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Don't tell me that, just got to see it
Don't let me down, never give up
Don't let me down, never give up
I feel like you can't get it wrong
Don't listen to me, I don't want you more
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Hi, my name is Maan Govindasamy aka Launders.
I'm a professional Counter-Strike commentator,
YouTuber, and owner of the best-dressed movement community.
Gaming is something I've been addicted to
since my earliest memories.
I was literally Ferris Bueller,
and I set a record in grade eight
for skipping the most days in school.
Skipped almost half the year pretending to be sick
because I was so addicted to Starcraft for a war.
I remember I was always sick in eighth grade,
but I was just pretending sometimes.
Yeah, you just burped chocolate milk or something, and you wouldn't go to school.
But you always let me stay home.
Yeah, yeah.
And remember I asked you, why'd you let me?
Why are you so nice to me when I was a kid?
And you said, cause like, you didn't have a childhood.
Yeah.
When you were growing up.
Yeah.
So you're always super nice to me.
My grandmother was an orphan who had five sons and three girls, including my mom.
My mom was born in India in Madras, now known as Chennai.
She migrated to Malaysia when she was very young and was raised there until well into her early adult life.
Growing up in Malaysia?
Yeah.
Your mom was an orphan?
Yeah, she was an orphan.
My grandmother.
She always cried.
She always cried?
Yeah, because she doesn't have any brothers or sisters.
She was the only child.
I remember when she died, she didn't even tell me.
Really?
Yeah, it was like a week where you looked sad.
Yeah, I didn't even go for funeral
because I want to remember how happy she was.
Yeah, you always said good things about your mom.
Yeah, she really liked that.
She took care of eight kids.
Yeah, I know, it's hard.
Yeah.
You guys are brushing your teeth with charcoal, right?
Yeah, and like three sticks and all that.
He had bad teeth.
Yeah.
All of us said we couldn't afford a dentist.
We had bad teeth.
Being born first of eight siblings meant that, well, you became the sous chef, dry cleaner,
and made of honor to all the siblings who are younger than you.
Dating and marriage in your own life became a second priority to the duties to a tirelessly
working mother of eight who knows exactly how to help make dinner so that the jupatis
aren't served cold.
You had to cook for everyone.
Right.
to take care of everybody.
Everybody.
Yeah, and then you also couldn't get married
until everyone else got married, right?
Right, right.
So then how'd you meet dad?
I used to buy this special movie magazine,
and at the end of the magazine,
there would be like penpiles.
And I had many of them, like three or four.
And then I enjoy it when I come back from work.
That's a lot of waiting for me.
Yeah.
and that's how we connected.
And then you?
27, 11 every day.
27, 11?
You have to get a hot dog or what?
Yeah, I had a drink and...
And then you got married?
Yeah, and then we got married.
You got married and then he chose to come to Canada?
Yes, he chose.
No, he wanted to go to Switzerland.
Switzerland?
Yeah.
I was almost Swiss.
He wanted to go to Switzerland, but then his plan in Montréal
I brought a ladder to him to come over.
And then I was born in Montreal?
Yes, you were.
Yeah, it was cold there.
Yes, it was really cold.
Yeah, but you like Canada?
I like Canada. I love Canada.
Yeah, I love Canada.
We love Canada in this household.
Yeah.
You always say good things about Canada.
Yeah.
They gave me everything.
Yeah.
Growing up in Toronto, Internet Cafe culture was massive.
Every internet cafe had the same two posters on the windows one for Counter-Strike and one for Starcraft
After school you go home get a tune you from your parents buy an hour at cybernet and run offline games 1.3
Literally the best days of our lives. He wasn't the best
We like we kick his ass a lot like there were a few games where he was a third strike untouchable
I could not touch the first right for the most part like Jota you were probably bought
I used to tell my mom that I had to print out my homework because I didn't have a computer until I was 12
Because I remember you would play a bunch of stuff that we wouldn't at the end of the year
You were huge in a StarCraft and none of us here play StarCraft
Yeah, I would play that like by myself
We used to share a story about how you had to break your StarCraft CD because you were just playing way too much
Yeah, we're all gamey at it
It was probably single handedly the reason I didn't graduate
In high school, I was a total degenerate.
Half of my classes went to a bottom 4% high school in Toronto, stayed two extra years,
and then I funked out again.
When did we meet each other?
High school?
High school, yeah.
We were in McDonald's.
Yeah, we were smoking cigarettes outside McDonald's.
I remember like the first year I got there, the math teacher on the third floor got chased
around the top floor with a machete.
Oh.
Yeah.
And that was like my introduction.
You know, it was like a classic.
You pick a beef in the middle of the school day, then you go out to the alleyway, and then there's just been an enormous fight.
It is what it is, like, when you grow up in that environment, you've got to basically pick.
You want to be a nerd and get picked on, or do you want to, like, survive?
So, that's when I put on the 2XLTs.
I had been working every job of Manager Molson since I was 16.
McDonald's, selling furniture, telemarketing, construction cleanup, butcher shop,
shop. At one point I was cold-hauling people and selling meat in a freezer and you had to sell the freezer, too.
Yeah, we were basically like in our front departments like cutting hair, cutting hair, playing poker, and I had to take my phone off.
Yeah, exactly. We were basically hustling all the time. That's it. Like anywhere we can make a few bucks or like save money, like cutting our friends hair, like that's how we grew up.
I remember they removed the bench on my block like the city removed the cement bench
From the sidewalk because it was telling me there, but I didn't do anything too bad and weeds legal now. So it's all good
Whole career of stealing
There was one day
I vividly remember when I was working as a butcher at St. Lawrence Market getting up at 4 a.m
I'm getting into a truck with my Korean friend Ken and his dad, grabbing frozen
stuff from the walk-in meat freezer in the basement, hands chilled solid, getting
followed home by dogs. I walked out smelling like raw chicken every weekend.
I had a moment that I never had before. I asked my mom if it was okay and I quit
my job. I remember I was scared to tell you that I wanted to quit. Yeah. Because
you always worked, you know, two jobs, three jobs. So I felt like a bum. But then
and I came home and asked if I could quit.
Yeah.
And then you said, yeah, just quit.
Yeah.
If you're unhappy.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
I don't like you to be unhappy.
You know.
I think looking back,
that moment made me realize
that my mom was the center of my world.
How could I quit my job
when my mom quietly earned for both of us
alone for my entire childhood?
When I was younger,
me and my mom grew up in the group home system in Toronto
after some immigration problems
that sent my dad back to Malaysia.
Before I filmed this, I asked her what I could say about it, and she said,
don't say anything bad about the people who will take care of us.
So Nellie's was the name of the group home that we grew up in?
Yes.
Yeah. People used to call it a halfway home, right?
Yeah, like if you have nowhere to go, where would you go?
I have no family.
No money, no whatever.
So I lived in Nellie's for four years.
Yeah, we lived there for four years.
Yeah, and they really took care of us.
Yeah, they did a good job.
After we lived in Nellie's, we went to have a walk,
we went to, and that was a woman's shelter.
I was only allowed to live there,
because I was just a kid.
And then-
They were so good to you, right?
Yeah, I learned how to ride a bike there.
I always celebrate my birthday there.
I remember I got a Game Boy.
Someone had donated it.
Yeah, like you had all the toys in the world.
Like I always think about us as an example
of the system working well, you know?
And I think a lot of those group homes and stuff,
they get a bad reputation.
But we had a good time.
We had a good trip.
Yeah, we had a good time.
We got lucky.
I would say that's my memory too.
I had lots of friends and even when we left when I was 11,
I had nothing but great things to say
about that part of my life.
This is home for me.
Behind me is the women's shelter that I lived in
from when I was six years old, so I was like 11.
And me and my mom came here because we overstayed our welcome at the group home, because most
people don't live there for four or more years.
And I remember all the kids that would come back from school would come back from Goose
and walk into the park.
And I would just be lying there sunbathing on the roof and all their parents would be
yelling at me like, I'm going to tell your mom if you don't get off that roof.
I didn't care.
I didn't care.
I was having the best time.
And yeah, it was just a beautiful place.
We were poor, but I don't remember a single time that my mom ever even brought up money.
I used to go to work with her to her cash jobs at second hand clothing stores.
And I loved it.
And the half lock, that was when I started going to two for one pizza.
This pizza slice, it's like, it's so weird, because it's just a pizza slice.
But it's such a big part of growing up.
Yeah.
Like this is one of my birthday parties, right?
I told him I'd get a hundred back of something by eating cheese every day, you know.
We just grew up in this area, but this is like the best pizza.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it's the same guy that's still living there.
Yeah, still not.
I remember he got a little older.
Yeah?
He started to come to change part of you.
Yeah, there's Michael.
Yeah, that's Michael, yeah.
Yeah, you remember why we did Big Brothers in the first place?
Uh, like, I wanted a male figure in your life.
So...
So, there's this program in Toronto called Big Brothers,
And that's how I met Michael.
It's been a long time since we've seen each other,
and I miss him.
And it was basically like for people who were like,
in their late 20s, early 30s, didn't have kids
to take care of somebody who either didn't have
their father around or for big sisters,
maybe didn't have a mother or didn't have any parents.
Exactly.
And on the weekends, basically Michael would watch me
while you were going to work.
Right, right.
And I remember when I walked into Big Brothers
and he was like lying there on the couch sideways,
drinking a Diet Coke, remember that?
And I was like, this is my brother now.
Yeah.
He always kept my mind in the right place, you know?
Yeah, he liked it a lot from him.
Yeah, it did.
Yeah, it's a good thing that you met him.
So Michael, my big brother,
yeah, he came here to this park.
We would hangouts.
I have that photo inside the kitchen
of the house behind us
where he was there for my birthdays.
So, yeah, he really helps,
he kinda helped take the walls down for me a little bit.
You know, make the world feel like something
that I could go explore safely,
like that it was meant for me.
And like, I mean, I used to walk down these streets
when I got a little older,
and I thought like, I'll never live in a house like that.
You know, like, I'll never be able to afford a house
because my brother had, you know,
he was at the highest level of education
and he was taking care of me
and he was going on to be a professor.
I think he gave me a lot of confidence to say that,
like I could achieve something like that in my life too.
It's really weird thinking about Michael
because he was, you know, he was 28
when he started taking care of me.
I'm like, when I was 28, I was like playing video games
and like he was coming over into the women's shelter,
like hosting pizza parties with all these kids
and taking care of all of us.
And it's just like, I don't know,
one in a million, honestly.
You know, he kind of did big brothers because he was kind of learning how to be a dad for himself because he wanted to have his own kids.
And so, he had a, me as a little brother, he had another one, Artie, in America when he lived in California and he was at Berkeley.
And he used those two experiences to help him become a better father.
Now he's raised two sons up who are traveling around the world and university and everything like that now too.
And he was very much a father figure for me because...
No fucking way.
Are you serious?
No way man.
You fucking real?
Holy shit.
You drove here?
I don't want to.
Oh.
How are you?
I'm good.
You look good. I like your hair like that.
Wow.
Great to see you, man.
Fuck you, Tom.
I don't know when they closed this down. I mean, I almost said it was actually recently.
I believe it, actually. Looking at it. And then you're up somewhere around here.
Yeah. I had the best view of the whole place on that balcony.
Because I just remember like the art in your room.
Yeah.
And that was like my big thing that I noticed.
I was just seeing this earlier.
Obviously, there's a lot of like mental health issues
at the women's shelter.
You can see all these crosswords that are just
posted on the fence.
So this is where you snuck out?
Yes, this is the back of the backyard.
And there was one fence post I was missing,
and my four foot tall 60 pound ass could squeeze,
could just squeeze through sideways.
And like I could fully, you know,
I mean, I could hop this fence,
I could take the front door
and still be in the park within two seconds.
But like in my imagination that this was like,
that this was like entering Narnia.
I mean, you couldn't do that anywhere else.
I loved everything about it actually.
You know, when I came in, mom's mom was so sweet.
She's fantastic.
And like, it was like,
you're the whitest guy that can eat the hottest curry.
I remember you'd always come back
with your Tupperware and ask for more.
That sounds right.
That sounds exactly right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So the same day I quit the butcher shop,
I started my YouTube channel.
I don't know what I was doing,
but I think I was doing a great job of doing it.
doing, but I knew I loved every minute I was on the computer playing.
That's when CSGO came out.
It got completely hooked again.
Yeah, for like two years I was just making YouTube videos.
And I started to...
I know, it was a super busy.
Super busy.
And you don't eat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, like you wake up, you're from the bed to the chair to the chair to the bed.
Yeah.
For the first couple thousand hours, I did not play anything but KZ.
KZ is a movement game mode where you start on a typical timer and try to get to the tops as you can.
That's not going to work. What you need to do is crush and then jump.
That's the only thing I care about. I didn't have a girlfriend for years. I stopped hanging out with my friends.
I played KZ every single day, and then I started making movement tutorials.
Hi, I'm Launders, and my original plan for this video was to show you guys how I made the first Bhop tutorial on YouTube for CSGO.
And then for every single mechanic, every skill jump in the game, I made a video.
It became my brand entirely, the movement guy.
To be honest, we didn't know what you were doing.
We didn't know what you were doing.
Yeah, exactly, like we don't play Counter-Strike, right?
And then one of my viewers said, why don't you try doing interviews?
I was like, okay, I had never been to an eSports event.
I had never done anything outside of YouTube.
We drove to ESWC.
I got a press badge and I did this interview with Sympus,
where he basically said we are all on Adderall at this event.
I don't even care, we're all on Adderall.
Like, I don't even give a fuck.
And this became like national headlines.
New York Times didn't even reach out for permission to put it in there,
but I would have said yes.
Then I got a job offer at Yahoo.
A special announcement today,
joining us on the Yahoo Sports Team now is,
Launders, how's it going, Launders?
You're like, hey man,
Yahoo's flying me out to LA,
I'm gonna live there for a bit.
And we were like, oh, that's awesome.
Because none of us had jobs or could think of having jobs
that would take us out of this country.
And then my friend told me, you should try casting.
Why not do more things?
I literally hated the thought.
I hated being called a commentator,
because we used to play games so much.
And I thought commentators should have a game.
You know what I mean?
You know that reputation they have.
So I hated being associated with that.
For eight years, I'd never let anyone
call me a commentator, only a YouTuber.
I couldn't stand it.
Like I do every chance I get for some reason, I try to.
The first thing that I ever did was with Matt,
for Say-to-Kissed at LAN ETS.
I have Launders and this is Sad Kissed.
I was the biggest Canadian local landholder Montreal
and Matt had made a post on ESEA
looking for someone to co-cast with him
if they were able to make it there
and were willing to work for free.
I made a private YouTube video
of me casting one half of a demo by myself
and DM'd it to him.
I really liked Max's
You're a terrible commentator, but you have a good voice if you can get here. You can cast
On a megabus to Montreal. We're giving two tickets for hot fogs each day
Are we ready to go? Cast from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m.
It's left in the classrooms on the floor no shower
I had to lend Matt my spare pants he's a pillow because I packed one and he did it I
Guess I guess yeah, I can give a few shout outs
It's the Wonders, he's actually my co-caster, it's his first event ever, but he's really good, so he goes a lot about the game.
I was really impressed, I don't know where he came out of the woodwork, I've never seen him before, but he's really good.
After that, I got noticed by Seagull, then I got noticed by Dreamhack, did Dreamhack, Austin, and opportunities kept coming in from there.
Well like, did we know what you were doing? Not really, I think it took me four years to realize what casting was.
You became a little enigmatic in the sense that like, like, where are you now?
Well, I'm in Copenhagen.
Yeah.
Like, you want to chill next week?
Yeah.
But I got to drop to London, France, and then I'm like, oh, okay.
Like, and then we just kind of, I was like, oh, YouTube, like, really take you on everything.
I'm not gonna try YouTube, man.
And what did you think about that?
Like, I wasn't even, I wasn't making any money at first when I was just staying home.
I know that's how it is.
You start off not making money, you learn, and you put yourself out there.
That's how it is.
Well, you just trusted me.
Yeah.
You don't understand.
How it works.
Yeah.
You still tell your friends I do IT.
Yeah.
I didn't know what it was.
Yeah.
Still to this day.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But does it make sense now?
Yeah, it makes sense.
Makes sense.
And a bit of that, a bit of.
A bit of.
And a long run.
10 years later, we go to Paris.
As Connor says, for CSGO's final farewell,
and I have the highest honor you can have
as a commentary duo, casting a major grand final.
But not just any, the final CSGO major grand final.
Yeah, I mean, it's been a long road.
Obviously, you know, me and Connor are that duo, and we really have like gone through everything together, you know.
This is the highest honor that you can get as a commentator to do a major final.
There's no bigger game than that, right? It's a Super Bowl.
For everybody watching, this is the last Counter-Strike major final, so we just want to do it justice, you know.
As commentators, all we can do is enhance the moment, you know, make it better or worse.
But don't ruin it.
That's our only job.
Don't ruin that moment.
And that was the responsibility that we had and I just remember feeling it afterwards.
It was special beyond words and I remember not even realizing how stressed out I was
until after the game happened.
I remember when we first met and you told me you were an eSports broadcaster for Counter
And I was like, what the fuck is Counter Strike?
And then he invited me.
That's how you know I got game.
I was like, all right, then.
And then I went to Paris and that was the major finals.
The first time I actually saw him cast in front of a crowd
and I was like standing in the crowd of like 15,000 people
and I was like, oh, like this is what you do.
this is counter strike and it just was it was really amazing to see you commentary
something that I wasn't made to do you know I think when I was younger that's
very closed off reserved person but I'm glad I got the privilege of being able
to like to do it because I don't know how I would have been able to learn this
kind of thing about myself. I was a fucking awful commentator, but I'm pretty good now,
and I'm proud of myself for that. I took a ton of work inside the job and outside to become
the person I am today. But as stupid as it sounds, I always thought I was cool,
even though I definitely wasn't. Yeah, I'm so proud of him. Yeah. Every birthday,
My mother's day, I got a gift from him.
Christmas day.
I was very sending me to trips to all over the world.
Like, one more kind of mother asked, you know,
he's the best son.
But I don't know, everyone says they got the best mom
in the world, but it's actually me.
I ain't the best mom in the world.
I remember very distinctly, I was walking
at Young and Dundas and I was wearing the sweater
you gave me and some guy.
He's some guy who stopped and was like,
Boxer, you know him, oh my, I love his stuff.
And he was talking to me like, pure fan.
And I just, I didn't actually know what you were.
I'm like, that's my friend.
I love Mohan.
Like, I didn't know where else to take that.
Yeah, that must be awkward for you guys.
So I remember I brought Daniel to Launders Land
and I introduced him as my IRL best friend.
He's like, what the fuck, do you mean IRL?
But I need you to know right now, this is my best friend.
We are not the same guy.
I just know what IRL meant.
I still today have the attitude that we are unbelievably lucky to do what we're doing
and I just can't relate to some of the conversations I'm in with these sports friends because
all I can think is I never want to go back to the meat freezer.
The tattoo I'm getting today is to remember a moment when I worked at the St. Lawrence
Market so I'm getting this butcher knife to commemorate my time at that last sort of
real job that I had before I became a YouTuber.
So that's why I do so many things, because it's really fun and it's just an unreal job
to have.
So why not push it to my imaginations limit?
Starting Boxer, doing the Launders show, hosting watch parties and the Launders land.
To pump up the Toronto scene that I grew up in are equally as important to me as a commentary
I do.
And genuinely just really proud to make anything for Counter-Strike is the best game I've ever
made.
Did you actually memorize one of my intros?
Yeah, are you going to make me do that?
We can try.
He goes.
Some say they don't feel the pressure.
Others do and we see it.
For tonight, under the bright lights of the Royal Arena,
we will find it.
So Copenhagen, brace the pressure!
Hope that's the end.
Yeah.
Welcome to the final stage.
So, stand in the middle of pressure, some feel pressure, and we see it.
But under the bright lights of the Royal Radio, we will find out to the very end.
Raise the pressure!
I'm going to say it.
I was thinking you could do the next one.
I'm going to say it.
That was really good.
Now this is pre-aimed, tested and destroyed.
A round can't hit the second head onto Zywoo to be set to collect.
Zywoo delivers, beautiful, closes it down, quad kill and the pistol from Zywoo, a smile on his face, and a pistol next to Vitality's name.
All done to him! The Belgium all didn't realise he was running into him on the wall.
2-2-3!
They're going for the clear. He's just going to hide out.
What is this?
Oh my god, they overlook him!
Dildos off to the fused, fallen zone and got him.
Darn it, the low HP, 1v2, he knows he's booked, yeah.
So much damage. Look at that. 2-3 down in the flames!
Him and Lato striking in tandem, his legacy. Complete there.
Come back!
It's fine, it's fine, but let's try to not collect the comes, please, I'm like, I'm
like getting so confused because I'm holding something and I'm like, relax.
Brazil might not have won their game in World Cup yesterday, but here in Cologne, it's
all about winning for Brazilians.
Furia made it to the playoffs of IM Cologne Major with relative ease and it makes sense.
is certain blessing or an ura if you will in Cathedral of Karstrak.
Winning it back to back in 2016 and 2017 is already an incredible feat, but Fallen does
not want to stop there.
He sets sights on third trophy and with how much the top favorite struggle so far it doesn't
seem impossible.
What a story that would be ahead of his planned retirement.
And three more teams will join Furia and Team Spirit today into the playoffs of the major
and I invite you to watch it with the action-filled Streamy and Stream B. Enjoy the show.
I
I'm just trying.
Now get fixed and told me I'm on my way.
I'm getting through my pressure.
And he's not going anywhere.
Wakey wakey eggs and bakey. It's time for some counter strike gentlemen. Are you are you okay pimp?
I don't know. All right. Okay. I just want to make sure ash. You're good too, right?
I'm just like they want a little energy
We're gonna give you a little bit of that on day 12 June the 14th stage three
We are in the thick of it over here at the intelligent remastered clone major
We are on the cusp of playoffs. We have so much to talk about and so much to go over ash
What's so funny, man? You'll get over there
I'm just calling it how it is. It's that that's what's happened here. That's a hundred percent less
So I'll start with that.
Yeah, OK, yeah, fair enough.
Look, just on the cusp of the lengths,
just on the cusp of those playoffs and greatness and glory
and everything that is a major chicken.
Yeah, they're honestly one of my favorite days of the year.
You know, day four here, group stage,
every game you're going to watch today,
either a team will be eliminated or a team
will put a spot into the playoffs.
So it's raw emotions, you know.
It's high impact and we lost as already.
Gentlemen, you know, how do we lose him?
How about us?
We're good, man.
Weakie, weakie, excellent.
You like that one?
So that's a new one.
Sorry, man.
It's got to be pretty fun.
I'm in the mood, apparently, for some fun, it seems like.
Yeah, well, let's do that.
We've got plenty of fun, especially if you're a Fury fan.
You've had the most fun you've had probably a few days now.
Because, as of yesterday, what did they do, Jacob?
They qualified for the Play-off, and they did it in quite some fashion,
you know, without losing a game so far at this tournament.
Fury, I wouldn't say convinced me that they are a tiny contender,
but they're definitely up there now, you know,
being one of the first teams to qualify.
They did lose a map in every single series they played,
But they also did win every single series did play so at the end of the day
I've been impressed with furia and it seems to be a team that is trending the right direction
Every good results and yesterday as well putting that boon to bed
But doing it really
Comfortably as well. That was kind of nice to see them doing that because that we've kind of been difficult for everybody
But probably not for furia. Yeah, not for furia
It seems like following company have things figured out in the ducks in the row that they need to have in a row here
At least in cologne for 3-0. That's good for them. They're not even the only one
There was a marathon game last night in case you didn't miss it
Well, then I guess you saw it right so we're talking about spirit and what had to happen last night
How did this all go down? I'm so mad a whole game. Yeah, it was a long long game. It was a late late game
I even had to go to bed
I couldn't keep myself awake despite the game going on and then I catch up what happened here this morning
And we watched it spirit versus 90
I could be game of the tournament back and forth
Nineteen maybe surprise of the tournament so as much as we probably should talk about spirit qualifying for the lengths of arena
I think it's equally impressive the fact that 90 were just one round away and mirage from
actually knocking out Spirit to a 2-1 position and qualify for the lengths of the arena.
