 0-2 looking to go 3 consecutive
best of 3s if they want to see that stage 3 apply.
Yeah, and I think what's interesting to me was just seeing how they got to this place.
It was looking dead.
It was looking like Gamer Legion were about to throw the knockout below.
And then on T side, Nuke, without a coach, without any additional assistance, they managed
to turn around what was a 9-3 deficit as they swapped sides.
They've got 10 T rounds on nuke and see another day of play.
But is it all for Nortjad?
If you come and clash versus MIBR,
there's very little as far as a head-to-head is concerned.
Looks like there's only one result on record.
Yeah, but it's recent, right?
And Alex talking about these tournaments
that have been flowing into one another
and then maybe being a little bit tired.
This is that result from CAC just a couple of weeks ago,
and MIBR coming out on top of that.
I'm curious to see if the video shapes up the same today.
MIBR had a less than desired result against Big on Inferno,
so that might knock their confidence a little bit
and Bait had a win yesterday against Game Allusion.
So you can see how the stats shaped up,
and you mentioned it in Sarnie.
He's the man to watch alongside of Klim on this MIBR roster.
On the other side, everybody on Bait has hands,
and it was surprising.
You hear that, the team play from Alex,
saying it's not on point at the moment,
and these games are closed.
You see it, they're just swinging for fights.
Sizi was doing some of the most mental moves on Mirage yesterday,
with the rifle in hand, just pushing pallors,
pushing ramp, pushing pallors again,
even with man advantages.
And Sizi's the one in these pressure games.
I'm not putting a spotlight on him to drag the kid, I'm putting a spotlight on him because
he is 16 and I'm putting myself in his shoes and thinking the pressure at my first major
with elimination on the line, it's not going to be something easy to handle at all.
Oh, of course not, I don't even think that's an expectation, you know, there are very few
that come in and just immediately play their A game, I think you know, as a short list
and I'm not going to throw any more of those names around, you know what they are.
Donk.
Yep, there it is.
But I just can't believe that it was a 13-2-13, what, I don't imagine in that, you know,
BAC head-to-head. I don't think we're going to see any sort of score line close to that.
I see bait as a very equal pairing with MIBR as far as output, as far as expectations.
I think either of these teams being kind of a surprise reverse sweep.
Bear in mind, that's what it has to be for bait coming into this one.
And MIBR, they lost what to big yesterday?
Yeah, they started the tournament off with the upset victory over legacy that we covered, right?
And that one there was a good result on Nuke.
So we might see them turn to that in the veto.
This is no surprising bait out to Mirage right that's their home turf regardless of the loss yesterday and okay
So this time they aren't gonna go for inferno
They're gonna go for nukes so seeing the bait having some weaknesses on that and thinking it's a bit more of a strength for
MIBR over pass goes out and then right now you get the choice between banning inferno or banning ancient
They're banning inferno 100% ancient would be the third and deciding map of this series
But I'm with you those score lines kind of stand out like a sore thumb. Yeah, no way
I would be surprised to see a similar result today
I mean, look, whether it's a 2-1 in favor of MIBR, very well could be, but I'm expecting a more competitive matchup.
Understandably, no Inferno, because they only got one round on that in their head-to-head, whereas Ancient, they got two.
Perhaps that makes more sense.
Yeah, again, it's one of the weaknesses, so I think that they may be a little bit surprised to see Inferno not pick from MIBR because of how it went down last time.
So again, that's the big result playing into factor, and then also the Nuke looking wobbly for Bay, even though they turned it around, right?
Can they do that again?
That's the question. I mean, yeah, T-side Nuke, 10 rounds.
is that something you can replicate?
It was a very funky game of counter-strike,
but they're going to start on comfortable territory.
Yeah, there's a few things we need to bring to people's attention
off of the game, the legion game for bait yesterday
was the amount of either eco wins in baits favor
or the force by wins for both the teams, right?
Conversions were saying that they struggled with.
You could bring other carvings for these teams
and discuss what you're going to see
from the CT side on Mirage for MIBR.
Mr. Venom-Zera. He's going to be...
He's all over the show. Yeah, well, he's more your short player.
Right, so you're gonna have him
Combining with your Climbs and then you're Insani over towards middle here. He is Clim
This guy once they do get the AWP in his hands. Well, he's also pretty proficient on the rifle too
So I wouldn't say that it has to be AWP only but a map like Mirage definitely
So it's gonna be him and Insani as the engine to this team LNZ
He gets the fun job of jump spotting B. It's an in-game leaders job unless you're apex
You know, you get the fun when you get to play connector. I see that's not true
some of the in-game leaders get the fun spots.
It really depends on the, but this one I would hate
if I'm LNC.
I mean, Krebberny likes to put himself
in the star position, so you know.
Which is fair, right?
I understand that because you get a better read of the game,
but when you have a star player like Insani,
who can do it all, you want him to be a connector player, right?
Has a good read of the game.
He's gonna be combining with Venom, Zera and Klim,
of course, now there's one man that's gonna be Breno.
He'll be anchoring down towards the A side of the map.
So something that he's gonna be tasked with
is dealing with Asentil's lurks, right?
Asentil is the extremity player.
jump over and be able to flick and take a look at what bait get up to. But bait, even though they
have default positions, they do these rounds at like 200 past two top mid, or we'll go straight
into an AXE Q. They do default, but I feel like their rounds are slightly more set from spawn.
And what I'm looking at is these fast spawns. You know, the ones where KensaZort immediately
commits, you will see this dot close to Khan, early first 30 seconds, he's already like under
window, or he's at your Khan smoke, and he's knocking on that door, he's putting pressure
on your CT side.
Yeah, I think for Sizi, as long as he isn't making any massive blunders, I'm not expecting
him to take over the game.
He can.
Yeah, he has the capacity to.
But I feel it's unfair to ask that of him within this team.
As long as he's contributing when the Guineas come his way, it's going to be all good in
the hood.
Alex, I was extremely impressed with yesterday, right?
Because in that new game, he was clutching, he was calling up a storm.
Sure, he was making moves and sometimes giving away the opening death, but then being the
Puppetmaster from the grave, they were walking a fine line on Nuke and the fact that they
stayed in it was extremely impressive.
MPO has these little eruption moments where we're going to have 3 or 4k and the round
will be one single handedly.
You'll see him here, he'll be parting up with Kensethor in some of these rounds.
He loves getting boosted window as well.
Yeah, so you're going to get some of that 2-2 and then Ascentiol, as I mentioned, he's
going to be the ALerk.
He's actually the highest rate of player on the T side, so starting to look out for it.
It's weird.
With the player profile I see this guy, he doesn't play all the spots I'd expect.
It's rather an extremity player because he does banana control on Inferno, for example.
But that's a conversation for another time.
MIBR versus Bay, elimination.
They're dropping like flies, and today we need to send home three more teams.
That's gonna be the first, as far as the B stream is concerned.
This is Bay's home turf.
Would love to pick up a bit of a win today and wipe away what happened on Mirage yesterday against GamerLegend.
Here we go.
Here we go.
and
Tom middle and they have all the room in the world look at the space. They're just
Contacted and I'm there is about to get a face full of lead with a quick smoke and bang eruption into a B split
Hey, this is gonna be a lot of pressure on to venom and doesn't get that immediate one tap connection
Trying to punish the chase with a H it does like great damage softens them up and then Z combined with venom
Sarah they're doing it just the two of them. It seems you're audible in the apartments
good fight from NPL on the way back. Two versus five. Is there really grounds for any excitement
in this one? Sanyi's fast cat. Should be dead man. It looks like Sanyi is showing a
temper to pros. They'll tap their heads and get loud. MRPR starting off with a convincing
pistol. It was a test for Venomzera. You can see why he's got a smile on his face because
he feels like that could have gone wrong.
Considering they didn't have any early intel, they've handled that. That pressure has come
a lot earlier than I think they were expecting. We'll be the eco now for bait. No bomb going
down so it will not be the four-spy. We're already gone over the positions this is a type of round
for MIBR where they're just looking to keep as many members alive as possible not have to
have the reinvestments and see if you can avoid the bomb going down. P250 for MPL
and you want to find a kill on that pistol. Everyone else on the clock so this will be a
slow and steady round. Good opportunity for us in case you are just joining to direct your attention
to what else is happening today. Astralis versus Payne that's on the A stream. Rose and Dinko
I'll be passing the action there. Coming up later, Monty versus Betboom and Big versus G2.
That's the A stream for the B stream, Tyloo versus 9Z and M80 versus Legacy.
Does seem crazy when you look at the 2-1 matchups that three of those like
Tyloo 9Z and Monty Betboom, one of each of those pairs is going to be in the 3-1 stage 3.
Yeah, Monty have actually impressed me a lot. There's not to be dismissive of them, it's just
the results in recent history against some of the bigger names were a little
bit worrisome and some of the games you see a zoo we're having a tough time but
that hasn't been the case at all yesterday he was a monster in the
open earth it gives me caught up a storm even had those tech issues to
afro and were able to overcome that on ancient yeah I actually have got a lot
of time for Monty after seeing their ferocity and that's what I think stage
one and stage two are about the proving ground so we can see who's ready to take
on the big names that are waiting in stage three spirit confirmed that and
I think when you see Donk in that form, people go, no, he's fine.
Group stage. Well, yeah, there's a clear disparity between Donk and the rest of the players in this stage.
He's an absolute monster that they should be a stage three team.
That shows you how wobbly their season was. Yes, exactly.
You know, they're not playing against spirit again, so they'll feel a bit more confident about their matchup.
But I can't believe how well I can believe. I think when you see Donk in that form, people go, no, he's fine.
Group stage. Well, yeah, there's a clear disparity between Donk and the rest of the players in this stage.
Exactly, you know, couple of tournaments skipped, couple of tournaments missed.
VRS, it's a never-ending battle.
Alright, into the first rifle.
And I'm off to Sizi.
Here's that 2-2 I'm talking about.
MPL and Kensi Zort together through the underpass.
Alex and Sizi out top middle as a pairing.
And for me, it's about the timing on the HGs towards underpass.
This is the cat and mouse game of Mirage that is the prep, right?
It's the invisible shroud to us that we could go and look at ourselves,
but we don't know exactly the game plan they're going to come in with.
LNZ is barred in deep towards the apartment,
so that is going to alleviate a lot of pressure,
and MIBR can turn more attention towards middle.
Yeah, and it's cool that Insani was dropped an extra smoke,
so he's able to, like, smoke once, Con.
That's a lot of damage there.
So setting up for an A-split through Con,
so action is going to be on this combination of Insani, Brenno, and Venom.
Semptiel being shown here as the late piece.
Blocked for now.
Kenzie into the window.
I mean they've got all their pieces in the right place here.
Smoke's fading. Venom's gonna have to take a fight in a second and then Sarny's forward facing connector.
Venom's there. AK vs. FAMAS but Kenzie's over at 67. He wins it.
Sarny can't handle the galore of NPL. Now Kenzie plays. 30 seconds.
Starts to move. Venom's he's working on the flag. That'll take a while. There's Kenzie.
Now, Centiel. Now, Centiel's starting to clear.
to get that bomb down. They've
got to clear out Brenno. They're
going to double swing. Alex the
catch is a head shot. Good find
from Brenno gets output. Let's
take it to another plan. We can
and the alcohol out. There's
another one, though, and it's
good work from Kansas or saves
them again running back clock
down. Very frustrating round to
lose if you're my BR because you
knew exactly what was happening.
You had a very good read of the
scenario. It's you losing that
connected fight and then
if you're MIBR because you knew exactly what was happening.
You had a very good read of the scenario.
It's you losing that connector fight,
and then Kendi's all gets to activate
because Venom's error needs to pick that up.
You had the flank, you had the information,
you had the stack, and you dropped the round.
So that one, oh, is that just a mic?
Right, that does look like Kendi's all leaning over,
like, hey, can you put your mic on going up
and going up towards the T-Mouth?
This is the clear, actually.
I mean, I feel like it's...
Keeping it starting to zero kills
is a big reason why you're gonna be able to find your way
into the stacked site.
And you can see frustrations from MIBR.
I felt like you knew what was up, yeah the pieces in the right place just couldn't win the fights.
Glimpse got his AWP out.
Same opening, right? MPO and KENZO enter underpass.
I think I'd find this very frustrating as a CT side if like, you know what's up, you know what the start's gonna look like,
but you still can't find that opening kill comfortably.
And now they have the issue of very light utility to block.
It's a smoke and a HE remaining, we still have a minute 20 left on the clock.
So they feign this mid-presence, make it look the same as the previous round, and they reroute into what should be an A-executed.
They're just juggling U2.
Okay, Sizzly and Alex just juggled some nades between them.
Sent the ult through Palace, MPL.
They'll have the support of Sizzly, and Alex will join AlphaMension Lurk on Palace.
Gensis are even coming back over to join this as well, and once more, the CT setup highlighted here is very strong to deal with this.
It's the Util they don't have to block, but they have the bodies in the right places.
So, do they play through the Util?
Can they stuff them in the choke points ahead of the Nades?
There go the Nades.
Sani will try and stand and deliver.
Tanks on triple.
Brando underneath from the central to deal with it, and wow, easy digits.
Trade from Kenseth all through the boards.
That's awkward.
You're losing defense.
You're losing the site.
Good catch back.
Venom's error.
Catches Alex through the smoke.
Trying to cross for the plant.
will be picked up by NPL.
3 on 3 retake.
A kit.
Yeah, this is all his first fight.
And he's lost it.
Sizi, he had a target.
He had an opportunity to end the round there.
And now, now I'm comfortable for his teammates.
NPL's found one.
Kensa's all in the palace with his position noted
in that bomb.
10-second defuse.
He can win this.
VenomZera has to provide the cover in five.
Not able to find the headshot.
And that's the third round.
RMIBR, VenomZera getting loud.
He got three kills in defense of that site.
I have to be careful here because I mentioned this before we got into the game, but the
ones that Sizi has to hit, he needs to hit them, and that was a bit of a rough one, right?
I want to make it clear I'm not here to drag the kids.
I just want to point out that was his fight to win.
Had to jump on Venom there.
I'm going to be the difference maker in a game that is an elimination match with pressure
and turned out every day at play.
So partial by it from Bate.
Oops, that in short frees up Venom to be the assistant on the A side, and they're playing ENA.
It's a good call, considering an execute's done at take shape, but it's just to make room for this mid-play.
MPL, Alex to crawl through.
Who plays first?
I've got to be gaping.
So I'm not likely to consider this just in time.
Say that, NPL's got his back turned.
Oh, yes, a free frag.
Picks up an M4.
NPL has provided an opening and now, oh, suddenly, everything feels very unsafe.
NPL's even flanking.
He's going to be behind Venom Zera if he's not careful.
They're all pausing on ramp.
You park Alex towards the murder house, cuts rotations, and now NPL is in CT spawn.
This is still going to be tough to break for the A ramp players. Venom coming back to clear this with LNZ
And A ramps starting to jiggle on a cent fuel. This is brutal NPR play this to perfection
But Venom Zera does manage to flush him out of the system
It's a lot harder now
Great catch but now double lurk. It's so late. I'm not mad up. Back to second! Venom Zera did. Okay, Breno
Here's them. He knows what's up. Supported flash back is turned looking good. Sissy one on the deagle
We need a more a second one of those lies up the ladder that style right right now. Yeah, okay straight up James Bond in this
The problem there is
Because it's so quiet the a ramp players aren't taking any contact the map is too quiet at that point Venom isn't drawn towards a he's
assisting
That possibility of another man slipping vent
I really liked the whole like structure of this the amount of threatening pieces they managed to get in the right place
This double lurk felt like it was going to surely bear fruit, but Ben and Sarah have managed to completely rumble it.
So two impactful rounds in a row. I understand this was against the partial, but still an important one considering the circumstances.
Enzit.
Bit of a zore, Ben. It's to...
Real it in. They know what they were capable of yesterday.
Just must be frustrating knowing this is your home turf and you're having a tumble.
Without the coach there again, average age of 20.6.
I'm very impressed with what these kids are able to achieve regardless.
Going through the motions, it's almost the same round after round, it's just different timings.
They're going to try and catch them on second stage, I think MIBR. This is why they're
cluster around connector and short. So as they go for con or window control,
expect an aggressive move to come forward for MIBR.
It's that aggressive move.
Renault just waltzes through the smoke and catches some side swipe.
NPL goes down, looking the wrong way and they clamp down.
Venom from short dips away after the double.
Now Molly's gonna make life difficult for Venom.
We'll just have to reposition. Yep.
Clip supporting though.
He's not missing that.
Really well done from MIBR and you were back on.
It's exactly what they were going for.
I think Alex addressed this, but it's saying the playbook may be a little bit light because
of all these tournaments in a row.
It is hard to call off script, but they might have to start doing that, so expect to see
more side executes.
They had an easy time against game alligion with the executes.
They were getting in, they were getting the bomb down, they weren't able to always hold
onto the post plants.
But I think they might try and test LNZ on B a little bit more this game.
loss bonus it's in play 2900 going into the next so it'll be a partial behind
the center save day okay
sent you yet to get going 0 and 5
you said here of course no window spoke like all attention is going to be
concerned with the player throwing the incendiary under window there's pre-meditation
this is part of the game plan it's really good really effective if you're my
bi I think you know a hundred percent that they're picking mirage into this one
No matter about it. So you come in prepped and ready. Whereas maybe the prep for bait last night was still concerning himself with inferno
And now that they see oh, we have to play nuke. They also don't have the staff
They have arch right form plays that see over there at bait and I'm sure the coach is gonna be sending information in
But he's not here to brief them in the same way. So going into new cup next. It is gonna be the quote unquote play your own game
I've seen so many moments
I think the lindvision tylu one is the one that stands out like a sore thumb of a team trying to play
Anti like the prep costing them just playing standard
heads yeah, I saw some of it from the fly quest games too. You just don't get what you're expecting and that can really sting
Here you go, so they are gonna turn more execute heavy
Clim ticket Brenno
triple
Another test Brenno hands on the mouse and keyboard
Wow, the market has cost a lot more than the essential.
I think he's USP!
How's he got one?
Renault, at his pistol, down finally to essential, who's keeping bait in it.
Okay, Insani, racks up the quick double.
But it's essential in A1 versus 2.
He's already 2 kills deep as well.
The bomb being loose in front of Tetris right now, he might have to go for something a little
bit more creative than just through CT.
He's gonna be able to jiggle this out. Mm-hmm now they can reset play closer towards the bomb and make this very difficult
So is he really gonna cross gives him the fight don't know about that. So lucky to be alive
Essentials gonna be a bit mad. He didn't manage to finish his meal there and now they are stacked up on Tetris this double swing
It just feels inevitable
Yeah decent damage gets three kills out of the save the AK that's huge for him
We're talking an extra 900 bucks. So otherwise he wouldn't have been in AK territory without that
So I know it seems like a little detail. It's the gun that's gonna one-shot. It was his ball back straight through the box
It just nailed the orb
Sissy gets his AWP. Okay, that's that that is a fit that is worth discussing because it's 6-1
You do need someone to kind of provide you with some first blood some early impact and Sissy is more than capable
Especially on Mirage as far as it comes to like seeing him pop off
It's been this map where I've seen Sissy sniper immediately find impact
So he's first off and that's gonna be his first opening kill
You wouldn't believe it, but they're going two top mids.
See?
Right there.
When you're watching a team play every day, you see the patterns.
Yeah, I'm just excited to be very clear.
Which, if it's clear for us, it's definitely clear for MIBR.
Exactly.
There's one thing, knowing what they're doing, the other is being able to stop it and run
out at MIBR.
Five round lead, but this time they have conceded the opening death.
An essential on the extremity. It's almost like...
But again, they're playing to win mid. MIBR, essentially selling the sights.
They're playing to clamp mid on the second timing. And here it is.
Look at him.
Flash, push, Insani, top middle looking for the iron and box player.
Dalek666, and yeah, didn't find that instant headshot.
NPL through B apartments. Is LMZ gonna be overlooked? Especially with the short presence as well.
He's got Venom Xerathic for attention. Looks the wrong way.
Spoon the flash and beautiful stuff from NPL.
Okay, there are a lot of work to do in fact all of the work to do a one versus three for them Sarah undetected
No, well, he got a kill so they know he's around but this move is actually really beautiful
He's gonna be completely over. Oh my god exercising some trigger
Oh for the double kill you were planting says he had no idea
This clutch is really taking shape
12 and 4 Venom Sarah has come with a point to prove and a team to keep in the running at the major
I love the choice here, right the fact that he's backed off
He's letting us empty or make the next move in time. It's the biggest issue right now 15 seconds. It's so uncomfortable for essential
He still thinks he's around the side understandably. He's so many places. He could have gotten off to
There's info seven you have to chase it
Squeaky bum time we call that
Safe by the register and not one cashing out, I can't believe it.
He can wall bag that right? Like he wasn't completely safe.
He was tagging him there a little bit, that was...
Oh, thanks.
Was that the better of the two options? I didn't know, okay, it was so tight on time.
I think at the moment that he spots Ascentiou, the assumption is Ascentiou is going to run for the bomb to try and plant,
but this is just a counting moment and Ascentiou trying as he might right there to blast around that safe haven.
And that's a mare. You've just lost a 1v3.
Right, that was your way back in. They only had six rounds at that point.
You could have tied it at half. Now you're in a tough spot with your buy again.
Sure, the loss bonus is there, but the bombs didn't get planted.
Sizz, you got the AWP, you got the opening kill, and you fumble.
To this one, getting away from them very quickly now, babe.
Buddy, Al.
I'm pretty sure Venom's there with Trader LNZ's death.
So he was last seen like short bricks exactly so I guess in in Bates mind
He's like maybe he's gonna go underpass to the abs, so he's still bricks
Off from that reposition from bones error leads to an incredible clutch
He's had a lot of impact. There's three rounds where I think his kills have secured the round there might be on this time
Oh, oh dear. The wheels are coming off as trap version sometimes says
They didn't even gas up the tank today by the looks of things
Well, we saw the stomach a very tough first half of Plough and Nuke yesterday. That was CT side.
It's not even worse than this, but worried about the pace that rounds like this are starting to manifest.
MIBR, they don't have any break pads. They don't stop.
Is he dead?
Eight.
Turn down.
Yeah, that's the way it is.
First game of the day as well, so it's not early here, it's 2pm.
You can't really have the exclusive...
Well, you actually could have...
I call it game of morning.
Game of morning.
It's game of morning.
About five hours later than regular morning.
Yeah.
But you know, you have to play until you lose.
Aha.
or win well you can play till you win yeah I prefer to get go to bed really
man yes great life advice there for everybody once you start getting really
mean to all your friends that's when you go to bed just you on it you haven't
ruined a friendship have you really played face it he's found an opening
hang on a second this one a bit of a fall yeah we are and then they played for
me so as L&Z gravitating towards middle again yes Breno can't he's committed
It might change the complexion of the CT side and they are now rerouting back for NA executes.
So Venom on stairs, Brenno towards the balcony, Insali and LND grouping up for a short fight.
So they do want to try and deal with mid.
Brenno's being called over as well. He might get caught out of position.
He's going across.
NPR has to be the lurk but they might flush another...
A little Friday, right?
Rattom! Naughty headshot!
Just through the crack and the bricks even follows up
and there's Venom Zara to put the sherry on top.
Someone...
Hit their keyboard or something?
They are not sure exactly what happened,
but a glil fired off ramp
and told them they were coming.
Okay.
I'm not sure if we can catch that in the replay.
Probably not one of the things I imagine they're looking for.
30 seconds, 2v3.
Alright, give it a go.
Yeah.
Essentials got the AWP just clearing.
Yeah, that is easy for LNZ.
And that'll continue, Alex.
Jump south, it's a lovely first.
Maybe there is a clutch.
Brilliant.
Yes, indeed, Alex.
666 knows where LNZ was spamming boards, but 12 seconds.
He has to pick up that bomb now.
Maybe go for the dual.
LNZ time, which is perfection.
The moment you're inaccurate, you're at full velocity.
He swings on out for the ninth MIBR round.
That's only the third set of kills there for Alex.
I already had one before this and two in it in part of one be three another sissy opener. If I hear it is
It's a shot a wall. No, I think you're right. I think it's one of those ones where you just accidentally
Left finger was a bit heavy
No, I'm to one this is the kind of play that
That's uh, your make when nothing else is working.
I did not expect, I did not expect another school on my news.
I know I might be on the head to head.
I've absolutely dropped them on a couple of maps in recent history, but after the fight
from bait yesterday, it's been a little bit more grit right now.
The 1v3, that's the one that's really soured the mood.
Not an easy round to shake off the bloody hell, that's a great shot.
Eagle versus AWP.
Okay, so he keeps finding openings.
They're just not making good on them.
I know it's tough considering the circumstances
of the Bible walking out on your own.
That's not going to get anything.
It's Venom continues to pile on the pain.
He's having fun, isn't he?
Just dry fights at range with an M4.
The fact that's him and Brenno at the top of the scoreboard.
Falling right now.
Well, especially considering last time they played,
it was like the Insani show.
Just showing like, we can smash you
with any of our individuals, don't worry.
I think the other thing is you get emboldened by the plays that are made.
So it's like, oh, I won this round, oh, I was in the right place.
And then you feel the game.
That's what we talk about with the flow state.
4v3, this one should be a shutout and we'll have another gun round to the final round of the half coming up next minute.
It's just textbook.
I mean, just textbook.
Incendiary, Kenseth will commit, isolates the trade potential, because MPL was behind it.
How are you going to 1v3 of your own MPL with 20 seconds?
I don't really fancy your chances.
I'm trying to get past the AWP line and as he's on it, easy!
I really like the restraint there of Venom.
He gets three within the round, but one thing that might go unnoticed because of the score
line is the lack of money on a couple of the players.
So if they had lost another casualty or two because of the last few, there's only one
player alive that there might have been a compromise buy.
They're going, uh-uh, we're not going to give any chance or bait to get back in and they're
even going to wield the double AWP setup for the final round of play.
It's funny because you know when there's a score line like your head to head is like,
oh yeah, we stomped him.
I usually would operate into the assumption that's not going to happen again.
Well, used game allegiance match against bait yesterday as an example, right? Inferno.
Oh, even in the Tailu match that we had earlier, there's been some head-to-heads where you're
looking at it going, okay, we're picking the same map.
You can't get the same.
They had a lot of learnings from that.
And right now, this is a bit of a pub stop.
It's a bit groundhog day, isn't it?
That's the thing.
This is the map that bait won last time, though.
It was ancient and Inferno, the ones that they got blown out.
Going into nuke and as the CT side where they only managed three rounds last night you start having a bit of a listerine face
Now this is the opener they've all been worth nothing, but he's got four of them now, okay
I'll be providing an opening on the T side of the barrage. Let's see if they can at least find themselves that second.
Hiding out on site, no surprise, but I'm Sarah Ashley! Oops, sorry, Brenno!
And starting and hanging out towards tickets.
You have to win this one if you bait.
Bomb goes down.
3 through CT.
CT.
Cause Sizzy and Ladder, he's going to what, go for a flank or something, is it planted
open for him?
Yes it is.
Okay, so they've ensured this round, I'm casting it like it's over.
Okay, let's see how that ends.
There's a smoke for the bomb.
Oh gosh, there it is.
Yeah, but there's Alex catching Ben and Zera on the cross.
Kenzie onto Sani.
We've got a 10-2 half, MIBR storming to throw a knockout blow to Bate.
They're going to have to turn things around, whether it's on this map or the next, but
baits major life on the line.
I'm holding.
Okay.
Knock it.
Wait.
He's gonna want to pick you.
I'm holding.
Okay.
Not holding.
Nice, man.
Nice, man.
Oh, fuck.
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Fuck, fuck, fuck.
So he's celebrating one language
in common another brilliant MIBR 10 rounds up to the two of Bay and this was allegedly
a pig. This is supposed to be home turf, this is supposed to be where you pick up the first
and run into that best of three with a win under your belt. The opposite seems to be
the case and if the head to head was anything to go by we've been highlighting it that this
was supposed to be the one map that Bay were able to pick up the win on.
Mewkes very concerned coming up next. Yesterday Bay stacked A on the pistol. It's time they
playing retake. Alex got two massive kills from this position. So, selling mid as LNG,
making it look like a B-split, but that's what you're hoping for. So, the B-players
aren't gonna move.
They're gonna have to soon. Arthing forward, Alex. It's just gonna be relaying like we're
retaking.
They're just looking at this right now and saying, oh, it's that clear? Okay. Well, now
it's about the post-plant. Well, the retake, MPO has the flash.
Okay.
And three through CT. They've constricted connector and jungle rotations. You're gonna
They didn't get on the site, but it's not about the space.
That post plan is brilliant.
I struggle to see how you get back into this.
P250 Palace, Venom Hots the Cross.
It's got multiple bodies, draws attention.
A P250 takes a dip.
You've still got LNZ as an insurance policy.
You've got RAM.
It's an open plan.
The others start diffusing, boys.
That's surely round, if they can just get Venom Zera down.
Get Venom Zera down.
There we go.
Time, though, is a bit light.
Oh, it's close, it's close, but they've just got the...
No!
Oh!
A second shy!
He even thought they'd won it!
They thought they'd won it!
I mean, understandably, they must have heard the sound or whatever, but...
That was like a 9.5 seconds on the diffuser.
Oh...
Right, they are so...
Like, they're not the fistbumps, but the hands up.
Jesus!
So, Nukesnake, up next?
That's a 1v4, he's just one.
Yeah.
I know that it's not a...
Not technically, well technically it's a 1v4.
A traditional 1v4, but still that's the result.
Then a Mr. Impact.
Mr. Impact.
His swing is gonna be off the charts after this one.
That's true.
Okay, alright boys.
That's just Robin's soul in the wound, isn't it?
You could have at least given them the pistol,
because we know they struggled with the second round conversions.
You have to win a force.
He's open.
Yeah.
Wide open, really.
I know Kenzie's close short, but it's an MP9.
He can't scamper under the balcony for them leaping out, so he's trying, he's out of
position.
And he's your one man versus the world.
So I'm taking down MP9, I'll see if you scale good for something, but yeah, that's the
side last and it's an uncomfortable retake.
I have to speed running this one today.
I have to save if you're a scissor, Alex, oh, oh, maybe you don't have to save.
Alright, keeping us interested.
He needs to wait though for his teammates, I will say that, there you go.
No, he doesn't need to if he's hitting shots like that, little quick scope action, now Galil
picked up, delays, it's good find back from Klim.
That bomb is ticking, Alex an essential, trying to get into the site and it's easy for LNZ
the first and here comes Alex.
P9 shreds the head. Running it, Clem knows where he is, got the kill. But just 10 seconds
to fuse. I think if he plays these cards right, that at Molotov has secured the round.
That's done. Not even gonna get the kill. Okay, that one there is tough for Alex. 12-2,
it'll be another four-spite, and this game is done. Nice try from Sizi. He's been in
some shots. He has.
Let's focus on T side, it was a good half, but our job is not finished.
They have no confidence in what they are doing.
Okay, coach, all right.
He couldn't be more correct, could he, because they're looking at a source right now, Bate.
Something Bate will, you know, don't have a coach to be given any sort of reset.
Yeah, Arch will be there during the break.
They have a crew, just no Madden, so they're going to get a talking to, but whether or
or not it's going to
i've written bait out of the major already yesterday and then they came back and you
know i thought it was over for them
they showed some resilience
if this one however is is
quite extreme
a sentiel
what's he up to
sound cues i guess
i did see that you could find yourself on the ladder at a certain point and that the
molly wouldn't get you so maybe he was trying to get that or maybe he was trying to
make a sound cue.
We're trying to read the mines right now.
That's all we can do.
Well, it's a mid control into a pressure,
but it's B. That's the problem.
Sizzy, at least he's been able to get himself an M4
with a couple of kills he scooped up in the previous.
And he's on the right side.
OK, Sizzy.
This is a test for you.
He's time into perfection.
Does mine up and knock him down.
Just a low HP and Sanyan.
He's hunting for you now with five bullets in the mag.
He's got a pretty cool.
Gets himself a reload.
He's done enough here, bomb scooped up by Insati, we're going to get caught by the HE.
Kenzie with some nice parkour is going to catch the ball and yeah, strafe's into the window.
Alright, well MIBR know they've just squandered a chance there to close it down very quickly.
He was alone on that site, so respect to Sizi on the rifle as well.
I think that with the eye test, and it makes sense for an inexperienced player,
he has the output as far as the individual prowess is concerned, the shooting, right?
Right, but in terms of some of the decision making, that's gonna be the hard part, especially when you're planning against the best counter-strike teams in the world,
and I know MIBR don't necessarily fit into that category.
You're at the major.
You're gonna hear that sound every round.
That's part of this comeback.
I say comeback, maybe it's just a cheeky chip in.
So this is the highlight reel.
It's okay.
It's like it's 2005 again.
We'll force in for MIBR and understandably so.
Deke for Insani, the rest with Tech9s and they're gonna press the issue over towards B.
Now is this one fast or they're gonna get the control, line up the U2 and then explode.
Wake up.
Alright, essential for himself and I to buy this smoke.
He's just gonna play around and he retreats.
He's going back to the end of the site.
I said, sure, I sent him to the tracks, Breno.
Just one Constellation frag from Klim, but...
Shouldn't be anything more to be said about this one, but I didn't see any in Sarnia hitting headshots
And now it's actually a win of a 1v2 on v1
Okay, Sarni you've got a single bullet from Alex and you're dead
And that's it. Okay very very costly, but we'll need to be the eco for MIBR now
so what was 12 to 2 is now 12 to 4 and
Always like look for silver linings
One of the factors here is just warming up from map number 2 because you weren't doing a lot of damage in that first half
and when he sent, he sent you all sitting nice shots like that.
It's a positive sign, he has good aim.
He was frustrated with his death, but I said,
I think he did very well.
He dropped that smoke, that HE was perfect,
the lander at the feet of Venom Zero.
Getting credit where it's due.
It would be the best flash in the world
if you can somehow get the bomb plant here.
Just clocks.
Actually, there's an eagle eye in Sarny,
so there is a little something.
They are playing retake.
Right, I understand that they're not fully passive.
Yeah, but there's no one's ticket if they slip past these two. They will be able to plant
It's just the bombs up the ramp if it was palace
It would be like a guarantee and that was the fight that Insani was waiting for
Exalted to perfection bomb spotted
Nades dumped
And round one. Okay
It's too early to be
Sounding good come back. Honest man. He's been on one
Kitting a couple of bangers and
NPL fall within the ground. So
Maybe the start line looks a little bit better, but on the tightrope now, the guns again.
Clim, no AWP, I feel like we've been here before.
The margins weren't this tight though, they were able to do it in regulation against game
of legion.
Now it needs to be perfect.
10 round run, that's just for overtime.
can't bait catch fire.
Fast from LMZ, this is rapid!
I think he's anticipating this kind of push around smoke, but MPL catches on with!
Who's the head?
This B-pressure now!
He's down well, finds Venom Zerobot traded by Breno.
The bomber is down, at the I-5-5 thing.
Don't need to fight him, play the bomb!
Yeah, that's an overextension from Ascent, she'll give them a way back in.
Yeah, this is one of the things with Bay, they just keep taking fights individually.
This is not just today, this was yesterday as well,
and I think that's trying to make up for the strats not landing as they'd hoped for.
He's risking around the smoke, NPL has him.
Okay, NPL gets two kills around the smoke, sent here with the double,
Double and Alex with one necessary one over there towards B, so it's not just an empty void.
We've seen some big comebacks, literally.
Uh, yep, we have. So, there's no surprise if, uh, this does change.
How's the quality of that camera?
Mr. Avi West.
Oh, Mr. Avi West.
Run up, yep.
Eva, I think he's gone.
Eva West.
Alright, another partial.
They win the next rifle round. The conversation is no longer the matter of time.
Four straight. Can't it be five? I'll tell you this much. Climbo will have his ult next round.
Or at least he will want his ult next round.
So hey, fake draw some nades.
I slid on the side, MPL, he's the only one that can help, and he comes the second wave.
I actually need to least one.
Alright, strax the first, but traded by back to nil.
Spam through the smoke from MPL, removes Brenna.
Very low.
Far off, it actually does!
A stray bullet through the smoke.
Picks down another, it's just LNZ with no bullets and no health.
Okay, they're out.
7 now 12 to 7 is the bomb does get planted. I
Will expect to clear more
And I think they would do the same
So Lindsay want to drop it he's got the most at 5.9
Strength the AK has clear okay
Well, maybe they just wanted that because you can tell with the gun rounds they played it's
Well, they've been few and far between to be honest, but they've been set like LNZ skyrocketing underpass
It's almost bait to draw MPL up that was prep. It's like well MPL is gonna come and play around this if we take this control
Let's lure him out and let's win the fight and MPL still wins that duel
Penses are not gonna cost him too much maybe the HP damage
Stomach's it. Orbs boosted B. We saw this before as Cynthia will then jump up and push then Sizzy gets free to go elsewhere
That's info, isn't it?
And it calls off Ascentfield's push, so...
Deep smoke.
Brennan will probably stay planted, because that even hears the span from Ascentfield to the smoke, and...
...that's a little bit of chip damage done on the feet.
But they're turning this into a B-split. Sissy's still hanging around.
Sissy's gonna be a no-man's land by the timing on this on Cat.
It's just to be open. It has to stand. Only the one though, Venom, Xeric, after them on the ball, essential only the one.
That's bomb spotted. Bomb spotted on the radar. NPR is scarfing LNZ's, ratting the smoke.
Calling rotation. LNZ may have won the round. I think you may have won the match.
I think you're absolutely right. MIBR. They just got away. Let LNZ cook. Two towards the market side.
Oh! No! LNZ squanders his opportunity. Now the jig is up.
The jig is up.
Strafe over, that's nice.
Good movement, enables him to lend a hand.
They know about the flight.
They know about the flight.
Brenno.
That's that information and profits from it.
30 seconds to get the bomb planted.
They're taking their time.
Alex and MPL, worse for wear.
Low HP.
His flash, he just stands and crouches in the open.
Clement doesn't swing.
And now a second flash.