So yeah, Spirit, credit for them for making it, they've been firing up, but 9C, credit
to them for giving us a good game.
And it used to be a vitality that we'd see come into the tournament and be setting the
tone and they'd be finding their way into playoffs just out of the other, but Spirit
have come here and let their hair down, I think.
Yeah, it seems like they're playing with a lot of freedom and a lot of individual skill.
Donk seems like the best they've ever played in his life and they're just playing really
good solid scout strike.
Getting that win against 9-Z impressive, because obviously 9-Z puts better vitality the day before that,
and I think they were 10-3 down at one point on Mirage.
Back to when a force behind come back into the game, so impressive for them, even if it's not the most kind of comprehensive victory.
Yeah, comprehensive victories is what we're looking for, or if you're bait, or if you're the side of paravision,
you're not looking for any victories anymore, because you got eliminated yesterday.
B8 or bait rather coming into this major with a lot of hype, there's a lot of talk about these guys. Why, Jacob?
I think they can be okay with making it to stage three.
Now, for them not winning a game here is naturally a bit disappointing,
but if you look overall at their season and how it began in 2026,
I think it's all right for them not to win a game.
They made it to stage three, that in itself is an accomplishment
who should be disappointed in this Paravision.
We're talking about a team that at one point were ranked number three in the world.
They've been winning trophies, they've been going into grand finals.
They couldn't win a game for the life of them.
Yeah, it's kind of been coming in a little bit from Paravision.
I feel like the vibes they're receiving this team,
we're getting into the major.
It feels like they're kind of called right at the wrong time there.
But for bait, I think they should be pretty happy overall with how they've done it.
It's a solid tournament for them, and it was very close to almost bringing it back against foot as well.
Yeah, and that's, I think, where we take just a few more seconds.
Let's talk about this foot bait game.
And how close were foot to being on the wrong one?
Yes, this is 12-11, the third map.
They lose entry kill, but they go back and they get a complete bomb on site here.
Molotov at the back line, bomb goes down, utility down everywhere.
And they kind of know everything about everyone here on the foot side.
most comes in and says he's going to hold them in a second. This should be a frag he makes all day long.
He doesn't make it. MPL flashes the backline to peek with the smoke.
He actually throws a perfect flashbang that flashes his teammate and also lands in a way
he doesn't blind any of the CT side as well. And they're coming through a smoke in this situation.
This is for 12-11 on the back of a big comeback here, Drake, as well.
Oh, it sucks, man. It's unfortunate for MPL with that flash. Naturally not intentional,
but that is the worst flash I've ever seen in my life. That is the perfect flash for the CT side
right there and it all happened by coincidence. Which is crazy considering some of the flashes you've
done on stream right Jacob? I mean I've tried deliberately to do something like that yeah but
I've never succeeded in that fashion. Never overachieved? No. Okay yeah then that's reasonable
too. Speaking of reasonable let's talk about your kinder Pimp and why do you love him as a player?
I mean I love the fact that he's making a bit of a comeback at this tournament we spoke about
for looking great so far and obviously making it 3-0 but I think there's a case to be made and now
Now people can't be mad, of course, you know, that Yikinda is overperforming a little bit.
And I can kind of back that up.
This is the best tournament he's having stats-wise in more than a year.
Back then, I think it was at the Austin Major Stage 2, you had a rating that was 0.01 better
than he's at right now.
And if you have to go all the way back to find an event, well throughout the entire event,
he's above a 1.3 rating, which he's at right now.
You have to go back in 2022.
So Yikinda is playing some of his best counter-strike from an individual standpoint in the group
stage, Stage 3.
I know Sambal size is a little bit small, but that's something to look out for because I think that's a big part of the reason as to why Furia is doing so well.
Absolutely. It feels like it's got fans consistency a little bit in Furia, but this playstyle is just annoying.
He's trying to decide. He's kind of always somehow behind people.
He feels like he's not willing to make mistakes, not willing to die and give his team a bad situation.
And I love that because of the major, the tensions there, the pressures there, and he kind of cuts through that.
He's always in your face. He's always creating care. He's always creating space.
When Yakinba is playing well, it makes so much room for guys like Keisarado, for guys like Molotov, for Fallen, for that matter as well, to call it a bit differently, so it's a massive win condition for Furia that he's firing on Arles and us.
Especially when you talk about a player like Keisarado being one of those torchbearers that we always look at from the furia camp, if you're not necessarily having to have him be as active, that's probably a good sign.
That's a good thing. He's a great closure. He's a great anchor and he's just missed the consistency.
I feel like if you could mold a player, you would mold him after Keisarado in a lot of different occasions
To just have that stable anger that you can always count on, you know
More like a I'd say like an even better version than Heavy God
Yeah, I think you can't be a closer without having entry frags right?
We've seen like quite a few times of vitality already this tournament
They just kind of get blown out of rounds on T side and the closes which is what they kind of know for us
I when rocks kind of mopping things up
They're not shining as much because they're not kind of getting as many favorable situations
But it's gonna happen now you guys say ooh
I say a zoo now why is that ash? Why are we looking at a zoo? I just like his name that has
And it's from the UK feels like it's a nice easy way to get his second reason to read him out
I think a zoo arguably was under the most pressure of any like maybe not top tier one player because I think pressure is different
But it's aside from that
I think he was his position was really in trouble for this major and he's coming and he's been absolutely fantastic
What I love about it is the opening kills
I think he's the third best when it comes to the rating wise on this and the pistols is one of the best in the world right now as well
And when you come to mate is what you're thinking we need to get pistol rounds
I need to get entries and this is a guy who was gone from being the lowest rate of player on his team by a long way
Not point nine one rating that was by far the worst and now is the highest at one point one one
And it's also got to mention this who's the place at most improved both you gay guys give everyone else a little bit down
So I think gives me and him they've been the standout for me
What do you have a guy kind of blowing people's heads off all of the time which he has been doing?
I think that's one of the main reasons me right once you tell us hold your horses
We're gonna talk about messy later on for my cello and he's maybe the least improved out of everyone
But I'll give it to you with a soup who he's been playing fantastic the fact that he's so fearless on the server
You spoke about the entry department
You know Monty is an underdog in pretty much every single game they play but a super never treats himself as an underdog on the server
He doesn't care who she's going up against. He doesn't matter who he's trying to fight out again
He's just relentless in the way he plays and I very much appreciate that from a super
So UK can have him, you know, that's a good player that you now malted and together what gives me the great now
Just need Messi to step it up a bit further. Yeah, and if you're Monty or you're in a quote-unquote Monty gang
You are playing the Mongols later today. So that will be an exciting one to watch unfold also exciting is this brand new
Hot rookie prospect from the Falcons. He goes by Nico. Yeah, Nico is a guy that many people know
I assume for being a great counter strike player the last year or so. He's been
It sounds hard to say trend downwards, but he hasn't been as impactful, he hasn't been as good, you know, in terms of his productivity on the server.
And a lot has changed for Nico as well. New roles, new responsibilities, a tough time in Falcons, so a lot of it is explainable and totally understandable.
But so far this major, he's been the consistent force coming out for Falcons. I don't think they look better necessarily as a team.
They haven't really convinced me so far, but Nico from an individual standpoint is playing well, and I think that's a massive win condition.
Because we know that if Falcons make the playoffs and having a guy like Nico with his kind of experience with his mid-round calling, being the right high man to carry again, that's so important for Falcons.
It feels like a while since we've seen Nico kind of really popping off in these massive games and so far, two Inferno ones, even lost one of them.
I think he was 26 and 10 at one point and he's kind of dragging their Inferno to look maybe okay, but I think he's looking pretty terrible at the moment.
So it's nice to see him back kind of with confidence at all performing at 1.10 to 1.25. It's a huge show.
and having to keep this and having to keep this Falcons camp moving in the right direction, right?
Because it hasn't always been that way with this project.
But seemingly now with Karrigan on board, it seems like the School of Karrigorn has come into class.
It's getting better, you know, maybe.
I don't know. It's so tough to assist them right now.
I think we we just need to find a way to get them into the playoffs
and then we'll see whether or not the stage nerves are going to be an issue.
The problem for them is to have a pretty tough route in there.
The playing spirit today, if I'm not mistaken, which is going to be a tough game.
But then again, NeekoDunk, you know, there's a bit of a history there that he's actually the donk slayer, so maybe that's gonna be a good game.
I think the biggest problem for me is that they don't look convincing at any game, and I don't really think it really matters so much about who they've been playing against, so I'm worried about them.
Maybe not like, I could think the same squeezing through here still, but the way they play right now, unless they level up a lot, they're not winning the major.
Which is unfortunate, yeah, from the Falcons, they've got Navi a little bit later today in parallel alongside the G2 Legacy game, so that'll be the latest game of the day.
We're on INZ before that, Betboom Vitality, Monty Mongols, and for us, Mousefoot.
But, of course, for what we're looking at, I'm talking about how the Swiss system plays out here in Stage 3.
Because this is the big time. Other than getting into the playoffs themselves, you have one last chance at the show face and send this stage jig.
There's so many massive games today, obviously for good reason.
There's said Falcons playing Navi. You know, a tough game to be completely honest.
The second best team in Navi for quite some time versus Falcons.
That's one to look out for the mouse foot we're going to cover.
But to me, the most interesting game, honestly,
is the 9C versus Aurora.
I think that's a massive opportunity for both of those lineups
to make it into the playoff, coming into the tournament.
Everyone had them, maybe, as being the 7, 8, 9, 10th best team
in this stage.
So for them to face off in a 2-1 game,
there's a great likelihood that that game is going
to be the easiest one on paper.
If you were to lose that, if you're 9C outside,
you could play another foul country.
You could play a mouse or a foot, which is on paper, maybe,
and Ian Hadagame in Saint-Gauss-Farroir.
And I'm thinking in this moment, yes, as beautiful as the Swiss system does look,
I'm thinking in this moment, it's kind of time to grab on to who Lucha is
and why he's been running statistics.
Yeah, so Lucha, I was watching him before the first stage of the major,
trying to get a feeling of what I'm really getting into,
because I mean, Nines is a team that we don't really see that often.
And I watched this guy and I thought, wow, against Falcons, he looked absolutely incredible.
The multi-kills that were happening when he was in stressful situations, consistent,
He was very very aggressive. I love his aiming style as well
And it feels like he's coming to the major on the back of some question marks maybe because the plane in that South American regions
I feel like a lot of players get their ratings quite inflated
However for him his numbers have stayed very consistent his teammates have obviously dropped quite a lot because the level has gone up
But he feels like there was a genuine superstar here and I've mentioned before already
I feel like for example if a team like fury was to make a change
I think he looks like he's ready right now to step up and go because this rating here 1.19
But I always feel like when it's a South American region players have played not maybe not one rating higher than they probably should do
So him bringing that consistency here
I think it's been a huge reason of why they're making it so far looking so impressive
I'd like to see him keep doing this
Hanub said he's just clinical, you know
I like watching his point of view as well and as you said like there's a massive difference between posing a
1.19 rating, you know in the South American scene and then come into a major and do it consistently
Some of the big games they've had against Vitality and some of the big moments has also been on the back of him
you know stepping up in in some of the hardest moments in the game as well so
whether or not he's a superstar just yet you know it's all about horses but I
think there's potential for a player that could develop into maybe a new South
American superstar who we don't have a lot of right now you know he's 25 is all
but I still feel like he's improved so I think it doesn't matter as well I have
the same feeling so I think just can you consistently do this for the rest of
the year that's gonna be a big start to follow it away and out of the remaining
play days here in stage two right our stage three right because we're looking
today with six Bessa 3s tomorrow three Bessa 3s and then the playoffs onward to the 18th. So you're
really running out of opportunities to lock this one engine. It is one of those days you know as I
said where it's just fun to be a chemistry friend because every game you're gonna watch a team is
either gonna put a spot into the playoff which for all of these teams is massive and a team will
be eliminated you know so there's always something at stake in every single game it's not one of
those where you have a one-one scenario where yeah if you lose it sucks but it's it's not it's not
that pick up an issue because you come back tomorrow and I guess from your point of view,
you know, there's different insensitency in games, right? But when everything is at stake,
I think that's when you get the most exciting and fun counter-spectrum to watch.
Absolutely. And this is kind of what the major is kind of thinking you build from towards all
years, an organization as a team, you're thinking about it and everyone today, or most teams today,
looking at the backs against the wall, thinking let's not go to the last day and be on the elimination
side of things. So I love the pressure side of things, the storylines there, the quality of
the games, people like it's improving as well. And at the moment, we don't have a clue who's going
to win this major because the favorites feel like the kind of struggle and so it's it's definitely
subtle for an interesting one. That is a very apt way of putting it. Thank you very much gentlemen
for joining me for the pre-show. We've got tons of Counter-Strike on the docket still here. In
stage three at the Intel Extreme Masters in Cologne, the major. In stage three it's 2026,
right out of the gate over on the B stream. We're looking at Mongols versus Monty in a one-two game
do or die time for them over there because if you don't win it is over. That's either from Monty
through the models. Meanwhile, switching a little bit of that tension back to where we are. It's
mouths versus foot also at the one to crunch time scenario. We're going to have some interviews
with Cyclone on the other side of this. So make sure you don't go anywhere. You're watching Intel
Extreme Masters.
Each one of them here are killing each other.
Now the double beating is getting his job done!
Now put that back before me!
Now some construction to turn this thing off.
And that's what's gonna be what happens.
Got him inside!
We are back!
Let's see what you guys are feeling. What's the vibe? Who do we think is going in the
3-0? Well, obviously, no. Yeah, I've been. Have they been playing well? Okay, so one
for spirit. 3-0. Donk has been playing kind of crazy. Okay, interesting. Interesting.
they're going to lose to Mongols that's why.
Oh interesting so Karagin plus Karagin plus four Falcons okay okay.
I'm looking for a blue one.
Probably looking for a green one.
It's looking good. Someone's got to be in the zero or three.
Okay, okay.
We got one.
I need my warts.
I need my warts.
I need my warts.
Okay, okay.
I need my warts.
You've got to go somewhere guys.
to go somewhere guys. Watch the fan team.
Okay, yeah, that's good, that's good.
That's a very good car for hot day.
I'm still just going for it.
I'm a footer, Garnt.
Footer hot day.
So you need, what is it?
You need what?
Six.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Yeah, we need four more.
Four more?
Four more here.
Yeah, all right, Fury is good.
Okay G2.
Yeah, not sure.
Okay, okay, okay, okay. Oh, good understanding, a good understanding.
Yeah, he's good, he's good.
Yeah, these guys are quite good though, maybe for impressive now you said mongols I'm just gonna put them here
There we go. Thank you for your help. Thank you for your help guys. Thank you
I want to ask as well ancient and mirage whenever you do the veto you usually pick one of those two much right recently
They've not been as good. Do you have any feelings about why this why this is
this is? On Mirage, I think we just changed our positions, tried some new things. Which positions
changed? Like, for what? Is this a secret information, maybe? It's like on Astana, Cobra, and I
are changed. Like, from T-side, I'm going to meet and Cobra's going to perhaps, and like, I was,
No, the star writer role is kind of changed on Mirage.
And that looks like it can be lost.
Yeah.
So you swapped it back again.
Yeah.
Oh, he's on the back.
Yeah.
So what were you saying?
So Mirage is kind of you've changed in positions on.
And yeah, yeah.
That's because of the changing position on the ancient.
I think it's lack of practice, maybe.
Yeah.
And every other team is adapting.
They're focusing on you as well because they know that you're playing right?
Because our playstyle is very easy to read.
They just do the same things, so they adapt to it.
We're trying to figure out and changing our styles.
I know in the past from experience, sometimes you have a map you're struggling on, right?
And you focus a lot on the weaker map, and then your good maps.
You don't put focus on them, they become weaker.
Do you think that maybe happened a little bit as well?
Yeah, like, sometimes we...
Okay, Nuke was kind of our bad map, but we focused on Nuke for a long time, and Nuke is kind of okay for us, but at that time we didn't practice ancient or mirage, so we had some kind of mental loss, so, yeah.
Our picking map has become Nuke.
It's weird how that changed, right? It's the worst time it comes, you're best time.
Up for us here with being ahead of the game against the Mongols, but before we dive into
that game, I wanna ask you about yesterday.
who lost very close one against Falcons. It was a very tough match, but it felt very
vulnerable, right? Yeah, I think we could have won this game. I think it was a fair game.
They played very well, and I mean, we gave everything. I think they have way more experience
than us, so we showed on some special moments, but I'm happy with the fight we gave, and
if we can reproduce the same level consistently, I think we have a good chance to qualify to
It's important to play these experienced teams like Falcons, and obviously you become experienced more yourself.
So what were the main takeaways from that game yesterday that you're going to be bringing today on the server against Mongols?
I think it's a lot about not getting too stressed in the crucial moments, when we need to speed up, when we need to chill, when we need to set up a good execute or not, or whatever.
So I think it's a lot about just making the right decisions, so it doesn't come in one day, right?
But we know the problem, I mean, small problem honestly, but we know the issue and we try to work on it, so every day it's going to improve.
Mongols feel like a little bit of an uncharted territory for you, you didn't play them, I think, ever.
So when you were preparing for them, what stood out?
What stood out as their biggest kind of strength that you need to counter today?
What maybe Kakaafu told you as a coach?
Yeah, I mean, I think it's a very strong team.
They don't have so much leaks.
Like they don't have any special bad things they do.
I think they are very strong team actually.
So yeah, I think it's a lot about what
you're going to bring to the table if we shoot harder than them.
I think it's a lot about that actually.
I think it's going to be a fair fight today.
A little bit personal question to end this.
You're the only French player carrying the French flag
outside of Vitality.
Are you surprised by that? Obviously, what's the issue with that?
There's a lot of good French teams. We had 3 of them, they didn't make it, there's good French players.
Your thoughts on this, that you're carrying the French flag so far into the Major?
Yeah, it's a bit unlucky that 3 of them didn't make it. They were pretty close actually.
But I think, yeah, when the cut-off was, they had quite a slump and I think they still are in the kind of slump.
They need to make, maybe, changes, maybe, I don't know, change the way they think.
But, yeah, I hope to see them back on the grind soon and see them where they belong, like in the top 15 at least.
Very humble offer. Let's see if you carry this French flag after this best of three, and it's not a wide one.
But we will see. Good luck on the server.
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And so.
The team that have made it to the playoffs, the last three majors, now in a situation
where they could be exiting against Monty.
Yeah, that would be quite a shame, right?
have been peeking up and getting second place back at the awesome major,
but now facing down a chance where you don't even make it to the playoffs,
not even close to them.
So that could be a rough turn of events for the Mongols.
For Monty, they've been on the rise all year.
They've been grinding all year for this moment, this opportunity,
and they're looking to seize it right here in this series against the Mongols.
They can eliminate them, send them packing,
and stay alive to fight another day for the final day tomorrow.
Mongols versus Monty.
Yeah, I haven't got to cast Monty.
We haven't had a chance yet, Jason,
but they've been doing some good things.
You've seen the clips, seen the moments.
I think Gizmy's really impressed people is the color of the squad getting them in the shape
Yeah, he has been and we heard the way that we saw the tweet from Thomas as well saying he's not getting as much credit as he should
That's a really cool thing to come out of the UK scene as well one IGL kind of given some plots over to another
I think the fun thing about Monty for me is it is kind of like a team of you know
Rejects in the right word, but they're like they've three players who have been on like tier one squads who have been moved up to the
Big leagues at various points in their career
Didn't pan out sent back down and they've had to grind their way to get back here
And that's not an easy thing to do for your mentality when you've gotten a taste of like tier one professional level counter strike in the biggest orgs
So really cool to see that for guys like be mosses play for phase afro has been in fanatic
Rain waker who was in liquid for that very very short stint
So I mean it's it's really admirable. It's really cool watching Monty just fight back these individuals put themselves in a position where they can
They can do some damage here eliminate a team that we all kind of thought was going to get to the playoffs
Yeah, and this morning we heard
Astrosoul about Azulu's performance. He's one of the lowest-rated players, the lowest-rated player for Monty for the last few months.
Coming into this major though, he's the highest-rated player for them. He's had some incredible form and obviously when a player like that has such a step up at a big moment,
that's really going to help you out.
Well, the guy who stepped up for him in stage three, because I'm with you, Azulu was dominant in stage two.
This jump-up and level of competition, I think, has sent him a little bit back down to reality.
So a little bit more pedestrian so far in the first three series that they've played,
but Afro has been the guy with the AWP to pop off.
On the Mongol side, if you want to look at it there,
important to kind of note, you mentioned
they've been in the playoffs of the last three majors.
The two guys who have kind of got them there
as their top performers.
In Austin, it was obviously Senzu making it all the way
to the finals, was their best player.
But Mizzinho was the guy delivering
in the other two majors back at Budapest
and in Shanghai a few majors ago.
And he's having a terrible stage three.
His drop off from where he's been the rest of 2026 on land
to this stage three in the major is really, really rough.
And if Mongols want a chance to win this, he has to kind of come back alive.
He has to be able to provide some impact because they're missing it right now.
You know, you heard in the podcast as well.
Mazzini was talking about how the star role has changed.
His positions are actually getting changed up with Cobra on Mirage.
They're trying to figure that out.
So there seems to be some issues here for Mongols in terms of getting the most out
of their individual players, the most out of the comfort these players can get into.
And it's disappointing to see because we know at a very base level,
Mongols are incredibly strong.
Like, their floor is really, really high, but their ceiling we know used to be so high,
and unfortunately we just don't know what that is now.
Yeah, that is kind of the problem, and I think that's part of the issue.
You know, he mentioned those roll swaps. I think they were only in place for one event back at Astana,
and they did that one event, and they were like, nope, this kind of sucks, let's go back.
But remember, this is a team that's trying to find ways to move players around,
put them in positions where their strengths can shine, because they're trying to make up for the loss of Senzu.
So they're trying to make up for the loss of production.
You want to just put it in numbers. If Senzu's giving you like 15 to 20 kills and all of a sudden you have to find those 15 to 20 kills elsewhere
Yeah, you're gonna have to juggle things around a bit and try and make some things work that you didn't initially think would be the best idea
No, it doesn't seem great. You know being in a one and two game
But I actually still feel confident in the Mongols to make it to playoffs
I think they are a team that can still absolutely do it a win today versus Monty. They're into the 2-2 game
I think Mongols are gonna be a threat to everybody in that final game of this tournament
So I look at the teams they played so far as well, right? They took a loss to Batboom who have been really strong
The two-one there they beat bait they lost to Navi in a strange way yesterday
They were up ahead they would have chances to win that series versus Navi and it just flips completely, right?
So I think today against multi Mongols are absolutely the favorites to the more experienced team
Probably cut the better individual players just overall Mongols are absolutely favorites to win this game today
Yeah, they definitely are and they should feel that way to coming into this
You know, I think the X factor here is going to be someone like gizmy
Which is cool to have so much attention and now he's calling for this team because you know you you heard it from
Asin you're saying you know we are a team that everyone kind of knows what we does and everyone can counter us
We don't do anything crazy. We're very simple counter strike team. We just do the basics very well
We do the simple stuff very efficiently
So if you have a guy on the other side that's calling very good counter strike to get a team
You know playing above their weight punching above their weight
That's where I'd look to and say gizmy can have a huge impact on this series
If he's able to out call the Mongols if he's able to put together a really good game plan because again
you kind of know what's going to be coming then all of a sudden this team
can really have a great shot you add in a performance out of Afra who's playing
very well on the AWP Rain Waker who's had some good moments of Zuhua that
great stage two any bounce back from those guys and Gizmy's gonna have some
really cool toys to work with throughout this game this series coming into
this major no we talk about Gizmy's inexperience as a caller going up against
the best callers in the world he's now picked up experience in this stage alone
calling us Madgeur and Aurora, Jame and Paravish and then Kerrigan and Falcons
and he took a map off Carrigan, he also was able to really make it difficult for Falcons the whole way down the stretch in that series.
So, I think for Gizmy he's picked up some essential experience along the way,
and now the last chance to try and get through another game to survive into the final day of stage 3.
And we know for these underdog teams, multi will be doubted every step of the way.