They'll make the most of it.
MPL loses his head.
It's up to Alex.
Now you go for the plant.
Fim's got to get that down.
Covering 5 on LXZ, and yeah, contract the head!
First map in the bag, MIBR!
Take baits, pick away from them!
That was supposed to be Contra Turf,
that was supposed to be your first in this battle for survival,
instead now MIBR heading into their map next,
and then we're ready to 1-0 up!
Yeah, you can't be starting this slow.
That 1v3 really stands out to me in the first half of play.
Venom-Zera throughout this,
was delivering an awful lot of impact on the CT side
with some really important multi-kills.
I think another bit of a problem for fate here is even though they were getting a bunch of opening kills on their team side
so you did two of the ult, two of the deagle, they were unable to convert those rounds as well.
So that is scrappy, right? When you do have the advantages, you need to be making the most of them.
Otherwise, the scoreline is going to be one that's hard to recover. Yesterday you could do it. Today, not so much.
And up next is the one that you have to save your tournament life on. It's Nuke.
They might be out there to think it's a strength or a weakness, but we'll find out next.
I'm not a huge fan of that kind of a play call and such a risky buy-round like that.
If you're going to buy run on the edge and I feel like calling a tactic where a lot of
it is coming through smoke like I don't want to say gimmicky but risky that that
flashbang is gonna catch someone you're gonna get the kills coming through the
smoke someone tries to force their way through a smoke over towards street
door as well especially because Stan made that plan the last round yeah thank
you similar player we got into many so gamble that does not pay off for a
stroller feels like paying to grab some control right at the perfect moment
they've won two or two me three in a row to bring this within one this fourth
If they're to secure it against three more Glocks in a deal should be no problem. We'll tie things up at 10
I can hear snow as well. It's getting so loud over there 17 kills and he's a great map
I mean, it's an ass that he painted shown to stick into this and it's a yeah
You're it's great to point that out too because snow for a lot of his time in this roster
So highly touted as a prospect coming out of Brazil
The bidding war when he was young to get on the teams multiple organizations chase and after a minute
A lot of us for the past year and a half of kind of inscratching our head being like okay
We're so waiting to see what everyone saw in him
And read some recent role changes that he's starting to take advantage of right now
And a great performance in an elimination game at the major to get his team right back into the opening map of the series
You got bigger zero AK-47 against two pistols coming out of shadow spotted the only gets the one
It's no well sweat getting another or so you're into a 4v2 and stairs also low on HP
Say stepping into the open spot the second players he did so he actually went out for the repeat and I go
Wails that day ever hit that shot. No, never ever, but
Doesn't really matter in the end regardless. It is 10 to 10 a tight game again. And the strawless once again have a purchase
I said a couple rounds ago, that felt like the last chance for paying.
Now it feels like the last chance for a strawlet.
Yeah, I mean, not the last, but certainly let's see what they're going to bring out in this one.
I mean, if you lose this, surely Payton's ride it all the way.
That moneybook can be spent on talking about what's going wrong, because I feel like
The money for all the execution sounds good, but somehow we're not winning the round, so I don't understand how.
Alright, so I see a little bit confused.
Were you falling prey? No chance for a trade. Big Yuzera grabbing another one through the smoke.
He's starting to just wreck this Astralis team.
The offense is stalled out completely.
This is a listering face right now.
The old classic for Astralis is just you come back into the buy, two plays, die through smoke, trying to cross outside.
You know in a 3v5, Payne had plenty of times rotated, the ball hasn't even been planted yet.
Oh, this is not looking good. At least that flashbang is pretty crap.
So, they got back on hold'em, and it's caused VSM's life, the awkward situation moving forward.
Hooksy goes for a second, he couldn't get it here for Astralis.
So it's all Fuzi and Yabbi, and the flank has even come around the back.
Yabbi's read it though, can't get the kill regardless, and now you've got Fuzi 1v3.
He's got to save the AWP.
He has to back away without AWP up, this is now 11 to 10.
pain have fought their way into the lead of the game. And you gotta say, up until the CT side run,
it hasn't been looking good for pain, but they've stayed in it long enough for the tides to change.
Yeah, well, now that you've rattled off five in a row, and again, I said that one moment that you
need for this team is something to change the nature, and it is that kind of clutch that they
had. It's that two on two performance, and then a dominant round, and then you start building
some momentum, start to feel like the team's getting it, start to feel like they're synced up
with your teammates in the bomb sites and now it's just now they're just winning now
they're just confident not slowing down during the plant they're executing the
retake and Astralis don't have a good feel for the game they're getting ran over
I feel like Astralis felt composed for 19 rounds in this game but the last two
feels like it's gotten away from them a sense of desperation and some of the
decision and some of the calls.
All sides works up.
You can see that cross from Starr.
You're really hoping he can be the playmaker to open something up there for Astralis.
And he stepped out.
He's got the head shot on safe.
trying to react to an aggressive towards Yabbi,
and much better here from Astralis,
two opening kills that they must convert.
Got plenty of time to just chill
and see if there's gonna be any kind of a response.
48 seconds on the clock, still frozey,
just now picking up the bomb.
Heavenwrap is gonna be covered by VSM,
snows in the upper bomb site,
Big Euzera sliding here as well,
so they wanna stack this upper site,
Hopin pray that this is where Astralis ends stairs. Just called out the sound cue of someone dropping into the bomb site
Snow good her shots is to flank around the back to get Sarah dropping staff the essence gotta kill to
Astralis have to win it and foosie and hooksie make sure it goes that way
But even down to the wire of pain making this competitive
Yeah, look how dangerous that is almost bringing it right back
But Astralis a great rebuttal and it's back to slowing the rounds down that time
It's not those gimmicky fast aggressive plays coming through smokes trying to drop off mini rip trying to curve in towards mini
It's wrapping around and taking your time and giving stare a few beats a few moments to find a fight that he likes and
The third and final time out from pain a hard-fought come back to tie things up and Astralis isn't gonna relinquish this map without a fight
Both teams have money
VSM has picked up a second AWP, switching into the double-op setup.
Gonna be bringing that over towards Ramp Room. Good find from Stare that prompts Pyrrha into an aggressive play that's cut down by Yabbi.
And Astralis, despite some struggles, despite a rebuttal from Pain in the round, they just play the numbers, good trade game on the way in.
way in. Crucial round victory for Astralis but both teams have a strong
buy a double-alt set up for Payne. Unless be success or they're reckoning we'll
have to find out it's safe. It's gonna move up in towards cut across the
position. We're gonna peel away with the advantage and then stare at the front of
the attack and that who opened up the last round for Astralis. A tough challenge
against the Brazilian Alper who's going in towards him and safe has hunted down
the opening kill. Advantage pain. Oh, Yabi's in a really nice position to find an equalizer.
Oh, the flashbang is perfect. One tap. Cool and composed. There's one more to find here, though.
He's almost ready for it. Heaven peek as well. Got info, right? He has two players' positions,
no. And Suriyu can come in looking for that kill at Tetra, knowing the next fight's towards Heaven.
But there's two players up there because Eric goes forward. Hooksy not able to get it. It's
Ryu is taking that frag and VSM sends one shot back, so 2v2 and period the secret weapon coming around the back of main
It's a very good position to have and Fuzi unlikely to get away
He's pinned Ryu's gone Fuzi has to fight and it's this for the map most likely Fuzi towards heaven misses the shot
He's right on top of him and Fuzi can't get it
VSM steps up with a crucial clutch land into the game
It's right down to the wire, but it's pain gaming who grab it first map point here on nuke
Look at snow like it is boy up toe for the big-time clutch from VSM up on top of the silo an awkward one for foesie to try and peak together
Broly the whole way through a miss Molotov towards heaven
If it had landed it would have been great would have prevented that play from VSM with the up
But it prevented him from standing in place and getting these kills
Dude, that's crazy how back and forth that round is.
And the small details that caused the round to go in the favor of pain.
Third time out for Astralis, both teams have burned all of them here in regulation.
Yappies, one tap, compose, clean.
Great trade from Ryu as well coming in, but all so close from Fuzi.
I don't know, I couldn't tell if the Molotov just straight up missed or if it bounced off a body of Big Yuzera as he slid out.
Regardless the same effect that it doesn't stem the tide of the retake
And after leading the majority of the way pretty much all of this map since round three Astralis has had a lead
And right at the end in round 23 pain take it back, and they've got one chance to seal the map away from Astralis
You don't have the excuse of one player missing completely as well on this map for a shot.
So you don't have the excuse of not doing enough on your CT side.
Payne have just beaten you down the stretch and they could close this now in their favor.
You've got Snow ready.
At main.
The opening kills are there.
Snow's got both.
Snow lands on top and he looks to rest his case.
This is a 4v3 in favor of Payne Gaming and they've got so much time to hold on.
The strollers have to figure it out, and they've got no utility.
I'm so surprised to see a strollers go back to that.
I feel like that play hasn't worked for them whatsoever.
And as you mentioned, no utility, and you're going to try and traverse this position towards
Ramp Room.
Safe as the all...
Safe just going to hold on in that Ramp Room.
There's no way for Fosy to connect with you as well.
He's outside on top silo, but why the hell is anyone from Pain going to be peeking any
of those positions?
Any peek that comes as well is going to be a dry peek.
No flashes, nothing.
How can Astralis pull this off?
Well your upper defense is pretty set.
It's bold, it's risky with the double stack.
But without a Molotov, Astralis can't really do anything about it.
Safe just thinking, take one shot and survive.
Holds on, sees the call!
One shot, two shots!
Safe has sent a packet in the opening map!
A 13-11 win for Payne, incredible close from Safe!
And right down to the line, but it's Payne who's staying in it.
the tenacity pays off and once again it's some brilliant resilience and here in
stage two Astralis have now lost three straight nukes that might be their
undoing that causes them to head home from the major early
Call the save, Lewinosti, with the AWP!
Bill Bates, Major, NPA on Nuke.
Questionable, him answers to rather soon.
Come on up against MIBR and MIBR are having way too much fun.
They'll be playing football between the maps, boys.
Just save it for before and after.
There is a whole football corner.
In fact, that's exactly where the sneak peek of where the players do their pre-match rituals.
They're even out the front of our very fancy hotel.
They're just kicking them all around.
Yeah, and let's say that I'm trying to say I'm mad. I'm too well for that. Yeah, we have the German national football team here as well
But it's us the counter strike players that are playing keep you up. He's in the yard
football's everywhere, but
right now
Strong start is what bait me right if we're gonna focus in on what needs to change for the Ukrainians is a strong start because they
Can't keep playing from behind yesterday was impressive and sent game a legion home
They were able to pull out a game that I thought was done and dusted complacency started to creep in for game a legion
They weren't treating every round with a respect desired and they punished them one thing that I think
Bears repeating and Bears highlighting is that the first map victory from IBM did not come off the back of an insane
Insane he had eight frags 16 deaths
It was Brennan with Venom Zera with the impact and Venom Zera on your screen
we can see what he's going to be up to on the t-star for MIBR.
Yeah, and I think the fact that he was making a lot of,
I wouldn't even say plays, but he was in the right place getting the multi-kills,
which as a player, it fills you with confidence that your decision tree, it's working.
And you're able to run with that, especially into another map of play.
And on the t-side, we can dictate the tone.
You're able to have the flow of the game.
Now, well, we covered an MIBR game a little bit earlier in the tournament on this map against Legacy.
And they were pretty damn good.
So we'll see what they have to offer today, and if they can get things done 2-0 and set
themselves up in the 2-2 column tomorrow, because we want to lock eight more teams in.
I say eight, we've already got two.
Spirit and Foot qualifying yesterday.
Today we'll add three more to the mix, and then we'll add three more on the final day
of play.
And it's Foot that are kind of nearly on par with Bay as far as age is concerned, right?
Like there's still two of the youngest teams.
And a lot of major rookies.
You had the opposite of Bay, right?
They're four players who have been here before, one that's fresh,
four players that haven't, and one that hasn't.
That's long, so it's on the second.
And the last time was Rio.
That was not the time ago.
And he's not pretending he's got crazy experience.
He's sort of on the desk as we're going, like,
my quote-unquote experience.
You know, I've been here before, sure.
But it's a different kettle of fish
when you compare it to more tenured individuals
that are present here.
I think he's doing a lot of maturing quickly,
but he's a loud boy, isn't he?
He is.
He's definitely him and Dumau.
We'll put him in a room.
You don't get much from these two, like from bait side of the server, you know, they're more calm.
But, MPL definitely does like to talk a little bit of smack.
Yeah.
Or maybe for him it's not smack, it's just the way he views the world and it's quite blunt.
Either way, he's definitely a man who speaks his mind.
But you highlight the fact that they're a good start and that's obviously rooted in the nukes we saw yesterday in their game versus Gamer Legion.
Their CT side sucked.
It sucked.
Everybody planned on it, it was no good.
You may not have caught it, but you didn't miss much as far as their CT side was concerned.
it was, um, yeah, dreadful.
The biggest problem for them was, I want to say, winning the force by which seems crazy.
They lost the pistol, then they won the force by, but they couldn't find the follow up.
And what happens there in the flow of rounds is, okay, so you lose the pistol, you force
by with the 1900.
Great.
You lose the next round.
When you're forced by with 1400, not great.
You lose that.
You're an eco.
You have your first rifle round.
You're not going to have everything you need.
And you need all the you to blow up in those smokes to get you off.
Molly's for heart, for ramp, for door.
And if you don't have that,
then your first gun round comes in at about 6-1 scoreline
and the half's already lost, so, babe,
this pistol, mandatory for the confidence.
There's something off the red here.
Need for the door, smoke for the potential of the van dive.
This is all play's ahead of it.
You have to find it's actually going to burrow into the vents to ensure that drop can't occur.
I think he made those in the ladder there as well, didn't he?
Try and just consider how he's going to be flashed through and pathing into the side.
He has a lot on his plate and Climbs put him down early.
Looking good.
MIBR.
Equalizing frag from Alex, but they quickly get one another one back
and suddenly he's lucky to be alive with an excursion.
It's the bottom bomb last year.
Government in towards Sizi's dual barrettas.
Essential puts the last man down.
down. It's just right. No.
have fun. They won't overextend
this. They might think that I'm
just trying to manifest it.
You know, they won't overextend.
They're going to play the number
advantage. Never mind. Sissy's
taking his head on. This is the
one we want you all in lobby.
The supports on the way. Sissy
dance away and essentially
would have bullet inside of
the head. What is key there is?
they found the opening kills in 14 but only managed so few rounds so at least
they're able to steady in this one but time to show our T side bro I knew
cooks bro I didn't I didn't sit until 1 a.m. two days ago to fix all these rats
for you to lose okay I feel it's a little bit ingest there for Melanie but
also a little bit accountability for the boys I'm standing up late doing the prep
Let's get it up
Or mp9 is the second round investment I
Think you've got two choices with these second round buys
And one is if the bomb goes down then you're expecting a force back the other way
Do you want to be more rifle heavy to deal with you've got to calculate who got the kills?
you know how many kills and then the addition of the bomb and what type of buys they could be.
The problem that you have when you operate in an MP9 heavy round like this and it's against an ego,
sure you're going to get the bonuses of the kills, right? You're going to get a bit of extra cash that you would if it was a fall.
Hold up boys, let's not lose anyone and you've lost the plant.
Okay, it's not the end of the world, not by any means.
No, he's gonna play a bit of a cat and mouse game.
There's another killer available onto Sizi who is low.
Glock can get this frag and...
Oh, I'm...
Little block burst into the helmet.
You're more than content with that.
You get a kill and the bomb goes down.
MPL will come in with a rifle now, but Alex gets to call a bit of a bonus round.
Oh, because I'm confused.
K-102 is...
Sizi could drop the MP9 and buy an orb.
He has done that.
I personally I would prefer if they just kept the three MP9s and MPL invested in something
and they did something where it was stack heavy or push heavy or reactive to the openness
from MIBR.
Okay, crunch or something lobby centric.
Because now that you've invested MPL is not going to have any cash in Sizi the same.
So you're in this little fine margin.
I get it.
You want the strong side I was talking about.
So they've brought in the AWP and Sizi plays one of the most important roles alongside
of MPL.
So at least those two have their weapons of choice.
He's got a Yard Star.
This is faster Insani.
Look at him go.
He isn't that welcoming the jewels.
At the top of those smokes, he's hugging that back wall MPL.
Close to the smokes trying to relay any information he is.
The AWP started down secret, you can see on board now.
Since he's in a strong spot, he knows that the cross is already possible,
so he didn't want to poke his nose up the stairs.
Yeah, the question becomes, is how are you going to be approaching these angles?
Will you be able to jiggle bait this AWPer?
He's very quick on the trigger, and this looks good enough.
enough wide from Insani I passes the or notes presence and Alex in the
mean times found Renault Sizi unable to track the jumping cross they're applying
a lot of pressure to this B site it's pulled essential down single door comms
flowing looks like we might get the smoke out as well it's someone to open
the door for him this is a strong sort of difference is the essential they're
right they found that both up in the rafters here they might clear one but
they clip both.
Enem opens the door and PLC will be here as well.
Quick one, off, removes him, 5-3, Sissy on the reefing, outrageous!
LNZ into the site, finds it with Klim's help, and the one he did, and PLC goes down, they're
turning this one on his head.
The bomb can be planted, Kinsenzor's got a very well placed HE, gonna make this just
a one man mission, LNZ can't handle it.
So sure, you've picked themselves up the round, will you find the AWP?
Yeah, they've got plenty of time to do that, right? So we're just gonna make sure
And he's all he runs over he's looking for it and I'll let you know he's got it
So Alex gets to bring to an AK Kenzo picks up to AWP to give to Sizi mission accomplished and they handle this one
This is the kill. Oh, look at this the tie line of these scratchies nose and he just comes through
Wow, okay, he doesn't get very well done there by production to catch that great little highlight. Good job
bomb goes down though and that means that MIBR can buy again. Two glills.
Clem is on an instant top main smoke. No, it's just a fast part of the wall. So again,
they could be extremely rapid on this. Smokes are up before you can get there as the CTs.
Sunny's across this time. Now they're turning into ramp pressure. Up the bat, essential.
and bully essentials round not for the first time so game will each and try it as well
great success they didn't spot him they didn't see him it's got back to the casual
bretoe onto the headshot dink onto venom and pl an opportunity for the maltsi just kept humble
so you got the numbers i can't rotate vent insanity if kenzie goes down when he's dead
feels pretty good for an mib r first kenzie going down when he's dead
save it boys I I've been pretty I think you've been trying to win rounds
individually just hold on to your goods right the half's just begun it you
really is dizzy man come on hence is all saving come on says he don't have a
saving
everything you've got first what full belt are you till what are we doing we got
I can't explain that I can't explain that there's no universe where you're gonna kill three and diffuse the bombing time
unless they assume you're saving an exit, but I
Have a tough time with that because
You're broke
You're able to get an off-drop from Alex to Sizzy
It would have been a full buy now MPO your outside play has to play with an MP9
And the same feel your ramp holder is also with an MP9 and your lighter on you too those saves they had all the nades
Alright, let's see if they bounce back immediately. I won't say no harm. No foul. It's a bad smell, but
I'm not the same pace down secret Sizzy with a lot to worry about MPO is not playing active
Just hiding behind red
There's no light there's gonna be a follow-up smoke wall. There's no one's position to throw it
That's easy clear for Venom Zera top of main
19th actually throws those flashes and they connect to Sizi doesn't stop him from catching Venom Zera stretch in his legs now from Alex
Activating he catches Insani and my beer on the back foot
Bombs on Clem, it was on Clem, sent to the past tense by Sizi's AWP.
They're sort of there in a couple of the camps, but Venom-Zera a bit over zealous with his timing.
He fumbles the waterfall smoke, and that leaves the main void.
So a couple of kills have come through because of that, so the details might be a little bit quicker because of that opening frag, then maybe they should have.
should have. Up down set up there. Tough for Brenner to break. Had a good idea what
he was dealing with and I think maybe take a timeout just to say boys let's
just make sure we're getting the details right. So this one with 25 seconds left
and a 1v4 situation for the Swedish in-game leader. This is gonna be the 4-1
start. And that one's a little bit frustrating I think because you have
their money on the ropes and look how easy this comes. Venom drops, spots him,
You're dead and then I guess the call is coming into scale, but just not landing that smoke
Just an open void in Maine, and they just keep on picking them apart one by one
So I might be out in with I was gonna say a very light investment, but late they've equipped an AK
and a couple of extra pistols
So clean the task with limiting the finances of bait
Wait, can he be the crowbar that Ellen's looking for?
Ramp push, sent you leading the charge.
Should be a top pop, but they'll chip away before this happens.
They've been blocked and heard.
Pickin' easy pickings for Sissies, boy.
So that rifle gets absolutely nothing done, and this one falls flat.
Interesting approach to deal with the lighter by, like taking the fight to them.
Normally we say that's the risk you're the options as Alex shaves one more off.
That's not a standing no to dead and down to MPL from third
Okay, well that
Was a little bit hollow wasn't it?
Yes, so I mean you what you said on the checklist of bait surviving this one-two match
It was a strong start on their CT side and they've already found a whole lot more than they did in their previous steps, right?
All right, Alan, do you stay up to 1am? Come on, subscribe. Let's see what the strat is.
They endorse my pain, this upholing to cancer's awe. Feels like the heat's being brought to
topside, and it will, the Venom Zera trying to entry. Sizi provides and covering fire, drops in and
commits to this topside. Spotted one, it was the bomb retreating back to lobby. On the back,
of Renault. So we've got a 4v4 and things will cool. Re-sweeping, that smoke won't last forever
here. Thanks CT-Van, since he's kind of got Klim locked in here. Overstep at your own peril.
That's possible. Doesn't elect to reveal New York's location.
Ascent fuel's picking up. Smoked break, lovely team play. Now action on ramp, the man tasked
with dealing with this is not MPL you can see it on its only screen right now
he's gonna have all of this room so they let them have yeah actually they're
coming around heaven and hell they are yeah hold up doesn't matter trade from
Brenno still keeping the bait advantage sential it's playing for a secret leak
during all of this he'll be able to like tend to the potential for a B plant just
if the bomb goes down.
The boss is broken.
Brennan on high alert.
Timing.
There you go. Confirmation of his presence.
Brennan, oh he's got the bomb! He can't die!
He can't die!
And it doesn't matter. Helen Z goes hunting for it.
Brennan is the last man standing in a 1 vs 3.
With 15 seconds left, he's taking his sweet time.
He's looking for another frag.
And SZ is already perfectly understood.
This is the plan.
A jumping AK and a trigger.
Yeah, okay that one's broken. He trades it out, gets a new one, MIBR.
I get let me on the mic first, the tactical timeout for the Brazilian court.
The European Flavor. They are going to be impartial by territory going into this next round.
This is where the mental edge could actually start shifting in the favor of bait.
Now I know that there's a lot of rounds of Counter Strike still to be played in this map,
but last time round you picked Inferno. This was just a couple of weeks ago at CAC
and you drop them 13 to 1.
You decided, in the head to head this time,
to pick Nuke, which meant the bait could ban Ufono in the second wave.
So your chance to get it done on the same map that you're extremely dominant on has gone out the window.
That's where you go, okay, did we make the wrong choice and we messed up in the veto.
They just think it was a weakness. Was it just a bad day for me?
Now it's the onset
So it might just be a page of the strap book pop pop util from LNC and go
He's doing yards
Think it's just a force of rotation. It's this is to try and weaken the top side, but Sizi
LLNZ, what's happening with your MPO in main?
That means Alex and KENZEZ all have help.
It does pull Alex down the vent.
And CZZ also went and re-blocked Ramp.
Oh, responsibility on KENZEZ all here.
CZZ's back up the ladder in time.
We're even dropping into the site,
realising it could be test of the top.
LLNZ likely to smoke main, Molly CT, then flash.
Setup looks good, doesn't it?
And now that they've pivoted back in time
they do have the intel. If Insani can fight first, or Sizi wanting to take the fight, okay,
playing close-heart, really wanting to deny them any space.
Thanks under pressure, essential, rotating down, and oh, that's the first fight.
Okay, yeah, that is Zera down, going straight, Kess has already overlooked in the rafters,
but trade is provided, and my Piani clipped a hit somewhere crazy, and then Zees managed
to relieve a lot of stress by clearing out CT Vant with NPL down.
Take plant plant to catch the heaven player can't avoid the maid left essentials grasp
Okay, 28 and counting and you do
Sound about what Alex has gotten off to get wrapped on
Gents was played this by the book Anthony you take the plant
And he's not even gonna get that so fix it out essential will greet him at seven to one a stunning start for Bay
When I said they needed a strong start I wasn't talking like this. I was talking about you know
Maybe it would be like five to three. This is good. This is very good
So we are getting a game on our hands, even though it's looking dominant from both teams on their opponents map choices
Just the AWP or the Nade will do the tricks. So essential
important couple of kills there to
Secure number seven against the live by guns back out again. No Climb T side all
again
Would just be nice to see him get it once
Oh, wow, Sizzzy blows the head off of Bran O, he's consistently adopting that angle.
14 frags already.
Oh.
Well, that's connected to MPLE, he doesn't overreact.
That would have been the death of him and now he's out in the open, beautiful!
Venomzera assumed, okay, well, the guy didn't move.
Nothing's going wrong at the moment, is it? It's all flowing.
What a difference a day makes.
And Sizi, keeping up this opening impact that he had on Mirage, the problem with it was they didn't convert those rounds well. They are now. He's managed three.
He's had five multi-kills so far.
And I put him in the spotlight as someone who I think is definitely going to feel the pressure the most.
But right now he's looking very comfortable and he's picked up another. Sizi!
that's a good thing. It's a
good thing. It's a good thing.
Beautiful suffers five staying
alive all you can get for MIPR
now is for seriously what a
crazy half he's having. Fine
rounds in 16 and three and
bearing in mind, he kind of
like warmed himself up to this
with Mirage where he was
finding openings. They were
converting was actually a very
weak pick from date. They're
mapped and work out. But
So you want to see, I mean, you put it on the shopping list, right?
This can be the most influential role on a CT nuke, but it's a lot of responsibility for a 16-year-old.
Famous for that.
Okay, Insani vs. MPL.
Unlikely Clash.
Cotsight, they're exploding in, Kenson's are tested, and they just get...
DEMONICED!
Burned!
Burned him, Zara, can't find their headshot, Kenson just whips out the USP.
We're talking 9-1.
We've only had some dominant halves so far.
Now it's on the half where they barely got anything yesterday.
I mean, it's just baffling.
This is where the hope becomes a third map that's competitive,
back and forth, clutch heavy.
Give us ancient.
You never know.
It just feels like it kind of needed to start soon.
You know at 8-4 half I'd have been more inclined to agree with you that
MIBR could still manage to turn this around.
Their biggest issue in the last flow for MIBR is the lack of plants.
At the start of the game they were getting the bomb down.
They had three rounds consecutively where the bomb was planted.
One of them they converted, the only round that they have,
but since then the bomb hasn't gone down at all.
With max loss bonus that's great, but you need that extra 600 bucks
to bring you up to around the 4k mark.
Plus or minus kills.
So that's why we've seen right for round partial, right for round partial.
This is what I would call a bit in the washing machine or the tumble dryer. You get thrown around you don't really know which way is up
To the surface at home you've been dumped. Yeah on the emotional way I
Get pretty emotional when the waves are beating me up
You will need to go down
LNC that ladder you did
Don't make sure he gets the lost bonus there
It clipped me out of context yesterday when Nettik was, oh the day before when Nettik
was saving, I said Nettik needs to die so I just clipped that and said that I hate New
Zealanders.
Oh my god.
Alright guys.
I see how it is.
Ah, Clint bought the AWP and then he was told to buy back in your AK.
Okay, so maybe there's something that requires five rifles.
It's all required five rifles but nothing's really working.
No.
Alright, let's see.
11. Is there anything to be said about MIBR's T-side or is this just the bait show?
The High Flying Mirage 2A
difficulty planting the bomb
here on nuke
Got your guns, you got your nades. See, Outsides
Fade are pretty confident. Nobody's crossed. So this is why they haven't rotated. Oh, I'll tell you a lie.
some sort of down on the
The all picks up ramp got everything covered. Yeah, they're still in a strong spot so that they have an understanding where the gaps are
So faked a and into ramp into sissy
He's in the right place once more and he's provided the same result Renault down to the AWP sticking around the flames
Sissy
Okay a bit keen he wanted to follow up
It doesn't look like it's gonna cost them cuz kens is always caught the lobby lurk immediately
That really reduces the potency of this ramp hole.
At last time you tried to go how MPL was there.
So I think you might have to go be the place you picked up your only round.
Look at this crossfire, right?
Essential is going to draw your attention
and then you're going to run with your back turned to Alex.
It's a very potent setup.
The fact that Alex has managed to cheat over here as well,
essential is playing, you can see, for contact.
Oh, my God.
Stimps down, they're contacting in.
There you go, information, attention drawn.
One is walking directly above Alex's head, though.
You should still get there in the back turn, but a nasty spray leads to a trade attempt from Klim, now Insani's alone.
County cover, clutch, can't find a headshot, essential, putting that AK to good use.
Three AKs on the CT side for that last round of play, and it's an emergency meeting for MIBR.
Two feels...
Like it's not really gonna do too much.
Oh, it's better than one though.
It was a 10-2 half in MIBR's favour, the first map.
It's just baffling to see these level of results coming out on these halves.
I guess this is what happens when the teams are kind of, I don't want to say equally matched,
but like equal competitors, equal shoppers.
Yeah, and that's what these stages are about, right?
Yeah, exactly. We're kind of sifting for that.
What do they say separating the wheat from the chaff form?
Yes, that's exactly the expression, when you're making bread.
It's like we know an awful lot about bakers.
Sizi has in three halves of Counter Strike, 10 opening kills.
It's pretty good.
You see they took some yeast from like a 10,000 year old body and made sourdough bread with
it.
Yeah.
Feeling like a 10,000 year old body right now.
Let's see if MIBR can make it too.
Speedrunning.
It's gonna be dare turn in the second half to save face with a cosmetic comeback.
This misdirection...
Lacking zane, it's...
Not one direction, Jim.
Yeah, one-track mind.
Styling on him.
He's the other brand, I still don't...
He's going forward, he loves it!
When he's in the flames, he just wants to fight!
Smoke break, hang on!
Nice headshot from NPL. It's essential to try and wrestle for an 11th on their CT side. Insani's holding.
And Insani converts MIPR to one of the tail end. They've got two rounds to their name. Ancient feels inevitable.
Bait a pistol and it's locked in.
Oh well, there's the first ball, Frank. He can get the double. There's still two players left.
He's got the no half of them, 13 and 3. Oh my goodness, how did they do this? How did they do it again?
Intel Extreme Masters, Cologne Major, and both teams starting with 10-2 halves on their opponent.
Hey, I don't know what's going on.
Alright, well this was while switching sides in the half, Lenny on the mic, just focus round by round, let's win this pistol and we'll come back.
Yeah, yeah, let's focus on this, it was a bad T-side, it's not wrong. We'll leave that aside, it's CT and they've already had to show in confidence, we've heard it from LNT in the comms in their previous Nuke of Fat.
They have good faith in their CT side.
You can see on the radar that we have three players heading towards Lobby slash ramp and two outside
But the bomb isn't on the back of anybody so the indication of where this one is gonna finish is still open for anyone's interpretation
Hey, I do like that the back scissor who's had a great first half
He's 18 and six was really inserting himself in the CT plate and I take it back
He gets nothing on this pistol. It's inside a beat him to the punch. There's a stack on ramp. So Clim back box
Who takes contact Clim here? So Brenno gets baited in. Brenno is the one who's gonna do the majority of the fighting yet
Renault has hit that first on to Alex, runs out of bullets, gets Wiggly and Jiggly, it's all on to
Kensethal. One versus three, that's not out of the realms of possibility with the bomb already
on his back, but you can see Insani does not want to give that away. Kensethal is a man after
my own heart, he loves to round the world in the clutch situation, so let's see, yeah, he's got plenty
of time to work with 50 seconds. There's so many options where Insani could have gotten off to,
little does he know he's already grouped up with LNZ and they're playing for a lobby.
So he can salvage a plant in this situation. I think that'll make Alex quite happy. True. True
Problem is something in our yard didn't do too much of a netty side. They're bang on
So I put it over and during all of this they continue to clear out so they are
Not hot on his trail, but they're definitely
Sniffing him out depending on how long it takes him. We're doing sound effect casting. I like that. Yeah
He should
No, he's not bomb down.
Unless he plants like a knot for heaven.
He's gonna race at the ladder than I this.
Faked it.
He's not going to strike it in behind you.
And you're dead.
Great round from Insani, three for him, two for Breno.
Come back, begins.
So no bomb plant, we should see the ECO.
And you can see the alternative philosophy.
Right, we talked about the four MP9s in response to a no-plant pistol.
This time, same result.
I'd say it might be our electric of four or five rifles.
And that's why when we talk about it's key and these types of rounds to keep everybody alive, it's because you've invested so heavily.
So you limit the utility to block with, but, oh, I can't do so, I'd love it.
Let's go.
You're the man up here and hot for the revolver.
No, I hate the revolver, but I like he's a guy who likes to have fun.
Yeah.
And you know that if you are getting won back by a revolver off silo, you are a little salty.
I just don't understand why you got it equipped.
That's my...
What isn't equipped?
Yeah, what are you leaving out?
Because he's definitely got a D.G.G. on there.
Right.
Well, take 9, deagle, P250.
What's the default inspect key?
Is it...
Well, we'll be on something a bit different.
Is F or T?
Mine's not default, and you are lefty, so I don't think between the two of us we'll be
able to work this out.
I just wanted to see if I could see his loadout.
MC's probably unbounded, anyway, which would make sense.
It would.
Makes sure there's no silly business, and that's what MIBR do.
No casualties, everyone's cool.
this is the key right because you keep all five alive now we can all get the
utube i've got the kids everyone's sitting pretty
i'd prefer that yeah well what if they end up taking nine by
and then you lose the sight you have no need for the retake or they do something
fast you can't block door you can't block up
oh there's always trade-offs yeah okay it goes both ways
for the guns yesterday alex had a real determination on the t-side what he's
Calling
I mean that's brave and sunny right it's just one of them self and you get tips away come on now
I can't want to fight over the flames, but we're respecting you tell us they make their way across hearing this step
Committing to this even though they know Insani's close by so they are just gonna look to contact walk and see if they can
Hoover up the space that he's leaving behind him
How did they've been able to sleep across before the smokes fade considering that disruption is huge
Who's just gonna jump spot bouncing his head off the door to get this information safely and there it is
Okay, a lot of comms there from Insani
Rotation down from ramp Rena joining the party protocol soon in place
Single door of vulnerability to brand-o. We could get caught by that Insani can react though
There's no smoke to trickle forward though. This is a real problem breaching in the bay and you're being tracked by Clim
We may as well call this one by
How do you break in?
You set up so potent.
Yeah, Brenno, I've found the opening kills.
Now your side's light, and Sani racks them up,
and yeah, that's flat, flat from fate's tea star.
If anything, the Flashers didn't Sani a favor there.
It's like, hide, let your teammates take all the contact,
then you can just secure the round.
So, we'll start from Insani in this second half.
In fact, on the pistol, now on the first rifle round,
the openers and the closers.
He's also just dropped a HE towards Aircon, so if there is smokeballs outside they'll
have that to be able to break.
So his boys VenomZero and Brenno got Mirage under their belt.
Now Insani is going to try and claw their way back into map 2.
Is that H8?
I don't think it's gonna matter too much
for this little details.
Thank you very much, Obstain.
There hasn't been any of these kind of, you know,
egregious round losses to rounds like this from Bec.
We haven't seen a team fumble against lesser weaponry.
Yeah, it's been clean, hasn't it?
Which, I mean, over the course of both stage one and two,
has been far from a guarantee.
So many of those rounds are such threatening ways
to lose out on those best of ones, especially,
And there's Minfo, and there's these nades going to do some carj, and then I see Cranky
South with a couple of previous, there's Alex in the backstab, kills like a dead census
doesn't it, then he doesn't want to just run out and die, he'd rather try and find a little
something on the way out, and it's just going to be this whole ash, Insani, down.
So what was a 10-2, quickly found 10-6, the full buy will 1 out of 4 bait.
So this is going to be an indicator as to if Duke come back is a conversation or if it
was just a flash in the pan.
Remember when we were on board with MIB other day versus Legacy and Ellen C said we got the
best CT side of the world.
Well actually I want to be careful.
He said they have a very strong CT side.
That was essentially the sentiment.
Richard, of course when you talk to your boys you know you are going to have an excuse for
the up-sell. Let's see if they can prove it.
4-0, starting off proceedings. And they've got a real leash on outside
Dermay. Molly to slow, HG to break, information there, rotation to beat, not necessary just
yet. Alex with the next wall in play. The difference with this CT set up is Breno Ramp
player is playing Red Pole back at Warehouse and that means Klim's AWP is deep trained
on that ramp line. Tripside smokes in for the cross. And it's Arnie. There's no one
is past that line
Alex he's gonna go down to Brenna you'd imagine here
I mean Brenna would have to really flood his line
being killed
come up here with the advancing LNC oh he's hit the first shot
he was baiting in for the other
there's LNC's double kenshizord denied as he tries to transfer and now what's an
orb supposed to do in this scenario essentials down without
too much help he's gonna be able to get the bomb planted
with Sizi catching that. He's got the best rotation. You can't rotate, Vence. It looks like you want to force it with a smoke, but just a kick and a fuse.
Well, Klim did well there. Essential, if you just sit back side, he feels that eventually he gets clamped in from somewhere, you have to worry about everything.
That's a little bit unlucky. You know, there's grounds for excitement there when Sizi holding the rotate.
Especially if the players in top just decided to run at him and essential stays alive and then he gets one on one against Klim.
But that's a must hit shot for Klim, right? I mean, it wins the round.
I think that's not for them. Just so it's quickly that one is not a high club. Your boys have to get in the heads of the team that are three rounds.
And it didn't really feel like we were going to be getting this one done in two without that first half went, but the tides, they changed quickly around to it.