They've been a very common 0-3 pick from both stages, they've been in.
I think they were huge in this third stages, and now in three picks.
Absolutely. Well, they've surprised everybody. Again, they've got a win versus paravision.
They play in Falcons close and we'll see what they can do against the Mongols today
The Mongols are not an unbeatable team. They're very very skilled individuals, but with the way they're playing at the moment
You never really know there could be an upset again. Oh my god here for Monty
Absolutely, there could be we'll be fun to watch and see how they handle things that we saw from from Mongols yesterday
A lot of outside presence on this nuke map, you know doing a very good job being very aggressive
These guys just love fights like you got to be prepared for it
That's the conversation Monty would have had this morning is everyone be prepared for a battle because very rarely does Mongols find a fight find an engagement and back away from it
They're looking to trade that off. They're looking to get into a heads up duel
So gonna be a very difficult for Monty to slow them down
The problem is you can know they're coming but you still just lose the fight
Oh, yeah, you can be ready for the fight, but you still just lose it. We seen that yesterday
Against Navi. It was a very comfortable new showing coming in from the Mongols versus Navi
They got a 13-8 win.
Monti decided to bring it into this series
and see what they can do against the Mullen goals.
It's an elimination game here at the Intel Extreme Masters
Cologne Major.
One of these teams at the end of the series
will be heartbroken and exit in stage three of the competition.
Yeah, let's get this pistol on live.
Let's get it underway.
We're sending somebody home.
Dooley's on techno.
Dooley's on Mazzinho.
Other than that, it's all pistols and armor.
No utility for the CT side of the Mongols for Monti,
two smokes of flash, and a Molotov.
Door's broken open.
But they're going to wait patiently looking to see if anyone's going to cross a little bit of a timing
that they're going to strike into the upper bombsite through Squeak Door.
Down the vents we go and nobody home from Mongols down at B.
Yeah, real quick play here. Full Monty. Got himself some decent space. Smoke going to go out of swamps.
Inyo has made his way down here with the Jorba Ruttas. That plant will be coming through and start of the smoke.
I don't know, he's here. He can actually get a clean one.
It's a sneaky play, but Rainwick actually checks it, looks out to the left side, catches him.
Zeno after the pick up one right back and three plays left.
The Mongols getting absolutely wrecked.
Gizmy's come out swinging and that is a beautiful start
to this game.
Monty looking so sharp.
Yeah, that's very well constructed.
I mean, just an easy vent dive,
but having the lurkers in place as well.
Mongols trying to shift and rotate over
can't find any safety across the map.
That's a beautiful piss around for Monty.
What a way to get started.
Yeah, Gizmy as well.
I mean, this is Rainwaker being methodical, clearing out Mzino as you said, he would look like Mzino was going to have the surprise.
Probably just explode, but Blitz in 9-10 both fall into, gives me a quick peek to that Glock.
Yeah, it gives me well aware, he's controlling Vence, nobody's rotating through that position, his teammate kills one towards Dora, calls it clear, knows he can turn towards Secret, and a lovely, lovely pair of frags on the Glock.
So, 1-0-0 for Monty as we get started.
It's gonna be the scout for 9-10. 5-7s, D-gold, MP9, a forced fight for the Mongols, and Blitz trying to be aggressive early.
Now, first go the bomb.
Gotta be careful.
He's off the bomb as well, with the rest of his teammates trying to get down towards secret.
Yeah, good cross run silence though from Monty.
You can see the frustration, the spam through the smoke, just hoping and praying.
Maybe he gets a little bit of an indication that someone's there.
Mazzinho shifted down to the lower bomb site.
He's playing on rat back and forth.
His responsibility will be to check that from time to time but still Mongols
without the information that this secret cross even occurred.
Simple calls all together here for Monty and they've managed to get the space
they're looking for. You have a decision to make though do you want to go into the
lower bomb site with just the three players that are here including the
bomb or do you want to try and get them to join up with you at the upper bomb
site are you gonna kind of try and poke and prod a little bit before
committing that's utility towards upper lures the defense back another little
piece of fake pressure from Gizmy and Monty and that should open up the
avenue for them to stroll into the B bomb set and get that bomb planted. Yeah
Rainwaker being patient all around long doesn't matter. You can know they're
coming but they're still gonna win some fights. That's Kelber with that 5-7
popping onto the screen as he was patient's paying off towards the red box.
He catches Blitz trying to rotate down at the Eagle Shelf and Zino not connecting
and everybody on Monty and High Alert as the Mongols realized they're not gonna
able to get back in here and they're not gonna have anything worth talking
about in the next round so they back away and they're gonna save these three
weapons and that's a 2-0 start for Monty. I should kind of save him four weapons
in a way. Cobra would be able to drop a pistol over to a teammate. Yeah, that
Galeel's a nice steal away. Yeah, even that MP9 I'll grab. So yeah, there'll be
some weapons across the board for the Mongols in the next round but it's
still not gonna be easy to put a stop to Monty. They walk up to 2-0 with
relative ease. Good to see Renwick you're back in the server. You know how does
big break going towards Team Liquid. And that wild roster, no one can really even truly believe
happened. But Rhinwaker didn't make anything happen over there. It was a disappointing roster run,
and he kind of fell into obscurity for a while. But great to see him getting another shot here.
He's back at a major play with Monty. Yeah, I think it's clear that the issues in that Team
Liquid roster were more than just Rhinwaker, although he certainly caught a lot of the attention,
a lot of the flak at the time. I think it's just because of, like, who is Rhinwaker? You know,
You know, at that time when he got brought into the Liquid team, it's like, that's such a big organization.
They're used to the big names in Counter-Strike going there, and they take it at risk.
A gamble going for a more experienced player, and he just unfortunately got the flag for just being an unknown quantity.
Yeah, but he was scouted by players and coaching staff with experience.
So, like, you still put some credit onto the skills that they saw, even if we didn't see them realize quite yet.
So, maybe a little bit later than obviously the Liquid scouting team would have liked.
There was bigger problems in that team.
Yeah, but we're seeing some of it come out here and this is his stint with Monty at this major.
Game further than liquid.
A lot further.
A lot further.
Yeah, I didn't know how to build upon that one. It was too easy. The low hanging fruit. I wanted the channel.
Sometimes it could be tasted down there.
It's just right there.
Alright, well, Nanken's gonna slide over with the scout. Any tags would be valuable.
He's got a 5-7 boosted up on the boxes in ramp room.
So if you get some chip damage, they end up committing to the ramp play.
Can turn that, spotted a little bit of leg, missed shot, and Monty back off wanting nothing to do with it.
So over to the upper bombsite we go, Gizmy waiting with utility, set piece towards the upper site.
Molotov into hut, Molotov on top of hut, Koverzera close up with a 5-7, gets a little bit of damage,
but two kills for Monty as they come out the squeak door.
Yeah, good flashes, really good flashes. There's no chance for a 9-10.
He's going to get one, and then Mazinu comes in with a five-seven.
What's doing what he can to try and make things uncomfortable, but it's a spam battle against
Pumas's Galilazwhop, and then actually that kill comes through the smoke, so 3-0 start
coming in from Monty, and now this is where the real challenge begins.
You're going to get the Mongols by including the 9-10 AWP.
Yeah, it's out already, so no HE grenade on his back to break open those smokes outside.
He'll have plenty of that from his teammates, Mazinu buying up the M4 as well.
Everyone's kitted out, couple of Galils still in the Monty attack.
Those will get upgraded as time goes on, and with two relatively spotless anti-eco's, anti-lobis,
there's a decent amount of cash built up on Monty as well.
We're going right into the upper bomb site.
Bimasa, stutter steps, slows it down inside hut.
They're coming through though, they're coming through the hallway, the timing is not expected.
Oh, what a hit!
Inside the bomb site, Raidwaker and Bimasa just end the defense.
That's just crushing, isn't it?
That's their first gun round from all angles, and that's what happens to them.
They just absolutely destroyed you're having an idyllic start right now if you're monty you came into today hoping that this is how
The tea side was gonna go because you're gonna make sure you just break you through this Mongols defense and immediately put them on the
Back through man this stutter step is a nice touch though, right?
Like that's not an unusual first gun round for a tea side who's won the pistol is knowing you have that economic advantage and knowing if
You just get him with an uppercut into the upper bomb site
They're gonna be fresh out of cash in the next round. So you get a huge advantage moving forward
But the stutter step really threw the Mongols off. They're like, okay good. There's no rush. We can chill. We can deploy some utility
We can get comfortable in our positions and right as they pull up the maids
That next beat of utility flies in from Monty. Well struck and it's forward or nothing now economic advantage to Monty
Techno is up on top of the silos you can see them get blinded
Which is why Blitz goes down for free because Techno is supposed to have some resistance over towards door
but Blitz is actually trying to help out at Squeak Door.
So just good utility usage on top of that.
There's no chance for the Mongols to slow that down.
However they buy right back up in as the losing bonus is growing.
AWP still alive, saved from the previous round and M4 is for everyone else.
The outside smurfs deploy very early for Monty.
What's gonna try and break it up in Gizmy?
Damn, dude.
What is that?
He's gaming.
He really is.
Blitz getting a taste of his own medicine.
He's usually the one handing that out to the IGL.
But Gizmy just on top of the box, rips his head off,
and is now down towards secret.
What a great start to the round again from Monty.
Yeah, such a disgusting shot.
I think long goals feel insensitive.
They're like, OK, you've got to pick outside that early,
cross over.
We didn't really have anyone to see it.
So they put two players down in secret to defend against this,
who can also be aggressive to go figure out what's happening.
So Gizmy's going to have more pressure sent at him, can he deliver one more time?
I got Cobra all the way up.
Through secret.
It's too late, they're already up for the enemy.
Yeah, they're already wrapping.
Nine-ten.
You got to...
I'm going to try and go for this.
Oh, flying up the ladder, trying to get that quick, but utility coming in quickly from Monty.
Gizmy finally shuts down by Mzinho.
Gizmy probably should have had that kill, but I still think it's such a strong position for Monty that I don't even know if Mongols...
I don't okay, they're gonna try for this in the four on four. There's no kits available if they don't get the kills on the
Entry so they don't kill it kills to open this up
I think they're gonna have to back away and save doing what they can it's afro and cobra shot after shot
Holding back to post plant positions now with that Molly down towards hot
It opens up some space for the Mongols
But the time the time is gonna start taking em senior with a great headshot a sue
Elusive inside the smoke yet to be detected nice shot from my dad and they'd actually done it the Mongols come back in with
an unlikely retake and that will be the first round victory.
The Molotov into the hut is what ruined the day.
You got to give some credit to Zinho.
I called him up and he would need to step up in this game.
He delivers a brutal head shot to save his teammates
scaling into the site.
So many advantages, no kits and a four on four retake.
And the Mongols recover nicely.
Oh man, Gizmy's going to be punching himself.
As much as the first kill was a thing of beauty,
that one right there should have been in his pocket
and then this retake would have never happened.
Got to be frustrating for him.
See if they can rebound. It's a three-round lead 4-1 for Monty.
9-10. Heads outside with the AWP. You've got Blitz pushing up.
He'll grasp the position under the silo.
9-10 searching for a head, but none showing just yet.
He'll back off.
That smoke is up. The first smoke allowing them to cross safely without being detected by Blitz,
and in fact they are just marching towards CTs, towards Secret.
And so now in Xeno...
Ooh, look at this, it's just fights everywhere, but Boits and Techno winning theirs.
And Rainwaker getting so unlucky getting caught as he tried to get inside of the smoke,
but it's Cobra now inside of that, they're running with their knives down, not ready!
But he's out of bullets, he's out of chances, and he's dead!
At the hands of P-Mass!
Yeah, but now you know the rotation's gonna be there.
Those engagements slow you down in such a big way that you don't want to stream out directly into the bomb site.
9-10 perched with an AWP and blitzes here now as well.
That's an absolutely chaotic start to the round.
One minute on the clock, P-Mass and Afro.
have time to slow things down and catch the threat, but as they walk out through the smoke, Blitz is at the ruddy.
And the 9-10 will catch Afro, and yeah, felt like it was going to be a lot more competitive down the stretch there for Monty, but well held by the Mongols.
Yeah, really nice. How did they find Rennweicher inside the smoke?
Teammate had just kind of stepped into the vent. I wonder if something had shown from the distance. There's the trade from Gizmi.
The loss is well-grabbing one, but there's no access into the bomb site.
Good play from Blitz stepping in behind his smoke to make sure that there's nobody available into the site.
All back in the hands of Afro now for the first time, and AK-47s on the rest of the Monty team.
This is all the cash they've got remaining.
So Mongols have almost gotten there. They've almost kind of outlasted this run, and gotten some money back beneath them.
I need dropping down.
Azul is trying to move himself forward. It's a big risk, but it's paid off from Azul.
from a sewer, and Xenia are gonna be caught.
They're gonna start scaling down the ramp,
trying to make their way down there,
but Blitz is gonna get flamed away.
Yeah, and the only player down here is 9-10 with his AWP.
Now, Techno has come down the vents as well,
due to the control from secret by 9-10.
I mean, the bomb is still outside,
so even though you control this lower bomb site,
this is actually a really dangerous situation
for Monty to be in.
You're kinda just chilling,
not doing much in this lower site,
holding onto it, waiting for the bomb to come.
It's a long route, the bomb has to walk,
and it's a lot of time for these Mongols players
to make a move.
Oh, Remwaker.
Oh, my goodness, the timing.
Exactly.
Like, you just are sitting here like a sitting duck for so long, looking at a couple different
angles.
Yeah.
As soon as you move that crosshair wide, the P comes in, but Techno walking out of the
control room to his death.
As he gives me, he starts making his way full, but Cobra did win the fight.
But does he anticipate the flank?
Does he anticipate the fact that Gizmy's coming around and he starts looking the right direction,
but doesn't matter.
Can't get the kill.
9-10, searching for it.
USP.
Oh, my God.
I was so close to the kill with 9-10.
Completely confused.
and get it done, and now Blitz is gonna run down low on his own. This is just not gonna happen for him.
He's got no kit on his back,
multi-able to just drop into really strong post-planned positions, and they've got the early information as well.
Poison's not gonna be able to do much at all here.
No, I'm not your surprise. He's still looking like he wants to go for this.
I think he's hoping to get forced somebody out into the open. Good peek on the smoke from Azulu and an easy kill.
Triple kill for Azulu, including the opening.
That round has a certain level of anti-logic to it, where it's like, well, if Mongols probably can't read what's happening, they think you've taken the lower bomb site, they're probably confused why the bomb's not being planted, and it just comes in so late.
But there were opportunities for Mongols to get back in. They take a time out, they're first of the map, they've got plenty of money to rebuy and reinvest into the next round, but Monty's making it hurt, Monty's making it a struggle for them to actually plant their feet and get something secure going on the CT side.
the CT side. Yeah, Gizmy has got to be loving the start to this T side that he's calling.
Also individually, he's topping the charts six and two. Yeah, he is having a team effort
so far out of out of Monty six for Gizmy as the top fragger rain waker in Bermas, four
kills at the bottom of the scoreboard. Sleep at your eyes 9 10. Yeah, time to wake up.
It's elimination day at the major. It's a lovely day in Cologne as well. Sometimes when you're
looking at long goals though and when they look kind of the most checked out, most sleepy,
when they're playing the best kind of game, it's like, just another day of
counter strike, another day to frag. All right now they're definitely looking
like they're asleep. Not quite. The level of the Mongols we've seen yesterday
against Navi on Nuke.
I'm not sure what's going on, so let's see if he gives me... look at the space he's got with these smokes.
What can he do with it? Gives me trying to be the playmaker. Hasn't been spotted.
It's a very deadly position he was in previously and around a couple rounds back where he was able to gun a backstab
The rotator coming out of heaven didn't manage to get the kill
But a very deadly place to be especially when 910 so clearly has no idea
Gives me walking up 910 behind the box here can gives me keep his head down. He will he's under the scope
Oh my god, he's under him. He has no idea now. He spotted 910 as well
You don't want that kill who cares about that kill
Well, you just you got the information and you know you've got past for free gives me spots the ramp play look at the information
He's got 9-10s coming back, didn't see him.
Oh, Gizmy, this is beautiful, out from Heaven,
lining up the head shot, going for the second.
Gizmy's got them, and the Mongols ripped open.
Gizmy with a wonderful play, and a miss shot from 9-10.
Not those eyes again, you're going down.
Oh my god, Gizmy is just solo on this round.
This is unbelievable.
That's actually an awesome play, awesome trigger discipline,
awesome understanding of the situation.
And Gizmy is just telling his team, I'm gonna win the round, just freeze.
Nobody die, nobody go down, nobody do anything, just give me time.
And that wraparound up towards heaven.
Mongols never seeing it, the defense never understanding where the danger was.
And a triple kill on top of it all.
Absolutely filthy.
6-2 for Monty, and money is gone for the Mongols.
I love this play.
Yeah, this is so well played from Disney.
Yeah, it's like that play is so cool.
We see it happen, like not frequently,
but we see similar situations occur, right?
And it just so rarely works out this perfectly
where nobody conveniently turns, nobody sees you.
It's such a long route to walk,
but the op at the box was the perfect thing
for to go up against.
And then 9-10 moves off as he's on the ladder
and he's already too far up for 9-10 to see him
and it just all goes right for him.
Six rounds, key side of Nuke.
And if now got the money broken up as well for the Mongols, you're likely to get seven here.
Seven around T-side nuke and you're absolutely loving this.
Gives me just running out. Technos go one through smoke, but...
And you're already through to this A-bomb site.
Mongols are getting absolutely wrecked.
Yeah, they really are.
A crazy turn of... Okay, hold the phone. This can actually work out.
What's this gonna do? It gives me impression.
Okay.
In-game leader on in-game leader action.
It's actually kind of sick.
Blitz sneaks out, gives me dead.
There's the second player, Blitz has got that too!
And all of a sudden, the Brains are going at it,
they've got Brawn too, and B-Mess waiting at the back of the site.
And K-47 into the open, picked shot from 9-10, it's all on Afro.
And he knows they've dropped into the site, he can hear the staff,
but dealing with it is a whole other problem.
And Afro's got that too!
Time against them all, so is the Frenchman.
No surrender inside of the HUD, holds on and knocks them over.
Just a subtle little smirk on his face as he takes that fourth kill.
Miss shot, the only one he had to glock through in the work.
Damn, that's a clutch and a half.
What a play from Blitz to make that round contentious for Monty.
They have to make them fight back in that post-plant, but Afro saves the day.
And he's been their best performer here in Stage 3 in the series, three series
they've played so far.
So continuing to deliver in this match.
Oh nice try from Blitz to try and pull that round back.
I looked down to play before that round even got started, but at least I've got money.
At least I've got a good buy again here, Mongols, but I've got to just start winning almost immediately.
Montier just playing with the absolute love of the game right now.
Momentum fully on their side.
They're gonna be charging in towards the ramp of 9-10 and Emsinho.
What the hell is that?
Okay, give him one. Give him one a little bit back.
Yeah, but 9-10 was so harassed he like kind of lost his mind outside gives me this lurk that he's playing
The the impact he's had in the outer yard is insane this game
He's found the backstab on the second supportive player in ramp room, but look at this final from blitz. They never knew it
They never expected it one more to find
Today going towards Alfred sells to the sky we got PMS
Turning catching place realizing his huge net utility up. Oh takes a while, but techno gets the kill and gives me
to his old tricks inside of the garage, but I forgot to turn out in time, but just not
going to get the angle.
Coppers switches to the AWP and back to the rifle again once he realizes.
Just barely holding onto this though, aren't they, Mongols?
Just barely staying in this.
They didn't scrape a bunch of these.
Them all top lamps perfectly.
Bottle flip.
They're actually sick.
Well, BMOS has no HP, which is why we're talking about bottles.
11 health in this 1v2, and they know exactly where he's coming.
They know exactly where he has to head because they got the bomb directly beneath him inside
the hut.
just last round they're gonna be so happy with seven at the moment like no
matter what happens they're gonna go into halftime just just so so happy
feeling like they're just crushing it right now obviously would love to add
another two on top of it but no reason to be disappointed whatsoever if you're
Monty this game plan has worked perfectly everything's gone as designed
it's crazy about this is this is Monty's map it actually hold the phone
We're gonna get a little Mazzino aggression at this piece.
Oh, it goes down.
Azulu, that's an H8.
That wasn't... Oh, still is.
Still is.
It's right there. That Nade did not blow it very far away at all.
I was gonna say, another reason why this is a little bit crazy.
Mongols picked this map yesterday against Navi.
And beat them 13-8 on it.
Yeah, wrecked them on it.
I was kinda like, when I saw that, this was Monty picking it, I was like,
y'all might be a little bit crazy.
I actually came into this today thinking that this would be the map pick of the Mongols in this series.
And I feel like so rarely do we have do we see a team especially the more inexperienced in the underdog team pick their performance
Kind of map with a game plan and have it work out them as efficiently as it has. Oh
The wall bang from aft for a lot everything's oh
I mean after you make the noise I would put the knife away for sure
But it's perfect. I mean they have to challenge this to give me trying true shots at this event
and you see him do the fake reload into the knife
and now he's trying to make noise in the vents.
He's just catching every good timing right now.
12 and 4 right now,
forgets me,
utility going down,
finally dealt with by Cobra,
but gives me even when he's dead,
he's still killing them.
This dude's a beast.
He's just wrecking them.
What's happening right now?
He's having one hell of a game.
Gizmy's got to him.
Well, this is insane because again,
elimination on the line in this series at the major,
Mongols getting destroyed in the first half of nuke. I mean you've got eight T rounds
Is there even a world and coming back into this game? Yeah, I don't know. I mean you're definitely gonna need that last one
And then I mean you're gonna have to kind of have the same switch that Navi had against the Mongols yesterday
Where they just kind of woke up randomly and just decided they were done with it
Crazy crazy turn of events
Think it's really unreasonable that the UK gets to just have gives me pop up out of nowhere as an ideal just dominating
More than Eric is sitting over here like please for the love of God. Can we just
What's like half a gizmy?
Yeah, it's it's actually it's saying
It's I was talking to the two players as well as you wouldn't gizmy
I was talking to them on media day when they first arrived to you and I was saying
The UK has always had this attitude in the UK scene of car show
It's like trying is uncooled. You know practicing taking everything serious is uncool so there's sort of
of nationwide apathy when it comes to trying.
And Messi was always a player who had a better attitude.
Above that?
Yeah, and he and I was saying,
he has really inspired those two players.
You know, okay, you can do it from the UK.
You can go out there and like achieve these great,
great things.
And it's been inspirational for Azulu and Gizmy
who have been trying for a long time.
And now it's their time.
It's a great job.
Not so much in this round though.
Azulu is gonna get pushed in by Enzin.
Yep.
Went right back to it.
As we talked about the Mongols, we talked about their major playoff runs, three majors
in a row, but not so long ago we were talking about the Mongols as the hungry team in the
major who was something to prove, something to fight for, and hunger we know is a massive
motivator, and I'm also a fool of it right now.
Well they've been grinding all year for this, they've only competed in a single tier one
event across the season leading into this Cologne major, that was PGL Astana, they ended
in 9th to 11th place. Most of their events were grinding the Tier 2 circuit, some qualifiers,
doing everything they can to scrape together VRS points coming here.
Surprising everyone at the solid stage 2, beating Payne in the 2-2 game back in that stage to qualify
here. And now all of a sudden putting up a good fight against some of the best teams in the world
as they've arrived to the Major. 2 vs 5 in this round, it does look like Mongols is going to get
their 4th of the half, and that pretty much secures it right there. Only Afro remains in a
1v5. Finds his one kill, but a lot more to go with only 15 seconds on the clock.
Man, the bullets all coming through the smoke. It will be 8 t- rounds from Monty that put
themselves in a fantastic position to take map 1 of this series.
I was never meant to stay
It was you that pulled me in
Promise me that we'd be okay
All of your lies I once believed in
You were there most of the time
But that was never good enough for me
Let me go in and out of my mind
Let me go and run like crazy
And this way
What is the road in this show?
For you that's so well well
Baby, you were always fine
And I was always wrong
Baby, baby, where did I not go?
Baby, you were always fine
And I was always wrong
Baby, baby, where did I not go?
You were always pretty on your phone
You wanted to be here forever
Remember when we used to have it all
We were so good together
Why can't we both feel the same way?
Why do I need to explain?
You were never close to the time
I never was ever good enough for me
And me going out of my mind
And me going round like crazy
But they got to have this way
Only if they're always the same
For you to let go
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Like crazy
I'm on the U.K.F.
Blow me one! He's looking at you, I see.
You're on, you're on.
Come on now, I think.
Tetris! Tetris!
Tetris, on me.
On me one.
There.
I'm on the door.
I'm on the door.
Okay.
No!
Bro!
Monty's seizing their chance.
Look, it gives me as the leader of this team.
Let's try to qualify twice to major repeat the RMR.
He was a sub for Monty before.
Before that was the Paris major in CSGO where he stood in.
Well, he had an Irish team going into that one
and they didn't really do much as you would expect,
but he's finally made it and he's here at stage three.
It's absolutely insane how he's here.
Well, that was Irish counter strike taking shots all of a sudden.
No, they're not shots. I know the boys and they're good.
They're good players, but you know, it was always going to be a tough challenge,
but they're doing something special right now, Monty.
And we've got Azul and B-Mass taking a couple of kills in Blitz and Emzino fighting back.
Blitz has got two and they're trying to get out in towards the site.
Gives me a wedding up towards Heaven and that Molotov will land towards him.
He's going to be held back just around the corner and Rainwaker on the ladder below him.
This retake is still possible, but it's going to be close on time when that smoke comes up.
It's going to be tough to come out with two players.
Just happened to dive down Emzino and that was down clean.
Did Rainwaker blind himself?
Uh, he must have. He didn't step into the open, but now he's coming in and may work in his favor.
He's got a kill on him, Xeno. Blitz hiding around the door.
Gonna have a rain worker diving down into the site.
Gonna go over and try and just chase down this kill on Blitz who hides behind the door. He closes it now.
Gonna have to get to this diffuser. Gonna stick it now.
I think he had to go for that fight. I think he had to take that fight right there and just see if he wins it without any kind of a kit.
You can't let Blitz play these games with you. So yeah, you get the frag at the end of the day, but no chance of the diffuse.
That was the moment over towards squeak door. Pissed around for Mongols. They fought right back into it.
First two kills went the way of Monty.
On those upper execs, it always feels like those initial kills kind of dictate who's going to win the round.
But not this time.
Mongols over the trade their way back into it.
And take the second pistol of the map.
Splits with his kill, finds another one inside the bomb site.
Oh, that's dirty under the moss.
Eight to five.
Lead has cut down to three.
You have a second round investment from Monty.
The three Mac10s picked up by the Mongols feels like they want to go fast.
Uhhh...
Yikes.
You may want to go fast, but that smoke is slow things down, as who was actually meant
to most of it too, because he ran out of main, he ran into the fights, and he's just absolutely
carving them up right now, although the equation continues and 9-10 was ready.
Afro now has a chance, but a very tough round ahead of him, and 1v2 with his D.Eagle.
Yeah, but they don't...
I don't think they know where he is.
They were making a bunch of noise, now it's been cut, so I think Afro's gonna have to
play and see what happens if he turns the corner in towards Hut, falls back into the
bomb site. So he's gonna let Cobra on 9-10 get away.
Very close round. Could have swung easily in control of Monty with that Lobby Crutch,
but I think now they've evacuated down to the B bomb site. There's really no chance
that you're gonna be able to recover this one. Afro, dropping in defense with 49 HP,
and MP9 and a dream.
And a deagle.
And a deagle.
The door's open.
They know exactly where he is.
In this round goes from difficult to impossible.
Afer realizes that, and he'll back away.
Got the Kevlar, MP9, and deagle as you mentioned.
So it's not a bad save.
And that'll end up being a round for the Mongols.
But that was not a clean round.
That was kind of ugly from the Mongols.
Could have got very, very messy.
Yeah, I, I, it would be curious.
It did, did the, the smoke actually stop them from actually just executing that?
Was that meant to be like a lurk smoke outside Squeakthor that just went to the wrong place?
Well, Azubu was able to make most of it because he comes flying out of the main
and he starts just challenging them straight away with that missed smoke.
Yeah, he gets that kill at range, they get the hut push after that,
but you're so committed to the lobby crunch afterwards that you can't really slow it down.
So yeah, Mongol is the initial, initial awareness maybe a little bit off.
But great trades.
Techno settles things down, 9-10 slides in, and he calms things down.
You get Vimoss pushing in a little bit late.
Do you think there's a missed chance there for multi?
Maybe they could have called off the 1-1 pushers there?
I mean, yes, you could have, but that's a really hard thing to pull off
when you've called a lobby crunch like that,
because everyone's kind of playing by intuition.
So you can say it, it's just a really hard thing
because people are putting themselves in chaotic situations.
They might not have the option to fall back, to pull away from.
Vimoss might have been a little bit late.
I think they could have played that two on two differently
with more passive nature to it,
but it's really hard to be super critical in that scenario.
Molotov down towards secret gonna force Afro away.
He dropped his Deagle over to Gizmy.
Five-seven's picked up.
Monti wanna see if they can get some success
on this trap towards secret.
Hold at the corner, Azumu and Afro.
Oh, it's an awkward one, he realizes that.
Gonna try and back off.
And then Xenia actually ends up taking both the headshots.
Looks like a scenario in which Mizzino is gonna go down there,
but survives on 5 HP with both of the kills.
Yeah, and they're gonna just wander elsewhere.
So Mizzino turns into a little bit of a lurk,
Cobra not gonna clear everything perfectly,
gives me a chance to take this shot,
gonna hold his trigger for the moment.
He's a new target he wants to play with.
And if he keeps moving...
They'll get spotted. Mizzinho gets his third kill with 5 HP remaining.
Oh, the Mongols.
They're playing locked in, dude. They're walking around the map. They're like taking their time in this. 5 on 2.
They don't want to mess with anything. They don't want to give it a chance over to Monty whatsoever.
Well, they know they have to have great money in this half, because it's gonna be tough on T-side to have to come back all the way.
I mean, you've done barely anything in that first half.
So, you know the hard work needs to be done on the more difficult side.
You need all those AKs, you need the utility, you need the AWP as often as you can get it.
We'll see what the real challenge looks like going into this next round.
Well, Monty won that first gun round in the first half after winning the pistol,
which we know sets the CT sides back so, so much.
So, they did that with an upper rush.
I'm interested how Monty's going to approach things.
Outside seemed to be the point that they wanted to hit yesterday when they played this map against Navi.
Well, Rainwaker just slipping out, checking out if any Mongols players are hanging around, but no long gone, saving their weapons all towards CT spawn.
And they'll carry those rifles into the next cell.
Mongols stabilizing here at the start of the second half, good performance in you.
And they'll take both kills.
Got another one on 5 HP.
The Monty are gonna have to hold it together as they come into the second half.
They've done very well to give themselves eight rounds to start with on CT side
And let's see if this AWP from Africa can get going early the only weakness is big message to play with an MP9
But it's got plenty of utility. Yeah, he'll be okay money saved up as well
So that could be an extra up later on it obviously getting a kill or having a weapon dropped over you picking one up off the ground later
on huge boost to the economy also
Defense of utility deployed Mongols won't be going for that upper boss any kind of upper hit they check out the utility to make the defense a little bit nervous
But Monty can breathe easy as the outside wall is getting erected right now, smoke's
being sent.
Rondo's going to get three players and one up on Silo starting to work the yard.
So Afro says, okay, if you're going to play for secret, there might be a second half of
this attack coming ramp room, but that's not the case.
Gives me keeping his head down, but pretty close to a fight now he's spotted.
Oh, Carl Rosar on top of me, but he hasn't been able to give himself a comfortable engagement.
And you're going to see Mongols start moving heavily down secret.
Azu was here. He's actually pushed up to the corner yet again, smoked off for the moment.
That mice forced the Mongols back.
They're just going to wait it out for the moment, see what happens afterwards.
Afterwards, 47 seconds left on the clock.
Azu were the only defender downstairs in secret
and at the B bomb site.
Now some pressure being applied up top.
They want to show they want to burn out towards Mini.
Take away the defense there and allow themselves
the opportunity to spin in to attack the bomb site.
30 seconds, Cobra's error.
He's turning his plight.
Rain waker at the lockers has moved off.
He's going to have this fight.
And he's going to win it against Cobra's error.
So it's on the full remaining Mongols.
20 seconds left, a zoo move to devastate them here, but a big kill from Plates needed that.
And they're gonna open the double doors and move in, but here comes the rotation.
10 seconds on the clock, big headshot!
Oh, it's all just crumbling for the Mongols!
Where did Afro get that kill from?
You just wallbangs, we gotta watch down the replay, I'm not 100% sure where that even was.
But then Xenia was now left in a 1v3 holding on to the 8k47, but that just all happened so quickly.
But we have to see the Afro kill.
Yeah, where is the Afro kill?
That's actually wild. That didn't quite catch it exactly.
Okay, we're just getting where we don't have it, so we're going to figure that one out separately.
Second time I'll take it from the Mongols, that is ripped out of their hands,
just as soon as it feels like they secure the bomb site.
Utility, the Molotov's not in place to prevent those peeks.
I was really worried because that defense downstairs,
playing over towards double doors, you don't have that early warning system
that allows the rotation to get there in time,
so it feels like Mongols should have had plenty of time to get the utility up in the plant safely.
That just gets ended so fast.
And the defense gets to keep buying back, and remember, Bimos had that MP9, so he's got plenty of money to drop weapons over to sustain the loss.
I still don't know.
I'm not.
Okay, well, crushing four morgles.
I'm gonna find it, Nega. I'm on the case.
There you go. Go scroll back.
in the fall there Jason go scrubbing. Mongols need to scrub and clean this up
because right now getting a run over. As well as talking about they need the
money because one round there for a Monty at least you still got a very good
buy here for Mongols. I'll lose this and this is where this happens. Nightmarish.
Well Gizmy's pushed up close, wants to be disruptive. Let's look into the left
you're gonna clear all the way deep. Yeah I will. You're not gonna miss that detail.
Well, Gizmy's been spotted, Gizmy's been taken down.
And Glitz is gonna make the sprints all the way across the smoke
while he's found his way in towards secret.
His four teammates are gonna leisurely.
The smoke actually fades, they missed the timing.
Huge mistake, the bomb is disconnected now,
but 9-10's gonna solve all the problems.
Yeah, getting two and it's still on
for a B-miss and rain waker,
but those two kills in 9-10
have absolutely something massive issue here from all goals.
And they can start moving down into the B-bomb site.
No one even thinking about road heading down just yet, or maybe even ever.
We'll see for the Monty where they decide to go, they're going to back off towards spawn,
they realize it's retakes, this isn't going to be happening for them, and yep, nine turns.
Double outside of Windsor round for the Mongols, and they close the gap again to just one round.
Alright, the AFR shot wasn't that cool. It wasn't as cool as we thought.
What was it?
He just swung on the other side and just hit it through the edge of the wall.
Oh. Yeah.
It looked a little bit more intimidating, didn't it?
Didn't it always kind of loving the myth? I know I was too. I was like I was I was like thinking like my brain went back to like
1.6
I was hoping he shot through the floor could have been a graffiti graffiti
Man, but it wasn't no it was not nine to eight they claw right back up into it
I'm gonna from the Mongols not sitting back
You don't have that matchmaking random you queue with and just just spends the whole game trying to shoot through the floor on Duke
Yeah all the time. That's really irritating
That would have been a graffiti if you could pull that off
It would be a lot of fun.
Well, Muggle's not going to let this map go easy.
Lovely work from Blitz starting to hit some very sharp shots.
Good shooting outside for 9-10 target practice.
On Afro and Azumu trying to stop, they got...
They saw the smokes fade and it was so tantalizing to just take heads up fights.
Couldn't slow down the progression.
So first time out taken from Monty as they talk things over,
Op is still in the hands of Afro, he reinvests there.
Money's going to be a little bit light moving forward,
Which is why they want to have this conversation now to make sure everyone's on the same page
Mongols are knocking on the door of this comeback about to tie things up and take your money away and have all the advantages down the stretch and
Desperately Monty are saying we had such a good first half. We cannot let this map go away from us
CT sides having some issues today getting
These offenses locked down holding onto these bomb sites and much like yesterday the Mongols get their first gun run on the outer yard plays
If Mongols win this map, it's exactly what we were talking about earlier
Where it's like there's no way near playing at the Mongols level. We know they can't block but they still somehow pull this out
Just tells you how high their floor is like they're just incredible players that can still figure out a way to win
Even with Monty starting so strong
So that's a real possibility and Monty realized how important this round is they've got everything invested into it
It's a strong buy, as outside smokes deployed for the Mongols, but no one actually playing with them.
Defense is going to be exposed to the flashbangs at the upper bomb site.
Two players, one on top of Hutt, one playing up in the rafters.
And a whole lot of ways to turn and dodge those when they start coming in.
So there's the Molotov on top of the Hutt, and so we begin.
Oh, dropping down.
Pimus trying to get into a better position, but this round is a devastating loss for Monty.
So clinical from the Mongols.
Once they head out in towards the site, you've got no other option.
You've got to save.
I think the defensive setup on the initial thing was a little bit weak and exposed to utility, as I just mentioned,
but also it's the perfect timing that the Mongols hit, just blind luck.
Just as the players rotating in, dropping out of heaven, there's no way he's going to be prepared for a fight when he lands, especially getting flashed.
It all works out just perfect for the Mongols to tie things up at 9.
Fighting back in this map, they have won 5 of 6 rounds played in the second half so far.
for Monty still having difficulty getting into this half.
Good kill from Rainwaker down the stretch, taking some guns away, always valuable.
Actually, even though they've taken the money away, it's going to be another buy for Monty.
Rainwaker can drop one, Afro can drop an M4, so another really strong buy coming in for Monty
and one more very strong piece of defense they can mount against the Mongols, but they need a win.
It's just how cool it was, just that attack out into the site.
Yeah, everyone flushed into the open, flushed into the utility that's being spent.
Now the real test, you sit there, you've had a fantastic first half, disaster has started
to the second tier, you haven't been able to get anything going, and now you're feeling
the pressure, the long goals racing back into this game, no momentum is now on their side,
And this really truly feels like the last leg you have to stand on, before the Mongols
take full control of this game.
To lose this, money is completely shattered, you'll be down to the best you can get some
Kevlar pistols, unless you save a few of the weapons, but let's see what Monty can do.
Can they muster enough of a defense to stop the Mongols attack?
It's first six rounds of this half have the auto-reflective gone so fast for Monty with
the way they've kind of gotten melted in these rounds more utility off the rip
from Mongols afro is gonna get aggressive outside once I put a stop to
the silo play and he will cobras air given the exact peak you want to even
give him the early warning techno makes a move into the smoke towards squeak
oh it gets down the van the light break but afro this so I want to let him go
It's so bold.
Very brazen of your Abfro!
And that's the kill, Techno gone, and that will be two from the French sniper.
Yeah, loves that sound cue. Let him know. I mean, they were kind of tracking each other's plays.
I think that play's being made by Techno because the AWPer is outside. He wants to drop down the vents.
A little gap in the defense. Now all of a sudden trying to cross all the way to heaven, but gives me looking for this.
A dink, not a kill. An information gathered at the very least.
Needed that one blitz really needed that kill to go back your 50 seconds and the Mongol still recovered as a 3v4
Blitz has done a great job for Mongols at the stage of finding them opening kills first kills finding them the frags to open up avenues to attack into the bomb sites
Look at him senior does he get both
Comes down to time enough for the check in that first gone senior couldn't get the second important trait from rain wakeover up next is nine ten
And he knows you can't go anywhere, Rain Waker, you're dead in the corner, 2v2, 20 seconds left.
That had to have been a miscommunication between Rain Waker and Afro, I don't know if it's not being calmed or not being kind of received on the other end, but now this is a dicey situation.
Afro just peeking up nonchalant as if nobody could be under Heaven, but that was exposed for a good 30 seconds. Now a tough retake on your hands.
Well, you've got Blitz, he's very low, but he's got an AWP.
Bumas and Azulu, they've got so much utility here, but they do not have Azulu.
It's all on Bumas. 1v2, Tanny pulled this off, coming back down the ramp,
clearing out Dark, trying to limit these positions, but the Mongols hide away.
Bumas closed the doors, they know exactly where he is, he gets onto that defuse,
this is the only AWP she has to try and stick it, but they come over the top,
the headshots in, he's gonna go for it again and Blitz!
Oh, he turns around, Bumas has got it!
No way!
He gets to the defuse, 10 rounds from BMAS, what a clutch!
That's insane, yeah, that's exactly how you look losing a round like that.
Oh, he had so much time to adjust to the first kill, jumping up on the railing.
You give him two seconds to spot that out, great job from BMAS.
And what a tough situation, low HP, one shot with the up, Blitz can't do it.
And finally Monty get a little miracle that they needed to infuse some life back into the CT side
Forced the third and final time out out of the Mongols so they can have a conversation
That's a devastating round loss. They need to bounce back from immediately a
New lease on life and new faith for Monty
That's that's around I feels of misplace
Please.
Between Afro and Rainwaker over in Ramp Room and then the two on one clutch and then all
these maps will be messed up and come down on top.
Just be prepared and pre-plan, that's all we need to do, okay?
Everything else doesn't matter.
Let's do this to each other again and let's fucking ball.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes.
That's the kind of clutch, that's the kind of moment that can wrestle control the game
again.
You know you've got an opportunity here to break Mongols' money, you've got them on
the line.
Can you take it Monty?
The high pressure movement, so one and two match here at the major.
Zafro through the smoke, blitz dead.
Ringmaker, here's the steps, gets the one.
To trade from Mzinho.
Still doable for Mungals, yet getting very unlikely.
They already have a Zubu down over towards control side at the window.
Now they've got a player coming down secret.
BMOS is joining them up as well through the vents.
They've got three players on control side of this lower bomb site.
It's going to be...
There's no safety.
There's no smokes you can spend either, but Afro opens the door.
Now, Azua went to the control room.
They're looking up towards the window.
They see him.
They shatter the glass.
Azua calling again.
BMOS coming down.
He was the bane in the last round.
And we're going to be at it again.
He's taking Cobra.
And now you need 9-10 to clutch.
Gizmy's waiting down at DeCon 910 and trying to slip away.
Yeah, you're gonna have to make a little bit of a guess here if you're Monty.
You hit tab, you see it's 910, you assume it's the AWP.
He's got the bomb in plenty of time, so you know the upper bomb site is an issue.
35 seconds left on the clock for 910 to piece this together.
Gizmy will let...
He must play at this lower bomb site all on his own.
44 HP.
Very passive out of the danger of that AWP, but now the Plat sound comes in.
9-10, at the double doors.
There's a frag, he's got it to the head, B-Mess.
Gonna go down, but it gives me respawn straight away from ramp,
and 9-10 was wide in the open, completely exposed.
There's always gonna be such a tough clutch for the AWP there,
and that is gonna be Monté moving up to 11.
11. Yeah, the plant is going to help the Mongols, but not by much and they still as we saw they use their third time out
Just a second ago just before this round not bad
Good job from Covers era alleviating some of the pressure of this danger
But just so many players down here so fast that that round had
910s name on it was 910 score line that he thought he's gonna pull it off
It almost seemed destined but yep just they all if you had an AK in that scenario
He can maybe challenge a different angle, but he's just trying to recover the AWP and the repause as well
It gives me to secure the upper bomb site. Just really smart play coming around towards ramp as well
Well constructed from Monty making the moves down the stretch to take this opening map in the series
It's their map pitch to go up one nothing in this elimination series at the major
you're utility coming at rain waker
check it out see him oh my goodness that is a massive mistake you've just run
right by him you've given him a free kill you completely slowed down here
more goals getting picked apart by afro and rain waker and you still haven't
taking any of them down.
They've just paused. Techno, you can't go anywhere.
You're locked in that corner. You're in prison.
Yeah, also, you don't need to extend too wide
to get that kill, but we're gonna do it anyway.
So worried about that one player.
It's all good.
9-10's got no health for this fight.
Monty is gonna get up to 12-1st.
They'll have three chances to close out Nuke.
Three rounds to play with at a 10-9 scoreline.
And the Mongols mistake after mistake.
Now they're coming through pretty fast.
They're coming through pretty frequently for the Mongols.
Yeah, they've got no money.
They're to get a good buyout here.
It's disaster striking here for the Mongols.
They're going to be one map down in this elimination game
at the major against Monty.
Krober's got to be wondering how that wasn't cleared,
how nobody even looked left, right?
With that kind of a flashbang.
Tecno was the first one in.
Just jumping across.
And they're giggling now, smiles on their faces.
It got tense for a moment, but Monty
have blown the doors wide open.
Tech nines, and a Mach 10.
Afro and Azulu with the first two.
Nontang going to fight forward, do what he can.
But Afro has had a stellar performance yet again.
21 kills of that AWP coming through.
You've got Cobra and Blitz sitting down with Tech nines.
They stall out, they'll pick up the weapon
off Afro's corpse, but can they really pull this off?
Okay, are they going to play the map now?
Over a minute to work with.
You're looking for a mistake, you're looking for a push.
Now's the time, Monty, much like the last round, find some safe positions that are hard to clear.
Hard to clear quietly and just wait to see what happens after that.
They've got everything covered, a zoo over in Lobby and Squeak Door.
Gizmy's down at the lower bomb site.
Yeah, Bimos outside to make sure nobody can wrap up Heaven as well.
Blitz splits off from his teammate in this two versus three.
So letting the AWP kind of sit and wait in the ramp room to see if anyone comes investigating.
Blitz is going to go to the other side of the map to see if he can get a backstab to force a reaction to make
Monty feel some pressure to make a decision.
Oh, there's the kill. BMS is back turned. Numbers are even again.
30 seconds.
Okay, he wants the call to be up towards the upper bomb site. He wants Gizmy to move.
Gizmy ain't moving. He's going to stand right here.
Stay pinned behind the box. He wasn't spotted. He didn't get spotted. The timing's on his side. Time is on Gizmy's side.
10 seconds on the clock. The bomb is down.
The kill comes from Blitz, but he can't get to that plant. He can't get to it. He's out of time.
And that's gonna be Monty making the most of their moment. They strike first on Elimination Day.
13-9 versus the Mongols on Nuke, and they are looking to stay alive and keep that playoff dream in play.
He goes over top, but because they left that dead space, now it's mouse to re-aggress,
tucking in to the wall-bangable positions.
And we have seen them try to participate in taking cave before, you know, going up the ramp into B, especially in the slower moves.
And Foot have always put themselves here in a position to punish just that.
You know, but while nows remain back, it's Foot to just continue this activity, taking a glance out middle.
This is going to open up walks into...
Actually, long story about A.
Get the peek off of the top of ramp, Krippany just into the cave.
We've had solid retakes out of Foot, and they're going to call upon another one. Flash finds it, Cemetery misses.
Krubeni blind the flash!
Five-three kills out of mouse!
Oh, that Torsi flash!
Krubeni aided so bad, couldn't even come to.
Nobody gets that kill first, and it is the B-play that works out,
and when they clear out mid, they don't see a thing.
And Longs for a moment is worried about the A move.
But they were right initially. It was gonna be the late-round B again.
This time, Mous do a good job of not alerting them at cave first.
Down he goes and one round of loss bonus the cash is gone. Oh, it's awful
He has a huge chance for overtime now by mouse
Now's his tech nine push into that a site works twice throughout this T side and it earned them a real advantage
To try to make this necessary three round streak to overtime real. I wonder how they buy now. Scorbentty's on 3600
Get what you can afford
He was so blind
Nice supportive utility there for Torsi who won't be working with an AWP coming
into this final round of regulation. The mixed bag by Forrest out of
foots. 2M4s, 2MP9s, 5-7 on daemon.
If I was mouse, I mean I would be thinking about going A again.
All these low-by rounds early on, on a half-foot, like there was...
Yeah, they're really leaning hard in this direction.
They've been planning to stop the B place over and over again.
This is a change up, Kribbani on A site. That's pretty massive. His M4 and daemons 5-7 up in donut.