So the bomb goes down. That is a big plan for essential because it is going to help out in the fire department.
So yesterday we watched Bay come back when we were on the T side, now we're watching MLBR.
Stop Bay's T side in its tracks.
And if you take a look at this year, well it's got lack of kills in this second half,
that was their first plant, and we can do some quick maths right now, they've only got
six kills in five rounds of play.
So the rounds aren't even getting close.
Still plenty of time for that to change.
One of the factors in this second half as well that's setting MIB up for success is opening
kills in every one of the rounds so far.
Let's keep that up, this is a sniper searching yard, I'd say there's a potential for that
to change.
Last time the MPL was on site, they were caught by Insani towards the secret stairs.
They're dedicating so many of these HEs to slow baits secret cross possibilities and
it seems to be working so far.
and he'll be able to take this fight if he wants.
But when?
Now, Alex, 10 HP, gets away with it.
Okay, we got an opening.
Refined it by Captain Alex.
In the open with the bomb!
Sissi wins the reaction speed test versus Klim, he's at his number now.
It's hard for Klim to get away because he's the top main player as well,
MPO highlighted his, that was never going to be easy, so...
Boxed in.
Alex, like yesterday, I think impact went necessary.
Wow, that position from essentially they're highlighted by the OBS is crazy, I'll pass it, but he doesn't want to give them anything at all.
They did lose a 1v3 to Venom Zero on Mirage.
So they are susceptible to losing some poor rounds.
But it's a gamble stack from MIBR to B.
Venom's heading to ramp, he'll-
Insanity hurt.
But how are you meant to get it? I think that...
You have a lot of cash.
This is the type of round where I'd probably pop up secret and see if you can get a kill or two
and then you could retake late because you know you've gambled incorrectly on the site.
You've only got a fine margin of rounds to work with and you have a lot of cash. So this one,
even though you have the disadvantage, I still think you should have a look to see what you can
find. It might still result in a save. But just go fishing. Yeah, and this is the thing, they only
need. Three rounds. They want to make him work for them.
Here we go. That might call it off. Okay, that will call it off. Now looking for the
save, Sizi will deny Brenno and it's just going to be Insani aka in hand. He'll go down
to Sizi 2-3 for him. A tip of the hat to Alex winning the most important fight against
LNZ in secret. There he is, the in-game leader middle of the screen. He doesn't get the support
of the coach this is a man having to do it on his own so you're not making noise now are ya
what their first round in the second half of plate three of five
concludes and just as we were talking about how dominant it was in openings and just lack of
kills that changes immediately look at the replicate
They're desperate to find something back here.
Wow, that's information.
Smoke broken.
Three on the screen.
Sounds like we got one more HG for a break.
There it goes.
I get the part where they're spamming to essentialize a low.
It's still SZ with an opening kill.
Venoms there are down.
SZ tanked up from the M4.
It's just LNZ spotting for Info B.
The problem is the bomb is on Cizia didn't get across.
Yeah, OK, good point.
He's going to pass that off and get boosted up on red.
This is a hair, not an easy shot by any stretch of the imagination.
How do you get past Clems Orphe?
You might have to go back lobby and change the round completely.
I'll be right.
And he's searching.
Cizia's so close, oh, so calm.
He collects a two-man advantage for bait.
This is in 24 and 10.
Yeah.
What a performance from the young gun.
That's a KED.
No chance.
I think they had your number there, LNZ.
They had a very good understanding of the situation.
Up the vent to top, and that's the right call.
Insani and Brenner both down on B.
So Alex continuing to find the path of least resistance.
Essential will confirm it.
One will be planted, and it's a 2V5.
Now 2v4, they have to try and breach back into.
This might just be a save as 12 secure for bait.
So I know this is going to sound like a silly question,
but when Sizi's obviously got the hot hand
and these last two rounds, it's just been,
they go yard, get the fights that essentially gives them
the numbers to win the round.
Is there a world where MRBL can kind of not fight the yard
at all?
Like you have to, I imagine.
Well, first of all, they want the intel on the cross.
So that's why they're using all these HEs.
But if they wanted, right, Klim, I can use everything here, Tani goes down to MPO and
that is Frosted for MIBR.
You don't have to play as assertive outside.
You could turd a lot.
You could start a play-down secret immediately and just say, we're going to concede this
base, but we're not going to use all of our U2.
We'll just give it to them.
And then you play more of a turtle setup, right?
Someone has to tend with our Heaven and Hell.
That's what you could even, if you wanted to, you can park a player in CT spawn, right?
Or you play around that CT red box.
We've seen that before, guys.
Exactly.
So you just go for a turtle setup and you go, okay, we're going to give them this space
and we'll deal with them once they start to take it.
And presumably they'll be operating under the assumption you're not doing that, so the clock gets light, you know.
MIBR have decided in these last two that they have lost to be looking for picks,
and Klim, while he's being completely outshone at the moment by Sizi, is 14 kills...
Oh, excuse me, it's more than 14. It is going to be 17 kills difference between them.
Is that... That's more than that. No, it has my maths. Plumber maths, you should never do it live on air.
I've left my lesson.
So what is that?
5 and 2 now and opening duels?
Actually no, these seats.
From Sizzy.
There's another!
Oh!
And another added to the tally.
Climb just can't catch a break.
Gosh.
The head of the wall of smokes, your post is just a static target and Sizzy reacts quickly.
Looks like both maps are going to be 13-7 on their opponent's map choices, which the
Cosmetic comebacks in the second half that have made it look a little bit more competitive than it was
But otherwise these have just been stomps
Mate have you opportunity to warm back into things in a couple of rounds on the second half of their map choice?
I might be out there should have already been warm. Never mind. He's dismounted
We lost a smoke that's fine wouldn't be too concerned knock on the neighbors door see if it's in their garden
You do see the frustrations of these young men, but at the same time they still manage
to keep a cool head and keep plugging along, which is very impressive to me.
Insani's tending to ramp, he's the man that's going to have contact 45 seconds.
Lock of smoke implies his load to body's yard.
I think this goes down and now they accelerate into Insani's ramp hold, trade from Kansas
or Felt integral.
It needs to be vent rotation.
Yeah, they're charging into what is now Breno's turf, just holding for this headshot angle onto Venomzera, and ooh, Venomite, excuse me, potential.
Oh, he's dead! Okay, gets a bit hectic now. Venomzera fighting back for MIBR. The HE will do significant damage, he lands right in his pocket.
12 seconds! You've got to hurry this up, essentially gets the necessary frag, but LNZ puts it into the 1v1, Sizi wants to end this now, it's just the dual!
And wow, the prefire on the swing.
LNZ extends play.
It looked like it was done.
It looked like it was over.
Then RBR with LNZ's clutch.
We'll see another round of play.
A couple of important ones here from Brenner, right?
This is the one that alleviates the outside pressure.
So at that point, they forced the hand of bait
into the ramp eruption.
Seven seconds, the flash comes out.
Here's the step stampeding.
Ah!
And LNZ makes good on it.
Okay.
He turned around off the back of Sizi's opening pick. He still wins the 45.
Now...
See, again, they're starting secret, right? They're not fighting outside in the same way that they were punished for before.
Yeah, I'm immediately just checking on Clem. He is nowhere near yard.
Yeah, with this setup, when Breno gets to be loose, he either starts red pole or secret,
And then he becomes the yard contributor alongside of Insani.
Playing for a top split.
You do have to get past a very sharp Insani.
There should be a Molly into main.
Probably CC Ben.
Sack not essential, feels inevitable. Beautiful shutdown.
Three kills from Insani.
You've got to go somewhere else, boys. You can't get past him.
24 francs, he's hanging with Sizi at the top of the tables.
Money's a problem now for Bate.
Now the bomb going down to 2900 loss.
It's going to be tough for MPL.
Just a great example of when you know you don't have all the nades.
How difficult is that fight for Insani if there's a flame at his feet?
I thought, I think, their plan was to erupt.
I thought they were just going to take it as a stage, right?
Like clear out main control and then we'll decide more span of the bodies between these
guys.
So, definitely wanted to turn that up.
Okay, we're getting serious now. It has to be the eco for bait, double digits. It's not a certainty for MIBR, but it's getting close.
Oh, is it? Okay, are they shoving here?
It's 3400, right? So they can actually make a couple more investments. It doesn't have to be fully light, but there was some buy-in that sell back.
There's a hero AK on a cent deal, and yeah, you can see where they've leveled out their money.
We know we're getting the 3400 next round. Sizi's making sure he gets the orb.
Oh, he's coming to the metal taking this real fast and exposed so Clint gets himself a open up
and he's second to this map.
Ramping to Bruno.
He realizes he's got a dip.
Yeah, Bob.
He's got a dip there as well.
So good trade, but Clint could be on for an A-Series.
He's already got three within the rounds.
Looking good for another.
Oh, never mind.
Never mind, he had the back turn.
It's always the hardest shot to hit.
When they're not looking at, yeah, Clem leaves with four MIVR.
Two rounds away from OT.
Oh, come on!
They're starting to believe it's possible,
especially with two convincing ones, back to back,
with what, one casualty?
I think if I'm Alex in this moment, the call that I make,
I want to make sure that I can at least plant the bomb.
So even if we lose this one,
we have another full-bike going into the final round
to play a regulation.
MIVR, they are still believing.
That one's way too easy as now, let's just try and take some chances on the light of fire, I understand what you're saying?
And G in up, Clem there, and he has had a quiet map, in the venom, but this is fast from Sizzy.
Yeah, you had to pay the price through the flames in order to be on this line, he's looking for that head to head with Clem.
How are you gonna get it?
Clem this time wins out in the head to head with a crucial juncture of the game.
I haven't been many of those.
There's picked a right moment to find it.
start feeling like it was a guarantee whenever since he took his old yard but
nope round 23 it's Clem shutting him down putting them into an uncomfortable
man disadvantage now that plant becomes even more integral right it was
something that was on the menu but now it needs to be a guarantee unless you're
happy to operate with glils and tec-9s in the final
LNZ is ahead of this, so he actually has info up secret, right?
He's not coming into this late, he is confirming.
I haven't scoured just yet, but does he expect Alex?
Are they close to these smokes?
Quick reactions, yeah, Alex probably would sell a grey screen for him, he was unprepared
for LNZ just in the open.
So that extends, there might be arse chances of seeing the last round of regulation.
He's starting to find a safe haven on hot, essential, down the vents.
LNZ is ready for this.
Yeah, he's got the bomb on his back, so if he loses it, it is rounder.
Zee, doesn't finish him off. Hang on, 20 seconds, he's got to get out.
They've drawn the rotation, so back up they go, it's a race.
They should be able to plant the bomb and MPL can actually cover off Heaven.
This is huge.
Hang on, Babe, making a strong case.
Just enough time for it, Klim. Does he play ahead?
He doesn't have Breno's support.
He's just going to walk straight into the angle.
MPL nails it, pulls us into the 2-on-2.
They've got the kids for this, and they still got the time for the retake.
MRBR's picked, but they can take it right here and now back to turn.
Oh!
BL secures it.
Ancient required a quad kill from NPL and forces them another day of play, another map
of play in this dual-die affair.
And a big performance there from Sizi, 25 in total, buying the second half into the
chip-ins from the Reds, he's just in to get them across the line.
Ancient up next.
Time for a more competitive first up, Counter Strike.
I
I'm making it easy, and that's the difference
I'm showing up around the fence, I try again, it's all pretend
I burn all over you, it will burn out so quick
But you took the time to live with the hopes of mom's sake of it
Oh, I'll die right in you
You hide and I'll crawl through
But then, I'm back right here
I wish you was still there, alright
I wish you was still around
Yeah, you've got options
Oh, I've got them too
But I'm not the one standing around
I know what to do
Baby, stay a hold of your missing
Don't you cry for me when yours is talking
All I know is that you're not walking
And I'm not walking
I died right in the new life
Then I crossed the road
I've been on the break to the end
I wish it was the other way around
I wish you were still with me before I wish you were still with me before
I'll take you home
I'll sing for you
I'll sing for you
I'll sing for you
I'll sing for you
Oh, oh, sing it, oh
Oh, oh, listen it, oh
When I sing it, oh
Sing it, oh
When I sing it, oh
I'll make a mess and kill you
I'll kill myself and kill you
I'll kill myself and kill you
I'll take your heart
When it's time to get down
I'll save it for
When it's time to get down
I'll kill myself and kill you
Send it down
Send it down
Send it down
Send it
Send it down
The joke's on me, I let myself fall in again
You would've thought I learned from the last time
But who can blame a girl when she's left blind?
Yeah the jokes on me I let in someone new again
I guess I didn't learn from the lesson But who can blame a girl for trying?
Let me down
Let me down easily
Gentle now, cause I can't take it
Thought by now
Thought I wouldn't feel it
Every time it's worse than me now
Try my eyes, what am I missing?
Thought I'd be fine, who was I kidding?
Don't make me feel it, I don't know if I'm lost
Let it go, let you tell me why
Don't make me feel it, I don't know if I'm lost
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go
Give me hope, just to watch you take it
Take it down
I can never say that
Maybe not
The thought that we were married
Was too bad
But I can't say it
The joke's on me
I let myself fall and again
You would've thought I learned from last time
But who can blame a girl when she's not blind?
Yeah, the joke's on me
I let in someone you'll get
I guess I didn't learn from lesson
But lookin' like a girl for trial
I
Make a better girl, and she's gonna want you
Drop some heat, and let someone look at you
Leave that line from your side
Make a better girl, if I try and let go
What?! Oh my god!
He was human in reactions!
And so a single map, and one of these teams is going home, their major will end in despair.
They picked up one win, they've lost two games, and now a best of three for survival.
MIBR and bait trading each other's map picks.
We land on Ancient as that middle ground for the third.
I don't know which way this one's going, bait did some convincing on Nuke and impressive
close on a map that you know it looked like MIBR might have been finding their way back into.
Keep returning to the head to head at CAC just a couple weeks ago that one was on the 20 second
of the fifth so you can do the maps but ancient that was played in the pool last time round and MIBR
absolutely dominated them at their team to score like so will we see the same today or have there
been some learnings for bait didn't feel like they were believing after number one Mirage normally
their home turf seems to be showing a little bit of weakness, but now that we turn to Ancient,
it's a map that they're familiar with, a map that they can play some good Counter-Strike,
but not last time round. So we don't normally do this, but if we want to outline, like,
win conditions, I think Sisi keeping this form up, we've seen openings. If he does this on Ancient,
in terms of the openings, I'll be extremely surprised, right? We talk about this quite a bit.
Sure, you can break the smokes in mid on elbow, you can boost into the box,
you can be ready for heaven swings and go away main. There's a couple of options, but it doesn't
It doesn't seem as easy as a map to find Orpix as Mirage or Nuke in my opinion.
And his counterpart, Clem, had a bit of a rough day in the office over on Nuke.
Didn't really manage to bring his A deck.
Kinsani didn't, and he's going to be with this mid-control, right?
So this man, when you talk about Brazilian Counter-Strike,
he's the one that's not inferior in terms of the high level of output,
and he was just putting that on display on Nuke, even though,
it was somewhat in vain.
It was Brenner when Venom on Mirage, who were both putting in a bit of a shift.
Brenner will be contributing with the mid-control alongside him and Kinsani and Clem,
and then he'll be over towards A in vain.
Flick over we'll let you take a look at what you can expect coming out of the side of the server for bait
But again and similar to Mirage
I expect to see that more grouped up rounds that are not set from spawn but the idea is a little bit more
Hey, we're gonna aim for this type of a plan
I think if you take a look at that 2v4 the MPL
There's a part of there once they can get into situational counter strike
They play very well right there understand the rotations and sure
Maybe MPL could have looked a little bit baby if that round went against them instead
Looks like a genius cuts off the rotations make sure they can't come up to heavens and secures them 13th round to push us to this third
and deciding map
To be impressed by the idea. Yeah, I just think doing it on your own right without the support of the good
Obviously, I supported the teammates, but he's making some tough calls in pressure situations and in the interview with trace
I think it was a little bit coin even a little bit facetious, right?
Let's say we have no pressure. You're a competitor once you're in the server. You have pressure
There is definitely pressure in play I think maybe it just it serves him to downplay it
You know, I think for especially when there is you know so much at stake
You've got yourself a do or die affair a game of Counter-Strike with your major on the line
Understandably this pressure you can't deny that but he will he will do so in order to just keep his head clear and enable
What should be a good tea side?
They are starting on the attacking side here, and we are ready to get underway
way. This is like a sirloin in
business class. The stakes are
very, very high. The CT sides
that have done the convincing
for both of these teams on one
another's map choice. So let's
see if we get something a little
bit more competitive in the
first half. It's favoring bait.
Alex is selling an a fake right
now. Brenner in a man can call
the info. Okay, but does that mean you run up the ramp anyway? Yes, it does. Underhanded
Flash, Benham's going to eat his own team Flash, but still tracks the head nicely.
NPL just a one, kept humble. Kendrick would be proud. And it's four to one in the pistol
department for MIBR in the series so far, so they'll grab another up, continuing to
stack those up as the bomb ruined on the other side of the map. And nowhere Alex wants. He
was selling the fakes of Brenner, prepared for the A-League or Red Push. The rest of
This team will deal with be lane and cave and we may as well just stay on board with Alex
There's not too much to get excited about with this, but again, it's just
No plant limits the options of bait in the bi we will see the eco
Taking a look at that MIBR results. So it was a side star last time, which is makes the result even crazier
10 t rounds
13 to total Alex just rung the bell there of Brenner
Most he can get a couple of kills. It's almost impossible to win this round
And Sani, we're just talking about his strong performance on Nuke.
Well, we're going to keep it up here with a three-piece on the pistol, and Alex, that's
the kill on to Brenno.
So, finishes off when he started over towards AMA, which was about a minute ago on the clock,
and he's grabbed another on to Clem.
Is this really winnable?
Can't, man.
It just can't.
A couple of consolation kills is great.
He's made this a whole lot more interesting than it was.
VenomZera and Sani on the ramp, they'll be able to just use their strength in numbers and the clock's so low that
they could maybe plant safe from ramp, he's gonna fake out, make sure there's no vulnerability cave
and up the ramp and both on his screen. Okay, MIBR will take it, that is just two men.
VenomZera and Insani with all five of the frags and MIBR get off to the races.
They did give him an opportunity to sit the plant there but Alex playing for the round win,
he doesn't commit to the bomb going down and it will be an eco now so he gets a deagle because of the frags.
This is it. Like in 40 minutes, this will be over, this map.
So let's fucking give our best and push a little bit more.
Push over the fucking limit if needed right now.
So we have no regrets after.
That's the key part of the end, there.
We're all on the server.
You don't want to feel like you didn't give it your all.
I don't know which voice that was, but it was definitely a Brazilian.
Interesting that Venom's definitely done a lot of talking.
I'm curious if it's come from him, Insani, or...
Who's the coach? Who's Co-O?
Sorry, Lat-Nia.
You've been hanging out with the Brazilians so much, you're starting to sound a bit Portuguese.
That's my bad.
Sorry. No stress.
No stress.
It looks like they're going to keep all five alive here at Senthil.
Peppleway and MPL.
Oh, he's still back towards T spawn. So throw the gutters. Oh, he's put a bow on his clock.
That's cute. Benita.
If you're hoping to be catching the action on the A stream, come on T versus that boom.
I think that's scheduled to start at 430. So, as well, find yourself with us. It's going
to be a qualification game for the next stage. And Sam is titled 9C. The last elimination
the game of the day will be M80 vs Legacy.
Oh well, we've already lost one. I'll let you go search for the result yourselves.
I'm sure you've already seen it on Twitter. But some of you, you'll like to watch the VODs later.
I know I'm hard to tell you how to watch Counter Strike.
So here we go. First gun round.
What's the call? From Alex666. He's gonna try and do some early conditioning with some A-smokes.
MPL on the warpath and just climbing Donut. They are starting so heavy.
Look how far away they are from A.
They're expecting a B execute right now.
They're in the wrong position, the rotation.
It's a long way back.
Klim's calling this.
Breno and Insani running, knives out.
Presumably, he just sits and turns up.
This is a good call.
OK.
Breno to B, just rubbed, tips rings on in, and just Alex can hit it.
NPL can.
There's another one that came from though,
trying to profit from the chaos from Klim.
Leaping forward, elevated over the box, around the smoke.
Spot one, removing Sizi.
NPL for the trade attempt.
to three on two as the dust settles and the smokes fade.
What? Venom's just found MPL straight through.
Senthil's flank.
OK, yeah, there's two backs turned.
This could be round ending.
Kenzie needs to live.
Kenzie's trying to draw attention.
And a double spray.
Comfortable bait on the board.
That was a very tough round for Bait there
because I love the approach from MRBR.
Once you have that response time, the rotations,
they can get there in time.
It's something that Na'Vi a couple of years ago were very good at.
It's one through CT, one through donut, one through temple.
Next guy CT, next guy Furnace.
I mean, I don't know the key word, but I heard a key word from G2.
It's kind of, you know, I would imagine something like Fiesta.
Like, we're going, we're just going to go.
Everyone move, everyone cause the chaos around the smokes,
comms become hectic, and you can profit.
And there was the two players from bait who were on the lurk,
but MIBR just wanted to fight the side play,
so the fact they were able to trade,
they're trying and testing A once more, this time off the rip.
Interesting, OK.
Just think of the world, at least.
Copy and paste, you're right.
You can actually play around that, and Klim is investigating for that.
That fight, Alex knows what's up.
There's a B-line right there.
Bonk.
Safe.
Well, if you can, this is already red.
Are they here? You're scampering away.
Okay.
Oh, I mean, this is one of those maps
where you can condition like this.
Your first two gun rounds
and you've just called straight up A-goes.
We saw this from Gizmy's calling, though.
And the fact that he was able to single-handedly
take that A-space and get that flank
in one of those key rounds.
I know we're doing some revisionist history right now,
but it was a legacy
who really didn't know how to plug the gaps, it was all that we're losing to be executes.
They take a on timing and we're also having a tough time holding on to middle. And I'd
be I find themself in a similar situation that they can start to slather on the round,
especially if you're doing these be heavy starts, right? Like rounds go by, you're doing
all your protocols, you're laying you till at some point, you're going to stop throwing
it. At some point, you're going to maybe start an extra man.
Okay, given over a felon's, he can get his hands on it, but no, we'll just retain the
So keep 3M4s, that'll give them something into round number 5, you're not going to see any investment from Klim or Insani.
That's how they saw that the Dino smoke was a little bit skew if, and just dealt with the problem immediately.
So some sharp shooting, those two kills, that's the highlight.
McCall, that's what excites me.
Are they going to go again? Are you kidding me? Where's this mid-play?
Well yeah, they've done a little extra mid-play.
3M4's saved.
And a boost. Perfect start, isn't it?
That's how you help your M4s find an opening.
You act as a little stepping stool.
Well, they're not to notice, but if they started executing toward Fee right now,
they would have been in.
Klim and LNZ are rotating back to deal with this.
And LNZ are announcing the presence of Util.
So...
His support network's still not on the way. They're pushing aim, mate.
Yeah, but he's got vision over this flame. He can shoot through it.
Swing in around the corner after the flashes wants to catch that perfect timing waits for his teammates a little using those usp's debate
WG essential racks up the double back with the same
It's not out of the realms of possibility that Venom Zera could do something
I'm writing off Insani with his unarmored usp, but he could get a cave flank here
Looks like Sizi's holding for it. Have a mind picks up an AK. There's a world where he could just tap the head if he comes through I
Think damage. There's no kid the retake almost an impossible
Yeah, there was a chance for Venom-Zera on the cave fight, but Insani's just gonna try and preserve
Good response. Yeah, well they are gonna have to try and get out of there, so Insani should have this one
Alex goes down this time and I mean Sizi can take the safe haven towards CT spawn to get out of there, so it will take the lead
So you know Venom normally one of the bee holders that helps inform the decision sure they were so temperate how they get there
We've used two usage them on the way in even though Brenner get in the double but the trade work and then just playing together in the post plant
We get the job done
So we've seen an a play with a mid lurk we've seen an a rush and now we've had out mid to be
We know that it's both B defenders, Ellen's in, Venom's in, the last to arrive.
dealt with the mid and the A hold.
Again, we're on the B side of the map.
This is the right call right now.
There's no smokes for the execute.
Just two mollies, a flash and a HE.
The spacing could be the deciding factor in this one.
Use SZ's low HP to throw them in.
These molotovs not gonna get you far,
so just contacting up the ramp.
Let's see how that spacing is.
SZ's parting up close.
Backhand, easy for the first, and Alex trading.
That's exactly what the doctor ordered.
LNZ in the clutch, essential.
Oh, perfect!
Just returns his glance towards the short side,
puts his process straight on the head of the Swede.
Might be a time I go into the next gunny.
That's what, 4-on-the-drop?
And this is that mid-fight, you know?
You trade loads.
It looks problematic for a moment,
because MPO and SZ were late.
They got flash coming through.
Kenzie looked like he got sold there a little bit,
but good trade work from Sizi.
So I'm here with Hero M4.
There is some light investments,
lost bonus facilitating this, but it's two Mac 10s.
One for Kenzie, one for MPR.
They would have had money for AKs.
So this is an intentional investment.
And one that does mean that they can spring
into action toward feet.
Both gonna take these towards cave.
One of them has another smoke where that came from,
so he's trying to act like more than one player.
It smokes a faded, the combo over towards mid could start playing for information in
the tournament.
It feels like they are almost always magnetizing to the lead, the most vulnerable side.
Well that scuttler didn't smoke there from LNZ does cause a couple of questions.
Might slow him down enough for these boys to get a little closer.
And he has another smoke, so he's going to drop that towards short, so that's been replenished.
Sizi's holding the head, and I'm fine.
The others won't lend a hand.
Still, there's Insani's M4 in the feed, just the one, and a deagle, not the best weapon for this kind of fight.
Insani though, he's at least keeping it competitive, he's taking a couple of bodies, three so far.
Alright, getting sketchy.
Now that'll be the round. Insani gonna back off. Damage done. Just gonna limit the buys, but five rounds.
Teeside Ancient already from Bane. Reminding you of last time, just a couple of weeks ago at CAC, this was a drubbing.
Right now they're in the driver's seat.
Oh, he's sharp, isn't he?
That's a fourth. He knows where essential is. It could be an ace in a round loss.
Don't get those all the time. Insani puts himself up to ten kills and forces all the members of Bate to spend their pennies.
There's lots of cash for Alex and everyone can get a buy regardless so it is a dent
But that does require MIB to find the follow-through
You know the mic timeout call the first I love this time on music feels like they want a quest
To survive in the major
So we've already seen the a place
So how does that factor into this and you could just play a bit more of a passive setup
Which means you're not going to contend for middle you play one donor
maybe 1A towards temple you have someone acknowledging red at the start
They just throw them all the other H here you play to be and cheat that guy over once they start to feel pressure or
Trump win out full control we want the info we want be we want like and one of them is a whole lot more risk reward than the other
All right, they're all in you might lose to just a flash timing
So that's the risk that MIBI have if they want to play aggressive. Let's see what let me is offered up here in terms of the
Timeout it's clean gonna start a with the op so they can't lose to an a rush or
at least they're preparing for that possibility.
Perfect start, Insani catches MPL,
and essential to the next victim of the Insani AK-47.
He is biting through the nail to keep MRBR's CT side on lock.
Finally, a turn of the tables.
It was a five-round run from Bate.
Insani puts a stop to middle.
And Clem should win this round.
The first player we were just walking,
it's gonna be a very tough clear.
Clem should get the first, and at that point the round should be done.
He's missed that one, so we can't really peek. Breno has joined him.
Clem has no reason to give away a kill, unless he gets in a position.
What do you do about that, Clem? You burn to death?
Oh, you take one with you! Nice peek in the flames, catches his rival...
on the AWP.
And yeah, very little for Alex to do here, similar to the pistol.
Maybe he could get another killer too for some drops out of the MIBR going into the
next round so he's not just running out and dying, he's going to try and extrapolate max
value.
You smiled it.
It's good to see bait in some of these scenarios having a bit of a cheeky time.
is not there still getting the job done being offered anything so good restraints
from MIB up and there you have it Brenner seals the deal and they pick up the AWP
oh it's double intentional this is a brawl right so they just went for mid
control there was actually a gap on me right it was just L&Z tasked with that
So if it wasn't the execute, they would have been in hot water.
LNT is going to use the secondary orb.
So likely to see him just post up the lane.
The money's not great for bait going into this.
They got the 1400 lost next to us for 1900.
So normally you would see the force
and they could have justified a couple of investments here, right?
They could have been an AK, a few glils and tech nines.
But because if you take a look right hand side of the screen
with the 1900, everyone's going to be around that 4K mark.
They're just going to go for a full buy into this.
they feel right now five it's pretty good six would be great and you've still got
about load arounds to work with before we get there so much can they get out of
the Diggle investment four Glocks probably not a lot
I kill all the stuff they're pushing you browno don't die oh no there's gonna run
in it there's gonna run it down when I claim that he's not looking to diggle
Body shot turns the attention, NPL finishes it off, and it's falling apart at the seams!
Bait before a live L&Z, it's got no hope, but now NPL secures it. Bait with what? A Desert Eagle?
He bought Kevlar and a Eagle.
How have they done that?
He spent $13.50.
How have they done that? That's the cheeky smile for the whole squad now.
I cannot believe this. Just the pace at which this happens. They're ahead of the Molly.
Then, Clem is on his own, back in the death cube, getting piked in from all sides.
This is a very, very bad round to lose, and Alex can't believe it!
Holy shit!
That should never happen, not in an elimination game!
What in your third map?
In two days of play...
Okay, it's starting, you've just found another double.
This is the same opening they ran when they run the last rightful round, right?
So they're just operating for that again.
Yeah, there is a correlation with them not fighting inside and them winning rounds.
The second you go anywhere near his domain, you find yourself getting shredded.
Especially now he gets that AK in his hands. He's just so proficient.
We did have two eco wins from bait yesterday versus game religion and they've just got another
one on the tally. I cannot believe it. Alex is feeling himself. Scraps back one against Breno.
Uh-oh. 3v5 gone, 3v3.
three. They keep on these off. Keep getting offered kills. They closed nuked with one of
these. Didn't even play the advantage there, MIBR. And Sani might have to do it on his
own. I think he does. Charter spotted. He's got Klem it in support. Kansas always swinging
for that. They know exactly where he is in Klem in that nice forward position and Sani
combines with Klem to stop the bleed. All right. Well, not going to be able to run into
A with these here. Says he will have to win this fight against the all-pond CT. I wouldn't
put it past him considering the history in their head-to-head this series.
He's just so quick.
He can plant. They're both coming through CT.
Could have respect the flames. Insani has an angle over the top of them, though.
Just not deep enough on the molly there.
Miscalculated.
Another multi-kill round. Insani.
Well, because they won the eco, they actually have heaps of cash.
So, Bate could have been in a worse position.
Insani.
I'll look it out of the ring.
These were three.
Excuse me. You have to keep in mind that they're likely to open the same.
That's where their success has come from in these rifles.
This is B-centric.
Gunnerman LNZ will be tested.
Hating Heaven to try and deal with Insani's presence.
Oh! Wow!
Oh, and Lenin's he gets spammed as well. These boys are brutal
That's a crazy shot to be hitting on the jump spot from Venom Zera
Just the tip of his head tracked through the concrete
Through the stone
It might be on the back foot heavily
No break, it's nothing. Better waiting for these reactions. Alex has the aim, aim, push,
kens is in the middle, there's a combination over towards B lane of Ascent, Thiel, Sizi
and MPO juggling the U2 now, so they are going to call themselves into this finish.
Erzien, Klemmer playing retake Brenner when Insani is starting to search right now, and
as they part through, this is going to help confirm the idea that it's going to be a B
play but the bomb is starting to, oh they've heard the water, they've heard the steps.
Okay that's going to inform a bit of a movement from Insani and Brenno. He's going to try
and catch the flank and it's very quick essential to last hit.
Oh!
Brenno's had a couple of mares here. Just one man Insani and the perfect flash from
Kensi's order sets up. Alex for success. That's a 7th round.
It's beautiful to watch, isn't it?
You're swinging into an angle, your teammate flashes there and you get to profit off of
Just a completely blind Insani the man who you have to stop
Brenos had a couple of really nasty deaths here. There was the of course the the cave rush where he's screaming 4 4 5 5
As he loses track of the swing from Sizi and now this one
He hears gets the info against the same case, you know, you know, what's happening
You feel like you've got the element of surprise and you're gonna lose everything
They're gonna run down this AWP and try and take it away
Yeah, good luck only 2400 loss bonus for the final round of the half coming up next
It might be up. Go try as hard as you can but everywhere he goes since he's got his number
Bait I've found a seventh on the T side and you've got nothing in your pocket sure this is
God oh
Yeah, I'm containing it the best they can salvage now is a five round half
They won the pistol. It's only got a multi there. They're gonna get to the full eco. That one's easy.
Another two rifle rounds inside. He's had multi's. Someone else stand up and be counted to get MIB out of fifth before the break.
There's a smoke break. Perfect time. Just cancel was handling up, but he gets away with it.
And that's spamming through smokes, costs inside, dearly.
Brenner forward position and aiming. This could be a little bit of a redemption for Brenner.
for Brenner. SZ needs to wait for a rifle, he can't clear main on his own. And if NPL
goes, he can trade. Oh gosh. Climbs close. Climbs close indeed. Catches and unloads,
is M4 unable to tame the spray. Sany is in the temple, kept at bay by the flame, but
that will fade and he will start to make his move off the flash. SZ loses vision for
a moment Insani comes on out catches the donor player quick adjustment into another
sitting is putting up such a good fight when combination with LNZ it falls to
essential with that bomb now down this could be that fifth round and Insani
makes it work on the farmhouse gives him a BR5 to baits seven this is a dual
die a fair loser goes home major ends will be right back with the conclusion
You
MBR do not want to go home and Insani especially 19 frags in a 5-7 half bait have the lead as
We swap sides and in four of the five rounds MIBR one Insani had a multi kill makes sense when you look at the scoreboard
Speaking of four as they went forward of the five pistols so far. Let's see if we can make it five for MIBR
Well, they were about to erupt at middle, but they're turning this is we're an ace split a couple of
key pieces utility in the mix is LNZ lining it up towards a
MPL and kenz is all in donor a cent fuel turn by
That of scissor in K so that pulls kenz is all away from the donut line and then
You've got a lot of work to do kensis. Oh can't track it clean nails the headshot cross step all the way by the jumping
Lock it's Brenno on to NPL to open up the a account should see the plant
It's only spotted to there
Nice we'll have to stay seated to try and flash for them to come out doughnut. He wants to part temple, but he needs to use this
You till
Bomb down and ticking no kit. This would be hard to break. It's gonna have to be one hell of a flash bang
I'm just piping through. Don't know. We've got this multiple elevations a main centric
clearing and a nice headshot from the central back. Hang on a second. He's found two tracking a
team kill from a scissor. No time. Simply no time. Breno secures it. That's another pistol next to
an IDR's name. They're racking him up here in the Latin at the Roars again. It's not just the end
of the major run at the end of this map for one of these two teams. It's the end of the season.
It's been up and down for both, it might be hard doing all the hard work at the start
of the year when L and Z came in to take over the leadership, they're on our screens early,
they have a good brutal passmaker, stage 3 they got rid of head-trick, they're bringing
Tegikawa, he's not the guy, they're bringing Sizi, they're happy with him, and they've
been working up until this point, like grinding events, getting experience for the kid.
It's very rare for me to see kensis all have two bad halfs next to each other, you know, like he's had a quiet one on the first half of play, but it's unlikely they're going to be able to keep him completely silent.
Well, he's going to have a key role fighting middle. I'm just going to have to be tussling with Insani's mid takes.
Yeah, you're going to need someone to put a lid on him.
Ooh, right that one down. That's a great way to support your boys splitting while lingering
heaven. And then Z's helped him out. Clearly this is going to be the 7-7 all tied up for
MRBI. There's no doubt there. Some of the moments for bait throughout yesterday and
today that have caused concern is them starting to play individually. And sometimes that's
bound them out and looks very strong. But in a round like this, don't just give away
your deaths in vain. Understand that you don't have a lot of investment but still
see if you can do some damage, maybe save a gun because your next buy is not going to
be perfect. And you also want to try and limit MIBR, keep the stress on them.
Oop, nearly killed each other. But it is understandably the SMG let off the leash.
It's got $600 for kill reward. MPL has a kill here, yeah MPL's just taken
one. Yes, they've got a couple more kills here.
Not too shabby, basic damage done. That's all.
Essentially it's not going to be able to bring anything through, but at least you make it
Kostly, Clem, ooh, just evades the bomb radius.
Yeah, fortunate that was the AK.
So, gonna have to be a couple of drops here for MIBR.
This is where it needs to start for bait in the second half.
So, actually, I love the way they played that.
They got a lot of value out of their eco.
They've kept MIBR wobbly in the financial department,
and now this first call from LNZ.
How do you wanna open on your T side?
We saw conditioning from bait.
Lots of A moves early.
This is all.
Playing behind the smoke. Looks like they've missed the brawl and molly.
They're not going to swing through and look for these fights either.
Content with giving them the mid control.
It's easy coming back to join this. So there's a molly at their feet here. MPL.
Not caught by the spread. They need to clear LNZ.
So the in-game leader on the lurk looks likely to be a B-plane.
He's tagged and will be hard-cleared.
Oh, the trade from Insani's quick!
Both in cave on B right now.
Yeah, Insani's got his swing primed and ready.
Logs won't miss.
Essential can't lose this.
Important, dual one.
Alex found Venom Zera in the meantime.
Brando too low.
Put six feet under.
Just climbing the clutch.
I'll beat two now.
Oh, no chance.
Wow.
That's a crazy swing to take there.
offering up the five but they convert eight to seven M.I.B.R just back in their
individuals you know sometimes there isn't the synergy but they've got the
muscle and that missed long smoke right it does cause a lot of cash you can't be
having those unforced errors in moments like this I'd have said you can't lose
both pistols on the third map and still win it but they are making a case if they
win this series by only winning one pistol overall Mirage that feels like a
lifetime ago whether you're M.I.B.R or bait doesn't matter anymore so this
forced by the MIBR. They lose this, it's worth two for bait. They can get up to double digits
and be running away with things. Trying to be fakey, so you tilt, dot it over towards
B but the bomb in A main on the back of Insani, paired up with Breno. Sizi playing a jiggle
defense. He's dropped that based off of nothing, so he's being called back now.
No, the friction on B's pulled everyone. Kenzie's going to hear this though.
Okay, Kenzie's also being pulled away, and in fact has managed to find the info. And
the box spotted. Clean, beautiful, bait nine. They're in it to win it, and they're doing
so without any need for a pistol round. I'm surprised they didn't yell there, because
they know the MIBR on Eco now. That's a massive round. And you also dealt with the fake, right?
You dealt with the fake. That was very easy. So, Bait, strong position to close this.
I don't think we'll see them give up on Eco in the same way MIBR did. That is an insane round
to have lost if you're MIBR. That was a scenario as well where maybe they opened the way they did.
I'm being a hindsight harrow right now, but because they were expecting a forced buy with
with the lost situation for Bay and instead it was just a deagle and Kevlar, but still
a still good man Aris, Genji's off, makes the first fight, Alex will sweep Klim under
the rug, he's the on the jiggle defense again, but he's gonna be fine, he's gonna handle
this one with the MP9, it's a little bit sketchy, he's on 3 HP but that's all he needs, MPL
That's it, and takes down Insani.
OK, this is spicy.
I know every baked game is close, right?
The best of ones that sent them to the 0-2 were 13-11 and 13-10 losses,
respectively, to foot and M-80,
but even the game-allegion game went all three maps into intensity.
And it seems the same case here.
These boys are hard to put away.
They don't give up easy.
They have a resilience that they shouldn't have.
Yes, precisely. Normally you attribute that to like support, to experience, and they've got neither.
Look at after the opening smokes, one cave, one red, just a handful of you to remaining, so they're just going to go for a B execute.
It's quite light on. Looks like Sizi's making his way over there now.
Oh, is Senthiel! He's chosen a good time to go for the wall bang, catches LNZ, trying to progress.
I've got LNZ in my sight line right now. Doesn't look too dejected with things straight into calling the round from the grave
Can sometimes be a boon for a squad when the captain's the first to go down
There's one of those limited smokes used towards red. It's not great. It doesn't matter too much. Yeah, it's fine
MPL still has to respect it. They have a man advantage. Why would you take the risk?
Oh, it's sent your racks up to more Breno and Venom. No one looking at him
inside round the smoke might have something to say about this
and Sani's passed MPL and MPL doesn't know MPL's back has completely turned to this
he's walked past him he's just walked past him
well climp needs to live if climp goes down this is gonna be round over not ready
he's told your horses he gets the infrastructure detected he gives him the fight
okay well then Sani's been hurt and he's dead too kentus watch and make it so
it's another bait round this is falling away from MIBR's grasp
They only get 2,900 into this round. They have to partial by right?
No, nothing.
This is a scenario where 12 is literally on the table right now for Bay.
These boys found themselves 0-2. They went from 3-0 to 0-2 to now having a battle back.
It's gonna be best 3's consecutive if they want to find stage 3.
It wasn't easy. Their first task was game a legion. They were down. They were out.
Now they're up against MIBL. This one's gone the distance as well.
And with the way it started, you can understand if they've just given up,
but they're sticking in it.
And using the timeouts is letting you may as well get on the mic
You've got him as well use them and this will be a long road back. You need one of these rounds yourself
Just the star contrast where you compare what the IBR bringing into round 19 and
They couldn't have a more full by everyone's got what they need a couple of AKs even in the hands of essential and kens is all
It's all set up for a potential 12th, and putting MIBR on a handful of elimination points.
The stage two has been rough for MIBR. Spirit, they got 0.
Right, everyone's been getting known by Spirit.
I'm not Flammas' reaction to the question.
Can MIBR be Spirit? No, absolutely not.
Double-A steep, Insani. Oh, they missed one of them.
Never mind. The bullets will make up for that.
Could not have found a better opening scalp.
Taking down Insani, they're now operating without their staff.
If they were going to continue towards A, you could have started questioning Sizi's position
because if they get out of May and they can scow these pistols into him quickly, he is
on his own, but...
MPL?
God!
Convicts behind the box, there is going to be a Utah Throne to chase him down, he's managed
to get around the corner.
Yeah, now if you're swinging to the AWP, so at least they've forced away the vision in
middle.
So that'll reconfigure the CT setup and that's what they were looking for.
with full B lane clear, this is a burn of information and should free up the rotation of Alex.
Look at MPL.
This is insane. They know they're against the partial and they have a man advantage.
It's just truly, he's tracking them.
He's got them dead to right here.
MPL with the hero play.
He's going to spot them all and just takes a couple with him.
Another fight long range, not the fight for attack nine.
It could be the MPL ace denied by Klim D.
The Central will secure it, Bate are right there, surviving another day, they were down,
but they were not out, 0-2 goes 1-2 and now MIBR could once again be added to the list
of teams knocked out by Bate.
And just 17 days ago these two teams faced each other in China, 13-2 was the scoreline
for MIBR, this one feels a whole lot different.
I can't believe it was a 30-2 looking at the way this one's playing out.
Alright, well it was the T side's start, so that's where they did their better work in China. Let's see if they can turn it on now.
It's all right on this, your major life on the line. Can you find the opening?
Ellen Z commits to it and removes MPL.
Sanya's still got a space.
Oh, whoops in trouble. Sizi down through the smoke and Sanya not going down.
He really wants to stay at this major. He is playing his life out.
makes it across the donut that's implied from the trajectory alex in hot pursuit the
bombs outside b doors so essential making his way down ramp for info he's gonna get
more than he bargained for here the tremor was holding perfect placement of the crosshair
that should be an MIBR round sure you've got Insani but the bombs likely own b understandably
exercising discipline in an impossible round the turn there in sunny spidey
senses tingling aka picked up and that'll be the save the bomb will be
planted on the b-site around to follow and well Clems actually trying to cut him
off at the pass he's already head towards the spawn how to commit to MPL
gets the boost going in sunny takes down scissi overstaying his welcome and then
Kenzie swings in vain. Central's death and that was it. So, Alex, did you get to hold
on to this? Klim's not too far away.
Still heaps of money available for bait into the next even with the 1400. How good are
your clears here, Klim? Can you remove it? Well, unfortunately favors you in that one
and you find the frag in the back. So, board wiped, a raw let out and I think the eyeball
raised in a smile there tells you Alex knows these guys are done like a dog's
dinner if you're making that yell when you're in this situation boys you might
need to focus up a bit yeah you just kind of put the mic close to your mouth
and say let's shut down let's get this done shall we okay well as mentioned the
money was there for the bite the problem becomes if you lose this one they
can't get this done that's not for my beyond then it's an eco then it's
double digits before the guns come out again so that flow of rounds can get
away from you quickly but still strapped in this one
I believe Alan's trying to get in early near, do you think it's too fair? The nades aren't stopping him.
It's free realistic.
Secure CT setup, Alex reading the plate.
What the hell? Essential, he's just got these wallbangs on lock.
I need to point this out, Alex is playing Joker on A. He's playing hidden behind Torbox, highlighted here.
Right.
is an A finish. He believes that'll be the case. Insani with this space red. Flash for
K for Venom and LNZ to clear. Senthilin says you're playing retake B because of all that
mid pressure. And Kenseth are trying to funnel them into that cross that they already have
the space upon. So donut blocks for another 20. Alex has given up that position tall
box and we'll join the donut hold he's the weakness and I'd be are not to know
Alex Bating for Kenzie
Great, knock him out!
That's the end of the Major for M-I-B-R, an exit in Stage 2.
One win in the stage and a smile on Bates' face as back-to-back days
when cornered, when it's a must win, they have survived, they have thrived,
and they will be in that 2-2 matchup.
The resilience of this young man is impressive.
Reminds that Sizi, 16 years of age, is a baby face, but he's a killer.
On Nuke, he was a monster, and here they have stripped him of ancient CAC.
That's a memory. This right now is the moment, and living in an up-bate, 0-2 down.
Tomorrow they get to play in a 2-2 for stage 3.
MIBR, we send them packing a wave goodbye, and the last two days of play are ones that they would want to forget.
The big loss sticks out like a sore thumb, and they started this series 10-2 up on Mirage.
That didn't seem to make a difference as they continue just to hold on mentally.
No coach, you'd think no chance, but they keep on giving.
My heart bleeds for Insani, you know, he really did fight for his major life there.
It was kind of the only real shining light when everything else was going so sour for them.
I think in a 13-8 game, in five or six of the rounds, he had multi-chills that they converted.
Insani was putting in a shift, but this one has fallen apart.
MIBR season and Major have come to a close here today.
That's the end of the road. We will not be seeing any more from the Brazilians.
So we are getting started already with an interview.
He's doing it live.
We'll definitely throw to that one when it's time.
We're going to throw this one down to Stunna with LNZ.
Say goodbye to my men.
These are always going to be tough.
But in this moment, yeah, we are going to be saying goodbye to my VR
here at stage two of the Intellect Tree Masters major.
Honest, what's happened here today?
Let's talk a little about this matchup
that you had in front of you in hand.
In your own words, how did it go?
It was good as we hoped, obviously, since we lost.
I think on Nuke, T-Side, we were hoping to get a lot more rounds on the T-Side.
It's a pretty rough map now for everyone on T-Side, but I think we had a lot of rounds where we just
kind of didn't execute it like we planned to, which sucks.
And on Ancient City as well, I think we could have had a lot of rounds where we had the advantage.
But yeah, obviously it doesn't feel good at all right now.
You guys definitely on Nuke, you showed a little bit of pressure right there. You showed some resilience.
What really kept MIBR from stringing together rounds today?
Maybe the pressure, I don't know. Maybe just today that's the inexperience got to us, which is okay, because this is our first major together.
my first major in MIBR and we're still a very young team and I'm still in many
ways proud of what we were able to show here but I think we had a lot more to
give which feels really bad now to to go out this way you know unless there's a
ton of time a ton of build up into the major you look forward to it for half
the year then you get another one and in this moment I kind of want to give you
the floor on the way out here for MIBR is there anything anything you want to
anything you want to add to the fans at home?
Thank you to all the Brazilian fans that always support us and always
criticize us to become better. Thank you to all the Swedish fans who's always
supporting me unconditionally. We are not happy about this at all, but we'll be
back bigger and better for sure. I can promise you that.
Thank you so much.
I thought it did boom, surely won't commit to be fast. They're going to try and look for
an entry elsewhere. It's the two greats who stand tall and two leftists who fall. It's
gone very wrong now. Afro follows up and Monty is just going through the motions and those
Those motions are fantastic, down the vent denied.
Bed Boom looking for a 2I5.
Ramkubble was meant to be there, out of brainwaker, he's mopped up right away.
At this point Bed Boom, they might just start believing they can pull this off.
2V5 has it all got going. Now down to just a 2V3 and everyone's a bit more tense all of a sudden for Monty.
I could have silenced Creep in, make them nervous.
The presence of Gizmy back here, Lobby side, might get called upon.
That boom have time to work with here, 40 seconds, wonder what rooting they're going
to go looking for in towards this top site.
Time is the biggest problem, I don't think you can wrap heaven at this point, there's
so much to clear left for bedroom. Smoke eventually comes down. Gives me might want to wait for
his team here, but he is the only guy who can actually stop this bomb plant. So close
position to jump on it when he hears that tab. Backside stick. It's great call here.
Molly keeps the pressure on the bedroom. Get out after the bomb. This retake is a miss
from Blue Fox. Careful. Watch out, Dillardez. Another miss shot. They're getting closer.
flashed out bedroom are dancing with death. What's going on? That's the least likely way
to kill it. You only get so many of those. These two all inspiring blanks.
What the hell is happening? That was one of the crazier rounds, wasn't it? I mean,
that was so in a ball for bedroom. Let's be honest here, boys.
with multiple shots off in May. We've got players standing the open, missing their orb
shots and not getting punished. Miss, after a miss, Dillardez, second miss.
He makes this mad crazy dash across. Heard miss.
I don't even know. Breaking glass?
Heaven flank, waiting. Magnetjez will not make the same mistake this time. He wants a
Oh, gets out with three very well handled for Magnetjez, learned his lesson after the
Tech 9 fumble.
And so this time around, Trigger held, waiting for it, convincing round at a bet boom, they
get him across in the yard, he gets all the way up through heaven.
None the wiser were Monty and they wait for Magnetjez to spring that trap.
Nice to see him have the chance to connect these kills, gone for the job this time,
as Monty were very scared about an A hit there, three players on the rafters or roof trying
to play anti flash.
Hey!
Steady, blyat, Ubritsa!
Hey, it's not good.
Ubritsa, yeah.
Why is he trying to get in another window?
He's gonna try and go fast, but they're going into a Disney spam.
He's done big damage.
V-Mass not able to help him.
It's a convincing set of openers.
Backstabbed for Rainwaker's done a lot of damage.
Low players here for Bet Boom as they hold on in this 4v2.
And even though you've done so much damage to these guys coming through the door stuck back in the lobby
You're not gonna give this a go on numbers and numbers alone
Okay, and you would have loved that boost because it allows you to hunt rain waker and spawn he ten health
You could have peaked this but either way he's saving Monty gonna
Try and get out with a guns
Bet boom just has to run couple of them do low health
Might see this fight at the end of the round
Oh, wow. With this plant? I don't know. Let's see. Interesting excerpt from the comms that
Boomage essentially talking about throwing the game plan out of the window and, you know,
loosening up, changing things on the fly. And then you see an A rush like this. Now that
That one wasn't in the sprint, ad-libbed here by Betboom.
And the perfect call to put Monty on the back foot,
because last round of the half coming up
and if Betboom can win this one, they break Monty's money for it.
Suddenly, they're back in the map.
I
My heart's become less and less of a focal point in this game as time's gone on
I think I'm gonna return to it for bet boom
Nine Z mayor and jump back into the surf today with a chance to do something really really cool
But before we get there, I want to know about you guys getting
Well, I'll just say, wrecked by Team Spirit. What happened?
It was a tough match for us. I think we were not in a good day, and you can't make mistakes
against these types of teams. So, yeah, it was a difficult day for us.
I think in Mirage we have a couple of situations like we could make a couple of runs,
and we made so many mistakes in rounds.
We had advantage and it cost the map for us.
And after we couldn't come back and they play stronger than NUG.
So it was a difficult match for us.
It does beg the question.
When you lose a game so dominantly,
what can you learn from that as a team?
What do you take away from such a loss?
We have a long talk about the match. I think it was more like a mental difficult for us.
We talked more about that. We didn't come to the server with the mental we have normally.
and it was more harder, but in the game I think we played the same, we do our stuff and we
were good, like individually, but yeah, like I said, when you had these mistakes and you
playing against these type of teams, it's no chance.
It's painful, they'll make you pay for it right away.
For you though, Rookie at the Major, so you're coming into a Cologne, you're on the brink
of Stage 3, how have you found Cologne, how have you found the Major so far?
I said before like for me it's like a dream and I'm playing with guys like I know for
many years and I'm enjoying that. We are not playing to stay here, we want to play better
and better. So yesterday we played bad against this team but we want to play stronger and
we try to find our consistency. So yeah, we want to make it to the stage three and doing
it step by step.
Beating Tyloo today. Is 9-Z gonna do that? And how important, how big of a day is it
for you and your team?
We are going to do our stuff. We are trying to think about our game. Everyone I think is in a good shape today.
We talked about the game yesterday and we had a lot of talk and I think we are in a good moment mentally.
but we only try to play our game and do it better and better.
So, yeah, we are going to train ourselves and try to do the best
and find our game, and find our consistency.
That's what the team is looking for.
I love it. Straightforward, right to the point.
And for you, I think we can get you out of here.
Is there anything you want to say?
I don't have anything to say, only say thank you for all the people who are cheering for us,
they're in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, so many people are cheering for us and we are all together
on this, so yeah, let's get it. That's nice, let's get it, good luck.
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to the third stage of IEM Cologne 2026,
major that is 10 years in the making and a return to the major for one of these organizations
that took four years Mohan. 9Z now have a chance after not gracing us with their presence since
2022. To do something the organization has yet to achieve and that is to make top 14.
Some say that where the real major begins and as we've seen so far this stage there's a lot of
underdog threats that have powered up a ton. One of those teams being Tyloo so as much as you
you might look at this match and think, well, it's interesting that we get a
qualification match between two teams that are probably happy to see each other.
I don't think it's gonna be easy for both of them. I think that there's, you
know, such a high likelihood of this being 2-1. I think there's such a high
likelihood that both Tyloo and 9-Z can pull it off. I think that Tyloo have
have powered up the tongue as in that 9-Z while they got crushed yesterday by a
spirit. So did everyone else. I really don't think that says much about, you know,
how that 9z will play today. I don't think Tyloo can take any lessons from Donk, and what he got to watch yesterday.
48 and 16 versus 9z,
animal. So I'm sure there's a part of 9z that are willing to just brush that off. Like being able to qualify to the next stage
already would be a huge accomplishment if they have to go up against a team like Spirit again.
So be it. But for now, they know that they can play very well, and they also do play well under pressure.
So what we'll find out though today is can Tyloo play well under pressure because that's sometimes where they get doubted
And I think rightfully so and it felt like this stage as it began was just a bit of house money
Maybe for Tyloo seeming that they did go down to the 0-2 pool stage 3 and for a lot of us
I think we thought to ourselves damn another disappointing major for the Chinese players and yet here
You are kind of on that rebound on that resurgence
And now this time in the second stage not playing with a loom elimination like a guillotine over your head right now
Right finally, this is tyloo getting to play a game that doesn't mean elimination
That pressure was on them and you said it like sometimes when pressure gets to them you can very much see it
This is one of those games where it's pressure in a different form. It's not pressure via elimination
But rather pressure via progression
So we'll see if that means they're gonna have to take a step back whether 9z can really just bounce back immediately from the spirit loss
It's something that we said multiple times yesterday with 9z if you would ask them before stage two started
What the best and second best scenarios would have been they would have said 3-0 and maybe just losing the spirit and then being here
Today and I think when you look at the other opposition at this stage right you could be going up to a g2 who we have higher expectations for
Tai Lu are a great opponent for 9z to just show us that this core of major
Major Pet Debutons has what it takes to take the organization to a new height.
We are quite literally watching 9Z in its best form ever.
Yeah, I mean that goes for both of them to some degree.
I think when we saw Tyloo play against Foot on Overpass, there were winning chances that
they let go by.
I think that in the two big rifle rounds where they could have had a slightly better move,
it wasn't even really a missed shot.
It was just falling out of a great setup.
They doubted themselves.
And I think even though it was a 9-13 score line,
it was actually winnable.
And I just hope to not see that today.
Could be a critical map in this.
I don't think anybody's given map picks in this series.
So, you know, I think you have Tailu,
who once really championed Overpass,
really, really enjoyed it a ton.
Still, obviously can play it.
but have suffered some wounds, but I think those wounds are more mental, I don't think they're more map agnostic.
Whereas I'm not really expecting anything like that to happen to Nynzee, right?
I think that Nynzee look at this veto, and worst case, it goes to a third map.
Uh, I think they like their odds on Nuke, that's a map where we did see them get absolutely dismantled by spirit,
but once again, is that map specific? Perhaps not.
When you look at the wins that they have on that map,
I think that that should build up some confidence for the likes of Ninzee.
Historically, it's just a solid map for the course.
So, you know, I think maybe Ninzee have that little sigh of relief
that they look at this one and they think,
okay, we've got two very technical maps over top of Tyloo in this series.
Yes, good way to look at it.
Two technical maps where, again, we kind of characterize Ninzee as a team
that loves to go for those aggressive openings, CT or T side.
We saw it even versus Spirit.
They were losing Mirage.
They were down by a substantial amount.
They were being beaten in straight-up head-to-head aim duels and yet still constant pressure and going for the flashes into the A ramp,
trying to take fight's top middle, and that's versus team, a team, that they just in the day, and more often than not, aren't going to match up to, right?
Donk dropping a plus 2.0 rating on the stage of the Major, and yet they weren't shying away from playing those opening moves.
So if I'm Tyloo today, I'm thinking to myself, okay, 9Z are gonna come swinging at us,
because they surely respect us less than they would have respected Spirit,
and they still played that kind of aggressive game.
And there were a couple situations at 3v5 and a 2v5 that they lost,
where they were playing this fiery brand of CS that they got punished for,
but I wouldn't say that they were being outright irresponsible.
They just made a couple of moves that were a little bit too active, I guess you could call it.
And in a game like this, they might be able to get away with it.
So there's a chance that 9-Z look incredible today,
and make this a two-map series, but I'm going to hold out for three maps to be honest,
because I think I've seen some very promising stuff out of Tyloo.
Okay.
Fingers crossed, in fact.
We've got a game like this on our hands.
Progression.
The Stage 3 means a lot to both of these rosters, especially to Tyloo,
that probably feels like they're coming back from the brink of death.
The worst possible start to any major.
We all talk about that dreaded Zero-Two pool,
And particularly, when you're just talking about Stage 3 of the Major, you show up, you go home, you are the losers of the losers.
And while not wanting to get ejected alongside Game and Gladiators, they have fought back and rebounded from that moment,
they will have a real chance to take a swing at the South American team that has impressed in this recent month of runs.
It is time to find out which of these rosters goes on, and your battle today begins here on Overpass,
a CT side for Tai Lu to begin.
Who's going to be the star of the show today?
In a couple of maps where, you know, G has been the huge difference,
but also one where sometimes the decisions were a little bit off.
We've got a long walk, but it won't be anybody pushed up on a spotting nest, but they preemptively
move three pieces upstairs, waiting for a visual.
It's hard to talk about stars of the show for 9Z after they're thrashing out a spirit.
stats just so deflated. Jam Young won to watch for Tyloo but he's not a part of
this hold. It's Mercury first, tethered off G and just enough space off that
frag for Mercury to disengage. There's Camp Young but he'll go down with nothing.
We're back to the 3v3. Instagush to the Berettas. Max has got a triple kill
single-handedly just weaving his way through this bombsite with all the
frags and he is in a perfect spot to get 4 and 5 as well.
Well, Xero's on the scene. Max, he drops, and so we're even back out at 30 seconds.
But is that the bomb?
Yeah, he had the bomb the whole time, and they weren't pushed up with him.
Oh, but then Tyloo decided to try to push forward one.
It costs the Mosya. Xero taps back. It's a 1v2 clutch demanded.
He's one bullet from it.
DGT gets damaged first, and a headshot to make the difference.
Oof, nailbiter of a pistol for both teams at times.
but this one comes up in the 1v1 clutch for the 9ZT side early.
Plenty of crazy shots coming into that pistol, I mean even Max finding the punishes.
I think he felt like he was trapped in bank when what truly he wasn't
and the only worrying part was not having someone peeking behind him to hold the stairs.
Saw the great kill from Zero to bring it back, but to be honest,
kind of now when we see DGT in 1v1s, I think he's probably going to win this.
That's kind of the aura that he gives off at this point right now.
We haven't talked about him too much, but he's had some really good output maps.
All that looming, dangerous force by here for Tyloo, so...
9z, no fools.
Not guaranteeing this one just yet, but applying short pressure really puts Zero in a tough spot.
He feels the need to phase the smoke, watch by two, and this is probably just gonna quickly turn into a Tyloo three-man save, no?
Yeah, I mean, if you want, try to take a shot from Heaven or something, but take these guns in the next round.
Never a bad idea. Very clean from 9z. So get up to 2-0 on the start.
5 alive and that's not changing.
I brought up DGT's clutches. He is 2 to 1 in success versus failure in the clutches for
the last month. So put your money on him. If you find some self of there, again.
Sorry, was that a ratio? It was a ratio. Okay. Not a percentage. I thought I'd change it
up a little yeah okay that's scared I thought you only had two clutches sorry
that is a 66.666 win rates in the clutches that's two-thirds ten over five
two-thirds two to one ratio two to one ratio two-thirds 66 percent right which
those numbers is wrong they all could be right daughter they all could be sure
could be right I think they are all correct numbers bend launder's
well it's just recycled guns at the very least
Smoke in front of Mosia.
Luchov shows no hesitation.
And so very swiftly, Ninesie are going to topple over the B bomb site again.
This time they are just kind of exuding that confidence, the delayed confidence from the last round when they were concerned about the force by G scout.
We've seen do great damage on these kinds of buys.
CT side overpass particularly, but obviously no targets at the A site.
he's got to let this one go.
Luchov is a heavy hitter for 9-Z and also just a very smart rifleer.
Again, one of those players who's like, firmly a star.
But in terms of superstars, like, there's a lot of just strong talents on this team.
No one's at the top of the board every single game with 9-Z,
but I think that makes them somewhat special,
because it can be critical of, like, Mayer on some maps,
but then literally saves them sometimes out of nowhere.
Honestly so far this major though when we've looked to count on him it's it's not
really always the off-impact that's making the difference
I like it, G. Don't take any chances, leave the scout on the ground, straight upgrade
to the AWP and it's an early reposition down to the B site.
We'll see if this cause for concern justified.
There's nothing, and it'll be forced to reposition here.
We do have short water being taken over, that is, DGT slipping through the smoke grenades
into the corner, but still 9Z play their options in anticipation of a Tyloo move, which so
So far, was really just that boosted AWP and nothing too egregious thereafter.
Looks like they're trying to set up a boost by Mosia's position.
They're gonna throw the incendiary first, DGT asking for a smoke, hangs on, and Jam Young
kills Max but gets traded instantly.
All while DGT was burning, throwing U-Tilt, this reposition from G's off looks to be in
the right spot but a missed opportunity.
Playing tree.
They're ready for it, and so, man, advantage slides Ninzee's way.
I think they saw his backpack, they were bull-staring his way.
looked a little bit too easy. Not a spot that you often play on CT side. And they'll instantly
regret it. Unfortunately with G's missed shot, that means this round is really tipping towards 9Z.
There's not the clean hit a clean one. And it's not fair. Bit of chip damage instead. Mozia able
to slip down into the mud. Oh boy. Nice U-Tilt. That's going to fluster zero. Oh boy. Mozia eating
a flash in the middle of it. There is still time to slow this down, but kills come out thanks to G.
Arrival in from heaven. Moshe wins his duel.
Wasso drops it back. It's been almost from inside side and he gets a piece of Wasso peek
But it's a 3k for Wasso to give 9z for consecutive terrorist round wins. Very very close trades
It's a 4-0 start, but this round was resting on a hair trigger to be honest. That was very
As a coin flip when it came to the be exact actually would have said
9z based on the flashes and all the utility to these the scale they were gonna definitely win that but
somehow they couldn't get everybody while they were blind and she found an
opportunity to get back into it but because it was a full commitment from
Tai Lu it also means they lose everybody
overpass is scary when you don't get the early CC start
Yeah!
A guy that gives Tyloo a solid threat level.
I'm ever curious to see if they push off that site
or just want to give Ninzee space to go into another execute.
There's been this kind of affinity from 9Z to hit this B site.
We saw it in the second and third round versus a force and light pistols.
So if you're thinking to yourself that maybe it'll come this way again,
I think maybe they'll just play passive.
They wait there long enough to pull one off.
Jam young looking to rotate upstairs instead.
Trying to be careful about this could have walked the whole way.
And so, at least Tyloo will get some information.
It doesn't look like a super scary, uh...
Path by setup at a Tyloo, pretty standard so far, except just weaker guns.
I might need to call in some additional support.
Flash will be good for Jam Young. He kinda eats it himself slightly.
So it just makes his duel a little harder.
Doesn't die at least, spams one down to low health, but wassos still with those four points of health manages a double.
And slowly they're going to apply enough pressure to just carve their path through these pistols.
Yeah, Nines really shooting hard right now. That was a chance for Jam Young and they had them coming out of the smoke.
It could have been them getting crushed absolutely, but not really on it.
And you know, there's one thing with Tyloo that you normally can say the aim kind of makes up for everything sometimes.
Especially when I remember, GM Young maps on overpass, but right now, they aren't as locked in.
I'm seeing a certain poppiness from 9z that looks really good for their likelihoods of kind of keeping the pressure and winning games.
They look like they forgot about yesterday.
But just also the way they get close to the site and then hit as a fluid unit.
That is, I think, a really, a real strong forte that could be a little too much for Tyloo to handle.
When you're talking about the aim and the individual is great, but it's it's the pack
Oh my goodness that miss made open the smoke just enough for jam young to die. Are you kidding?
That was going headshot, right? That's what just happened, right? Yeah, he was he was throwing that for headshot. I think well
Looks like God has picked a favorite in this game
96th November and I'm not talking about their coach
Oh, man. Not all misnades are equal, unfortunately. But at least there's nobody...
No, I mean, they were just trying to stand behind the molly and clear out short, so we'll have to go back and try to do it another way.
And, aw, they'll make some noise.
She's going to have to do something fantastic here.
Man, no support behind him. It's going to be so difficult to find a way out of this.
to cross. Oh, and it's an instant headshot from Wassopeak.
It's crazy, like you said, like how poppy they are.
How submitted they are to swing because a massive shadow advantage there for G,
but with the speed that they moved at, he just wasn't ready.
He thought maybe there'd be another shoulder peek.
And I think one of the solutions to that poppiness from Ninzee would be
Tyloo taking control of the map outside of the bombsites.
But we haven't seen that.
We haven't successfully seen them stop short.
That's where the bombs are.
Bathrooms, long, none of that.
They did try to push Monster on their second round, but it's true that when they tried their aggressive options versus what,
that's where they definitely looked the most uncomfortable.
And I guess now we're seeing why they don't want to try it, but you just can't win overpass without bathrooms or blue or short.
Something, something, right?
And Monster should be maybe your last choice for pushing and just go for something more standard.
Playing top bathrooms, for example, has got to be like one of the best positions on a map.
You have an advantage on both fights, and you can flank Blue later in the round.
You can get information very early before it becomes A.
They're not really using that.
Using Tree and that long setup with the op of the back, that's kind of old school.
It's really falling on a favor because it's hard to get out of Tree when you get spotted.
And even when they have tried to pull it off, they just straight up got killed.
You get a slight variation this time with obviously short control taken over by this
boosted MP9 and a player Topcon to tether off of.
So again I think this is the right look and attempt to deal with the 9Z setups that we've
seen as their numbers have been at times spread thin across the map as they take over control.
We'll see if CTs can kind of capitalize on that.
He eats a team flash, burns down slightly, and he's got a teammate with him, so Hwaso's trade's efficient.
And Luchov seems concerned about this, but the player coming from the top of Connector wasn't.
DGT takes a single duel into the B site, getting a little stringy, but Jam Young's position, known to Luchov,
he wants this duel, and he signs up to his own deathman advantage, Tyloo, off that forward setup.
They're gonna see the bomb drop and actually get away from it, but if they want to push out here, it's possible he'll be able to die.
Trying one duel too many perhaps, but just looking to keep the pressure on
Ninzey before they could truly clump up again. Is this Mayer into the tech nine
because that AWP up close would be under pressure. He'll find the head shot off
the sidearm and DGT's got that cover. Valiant effort from Tyloo working with
Les. It's a new look, it's successful in its opening gambit, but then the recovery
from Ninzey keeps this winning streak flawless. Now that same energy with
better guns and they might have a round one but 9C we're just seeing them make
sure a countless good moves in a row every position is traded every push is
putting pressure on the CTs to make a bad move themselves they're never the
ones to look stressed out and even kills like this that go very underrated if
Luchov doesn't get his spray there and they have two guys outside short and
they're holding on to it that's when there could be time trouble
Oh, they're out of the monster smoke. It's not being watched actually.
Oh yeah, 90.
This is a nightmare for Zero. The flash is coming, but it's going right by them.
And they're gonna hear this put-
Yeah, excuse me?
They don't realize?
Oh! Okay, get away with the robbery!
I am.
Zero makes a fast step, neither 90 player turn, they- they- they- they rid it off as some kind of impossibility.
They must have been talking, because those footsteps were very apparent.
Uh, someone inside that smoke, and they saw that flash go up to the...
You know, right- right in front of them.
I thought that it was some kind of fame.
Take what you can get!
Yeah, it doesn't seem like it matters anyway.
And even if they got that kill, everyone else in the site did a great job of holding.
Only lost a single player on this round.
Well, it felt inevitable that Tyloo would eventually break this streak.
Just doing it in an unorthodox way.
We'll see what kind of Hail Mary moment DGT ops to try it.
He's already thrown that op away, so.
Grab an AK, make sure he dies before this round expires.
Or they're not watching it.
He can just get away.
You could value him.
No, good value in getting these frags.
I mean, his teammates have tons of money.
You would have thought you would have to keep Tyloo low,
But this will bode well for Tyloo.
Four players up, AWP included for G.
I don't have a chance to keep converting these ones.
This is what Mosia sees.
Two players running up into the side after zero says,
yeah, there's nothing monster, guys.
All clear.
Kill feeds full of people.
I guess it's less often that you see someone
try to clear a monster running through the smoke that way.
It's just that loud step you'd think they would.
Yeah, talking or running in themselves or
Something gets lost in the chaos of a game of Counter-Strike
So it takes eight rounds with Tyloo on the scoreboard and immediately fighting Max with a perfectly placed grenade
to shave half his health off
Looking a little bit more opened up a bit better. Utility lands in the right spot.
Nynzee said, let's keep it simple. They've been letting us outside a monster. They never play right side monster.
Oh, two smokes. Oops.
Got a panic maybe there for Tyloo's players?
Yeah, it's kind of a massive find. And Nynzee are actually immediately walking away from this thinking,
thinking, Tyloo are going to be thinking about this for the rest of the round.
You know, we're going to feel very vulnerable on B.
Teams can take any excuse to come and try to hit monster even with a lot of grenades available.
So will they end up over rotating?
It's crazy how much more complicated the situation has gotten,
and I wonder what the final game plan is. Mayeron's coming back to the B site.
But it's getting late now.
Zero doesn't have support, he's gonna get long.
Oh, nice kill.
Oh, Max should take that trade, absolutely.
Kind of stalls for a second, goes back in, just can't get a wide enough angle to deal with Zero.
We go 15 seconds on this clock.
Flaps on Mayeron, all the way in the back of Monster still.
Short side, shut down.
And we're going consecutive rounds, Tai Lu here.
As Mayer never even gets into the action, throwing out those utilities and his teammates just can't push beyond.
We'll see if he's even allowed to survive.
So if Tai Lu want to run the risk of dealing with the AWPer to really start cutting down that money, no.
He's able to hang on to it.
A single survivor again.
This looked like it was going to be some really sick idea that had to do with a split or alert,
but it actually ended up just being a V-split.
with the bomb going halfway across the map, I don't know, maybe because they saw those smokes and they were looking for a push at first.
But all it really did was put them into time trouble and they couldn't really clear everything out safely.
I think Zero gets a really important frag, stays alive alone.
Outside monster.
That'll be good, right?
Oh!
Here we go!
You know, it's still a good opening, still cut one player down.
Yes, it's a disadvantage of a 4v4 to the CT side, but at least you're pressing into 9z because that is what has been working
Was it a CT flash as well? I thought so
You see just having 9z on their toes here we saw them kind of get down to the last 15 seconds last round
It gives yourself just that better slightly better chance
Maybe the clock adding a layer of pressure 9z just can't handle
Yeah, if you have the map control, then I'll give yourself 30 seconds.
You just see the level of caution that Ninzee have to use in comparison to the start of
this game when they were running away with it.
They were moving through these motions so much faster because there was never this looming
Tyloo threat pushed off the site.
Now this round we do have Mozia and G just in front of the A site and they're drawing
Jam Young up but he hesitates a second.
We'll see if that slight delay in his timing opens a door for this 90 puncture out through long.
It's G's op to try to hold it, he misses.
Man, G's gotta get these chances.
Jam Young though doesn't waste a second.
Flexes out through dumpster.
You know this opera stuck in the corner?
Oh, no scope out of G.
And now the cover of the other side of the dice box.
Mosie has been quiet this whole time.
Bax turned and Tyloo wrap him up inside the site for now their streak of rounds.
Looking quite nice at the tail end of this CT half.
It's really nice that you get a position where G, you know, he could be like, oh, I missed my shot, now I have to tuck.
My teammate's gonna take over everything on the site, but he does go a little wider,
just to make sure he has a better chance at timing that peek up, playing not safe, just properly.
You still have to be super pleased with the 7 round T side, but now that these, these are the ways that you're losing rounds,
I'm sure 9Z are thinking, what's breaking down?
It's also a real testament to the spirit.
Oh, there's the fly.
Oh, so it's a teeth lash.
Well, that smoke got broken open, but they ate it too.
Great catch, guys.
Shift in the atmosphere in the server right now.
This has been the story of Tyloo's cologne run.
Recovery.
Still trailing.
Three to seven.
You win these last five rounds in a row and you've actually given yourself a chance.
And a game that certainly could have felt lost.
Two Tyloo players ready to press off short, off not to.
They know he's on the other side of that wall they haven't really been reverse-boosting one-way street
It's good moment. Maybe for jam young. Oh
Shot man
Yeah, it clips the edge of that roof and it only does 60 or 40 damage to DGT
Who's now left as the only player for 9z outside the B site
There's a little bit of an expedition going down towards bathrooms at the moment
and it's gonna be announced with that flashbang.
This forward short play out of Mercury and G.
This is gonna be the G round.
He's not gonna miss the first shot on this one.
He's actually bombs now leaving.
So they're throwing a setup smoke
or like a fake setup smoke on the A site
to show them that they have one long control.
But it's another round where Tyloo
putting pressure on at the start
has got us down to the final 20 seconds.
Smoke fades inside of monster,
Zero at bat, Luchok first, dead instantly.
Damage to the left side, Jam Young's got a double,
and that's before Mozia even has to offer anything.
10 seconds, and yet again,
the 9-Z assault will fizzle out
in the face of a stellar defense.