The pushdown and B though, they're trying to get the info early. This is kind of a really brave proactive move that might pay off for foot.
No one's here to respond to this.
Now's can't hear or see it, so if they move too slowly, they will live to regret it.
Another smoke out of the donut defense.
Demon now just a pistol in hand.
Foot actually a little concerned that they might be going too far and falling into a
trap.
Going for some more natural rotations back through CT spawn, but it's still going to
lead to A.
They would have heard that red room smoke.
Still cautious.
Somebody from Maus would have overtaken this.
can see them clearing every single corner on this rotation to the A site
because now that they're here demons been freed up to play the signpost
yeah they're so right they're so right putting the defense in the right spot
very active move out of foot here you take a bit too much time now's and now
you've got more defenders on the bomb site four members of foot have
positioned themselves correctly is this how it's gonna go down activity of foot
The Betty's M4 goes on spot and it's flawless!
Talk about proactive moves!
Foot with a hard-fought ancient secure map 1
and this much-needed elimination best of three!
I don't want you in my head
You're a mess, I won't run, you can't be my man, I won't run, you're a great man
Come on, die, you're free, stay, I'm already broken
Now I say, I'm not sure if I'm ready for this
But I'm not sure if I'm ready for this
And the thoughts from a thousand other things
So I'm in, I'm in
Start shit from so close, but I can't connect it
And the end has no end
I've known everything
Don't try to change our broken minds
You're my master, I'm your best friend
Yes, I'm ready for this
I'm going through so many things
All I can describe the feeling
This is for all the part no reason
Same old games that messed me up
I'm used to long enough of death
I can't stand the price of fighting this
You've never fought me, then not the last
Now there's people gone, now there's people checked
Now there's nothing left
Don't try to fix me
I'm a very broken heart
You're a heartless, unbreakable heart
You're a heartless, unbreakable heart
If you're crying, I love that I ain't
And you don't take them no closer
All right, I'm gone and I'm on my own
All right, all right
All I have to do is leave
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't
Pray, I won't pretend this is a lie, I lie
You alone, I swear, I won't pretend this is a lie, I lie
I don't know what I'm talking about, I don't know what I'm talking about.
Oh my god, oh my god!
Welcome back to the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne Major of 2026.
It's stage three and it's a one and two game right now.
And Monty, one map up over the Mongols looking to try and make it to the final day of play in stage three.
They have been doubted every step of the way.
A very common zero and three pick for a lot of people out there.
Right now, Monty are surprising us again.
Yeah, this was a lovely first map out of them, and I mentioned I thought Gizmy might be the X-Factor.
I didn't know it was going to be because of his individual prowess on that first map.
He called a great game with the tactics. That's where I thought the advantage would come from,
but he added on top of it crazy opening kills, incredible impact outside.
Guys playing like a beast right now.
We're going to switch over to Inferno.
This is going to be the map pick of the Mongols, and see what they can do here.
Because facing elimination now, a team that's been in the major playoffs for the past three majors in a row
could be absent after this map of play if Monty continued this good form.
And even the Mongols, it always feels like there's just a feature of major playoffs
now these days, you know, even with a stand-in situation, the last one
control is still a threat, still a team that we're doing some great work.
Now a team that looks very rough, they seem so inconsistent, wildly inconsistent.
You know, yesterday, defeating Novi comfortably on Nuke today, getting blown
out of the water in that first half by Monty. They started to come back into it,
but it certainly wasn't enough done.
They had their wipe and sleep out of their eyes.
It looked a little slow to start the day.
And you have no chances now.
This is your last chance at the Clone Major
to stay alive in the competition.
Yeah, we get to see now on this map
if it was just a slow start to the day.
And for whatever reason, they did come in a little bit
sluggish and a little bit off their game.
And maybe that new cut them warm up into things.
But going to be a tough task here on Inferno.
It's again with the way that Mongols are playing now.
Now you also get the difficulty with Monzi
where they kind of see the finish line in this series.
They might be able to actually take this over it and let's see what I don't want to call them inexperienced as players
But inexperienced as a team coming together in these kind of scenarios
But they've shown us they get over it before just a matter of getting it done here on this second map in the series
Over game they quite and the biggest game of their careers so far for Monty every time I take one step in the other direction
So much more pressure it comes with every progression
And one of final chance in this series to make it to the final day now if you come into this as Monty you
You have to be you have to be pretty confident after the map one victory
You just beat Falcons on this map as well 13 there excuse me lost to Falcons you beat Para vision 13 to 5
So I mean you have a win you have a loss
But that that win is going to be a big thing that they can lean on to try and kind of you know
Holster that one against Para vision to come back into this against against Mongols on their own map pick
I'm just pumped to see gizmy man gizmy in a zoo. We're gonna be playing over towards banana
I
Love dry soda gizmy in that first map
I just want to see it continue here because he was making some very very intelligent plays and that intelligence
I think is gonna counteract Mongols a lot. Oh well inferno the map we've got here
It's gonna be Mongols map pink multi have played twice so far at the major versus para vision and against falcons
They lost the falcons. They've got a huge win versus para vision
The Mongols haven't played Inferno yet, and Inferno is the map where their major hopes lie
as they try and come back into this. One chance for the Mongols to try and stay alive in Cologne.
Otherwise, Monty progressed to the last day of stage three and gives me getting informed.
Oh my goodness, again! It gives me in the pistol run with two blistering headshots!
Yeah, it feels like they had to have a good read of what was coming.
Okay, Rainwaker caught a little bit of no-man's land, not sure where to look, so he's picked off.
That brings it a little bit back towards Mongols, and oh, you missed the jump up into the balcony.
You're gonna go down, okay? This is a disaster now a five on three, but you've lost two players for free
Hey give her right back to the bomb the bomb is at the bottom of banana hasn't been able to join up. Oh
Afro clean headshot over towards techno long fight from Xenia the bomb still a bottom banana
But it's gone as you will one that fight now. I'm seeing you
This is such a difficult round and he can't win it
There's two players fighting him from the same angle and that's gonna result in Monty winning the pistol
It gives me happy and relieved because he got the initial two kills
Yeah, Mongols never grouping up in that three-on-three when they bring it right back. That was a little curious
Everyone wanted to push the envelope in their own direction. Lovely shot from Gizmy
Ticks the swing as well. Rain Waker gets caught. This is how it started falling apart
But at this point Mongols have a decision to group up
But everyone decides to take their own space take their own play and see what comes from it and they each get picked off one by one
Well, it's just blocks now for the Mongols a couple of nades three nades in fact
We're gonna send them down banana a zoo
Pretty impressive. Get beyond those nades, spray the MP9 down, looking for some money.
There's gonna be some extra kills to kick things off.
There'll be a 2-2-0 lead coming in from Monzi.
No slouches on Inferno.
You smoke that can let them attack down towards Ramble. Yeah, this is gonna be an easy off-up.
We'll get the first gun round underway, moving forward.
forward. The squangles will buy up into the next round. The CT side is going to have,
gives me an Azul over towards that B bomb site. Afro is going to be the
supportive element switching between the sites. Bimas and Azul will get, or excuse
me, Bimas and Rainwaker playing the A bomb site as your two defenders there.
I always liked watching Rainwaker on Inferno, you know, in his, uh, in his liquid days.
It was like all the Bulgarian teams. I used to love watching him in those
teams actually. You were the one. Not team. So you do want to watch him in team
but you'll drop down into a Bulgarian counter-strike.
Dude, I used to cast Old Bulgarian Gaze.
They were like the terror of the Tier 2 circuit for many years.
Oh, my God.
Good old Grenade slam down towards Blitz.
Well...
It's a bad start, isn't it, from all girls?
It's a 4v5.
For a lot of reasons, not just the scoreboard,
not even just losing players, but, I mean,
that's what the pistol round where they push
and got a one tap with the USP and then nade onto a position.
Now you double made blitz out of action and you're just like if you're mongols you're like what the hell? Why do they know everything?
Stack at mid brackets and cobra is gonna maybe
Walk or don't presume
He's gonna be happy to then scale over the top of the half wall and put pressure on him
No, bro making no secret about his position and boiler, but look at this from half row. Okay getting aggressive down. That's the bomb. Oh
Oh, it's an absolute disaster for Morgulos. They've lost the ball in the bottom middle.
Emzinho coming up for the balcony. Oh, it's perfect though for Emzinho. Two players line up, two headshots.
Cobra's now seen them moving down mid as well. He's trying to chase after Afro.
Okay, smoke pops. Perfect timing for it. Going to fuck himself, make it a small target.
Y'all brought low and they find him around the edge of the smoke. Azul pushes, but however, one's arrived.
That's Gizmi, and he's been the knife in the heart this whole time through.
Spotted.
He's getting into the open! Can't too much.
Nazinio is the savior of the Mongols in this round.
Yeah, he really is.
A nasty spray down from Baalke.
That was the one eventuality that Monsi never really figured.
Thought there'd be maybe more of an indication for it,
but Nazinio with a perfect wrap onto that stack up at Porch.
Afro making a really dangerous play down middle,
but can't hold on long enough.
Azula with an AK-47.
He does have a kit.
Deep into the bomb timer now.
Very deep into that bomb timer.
Azul would have to get a move on right now and he just isn't going to get that chance.
So they try to slip away.
Mzinho collects the 4k.
A little bit of fortune falling in his favor as well as he comes out of the balcony catching
both of those short plays of walking and eclipsing one another and giving them that easy lineup.
Open up the series, San.
I think Mzinho needs to have a big game if Mongols want to actually take this one.
He's had a big drop off from his 20-26 to his performance here in Stage 3 of the Major.
impact from him here with his quad kill getting all the critical frags as well
and hopefully that just ignites him to continue playing well on an individual
level Mongols need his production that's a good recovery though that was a 4v5
remember from the models and once you're gonna be kicking itself that they left
balcony open no one was considering it no one was looking there but Afro coming
right back out and seeing you again trading you're getting a little bit too
ahead of yourself now after going for a follow-up peek up in the balcony just
it's picked off so that advantage he gives his team is given right back
it's three out of the four rounds that we've started with Monty getting a kill
in the first 20 seconds
it's just a rapid pace from the CT side they're trying to keep the pressure on
long goals but Mzinho is alleviating it he tries a little bit too much here solo
towards top middle rain waker catches him Mzinho dead now a minute five
seconds left. Monty once again with a player advantage. And the third defender is going
to cheat over to the B bomb site, so it gives me Azulu and Demos to defend. Good read of
the situation. 52 seconds left on the clock, that smoke pops. We'll fade around the 30
second mark. And to shore up the defense on the other side of the map, Rainwaker's just
pushed holes. He wants to have the information if they fall back. Not looking to stop them
here, looking to grab one kill and survive and pass intel onto his teammates, but Mongols
is always going to stay into this B hit 30 on the clock smoke deploy to a CT spawn
as you will as primed and ready on top of first door inches plastic supported behind
him 20 seconds among goals March into three players you're waiting for them in a zoo the
only one required two kills bomb spills there's two additional layers to this defense though
it was never going to work especially with the time on the clock and gives me what's
Just to hunt this down, good kill right at the end.
Little bit of bonus money and an upgrade to an AK-47.
Oh, frustration now for Mongols as well.
Yeah, it's been two maps of frustration.
Even with that comeback in the second half, I think Mongols probably gonna be feeling
really out of sorts after the way the first half went.
And now all of a sudden, you're getting picked off in the first 20 seconds.
Blitz has been naded.
Pistoron had double-nade onto a Mongols player.
Now you have Afro peeking down mid and picking someone off.
The opening to these rounds has been brutal for the Mongols.
Great start. A lot of Azulu hitting one and we highlighted that as well.
Starting this series today, the Azulu in the early stages of the major was absolute beast.
They're stepping up and raising his game coming into this competition who a little bit of a lower rating
Well Monty at previous tournaments
It's like going gets tough and you got a really difficult opponent in front of you
It's been Afro who's started raising as well you mentioned that but those two players in front at the moment here for Monty
You know
There's no better feeling as a player like when you have those kind of struggles and like things to feel like they're a little bit
Disconnected and you're trying to put it together
and you don't really know how it's going to look at the end of the day and then you step into the major and have performances like
Monty's having right now. There's no better feeling than just doing everything's kind of clicking into place and you start
building that trust and confidence between the between the players.
Gives me going to switch back to the B bomb site. These tech nines in this galil they're gonna be executing at A.
All five members of the Mongols are here.
They've got three HE grenades for the broken wall, but Rain Waker's not playing there.
I throw a jiggly, drops the flames, tries to slow them down, the Mongol of 25 seconds
they have to force through, they have to get through this defense.
And he got Bumas waiting AK primed, couple of kills from Rainwaker alongside of him.
So this round, not going to do much here for the Mongols, the USPs even pulled out and
Rainwaker finishes them off through the van.
So that's a 4-1 lead for Monty, no bomb plant for Mongols, so they don't even have enough
to buy in this next round.
We're looking at a 5-1 start for Monty, and we've seen that that was enough over on Nuke,
right, getting a strong start in the first half, even though the Mongols started coming
back into it, too much was done against them.
And you're playing really well with utility.
You've utilized it in the early stages of the rounds to get opening kills, we've seen
back-to-back rounds now in the late round when the execute comes in from Mongols towards
the B bomb site previously, they had the smoke in place to drive it down to 30 seconds, had
the follow-up Molotov to delay it even further, now you've got a Molotov dropped in short
to prevent the Tec-9s from scaling and make them fight inside the flames.
It's been a very good half constructed so far for Monty, good kill from Azumu.
A little bit dinged up at that B-Bomb site, but all good.
It's a hero rifle for the Mongols with deagles around it.
You mass-houdy-cos, yep. That's more like it, isn't it?
Oh, knife out?
Okay.
Oh, he's made it away to safety.
Afro's got the flank, got some extra money.
Aim for the French AWPer, he's got plenty of cash,
she can grab a Galil.
5-1, lead.
Question is, are you gonna keep the Galil,
or are you gonna upgrade to an AWP?
Afro's got 6800 in the bank.
Are they just comfortable without it
for the moment they can reinvest later?
Mongols is uncomfortable with pretty much everything
going on right now, so they call their first time out.
And they need to bounce back quickly.
You alluded to getting buried on Nuke,
and then just having a really tough time
getting back into the game. It's happening again now. So, Mongols' priority number one
is putting a stop to this slide. 9-10, 0 kills, Blitz 2 kills, Techno and Cobra 1 kill. It's
a one-man army for Mazinu at the moment. Timeout comes to its conclusion. Afro looks
It looks like he's gonna keep the Galil, so no AWP in play for the CT side.
And we go into round 7.
Mongol's now in a recovery mission.
With elimination on the line in this second map.
It's gonna be sent all the way down towards 9.10.
Don't chill with him, he's down to 3 HP.
Look at this from after us, wall.
Pushing up into the bedroom.
At the ready, Galeel, ready to rattle away on Kofa's terror!
Couldn't get to the angle quick enough.
The silent jump, the silent jump just ruins that play for him.
He's the Pio, he's on a screen.
Well, look, that, it's a 5 on 4, good job from Mongols.
This can be recovered quickly, 9-10 is one stray bullet away from death.
Utility being sent towards the A-Bomb site, and the defense is doubled up in pit.
Okay, reacting quickly, trying to get down banana, good work from Rainwaker, completely blind.
To cast aside, bottom senior flashes, or soaker, B-Mas blind.
Oh, he's got one, he least gets one!
And is that going to be enough? The rotation is swift from Gizmy, but the death is swift to as Blitz was already deep into a CT spawn pushing through that archway and cutting off the speedway play.
So, on Zulu 1B3, he's up in the balcony, smokes are coming in as well for Mongols just blocking all these chokepoints.
They hit a number, they had a great timing on that. I like that for Mongols. You find that open and kill on Afro and it's like, well, you know what, we sense the weakness, we got to pick here at this B bomb site.
Let's just move into this. Let's just take where we have the advantage.
And they hit a really dirty timing defenders not ready yet
Okay
Over is watching for it. So that was try you see it as a leaving. Yeah, I don't mind it
Even though they were juggling some some you look like a Molotov was kind of follow him down
That's just gonna have that to chuck on the bomb
Yeah, here's the first one is Afro just not able to react in time to the silent jump great utility work
This is just as P-Moss and Rainwaker are starting to get set and planning their feet for what's coming
And they both could just eat flashbangs the whole time
So Mongols have a second round on the board they cut the lead down to three and now the AWP is back out for Afro
That's headed towards the B bomb sites open up in round eight
Two players lying weight on the A defense here for Monsi and they're gonna have a lot of action coming their way
That's coming again. Yeah, it's just a really simple call
Spokes being thrown out towards the archway in the library and some speed behind this one for the Mongols
Be must readies himself rain wake at the sender flash is gonna be effective be mask going around the completely blinded all the lineups
They're true from be mass mid play from afro and Cobra at least fighting on be mass
Traded out in Zeno from the balcony dropping down make it a sound you rain wake your turns can't get much and
And then Xenia again, making a difference here for the Mongols, but that smoke fades and CobraZera quick on the trigger!
Now it's Afro, 1v2 required, and he's all the way over at B. He's all the way over to where CT spawned.
And because all of his teammates tried to make plays in their moments, there's nothing he can do.
It gives me so alive he could actually rotate. He got that kill over in middle and wanted to change his position of the retake,
so they wouldn't expect him coming from brackets, but that's put him out of a chance to have any further impact.
That one hurts for Monty. You get that kind of a double spraydown from Bimos on Rapside, and you feel like that's such a secure position to be in.
You feel like you've accomplished so much, and just no more can get done.
Little bit chaotic once the execute comes in after those two kills.
And Mongols have now strung two together. They gotta be pleased. This is the fightback we were looking for, the response.
From a team that we expect to see in the playoffs, facing elimination way too early.
Lovely work, great flashbang from Rainwaker, Cobra's going to find this, but the drop down
in towards Pint was brutal, Rainwaker couldn't respond to that one and Cobra's air gets his
second and forces the first time out out of Monty as they're running out of funds to
fight back, AWP is going to be in the hands of Aphor that he saved, he's dropped a weapon
over to a teammate, but the last buy they'll have for some time and then they'll have
have to relinquish the lead purchasing up and is that the turning point now for
the Mongols get emzinha keeping them alive early into the T side and perhaps
now they have enough life and enough success to actually start building on
the T side of getting into the series for what feels like the first time yeah
The whole team hasn't woken up down the roster quite yet.
Mazinia is having some great impact to keep them fighting back,
to keep their head above water here on Inferno.
Good round from Cobra previously with his double kills.
Utility out towards Banana, another three-man start.
Monty.
Undaunted by the fast plays towards the eight bombsite
and back-to-back rounds.
They've been caught with a weaker defense there
as they open up Triple B.
But Aphraus slid back quick enough now.
Rainwaker and B-MOS to help defend with that AWP.
Over towards halls we go. Mongols, their sense and weakness at the Z-Bomb site.
They're just throwing multiple different looks of executes.
It was lane, it was wrap, and now it's halls.
It's time to show us some strength. Rainwaker, waiting on the fence.
There they go, utility flying out. Rainwaker gets the one.
Trey from CobraZara couldn't get a second. B-MOS down inside of the site.
Now his afro trying to get into a better spot, but it just has to be BMS.
And he's out of bullets.
It's a 2v2 on this initial fight.
Around you can actually go for Monty on the rotation, but 9-10 denying you.
Okay, more like it from 9-10.
A 3k coming through in those final two under pressure.
It's looking like, maybe it's a map thing, but Mongols is starting to piece together,
I feel like.
You can make this execute, you can take this execute, but after the initial attack, after
the initial trades back and forth in contact, just slow things down.
Like when you go for like two, like one for one on the year in halls,
Bimaz gets one, they pick off the offer as he rotates back into the bomb site,
one for one again, like at this point, slow things down.
Blitz is in middle, 9-10 is just waiting patiently,
not even really expecting those fights, but they're being given to him.
Monti's having a tough time slowing down their retakes when that bomb site is under pressure.
And Mongols is starting to really exploit that fact.
Three back-to-back-to-back round wins at the A bomb site.
Oh, good kill from Aphro.
It's a good start here for the 5-7, but you need another one.
And there's a chance, actually, Cobra had his head turned.
It seems like it's all three.
Yeah, he's got all the information.
Just keep in mind, it's good to protect him.
Aphro moves into the site, but it's your only plan within the site.
You've got Rainwaker in the balcony.
But this AK-47 is the most deadly piece they have.
And Aphro, quick headshot. Techno gone.
Aphro's still alive. Still kicking.
That grenade. That's always been a brilliant shot from Blitz.
And he's all the timing.
Let's get this gun out just in time to recover against the zoo. Well, the rain waker's been waiting and blitz knows that too
This is what I mean. Look at how this is all individual
Gizmy wasn't there yet ready to trade he'll come through the smoke and another missed opportunity for Monty or
quad kill for blitz
picking him apart and
Yeah, it's a low by round, but man, that's very very winnable. Good job from Mongols neutralizing afro eventually
And now they've put the money on the line for Monty so when this round and Mongols have broken them
And we'll have the advantage to try and extend to a 7-5 lead.
Money isn't great for the Mongols either to be fair. A couple of players pretty low on cash.
Yeah, they've been getting chipped down from time to time again by Monty.
Hasn't been too bad, but T-side easier to manage.
And you just have now Supreme confidence at the A-bomb site.
Four rounds you've won in a row.
At that side of the map.
And now you've got some success. B defenders perhaps cooled off
and Techno comes back in swinging with some pace, with some intention to take down Azumu.
That's a big time kill to get. Look at the HP now on Blitz after that grenade. Brought
down to two, lucky to be alive. Techno's on 13. Really, really softened up players is
He's gonna make this a tough final call for Blitz and the Mongols.
Not a great start to this round whatsoever.
But you've hit the A bombsite so many times your Mongols shot this half.
And right now, Monty only have one player, anyone near that A site.
They're stacking the three remaining players on this B bombsite, anticipating a Mongols finish here.
I think their logic might be they've beaten us A so many times, they're gonna come back.
Half-Rope.
Fall for the pick, it does take damage, but they're just sending bodies around the corner and there's plenty of Monty players lying in wait.
You can't get anything if you're the Morgos, boom ass, shutting them down.
It's two quick kills and up to 12-7 now for him.
And this is going to be Blitz having to retreat, having to try and save his weapon.
And a 6-5 lead for Monty.
You can see Techno just like hesitating at that corner.
He knows as soon as he turns it with his HP, he's going to go down.
So he's just waiting for his teammate to be prepared, calling for the swing to hopefully maybe trade that kill.
It just doesn't happen.
Lovely defense, good read and good call.
Monty, stop this run from the Mongols at four.
I'll take a one round lead six to five
and we'll head into the final round of the half.
And yeah, the money on the Mongol side is labored,
but Blitz can drop plenty of guns over to his teammates.
So they'll be able to get a good amount of rifles out.
Yeah, most importantly, if you go on.
Damn.
Okay.
That's mean.
Yeah.
Good call for Manti, stacking the players in the right spot.
Mongols just took so much damage on the build up to that final move.
It's also the aggression, right? Like, with three players there, they didn't want to park three players at the B bomb site for that long.
They wanted to have some information, so go on aggressive, but Mongols get pulled into the swing because it's an AWP that's aggressive.
They're thinking it's going to be an easy trade, an easy clear, an easy avenue into the B bomb site.
They were dead wrong because of that stack.
So they have a little chitchat during the timeout they're second used in this first half, round 12th, before we head into halftime break.
Blitz has an AK-47, 9-10 has the AWP that was saved in the previous round, TEC-9, Diegel and MAK-10 to flesh out the investment from the Mongols.
Looking for an even scoreline before they switch sides.
Alright, pushing up into the balcony at this point, through the apartment's hallway.
And the Zulu going down banana, so Monty attempted to take some advanced positions on the CT side
early into the round, but the Zulu wanting nothing to do with it because his teammates
are rotating and stacking an extra player towards A for the time being.
Oh, careful.
Shots and bullets coming through the smoke.
Pretty early smoke for a Zulu to drop.
Tells him like there's a smoke back there either, so...
Yeah, we'll see how that works out down the stretch.