Tyloo, although still trailing no matter what,
have turned this half around.
They're really struggling with the monster hits,
and it's really because of Zero,
who only has six kills in this game,
but now that Tyloo are winning,
a lot of the time it's just him getting
important one late round kill to stop things. Shut down that key directly.
From zero to hero.
9Z to disrespect those Molotovs, that's maxed to offer up a third of his health.
Tyloo say that comeback is greater than the setback.
9Z come into this round with a few less pieces of utility.
Just again though, another instance where Tyloo get off their bombsites.
Move forward.
Yes, run risks of losing a player early, but they've come out with value each and every time.
It's been a key to this five-round streak that they're looking to establish now with a man advantage yet again,
and nobody to trade out Luchov. Mercury's gonna have his field day playing behind enemy lines.
It's a pretty excellent move. Knowing Luchov is alone,
and the bomb can get collected again here for 9z as they'll, you know, what do they do?
They normally go late round B, DGT's outside of here.
Zero's success rate means you gotta feel pretty confident, Tyloo can hold once again, but he's in a new spot.
Flash is to interrupt it, DGT eats that. Again and again.
Spacing these out perfectly.
They pause, short players come back, now three bodies hard inside of the site, a fourth one thrown in.
Everybody here for Tyloo. DGT's got the headshot, but will they be ready for all of these numbers?
Mozia starts to offer up a distraction, and frags, and they all strike.
Total turnaround from Tyloo in this first map. A 5 round streak to give 9z something to worry about.
I was never meant to stay It was you that put me in
Promise me that we'd be okay
All of your lies, I was believing
You wanted that most of the time
But that was never good enough for me
Let me go and let me have my time
Let me go and burn like crazy
But we gotta have this way
What is there always to show?
You said so
Well, well, well
You got me like crazy
You were always fine and I was always born
Ready to get it baby, let's get out of the flow
Ready to get it baby, let's get it
You were always fine and I was always born
Ready to get it baby, let's get it
You were always ready and I was always born
You would always bring life to us
You would like to be here for ever
Remember when we used to have it all
We were so good together
Like if we both felt the same
Why do I need to waste space?
You were there for the time
And that was never good enough
For me, I'm going out of my mind
I'm going round like crazy
We're making the heck of this way
Only if you're up with the show
Or you just go
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Like crazy
You were always fine
And I was always wrong
Crazy
Baby, when did I not go?
I'm thinking where did I go?
There's the Flash, that's gonna catch Cribs out, they're gonna push off for him.
They became a proper Cribs for the Spaydowns, they got dipped out the Triple!
I'm finna think I'm not done yet.
Can you believe it?
The aggression 9C showed us yesterday versus Spirit was on full display for the opening 7 rounds of this game.
And that aggression was met by a muted Tai Lu.
Until they start to turn it around, push off of their bombsites and seek a challenge.
They stepped up to said challenge, win five rounds in a row,
and now have to prove that they can take over an attack to truly give Ninzee a test
on the South American Smack-Tick here on Overpass.
The story could be that they just started too slowly, and even though it was really impressive to get five rounds,
it's a five-round CT side, so...
And now, here at the Major, though, like we have seen,
We've seen multiple chokes at this point. We've seen a lot of crumbling happening.
We haven't really seen it happen to 9z, but I just don't feel like anybody's safe.
We should probably just leave that for now.
Oh, first pull. It's a good one for Mayern.
Very nice.
He finds a second inside bathrooms. He's done his job.
On top of that, we've still got long control for Luchov.
His Beretta's ready for anybody that wants to try to cross that line.
But Jam Young, because of his smoke, will have a chance to maybe skate around.
Still a pause down towards doors, as you see on the right side of your screen, the flank is waiting, which means for the time being, we've got a separated duel.
Here inside of the site with a health advantage to the CTs, but a blindside out of jamming up, he finds the kill to max.
It's a dumpster dive, and Hwaso eventually gets this flank into position, but they want the kill forward.
They're pushing off this site. DGT, he's got his teammate to assist, but as he gets down into the Heaven to block spam,
Spam that comes up empty, and 9-Z survive a real test.
A damn near rebuttal from Tyloo in sight,
it will be 9-Z to eight rounds first.
Man, he goes for the head.
I think TGZ goes for the body,
and that ends up being just enough.
Jam Young really stayed composed
and walked around those smokes.
I don't think not thinking about how many players were up,
they did a good job of making it feel like
he was on the other side of it.
But even those efforts weren't enough.
That's his first two kills out of Maren, that I think make the difference.
Maybe just maybe, Hwaso's arrival at the perfect moment to kill that dumpster player.
Because it was the guy on dumpster that had more of an angle on DGT as he jumped down.
But Maren put them there.
2K to set the tone, and what should be a freebie over this quadruple-glock single-jam-yong-deagle-bye,
and the Deags the first thing to hit the dirt.
Luchov confirms numbers.
This is going to just build confidence for the 9Z press off the B site.
You can see it underway with Wasso taking control of outer monsters, seeing nothing here and
really putting 9Z's A defense on alert.
Yeah, I mean, I watched that big comeback and everything and anything is possible, but I just feel like for Tyloo, without the pistol coming into this T side, these free rounds for 9z, they can just wash the bitterness of the way that last half ended, make so much money in a position like this and be in such a momentum position.
I hate to boil it down to one round and the mentality of it, but it's also the economy,
it's also the breathing room.
These are all advantages that they have to work against because they started so slowly.
I didn't get the plant, so they didn't force, they buy now.
They know that 9z are going to be locked and loaded, it's going to feel like a bonus, but
they didn't get any kills last round, so.
The M4 is two MP9s, overpassing one of those weird maps that's so CT-sided, but also there's
great spots for MP9s.
You know, like you could play in blue with an MP9 and that might be one of your best
weapons you could have.
So there's really good uses of these shorter range weapons.
And that just might be why it's so CT-sided.
basically anything can be good as long as you have utility on this map.
Early positioning on this boost is a worrying sign for Mosey up.
Oh, Luchov is setting up a flank. He's setting up a minute timing flank.
He's actually probably hoping they aren't coming long in this position
and he can just push around as soon as they have the inkling
that this is going to be a B hit, he can actually just cause a nightmare for him.
Even if he goes back to top bathrooms, oh he's only got an MP9, so the full flank would have been weird, right?
Just talking about the power of the MP9 in some positions.
This shot at this position with a shadow advantage on top bathrooms.
He knows Long was clear. There will start to be a question if it remains clear,
But even Jam Young at the moment, back party, has kind of taken a look at it for Tyloos' side off that flashmare and takes a look.
Did he hear a step? I don't even think that he did.
Aw, he's right there.
Luchov, when this fades, is that a dissit? Oh, never mind. I thought Mercury would hold that.
We do have this long walk up from Jam Young coming through. Maybe that'll find the flank in bathrooms.
They know there was two on the inside of bathrooms. Are they even going to think about Luchov?
Jam Young didn't check it.
Didn't check it, but didn't from sight.
He didn't even see that.
Not gonna call the Luchov flank who does catch G-Back, turned a second.
Luchov, getting away with it.
Yeah, I mean, it was a very strong bait because they had the flash retake for the outside of bathrooms.
They heard the steps is maxed through that, and bomb will get planted.
Nate does nothing that could have caught Jamion, who ends up getting a kill.
Alright, could have been dead to the explosives, man.
Advantage extended, it's all on Mercury, and he's not able to find anything.
We go majority alive, 90.
I just love the setup, because again, great use of their weaker guns, they tripled up on A, which is not what Kailu wanted.
And I feel like they were so well positioned to actually turn that into a flank downstairs, it needed to be a B-play too, so...
Credit to 9z for looking very complete in this position.
Prime example of just having an ace in the hole.
And they kept re-smoking in front of Luchov too, so they just had no thought that anyone was up there.
It's funny that when Jam Young gets shot from site on long, he thinks maybe it's bathrooms.
Because he's kind of panicking there from that long distance shot.
Realizes it couldn't have been and doesn't bother actually going to full clear it.
Just really good positioning from Ninzee.
But a great example of the sorts of pushes off the bombsite and the value that those
can net you.
And we were talking about with Tyloo, right?
It was missing from Tyloo's CT side for the first seven rounds.
Ninzee don't waste a moment. You know, they're Matt Pig, they understand
such a valuable position.
They do a great job of dodging danger, not losing LuJov in his commitment.
And he essentially wins that round as Tyloo's commitment comes through and gets cut down by half of the numbers to an MP9.
You can tell Tyloo feel the pressure here. Take that third time out, also buy-in,
keeping some money in the bank accounts but giving an AK over to Jam Young who's
looking to be the X factor in round 16. 90, 10-5 lead, a CT side advantage, their
map pick, everything points positively in their direction. Seriously, I just
could not be any more positive. And they're just there a team who know how to
win. For an underdog it's sometimes you can't say that.
and
having a short memory from yesterday's a massive asset counter strike where things move quickly
short memory in a fighting spirit
that's something we always give value to 904
D-Bangle for Lujov, gives it up slightly good dink from the Tech 9.
Before he gets the shoot?
Great flash as well.
Blind to the AWPer, has him fall behind Dice, may earn under pressure.
USP's out, he's got the cover out of DGT, who makes it over to Optimist, only then die.
CT utility tells you exactly what you need to know if you're Tyloo.
Last player's behind Dumpster, but the smoke denies the cover.
Did you see that?
Get in the see the virtuary, jump up, and so Tyloo busts down the doors from inside site.
I'm gonna need an explanation for how that Tec-9 got two bullets off before Luchov even shot.
Okay.
Cause I don't like Luchov. I don't...
He wasn't looking at that radar or anything like that.
You know what I mean? Like he's out of the open looking straight.
Bull!
It's literally just so fa...
He got one bullet out.
Damn.
He wasn't even pre-aiming that angle exactly.
That's what it takes. That's why Tyloo won rounds on those B-holds, because Zero got that first kill in B.
That first kill is everything in Counter-Strike.
But...
It's not a real round. It's a Tech 9 round.
Tyloo know they can't win a whole game off of plays like that.
It has to come together with something...
Got more of an investment. That flash is not right, but it's still enough.
PGT has the confidence to peek up and take out Mosia.
Still a clump of Tyloo players to try to break it down.
I'm worried about the boost over.
Max pressing in, smoke down towards Monster. That's going to keep Jam Young out of the engagement unless he gets crazy.
And he could.
Oh, Hwaso blinded, still finds it.
Short side stuffed, monster rocked,
and G unfortunately not able to get into the play.
So, Ninzee with a now very convincing stoppage
inside that B site.
G's surrounded, tries to fight his way out of it.
It'll be four members of Ninzee surviving
as they re-established their five-round lead.
Now two rounds from victory on Overpass.
Some rounds came to time,
trouble on back on T side for Ninzee at the end of the half,
end of the half, but overall they never had mega successful holes over this
clean, where basically they don't even get out of the front door. So, Linesy,
massive gap and ability on this map as they're showing us. And even though you
can win with Tech 9s, it just doesn't mean that the AKs are gonna make it
easier. So now they have both. It's genius. That's a crazy peek at a Jam Young. In case
an op was holding on balloons, but it isn't, I tried to allude to it a round ago. Jam Young
can get crazy and good on him to serve up a reminder to 9Z, a reminder of Tyloo's lethality.
You know, Luchov probably still had spinning from that double tech nine.
I don't think he'll ever stand there again. I wouldn't.
It's a real case of PTSD. He's gonna give him a 3D here, but...
The shot from Mayer, and that's one that could have been, reveals the AWP's positioning.
They get this execute coming out from long from Tyloo, smoking to Molly, also hitting the side post, opening the short smoke, and they catch Max unprepared for that one.
Now Mayer will pick it back up, it's G blasted out of this, Mosie attaching the angle, and not letting out that threat, a headshot galore!
They don't even get the plants, they've already won the round. That is a beautiful out of Tyloo.
What a sequence of events and it makes it look like they can pull off what they did with Tech 9s with heavier weapons.
Aim and awareness like that has brought them back into this game.
I love the way the utility flushes 9Z out of potential spots and then Tyloo knew exactly where that means they could be and were correct.
Pop open the smoke, catch that second kill, don't fall through the player pushing out through dumpster smoke.
smoke, very prepared for 9Z's reaction and so, game back on.
It's genuinely scary here for 9Z, like, yeah, they got a good start and everything, but they don't have money.
This caliber of Counter-Strike devils in the details and not to kick them while he's down,
while he's down, because he's playing well, but Mayeron did have a chance at a free one
before any of those nades came over.
It wasn't super free, though, it wasn't shoulder-peak.
Sure, discounted.
Yeah, discounted, yeah.
It was on sale.
Now, wasso.
Yeah, what's wasso?
What's it gonna do?
Okay, well, this one's free.
Do the tizzy-in.
Do the tizzy-in.
Free for Tyloo.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Who remembers the tizzy-in?
You remember what I'm talking about?
is the Tizian. Remember what I'm talking about? He did that. I think it was Tizian. Head down
and barrels on a fuck up. Yeah.
A touch of the Tizian.
Yes, that's right. Just gotta get hyper fixated on.
It's a super power.
Still with big in-spirits.
This big will play G2 later today, also in a progression game.
Ooh, one for the road!
If you go back at that up right now, they got it.
They got it.
Quick little scramble there offered up by Mayn.
So 11-8, still for 9-Z.
But Tyloo's T side clearly has legs.
And this is going to be the 9-Z decision to buy in.
Only limitation really is Max's MP9.
Also, duly noted, single kit this round also belongs to Max.
And there has been a constant threat of Tyloo getting
onto these bomb sites.
So that could come back to cost 9-Z.
Better one kit than none.
It's just that they've rotated so quickly that's been like, wins by elimination.
Before they even have to go for retakes.
But Tyler will happily win by elimination.
That's how you make sure your opponents don't have any money.
Uh-oh.
Man, it is not every day that you see that spam result in a kill straight up.
Especially kind of that late in the round, too, right?
30 seconds in.
Yeah, that's quite a find.
Look how far back he is there in blue as well.
I mean, he is...
I also really haven't seen that spam in an attempted.
So, can't blame you for not being ready,
but this position perched up on the railing means
Jam Young will catch you halfway in.
However caught is Jam Young instead.
Momentarily a 5v3 we get that trade from Mercury a scramble out of 90 downstairs of the off chance that tylu follow through immediately
Which they could but smoked off by monster. She pauses for a moment
And they rotate super fast. They want you to change your mind. I like to call here from tylu
Playing off the tendencies
See diesel, okay, so we got to run it up to a yeah, okay try to sell a fake
I suppose Luchov's you know really far back in banks, so
Maybe there's a world would have loved to have definitely gotten a kill on that B site for your attempt through the monster
But at least yes, you did have this a site pretty much vacant Luchov forced to lean back a Hail Mary grenade comes up from the B site
Blobs in the sky deep angle here for the offer
FV9 tries to flush for him, it's two.
Gills in, halfway down this 2v4,
AWPer catches Flank, and now it's a battle of these bombs
and Gears knocked him away.
What a triple!
What a call!
A rotation that gets Tyloo two rounds to 9Z's score.
Yeah, exactly off, it was very pragmatic.
They knew that 9Z would rotate quickly.
They made a little bit of a fake happen
and still had to be a 2v4, which should be impossible,
but unfortunately, it's not the first man up advantage
that 9Z have given up so far this stage.
But we're not playing against Spirit anymore.
This is an energizing victory for Tyloo.
They make it a two-round game.
And again, because it's a round where they get everybody
eliminated, 9Z are flat broke.
Four of the last five all come up Tyloo.
Once upon a time, losing this game 0-7, they have lost both pistols, both of which converted fully for 9-Z.
I said everything pointed in the positive direction for 9-Z, and yet Tyloo still stand here fighting.
Huge weapon advantage in this one to make it a one-round game.
And she looks so serious right now.
No fun in games.
until it's over.
You can see a win on the horizon.
Let's get through this round.
Unscathed is a different type of challenge.
CT is pressing in.
The bomb is on the off in G's hands
towards playground.
We've got this looming threat of two players long
and a push down into connector that nets them
an opening kill.
MP9's got the trade.
G's gonna activate.
Now the defense has seen the bomb,
but do they think that there's anybody else
on that long side, because DGT could still cut off the bomb carrier.
Man, this is dangerous. Gee wishes that someone else would come and clear this, because he's the one that has a very
sneaking suspicion that someone's here and he's right about it.
Now this is somebody who could come in and really ruin their day if it ends up being a B-play.
But DGT really takes his time here.
Yeah, but we're going past a minute and in a low number situation like this, DGT knows that they aren't going long.
He will play.
Control the guns.
And he's taking the long route. Jam Young is worried about this.
Yes, sir, but he just turns five sevens got him down. And do you want to talk or do you want to die?
He kind of scrambles around the corner G's on the good recovery another moment here where G's multi-kill
It's looking like a good call though. Tyler's going forward into this
They heard the door. Yeah
They go sprinting in
Waso can pick up a gun
We've got Tyler planting on the other side and obviously no kid not even armor in this one and because money's limited
I'm thinking Hwaso considers the save so that you guarantee Mayern's got his pause on and off to try to deal with what is now a
Powering up G sniper on the T side. I hate to be critical of someone who only had a 5-7 in one other teammate
But if DDT gets that kill, where does he think everybody else is?
That looked really risky to try to continue to wrap bathrooms instead of find a completely new position to attack from
Maybe he thought they were in top of bathrooms and they were gonna flank long
But no, that's an easy trade from G. He was nervous about it and you do have to feel for jam young
He was watching this flank at times
One round game
Tyloo mean business
This one could have gotten away from Mercury as well
But he had a player-talk connector to trade him out and it's just a numbers game for Tyloo
It's a super impressive from Tyloo to bring a game like this that just looked hopeless back into possibility without pistols
I can see for the first seven rounds of overpass were untouchable
Honestly, there is still a 4v2. Yes, it's great for Tyloo
But they that's just one more position where 90 we're very dominant to a start of a CT side
Just cuz Tyler have 10 does not mean they're gonna win
It's 90 picking up the anti-ecos
That will last mayoran as a freebie pop up from connector
That's a fair 1v1 and mayorans actually got him through the smoke now
You've got g tag flow as well mayorans got big value with that AWP this round
Three kills for Mayn. One man's stoppage of that A approach puts the bomb on the ground.
Totally controls them to grab 12 here unless it's gonna be a 2-1-5 this time around.
But something tells me this time's a little bit different.
Good head shot from 0 at least. He pauses. But he is working with 50 health and still doesn't have that bomb.
Flash! Oh! That could have made the difference, but Luchov able to just swing it back over and cut this down to just Mosiah.
to the right side, player sparted party, and that is it.
12th round, 1 by 9-Z, thanks to Mayer.
Still some egg on their face for, you know, dropping a couple
of strong positions in this map and letting a game get this close,
even though it's 9-Z who won the pistols,
but they're the ones who still get the 12 first.
They're the ones who still look extremely strong here on CT side.
And if Tyloo have to look like they're fighting
from the back foot the entire way through, that's just not the team
that you want to bet on.
So, Tyler, you have to get up from this, no op on this round even though G's been critical.
I hope that 9-Z make another mistake.
Oh, this is looking great.
Nothing.
What a fantastic call. I mean, it is just Mayeron in the same spot he got away with last round, but if he's not concerned about long, Max's scramble rotating upwards.
Max is dead.
Tyloo! Oh, they catch Mayeron with the first shot! Blue Chomp kills Zero.
Oh, be careful now, though.
Max is here on the dumpster. You've got three players taking over the site, and Max just ate a grenade down for half his HP.
Looking at Native to plan to do some additional damage. This one's going to turn into a retake quickly.
I don't even know, I mean it's 4v4.
It's a scary prospect for 9z to let this round just go, but it's also daunting to think you're gonna get this retake in
When you've got real value for the potential save, smokes in front of you
CTs drop another one over towards bank and so it feels like if you're gonna get this retake going
It is all in from dumpster, maybe one will slip the net through bank
But nobody's actually heading that way, flash over Optimus to get it started
Luchov, one and done, Jam Young plays the cover, draws them out, still stands, 2v2, and now suddenly, Ninzy with the edge.
Moses gone unnoticed, they got the kid on Hwaso, it needs to be picked right back up.
I don't know if there's time, it's so close.
He gets on the deep-dews by the skin of his teeth, Ninzy takeover pass, shutting down Tyloo's slick slide into that A site.
What a recovery for Tyloo to give us a game.
One thing undeniable, both these teams have dreams on the line!
And a wide net cast on this round by Bat Boon, a couple of players over towards mid, lurking
the apartments and in Palace and the lower tunnels players, so I certainly wanted a bit
control that towards middle wonder if the presence of that Afro warp gets you
thinking twice about it
indeed it will they fully concede the effort to go and look for that middle
area going back through T spawn they're hoping to link up with Flammas and find
something out here towards a it's not the case actually gonna regroup and try
Try to go back to mid again, late in the round.
Yeah, you expect players to be eyes off this position.
Aphro is certainly departing mid.
Always still concerned about window boost and the gaps that come with it.
But to see four players here in mid, might come as a bit of a surprise.
Flasses throwing an A execute right now too.
Keep haunting, looking away for the connector.
But now this gap begins to get taken.
That boon can walk into jungle.
But still 30 seconds, you feel like you have to hit this A site.
So as they move upstairs, Monty, three players in position.
What's Flammeis going to be able to get away with here?
No one actually looking out towards Palace, and so Rainweather just dead in the open.
It's a double for Azulu.
Spam connects, whittling him down low, need to finish the job.
He just gets away from it, and Azulu, meant to be dead.
It's twice over.
finds a way to break through massive 4k and bailing out Monty as that split gets shut down.
You mentioned this major was his right now, how much he's been stepping up at this important event for Monty.
His first major coming off a string of struggling results as this British player, Azumu,
he eats two nades and a span and he catches players not even looking at him.
Makes it look easy as Zoo holds solid on this A site.
And around them is getting way too threatening for a 4v5.
What a stand-up round here.
To stop this streak from building from that boot.
I got the idea that they could have pushed ramp.
It feels a bit surprising seeing two of them there on that aggressive push.
Ends in a stalemate.
Primus, I think, just thankful that he didn't die in that exchange and so you still get to
play this five on five.
Gonna regroup outside of A. Maybe last time a feeling that they had too many players on
the mid-split component blocked even by their own util.
That's at this time a bit more standard.
Magnajez left to lurk on his lonesome, everyone else grouping.
It's Rainwaker's aggressive position down at ramp.
Could spell disaster. That double kill leaves you in a great position and with Beemus covering...
So many of these rounds have been for Batboom.
It's just over before it really gets going.
That's such a lazy clue for Batboom when they had already seen the ramp aggression.
the most standard off angle on ramp everybody's using that I don't even
think about it so that boom just walk into a rifle rain waker great game
from him he keeps it going in this gun round this is a bit boom who I would say
had a chance to come back in this game but now that is starting to dissipate
in front of our eyes. Magnet is saving and Monty is streaking two in a row and burning
Betboom's bank account while they do.
Yeah, I think Raymweaker, what he's been able to do in this game has been so impressive.
Like, walking a very, very thin line on these plays out towards A in the first half where
you have to be safe enough so as to not get exploited, but then aggressive and involved
enough to be putting pressure on being able to react, felt like he was really really nicely
kind of threading that needle. And now CT side, just being a nuisance ever present always
involved compare some of these rounds that you've had out of Monty where the A players
are holding their own they're putting up a fight to what that boom bought to the table
where very very frequently in fact more often than not the guys actually on that A site
just didn't get a kill and if your A players are dying with nothing and those smokes are
down how are you ever supposed to win that round?
Monti-Stan-Calm
This is bedroom feeling the desperation of the situation buying up for getting a second
in before he's down.
Just swinging mid-try.
By the confidence, but...
Whereas it left them...
Zulu is committed, care for, down under, holds his own.
He's surely going to flush him out of this position, he's just dumping his days while he can, but...
Run ahead.
4v4 window boost available, third rifle, retrievable, papoon.
Making the most of this round.
He's gonna try and go quickly here with the timing because even though Afro is moving in to try and cover this
Yeah, and the Jets already slipped in there. B-Mass keeps his wits about him
Here's the jump up that kill just falls right into his lap
Right where he needs to be on the perfect timing there
I'm kind of running out of ways to talk about how one-sided these rounds have felt
Deladez with an entry spot on the second player knows it's the only guy left in the bomb site that he's got to worry about
And so if he ever wants to be in a position to win this clutch
Getting past gizmy has to happen
Rainmaker arriving out on short trying to cover his captain here Deladez tries to cross boxed in
Goes into a crossfire Monty six chances to close on their map pig
This is quite the bounce back for a Monty dare. I speak too soon, but that boom have no money
It's really nice to see the Monty
This was a loseable game. I still feel and Monty have avoided any disaster on the CT side
losing the pistol forcing up losing that getting converted being put in a
difficult sports against a very
You know a team that has a lot of resilience in that we've seen that all tournament
But Monty looked good to close this out. There isn't just one AK in this round now for that
move. Four pistol players.
An opportunity to earn it on Dust2. It won't get easier. I'll say that much.
Yeah.
Another map that Monty are capable of.
One of the things that's left me a little concerned as well was like Zorty's AWPing was automatic
back on Nuke, man. It felt like the guy just couldn't miss a bullet, but here, you've had a number of
number of swings and misses. You definitely want him getting reactivated by the time Dust
2 rolls around. A side hold was a huge hazard for Batrub. Both Zorty and Boomage struggled
to do anything in that CT side. Boomage finished stage one as the operated player. Just a little
A-pop here to try and get something at the tail end of this map. Going into Rain Waker's
bombsite they do well to nullify him with just one kill on the hole. Good flashes.
Timing's brutal for Magnajez, had an opportunity. Takes too long to nail it and Afro beats him to the punch.
That's a feeling very claustrophobic here as you just get whittled down. Dilladez is a dead man,
And he's making no secret about it.
Monty with one hell of a turnaround,
and a team ace to snatch away their map pick.
That's more like it for Monty, a hot star,
and one that they kept the pressure on from the word go.
They didn't give Betboom a way back in to their map pick.
And so this one, now going the distance,
does two where we look to end this.
Good map for both squads.
Saw the desk earlier talking about some of the tricks
that Monty liked to employ there.
The boom itch and the gank gonna be up for the toss.
You can't beat me
You're gone
Left to try
You're back this way
You know it's not
What you've done
You've done it all
I'm gonna leave you
Cause I'm crazy
You're standing there
Close your eyes, let it fly All of my hands, side by side
The streets of the land, the streets of the land
This world's all it's made, the world
Close your eyes, let it fly
feel the music play up high
city ghost beats like a drum
in this place where stores aren't long
starving in the city world
A slow start that maybe costs them a closer game on Overpass, but Tyloo's fight undeniable
here in Cologne, beginning at Stage 3, 0-2, and now very much on the recovery, and within
that last map as well, down 0-7. They showed us that they can bring it to a team as hot-handed
as what Ninzey looked like arriving at the Major. They skipped the first stage, they
looked great, lose to Spirit, and then had control of that last map. Their pick. Now
we go to Tyloo's Inferno where you'd think if there's anywhere they start strong it should
be here and it should be now with progression to stage 3 on the line.
maps in a row for Tyloo, starting with Maus. Every single win, single-digit losses for their
opponents. Maus are obviously, and by far and away, the strongest team that they've taken down here,
but the stats are impressive, no less. Now, it's not a punish pick. 9z are going to still be good,
very good on Inferno. In fact, this will just be a very high-level map, and I think that's
uncomfortable for Tyloo knowing how close Overpass was that they know they might not be able to rely on this necessarily
They would have loved for this to be a weakness for a 9-Z
but last map showed us that
you know Tyloo had all the wrong things in a matchup like this they started slowly they lost both pistols and
They they didn't have a lead in both halves. They basically
The entire time were never in control of the game and yet
They won so many rifle rounds right they had so many quality rounds in there
It's got to be one of the worst ways to lose and
Whoever is more locked in is gonna start faster sometimes. It's like oh comes down to this play in that play in the pistol
Honestly, sometimes it's mental sometimes the waking up is what needs to happen. I think we saw that with G
He was really not hitting off shots in the beginning and then as soon as he did he was getting better
Zero was 6 and 10 by the end of the first half, but his last three kills resulted in rounds, so
It's not always about quantity
With an uptick of quality we also had Mayer who we've kind of put under a microscope
This is his first major first major for the majority of 9z in fact
And yet while we wait to see whether 9z can potentially get to playoffs whether they're actually a big stage threat
That is really their biggest struggle, historically.
It's nice to see Mayeron with an uptick on that journey, too.
When does the major start for you?
Last day to the stage or next stage?
I said today on the bus ride in with Hugo Byron, it feels like...
We got out of the bus, you can see all the team huddles going on.
It just feels like it's starting now.
I feel like day three of stage two, today, is when the major starts.
starts
Because it's when all those stage one teams have gotten kicked out, you know I'm saying
Yeah, well except today except for Tyler
My VR and that boom
Don't tomorrow so the major starts tomorrow
Quite a sexy, but we're close
I think it's the best teams in the world that get to decide and if you were to ask them they'd say top 16
I mean they might say semi-final. Sure. You ask Mouse. Damn it really is all perspective.
Oh here's a looming thread at the A site that right now has an open arch side. Winner pistol, Tyloo.
Still yet to be achieved in this game today.
First one for Hwaso, and it's Mayer to go down empty-handed,
but Max has already got the angle out through the library.
Shapes went off before the retake really gets going,
and while that smoke still sits in front of Pitt,
to be honest, you've got a chance to press in.
They let that fade, they replace it with one of their own.
Mercury's still going to be just kind of taken out of this attempt,
and very quickly they lose that player back-site.
But Jam Young sees a route to wrap around to gravestares.
stairs. Man advantage for CT taking back. Now it's mercury and jam young in
control and there's no kit here for 9Z and so this pistol has gone to the way
side and Tyloo will take it on the T side their first pistol victory of the
series. It's a formidable attempt on the retake for 9Z. It didn't feel possible
with the R trapping so quick and so perfect really. There's no one ready to
try to stop that split. When you see a guy on site and got in pit, no rotators, you think,
alright, well, this round should be a wash. Call that wins it. Well, it ends up being
so little scary when they can't smoke behind them on moto as they get that bomb planted,
but that was the only thing about it. Otherwise, it was excellent. I'm coming right back here
for 9z, 209s, 257s, and a FAMAS for DGT.
Bank 8, well placed, max low, and the MAK10 swing, but it's a Luchov 5-7 for man advantage.
Well they want this kill as soon as possible, but those other utilities come up a little short,
The job decides to sit back here, fire is going to keep him from falling back.
What more utility do they have to try to get out of here?
Oh gee, that's the bomb!
Another headshot!
The fade away headshot on Mercury, costly approach for Tyloo up Banana and they still
don't have that bomb back.
That's tough.
Ouch.
Big time rescue mission here for Tyloo.
I mean, there will be fights for them and if you pull out utility it could cost you
but no, they don't get that first kill and I don't think Mercury has a chance.
He's got 11 HP and a Galil which now looks attractive to try to save at 50 seconds.
This has been a total disaster.
And G was adamant about just trying to get that player from behind the sandbags.
Offers up the bomb and really forces the hand of everybody else to try to come back for this.
Totally stuffed on banana.
Yeah, they were just kind of hoping for a lucky kill at some point, but Nines, yeah, I think Tyloo didn't anticipate how much utility they had.
They were countering, they were able to hold car without going back to the site, smoked them all, used nades, used flashes, underestimating the buy entirely.
This is where you get really worried if you're Tylo because yeah, they've won a pistol now after losing two and losing the last maps
But that's actually meaningless now that they've thought this forced by loss
So, short-lived success from the pistol round, Tyler reinvest, and there we go, Galil puncturing
through that deep smoke, Luchov, Galil, and DGT the same right behind it.
Lineups almost there, it's a good amount of damage, but it's DGT suddenly alone for a
moment he's got the CT support from waso who's just gonna just start dumping all
his nades I don't know if they realize there's another guy in the site flash
from waso to try to set up DGT he will bounce on the players orange and then
it's the CT push to get stuff a great rebuttal from 9z throwing bodies at the
problem and I think you're right Tyloo didn't anticipate that deep corner
position they just look a little bit anxious right now like they didn't
expect someone to have rotated over that quickly but yet they remember from
overpass, 9Z rotate extremely fast.
Getting those two kills in like a chance at hitting the B site, it just seems so appealing
sometimes that you're willing to run the risk, but they're clearing stuff out not properly
and really putting DGT in a winning spot.
That was a great chance for Tylo.
And now it's a great chance for 9Z to once again just build really early momentum, tons
money and all the things that Tyler do not want to see.
Can't even try to flash the player out through apps
If 9C give this round the respect don't go pushing forward themselves
I mean they have no SMGs to really make more milk money out of this one either
So why not just lean back give that distance over you know, there's no nades behind this
It's going to be a long-range shooting gallery for somebody, but who remains to be the question?
Looking like Hwasa, who will waste no time dropping Mercury on the approach.
Now that he's been dinked, he wants to make sure he stays alive, with some damage on a
second CT2.
One kill here, we call it a success.
It doesn't come up with a favor of Tyloo, and 90, the early 3-1.
Just to repeat myself, Tyloo have been playing catch-up all major long.
That's from the 0-2 pool of Stage 1, or in that last map as well.
I mean, yeah, but they haven't played catch-up on this map.
They've played it three times, they crushed.
Fair point.
That's just the only thing.
We're on both sides, at least.
to the corner, but there's no threat here.
Single lean back from Max, so be it that the grenades kinda come around the corner.
Oh man, it's gonna go back to A though.
I mean, this is 9Z gambling a little bit.
They have Max faking presence on Banana, but he really doesn't have any vision at all.
He's throwing the smoke down because he's kind of scared about it.
Actually, the CTs are starting to go away.
Here comes that execute over.
Also, Pete's smoke is kind of huge, and Loot's all the pressure, run back.
Gets a bit of chip damage on Zero, but yes, the support for Hwaso had just disappeared.
And Tyloo timed that assault to damn near perfection.
Still Max to go for the fast mid-flank.
We've got a boost being assembled here on Modo.
Bomb, okay.
Mercury now crosses it into the back site because there's a smoke up on balcony.
You don't even see the player in the doorway and now bomb planted, Mercury tagged ever
so slightly and he's just trying to elicit Mercury's dual.
He'll finally get him to bite down.
We've got Max to activate Jam Young's dead.
He picks up a Molotov.
That can be thrown over to the pit to really start to unroot these tees and sure enough
you flush him into the open.
Beautiful shot out of Max.
He'll climb up over top.
So elusive! He tries to follow up, the T's answer back and is here!
Oh, dead! Is Ninzee stick the landing? They've got to get the defuse kit onto it, Mayer just in time.
What?
Ninzee, thanks to Max as he wraps back around through mid and has everybody from Tyloo distracted.
Yeah, Serious. It is a lot because of Max here, but it's incredible they won this retake.
They won a retake just like that back on Overpass, down to the wire with all the T advantages that you need in place.
Damn, that's to make it 4-1.
Tyloo get the trade coming at a halls, and when they did that, it felt like that's great,
because they had everyone rotate out of A, which was a 4A setup, ended up being just
like DGT on Arch, no one even there to stop the split between lane and halls, and yet
even though they take out the pit player one for one, get that bomb down.
You know what?
Get that bomb down.
True.
I got that sight for a minute.
Yep, dope.
Solid point.
Kind of assed in the middle of it all.
They just forced themselves to have to now not fight into a Moto Smoke or have that bomb
go off when there's a lot more cover.
down middle versus a majority Tech 9 single AK Formosia.
Cache is stacked on 9Z's side.
Really tough because what they didn't know last round was like V was was pretty ripe.
I could have actually taken it and the way that 9Z are playing it, they're kind of asking to lose.
They're playing way back in the site. They're not fighting for car control right now.
Even versus Tech 9's that'll be a full threat. I don't even know if I'd bet on the CT's here.
It did feel like the first round they did play that gambling though, right?
Yeah, it is. Earlier they, but honestly, like, I don't think there's...
Here we go.
Flash is over, dodge!
Oh!
First shot is over!
Quad in! No ace!
But my Gotti will tear them limb from limb.
The first shot is just through the smoke, just in case someone might be behind it.
See ya later. Those tech nines don't find any entry.
We gotta miss smoke in the execute as well.
So not a good sign for Tyloo, their inability to get past Luchov who is tasked with holding back in our moda of Tyloo players and does so.
Flash goes past him so he is given a field day, controls the spray and keeps it going.
That's a gut punch for Tyloo and around they were hoping one AK would be enough right back to the buy here in the 7th.
Just as I see that they were asking to lose by playing on to the site, they do retake utility at the top of car.
They actually push with Luchoff to get that info ahead of time.
Yes.
Right on time.
A good fluidity to 90 at the moment, showing different looks and timing those different looks...
at the right time.
There are looks maxing.
Is that what you were saying?
Quick, break your bones.
the
now they feel a bit more comfortable with this
with pushing they probably think i mean tyler not going to put themselves
through that again
tough one for mayor and he's got fire in front of the only twenty two damage on
the oppots
take it
no pain no gain
TGT's been found out. He will remain committed to the corner.
They are a little worried about a short wrap as you see Mayn dropping names, but nobody's got that unbelievable pop-off.
Remember that map he had on Inferno? It was one of the best maps that he's played.
When we pull up the stats for that, it feels like that's the kind of game we're getting at a loot job right now, holding B.
Flash finds Max.
Because he's emptying his mag, they're going to write off the threat of Bluechop Boosted, or not, zero turns and checks it.
Ready for the coffin duel, Max? It's down with just one.
So Tyloo, hard fought battle to equalize the numbers, put this bomb down and queue up a 9z retake.
But one that only features a single incendiary and one flash.
Not to mention Mayeron, tasked with the coffin wrap, hanging onto that AWP.
We'll see if there's anything he can pick up for the retake.
We do have kits in play so they can take this bit of extra time
Yeah, he's not ready zero finding the headshot at his zero with every kill in this round
And this time they don't get lucky with the bounce
Tyloo bust the doors down inside of the B site will overwhelm
There was a great setup as well between max and luchov
But that boosted luchov spot on the CT cross goes down with nothing
It's priceless so it's the luchov game in Astana where
He had 30 kills and a 2.68 rating in a 13-6 game.
I saw that was Donk?
Yeah, right.
I know Donk hasn't even done that so far in this event, 153 ADR over Paravision, and
it was an unbelievable Inferno match.
I think there was some kind of record set there, actually, and it was definitely at
least a personal best.
One of those guys, I guess kind of like a, you know, Vinny can do a Vinferno, Grim can do a Grimferno.
Oh, oh, yep, read like a book.
He's feeling a little sloppy, but...
Oh, Mayer gets caught trying to go for the mid-pick, Mercury just blasts their op out of the round,
and now we're starting to look at a Tyloo that are recovering this T-side before it got too bad.
Careful.
DGT flash in front! Lineups good for the double!
Ooh, rush it a little bit, but they still have three.
One man advantage, that's it.
Double Molly in the same spot, you know, you can still see a flustered version of Tyloo,
but Hwaso P going down empty-handed really sets them up to cut this lead down to only two rounds.
Tyloo's third round win comes by way of consecutive rounds from B to A,
and much like back on Overpass, despite a 9C strong start, they are breaking those doors down.
And what a little mistake on both sides of the map. I heard that offshot out for Maynard just didn't connect with anything
Money still flows for 9z. That'll be their silver lining
They're gonna have to turn their pockets out after this buy
One round of loss bonus
They're good for another
Yeah, slow starts to be the story of the match.
You see, Tyloo finally waking up and showing us what they've shown us consistently on this map.
But only after...
...9-Z get the first word.
Great moment for a timeout.
I think they still gotta be feeling it pretty good overall.
With the utility and responses are starting to improve from Tyloo on banana
They have even popped through the bottom of banana and you know got it open and
kill so it's going really back and forth with with that bit of map control
which is a nice sign for Tyloo
People I don't like inferno, but I will say, at least with the current meta, it's so incentivized
to fight aggressively for banana control both sides of the map throughout the game.
But it looks like they both don't want to get naded after what they just saw.
I feel like Talu were in their heads a little bit.
Yeah, you can see that.
They're a little more tentative about fighting.
They throw their retake utility early.
They've doubled up utility multiple times.
Yeah, pressure on the air, there's a flash coming.
Just to heal the position, yeah.
Talk about Tyloo looking a little worried while Mayn as well kind of squeezes the trigger.
This is a good idea though actually, the reclaiming mid after seeing those nades.
I think DGT, it's time to start running honestly.
Stack up outside of B5 players, strong for Tyloo.
They can preempt all their utility. They just need to buy time for GGT's rotation, and then suddenly it's lit. It'll awkward for Tyloo.
That's what that incendiary does. Well timed, well placed.
I already thought, yeah.
Smoke grenade now in front of them, and you've got a supportive hand from GGT. He's going to start throwing CT flashes.
Luchov's the guy to come up with the double.
GGT actually dies in the backdrop. Oh, and the perfect smoke spam.
G-manages to find Luchov on his reposition.
That is massive.
With Wasso walking through this deep T-smoke, it goes unwatched.
Mercury's putting himself in a spot with a full kit of utility tucked in the corner.
He'll not be able to use anything.
Just trying to hide and Wasso is ahead of the timing.
If Wasso goes in Clear's church, Mercury's done.
Mercury is absolutely toast. Dead.
That's not a good play.
A sitting duck and while G's the one that got Lujov off coffin,
now all of a sudden, 9Z start to consider, is there a second one in church?
They're confused about the setup.
They want to go for the bomb site clear now.
They're going to take that swing.
G can't hang on.
Also clears him nines. He take their sixth round win and unfortunately there for mercury. He makes the wrong decision
I mean you're you're you're shutting yourself off from being able to use any of your utility could have played a back site position
You could have had a crossfire could have had anything to be useful
And even geez not the spot to watch for the walk-up from construction, which naturally the CTs are gonna want to clear things out
So this was playing scared
This is asking to be retaken and uninferno like how often are you or is that even gonna happen?
It's like
You know B-side on dust you might be harder to retake then either side on this map
But on average both of these sites extremely difficult
But when you get a little nervous that's when you start allowing rounds like that that look impossible to happen
Think there is they got impossible entries. Yes, you didn't get that chance
That's what I was gonna say it does feel like there are silver linings for tyloo
They've been able to kind of bust down the B site defense twice now
Even despite that rotate over
But what's it worth if you let the rest of the rounds slip by
It's going to be a heavier presence inside apartments by the looks of things.
Last time we saw these two players this far back and Jam Young and G was that set piece
execute.
It's a Moto Smoke and a Pit Smoke.
They chucked that out.
We get the burst out through the apartments players, but they're going to drop one arch
side first and still pause.
There's going to be a second wave of utility and then the three player apartments put.
set up. They're literally ready for this to happen. Tyloo needs some more impossible entries maybe.
DGT throws himself point blank on the balcony. Here it comes again. He eats the flash and
they've got it. A kill apiece between the balcony and the pit hold. And that is just going to take
the wind out of Tyloo's sails. It is a save called in a matter of seconds. Damn. Hey, that would have,
yeah. The flash worked brilliantly, but two players watching the same line ready again
with the crossfire and even their original setup on site and in pit would have been also perfect,
but they kind of knew it was taking place right here. It's another solid round for 9z.
And you can already tell for Tyloo that this one's about the pressure.
6 map win streak on inferno could end here.
All streaks end eventually.
Vitalities. Even Vitalities.
Also was actually blind too in Big Bit. They were just
with perfect chemistry, shooting at two different points on the wall and got both players, so
Well, impossible entries in the round previous, but lost that unlucky on this round and the
triple nades to Hobbit goes a little too far actually for Luchov.
Always not positioned where it needs to be to get him out.
The counter-nade over top, a little bit of chip damage for Zero to stomach, but it's
not an all-in moment just yet.
I think they were hoping that Maron's finally over here.
But Maron's just switched to the other side of mid.
How late are they about to come in right now?
That nade could be massive.
Oh, good cover!
Never mind, not if you don't shoot!
Yep, great presence! Flash back the other way!
Quasso blinds them as they try to just strong arm their way up through short now
It's the pit and site crossfire a quick double scramble out through library balcony player held off
And still in the corner survives 9z not one player. No one's dead. Nope
They have a lot just that may earn death on the arch peak
Tyloo couldn't buy an entry from this short side of things. Yeah, not this round and not the round prior
Yeah, total lockdown there over on the A site
Even from the 4v5.
Confidently played here from Wasso Peak.
They beat him out. Looks like they're running up mid again, but in through a lot of utility.
And they're not gonna cancel it either.
They want to try to storm it.
A quick crank of the dial in a final attempt at a Tyloo's T side man advantage for 90.
Oh, the other side of mid.
That's interesting.
And Wasco slips the net, but they do double back.
He enters it.
Second player's going to catch him, but it's in time for Luchov to trade, who then just
spams right through it.
90 with a powerful recovery at the tail end of this, winning the second round to just
empty out the pistol ability.
Tai Lu with their hands full, come to CT side.
90 with a golden opportunity sitting in front of them now. Dispatching of Tai Lu in the first
half of a couple of maps and really stopping them back down into the challengers pool as
opposed to the progression to stage three of this major. Win this pistol which you've
been picking up the majority of and things are all the easier. Off of the frag grenade
they're going to play this one fast and Mosie is on this B site totally alone. Yeah it's
way too late the smoke does absolutely nothing and it's the heroic retake down
mid with four CTs obviously with absolutely no resistance they're gonna
start to be concerned about this and a smoke that they can drop just quietly
behind them really passive setup and they can squeeze for con control
expecting to see anybody here oh that could have made the difference
BGT hangs on wait yeah needed the rest of his teammates pick up instant headshots
They made him that smoke is perfect like mayor drop that instead of throwing it down banana and having to call everyone over to
Car to fight it
What a killer instinct in this pistol a little blood in the water after a 9-3 CT side and you jump on that B site with
Zero hesitation so they won three pistols and then they echoed the fourth
That's a damning stat at a furtile low
No one's going to tell me this game's about strategy at this point.
Tyler, they just have so many maps to prove otherwise.
That'll make it to coincidence that this is their weakest performance now.
One of two teams out of the last six, that Tyler would have beat to even get 10 rounds
in the first place, and it looks like a team to actually beat them.
But not just that, potentially crush them if Tyler don't get it together now.
All but a cosmetic comeback on overpass, but two maps with zero control.
Pistol in front of this challenge.
Mosia doesn't bite.
Mercury eats the frag grenade down to a quarter health.
They're scared out there.
And if they don't make a move, it's going to be five players with better guns running
into this A site.
Connected.
Ouch.
Oh man.
Thank you.
Oh, that's tough.
Yeah, he was inside that smoke, 5-7-0, could still make a difference, but it's a numbers
game for Ninzee.
The pack storms through.
This game gives and takes to Ninzee.
They will find an 11th round off the back of the situation.
Clearly already had an advantage in
That was virtually done unless he
I couldn't I was thinking he was gonna peak when the nade got thrown don't know if he couldn't have already
Not been the best day here for Mosie 4 and 13 as well. That just makes it a little worse
of
It looks like they're all good to go.
Tali will take a timeout, get themselves reoriented, got a buy coming, half buy coming in, Jam Young
will have an MP9.
he's spending to his bottom buck.
This is one where you've really got a lot of trouble.
Yeah, I've had so much trouble talking about the,
you know, the fight, the strategy, things like that.
The backup plan, if things start to go badly.
Also, who's gonna kind of take up the responsibility
of being that spark in a round like this?
You know the big round home
You eat a different speaker versus the retaken and unfortunately the majority of tyloo
Everybody barring zero doesn't look to be too much of a threatening flame
Inferno on the brink of being a wash
It doesn't make it any easier now, G sitting on 30 health, more utility at his feet, he's
been burning.
They didn't hear it, and G could put that 5.7 to the back of somebody's head.
Oh, he still sits within it.
Mayeron's got the bomb right now. If G could somehow, somehow, catch a kill here, cause a panic, grab a gun, that'd be great.
But he's still in the middle of both, and Mayeron gets the better of him. Now we get the activation off of the banana push.
Lutrop wants to get into the cover. Zero's got his, and a second! And as the balcony player recovers the space back, he's got to grab that bomb.
And willingly give up his guns. Lutrop popped by Moshe!
We're talking it is not one but two but three embers for Tyloo that set this round on fire
There's one guy that clutches EGT
Sits on the other side of the smoke three players on the other end
Looking to just trade their way to a hopeful CT side
90 secure 12 off of this bomb is planted right in front of him and he cuts the first one down
But they've got that trade
Tyloo figure it out off the timeout and give themselves a little more time to fight.
There is in fact a big play that you're looking for. It's Mosey returning and hitting a great 5-7 shot
and the Alton's also 0 with his 5-7 hold. In fact, just 5-7s across the board.
I thought she was essentially waiting to die because it kept pacing in and out of the smoke on both sides
and it felt like eventually they'd be incidentally bumping into him or finding it first.
But that wasn't the case.
So lightning strikes, Tyloo, win a rounds, and look excited about it.
I've got reason to beat.
Funds this purchase with G now on and off.
Oh, that's great on top of G.
Second one lands to take him down to half health.
There's another Nade coming his way. Be careful, G.
Here's that pop flash. He's finding their mark.
Math 10 in the front of all this. A lot of bodies for Ninzee on the other side.
It's a triple hold here for Tyloo. Molly's going to isolate G.
He's forced to fall back, but Ninzee off to just change direction.
It makes sense that it's majority towards that B site at the moment they're correct,
But we get this scramble out of G 43 house running over to this A site
It's a smoke on Archside a CT smoke towards short and they start spamming corners kind of met by resistance via utility
Ninesie pump the brakes. They're getting juggled. They don't have any more flashes. So it's just down to a smoke and Molly
We're out of prep at this point. I
Gotta make something happen out of nowhere
And Tyloo don't believe that it's a fake they think they're gonna press up and go here again
I mean, it's rotating around, but it's time to act for 9Z, and that's really uncomfortable.
He doubles back just to grab that smoke.
There's a question about whether 9Z respect this.
They'd have to come through, numbers strong, but when you've got that Mk10 and TEC9 at the hell...
They're not watching it.
Here we go, pounces on, jammed up behind New Box, giving a flash off Moshe.
He swings, doesn't get the kill.
It's gonna be 9Z stuck inside of pit 20 seconds.
Moshe's AK fires off, finds one, a second.
Man advantage momentarily here for Tyloo.
They're trying to get the bomb into the site.
It's going to be Mayer with his hands busy in a moment.
But because he's low health, Mirkery swings.
And the heat is rising.
Tyloo's fifth round secured with a Hail Mary rotation
back to the B site.
That was out of this world.
Really well done, Mirkery.
With that spray, third one's incredible.
Take the nameplates off and it's done.
And they almost won that round with a smoke and a malt, literally not even a flashbang
to go for a B hit.
But it's still scary they almost won it.
It's a confidence-building spot here for Jam Young, supported by Nades.
Yeah, there you have it.
A shooting gallery down banana that drops bomb in the process.
A well-earned sigh of relief for Tyloo as in back-to-back maps,
they will claw the rounds closer.
A five-round gap, and we get a 9-Z time out now.
They might be a touch frustrated, but it looks so much like overpass.
Just the amount of rounds that they can lose.
They know that Tyloo mentally, maybe wake up late and they can figure out how to get
slightly back into the game, but I don't think they'll ever hold any fear over 9Z, especially
after the way overpass ended.
They pulled off some incredible retakes.
Now they're on the T side.
Any bit of fear, especially for your B players, and that's it.
I don't think they're giving up host plants like Tyloo did.
I see left out one go. Take it on the chin with two pieces of utile. Now we get these guns right back.
I'd also like to see some of the CT utility connecting on banana. It's been the T's who have actually done a good job of hitting.
Here we go again. This main set goes a little too far beyond.
far beyond. Open for a sandbag, Slytherin.
Nobody home.
Made response out of Tyloo.
Those B defenders now down to a single smoke and flash
in a minute 20.
Unless there's a cache of grenades behind them,
that is all they've got.
Yeah, there we go. Jam Young grabs another set.
Is it all in vain because it's starting to feel
9Z set their targets towards this A site.
Thunder's a good player to try to push him back.
G's off on Arch.
Sets here in anticipation.
Zero and Mercury double up between balcony and pit.
We go to 45 seconds and it's been very quiet across the map.
So Tyloo's B players still with utility in hand,
Anticipating some kind of hit, but it's gonna be 5v3 inside A site.
Oh, they're they're threatening the B split, but actually are just going A entirely.
It does draw one off, right? Now it just falls on 0 for reposition.
0 goes from balcony into the pit.
They're on the brink of the short push now, 0's dropping nades,
and from over top, DGT's gonna find him.
Oh, there's a team kill versus Max! Mercury hangs on!
But it's just Mercury with a second!
Little pit player almost takes shots, DGT equals out, B rotates, come on over, 90 on the brink of their 12th.
And a Moto possession for Jam Young already seen by DGT, he waits.
Now the question is, are they gonna say doubled up or not? That's the question, DGT is asking himself and he's starting to doubt it.
Jam Young will be in vision. Must win retake here for Ty Lowe.
Mayeron sits in the corner of the site, AK in hand.
Is DGT ever gonna spot this again?
They're not letting this... No! They don't hold it! They just allow that walk-up!
DGT takes the responsibility! It's now him and him alone!
And they're sticking the defuse! The fuser's in the cover! Oh, it's close!
Oh, he got it! Comes up 90!
Oh, DGT, who's playing with fire? He saw Jam Young earlier on in that smoke
and wasn't checking for the arch push and, more importantly,
wasn't ready to pop up and swing in case of contact. So, they were getting a little nervous, but they closed it.
It's this entry from him as well, so you want to give him credit. DGT has been a rock for 9Z.
The reason that this happened though is because they threw the perfect smoke.
They didn't go for an archwrap or fake an archwrap.
They made it look like they were splitting B and the CTs had not pushed down banana.
Because of that, they had to respawn. It felt like they were late to the other side of the map and pulled out of a great setup.
It was a lack of aggressive CT moves from Tyloo on Overpass at the start of this series
that kind of cost them that momentum.
We talked about them shelling up and in doing so giving moments over to 9Z.
It's been a long time since that but here we go, sprinkled once more into what sets
9Z up for a chance to close this, for a chance at stage three.
Six map and match points lie ahead.
Hate to see the last round and then see the exact same position for Tai Lu in the following.
Round 19, and they are copying, pasting a setup that did them no favors.
It's safe, but it's not secure.
Passive spots with little information, a slave to rotations, and a fear of lurks.
A full B hit is oncoming. Two players here for now. G starting to get the memo.
Gades going up and over.
Jam young back to orange. Flash to try to pop it. Two Nades out in both players' hands.
Mac 10 catching damage, Mac's dead first, Wasso and Lujov, they'll open it, and as G reveals himself to have this all up close,
it's gonna be a tough one, and Lujov catches you unprepared.
Fast push onto the tree, a late banana flag out from zero, met by Smoke,
9Z can taste it, frag grenade to pop it open, one final test, and it looks like 9Z have passed it with flying colors.
It is all on the off of G a rough game here on map to one shot
Brazilian team from South America
Progresses to top 16
three new flags fly here in Cologne
Pride from Argentina
Uruguay and Chile and normally you see at 9z game like this and
And very close, but instead, like you said, passed with flying colors, left no room for doubt.
Controlled both maps, controlled all the pistols, even when they lost one.
One on the force up. This is the strongest looking 9Z they've ever seen.
Earned their place here in this next stage, feeling the only test to Spirit who shouldn't have even been here.
And really can look at the mirror tonight and say, we did it. We should be proud.
An organization that has also waited four years to return to the Major back to back in 2022, not seen since, fueled by a core of major debutants.
Young guns stampede forward, as you said, only losing to spirits.
And so, 9Z have seized the day.
A well-earned, hard-fought battle after Tyloo showed resilience.
But this second map is domination from South America.
Also ending the Inferno Street.
A situation where you can see now Crystal Clear for Tyloo, who have to go into tomorrow,
knowing they don't have this map in their pocket because mentally it's getting scary.
If you're going to be scared in a 2-1 matchup, what's going to happen to you when it's 2-2 and everything is on the line?
That's the question that we've got to ask with Tai Lu if they have the composure to stand up to their next challenge
Which for now is a total unknown
And in a second now, we've got an interview down on the floor with Trace and Mayer
That does it for 9z and Tai Lu and of course cut off Mayer and before we're gonna catch up with them again
What's showing a force man 9z in the server today against Tai Lu in your own words. How was it?
It was an intense match. I think we started good but they started to win some rounds on
Overpass and yeah we stayed focused and we managed to win the pistol on CT on Overpass
and it was more easy to us to get more rounds and yeah I think we managed both maps really
good but they played really good too and it was a tough match.
They play really good, just not good enough is what you're saying, right?
I mean, it's true though. It's right. It's obviously true not you
There's no shame in it. You are the victor today. Hey, you guys won that first half seven five second pistol secured
How did they win rounds against your CT there on overpass? How did they get a few rounds against you on overpass?
I think we have like an idea
To play on these sides and some rounds and we didn't manage to complete the rounds
We want wanted to play we have some
communication mistakes and we didn't manage to to get the same idea so we
failed in that but it's okay we talked in the freestyle and we came back to the
game. Solved it in the freestyle you do love to see it hey congratulations first
and foremost and secondly what do you want to say man you're going to the next
I'm speechless. I'm very happy for all the guys. They deserve this. We all deserve it.
We started the year and we haven't seen our families and friends. We are completely away for that.
I think we deserve that and we want to play more. We want to get better day by day.
day by day, I think we are in the good way.
And yeah, also I wanted to thank all the people who
are supporting us.
Muchísimas gracias a gente a todos los que están
apoyando.
Mucha gente se levantó temprano para ver algunos partidos y
para nosotros es un bus de confianza.
Estamos acá para más y ahora a disfrutar de la victoria,
pero ya volver con la cabeza mañana porque queremos seguir
enjoying the game and getting far away from the tournament.
Congratulations and thank you so much.
Thank you.
That boom two rounds away
Seemingly one four by away if they win it here and now
Stage three ushered into the top 16
Team they're on such a heater you have to ask the question how far can they go
Is stage three the limit could this be a playoff bound squad
They're going to tell the very, very fast round here.
No issue for Dillardez.
That throwing gives me...
I'm going to muster up something here and this late pounce for Gizmy out window side.
Dillardez, his time runs out.
The bomb has been planted.
I'm still walking over, but this is not a round you're going to be attempting.
At least it shouldn't be smoking Molly in the way.
And so he will depart.
Honestly, that's really well recovered for Monty.
They were put in a very bad position.
Mid-split getting dealt with. The first player out through middle and the tunnels both falling.
Not the start you want to that split.
That's why you gotta look at their captain and gives me offering up a keen double a set of entries
to pull them back into that round.
And so not willing to go down quietly.
Yeah, 5v3, and I want to catch the flankers and then trap those players in the B bomb site.
Gives me, does not rush this kill either.
Let's his team come in with a close.
After holding for the mid-pick, not giving away, Zorty does not want to concede an advantage.
With the money where it is, this round carries heavy weight.
Another miss shot for Zorty.
Magnet is just ready in case they dart out middle.
I've seen no long hits really in this game.
I've been pulled off one or two, but I'm too absent to go back to the cat.
Everyone's doing it.
Boomage, holding multiple HGs, ready for this contact.
There's a Magniges opening, if ever you've seen one, here comes this barrage of U-Till out of Boomage.
Slash is going high, let Magniges hold it, and once he's got eyes on you, it's a terrifying place to be.
A shutdown out of Magniges.
Match in series point, four-bed boom.
And they have multiple chances now to go waltzing into stage three.
How many stars will come from Spirit Academy?
It's impossible to know at this point.
There are so many players signed, but yeah, this talent's joined Betboom two years ago.
He has been grinding through multiple iterations of this roster,
and he is peaking right now at the major.
Incredible rouse from MagnetJazz, full blind just prefires as they come over the top of
that box.
Another incredible multi-kill for this guy.
Fuck, it's more likely to get four than one.
Straight up mid.
Impressive swing just to try and end this now.
You know they've got out long, you know it was the only option they had and that they're
gonna try and play with some pace here to catch you on that timing after the
mid-aggro so quickly, bet boomer. All their guns in position to shut this one
down, break on that smoke, perfect timing. And they can feel it, stage three is
calling their name.
Not gonna get ahead of themselves here with damage done. They know this one's on
a knife edge ready to come through this CT smoke and moments notice and you might expect
one guy on a hail Mary with a flash bang will you be ready for the whole damn team on the
fate of this smoke with the first first steps heard but clawing it back is that boom rain
waker finished off and stage three awaits Magnajez with a phenomenal series you touched
the bonnet where a lot of these Team Spirit Academy prodigy players went on to get picked
up by top squads and the Gens did not here to grind for this view, but peaking in time
for the Major, he has just put on a phenomenal series to take his team to stage three.
I had no other time but with a boom.
the
the
the matchups gonna be legacy and m-a-d arts
generous enough to give us more before we got started here
and what is a pretty big one for the side of legacy obviously coming into this
one you guys had a lot of steam a lot of people like a legacy hot to try looking
good
What do you think, Art? How do you respond?
Yeah, I think we're confident. That's true, but sometimes we know it's B1s and we need to play the best CS we can,
otherwise we can lose some key rounds and just lose the whole map.
And that's how it goes sometimes, so it happened and now we have to play better CS and finish better rounds so we can move on.
I think it's some of that macro level, some of that decision-making mid-round stuff.
Where do you think the biggest problems are?
I don't think it was details. I think the first map was different from the last one.
The first loss against MBR was different than the last one against Monte.
I think it's many reasons. There's not one pin point.
Yeah, that's pretty fair. I mean Counter-Strike is a pretty cerebral game.
Speaking of which, the team across the way, M80, they're looking to take you out of the tournament.
I'm sure someone's told you that by now. I'm sure someone has, so let's look at it for that sake.
Talking about the MAD, you're playing today. What did you see? What do you like?
Yeah, we have been playing them in the past. I think last pro league. I think our map pool against them.
It's our strong suit. We're not playing our maps that we are weakest for us. So we have a
regular map against them and I think we have the upper edge, but we have to prove it in server.
Well, let's talk about that video for just a second. You have the maps already, right?
Yeah.
What are you playing? What do you got going on?
That's true. Inferno and Mirage.
Okay, all right, so it's gonna take two or three.
Hopefully it's true, but let's see.
Let's find out, anything you wanna say?
Not really.
Yeah, fair enough, we'll let you do the talking afterwards.
Thank you so much, Art.
All right, thank you.
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From a moment of glory to a moment of disappointment for one of these two next teams, M80 vs Legacy
is what we've got in store for you up next and unfortunately Mohan for one of these rosters,
these promising budding teams from the Americas region, it all ends today.
I want to say unfortunately but also they really have made their bet right, this is
the 1-2 bracket. I'd say MAD definitely had the harder games. They played against Bat Boom,
they played against G2, and they had to beat Bait, which they did. But Legacy, on the other hand,
they lost to MIBR and Monty. This is Legacy who took down Falcons in a Best of Five Grand Final.
Just now. They are the ones who are performing badly. I'm going to put it bluntly. They're
their winners versus FlyQuest in the best of one.
They're the ones who came into Austin and ended Vitality's streak of maps.
And then Surprise had one of the best runs that we've seen basically in CS2 across a major.
It was extremely impressive. So this is a massive drop off.
This is an example of peaking at the wrong time.
And there's still time to make it right. They can play extremely well now in this best of three.
But it's the maximum amount of pressure. One try for your route, legacy.
You know, you brought up some accolades just now, but I think one that kind of goes under the radar is that this team,
by the time they got to Budapest, the major after they shocked us all with that vitality best of one win,
they were considered pretty heavy favorites to progress at that major, and they flopped.
They fell out, and eventually we got the roster changes that have now led them here.
So this is a team that has rebuilt.
It's a team that's kind of gone under the radar this season until that most recent event now
Is that meaning that they're going to now just power up and run through at the major clearly with their first day?
I don't think so, but it's also a team
I would have loved to see start at stage one get the advantage of maybe bullying some other lesser opposition
We've talked about the power up from stage one to stage two
And I think like a C is one of the few teams that felt the wrath of that. So yes time to wake up right here right now
Otherwise, M80 live on to fight tomorrow.
And in terms of teams who did play the last stage, M80 are a great example of taking advantage of that power-up.
Again, to be in the 1-2 means that you have lost two best-of-one maps, but they're a great team.
I mean, they lost to G2 who, to kick this stage off, looked insane.
And they lost to Batboom who also have looked insane.
Insane now it's still disappointing because it was 13 to 2 versus Beth. It was eight rounds versus g2
So surely, you know, certainly m80 impressed last week more than they have this week
But I think I'd still be in my own head a little bit if I was legacy about how much
Experience and how much comfort and how much m80 have already gone through
You know where it's like you think about the bait match that was overcoming a mental hurdle
That was a team they fully choked versus and that beat them as their second best of one at this stage
I think what could be worrying for MAE is just how much of a gap was between them and G2 and Betboom
The teams that you'd consider kind of ahead of them. Yeah, right those are pretty daunting losses two rounds versus Betboom is exactly what they're coming off of
And well that happened on the Dust 2
No spoilers, but actually a spoiler. That's where this series is about to begin
So with that in mind, M80, it's time to play catch-up to what you know you can do.
Legacy is not an impossible team to beat as they've started with a bit of a sluggish beginning here in Cologne.
M80, today's the day. Seize it, or go home.
Legacy will be considered favorites for this match.
I think, like you said, the accolade of defeating Falcons
definitely raises your stock immediately before this major begins.
Also, best of five. Like, it was just so legitimate, you know what I mean?
Like, it's just such a strong win.
And so recent, you think it's still be trending.
Hit the algorithm.
Till Monty and M-I-B-R slap you upside down.
Oh no, Monty, M-I-B-R.
Shout out to Monty, though. Did they...
What happened to that game actually?
They lost!
Oh, they did.
Man, they put up a fight.
Quite great though, yeah.
Challenge from inside of the A site, CT scramble in.
That's going to be Slacks looking for it,
but he's just going to eat a bunch of flashes
in the middle of all that.
Little climb up where Slacks snaps onto Saxon.
It's a do-mow triple.
That is what you're looking for.
Legacy shred the bodies inside of the site.
Just as it felt like M80, we're going
to put up some resistance and we've got a bit of a raid boss situation a kevlar
smoke grenade wielding double Beretta slinging JBA versus three legacy keep
their heads tucked as do mouth still sits comfortably three kills in his back
pocket he confirms that JBA stuck here and now JBA tries to close that gap and
as he does so just turn three those three blocks shred him its legacy off with
the pistol when I mean you know maybe on average this game could have the most
yelling of any of the ones in this stage it could could have potentially been
MIBR versus anyone if it was you know Venom's era but I honestly think you now
in JBA in terms of just indiscriminate screens after every rounds it's gonna be
a lot of it today
I think you're... oh, 1119.
Good for the trade, Dumount signs up.
Oh, nice counter flash. Beautiful transition on the spray there.
That's why they give this gun 35 bullets.
Yeah, at least decided to come in killer mode.
This is what you want to see for legacy.
It's their win con really, and like, their momentum team.
If you say anything but that, you're being so disingenuous.
They're a team that builds so heavily on momentum.
momentum they know how to win really well when they're playing well and you
know being able to snowmelt like that is definitely a skill but when they kicked
off the stage it was like up they don't have it they're not going to do the opposite
and fall completely flat but they're looking right they're wrong from
Budapest or you laughing about you said win con I thought of magic the
gathering and remember that slowly you're getting nerdy your London's tough
to stomach this save I made a hang on to your D. Gold 5 7
but a do now 5 0 as quick as that trade was as well through the smoke got the
Flash with the transition from the Galil.
Scary signs early for the North American Corps.
German, if they win, I guess, since Rack alone.
Yeah, two fifths.
It's a 20% win.
Get used to it.
I can hold flashes though.
I can hold flashes though.
These are two teams with a recent game tape as well.
We go back to IEM Atlanta and sure enough, legacy over M80.
In a 2-0 fashion, neither map was double digits for M80.
So, legacy I think had that extra layer of confidence.
They know they can make chump change of M80.
Not too long ago.
And now already, with Sin trying to sign up for the long fight.
Sure, you killed Dumow.
He'll still yell at you after this round win.
And it will, or should be, a round win with what's left here for M80 to weaponize.
Also, just for atmosphere, has to be said, the shaved head sads an image on the lower right side of your screen goes hard as hell.
yeah we got tough guy attitude coming through from legacy nowadays yeah he
looks fresh out
what were you in for? Choking at the major
got fine for yelling at my opponent I edited my pick up
who would do such a thing walk him up
quiet walk out my name's badson now 35 seconds and a little damage for art to
have to stomach that's gonna get this quick move from M80 got the time to put
the pressure on the flash fights three the rifles recover half saddens just got
one left to deal with. What a perfect pounce here from M80. Catching you as you clumped
up. A deagle shot to end it. That's all he needs. Just one shot. Ten seconds. Satsyn
recovers. Sketchy stuff with that flashbang. Good on M80 to save one tool for the job,
place it to perfection, and rack up a price tag that round. But it's a 3-0 start to legacy
regardless.
I think after all that happens for them, point is the round and that was definitely up for
grabs.
One good bullet connects, might definitely matter for M80.
Because we've seen there one side of the losses so not hoping for it, not expecting it.
to reiterate, 13-2 lost to Betboom.
Dismap yesterday.
No rest for the wicked.
Not one player at this event who doesn't want it.
I can see they don't have a decision just yet.
Not when the smoke comes up in mid.
There will be a timing where the CTs ought to make a choice.
Man, if they're going to let the mid B happen, that might be a bad decision here.
Swisher's just no vision at all.
They're ready to walk out and actually just take advantage of this B site.
Slacks can't see anything.
They're really not going to make this.
No support here for the B guys.
If you're left all on your own, they're not even ready to spam this cross.
It's going to be a fast split to Lake under a roll of pressure.
Trying to find the right fight first. JV8 offers up his.
But it's a kill apiece from the two defenders. That's all.
Rotation will be watched by Sadsen.
And M80 a bit timid to emerge through that spawn.
It's crazy how confident he is. He knows exactly what to get away with.
Good on Swisher to get him off his angle.
Sadsen just trying to keep his head low. Oh, pops up.
pops up with a good prediction, sin, it's jumping in accuracy, but close enough to sadson to just spam away his body.
And now suddenly, it is a health advantage technically for M80, but they call off the retake.
That's the thing, man, you go one for one on B, it's not enough.
You don't even need that much from your Bid-B Rotator, but you need to at least get, you know, slow down, get information, help them fight into the window, like, tell them, oh, it's now, like, this is where the splits coming in, like, they didn't have anything prepared for that at all.
I think this is where devs gotta come in and be like guys communicate because like that is not them building a connection between their sites
And it's not as if legacy we're here splitting atoms about how to approach a mid-b split like they saw it open smoke came up
No one was there to stop it. No one even put pressure back no made on the cross
No up on the line nothing of course you're gonna go
Double off the adjustment doesn't come into the tech. I swear that would be a great moment for a double up
Yeah, it's a change up there are ready for the change up and for to support it. Yeah worth it
No pause needed when the game plans in place. They adjust in the defense with the double off and they find value off it immediately
That is legacy up in smoke a minute 40
We've got three players dead
That was awesome.
Crazy how it's still the case that we're kind of only passively watching here.
to pop it open, bomb exposed, Nissan is sniffing the pixels.
Yeah, the only thing that would have been uncomfortable is if they had gone
tunnels and JBA didn't put up a kill, but they were, they were fine.
I'm still floating out mid.
So I made his change up, catches legacy unprepared for an aggressive
peak and most certainly that M4 coupled alongside it and a real silver lining for
M80 is just maintaining all five here right you go heavy investment into a
double-wop setup best thing you could hope for is a chance to yell back yeah
none of these players on M80 will shy away from the yelling match that is to
ensue this game
Of course, you're only allowed to yell back when you win rounds, so about time M80 put
one on the board, first in five, and it's immediately a legacy because of that, you
know, Sads and Clutch demanded of him to find themselves in an awkward place.
This is a pull-by, and this is all Sads and Co can afford.
a scout in two pistols the limitation for the majority of legacy
they're getting
on a really aggressive line in upper b
pushing just yet but
this is pretty nice for the map that
and maybe have been playing which has been
you know slightly passive overall like
Unless there is going to be a lurk smoking to be, or this gets pushed back at all, that's going to be a checkmate position.
The legacy are going above, and actually they're going fast.
Charging their way beyond.
They're avoiding both bumps.
Yep.
They've gotten past this, they're starting to take space. Bomb still remains in the back of this.
We'll see if the AK up front could get anything, but Nessum dies with nothing, and the second rifle returns it back.
A grenade to deal chip damage across the board.
A second frag really softens it up.
And a third one should be lethal.
That's Lotto blown apart.
The bomb planted in the process.
Maybe he'll be a contender.
They're going to have to go for this railing.
They know it.
Tech 9 goes over.
Oh.
Lake is just totally blindsided.
Man, he wasn't being covered where I think he thought he was.
That's one of two ops down.
Slacks is now dropped as well.
Tech 9 catching him.
And Arton sads him down to the half HP.
Oh, he hit the headshot.
And now he's won it.
He's going to just die back.
around there is time to diffuse this he's got to get up and over but the fact
that he's able to get into the cover and now sin doesn't know where the hell he
got off to would have needed to stick that diffuse not allowed legacy break the
door down on this a site and give it right back to him and he gets killed with a scout shot as well
oh that's so insanely well played by sadson another clutch for him and that
that scout shot was not easy.
It's crazy, this is a double off set up,
it's the instant cap plate, that's the perfect antidote.
They didn't even know where Lake was starting this round.
But just as he started to peek out.
That shot, yeah, that shot is actually so tough and
totally wins it.
Knows from there, he can just run away.
Nightmare for m80. Oh, yeah
As soon as that round lost to you you hear from the m80 side of things I told you dot dot dot yeah, because you know
Something went wrong with that CT walk up. Someone was yeah, they knew like I knew watching this
They're gonna peer over the railing because they're 3d4 and that's their fastest way to get a kill and it's a lucky timing sometimes
You don't do it when you're high numbers, but like you're gonna go for the risk
Lake knows it too. He comes into clear and he has a teammate on his right, but that guy's not that far out
Disjointedness between M80 gives a golden opportunity back over to legacy
It is a bit sketchy still for legacy with the Kadrupal Galil
But that expensive off habit of M80 also puts them kind of in that same spot
Got a critical juncture here in round seven of dust, too
They're waiting for a pretty loud clear of upper B, so they won't just full flank it.
Trying to keep it fresh though, at least this time it's not a 2-1-2 or...
No, actually.
They keep...
They keep proceeding to this.
Okay, they're going for the boost up.
But like the lean is so insanely heavy towards A every round.
If, you know, last time it wasn't that great to mid-B,
just a full tunnels play is the right thing to do.
They're ready to pop on us.
JBA is caught.
Yeah, I mean, this round is basically over already.
Drops a ball off.
They're done.
How can you let it rest on that?
Ouch.
Ooh, that's an embarrassing hold, eh?
Yeah.
And not so much the hold, but the setup, right?
Wow, they get totally outplayed, it's a perfect call here for Legacy, which is, you know, it's great for them, like they can, they're reading M80 so well, it's just very disappointing here for M80, who don't seem to be learning from the rounds that, they, you know, they just played against, it's not like Legacy are throwing something out, they're totally random, they're building off of what didn't work previously.
they just didn't bother with the mid part of their attack because that was the
part that went wrong last time they know that M80 have been playing light on
vision there and really heavy in terms of amount of players towards a it just
happens again whatever game plan M80 had for Dust 2 it's just it's just wrong
for now
they're so far forward on that already no way do not come through I mean that's
Slams it down as well with the instant headshot.