Because I have a Molotov to hold him at bay.
Four defenders at the A bomb site right now.
Again, gives me, I think, making some calls on the CT side based off how Mongols have
been exploiting them throughout this half.
So trying to find that timing, Mongols.
When they've attacked in towards A, it's been not quick, but it's been earlier in the round
and that's been spotted.
Yeah.
That's been spotted.
Easy kill for Rain Waker.
Warfum and Xehanort got shot off though.
Reaction blitz gonna move up towards top banana Zulu
Victim of that AK-47 now you have had the rotation of gizmy coming back
But do Mongols want to finish on the A site where they've gone so often in this half or back to be where it didn't go
So often in the last round well
They're gonna go back to the B bombsite it looks at the moment 30 seconds now
It's rain waker shifting over to the B bombsite haven't seen him there throughout this half after once this one kill on the lurk
Actually, they're coming back. They're coming back red Afro. This could be a mistake 20 seconds
Can Afro deliver another round for Monty.
Shot on the Cobra Zara, dropping back into the site.
He's got plenty of teammates around him
in terms of just no one right following.
The rotation can come fast.
Boomas catching techno.
The wrap is there.
Afro dead.
The AK-47 now stands.
Boomas trying to make it happen and good trade from 9-10.
But it has to be a clutch.
A clutch to tie the game.
Rain Waker and Gizby trying to piece this one together.
Rain Waker timing.
Does he walk out of the library now?
9-10 isn't looking.
Rain Waker pauses.
9-10 is going to give him the kill, he walks right into the crosshairs, and a 7-5 lead here from onto your map too.
He already leads away one map up, and they could be staying alive here in Cologne.
I was never meant to stay It was you that pulled me in
I promise me that we'd be okay
All of your lies I was believing
You were there most of the time
And that was never good enough for me
And I'm going to know that I'm fine
And we're going round like crazy
And we're gonna head this way
Why is there always this show?
Oh, oh, oh, you said so
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
You got me going like crazy
You were always fine and I was always wrong
Wraithing
Baby, let's get out of the way
I can't believe you were loving me and me
You were always fine and I was always wrong
Wraithing
Hey, wait a minute, try and let's get out of the way
You would always break my fall
You wanted to be here forever
Remember when we used to have it all
We were so good together
Why can't we both feel the same?
Why?
Why do I need to restrain?
You were never just under time
But that was never good enough for me
I may go in and out of my time
I may go around like crazy
But I ain't gonna end this way
I'm in the wrong place this time
For you to know
You're back like crazy
You were always mine and I was always wrong
I just want you to tell me the things that I've made easy
Thank you, where did I go?
There's the flash, that's gonna catch Cribs out, they're gonna push off the rune
There's the cake, there's Robert Cribs with his brain up
He got himself the triple!
The funatic are not done yet!
Can you believe it?
Mongols doing their best to fight back here on inferno down a map in this
elimination series lose and go home for the Mongols here on inferno they're
down five to seven Monty surprising us all with some very very strong play
he must has happened the performance here on this map Afro joining up with
them 14 and 13 kills we switch sides let's see if Mongols can survive yet
another game here at the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne Major yeah well they're
Really up against it now on the one map down two rounds down. They're gonna switch to the CT side
Let's see if they can get off to a good start pissed around would mean a lot to them
Zinnia goes for the initial pick hoping that him moving off will open things up and
Funnel them into blitz, but that's not the case. In fact, they're going a little bit heavy towards banana
All the multipliers here at the moment. They're going quiet there right now now if they
Execute with their own smoke and utility and flashes, which I imagine they would there is gonna be a counter of smoke coming in from
Tecno who's playing on top of First Oranges at the moment.
The Utah is the execution, just going to go with it, they've got flashes.
Let's see how they use them.
Cobra going at the ready, sends one forward, trying to blind these multi-players as they
move in.
It's very effective from Cobra.
Blitz also chiming in and Cobra out from Newbox.
He's collected two in this pistol round and he'll make it three.
Well held from Cobra, good flash and better three kills.
I mean the smoke is just absolutely perfect.
You can see Monty just kind of waiting at the corner for their own utility to pop and
that smoke plumes and they just have nowhere to really go.
Coming through that smoke with the dualies close up with counter flashes and counter
utility.
That's a rough way to go.
Pist a round over the Mongols and they get their good start in the second half.
This is how Nuke played out.
Monty win the pistol in the first half, have a nice little run, get a decent lead going
into the second half and then Mongols win the pistol.
Yeah, there was some clutch moments in that second half that turned the tie back in Monty's
favor though.
We must for that 1v2 in the lower bomb cell on nuke true very true
But this round is gonna be easy all the mongols. It could be a 7 to 7 scoreline in a couple of seconds
Just blocks this is where it gets interesting down the stretch to how often do we see especially at majors the underdog teams getting
Close to a victory getting close to a series victory like we'll see if Monty get up towards like 10 11 rounds
mm-hmm
We frequently see kind of the the inexperienced teams and underdog teams sort of sort of start collapsing and struggle to get over the finish line
So at a 9z yesterday and that incredible series they had against spirit. Yeah, couldn't close it
Maybe the only nearly negative you'd say about 9z in that series is the inability to close those maps
There's overtime performances. We'll be seeing them later on today. They're gonna be playing against Aurora
That's gonna be such a fun matchup. I'll be here on this B stream because I'm watching out the moment
So, if you're interested in that action and seeing...
Yeah, stick around!
Aurora vs. 9Z.
Hang out.
Yeah.
We're gonna have a good time today.
Here are the guns.
Besides, play with a lot of fucking passion, okay?
Yup.
If we lose, that we're playing with passion,
and we're doing moves, and we're communicating takes,
and we're doing this, we're playing with a lot of confidence and aggression,
all good with me, yeah?
But if we lose because we've been sticky and no one's coming ever to shit in the pants,
then there's gonna be a problem, right?
Two problems I could imagine in that situation, yeah, I don't know which one's worse
That's one way to put it I love it honestly, it's a great speech
It's a great thing to get the boys fired up during halftime. He's dead, right? No, it's not time to
Feel like you don't want to do anything like you're a little bit afraid to make a play
Bring that attitude that's got you to this point describe it sticky sticky. Yeah, not moving
I'm assuming it's not moving not moving not doing things just staying in place and then pants are full. Oh, yeah, that's not sticky to
Be the way he's he's giving us a lovely image that and let's see
If multi can listen to his words and fire themselves up
They're in but out at the moment, but they're being held back and contained by Mongols. Oh gives me his expose
They're gonna flash and peek. Oh, no, he just swings no indication. It's coming. Oh the Mongols execute this perfectly
Moat down 4 just waiting outside the B-Bomb site.
They were sticky behind that smoke.
They really were.
They did not stick the landing though, Jason.
They ended up getting them all on goal, so they were taking the lead.
They've taken the lead with the Gamecube at a crucial point, and they've built up money too.
The fact that five players stay alive, if you've got a clean start to the half,
you win this first run around like this, you're going to have so much money.
And there's AKs to find outside the B-Bomb site as well.
Yeah, nice final kill.
Upgrade out of the SMG, upgrade from the M4s to the AKs.
4 of them gonna be on the CT side for the Mongols. That's a very strong round for the weaponry and the upgrades.
I don't even think Blitz realized he got that second kill on the drive-by, but we'll take them all.
What a slaughter.
Could all just fall away from them very quickly in the second half.
This might be the, is this the first lead the Mongols have had in these two maps?
Could be.
Could be.
Yeah, because Monty won the Pissaraw and went up 5-1, and then it was always like a recovery mission.
They never actually gained the lead. This is the first time Mongols have had a lead.
Yeah. Okay, well, Mongols, let's see. Playing from the front.
The best they've done previously was tie it up earlier here on Inferno.
At 5-5 before Monty rattled off the last two of the first half.
Litz doesn't want to sit back and wait, but he steps into the Tech 9 of Gizmy. Good trade from Techno.
He's all alone for a moment. Cobra's arriving with utility to slow down this hit.
And another good one from Techno, there's the peek out.
No, Techno playing a lot better already in the second half, really struggled in the first 6th and 13th for a moment there, and I took note of it, he's now up to 7 and 13th.
Obviously going to be more and more important as the half goes on defending that B bomb site, so Techno and Cobra playing together, and we've got Afro strolling out with that Deagle, he's now been spotted.
really need to be the aggressor here you can let them commit yeah that's the
decision yeah go back track this is not a decision I forgot to be forced away by
utility as well so we're at the 39 second mark in the round and this rounds
obviously not gonna lead to anything for malty yeah it's gonna be 9 to 7 for the
Mongols unless. I don't even think the power of my blasts can help them. Okay. At last.
Yeah, he's gonna handle it. Alright, nine to seven Cobra over the three Ks up to 14 and nine now. I think you nailed it earlier
too. I think the money is just at a point that's going to be so difficult for Monty to get to get over in this half.
Like there's such a big problem over there. 910 spends a ton of it to get native EP out but Nazinia is just under 9000
and Blitz and Cobra at 6k, Techno's at 7k, like you gotta win so many rounds in a row
to take this economy away from the CT side, so it's gonna be a very very hard half to
read and call. If you're Gizmy and Monty.
9-10 going down, Banana, it's gonna be Techno, and 9-10 taking the opening kills here, at
least one was traded back like Gizmy, but he's dead and you've lost Banana.
From the Mongols' perspective, they're just saying, how's it taste of your own medicine?
Because remember, at the start of the CTF for Monty, they were nading and pushing and paraging
and they could open kills, Cobras doubled up as well through the smoke.
Yep, they're warming up really well here at Mongols, seeing them in full control, not letting those T side through.
It's not a bad map for either team, 60% win rate for Monty, 75 for the Mongols, they thought this was going to be the third map to Cider.
Monty would be happy for it to head in this direction.
It says Dust2.
Dust2 will be the third to Cider.
Yeah month month with the decision to ban Mirage and you know traditional I think that would have been good against the Mongols
But with the way Mongols are looking on Mirage. It's kind of lost like they're not on the same page
That could have been a interesting third map, but it is dusty regardless
I'll touch on that quickly just I mean
I think both teams kind of it's weaker in their map pool and when you're placing playing elimination in the major the last thing
You want to do is have it all yeah
Like have it all hinge on a map that you're not confident on and then we know how good they are in dust here
we've seen Afro be so capable on the AWP, just yesterday against Valkyries.
And we just find my voice and listen to it, okay? And we just do immediately what I say.
So it's very simple then. We have five people, we just flash and peek them.
Yeah, that's when they were all grouped up outside of the B bomb site.
Probably a lot of chatter at that point of who's getting utility, trading a smoke to what,
give me your flashbang, pass your Molotov over, and all the while the in-game leaders
trying to get them to actually attack. Instead they were sitting ducks.
The utility flying through the sky, 9-10 in the apartment, taking down Reywaker, he'll
drop into the pit, opening kill for Mongols again, they're going to try and scale up long,
but 9-10 is ready for that next fight as well.
That's dude, no chance, it's 9-10 finally going to be dropped, it's a long range, Deagle
shot coming in, he's in, there's a pressure getting wrapped from long at short, oh he's
handling it, the time goes on though, Azul moves his way into the bomb site and all of
All of a sudden, Monty or In, they've cracked through, and they've got their hands on better weapons.
Could this be the turning point for Monty?
Gizmy moves off the site. Burned, singed, Gizmy moves forward, he's out of bullets.
And he's missed a chance. Techno got both.
But Afro's got his primary weapon in hand.
He's got himself a kill.
He's got a little bit of time to work with here as well.
Utility up on short. Blocks the vision off-blizz.
Let's Apro move forward, but at the time he's looking the wrong way.
Cobra's gonna peek him, and Cobra brings him down.
It's a little bit chaotic there, a chance out of nothing it seemed like for Monty.
Yeah, getting really dangerous with those two kills from the Deagle.
I thought really that was gonna have to be a tough retake from the Mongols,
but good double Molotov into the bomb site to make sure everyone has to evacuate the scenario.
Make a play while they're trying to find safety amongst the flames.
Really well done, kind of retaking before the plant even comes in.
That's a beautiful shot from Azula.
So a second one as well, crazy sequence, good transfer over, and Cobra cleans things up.
It's now a four round lead, 11 to 7, the Mongols just two rounds away from taking us to Dust2.
It's the shades of the Mongols' novice, oh hold on, a little bit of Ucil, I thought that might have been a double name.
Good shot from 910, his AWP is on point right now.
Yes, 910 really has shown up in the series now, picking them apart.
I knew we were gonna burn away techno at least one kill falling in favor of malty
But bombs all the way back on T stairs and you're spread out at the moment
I was gonna say this had shades of the Mongols Navi series yesterday where it felt like Navi was out of the fight for the first like
Map and a half and they switched sides on map two and just dominated now Mongols is having a taste of that
They're getting the better side of it this time around. I'm sure they'd rather have that for sure
Yeah, they also felt really flat, but
Individually everyone seems to have arrived here on the CT side of Inferno
910 finally got the sleep out of his eyes
Yeah, I again took him a couple rubs didn't it I mean it's it's great
That you're seeing an Alper shop here if your moguls because it looks like they're gonna take this map now
There's no T side being shown right now for Monty. Oh, you're gonna set up the whole Alper dust tooth. Yeah, of course
I was going crazy. You got 910 showing up. Okay. Well, don't you just said that just said that and it was sleeping
Maybe we traded maybe not one opera online at a time
time. Alright Afro. Oop. Looks white. And 910 steps out takes the kill and it's 12, just
7. Map point for the morgles.
There's been no issues in the second half. Not a single round for Monty. Not a single
one has been close. No bomb plants, they haven't gotten into the bomb sites. Haven't showed
the ability to adapt either. I think they've spent a lot of these rounds kind of getting
beaten up over in Banana at the early start but they want to keep going back to it.
The best round they've had, they have three kills, isn't it?
Did he think he took that shot?
Is that what I was just watching? Interesting.
Well...
That'll happen to you.
It does happen every time.
Five round lead, 12-7. Timeout's gonna come to a conclusion.
Third and final for Monty. They absolutely need it.
Yeah, I think they've spent a lot of time getting beat up in banana.
There's a kind of aggressive stance. Moggles have had, they've been really in your face.
They want to make sure that Monty never have any kind of moment of peace and control of banana
Whether it's been early in the round whether it's been a mid-round execute of a retake
That's hot banana. It's been it's been lovely from the Mongols
17 kills now on 910 with his AWP 17 on Cobra's era as well
You got Blitz and Mazinu at 12 and even Techno shot up to 11 frags for the Mongol side
We're gonna close this out on an eight round win streak are the Mongols
It gives me to size a step away from that banana control, sending players in halls, and this
has to just feel like a hallsbop the whole way.
Nothing else has worked, the defaults haven't worked, you've been picked apart, so chuck
the utility of flashbang over and see what happens.
Zera, drops down inside of the pit, and Xenia,
for that shot, couldn't get a second.
Cobra will try his best to double up,
but he only gets the one as well, so pressure's on 9-10.
Oh, a dirty gap under that smoke.
There it is, he's looking for it.
Drop down into the pit, comes through,
is actually forced away from the angle,
due to the flashbang.
9-10's help is behind smoke, so he's all on his own.
He has connected.
He's done well to slow this down again.
He knows the next victim's inside of the pit as well,
and that's the bomb on Afro.
It's going to be really hard for Afro,
but he's just got to stay alive and just hold that position and wait for Gizmy to get here.
Paul, but 9-10's, I was looking towards Gizmy, goes back, okay?
9-10, misses the shot, but he's got some cover, Gizmy chases after him, but he gets traded.
So it's Afro to clutch to try and keep Monty alive here on Inferno,
otherwise it is the Mongols rounding out a flawless second half.
And closing on the second map to bring us to Dust 2, and Blitz just strolls on up.
Afro looking in the wrong direction.
Monty, we're no match for the Mongols in this second half,
and now we truly have a match on our hands.
Just two coming up to decide who is heading home and who stays alive in Cologne.
Let's follow up, but Spink's taken down to half HP.
Looks like he wants to test this.
He's taking control of the squeaky door.
Jukes lets him know exactly where he is, but Jukes has to be careful because he's doing this alone.
Oh, and missed chance for Torsey. Cemetery takes up the angle. It's gonna win the head-to-head, but Jukes is under pressure, so good lobby control here for Maus.
They take over a portion of the map. They find Demon down to 30 health. They know that this wrap is a compromising situation, but Spinks remains active.
Oh, lots of good against Blindsided. Good push by Spinks, not only for the lobby control, but then to go one further.
I kind of needed to actually because that spot was fine, but they weren't coming up or for the time being
Now let's play this one with no fear
Smokes a little weird, but no it covers everything
Cabinian to main demon up above cemetery looks to join up with the bomb
Smoke grenade in front of game and you'd think this now makes it all the more difficult for him to swing wide and help insertion
Looking for duels and looking for a forward press might be tempting for demon do something tricky
There needs to be some kind of risk here for foot if there's a chance
Land with their utilus sphinx doubles back to the squeaky door picked off by cemetery all miss chance at a second
Sursha's been found out demon activates almost falling through into the stream of shots
20 seconds they have heaven control and the bomb on the site for Benny looking for safety here as demon offers him a smoke
But it misses the door and it's he falls down into the back of the site
It's the exact timing that zelex takes over. You should just be walking out now. There's no way they expected to be here
The near lineup, attention's turned.
It's gonna fall on Krippeni.
12 kills in, there's the head shot.
The trade's so good.
Now is remaining active every step of the way on this.
It's a hard fought battle,
but the trade train goes their way and they secure 11.
Dude, giving up heaven in that two of these,
I can't even believe they tried to do that
and yet it almost worked.
It is 11, it is expensive,
but it is still gonna be another completely full buy
with a little bit left over.
And Semitiru's very close to hitting the easy shot here.
Burly put a seam in a good position, T-side-off impact like that is rare.
One out versus the off, and gets the first upper entry, a cow.
too many small moments stacking up against foot.
It's only because mouths are playing so well.
This has really just been a great couple of maps of CS,
even though you can hear the frustration for foot.
You know, we zoom out from this exact best of three,
and I think foot will also be frustrated.
They couldn't play this kind of a counter strike
in their opening games of stage three.
You know, this is the kind of CS
that we had high expectations for.
They did have difficult opponents, obviously starting versus vitality and G2.
Yeah, those two games, they take a map.
Could have kept it closer.
Mows also haven't had an open road.
Damage for Spinks to have to stomach again.
Yeah, they needed him early.
Here we go. Excellent.
They're hinging on this uppertake to test the waters again, and sure enough...
Oh no, his position's useless, like...
...makes on the ladder, comes through, backturned to Juke's already, and it is a slam dunk into the A site again.
We saw it with the cemetery double entry, and we get it, what, two rounds later?
They really do have the ideas.
They halted it in the round prior just to maybe not get redundant, but if it works,
And you're facing a potential 12th round win four miles. Why not get back to it?
And they do it with five players still standing foot are keeping the pressure on this second half of nuke
So a bit too much repetition of Mao's back on ancient and that was referenced actually by Kerbeni that it was
Really easy to read them and what they were trying to do since op gets punished. Hi, you know, that's actually kind of impactful
These last four rounds now going back and forth now is sitting on
One round loss bonus. Yeah, no they won't have enough this round and they might not have another rifle either
Of course by it's time to go in on this it's gonna be three M4s and P9 and 5-7 okay
Crazy spot here, I mean
Could be a game-defining moment, if not, Ken, close this down.
What a significant disadvantage on the weaponry.
An extreme speed here for foot.
Oh, Venkentral's so early, that Torsi doesn't even know about it.
Did he do that totally silently or weren't anyone watching?
Oh, three players here.
It surely won't get this clear, Longs.
Oh, it kind of walks in with it.
Oh, nice trade, man.
That's a careful about rotating vent.
No CTs are anywhere near there.
It's going to be down-wrapped instead for Brolin.
It has to be, but it's actually possible they don't go lower.
Now he opens the double doors for them.
Brolin playing out here.
Smoke goes out, but he's got the wide angle.
I can't steal for control side.
That's what they're looking for.
Well, it has to turn from the flash.
Kropenny's got the confirmation of the spot.
Waits for teammates.
No, tries to wide swing through that smoke,
and now Singles caught Xelax going over towards control.
And so they do still squeeze value out of this commitment.
It was scary for a second, looking like Kropenny's death
would be in fame.
Zershin to equalize.
That's kind of huge.
We know what kind of threat Zershin is in these moments.
He's the player with the kit at the moment.
Spinks buys time as he just pauses outside of the ramp.
This round could be everything.
They're coming in with no kits?
No, no, Zerchen has his, and there's a matter of maybe picking one up for Spinks on the pushdown from the ramp as well if Brolin had one.
Bomb nearing that halfway point, Cemetery keeps just giving this a look, and now he's found it, blindside Spinks, Zerchen pops!
And it is headshots back to back from both members of foot. Three kills for Cemetery again.
We saw that critical rifle entry on the upper floor, he gets those trades going, they sweep out the economy of Maus,
And now we could be looking at a tide game as mouse have to take a knee insane that this is still competitive and it's again cemetery
I'm just so impressed he said off
trades combat off in kills entries when he's hitting the upper site
Would have been so easy to miss and then we just forget about it because it would you know
We chalk it up to it being too difficult now mouse become a usp's
two frags I
I mean, physics, she, is this game a little too realistic or something?
Just gives up.
There's a lot of numbers over towards that ramp, though.
Look at this.
Actually still juggling them down here.
I don't want to have a chance. I really don't want to pretend like a second all part of the plan
They have the H.E.S. No control side way this works a lot of T's here waiting
Well front Nate's great from certions. I just know what to throw
Still sitting in the background and they had pushed up though
Yeah, I can't it wonder about the timing
It would have been beyond insane to read that they could have just sat there and just all thrown at the same time wouldn't have
Yep, John, the edge of your seat, though.
That was cool.
That was cool.
You're going to go clear the back of the A site,
confirm search is up in heaven.
Tap, tap, tap away, but Neil escaped for now.
And foot, nice and easy, 10th round to win.
What could have been with those sprag grenades?
Also, why could the second player just
kill you in the middle of the pit hole?
Ask for help, maybe.
He just wants to do everything himself.
Calling, entering, star player, throwing all the nades.
I'm the captain now.
One round game is insane to see.
Interesting, huh?
For all the rounds at miles of one, for the winning that, stealing that pistol away, all
the clutches.
Oh yeah.
2v4.
It's unreal.
The level that both these teams have shown has proven to be a really good head-to-head.
And a match that won't even secure you playoffs, but rather a chance at them tomorrow.
And those have the escaping wound right now.
They got to be terrified about the upper site and losing it.
The fact that back can work, like that's one of the riskiest calls to make on P side,
especially when you've got a lot to lose, but foot have that in their back pocket.
Anytime you don't know when Semifreeze is going to bust out, get two entries, Jukes have done it too.
So like, it's like the kind of confidence that's afforded to them with a map win in their back pocket.
constricts your map, they enforce you to use a lot of early grenades. Long's tagged down to 58,
main player, eaten flashbangs. We've got a lot of bodies on that A floor at the moment. And
now's are already so low on grenades. I mean in part probably because of that timing, the early
conditioning of these hits. These are Molly's early. Get a smoke grenade passed over to Brolin.
Brolin, him and Zershin, the last two CTs with said smokes.
And still, four players kind of circling this upper floor in anticipation of foot's move.
Zershin blinded as they just get past him.
Now, Torsi's going to remain tucked into the locker room.
It's possible they just go up and above Torsi, which they have to be careful about because
there's no one in heaven right now, right?
Bolstered by Brolin.
Is there anyone up there?
No, but there are still two players on that eighth floor, and they're trying to move forward
because they're aware of that heaven wrap threat.
What are we doing? Hold it on the hell if you don't have heaven looking for a chance to pop on to this
You've got Spinks who's played this back box before
We'll see if foot remain wary of this
It's gonna be Krebbeni dead first as Torsi finally makes an activation down beneath them
Molly behind the silos, but Spinks just keeping that head low pops up
The perfect moment gets a bit of value out of it. Oh Torsi goes flying out
CTs from inside their corners swarm and secure a wealth off of it. Now who gets read like a book?