Hopefully it goes anywhere near him.
Now let's take over the match. That is very true. That was a much needed round.
That tech 9 moment to break down on the A site.
Now let's take over the match and they did the exact...
Take over call. That's why they're momentum team. It calls like that.
Yep. When the coach says let it fly, alright then.
Sorry, I said the coach are hard.
and it's a
doesn't matter like he sees all on board
skipper of the captain was the difference
dark like would know
in germany somewhere
flashes to threaten that cap presence draws the ct cross defender in swisher
over to the ramp
i'm actually hearing up to the b-side again and still two players once more
no vision on mid
nades fly out through tunnels
still see lake taking a glimpse that swisher is not going to be able to get
Yeah, here blow this open. He has a molly in hand for a cat play. It's another mid B coming.
Yeah, so far removed from the reality that is this legacy onslaught to the B site.
Nism walks wide of the smoke. JBA offers up the one. And this time we've seen already when both defenders get one.
There's one between the two, and legacy are off to the 7-1 start over M80.
So it's been a joy to cast some of the M80 games. This is by far their weakest map performance.
This is really disappointing and I'm really surprised that isn't getting into this because
It's been a reminder to communicate and actually
Right, you know come up with with not even new ideas. Just like
Ideas that address the problems that they are seeing, you know, like I feel like the emotions right now are so wrong
For just starting a map. It'd be just starting a series. They're playing like they lost a map already
It makes me wonder what that 13-2 loss on Dust2 yesterday kind of did to them.
Fresh wound perhaps?
I'm really glad Legacy are finding all the right punishes.
This is a zero fighting spirit out of that maybe.
The one round they won was this fantastic push off-cat with a double lob by and a lot
You know ingenuity that came with it not a single idea in the mid on any other round
No boost up on cat to punish the lower tunnels set up
No one
NOA boosting by the doors to catch anyone coming up on Xbox
They didn't actually go forward with the tunnels push to take some pressure off their late round right?
It's a play and fell back. Yeah, here's the here's the most they've done
Better late than never but it's almost nothing single round for m80 still
If your legacy why not just keep slipping the net out mid
Till m80 adapt
Keep the pressure on slacks goes hunting here's that off at the top of middle
So he wants his tool and it's a lake close push towards the door look a little mid presence
Yeah, and that's m80 a man advantage for their efforts
Sins up here in the pit
And now here could be the great irony. They like really paid attention to mid, but they play left side of the door
And sin dies. Now it's just swisher on the ramp. Lake's gonna try to hurry over here. It's the right move
He stomps it all the while and this one hears that rotate. Tagged swisher down to half health
So both the members of A wounded at the least
But it's gonna be legacy to surely still give this one a genuine try
Utility comes over a little ahead of their arrival. They're taking over mid control with numbers
So Catwalk now becomes bolstered, but there's a smoke grenade and a Molotov here on Sadzin
that could really start offering up problems for this majority cat retake attempt.
They're really allowing the retake.
Lake's dead to the flames. Lotto's getting duals. The smoke lamp and it just cuts them in half.
Down to the 2v2. It's a health advantage for Legacy and a bomb plant inbound with no utility to stop this.
Yeah, they plant very good for long. They have an AWP in play and...
How they even gonna win this? They don't have any utility. Slacks is an AWP.
The answer is they're not.
At least they're not meant to be.
JBA takes over the AWP responsibility,
hopes somebody gives him something to shoot at.
He's trying to elicit a peek here, announcing himself.
Sadzen's far removed from this bomb site, but it's fine.
Botto's got Coost locked in, headshot traded back.
Bomb in the middle of the site.
Kit's got to be grabbed, no.
Onto the AWP, he'll swap.
Still just enough time.
It's awkward as Sadzen gives him a little peek
and then fades right back in for a substantial 8-1 T side lead.
I like that play actually from slacks because otherwise, you know, there might have been a guy standing out there on the corner in the open slightly, but
Overall that was just low odds
Man, why did it feel like legacy we're just gonna win three before before they even
Everyone from M80 was incredibly passive as if they had already lost the site
the
of
the
Lake's got the only flash in lower tunnels now.
Now it's Lake last round except everyone's more out in the open and it's actually time
to start using those mollies.
We're coming up to 30 seconds.
got those guns out, but yeah, start fighting.
Hopper about to take up a line, Sadsen, hoping for a target at 20 seconds, really down to
the line.
Oh, there it is, from the lake.
Oh, no.
They pop it open.
No problem towards middle.
Late arrival here for Nism.
Legacy don't look like they want anything to do with this site.
This round really kind of fizzles out on long.
Yeah.
Got a lot of positioning there for Legacy.
M80 just waiting and waiting for their fight, and by the time the fight signs up for it,
They pop open a smoke, disrupt it just enough, and we'll be happy to at least have two.
And they let Legacy know.
Yeah, they waited a long time to do what they could have done 30 seconds before that, but
M80, credit to them, they threw a bunch of utility early just to threaten an early cross,
and as time went on, this is a bad smoke on the long cross.
They have a lot of utility left over.
They could blow the smoke up.
The ball either side multiple times, if it came to it.
We got two!
We got two!
We got two!
Oh, we got two. It's crazy.
In a fun way, though.
That's the North American spirit, baby!
We got two!
Mood boost!
Ha ha ha ha!
That's what M80s say about their German teammates.
We've got two!
Trying to be the hometown heroes over a big...
That again plays later today.
Sin, not bothered by that flash, but it's a concern that there's this many bodies coming
out through the long doors.
Yeah, Art spams away Sin who signs up for a duel that he can't quite win with this many members of Legacy ready to rock.
And they will yet again threaten long control, but this does draw the offer's attention from Karnisim activates off Catwalk.
Slick, couple of headshots.
Slacks has got a lot to deal with now.
Smoke fades, he lands that shot, but unfortunately can't topple another player, and it's a long run from JBA.
B site to the long flank.
flank yeah the bomb is on Lotto so actually come back to spot this damaging
on JPA drop there is an outside chance that he wins this but two difficult
duels as they have to go back and get the bomb they layer up for the long peak
I mean he doesn't want to give it to them he can't play full passive though like
they I guess maybe if he is actually drawing out a fight but they're just
gonna run now he knows they've scooped that bomb back up you'll try to reposition
Maybe they consider he's gone cat. Oh, there's a fight to core all tucks in comes back at it now sadson's hands busy
It's an old advantage sadson cover advantage sadson
JPA to try to close the clutch thinks he's still behind the site box
Oh sadson's making a huge risk and it's paying off. He got all the way off to the corner and he's staying here floating
Well, JPA calculate this correctly starts to consider it floating in the open sadson with the blind side
It's a valiant effort the timing almost gets JBA into that. It was great
They did fall for the soundbake it felt like for me that it was gonna be just allowing them to get the bomb planted
But they didn't fall for it third 1vx win for sadson this map alone. Yeah, and a couple on cat
That exact spot
Here comes death
I'm gonna say this is a little late.
Yeah, he took his first one after the round they lost to the tech-bound rush of Catwalk.
No other timeouts from that point in timeout.
Oh, okay, so it's...
Bit too much going on, in a bad way, to get it under control.
And I guess earlier when I wanted them to call this pause, there was that great idea
to get the double up set up and they won the round, but it was okay.
Without a pause.
Just kind of new to adapt, yeah.
They'll fly out top mid.
Relax, it's not a part of this mid-hold.
Really was a big part of the early concern.
This lack of mid-presence out of M-80,
the just default to having 2B defenders, no support.
A little uncomfortable for Sitnaw, that is.
His molly gets extinguished.
He's got a little frantic there, a little vulnerable towards A, but I don't think legacy
know about this.
It's been a little bit more blocking and attention to mid at the very minimum, so they
can't simply go out and clear things.
That terrorist smoke at the end of tunnels now fades because there's a third member of
the defense in there.
They'll check this.
They figured it out, haven't they?
Feels like they're definitely sizing up this A site with attention all trying to squeeze
behind the flames.
That's at least enough to make him waste the frag grenade.
Art definitely just scrambled sin.
And yet nobody from that B-Sides yet to move.
Still concerned about the mid-presence.
Insta-kill from Sads and Zop.
Down goes your site hold.
Slacks on the recovery, back towards Long.
Flans the shot, but via wallbang.
And unfortunately, then it's not given a chance to whip over the site.
And so, real control now for Legacy in the final round of this T-Side.
An ambitious climb up from Swisher in just a moment.
off that flash you've got legacy players with heads tucked in sight support from
the long pit via off lotto actually swapping to the AK and it's gonna be
the galil to get this double swisher 1v4 cut down to size rock solid double
digit T side out of legacy
I
It's the last time everything into this or it's not but
No matter what we have nothing to lose, okay? Just give all energy
There's nothing after
It's the last time or it's not
He's got a point
He's got a point. Oh man
You are dead at rights. I think you know, this is a legacy that's just caught M80 looking their wounds from yesterday
The vet boom dismantling of dust to is happening again. We said, oh, it couldn't be as bad as that and
And, um, well, it could be just as bad as that.
A 13-2 back-to-back days, if Legacy take this pistol and give M80 no space thereafter.
That was unfortunately such a deserved 10-2 half. There's no other way to put it.
Brutal, but honest.
Lake tries to make this happen.
Ooh, Art's catching the headshot. Here comes the big commitment.
Long player's about to fight Archus.
Pop it up to perfection.
He's on with everything so far.
Lake says, I'm not getting 13-2 twice, damn it.
He'll put up a 3K to try to give an early pistol win over to M80.
They can at least say we improved versus the results from that Bet Boom match last night.
Get some on the walk up.
The retakes on.
He's got a smoke still as well.
If he puts that on top of the bomb, no.
He'll block off the long players. We got damage here from lake. He's got the quad kill in the pistol. Oh
He's got it
an ace for lake
But it is still m80 that are drowning
Yeah, but that's that's gonna be great after the half and being able to forget about what just happened in that 10-2 start
Like it definitely fire the team up now
It puts him on three. They don't have to play that CT side anymore
Well, let's see if Legacy can build momentum off of it.
We've got a tunnel push coming through from Legacy. This double scout is set up with a bunch of FV9s.
But they'll both get popped with nothing, and Lotto's attempt to get into the other side of tunnels is just him dissuaded after his two other teammates die quick.
Art eats the flash, that's Lake to slide under the line.
Not trying to mask it either, he's gonna pop right up, deal with the scout swiftly,
and give M-80 a bit of runway here on Dusty.
Just a bit though.
It starts with the dignity rounds, but just anything but like what happened in their best
of one results.
like we're used to seeing teams like survive a stage and then get better and then lose
the teams who are just too good right but not get worse what up when does that ever
happen who's like in all the majors we've watched casted as you know when a team survives
a stage besides like fly quest I was gonna say they're actually the but they've never
been good you know I mean like I don't know they've not comparable to any you
know team that's gonna make playoffs or whatever but like sure I don't think it's
fair to put any M80 in that category to make playoffs but that's true but yeah
yeah it's rough but they're not like major stage one specialist they take
wins outside of majors. Yeah, right. That's that makes them impressive.
It's the team that beat G2 so hard they bought malts.
There's that ace one more time from Lake just to enjoy it.
And all its glory.
This one's for the North Americans back home tuning in.
Just just repeat that round a few times over and over and over.
Oh, I mean, they've got the cloud nine win at Boston on the other monitor.
Never forget. We just say they'll never take that from us.
We know how to how to hang on to the stall.
Yeah.
Another round where Legacy are working with an awkward tool set.
Just because it's awkward doesn't mean it can't be lethal.
Context of this game is Legacy have made it happen with less.
You get this early clumping of M80 over towards the tunnels and right now as the B site stands
it is very much only sadzen and he's got some clutches to his team but a five man hold on
your own you sink impossible.
Yeah, just go.
They got him.
Trying to soften him up, they'll send in the flashbangs, he's now missing the follow
up targets and so he's just gonna get blown away by the Mac 10 of JBA and all while Lake
is posher himself out here on the scaffold. So this is going to be another one to come
up M80. They are now at half of the rounds of legacy. Interesting as this T side slowly
piece by piece begins to build itself. Yeah, it's no full buy yet, but it's a carbon copy
of what M80 did that cost them in the first half. But yeah, we have to see what setup
they use when they've got all their guns.
Mac 10 versus Deagle.
I'd rather be the Mac 10.
Good, let them have it.
Let them have it.
That's so funny.
I love it.
Legacy have to know it's coming back their way.
They made a career of it in their breakout major run back at Austin, where Legacy actually
progressed to stage 3 from stage 1, and were on the brink of making playoffs with two wins
in that final stage.
This is just all about getting the organization and the core back to where they once were
This is the round where they either you know copy m80 and all the worst ways or do something a bit more active and different
Well-placed Nate will help out legacies endeavors for round 16 a second grenades got lake damn near dead
And they were just trying to prod out long
long. So they're actually maintaining information on every single part of the map.
Sadson's getting in behind Dumount. I don't know if they're going to be ready for the
splash.
Offs ahead of him. Dumount. Yeah, he's got blinded players on the other side. Still
destroying the draw man.
Oh, so good. The second flash.
Sadson with the perfect support for Dumount. Dumount delivers!
Another take.
Another headshot onto Slash.
Art is up there might have been his bullet to
No, dude. That was the one talk about output this rifle round a stark contrast dude
I mean that just shows you like that shows every improvement that m80 needs to make about their CT setup sort of all
epitomized in one round
They had the full they had basically they're caking at it to they have missed it vision on it
They had two guys there that fast
Long they had early you till damage so they can slow down they
transposed from one setup to another, it just wasn't full passive, not watching
anything, waiting for their fate to come to them. So what now, M80, as soon as
legacy get on guns, they show you everything that you left on the table
in the first half. All the things you could have done. Yeah. That we know you
could have as well. We've seen M80 pull out some great calls and setups at this
It's major, but right now it's feeling like a Tai Lu situation.
Great tag on Lotto.
Slax might find out about that one later.
I'm for a pre-checkout, mate, don't see anything.
This game of cat and mouse coming towards catwalk again, it seems.
This time you don't have Doomow pressed into it.
Scott Lotto Low.
All the money.
It's hard and there's more and more Fragonades.
It's got another one after this one as well.
Oh, that's perfect as well, isn't it?
Oh, two different guys in two different positions.
Good Lord.
Yeah, he's looking like Nico with those HEs right now.
And Art has been standing here like a statue
for the entire round.
Doesn't even have the pinball.
And it's a trap wire.
They cross by him and he can finally release his incendiary,
but by the time he does, it's late.
And Sin's now already made noise,
so like if he sees Satsen and all,
Sin's just gonna get killed.
We go 30 seconds,
Doom outprox through the mid-doors,
almost tracking that mid-play,
but they do break through as nobody's holding Catwalk.
This A site's definitely compromised.
You gotta win the fight on long.
Art's gonna try to swing out and catch you.
You can plant for Catwalk if you're late.
Oh, Sin wins that duel.
Now a critical turning point,
because it's man advantage and Lake extends beyond it.
But like, Legacy got a little too comfortable there,
pressing away from the site.
I just, I won't, I mean, I guess he couldn't have fought
unless the rotations were more aggressive through CT spawn
if Nissen wanted to get back to the site
and fight them on the cross.
But that's also a bit of, I think in this spot,
Dumaut choosing to lean into spawn
after throwing his HE grenades.
So they did a lot of things actually really well here,
But, man, Sin, who was a non-factor on those long holes in the first half, shows a lot of awareness right here to take out Art as well as fight that corner, and is a huge problem, because Legacy are happy to fight him at first, but they can't kill him.
It's also Art who had that kind of 1v1 jostling with Sin that drew Sadson from the CT cross over to Long as well. That takes the last set of eyes off Catwalk.
That was your CT cross player that went and doubled up on Long.
on long oh yeah but it's it's like it could have been art it could have just
been art on the corner they could have been art peaking second right so m80
skate by an unwatched catwalk while sadzen was helping out oh slacks
regaining vision quick enough to find an opening kill m80 closing the distance to
a 5 round gap and a 5v4 with good guns in hand for this 18th round of Dust 2.
How much better?
Since said it, on TeamSpeak in between halves,
give this all of your energy. There's nothing on the other side of today if we can't win this.
They improve on the score line from Betboom yesterday.
And now again, just walk out through this cow walk.
No eyes on it.
Once more, Legacy.
They're just banging on Art.
He turns and there's Artie, a player clearly in the site.
Art gets a forming sign and is able to dive into cover at least,
but this is a foregone A bomb site in a 5v4 advantage out of M80.
Why not just go back to what works?
Yeah, that's awesome.
That's like a bit of Art with the call.
Dead silent up a, what is normally a very tumultuous choke point
with a lot of action, a lot of people trying to pry for vision. Now, still for legacy, it's not
the worst case in the world in an 11-6 situation to save with four players and an AWP on CT side.
You make money, you replenish all your utility next round. For giving away economy to the other
team in a spot like this, almost doesn't matter at all. Obviously, you'd love for, you know,
your next two rounds to be free, but as long as you have savings and you continue to buy,
And it'll always be a threat, so...
Very solid, low friction hit here from M80.
One great tactic to kick off.
And they are well past the dignity rounds now. They aren't fighting against Map Point. This one's still up for grabs, M80.
Legacy Resort to their first time out.
Still around, we're clearly they've got all the guns they could ask for, still sadden on that AWP.
Yeah, they're more than stocked and I'm still seeing ideas out of them and until you get that round that looks like they've calcified and play passive, then I'm going to be like, alright legacy, looks like you can get nervous too, but we haven't seen that just yet.
For now, they're getting out maneuvered, I wonder, but M80 will come up with, again,
to try to slip the net.
Slash 5, he's delivered two door wallbangs, it opened and killed last round, and Sadzen
is a good guy to hit.
been a problem for Legacy this match.
This T-side has now won 5 of the 6 rounds on the attack.
There's just such a flat first half that M80 continued to trail by a significant amount
of rounds, but how much longer they ate up to now walk, frag grenade, the ways we've
We've seen that one just hit multiple times.
Lakes going to go charging through.
They're trying to play with a quick timing.
They got a guy in Goose.
Lotto tucked to the corner.
Oh, the Molly.
It's going to burn them back.
They're going to try to still charge headstrong through.
JBA doesn't consider Goose.
And now this one's just getting locked up.
M80, straight through the smoke by Lotto.
And this time with a player heart dedicated to Goose,
isn't that just the perfect change up
from those open catwalk runs we've seen M80 win rounds off of?
And it's also the playing Goose while Doom out
is nading Kat as if he's the only guy watching a maybe from the ramp and to
note first time out that legacy utilize and they get this fresh change up that's
a perfectly positioned new defender in that site that wins legacy there 12
great adjustment valuable round win but it is still money for m80 because of the
street they had going. Really want that cat one of the cap later. Carry them all
the way to the finish line. Maybe they bet on black too many times in a row.
Oop, got Dumau to drop.
Is that gonna do it again?
Banking on Lotto to have eyes over top of the B wall, Dumau has had that affinity to
come help through the CT spawn.
This is going to love the assortment of ideas man, legacy of broad.
Threatening the mid-setup, Slacks finds the first and then they just fall back through the doors momentarily.
They're looking for any reason to make it up Cat again, oh so...
Smoke goes out from Lake, we hit 25 seconds with the map on the line.
A follow-up smoke onto the boxes, it's a wide reposition here from Art.
Tees go dropping over the ledge.
This is going to get sad to the shot.
He hits it.
Good trade from Sin.
Art's hoping to go on notice.
Swisher clears.
Gives him a tease.
On shot, critically hit.
Six seconds.
Bombs going to get picked up and planted
in the coverage on the other side.
And there's nobody there to stop it.
And so M80 squeezed value out of another A site.
It costs them on the approach, but they will still
have rounds to play.
Very solid round.
Again, they just wanted to make another way
to set up for the cat hit. This time they get their open and kill and that means no matter what
tricks legacy have, unless they go for some crazy full stack and we didn't see anybody crossing
back across middle, that A site is going to be a little bit weaker. It's exactly where they felt
comfortable. A couple of great kills from slacks. Considering the score line, it's crazy that he's
even 12 and eights
oh wow that was a good shot
Oh, and another tag. He's Mr. Consistent on this DoorCross.
Nicely done.
Keeping sads and low, keeping legacy on their toes, and yet again taking a look through mid.
They clear out Lotto, point blank, and man advantage M80.
Yeah, that feels so good to get a play like that going.
Opshot misses, the flash was perfect, the tactic was the right call.
Reansility pressure trickles out through the midcourt.
They're gonna be walking this one up catwalk met by a smoke grenade. They'll have to pause. That's a fresh smoke
This is this is very good for for a medium and they're showing a lot of you know
We're trying to condition
Legacy which is working, but does that mean that they condition them and then they still go away?
Right now legacy have the right calls sitting on top of it bomb is sitting at the top of middle
There is time to divert this course and they don't want to mid-b, but they need to
Bomb scooped up now joining the four players total that are sitting here and even your mid
guys starting to split through CT spawn. Legacy have stacked accordingly. You're met by the
AWPer. They're going to try to trade and they get mowed down. It is kills through the feed
all the way of Legacy and they charge forward storming into everybody. Sin laid back to the
the party, Legacy's adaptations as Dust2 went on the key to closing an M80 now face
elimination with two more maps to try to draw this back, but Legacy the fiery starts.
You can't take so little of that, but you got to get some!
We are back!
I see them with their swords again!
I can't believe that you could turn up this loud!
I
I want to ask you, not about the teams or players that specifically impressed you in
stage 1, obviously you must have watched the stage 1, but AWPers, you're an AWPer, anyone
that you particularly was thinking like damn, this guy is actually pretty good, what AWPer
would you highlight from the stage 1, maybe they made it through or didn't, doesn't matter?
To be honest, I was watching one guy, not in the Major but in the past.
OK.
Griggs from Biggie.
For me, he's a very good player.
He grew up a lot.
I remember that we were playing in the U-Royke.
And now in Biggie, he's playing very good.
I already played some face-to-face books with him and it's always fun to play.
Like, we always won together, always good things.
So yeah, for me, he's the guy that we're playing very good.
He's playing very nice.
What are the, in your opinion, the goals for Legacy for this matchup?
Are we talking Stage 3 or are you even aiming for Top 8 finish
or something even higher than that?
Because you're talking always in these interviews about growing the team,
obviously like integrating Art into the team
and you've had the coach change recently as well.
And this growing part is going well so far.
So what's the goal for Legacy and Satsun in general for Cologne?
I don't want to jump like three steps, but to be honest, for us the goal is to reach the playoffs.
Like in the OST team, we lost one game to Gap and we lost to ModsFords.
It was bad feelings, but for us it's a rich playoffs.
But of course we have to win the first game on stage two, second and third, and get to stage three.
So I think I don't want to jump, but getting in bad car, you know, game by game.
I think we have to think about your first game and growing the tournament.
I'm baiting you for the answer. Obviously you go game by game, especially in Best of
Ones obviously. This is kind of painful and in Stage 2 we will still have Best of Ones.
In Stage 3 we are not going to have Best of Ones anymore. Are you more comfortable in
Best of Threes or Best of Ones as a team? Against, let's say, a better team. Some players
actually prefer to play Best of Ones because it's like they're underdog and stuff like
For you personally, are you more of a best of three player and a team?
Yeah, I think we have to be prepared to play best of one, best of two, best of three, so...
Best of two is wild thing.
It was old, I remember that tournament.
It used to be in some online leagues, you had to play like a back-to-back, it was like best of one back-to-back.
It could have ended one-one and then you split the points, which was wild back in the days,
but you know we're past that we're been best of ones and best of three territory so for you
probably best of three is something where you're feeling more comfortable is that right yeah yeah
i think best of three always better but like i said you have to be prepared for our best of one
major is like that stage 2 b so yeah we have to be ready to the all the maps
legacy recently won a tournament lift to the trophy and the one man in particular
Lifted MVP trophy as well. Can you guess who that was? Mr. Lato?
Yeah, Legacy AC.
This is a magic tournament for you. Back-to-back wins in China out of nowhere.
When you were coming into the tournament, I was secretly cheering for you because I like you guys,
but I didn't think that you would pull such a feat that what you did last year as well.
What is happening with Legacy in China? Why are you playing so good there?
Yeah, I don't know. It's magic, I think.
But it's amazing playing China and I don't know the team coming to go to China.
And before that, we have the Air Atlanta and we play well in the Atlanta.
So we go more confident to China.
And I think in this time, we are not the favorites, I think it's Falcons.
but yeah, we played well and we won.
Falcons in the final.
How did you guys prepare for it?
Because obviously Falcons are known for the final disaster classes.
So did you have that in mind as well?
Like guys, like let's just play our game and I know it's Falcons,
but this is the grand final.
It's a curse for them so far.
What was the mentality going into that?
I'm just curious.
What were you thinking?
Because clearly you came into the final as a heavy underdog.
Yeah, we lost to them at the group stage.
And when we played against them in the finals, we only said,
guys, let's play our game, the pressure is in the Falcons.
So let's play our game, if it's too in, we will win.
So that's it, and enjoy the game.
These are our mindset, I think.
Overall, any team that surprised you or players that surprised you in Stage 1?
Yeah, before I said division but they are 2-2.
I mean they can surprise you even if they don't make it. They surprised you already, yeah?
Yeah, yeah, I think they played well in Stage 1 and maybe they can go through Stage 2
true but I'm trying to tell you because I like to talk with G he's very friendly
and yeah I think they are doing a good job okay G in particular I mean it
makes sense that you love Chinese teams because you love China because you're
getting you just going there grab the trophy grab the MVP have a good time
obviously winning and now you're here in Cologne in major and it talks about
about that I actually wonder how many how many majors did you play before I think
it's five five majors five majors already is this the absolute like the best
form you're coming into the major yeah I think it's the best form in house team
we almost go to the playoffs it's we we almost go to the playoffs and in the
last one Budapest we we don't play good we we go to the tournament a little
bit struggling inside the team and now I think we have a good shape to go to the to the column
at this major because we we come into after that we are in the CAC and we won the tournament and
now we did the vibe inside the team it's very good everybody is is liking to to be together
every time and I think it's the the best shape. Everyone is liking it, apart from
Nisim obviously. It's locked in, focused on the media day. I want to thank you guys,
I want to thank you guys and I'm not going to interrupt your media day because you have a lot
of prep to do as well and I wish you best of luck in stage two. Thank you. And it's good to see you
like this because you're smiling, they're clearly ready. Guys, watch out for legacy, they're coming!
He could get the double, it's still too close, that he got no help from 13, I'm 3, oh my goodness, how did he do this? How did he do it again?
All the more dire a situation for M80, but at the same time, chalk it up to being an opponent's map pick, and hope that you can find a refuge here on Inferno.
And maybe the pressure has been on them at times already in this major
But now it is truly the closest they've been to that dreaded
They're joking about at half time at least we got to and then made a
Partial come back. It really wasn't even a full come. I mean ultimately
Legacy still played so well as they were losing rounds in the second half
They had new setups new ideas every single round. They didn't
I didn't feel like they were going to let something through, and ultimately as well,
M80, all they did was go up Cat in a variety of different ways, which is the round they
ended up losing for the match as well, when Legacy stacked it entirely, pulled the goalie
on the B site and said, I know you're not bluffing, you actually only know how to go
Cat.
So.
Gotcha.
I don't think that was enough to instill confidence in them coming into Inferno.
It's not that we think they don't have what it takes.
They absolutely do.
That is M80.
They know how to play.
They know how to call well.
They can hit shots.
They have shown impressive strategies and tactics, but for whatever reason today, it just feels
like they're rolled out a bit on the wrong side.
They had the same breakfast that Tyloo had.
They didn't get enough sleep last night.
Like everybody else.
Just tertiary factors.
It doesn't feel like it's not the M80 that we saw last week.
We're all playing under the same circumstances here at the major.
World-class circumstances, may I add, but it's also world-class levels of pressure.
Yeah, and then the pressure, yeah.
That's the part that's just the most confusing.
That's supposed to be the main benefit of the going and surviving a stage, that you build up some of that resilience.
And if you have to run from stage 1 all the way into the playoffs, then it's at those moments that we start to talk about fatigue, for example.
I think the best example of that would have been ParaVision and Budapest. They really grinded out those games, especially because the score lines of a ParaVision match, let's be honest.
You know there was straight-up interviews as qualification was happening where James said I'm just so tired
Yeah, and to that breakout moment fantastic, you know can't say that after one stage. No
James said that after four weeks. Yes, you know, he did that at the end of Rio
So
It's a bit different remember when people were tweeting out oh, I'm so tired from the travel schedule and simple tweeted out
tired we haven't even started and it was like two months into the season so yeah
so buckle up buckle up you got nothing else to do today nowhere else to go no
place you'd rather be if you're m80 supposedly then here at the major and I
believe them when they say it problem is legacy also want to be here and they're
playing Counter Strike that deserves to be.
No game will be easier than the last for either of these teams as we get deeper
and deeper into the never ending talent that Counter Strike produces.
All of the struggle today, just for another elimination match tomorrow.
You are watching a one to game between Legacy and M80 where the Brazilians
have map one in the bag.
Art's quite an interesting fit into this team for Inferno,
because when he used to call it for Furio, it was always their map pick,
but it was one where they never had a that good of a win rate on.
They loved playing it, and now that he comes on to Legacy,
they have the win rate, they love the map,
and they've had some of their biggest wins on it too.
That does also make him a real threat here.
Try to pounce on sadson. He's got a choice right with the smoke there. Do you go back for second serving?
Oh quick. There's a deadly looking split onto do now. He drops a smoke to CT spawn. They're not gonna respect that a second sooner
Maybe instead two players dive through you'll have a chance to maybe cut one off. They're looking for him
They know somebody's got to be here and he does a great job of dodging the threat
originally until Swisher does go ahead and confirm.
They're quick. Gotta be careful about how you plant this bomb.
Let it go by. Yeah. Wait, no plant.
It's the executive. They got so fast, and they can talk.
Wow. Slacks has to cross over, pick that up, and somehow plant.
He's not planting yet, because they can rush him down.
Seven to the clock. They're going to try to get at him,
but he's playing that pillar to perfection.
Dual Beretta's down with one.
Nissan wins the kill over towards CT spawn.
And just when M80 thought they had a freebie of a bomb plant,
It's going to have to be Slax in the clutch, confirms 2, sees the 3rd, trying to fight his way out of this, but they'll find that kill.
And the legacy caught off by the wraparound of the B site, but they make up with it with a flurry, a sprint up Banana, the blindside's M80.
It's technically Doomow that did the lay long enough as well.
Even though they threw that smoke, they didn't really respect it, and they ran through quite swiftly.
He got a kill, got to fall back a little bit.
And as they were playing this game of trying to fight him with full confidence and full of breath legacy
We're running the entire way
To go for a retake the kind of new Howard was gonna finish
And just immense pressure on M80 even when they do get close to pulling off a strong call
Thanks one thing they're gonna have to be worried about all map long is now
Now you've got Legacy, who are already a team that got really amped up and aggressive, and
you've given them a path advantage, and you put them on inferno, whereas you alluded to,
Art will be happy to call.
They're all happy to be here, yeah.
So it doesn't feel like Legacy are quivering in their boots, it feels like they're ready
to just rock MA's world.
JBA, drive by Tech 9, man advantage still for Legacy, momentarily with a Doomow tag
to 18 health.
But hey, second set of hands on the scene in Sin.
Bombed to be planted, that's money made.
M80's pressure flusters the legacy for a second,
and now that Galil catching another
with a smoke in front of Modo's side.
Suddenly this feels all the more possible for M80.
Duma will know now that Sin has jumped to pit
because he was over here in lane.
Guess what it'd be?
Well, maybe he'd be guessing.
Oh wait, he's not covering this.
clear sight, Sintuck's back, lets the first kill go down, oh almost kills himself!
If it still gets him killed, he can't hide properly.
Just alley-oops Lotto with his own frag grenade flustered by the utility.
Wait a second, okay.
Gets onto the bomb, doesn't he have this?
That's close!
Oh my god, what are we doing?
Man, the Nade made it so that, so the Nade made it so that you knew where he was going
to run to as well.
He couldn't even choose anymore.
Hey, damn near
Sudoku
Crunch the numbers
And actually with the amount of time left over it's all you needed to just hide for an extra second. Oh, yeah
Yeah.
We're getting into that.
Zin has bad memories of him.
Yes, yes he does.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very bad memories.
That overtime game versus Bain that was, um, how do I put this?
Not Zin's finest hour.
Yeah.
The opposite of a classic.
The Assyk.
Still some upgraded tools to work with if you're M-80 in this third round.
The legacy are starting to feel rowdy.
That's funny.
Hit him with a fadeaway dig shot through smoke.
Scares Doom out for a second, mag dumps and disappears.
This is a falling back legacy from Banana that also just leaves a sole defender in that
site.
Doomow returns as the B-smoke goes down, 40 seconds and that thing pops.
Utility over the top, walks off Arch.
Arch would go back into CT just to hold this off, and I think a part of Arch just believes
that this is a fake, obviously.
He'd be right about that.
They're about to charge through that smoke into arc.
Okay, not the right time to pull a Nade out.
Still delivers the double kill.
Defenders in sight while blind.
Find one, and Sadson whips it around to the Moto side.
Unleash the MP9.
Let the Cat9 get a kill.
Miss him decides to wait and wait.
Well, maybe it's the better call.
It's still four up for Legacy at the end of it.
end of it three zero their CT start like you see have such strong right
I never think about often when I think of this team I think of great multi-frag
sprays you know what I mean it's no offense to mayor and it's kind of what
I feel about 9z yeah yeah their their highlight is definitely not their
off it no that's that's that's for sure just mayors also a decent rifle it's
I'm saying yeah he's not on the day they progress lakes could have pounced on a
lot of it was blinded in a second headshot out of Lake you sign up for
that gunfight legacy getting a little excited about that threat somebody
shows presence towards banana they sign up to the duel they'll find themselves
three v five for their transgressions. What's our gonna do about all this?
Please actually love the moves. Drops and made on top of slacks takes him down to
50. What a crazy slot into this position. It's gonna catch them off. Won't be able to
get out of there alive not any day of the week. We'll see if Nism can catch this
pop up through the underground yes he did gotcha they'll find an mtb bomb site
it's an upgrade for nissan they could call this quits or go take a look at it
choices kind of legacies at the moment
it's a dubious position they don't have anyone in a normal natural spot over
in ct spawn but they have two of the best retake spots the bottom would be
early enough where the bomb didn't get planted what their way they're playing
I think there's a world, but it is the safer problem.
Did not attempt it.
It's a big double from Lake.
Not the weebs cowering.
I love how it's like usually it's explosive finishes or is it clutch but they wait until that bomb goes off
Maybe because they were still worried about that potential retake you know the worst thing you could do is celebrate early
It gives legacy something to think about.
first two kills of the map win them that round.
Or M80, we're eating frag grenades back on Dust 2.
Oh, they're popping us. It may be dangerous.
Nissan's in front of their smoke.
Nissan's got the back. It's actually late to kill Art first.
Oh, and they peel out?
Wow, Nissan doesn't get a chance to jump by the looks of things.
I wonder what's happening to be good for them. I mean, to keep the man up.
I mean, how the hell did they kill Art under or on top of porch without Nissan shooting?
Yeah, it's kind of wild.
He's poked out.
He might have had a NATO. Or he was playing anti.
Great position for M80 to find themselves in now. You've got a single defender here inside of Pitt.
It's not Sadson, and with this off, you just think the time it takes to transition shot to shot, he's doomed.
Oh yeah. There's no way you get five players solo here, and missing the first shot makes it all the worse.
The fact that he goes down empty handed, it's going to push legacy into a save.
into a save, and, M80, you take your sweet time, my friends, because your major life
is on the line, and they will find back-to-back round wins, last time off of the explosive
Lake 2K towards Banana at the start, and this one, a nice slow bracket squeeze that somehow
goes unpunished.
How's this work?
Oh, he was playing anti.
Oh, yep, I guess that's his own choice, because, like, this is a spot.
He can't push up so much to see the closer corner, because then he's exposed to the farther one as well.
So that's why sometimes you double up a high low on the porch, but they have the op that got Molly back.
He's cheating.
Money hasn't dried up for legacy just yet.
The economy is booming on M80's side.
Instead of sitting back, we get this forward press into the apartments.
JBA blasts Nismala. The round-art with the quick rebuttal. Goes for the mid-peak.
Whoa, held by slacks in the background. That offer is going to make the difference.
A site wide for the taking. We've got a bomb in spawn though, that'll need to be scooped up by slacks.
And it does look like Legacy want to take a bit of a test to run over here just to see what maybe they can do.
That was so crazy for Mark because he just got a kill in Boiler.
Was he going to cross all the way over to Arch?
If you just took the natural move back to, uh, bit, he actually would have beat the guys
who were running after him.
And slowed things down.
So into the save we go, I may tie this game up.
Nice.
Nice.
That's a real prayer room.
Spirits remain high for M80. They've got this game tied up.
Keysight going well for their map pick.
Legacy just not looking as sharp as it was for the first time.
and the rest win.
Legacy just not looking as sharp as they did back on Dust2 in terms of like the utility and the different setups and the explosiveness of the players, right?
We haven't gotten like big multi-kills in these last few rounds.
Yeah, it's different setups every round.
Yeah, but none of them working.
That's moving the goalpost a little bit.
That's the difference between this and Dust2.
Make it work.
I'm going to do it now with a triple, 5-7, slowly, eating away into the rifles that Legacy
bring to the table, round after round.
That was the last time they used this setup, huh?
I think it's going to work.
Ah, I can't promise.
357 is on this round for legacy.
Double nade coming over. Perfect on Dumow.
Visiting Flinch.
Locked in on that hole just in case and, well, M80.
M80 will instantly transition five numbers strong over to the a commitment
Which because it is a new setup for legacy
Features nobody inside the apartments short pit BALC
Graveyard site moto nothing
It's two five sevens. They're going our side. Wow, and they're gonna walk right into these five sevens
But blinding them all the while could assist by slacks good double kill by a lake
Hail Mary moment out of art is he tries to make no I thought art through that. Oh he did up
Yeah through the arch smoke. All right. Well some damage, but that's it
It's a clean round out of m80 nicely done perfectly time flash for the double
5-7 setup on arch, you know how badly that can go sometimes
Worked a map very well
They've got battle scars from Inferno. I'm sure they've learned a lot.
And legacy not meant to be chumps on this map. They've got victories over very impressive
teams including M80 and a 13-5 outing back in Atlanta, but they also defeated Na'vi,
the Mongols, MIVR. Everyone on the team close. Inferno.
Just not piecing it together right now in this head-to-head.
The 557 gives way to full rifles in this next one.
Remember, M80 would have beat fate if they didn't totally choke.
They had an incredible inferno.
Double maint again. There we go. Good value.
Right over top and Dumas just been kind of neutralized these last two rounds by the frag grenades.
You don't give him a duel. He's got nothing to get excited about.
JBA confirms it.
That's it again, AWPing in the front line, missed chance, and as that sniper whips, support
system in Lotto's got way too much to do, does tag the two that cross, but nobody's
here and it's looking like another legacy save in a second.
He was super committed in a way that, even with the kill, there was that instant double
swing he would not have been able to fall back to the site and there was no one behind
them to get a tag off of his peak so just like legacy we're calling out a lot of
their setups on dust too it feels like a bit of the same here for m80 versus them
now sin was going really hard on the reeds when they played against Bade say
like this is what they're gonna do now this is what we're gonna try now and was
coming up with a lot of success
Oh, I don't like this map. Yeah, we already knew that five saves in a row now for legacy and you can't blame them
Too difficult to get into that retake and they just need one more like tunnel or bridge or something like that
Or just necker an airport
Railway
But I did one.
We'll never go to the escalator.
Yeah.
It's usually on the, uh, oops.
Usually on the hostage maps.
On escalator for some reason.
What do you call a hostage on your-
It always freaks me out
I always tell him keep breathing in my ear. I'm gonna shoot you myself
Great, it was just like the depth
We're gonna leave you behind buddy
I'm carrying you why are you out of breath?
Damn hostages
too slow this is a bit of legacy on them wow this is an amazing bounce back from
what they showed us on Dust2 which was let's piss poor it was awful
and if they continued to play that badly it would have never said that but this is
all they needed more
This will be a legacy off to their sixth consecutive save, losing rounds, and the opening moves.
Ooh, they're getting off.
Oh, yeah, they're getting off down low.
I kept that one back.
That was Nysim to kill JBA for the record.
So still two players survive on the side of M80 as they go up 6-3 with this
six-round streak of terrorist round wins.
They lose the AWP, but with the amount of saves they have enough money to rebuy everything.
They've saved so many rounds, you think they could just buy a round win?
Imagine you could trade in dollars for wins.
Dual down middle for Sadsen.
Body gives it up after hanging on to it for about all of three seconds
Nades for JBA and swishers approach or lakes
And now I got swishers dad his doom out opens up its first blood for legacy something that's been very elusive
But at the same time this apartment's walkouts only got one player in sight to have to stop it in Nissop
He catches the first but it's JBA to catch the kill sadzins op trades back
Man advantage maintained by legacy everybody on the scene and all what a fine
Satsun puts another bullet through that smoke and we go for a bomb planted a second slacks scours
Modo first pit player crosses over to the half wall and Lake in anticipation of the short walk-up has seen nobody just yet
Slow crawl out through brackets first for legacy. It's unbelievably slow, but they also have time to spare
Got a kid on Doom out and a kid on Lotto.
Oh, Slacks is making a crazy risk, but man, falling back to library is kind of perfect.
There it is.
Insane, did he just completely wrote off the library side, walks up into it, we've got legacy, finally getting an answer, finally going for a retake and sticking the landing.
It was a comfortable 4v2 advantage for the 6-4 score.
Saddened, saddened doing most of the work here, and after two mouths opening, I went through the smoke, triangulated, and I got to even shoot, eh?
Notice that.
Like sound-wise?
Yeah, there's no sound at all.
Yeah, that was weird.
Freaky.
It's a solid T-side. Six rounds secured, M80.
That starts off with a doom out, aggressive banana peek for one, goes untreated, and really
just kind of flushes M80 into the rest of the legacy players over on the A site.
of
the
of
the
Good maid on Swisher. Kicked off of the opening. Last round, Legacy.
They've also been dishing out the UTEL damage, all the same, from T-side, no less.
Maybe nice. RIP Zadzins.
Just enough.
Gets back around into the site, Art now feeling like he can press in on Banana, with Doom out right behind him for the support.
Those two will pause behind their own flames.
What's that?
What's that? Look at this smoke.
I'm looking out here.
See the smoke.
It was meant to smoke off brackets, but instead it just got stuck on the side of porch,
so now all of a sudden there's been vision here the whole time for M80.
They are going to walk into this, but will they be
than his scope is the question. Let's see if Sads in. Oh, he reads perfectly. Oh, they didn't see him perfectly.
Oh, Sin dies. Dive Sight, Sads in into cover. It's scary to approach this. Now they know there's another player here.
Lotto's a little concerned that they might just hit him on Arch, so he's still just in the CT spawn.
His library smoked off. Backsite held by Sads in with the AWP. They give themselves room to work forward.
Ooh, Lake clears that backsite. Slacks opens up. And the bomb, in the depths of the bomb site,
The priority. It's gonna get burned out. Swisher has to reposition.
Two players on top of boxes. Flash finds Slacks towards Pit.
He jumps spots up and over, missing his chances to kill Doomow.
And now Art reveals himself. You know, two of the three. Now all three.
Lotto's got both from inside-side as they tried to help out Slacks.
It is gonna be legacy to flush that bomb site and close the gap to one.
really strong retake, all the positions played perfectly.
Must be frustrating here for them.
80 things almost came together, but a couple of chances
that shots didn't get the kills.
In a little bit of a comeback into this first half now
for Legacy.
It was a messy moment there on the site.
They didn't really have a good idea
where all of the T's were rotating in from.
An easy transition onto Swisher, who was sitting low health because of the utility that they
softened him up with before the retake commit.
So, Legacy, successful in the two retakes they've attempted.
And M80's six round wins.
The six Legacy saves.
Hit that point in the half where they have to play the game, and play it well.
There was a couple of great slams on Banana for M80's attack at times, but they haven't
been given those duels by Legacy in these most recent rounds.
This one no different.
about to fade at the half wall. Swisher tucks in behind it, and it's only do-mow
towards Banana, kind of pushing pressure on. It's not long lived. He falls back to
the site. We get that artillery shell over top, and Sadsen giving a chance on
Arch, but kind of rushes the shot. It would be crazy to try to walk through that.
Oh, Sadsen has the right read. Oh, it's incredible. That is insane.
Yep, doesn't let the kid get away. Knows exactly what's happening. It's an all-in
from M80 in the final round of the half to try to topple the B defense and Lotto and Dumau keep
the shooting sharp. Poor Slax whittled down to 15 HP. Oh never mind he's just all gone. Fast
flanking through banana and it's gonna be the 21 health 1v4 out of sin. Forced issue. Satsen
spams him down with that clean flank on JVA to make sure they can't get into antics. It's the first
3 and the last 3 for the 6-6 half.
3 final rounds for Legacy to tie this game up and now take over to the T side of the map.
Well, it's time to see whether M80 still have the resilience to hang on to this game first.
The majority of that first half.
I felt like they were the drivers.
Yeah, totally.
Thank you God.
God, just like I see ending on that note, the show that they, you know, they have put their stamp on the series, they're, they're playing their CS at the moment, and entering back against a bit of a strong.
This is kind of what I expected on Dust 2. More of a fight from M80.
Now we don't know. Swisher, uh, always feels bad. First peek, instantly gushed, at least it leaves him on 37, and not 9.
see what kind of tempo legacy opt to play this map with
I got got
suck it but it's still a victory don't want to rotate yet
yeah that frag accomplishes more than that decoy I'll tell you that
one
get the smoke out of the defense
they spoke off CT cross themselves
Is there a willingness here for legacy to just barge their way through? Yes sir, with the flash.
USP to the back of the head of one. Sin, limited cover, drops the bomb because that flash assist from Slacks is key.
Doomow and Nissan though, bring it back. And with low health on two of the players here for legacy, Slacks wants into the action.
Great spam through.
Oh, he's just trying it.
Oh, why not? Right?
Yeah, at zero cost.
Can you see the smoke on the other side of it? You don't see the bullets go through, do you?
HAHHA, maybe we could just see a little bit above it, I don't know.
Sadzen, that's for the lead.
Feeling the hype off that one, you close out the first half with three rounds in a row and then you pick up this pistol
despite being faced by the frag grenades, the smoke grenades, the flash that blinds you on the entry.
There's praiseable utility here for M80's defense, but the kills come up legacy and when you catch the flank, not even checking the corner,
it's all made easier there by Nyssen locking in the rear.
Yeah, it's gotta be mostly headshots on a round like that.
M80's investment now involves LMP9s.
JBA solo A site doesn't look like Legacy are gonna waste any time here.
They're gonna stampede into him.
Smoke does cause a pause, a little cause for concern.
Ooh, an FB7 on the side of a popped open smoke.
Now there's bullets flying and health dropping both sides. CT's open it again.
And within that, we've got Lake with a second kill this round, but now he's down, and done for it.
Tease put another one on that Moto side, Nism concerned about the apartment's flank once more, just trying to hold off any potential M80 antics, but they are all stuck now behind that smoke with no way to pop them open.
It's a nice insurance policy, and it does feel like this is a round you could play with, but really, you're not going to win the retake, right?
Unless Swisher somehow gets a chance on this, but otherwise it actually is worth saving the little bits you got.
Could have been an upgrade for him.
Commendable effort by Lake.
In the flurry of all that finding two kills with the MP7 just using their nades instead of damage to kind of catch
Legacy in those open sight lines
There's a big ask of JBA from inside sight alone from the beginning to get anything
If only you know Lake gets those kills and JBA's got a chance to swing wide and couple off of the moment
But that was never it. Yeah, I think got rushed down so hard
He was hoping he was a smoke a little bit more aggressively instead of back there on the site
It's been a game of speed both ways on a fast rounds coming out of the T sides.
It's hanging on to very little after that last round.
This will be tasked to be the hero as the only set of Kevlar remaining.
Legacy, let some grenades fly and then pump the brakes and start walking their way up Banana.
Number of strong ones more.
Yeah, this setup is not terribly interesting.
The CT's actually got a smoke off.
And you know what?
I changed my mind.
They do send this back towards A where there are more players here.
And a flash.
Keep your gun out, though.
The Flashment to get that MP7 into the action, JBA extends forward to catch a Galil.
Yeah, going Arch makes a lot of sense. They know there's two players rotating over.
It's double smokes down for Legacy, a USP and Swisher's hand to suddenly pop through that Arch smoke when he chooses to.
A Galil with some decent cover over towards Little Pit.
JBA's got that headshot angle to try to play with, Swisher emerges. That gets covered. The Galil will connect a headshot.
And now Lotto tries to get into the action. 3v3, JBA still firing off, perfect distraction for Lake to strike one down.
Bomb though towards Moto, covered by Lotto, and it's legacy up by 3.
That was hard at a Lotto. He's 9-2 on this game, new mouse, 12-5.
And even though it was somehow a 6-6 score line, they've got these very handsome individual
KDs to be walking into round 16 with.
Bi up in full here, and Slacks is going to have an AWP, he needs to recover 3-8 so far.
We know how important his op-impact is for M80.
It's all going a bit far, but the flash is...
Oh, looks good. It feels like...
A couple of layers, and Swisher gets the difference maker.
Could have been a counter flash, I'm not sure, but...
early presence inside of apartments groups up between Lotto and Nissan
That frisky angle from Swisher currently held down bananas freed up sin to move over to this arch side
The utility pressure is being laid on thick by legacy out brackets the moment
I think they just don't don't really care about arch at the moment. They just want to let them
Sit here. It's like nothing JBA is the one you'll have to put it up on late flash
At least sin with a chance nissum emerging up through the balcony. They can't right off the little pit JBA's head takes a bullet
He's saying oh, oh, he's got himself a second covers over to HP man
He's leaving through those bullets couple of frags to his name great effort from M80 putting those defenders in place
Even eating the flash on arch yet still getting away with the hold that is made possible by sin his 2k couple of JBA's
puts M80 within two rounds of legacy.
Yeah, and Legacy's money is very awkward, actually.
They buy pretty much right away here,
but they still only get three guns out of it.
Yeah, it's a great moment for JBA.
And a limited follow-up here by Legacy.
Check 9, P250, Kalil in the mix.
He still hasn't had a chance to leave, Lotto's got you locked in.
He actually gives up the angle, Sin cautious about it on the fallback.
Slacks is going to find a back turn to him.
Art, just a little too thick on this side of the smoke.
You've got a swisher jump spot with an incendiary pulled.
Here comes the pack.
He's going to try to lean back into the B defense.
Oh, he's getting run down.
They're on the pounce.
He drops a smoke in front of him, but they could still just disrespect this.
It flashes through, a smoke for the cross.
He plays close.
A1S blinded, and he just tries to trade positions.
They find him.
Satsun from the tech nine double down into the post plant and they knew how to get into that
They knew he was alone
They could tell by the speed at which he dropped that smoke and and try to fall back
But he ate the flash was lucky to even get damage from his position could barely see anything
But as soon as he ran back into that CT smoke they knew exactly where he was
And on the weird buy they end up winning this brings it to 10
brings back the money they do it off a tactic over top of that arch smoke sin
thought he was being tricky by mag dumping and they were there ready to
punish
sometimes you have to be a bit more subtle about it right you know who's
gonna drop all of their ammo on the other side of the smoke not a guy standing
there alone yeah exactly trust me these guys are dumb oh yeah he was spamming away
at the first and then well somebody just puts their noggin on the line
death coming through with a chance to revert course
I've seen real resilience from M80 on this very map in their Cologne run so far
There's three rounds to the tie, it's full guns and grenades for the M80 side, coming
off of a death-deaf tack pause, which in previous games has had genuine impact on the results
and M80's ability to hang on.
My favorite part about last round was when you said ARK was a little too thick.
This whole rump was sticking out of that smoke.
Kinda tough when they worked the whole map and got away with playing it risky, but also kinda knew where they could take risks.
I think that's the real scary part for M80.
They had good utility, but they knew when the bluffs could be called. Like here.
Yep. I have to charge around, Sin.
Hanks on for control. It's brackets for legacy. That's it. That's all.
Lake begins his expedition down banana, pressing through, looking to smoke deep.
Very comparable to when Swisher was here on his own.
The last time legacy won around.
Slacks unable to strike you off of the boiler, did spot bomb with that.
Oh.
And almost went in for a second glimpse, but just missed the timing.
A push through the apartment! It's caught by Nissam!
Whoa, sitting walking down bars!
Good on JBA to at least trade back. He returns into the site to try to help out.
And as he's climbing up over the railing, they are pressing up alongside Short.
Doom out, caught on his press out through Modo, slacks his off connects. It's Lotto in the middle.
He knows the opposite.
Moray!
Satsun from beyond the grave! Lotto turns it back and his leg tiptoes up through brackets.
It's this bomb prioritized for the plant.
Walking the entire way. Lotto thinks it's Arch.
To be blindsided by Lake, who's just locked his way to the clutch,
and takes another one away from Legacy to continue to close this gap.
That is an unnerving moment, man. The Molly from beyond the grave.
And Lake walks away, 100 HP, whole kit of utility, the AWP, and the round win to keep this within two.
and legacy it back to a less than full strength by but the same story to be
told for M80 to have an MP9 and a FAMAS to work with there's a lot of the line
this round oh it late comes out with the opener love that
Two Mal out, and I think Art can just go ahead and grab this gun at the bottom of Banana.
Four rounds back and forth.
Nade damage immense for the Banana players.
That's either retakers or site defenders. Either way, they are softened up.
Continuous on the jump spot. Lake flank. Dangerous games with that one. They've got him zoned on the right side.
Flash to get him out of here and he will be able to get away. Dropping a smoke in front of it. Art...
They really want to do this?
Oh, he wants it. Art's gonna eat the counter flash. Swisher sets it up and Lake... let's lead it fly.
Triple kill on the hold!
You gotta coax them into the chase and they paid the ultimate price.
Yeah, it was a perfect counter flash. That was legacy getting a little too risky.
They've tried this a lot of times and I mean they have seen success.
Makes sense why they wanted to give it another go, but...
It's about time that M80 showed that they've learned from this.
legacy never willing to press up and fake always full committing to that b-site hit
is close
Flash was rock solid legacy thought that they could just jump through
Oh!
It's legacy that suddenly find themselves quiet.
They've got the money for a buy here. We see the tech 9's trickling in.
Yeah, that's almost debatable.
It's not majority rifles, I'll tell you that.
Yeah, they've settled for one pistol in these previous situations,
but now throwing all their chips on the table for two AKs.
And, you know, you can see Art fighting his nails the way that he calls and some of these rounds and how they played out.
You can really see his style on them.
Oh, yeah.
Legacy, it makes sense why they rock with that. They've always been an explosive team, but you don't want to see them lacking discipline.
To lose this round with Tech Dines in your hand is to give M80 the lead.
It's maximum embarrassment for M80 in very dangerous territory if they end up losing.
And this isn't the kind of round where you both work both sides of the map, so M80 had to be very careful about their rotations.
These slacks must hit this shot.
They're just looking to pounce on somebody.
You catch 1AM80, play a rock guard out of position.
You scoop up a gun, and the round's on.
But it's a quick move back from Slacks to fall back
into the site with the kill on the fade away.
Satsen pushing through, but actually towards.
CT spawns occupied.
Two CTs here.
There's someone here, a vibrator.
And this is going to get the kill.
Another!
That's the entire B site open, but the bomb has dropped at Arch.
That was the activation.
Pushing off of the short side, taking over brackets.
Smoke goes deep.
It's too deep.
Lotto's got a bit of a line, but it's okay, because Sittin presses in.
And as he does so, takes the hell off Lotto.
Now it's a Doom out, Tech 9, sitting at the bottom of Banana.
It's a bomb sitting under the watchful gaze of M80.
Slax is gonna come in and check this.
Underpass, no way!
No, they fought this and died?
To the Tech 9!
And SniSim's still alive.
Slax swaps that op out for an AK, SniSim comes back at this, now they foregone bomb control.
Are they getting flustered? What are they doing?
They're giving this up.
Wait, did they forget that Nissan was still alive here?
He's just gonna go ahead and plant the bomb.
And Dumau has their cross cut off.
He's gonna be able to calm this.
Tag down to 42.
Dumau's gotta let it go.
Oh, it's a moment to speed up the retake.
They just have to decide.
And Dumau's the one who, you know,
he doesn't have the info on his side.
Nissan misses his timing.
Now they both double back.
Bomb planted on this side for the library.
For a library.
Couple of bullets whizzed by.
Smoke fades on the bomb.
Nissan's wide.
He's got a player defusing.
Players diffusing, defuse halfway there and they've got this!
M80, rush the bomb site!
It's a hell of a recovery to get that bomb to begin with!
M80, damn near given a gift to legacy instead, tied game!
And those pistols, not enough!
Oh my goodness, what the hell is that?
On that side, I have no idea why they were running that down mid.
Something like, positive in him missing. Yeah, missing just got two kills in library.
That looked insane.
But they survived that 2AK buy out of legacy.
But somehow they've always got something to work with.
Fast clash, they're just going to prioritize the aggression.
It's pistols in with a Hail Mary run.
JBA and slacks stuff it in its tracks.
Layers thrown through, instant M80, take it forward!
The buy-ups coming right back after this round, so a quick play allows M80 to take the lead here on Inferno.
It is two rounds of Rown-O now, but I do want to say there's a chance that Nissam actually had a smoke to cut the bomb off,
And that's why they thought he just grabbed it and left and that's why they ran down the middle like mad men
But I can't replay the round in my mind just yet, so
That's the only explanation I see
And let it go because what matters here is an 1110 score line for M8 secured be careful
We get damage on lake. Whoa, they're turning up the aggression. Oh, yeah, pulling it down to hell with it
You're going to lose, lose it, legacy's away.
And two miles way ahead of this, in case they want to get more aggressive and Sin's got a flash, it's going to cost them.
Sads and Gadget Swisher with a flash, Sin delivers the double kill, but it's going to be a man advantage and a vacant bomb site off the back of it.
Legacy, just break down the B defense.
They wanted to stay confident and just fight as they have been on Banana being successful.
It's a B site overtaken via violence.
Lakin Swisher laughed in Legacy's faces and screamed B sites closed.
The last time Legacy tried to take it and they were damn right with that perfect utility
to stuff Legacy in their tracks despite a strong numbers advantage on the assault.
This time there's a third defender there.
It was smokes all over banana
legacy break
And we go to versus to as the bomb pops
Chastity night guns for real big time. This one's gonna rack up costs as legacy ties this game again 11 all
I mean they still got plenty of money. So m80 they were more so just looking for the kills
There's some tidies up his scoreline and it's this frag from art they find lake inside the smoke
Doomow gets in front of a flash. They didn't know he was there the entire time. He didn't shoot a bullet and
It is just a mess of utility up at car that legacy find a way to weave around
We have all the money in the world for this round it doesn't matter we're going into round 23 now
You gotta head to legacy almost every round they've had some kind of buy
Some of the attempts haven't been much to look at, but they finally get their rounds.
And the game is certainly not finished.
So they want to gamble it on aggressive B-Flays.
It almost feels like that's one of their better ways to do it.
You know, everything except for when they try to run through the smoke at the end.
Who's going to get nervous in round 23?
Contact is coming.
Slacks freed up on the bracket line.
It's Sin hard committed to this corner.
He peels off as they lay a smoke down in middle.
Look for a reposition at a minute.
Way too passive out of M80 at the moment.
Smoke goes out at a minute.
They don't have anything here on Banana.
Maybe they're following up on this really well,
just understanding the way that legacy want to move,
trusting their reads more so than their information.
Nissum's dropping nades out of Boiler.
Doesn't feel like M80 are buying into this.
Anything really behind it.
Down to three pieces of utility.
They're going to smoke off that CT cross.
We're gonna watch as legacy attempt to just break down through this b-site yet once again
Flashes to try to get in we can see sin preparing his teammates to go for the fights is be truly closed
Lake's dead as Lotto rounds that corner back corner cleared entirely smoke push and it's only worth the one
It's gonna be the mad advantage for legacy in the post plant as we get this a site scramble and it's a tough call by m80
Do you attempt this retake? I mean tournament life on the line. Yeah, Slacks has the AWP JBA is right behind them
You know there's a remote possibility, but you don't want to risk it the money actually mattered
Nissan's two kills and they're worried now about buying in round 24
It's the one time they got to the top of banana and there wasn't another smoke to stop them or force them to run through
One kill from Lake on the hold is not enough
One of the most sheepish set-ups we had out of M80's B-Site.
Players in the back banking on a Sin Flash, banking on one Flashbang to stop them.
We'd seen more utility previously from the beat anchors.
This one felt light. Legacy sensed it and punctured through.
That's the thing about Legacy to come into every round without any scar tissue.
If it didn't work before, they're not worried about trying it again.
Again, a short memory and a lot of confidence.
That's the signature style of this team.
It brings them to 12 rounds first and a chance to close this series.
Those two safe guns set them up for five rifles and the final round of regulation with slacks
wide out middle and not just content with a peek, but he's out deep and then tucked
back in.
But what do they see with that?
mid presence a reason enough for legacy to keep the pressure up on the B site slacks is sprinting over here to be that third defender
They're already putting so much pressure here minute 25. They don't they haven't taken any damage
Seats utility is coming out frantically
They're boosting lake off. That's one player less inside of the bomb site. It's gonna be a full full exact
They're not even here to clear this oh
Oh! Slax gets a kill in the corner!
Catching Doomow out!
Mad Advantage made possible off of that one!
We've seen M80 in multiple Overtimes on Inferno!
I think it's a good move from Lake, but it's not M80, actually.
It's not Legacy abandoning this game plan.
And he just feels he has to come back and check Arch in case there's a lurker.
And this is with Lake, who has previously boosted up, now gone, over towards the Archside instead.
Swisher to put the smoke down. Can an AWP behind this thin pillar deliver?
Swisher's on the cross as the clock hits 30 seconds, daunting task to get through this smoke.
Full commitment swing is coming.
Legacy will still commit to this and it's going to be Lake with the supportive flash this time.
It pops in a little bit, slacks from the depths of that site delivers.
Tons of damage off of Swisher!
And so Legacy trying to face into the B bomb site instead,
find themselves in this unwinnable, now 1v5, Satsang dead, a clean sweep, an M80 erected
defense that was nowhere to be found one round prior, overtime needed.
A bounce back from Slacks in this game on CT side, he had a very poor first half, and
a 4k of AWP impact is definitely his biggest round so far.
They get what they've gotten, like four out of five times, and that's a legacy running
through a smoke at the top of banana.
Now, they may not carry scar tissue, but we'll have to see if they learn any lessons.
Hopefully also learn from the M80 camp three full over times versus bait in stage one of the major
And we slowly watch them lose their minds and crumble
Well now JBA giving a chance to shine on brackets at the gate here of OT
And it's a quick double kill to his name totally melted them down where they're coming in
Oh, no, Sim walks right into his death
Fire not deep enough. Yeah, hangs on to the line. He hears those
feet shuffling within the A site. Oh my goodness, that was just poor awareness,
wasn't it? This was sort of a done position and all he was doing was going
to get an upgrade. I mean surely there's no way legacy come back into this but you
can see everyone's still very active. What if legacy had B? This is not Ben
Swisher's best map and yet he sits over there alone for the moment just having
dropped his final smoke grenade, flashed into brackets, no peek on the left side, but Slacks
leans forward, Wato's gone wide, and a missed off shot, covered by Nissum.
Now you've got damage, fire's going to kill it!
They kill everybody on A!
All three kills!
A slow squeeze, and it's M80 to step forward!
No, it's a total disaster.
One off shot gets missed, Sin walks into his death because he thinks he's mollied all
the boiler.
That was completely of his own volition.
His head's in hands as a 5 vs 3 for M80 and overtime evaporates.
That is a total self-sabotage round.
A complete failure here.
Could have had the lead.
The biggest blowout round, we have had this entire map,
and it happens the moment we touch OT.
Sin steps into an untimely death.
It's just such a silly way to die.
And everything unravels.
Just to go for another gun early.
Perfect start.
Perfect start.
And for what?
I don't even know.
To change gun?
I don't know what gun he had, but it's overtime.
over time like surely that's just getting an 8k yeah yeah he just trusted the
mallets off it's just silly yeah rode off the angle pays a hell of a price
I'll have to stew in it for this first pause.
The legacy of me and their fair share of mistakes here on T-Side, but it's really going to only
be the last one that matters.
Slacks, there we go.
An opening kill is not enough for M-80, we just saw it happen live.
Freed up to go for the deep-off peek, it's worth the risk.
Arch doesn't believe this for one second.
Whoa. Wait a second.
This lake even could have cleared this, though. Is Arch just gonna see him?
Oh, no.
I feel like Arch is gonna see him.
Yeah. Oh, okay. Whoa, they back up at the same time.
Orcs out for lake.
Close shave.
Slacks waiting for this one to fade, and he's got his crosshair slightly off.
Can't react quick enough.
We've got good cover from Arch, a strong base inside the site with three members of M.A.E. here.
Yeah, they can actually go towards B this time.
Lake now, what's the decision he's going to make?
He has a molly to work with, but doesn't he want to let him know where he is?
Put the smoke down, they're right there on the line. He tries to keep them out of the church.
And as the fire burns, they send a flash through.
He's tucked into the corner, he's got two teammates coming up from Banana,
and they'll go for this boost, but you're not going to be able to unroot anybody.
They'll cover off the smoke, underhand the flash.
Bombs got a cross over, sides in tag, three quarters is health.
And as Lake goes over top of Orange, it's bomb planted.
It's a 1v4, but a position you're not
going to expect to dead.
Get the diffuser!
Yeah, he's not running at that yet.
And that is Lake with no hesitation to straight up
win the round.
Oh my goodness.
Close call.
It's four kills for Lido in the end.
13 to 13 score line.
That one's knocked the power out in the building.
Now we're gaming at home.
This is the darkness that sinks in when you throw a 3v5.
It's crazy because you look at the plant position and it's out of the fear that he's
going to get run down and spammed.
If he had planted in front of Fountain, wide open to Lotto, that could have been a whole
different story. You would not have even considered that someone would have boosted up in CT in
that too, the XL. Because when he boosted, I even said it, like this is a spot that you
can't clear anything from. So I thought the, you know, Chase was on for a lake, but just
I'm trying to remain one step ahead.
I don't think he makes it in time anyway.
If he jumps off that ledge, I think there's a chance.
But it has to be the Hail Mary.
Watch the defuse.
There's...
Yeah, I don't know.
Hmm, it's close.
Either way, we're tied up 13 rounds all.
Just making sure everything's good.
Did you forget to pay the power bill again?
told me you had it covered. I know I'm good for it. It's been an electric game, I'll
tell you that. Not so much dust too, but at least this second map has delivered when M-80
need to bring the fight. A six round streak of terrorist round wins. Sets them up for
this. This is M80 earning an overtime run with zero pistol wins in the second map, not
interrupting any of the conversions. Hangin' on for dear life and delivering, but you've
got to minimize mistakes because I hate to say it, but we go back to that big game.
I mean, like I said, that was one of Sin's roughest maps of the major.
Yeah, it was a map that, like, they look good on the rounds they won. And it's the same
here. Like, Legacy's T-side doesn't look that sick. They're committing through smoke, they're
losing many many players are getting off the lot now they're running through
smokes countless times inside of B like to be honest their game plan looks pretty
juvenile and very simplistic especially considering the pedigree of
Inferno that they have between these five players they look quite desperate and
yet still here we are tied up with M80
So I think this once again will be a story of M80 beating themselves.
Dusty was one thing, but Inferno, seen it happen to them before.
Well, we say that those close games and overtime losses can be the games that you learn the
most from.
And just hopefully it's not learning about how you don't got it.
It's a recent lesson on M80's mind.
Hopefully for their sake a wound that won't cost them.
Alright, first to 16 folks, and if it's legacy, M80 are out of the major.
M80, close it, we go to Mirage.
I think legacy just getting one terrorist round win on the attack is already something to play with.
You know, how many of those are you going to just be able to offer for free? How many are going to be given to you in the next half?
That's kind of the question.
Oh!
Chance there for Lake.
Uh, what have been in this sane opener?
There's a lot of movement towards Banana already.
Uh, and JBA is actually late to this post.
Nism could back up into him.
Sins rotated over, but all he has is flashbangs on the CT cross.
It's kind of wild, there's absolutely no pressure on Nism.
Nates in the background.
Dumow continues to strut a pepper the coffin side, and he will whittle down Lake with the Nade from over top.
Okay, art's coming up, so that means JBA surely will be running right directly into him
This I'm on the trade attempt
You're JBA, but last time he posts a 5v3 still not enough for M80
Keep your eyes glued to what's left of legacy as they will just group themselves outside of the B site
Softening up players again, and still just hit that pause button.
Otto's in a position where he's tucked in this corner, but he decides to just kind of give it up himself.
Molotov's exchanged at the same time. Oh, insta-kill to Swisher.
Orange player doesn't go. They're giving a ton of space over the lotto.
Hold on, there's still two players over on the other side of the map.
He's fighting for three. Oh quick. Let's go back in seconds and slacks is getting out of there
There's no way he expects that's a free plan and the death. Oh boy
1v1 and as we've got JBA on the other side of the site with three kills already in this round
I said it last time he sets up this 3v5. It still was not enough saddson's been so slippery in these 1vx's
He was a stick on dust to he's in a position. That's perfect fundamentally perfect
JBA has to figure this out. He didn't play it scared.
Doesn't have a smoke to cover, does have an extended area to try to prevent the Pete, but he doesn't know where you are.
So he starts to announce his presence on the site, gets on it, and tapped out.
Two 3D vibes in overtime!
Yeah, you done goofed, M80.
Crushing!
They just lost an entire site to one player, and it wasn't even the site that legacy we're trying to plan on.
He was selling a fake, and he sold him a whole bridge.
Go!
Crushing.
But it's not over, so M80s sign up to an attack of their own by force.
We've seen them laugh their way through close rounds.
We've seen them make jokes at their own expense.
The two 3v5s in overtime with your major life on the line.
Suddenly, it's not so funny.
It's an abject failure in that half.
It could have secured three, and you can't just throw that word around, could have.
But with those positions, that was beyond just barely winning.
That was done if they had let their hands off the keyboard and mouse.
Tricked into rotating out of the A site, embarrassed on B by one player.
Unforced error in the first round of overtime.
Slacks left are through the thick of it.
They're happy to play CT.
Double smoke around the site.
We've got this big pop out through apps, but you are going to have to emerge through the
smoke without vision.
Satsun scoped in on short, but they pop out.
It's a little ruse, a tease towards short side.
Two bodies drop, Satsun's forced to react.
It covered.
Art gets his, Satsun connects, and it's damn near flawless
until now.
Sin's able to answer one kill to his name,
offer bested, legacy, takes 15, immovable from inside pit.
Satsun didn't react until he had to.
That was great from Art.
Pat is covered perfectly as they were scaling him on pit.
It seemed like best case he gets a kill, and instantly gets traded. No.
It was a huge lure. As soon as they got to this line, boom!
One kill from Sads and Art. Perfect chemistry. Hits him on the line.
Stays alive for his second. That's his 11th kill.
Couldn't ask for a better time for that.
I mean, they're smokes are down. They feel pressure to make this happen.
JBA meets his smoke again. This is the same smoke that cut off that pack, but this time it's an emphasis to Arch.
And it's going to be Lake recovering from the flashbang. Damage offered. Arch found his, sads in yet again from inside pit.
And it's going to be Slacks' counterpart to catch it. Bomb drop, trade back.
Arch and Lotto versus 2.
Finding JBA as he drops down into the pit. Bombs got to be scooped up, but they've still got time.
Yeah, and slacks who will find art rushing around that corner for March is gonna put Lotto into this 1v2
He does nothing Lotto position known
and the plant's happening
Lotto goes full silent wraps back around through brackets Molletalk meets him
He's ahead of this, but it also hits him. So he's been announced slacks on the center site
Head now tucked just sits behind the cover trying to get him out
Lotto wants that reaction, catches the pit kill, and now it's just Slash, but of course Lotto takes both!
Legacy, hard spot, and it's M80 with mistakes that will cost them their major,
and for the first time in Counter-Strike major history, there will be zero North Americans competing in top 16.
Wow. With the way that we saw energy lose, to follow up with this, it couldn't be a more
disappointing exit. Four players, North American and German alike. MAD go out with their heads
hanging low. So many mistakes and unfortunately, what goes above everything else in Counter
where every team shows up prepared and practiced is their ability to stay
fundamentally sound. To play their clutches correctly, their men advantage
positions correctly, they couldn't do it when the pressure was on. And legacy did.
We'd be singing their phrases but they have another match to play tomorrow. The
only thing of consequence that happened today was MAD going home. And legacy
continue to power up as they seek revenge on the scene after their shortcomings at the
previous major.
It'll be a best of three versus Tyloo tomorrow in a 2-2 game for top 16.
Looking to match their best ever run established when this team and organization broke out
in Austin.
Can they get back to that?
It felt like it would elude them, but they are indeed powering up now.
To survive this test, down in two separate 3B5s, today's victory from Legacy is at the
expense of an entire region.
match from Atlanta, this one does not go the way of M80. Hey man, tough break out there.
Let's talk about this series. I know you're going through a lot of emotions right now
and there's probably a lot to process still. So off the top of your head, how do you feel
you and your team perform today?
Yeah, so we started on with Dust CT where we just played like absolute pussies to be
honest. So it's hard to win if you let them do everything they want and then you just
hope that they hit the right spot and you just gamble. Like you just don't win in this
version of Counter-Strike like that.
And then I think we did a pretty good job on T-Side,
where we had a good idea of how we want to abuse them
in the default, and we, default-wise, we played really good,
we had good comms, and then we had just not the best ideas
how we finished.
And on Inferno, I would say we played pretty good
on both sides, but we just crumbled under pressure,
unfortunately, like we had unbelievable rounds.
Like the last round, of course, you remember now,
and we had three on five where we like it's three it's three five then we just die okay and then
we try to make a play it doesn't work then we have a another three we five where one guy just
kills on B and we misread the situation we thought there's more than three on B so we get
locked on it's like we had honestly very good situations in on inferno but we just crumbled
under pressure and didn't finish around so which is I don't I don't know if I could
should say this, but I'd imagine proof for progress off of Atlanta because in
Atlanta you guys got 9-3 CT half for legacy they won both pistols so there
is progress there in that motion. Four year guys' motion here though. Stage one
you know you've endured a lot of counter-strike, you beat on the Sharks,
Lynn Vision, NRG, who lost out in Bait to BO3. Here though, you know with the loss of
G2, Betboom, you know, what are you guys gonna do now back in the drawing board?
What do you take from your mistakes and what do you do with those?
So I think just tactic wise on T side, we have a lot of things to improve
and a lot of things to work.
So we just need to find a system that works for us where everybody feels
comfortable and everybody knows what to do and how to play.
And I think that's the big side for T side.
And I don't know how to improve the crumbling under pressure.
I think our comms were good, but we just somehow need to find a way to
not throw 3-5, so we need to talk to Falcons maybe.
Somebody got to start talking to somebody around here.
Hey, I'll give you the floor on this one. I know Emady on your way out.
I know as a German player, probably playing in the Lancis has to be on the bucket list of all things, right?
Yeah, so I'm very sad I can't go to the Lancis Arena as a player, and it was amazing to do.
Would have been amazing to do, and I hope that some other Germans will do it.
But yeah, thanks for everybody watching and also greetings from outside and all Germans
I hope you come you fire at who is always playing whether it's big is with the Germans or any other
Players who have earned it and yes, thank you for everything
Naga and commiserations
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They won't find
I'm a man
I'm a man
I'm a man
They won't find