Damn, they had a plan. I'm not keeping anyone up there really risking them to run over top,
but they made sure to take out everybody else who was available.
Oh man, they let them have those positioning. Shirley Foote are starting to feel confident
in their chance to just bounce and then a pop-up out of all these random positions.
Binks took a headshot through that box with no head armor and still nailed his spray with full aim punch
Great moment there for Torji. He gets the 20 kills off of that what was feeling like late
But ultimately well timed activation through the hell window
Like a jack in the box they just waited to spring at the perfect moment you see this confidence from Kermany
Why would somebody be peeking? There's two guys making noise up top
One last chance for Monty and Mongols here to stay alive at the Cologne Major, it all
All get settled on Dust2 and for Monty they've got to feel like there's a real chance to
do this.
Dust2 a map they've got some confidence on, they feel like it's going to be one of their
best maps, if not their best map overall.
They beat the Falcons on it just yesterday, coming into this game, they've got to feel
like they can bounce back after a disappointing loss in Inferno and for the long goals there's
a sense of we've actually now taken this series over with a more experienced team, we're
the team that's made playoffs at three majors in a row, let's go and get this job done against
Monty today.
and for the first time they have reasons to be confident
they're going to be able to do it.
That second half on Inferno was just so dominant.
The team switched on for the first time.
It felt like top to bottom on that Mongols roster.
Everyone delivering to shut Monty down
and take it to this third map.
Now, you're right.
We're here at Cocker through saying that
and trying to hype the team up
before they kind of sit down and go live into this match
talking about Dust2 and how confident
and how comfortable they are on it.
And also you got to think too, in stage two,
this was a map they had to play in a series against Payne
to even get here.
So they've actually competed on this map
in a high pressure elimination situation before
It's gonna help sell your nerves a lot quicker, but a tough task when Mongols just shows you they have a completely different level than you're able to reach
So it's gonna be on Monty to prevent Mongols from getting into that momentum getting into that steam and elevating to that point
We always talk about the Alps on those two will do it one more time
We've got nine ten actually warming up into the latest stages of inferno that he was just hitting everything getting really important impactful kills for the
Mongols for Afro yesterday against the Falcons. He was the star of the show.
Really showed up. So yes, we have got that head-to-head that battle that will be
really important coming into this map. And Mongols have the mental edge. We know
how strong this team are mentally. They don't necessarily crumble anymore with
all this experience they've got picked up. They're gonna feel like, okay, we're the
ones with the experience. Let's put the pressure on them. I would love to see the
Mongols actually get a chance to have a decent start. They're just starting this
whole the whole time. If we get a back and forth in the first few rounds, that's
when the pressure for a multi I feel like will rise. Yeah, I mean definitely. If they start getting
buried, we'll see if they are the ones who kind of drift out of this game and just kind of disappear.
It'll be a tough task regardless. Whoever loses this is eliminated from the Intel Extreme Masters
Cologne Major. They fly home a little bit early. The winner moves on to tomorrow to play another
best of three for your last chance at a spot in the playoffs on that legendary lengths stage
that also every single player wants to get on. Yeah, I mean you make it to a major final last
for more goals, make it to a couple more major playoffs, but my goodness, it would be disappointing
to not make it to the Lancest. That's the one you don't want to miss.
The lone arena, Lancest arena, and it's legendary even when it's not a major, and we've got that
we've got that extra major title on top 10 years ago, was the last time I had that major title.
Here we go, Jason.
I was there, I was there, yes indeed. I think I casted that grand final, that was a fun one.
That was the that was the simple one with it live with liquid pop it off. Yeah, I was going crazy regardless
That's old old history. We got teams and players trying to make new history the new gen
Mongols gonna be starting on the CT side
Monty gonna be starting on the attacking side here on dust 2
As I'm rock music to bring you into this one two smokes two flashes and a molotov for the monty attack
Yeah, and monty look at the rock the boat. It's gonna be a quick play out long as you at the front
It goes quiet for now.
It's the calm before the storm, and Xenio can go on Pistorons individually in the second.
He actually stuck around, and he stuck the landing.
Two headshots picked up, and he gets away.
And because he sees so many extra bodies on top of the two kills, Tecno's pushed up,
or they know there's no one on the other side of the map.
Good return back from Bimas, and now they still have to scale.
Flashbang in the sky, dodged.
Yeah, Bimas going forward, but it's 39-10.
Connect that headshot, Afro sending one back, but not enough.
Gives me a set of great pistol rounds in this series today.
This would be the best he's had, but can't do it, Cobra.
Out from CT, nails him. Now it's going to be an opening roundup for the Mongols.
You might be able to recover that situation if Mazzini only gets one.
But going back for that second kill, feeling that confidence peeking that corner.
Glock's not connecting their shot grab, and a second frag was just like, round's done.
Good first kill. Coming back into it can be sketchy, but just the fade away.
His last bullet as he steps back around the corner.
And Monty get way too whittled down on their pathing.
So no plants, means no weapons, no second run by for Monty.
Unarmored glocks that they'll bring into the fight.
Excuse me.
And they'll sit back as well.
Time for a little conversation.
A little more action please.
There we go.
Now we're cooking.
Let's get that heading into a map.
Now that would be the major final intro out there.
Well, chance for Gizmy to have a chat with the guys.
And even hearing him get more and more vocal,
he was getting very vocal on Furno,
felt like a little bit of understandable frustration mixing into it.
They couldn't get that T-side going.
They were getting beat up all around the map.
Mongols was taking away all their options.
He's been getting a lot of praise, obviously, from the community.
I think Maui's been calling him British Glaive.
So he's been enjoying his calling.
unfortunate for him not to get anything going on that T side of Inferno and so far nothing
getting going here on the T side of Dust2. So first two rounds are going to be quite
comfortable here for the Mongols around the cleanup. And we know the issue when we talked
about Inferno there as well. The clean start to the half for Mongols on CT side, they just
built up way too much money. Yes. Because the first gun they won with 5-plies staying
alive and at that point you're just climbing a mountain. Yeah, their cash was at just an
unstoppable level at a certain point for Monty. He'd have had to win like three
or four in a row and they couldn't even get one. So this would be the first step
to preventing that eventuality from coming to pass here on Dust 2. Smoke for
the mid-double doors for the cross from the CT side. Four players on Monty are
gonna head straight up short but they're gonna eat a nade for their troubles.
Got the catwalk control that you saw off one on T side dust 2 but they're not slowing down look at this
910 is gonna be hit on high alert and we have to re-react this teammate so come on. It's gotta be 910
Oh my goodness. What a great entry from a zoo war and boomers. Okay, gives me one on the evacuation
Good find on the techno. Well, you said job number one keep the economy from growing
It helps when you kill all of them in the very first gun round and now you have five players alive
You can actually hunt this down like you don't want to risk everything. You don't want to lose too much
But it is a five on one. You know, he's likely to be inside the B bomb site. Go put some pressure on him
They're now spotted
Can it tap him away off five players stay up from Monty?
This bombs in okay. Well, that has to be the beginning that'll put the Mongols defense on notice
Just a straight walk up short with the smoke the defensive smoke that covers it
To me that probably wasn't defensive
But they get to run the whole route without anyone seeing them and there was never any indication that hit was coming.
They turn the corner, it's the long player to go down first, because Tecno's just having a little bit more of a shallow angle inside the bomb site.
They just didn't expect the timing of it.
They have low in utility here, Mongols, but they've got all the weapons they want, including AWP, which Monty now know about.
They don't have their own AWP to drop against him.
But I bet you they're hungry for a free AWP.
Try and take it out of 910's hands.
Don't break it, nobody home, the line's shot.
And with that, Monty will start making their move, jumping up on the X-Box, dodging all
the bullets, a little tail end one to the ankle of Afro, and that'll force the rotation
from Blitz.
Utility's an issue for the CT side, no kits as well.
Again, early cat control, Afro gonna move forward, this time a Trey coming in at least,
gives me moves through middle, trying to be the playmaker for his team and activates into
the fight against CobraZera but loses it. Just over a minute left on the clock. Now
techno's turn to step forward. Oh great reactions. Brilliant accuracy and an AK-47
picked up off the MP9 kill. Oh man this is a horrible way for this round to start
closing out. Gives me I don't even mind the play. They must just getting caught on
that push timing just not with them whatsoever so they move up into the
only safe position they have which is short and they'll see what they can do
Molotov to get oh my god give themselves time. What's gonna run through it out towards long rain rakers got that as well
Oh, it's gotta be all rain waker
It's comes off the first couple 22 HP the ball ball the bomb is falling down
You see him shake his head to like oh the chance is now dwindle
Flash is no smoke. Oh, I think he would have I think part of the reason I was shaking this
I think would have used that smoke towards CT spawn if he had known
Exactly where the bomb was.
And I realize he can't even go for that.
So frustrating for a rain waker.
He hit some great shots there to keep it going.
Yeah, he definitely did.
Montan gets back on that AWP.
And that's Morgulz back to winning lice.
Let's see how does the bomb drop.
Lovely from Afro. I don't even mind that activation.
One for one. That one was okay from Gizmy.
This is unfortunate timing.
And even with a lovely shot into the A bomb site,
recovering at two versus four,
always going to be a difficult thing.
been waiting for right we've got the back and forth starting it's not one
team just like going out and taking a strong lead and having to come come back
into it and Mongols could do that that's still on the table but Monty have a
good buy at least here they can try and answer back you know you've got Mongols
money in a tough spot still they don't have a lot of reserve cash as you would
quick out long so speed in these calls from Monty okay so Afro gave up the
angle watching middle to go throw a flashbang out towards long so he missed
9-10 transitioning into lower tunnels never spotted it so Renwaker's got to
be really cautious. That'll be information that he has that nobody was looking.
910 sharpening up his posture, getting ready to react.
Mazzinius sees the middle of the map wide, the hell open.
Bomb has moved into the upper tunnels as well.
Gives me rotating back from long A. They've got a zoo in position to throw a
little bit of a fake, a smoke for the cross.
Sleeves Cobra's era alone defending the B bomb site.
9-10 starts to peel away, a minute on the clock, Azul trying to show some pressure to
his long shooting through the smokes, throwing utility up, but it's all about this B-Head.
It has drifted, Cobra's arrow away, 9-10 under pressure, alone, just the first shot twice
and get back to the second, can't connect it, and now Monty moving in.
Oh, that Afro flash negated him perfectly, Cobra's gonna be forced into a play, peeking
for the headshot angle, teammates gone down, desperately trying to find an equalizing kill.
They need one more to make this retake, dual woo.
They hide into the smoke.
They've actually moved forward here.
Molotov's taking a risk inside of the smoke,
but Enzino's got the kill.
Rain Waker watching, not spotting,
not taking a kill until now.
The headshot's in over the top, Blitz runs forward.
There's a second!
Blitz unleashes with a hero play.
And Azumu, who was over at long,
trying to fake it out and pull the rotations,
is now into the clutch alone.
He's got some time to work with.
He's got Enzino low.
But now he's been spotted.
10 seconds, you have to go for glory.
You have to go for the kills, Azumu.
Out into the open and he just can't take down Blitz.
What a round out of Blitz and the Mongols steal it away.
Yeah, I mean the lurk inside the smoke is crazy.
Okay, it gives me a tough time trying to work this one together.
Now entering into the third map with elimination in the back of your mind as well.
You just had a brutal inferno game and you're trying to piece this offense together for your team
and get them in a winning position.
Did a good job here. Just Mongols make the better play.
Two inside the smoke making moves.
You're looking elsewhere, you're looking for the next and someone pops out of the smoke
with the SMG. Perfectly done from Blitz. Back to what worked in the first round, which is
streaming up short, streaming up catwalk. This time though, no rifles, just pistols.
One AK-47 on Rainwaker is the only weapon they have to open this up, and he has to challenge.
I'm blitzing on the grenade. Up into shore, look at that heavy damage done towards Fumus, Afro and Gizmi.
Mzinho cleaning up the rightful moving out.
And there's absolutely no hope in this round.
Rain Waker's A-K.
I'm gonna be the last to make a weapon.
I can't do anything. So that's three out of Mzinho.
Five for the Mongols. And that back and forth, we were talking about being a possibility.
Well, it's gone. It's Mongols taking control of the early game and piling the pressure on Monti.
Yeah, now it feels more like that that situation that we discussed where is that that mongols from the second half of Inferno
Just comes into this third map right out of the gate, you know
We're seeing that it's maybe it is starting to look like a slow start for them in this series dropping that first map having a tough
Time getting ran over
And how that's everyone's here everyone's woken up you're starting to see some sharp shooting blitz making really good impactful plays 910s
off doing work
Mazzinho with some beautiful shots the triple kill on the pistol now he gets a good
Good sequence and multi-kill here in this previous round as I try and stream into the A bomb site.
Everyone playing well for the Mongols.
So let's try to connect pieces a bit better, okay? Like I'm like common, we're gonna go mid-B and like just no one's reacting to anything.
Also it goes for everyone on the map, like everyone, okay? So let's try to connect.
I already wanted the inferno, he said no one in play sticky as you know move, do things, get around the map.
I think that's what he's referencing here is just nobody reacting to anything. Nobody being proactive about the situation
They're in maybe frozen a little bit by the intensity of the consequences of a loss
Pressure is only going to increase the more and more Mongols pile on this pressure your five one up already
This could be your last math at the major if you're Monty. You don't want to go out on a whimper
Trying to follow in the footsteps of Thomas and into the breach that Cinderella run from
another UK in-game leader with an international roster.
Prime into the breach.
Prime into the breach.
Excuse me.
There they come.
Ready to try and break through.
Monty going for the B hit.
Cobra saving his teammate.
That tech cap is going to be finished off anyway.
Boomas gets both.
Okay.
Well, if you don't cross on this smoke and get over there with some quickness, you might
They just call for a save here. There's money left in Mongols and they don't want to risk it 3 vs 4 to get back into this B bomb site.
They'll come investigate, see if a mistake is made, see if Monty offer them up any freebies.
They do have two kits, they do have some utility to spend, but Monty and really strong perk-
Oh my god, they just go through the fire, it's a crazy play and it hasn't worked this time.
And they won't actually save anything.
Those are the kind of rounds I think that make Mongols feel like they've been so up and down.
That's a save I think, 9 out of 10 times for most teams.
I like what you did there. 9 out of 10 times. Not bad.
That was most definitely planned.
Timeout for Mongols as they talk things over.
But yeah, with that kind of, I mean, taking that sort of a risk into 3 versus 4,
you're saying, you know, we caught them off guard in the previous retake, let's go for it again,
but you lose so much, you even lose the AWP at the end of the day.
So rebuying here nobody has money any longer for Mongols that decision to go for the retake has put them at the breaking point in terms of their economy
And if you're Monty that decision to go for the retake has opened the door for you to get this game in this map back to being close
To make it a back-and-forth affair
Lovely job from VMOS with the two opening kills
Contested situation difficult situation. He finds him
Well, he was pleading with his team to connect to get together and I
I hit the B-Bombside. All of them just coming through.
No one has to be coordinated when you call for that kind of hit at the B-Bombside.
Just a massive number of bodies. Good shot from Afro.
Blitz tries to make the run.
Picked off in a rare 5-on-4 in this third map for Monty.
Oh, make it a 5-on-3.
Yeah, look at 9-10 flying back in his chair.
The money's on the line here for the Mongols as well.
Monty can fight their way into the start of this half.
They've got Cobra getting aggressive.
Brainwaker in the corner. It's just so easy for Monty in this round.
Check now, trying to be a little bit of a threat at least. You'll pull one kill back.
But you've got all the time in the world and a 4v2 to make happen.
Yeah, but don't do this. Don't do this. Don't do this.
Get yourself alone. Nimsinho holds the trigger. Hold the trigger.
Well, they're all coming back, so the longer he waits...
Oh, here's the steps. No, no, no, no, no. This is awkward now for Nimsinho.
He's gonna let Gizmi go around. Nimsinho turns around. There's the kill.
Oh, Gizmi's able to get back to it. Nimsinho, it's a nice try.
It's the only move he had, but Gizmi makes it awkward going ahead of his teammates.
his teammates, he wanted more, he goes to glory, now Techno is going to be mollied away back
into CT spawn.
Yeah, I'm not even, I'm not going to try and be super critical on that, just, you know,
there's a couple different ways you could have played it.
He takes the kill, they probably don't come long, you force him elsewhere, and then you
can still play the round into two on three, which is recoverable.
But either way, it's a tough scenario.
Sensing them coming back, the other decision is maybe tucking the blue box and just get
into a really sneaky position.
It's hard to piece that together when his mind is saying, we're in a two on four and
to go for the win here. I could have been so cool.
Yeah, he was right there. He had that opportunity right there. Those are the kind of moments
that are going to be frustrating. You know you've got yourself into a good spot, but
getting back to the blue bin would have been impossible in the Mzino attack, because here's
the steps of probably going to be in the longhouse. They'll see me going back, and he's got nowhere
really to hide. He's just in an awkward scenario there.
Crazy shooting this round. Look at this shot. Mzoo-woo. He gets that last one as well,
just that quick. No chance for 9-10 to even react or pull the trigger.
Rainweiger hits this banger, just as Gold returns the corner.
Yeah, that is a super frustrating round for him, Xinyu.
Knowing that you've got one free one right in front of you,
so many ways he wanted to play that, and obviously he went the complete wrong direction.
Yeah, I think he's been a little bit harsh on himself though, right?
Like, that's a tough situation to pick the perfect play,
and I think if anything, you should be frustrated about the last round,
going for the three and four retake is that's what sets you up to be in this
situation where you have four usp's in a five-seven yeah I don't like that last
round at all the retake attempt is just too much from mongols it has cost them
their economy here and it's cost them such a strong lead
not monty settle into the game now
I bring it right back five to four lead is cut to one and you've got monty now
stringing rounds together, three in a row, starting to build up to some of that confidence.
We were listening, we heard, Cockerfield, we mentioned it earlier, we heard his little
speech before they sat down to take their seats, and as you alluded to, just saying,
this is our best map, we should be supremely confident here, this is exactly the opportunity
they wanted. Now delivering on it, let's see if they can tie it up, round ten.
I
Should get two players across into the B bomb site here without taking a casualty to that AWP
Yeah, Cobra, they're just gonna walk on mid
Gizmy's really simplified this T side after all the timeouts that we've heard it makes sense
I want to try and get everybody on the same page. Look at this a rain waker
It's a risk, a real risk walking through that smoke.
I see him setting it up with that lurk smoke he throws out.
And Cobra was just in a good position to deal with it.
And Zeno unleashing out long, aggressive, Gizby caught.
You have to move up short.
Now this is the only play you have.
You have to do it quickly.
Smoke is there.
Aphro is going to force his way with a flashbang.
9-10's at rail and back towards G-Spawn.
Zeno grabs another.
And that's the bomb dropped on short.
So even if they get these kills, they have to go back
and pick up the bomb.
But these are going to be hard to find.
And 9-10 won't let you get away with it.
Yeah, 9-10's cleaning them up.
Blush P as well, it's just shut down and Zulu is going to get the headshot, but as you mentioned, has to go back and get that ball.
And Mongol is going to be so aware of that, so they've just swarmed it.
I like that from Azinio. It's a perfect play to make, aggressively pushing out long.
Again, I just mentioned it's really simplified tactics. A lot of these past three, four rounds have just been called out of spawn.
Gizmy's taken complete control of this offense and just saying, I'm not going to micro anyone, but I'm having a tough time putting faith in your decision.
So I'm gonna call this mid to be split out of spawn this be attack out of spawn and Mazzinho just senses it
Takes the risk for the push wraps all the way around
Lovely little sequence from Mazzinho
So Zulu
Not gonna be able to find any extra kills looking in the wrong direction
Mongols re-extend the lead up to two and a timeout from Monty their second of this half
With two rounds remaining before they switch sides on Dust 2.
We'll see what Gizmy decides to call from here, of Kakarapu. He's being very vocal at the moment.
Maybe he's chiming in with some tactics.
Stressful situation for both teams, stressful moments for players on both sides.
The Mongols with the greater experience.
But Monty's given him a real test here.
Afro's gonna have his AWP for AK-47s.
9-10 has his AWP and four rifles around it.
And whoever were to lose this round, the last round of the half,
they'll have a very labored economy for whatever they can scrape together.
So, big advantage to the winner here.
A good swing round right at the tail end of the opening half of this third map.
This is a good start from Xenia, who mass toppled aggression from Cobra's era in this round.
You're gonna give it right back.
They'll advise in the 5 on 4.
Yeah, you're gonna give it right back.
Yeah, look at the anger of the only B player as well.
It's a crazy move.
I don't think anyone's gonna force the issue into the B bombsite yet.
Oh, very close. And Tecna's right behind Xbox as well.
They're set up for a trap in middle.
Watch this through.
Awesome scene here, Ted.
This was a 5v4.
Tecna...
Oh my god!
He's gone aggressive as well, and Afro just reacts!
Oh, this is disastrous when the model goes in.
Played this very poorly.
Uh, they have to be... I mean, he had to have just had a jump scare.
There's just a whoop, all of a sudden there's a player right here.
Someone on his screen, face right in the crosshair.
Lit's gonna move and get aggressive, he's been spotted though.
You can hear the call out inside the studio, so Afro hops on up, grabs one more.
It's Mongols in the last round who are gonna have the handicap of the weapons in the economy.
Gizmy clearing out the A-bomb site, he'll bring the bomb over immediately.
Slowly trying to track in there, but 9-10.
Now spotted. Fifth round for Monty. Nine turn in, saving this.
Running out and putting the pressure on, you'll get one, but it gives me, hunts him down, everything take it away.
The Mongols are not playing like the super experienced squad right now.
No, that's the thing. I think that's what's kind of always held them away from that potential,
is there's just certain moments where it feels like not making the higher percentage play,
and it doesn't feel like they've improved on that quality throughout 2026.
Seeing a couple plays here that have your head scratching your head,
let's put them in a really rough spot down the stretch.
But still with six rounds on the board,
Afro's gonna make an aggressive run.
Starting 3B here for the Mongols.
One long, one short.
Which does leave a huge opening of middle to Monty, and they're gonna move forward with it and smoke out that CT cross
Zulu gets himself into the cubby
You're on the doors a little second just to reset just the Jersey. It's his hands back in the mouse and keyboard
boom that's gonna come and join him this is for Monty to tie the game up
I've got all the weapons that they want they've got gizmy diving down through CT
spawn great setup and looking like it's gonna be a fantastic finish to the half
Monty figured it out blitz trying to do some heavy lifting just the one kill
from window and they go into the B bomb side plant is gonna be through 910 not
arriving in time yeah he's got zero chance of this even gonna just get
Nope, no he's not.
Jumps into the fight, takes down Azulu, but more flashes, more utility jumping into his face.
He's got Afro flanking him out on short, who's gonna drop down at any moment.
Another Molotov, another smoke.
Funnily enough, that might just take away Afro's vision away.
Give 9-10 a better chance of scaling up to the bomb site for a 1v2.
Just going for it, but eventually caught by Afro.
Great recovery to this T-side. Coming out of Monty.
Mongol is making some mysterious moves, and it might just cost him the run here in Cologne.
We are the champion, gonna keep jumping up
We are the champion from number one
We are the champion
We are the champion, we are the champion King champion.
We are the champion, crown number one.
One of these two teams is going to be eliminated at the end of this half of play.
We enter the second half of Dust 2.
We got everything we could possibly want.
Players on both sides delivering in big moments.
It's been a back and forth affair tied up at 6 between the Mongols and Monty.
And this next half is for elimination or survival at the Intel Xtreme Masters Cologne Major.
And we're getting it live into the piss around right out of the gate.
Mongols having to come back on T-side, a wasted good start from Mongols.
They could have piled on the pressure, the more inexperienced squad, but it was Mongols
making most of the mistakes and I might just cost them their run at the
major. I do love the recovery at Montee. I love the calling out of that. It gives me
good on him for finding the solution to a team that seemed to have a lead feet
not able to kind of put anything together. Took over the calling in that
second half out of spawn, straight up tactics and got his team back to a tie
game. Playing mid in this pistol round. Two defenders at the A bomb site two at B.
Yeah they're gonna cross up here. Cobra has been spotted. Gives me trying to
challenging but the bomb is going to be moving out long, gives me taking the heavy
damage, heavy licks, drops back into a CT spawn instead, Afro. Now we're going to be
looking for the long fight, it's going to be Blitz coming out first with that
bomb on his back, Afro. Needing to stop them, trying to slow them but not
getting anything just yet. This is tough, your player inside the bomb site is
well exposed and picked off now, exactly. Such a hard defense to make work, they get
two quick kills, Afro needs another, he's going to go down regardless and Azur
was arrived. The rotation is arriving but they're held back at CT behind the smokes.
And short as well. Rain Waker, does he take the risk?
He's fading soon. Yeah well Zoo is certainly going to take the risk moving through the smoke
but he loses his life to 9-10. So it's all on Rain Waker.
9 bullets. 1v2. Here's the steps of 9-10.
Tracking him back to the ramp. Crosshand, the right.
Spooooooook! Okay that's the goose, not the kill.
So unfortunate, Blitz still standing on 7 HP, moving in, Rainwaker doing the damage but
taking more on top and it's Blitz who just about survives that reaction shot from Rainwaker
and Mongols take the lead with the pistol round.
Such a nice reaction shot from Rainwaker that I can't believe we didn't just give it to him.
I can't believe you get the gush, you snap onto his dome, it's just through the smallest
pixel of the box.
pissed around gives me getting gushed is really really hard to work with but I
mean I think on some level Afro you probably two players out of long on
that if you're gonna run that kind of a pissed around that's so hard to hold off
all on your own that's so hard to protect your teammate as well all on your
own and for the rain waker and he gives it right up he didn't think they were
gonna be scaling this fast but they were there way way quicker than he
expected really unfortunate for Monty to lose the most important weapon just
like that for free and now you're gonna see Mongols start to move into that B site.
Also the mid push is coming through as well. Afro, do what you can.
It'll be the one towards Technobot, puts the respawn instantly in this round.
Not gonna be going in the direction of Monsi at all. It'll be 8 to
6, 2 rounds in the lead now for Mongols. Tell you what too, a little bit unfortunate
for Monsi. A lot unfortunate. This is the third map and the
side map of the series. Every other map they've split the pistol rounds, but here on Dust2, Mongols
take both. So they've got the chance at two hot starts in each half.
Gonna be tough for Monty to overcome.
Won't see a bye in the next round.
Everyone spent very low on the Monty side to another save and Mongols will get
that chance to not only build the lead but build the money beneath them.
And remember how the last map went just right out of the gate
I mean right out of the gate in the second half Mongols took control and didn't drop a single round into a map victory
Monty not really in the mood to relive that at this point and especially being sent home after all of it after the fact
So round 15
You have the 5-7 on BIMAS a 5-7 on a zoo who nothing else for the team to play with a little bit of nades a little bit of utility
to try and set something up
There's Tecnoe, gonna be out long.
There's the flash, sending it forward, we must try, but can't succeed in the engagement
against Tecnoe.
Yeah, nice attempt.
The fight was there, second player playing anti-flash very very well, Mazzinia brought
down to 60 HP.
Alright, well Mongols have got a smooth start to the second half.
It wasn't enough, down the stretch in the first half,
Monti did play themselves back into it.
I mean, for me in the second half, I really am a fricking Afro.
Can you do what you did yesterday?
Can you get any of that fall even close to it?
I don't know what you just played against the Falcons.
It's probably fair, even just from the perspective of the office,
is the weapon that feels like it can have the most immediate impact
as soon as you bring it out, right?
Like, you get an AWPer just going for a pick early on in the fourth run around.
It'll make things a little bit easier for you.
And the top performing player for the Monty in stage 3 is Afro, so we're going to want
to lean into that.
Good kill from Azubu down the stretch, not going to save that AK-47.
Mongols are going to make sure you don't get away with that.
Alright, boys.
We'll finish off the round.
So four plus out from Mongols, building a good amount of money.
Got plenty of cash for another buy, even if they are to lose this one.
Yeah, Afro's going to have that AWP dropped over to them and pass it M4 back the other direction.
And they need to get started quickly. Mongols is going to be a double digits if they can't get a win here.
AWP on Afro, they've got the kit on Afro as well, the only one available to the CT side, so keep an eye on some retakes.
If Mongols win this, it's very likely to actually push forward to 11 round wins, so...
Desperately needing this one, Monty.
Double push towards short for the CT side, Afro boosted up with the AWP in towards lower.
Only presence there is going to be CobraZera, and he's turning the corner as we speak, but doesn't want to mess with it too much.
So a conservative opening for the Mongols.
Very slow to start.
Smoke wall.
Continue to block the vision down lower.
Hello, Mongols, to get CobraZera further forward towards the Xbox.
Layers some fire up short just to make sure no one is standing in that spot, as the rest of his teammates scale forward.
Gets me going to be the initial defender forced away by the flames. Good nade though in return.
54 HP on CobraZera, 51 on Mizzinho. That nade does its job.
Afro just swinging between Long and the A, bombsite with his AWP.
Mongols is coming right back for a set piece up against him.
He's got to mull it off to delay and keep some space for himself if they do execute.
It's Gizmy who's going to be under pressure to make the correct decision.
Is this a mid to B split or an A exec?
Techno, Mzio, they come right through the smoke.
Gizmy's got both.
That is a massive start to the round.
For Gizmy, it's got to be a reaction now for Mongols.
They try and get up through short.
Aphro's holding, watching that cross, but Blitz has got the kill and be messed up.
Now when Aphro moves into the site, but the kills have come back, and Mongol's still in this fight.
20 seconds left, Gizmy messes up the movement as he tries to jump up on the box,
and Cobra's arrow will punish that.
Azul and Rainwalker now left alone.
2v3, and an all-important round here for Monty.
We don't see the Blitz kill coming, but again, that pinch towards the A bomb site is brutal.
Blitz spots one out towards Long, but that's not a fight you need to take.
Taking that fight and losing it is the only way they get back in, so it's time to save for Monty.
Yeah, no kitch. No kitch for this.
And Rainweaver had no utility.
He could also go down here.
You've got a little bit of extra money if you're Mungals.
Blitz is going on the stroll down the steps.
And he won't go all the way.
So they start to back off.
Rainweaver needs to get out of that soon enough.
And he's gonna start backing off now.
Just edges his way.
Out of CT spawn.
But that is a great turnaround for Mungals.
That's a 3v5 there, just one back.
Yeah, that it's Monty, I think, not recognizing the situation after these two kills.
We didn't really see this one here, okay, so Bimos is just shifting back.
Like, you don't need to fall back to the A bomb site.
That, I think, is the lack of faith in your oper to be able to hold on to that bomb site,
trying to give him a little bit of support, maybe thinking it's still going to be a commitment
to the B bomb site and getting a jump on the rotation, but...
5 on 3, stay in your position, hold your spot so that Afro can make the correct play.
But once Bimos goes down along, there's nothing he can do.
Well, these two players stay upright, so you get that save, you get that extra money,
You can throw those weapons over and get together a good buy
But you can see the frustration of Afro slap in the desk
Because they know how hard they fought to get to this point of the tournament and they have an opportunity here on dust too
But they're feeling it slip
Afro oh it goes across if it's a risk but it's paid off blitz has actually walked in towards him flash to activate the next
Peak gives me going forward
Oh, near-attaching CobraZera, he's still going.
Gizmy next fight, up, Techno comes around, and Gizmy's got that too!
One HP for Gizmy, but he survives, and he gives, again, the advantage.
It's a two-man advantage now for Monty.
A 5v3, they lost this in the last round, you can't let it happen again.
No, they're in better positions now, and you can see even doubling up out towards Long.
It's gonna be B-Must and Afro both pushing to take control. Flash from Gizmy.
So activates, and they see that it's clear. Middle of the map is the biggest problem.
and waker just at that window will you over extend will you give 9 10 even a
glimpse into the round
miss smoke over towards the a bomb site however that's a really ugly miss smoke
way way off 42 seconds for Mongols to try and piece this together it is a 5 on
3 but gizmy can die so quickly one Molotov one grenade into the bomb site
and he's gone okay I'm gonna use it gizmy realizes that realizes he just can't
He has to go forward, he has to take a risk, he has to get aggressive, and with his 1 HP, he forces out one extra kill.
Beerus has got long afro tucked down, 9-10 takes him away, but it's a clutch and he's taking damage. 13 HP left.
Utility flies towards him, he's passengers on the fire, and Beerus finishes him off in long.
So, that'll be a nice round of recovered again from Marty. It's a great start to it, it gives me so much right now.
Yeah, he's having one hell of a series. Nothing crazy in terms of the statistics. He's had some very impactful rounds and frags.
and frags. He's called some great games, some great T sides. Doing a very good job keeping
Monty in this fight. They're going to get up to seven, just three rounds back now,
but another buy coming in for the Mongols. They're flush with cash. Again, nine ten and
eleven thousand. Cobra's there at nine thousand. They got so much money. Lovely play behind the
flames. Plates would never expect that kind of a peek. Never expected the gap to be there for
that kind of safety. And we're going to get a timeout this called by Mongols to talk things over
before this lead really starts slipping away.
So Maher and Blitz trying to figure out how they want to future proof this 10-7 leap that they're nursing.
Funny of money built up for them, the off is going to be back at the hands of Afro in the next rounds.
9-10 has his also.
Final thoughts and considerations of how you want to handle this,
how you want to play this. Mongols haven't been too quick in this map.
A little bit more slower pace, a little bit more map control. Let's see if they change things up.
Round 18.
I'm wanting to stall out any catwalk play with the Molotov so they'd be in the open
for a smoke break, but he's got one at the doors regardless.
Blitz is making his moves, Hawking, on trying to be so cheeky with it, but Ringwaker and
and so we're lighting down the bullets
and Mongols don't have money
Monty are back in this game again
this is insane 10-8 and a free round coming up soon
they've still got enough because 9-10 had extra cash
so at least your buy is somewhat okay
thanks to a couple of players having extra cash
but it's definitely looking weak
hey boys, does it fucking go?
yep, we're back
honestly we lost one fucking full gas round like but
oh my god we have so much great art in them
like really
Let's go.
Alright, well flush with confidence now.
Now it gives me time to get everyone in the mood.
Everyone's already there.
Now you just got to figure out how to ride with it.
That round was on a knife's edge.
That peek from the upper B tunnels comes in when that defense is just transitioning to set up that stack.
It gets in place like a quarter of a second in time.
Yeah, well Mongols didn't have enough money to get full buy out here,
but he still got two AK-47s and AWP.
Tech nice, but you win this round if you're Monty.
You put Mongols in the bin.
Yeah, it's a great chance for them to tie things up, and they can sense it too.
We heard from the comms.
They're starting to feel like they're getting control back in their favor.
Like they're the ones playing with comfort and confidence rather than the Mongols.
Kismi's been pretty mobile on the map on this CT side as we know.
In this position you have to move your attention between about three or four different positions.
jumping up towards Xbox. It's been asked to defend Afro's AWP out of Long.
There's no long portion to this attack if Mongols continue moving forward.
It's just all five players barreling off catwalk.
But Long has been such an issue for this Monty defense
that I think Afro's just got to hold his nerve and stay. Here it comes.
All the utility compiling in towards this A site.
The right quick call from Mongols.
Obscene your dead first. Good threat from Cobra's error.
Afro is waiting. Flash is landing towards this phase.
He's not even checking towards Long.
Not even thinking about it.
He's blind.
Yeah, it's crazy, actually.
He hasn't looked even once towards the Long side.
He is fully committed to this attack coming in from Short.
Gives me now a rush.
There's two players right there.
Tupper is error with a shot right back.
But again, it's Afro.
Afro into the feed, and that bomb is not planted.
There's only 10 seconds left.
You have to plant it now.
You have to go for it.
And 9-10 is the only player that can do anything about this.
And he's stopped by Afro from Long.
The AWPer rings out.
two and it's another round of from Monty they are truly truly doing this yeah
bringing it right back three in a row now for Monty as this losing bonus
climbs for the Mongols very nice stop good job from Vimas letting not letting
them turn the corner taking a kill gives me jumping up on the box to letting
things and then afro is able to chime in just lovely work but as you've touched
on and as I was mentioning too Afro never even had to consider long no
presence there from the Mongols this time no look to alleviate that pressure
of the defense. Makes it a much, much easier time for Afro and Beemaw to defend. They were caught
twice by that split, but not this one. Smoked on Xbox. They want to crack it open quick. See if
anyone's going for a fast-pace-up cat. That's not happening. With the three-round losing bonus
and the bomb plant, Mongols do force a buyout. Two AKs, a Galil, a Mk10 and a TEC-9. Not willing to
to relinquish this.
It's a long play again. Flashbang missed. Blitz can't be pleased about that one. He wanted to make a move out double doors to clear close. That's no longer going to happen.
Afro playing at carb, we must tucked into the corner.
So Afro can respond quickly.
But will Mongols give any indication this is coming, or are they just gonna walk out long?
There's another smoke for Afro for short as well.
A question from Gizmy and he's down after 1, he looks like he's going to get a second.
Bumas only manages 1 out long so at least the Mongol is staying in this fight but under
30 seconds left and they're coming at Afro.
Once again the French sniper needs to deliver and he's done it.
It's a kill on Tecno.
Azumu smoked out, Afro keeps his head down, his teammate is running over and Azumu, he's
running over the Mongols.
It's 10, it's a 10.
Monty have come back all the way and tied things up, and money is gone for the Mongols.
They can only get pistols coming into this next round.
There you go Monty, that's a lovely A defense. That's working out perfectly.
BMOS goes one for one at long, but it gives the information over to Afro who can get safely into the bomb site.
You activate, gives me aggressively through to take out one as well, and there's not enough players.
Mongols has lost too many players in those kind of forward positions that nobody can really challenge into the bomb site.
Afro gets free reign with the AWP.
perfectly done and now Monty's rewarded all that faith and confidence they've had
in Dust2 they have taken control away from the Mongols they're on a streak
right now four in a row and Mongols feel the pressure
Mongols playoff team at the last three majors top eight Shanghai Austin and
I'm Budapest, but it could be Monty to eliminate them here in Cologne.
Afro, watching for the cross.
He's gonna heat things up for techno.
And said the truly elite teams win these kind of rounds.
Mongols on pistols.
Perfect setup though. Perfect setup if you want to.
Just gotta be careful about the pop flash.
Zulu is AK-47, razor sharp, Cobra Zera ripped away.
Second kill as well from Afro.
Immediately the mongol is down to three players, 3v5, 40 seconds left, grenades being held,
ready to stop them coming up through short.
The wallbang's there, the NAKO's in.
It looks nice down into a CT, but Azulu is ready for even that.
One kill from 910, a bomb plant will come through.
They haven't got their hands on better weapons.
There's a nice shot. 9-10 might not need a better weapon.
The Deagle's running out.
It's 2v3.
Can Mongols do this?
Techno.
So low, but he's still alive.
No!
The Mongols are not doing this.
Surely they're not doing this.
9-10's Deagle has been devastating, and it's doing it again.
The damage on Afro, but it's all alone.
And it has to be 9-10.
This would be a special moment out of his Deagle.
But Rainwaker makes sure that it will not be happening.
The Mongols do they chance, but it is the lead.
Yeah, Mongols need to have a real conversation here after that round win.
They need to be really careful in those scenarios because these retakes, sometimes they get
away from each other.
Everyone's making a play without a teammate on it.
No one trading as they try and scale up rail.
That Deagle just thinning people out one by one gave all the chances to the Mongols.
And a final timeout, 10-11, Mora calls it.
These Mongols need to settle down and dig deep here.
His T-Side has fallen flat.
And it's much like the first half, right?
The early run from the Mongols and then Gizmy and Monty have figured it out.
They've adapted, they've changed.
Now it's much more passive over towards the A-Bomb site.
Now they're not leaving long open.
They're spreading out.
Gizmy is much more dedicated to this A-Bomb site rather than moving around middle.
Lovely shots from 9-10.
Him and Techno almost able to create the miracle.
Rainlaker to save the day, tapping away, standing his ground.
Yeah, with the pressure of that situation, techno probably overstepping and going for that peek.
He could have tucked in, but that's such a high pressure scenario.
The adrenaline just flowing through you, and suddenly the round is back on, but...
One player crosses, they're going to do this stack up again towards lower.
Yeah, Afro's looking down into the lower tunnels, but is he going to catch this opening kill?
Flashes up, Afro rings out the shot, you force the AWP away with a great piece of utility there,
And get the information.
Forces them to play more passively, so a little bit more room for the Mongols to operate in.
Ooh, that is a good grenade.
Cobra, half of his health.
Now gone.
Zulu's close up in middle.
Gizmy used in the utility early.
Mongols want to force this back so they can open up the possibility of either an A-executor or a mid-to-B split.
Now that Gizmy has fallen away, that chance is going to be there.
So his read on the situation is everything.
You've done a good job defending this A-Bomb site,
and this is where it gets a little bit dicey, where you can outthink yourself.
Do you feel like they're going to commit to this one more time,
despite the fact that they've been struggling to win it,
or do you think they're going to use it to fall into a mid-to-B split?
And I like the decision from Monti here.
The second B defender, Rainwaker, comes out to play up in middle.
This allows Gizby to stay dedicated to the A-bomb site.
30 seconds.
Big swing for Gizby, but no kills.
Mzinha opens things up.
Opens up the proceedings with an advantage,
but 25 seconds is all you've got now.
You have to try and get through.
You still have a lot of defending players to get past,
and Afro's AWP is in the feed.
Rainwaker flanked in,
Plits and Tecno hold off,
and Mzinha is over the top.
The Morgul is now in a 3v1 that they shall not let slip.
Grimace has no utility. The Mongols about to tie things up. Grimace gives it a go, but 9-10s now got the angle.
Yeah, and he's actually even boxed it now. This M4 is gonna make it into the next round. Look at Blitz.
He gets the kill. Lovely job. Double kill for Blitz. Mongols finally found a round.
It took them five attempts. On their sixth, they grab it and stop this run from Monty, and it's their turn to call their final time out.
11-11. We're going the distance in this elimination match.
Every round of regulation required.
Years ago Mongols used to be this team, this underdog that you were rooting for, that you
were seeing if they could pull off the upset, could they take down one of the top squads
in the world to make a miracle run at the Major.
Times have changed.
Mongols are an experienced team.
Major finalists one year ago in Austin and the experience is definitely on their side
for Monty into Rookies in the squad.
I mean, the chance to knock out the Mongols
but it comes down to the wire.
I mean, this is this all this all comes down.
These last two rounds is all of 2026.
That's what you have to think about all the grinding
that Monty did in all of the events that they played
in the tier two events, the small lands,
everything to grab a few VRS points,
the sacrifice of your schedule and your time.
It all comes down to rounds 23 and 24,
trying to take this third map and avoid elimination.
Afro get in aggressive misses the shot and he gets away gets around that corner
It's a massive moment to stay alive in Techno throws the utility gives me getting aggressive
Multi bring him some confidence and some aggression into this all important round. That's us
This is so scary though. Afros kind of trapped. He doesn't feel like he has the safety to make it out
It gives me gave him a little bit of a peek early off short to take attention away
And Afros still hasn't moved there goes gives me good trade from a sewer
Keeps numbers even for now. What's Afro gonna do? How is he getting away?
The smoke will protect him now, but you've got to think about backtracking or going for the hero move.
You're not seriously playing this fate, are you?
This is a crazy play from Afro. He is! He's playing the fate! And he's missed a shot!
It's cost him!
And now Rainwaker is the only player on this B bomb site.
If Mongols decide to finish that, the pressure will be on him.
But Mongols have avoided B throughout this half, and it looks like it's gonna happen again.
Well, remember too, the captain is gone, Gizmy dead, so he's gonna have to try and help this team orchestrate the defense.
and the call is for this push out towards long, but it's a little bit late in the making.
They're already up short into the A bomb site.
Hey, so nobody's home and all could kill from Azul, much needed, three on three.
It's gonna be a post plant, it's gonna be a retake.
They've got one single kit on Rainwaker.
Bimaz, Azul and Rainwaker to make history for Monty to try and get up to map point,
9-10, holding short, there's the kill, Bimaz dead, Azul and Rainwaker, such a tough challenge
ahead of them.
They want the money.
They want the weapons.
$800 on BMOS. They don't want to go for this and lose these weapons, so they have to concede.
They want the strong buy in the next round. A chaotic round. Insanity in lower tunnels
over and mid with that aggressive piece out of Monty. You talked about Mongols being the
more experienced team and I think it's experience that wins the day there.
I might just win the whole damn series. Monty, slip away, hanging on to the AWP, hanging
on to the AK. Some extra cash in the bank. The last round of regulation will be a fight
for overtime for Monty. Mongols about to break their hearts.
Man, you got to feel that so hard. Afro could have fallen back a little bit earlier, I think.
Gizmy was sticking around. I think trying to be as supportive as possible to that mid
piece of the strategy gives us life sticking around, trying to be there and trying to help
his teammates evacuate. Final round. It all comes to this for Monty. Elimination or overtime.
And Blitz has got the opening kill on the cross. Rain Waker has to sit back in his
chair and watch his four teammates try and keep him alive at the World Championship.
It's a brutal shot from Blitz. It's not even 9-10.
or T side. And they're keeping it for now.
But it's expecting a play from Monty to come through long, but no one dare take a step forward for Monty.
No one wants to be that player that guarantees their loss and elimination.
And I mean, it's a five on four right out of the gate.
So you have such a long time of saying the CTs at some point are going to have to make a move,
we're going to have to react.
And it gives me what a beast he's been at this tournament.
They need him to step up again.
Trying to spam away the players coming through the door, but Cobra will rest his case.
you'll trough back and play towards lower tunnels.
And all half long, it's been towards the A site.
Is this the round where Mongols call a B hit knowing that they've taken down Rainwaker?
It looks like it. Bomb's traversing into upper tunnels now, but you might be able to read this if you're Rainwaker.
I don't think they've thrown that Molotov too frequently.
That might be a nice signal that they're starting to slide over here and want to start flushing some players out of tough positions.
A Zulu and Gizmi to defend.
A defenders are locked in position. They have not budged. They have not considered moving just yet
It falls on the brits to deliver to step up and be a bastion of hope for their teams
Assume with the AK into the open lots of damage, but it's gizmy going bigger going home
And he's got to come for their regard gizmy looks the wrong way and the mongols through it's gotta be afro
It has to be afro
Everything you've dreamt of everything you've played for in this major comes down to this clutch
retaking against techno and 910 and he switches to the AK
His teammates look on almost hopeless afro through the window
Looking for them at Mongols, nowhere to be seen and they will break Monty's heart,
stay hide away.
They shall not give this up, they shall not give in.
The Mongols make it through to the final day of play and it is heartbreaking for Monty.
They will exit and it's the Mongols who still have that chance to make another major playoffs
and you've got to give it to Monty.
to run in this major, but it's not meant to be.
Not meant to be.
You've got to get credit over to the Mongols as well.
This was a real test.
Now, on a day where they weren't playing their best game,
they started the series flat.
Got a red Ogler in map number one at Nuke.
We're able to rebound on Inferno and take it to Dust 2,
this long affair.
And finally able to find the magic to make it work.
Closing things out the last two rounds.
Good job from the Mongols.
And you're right.
Heartbreak for Monty.
Played so, so well.
A revelation gives me shining bright in this major,
in this stage three.
Zulu, but his name on the map as well. They've got good pieces on this Monty team experience today is what let them down
For Mongols, I mean they aren't playing great. Can I show it right now?
We know it's hard to recognize them sometimes instead of the plays that they're making but
They've done enough to at least have one more crack at it one chance to get into the playoffs
It's just again the conversation with Mongols is that they're just so good that even on a bad day
They can do enough. Yeah, I mean they look this last round that pick works out really really well
But certainly they still make it some decisions to put themselves in tough places
Manage to work themselves out of it in this one against Monty against the better opponent to get stronger teams might not be able to
So you're always gonna take the win the major is a marathon. It's not a sprint
It's about building up into the major building up into stage three and into the playoffs getting better every single game you do in these
Swiss systems
No more chances of that for Monti. They go out with an admirable effort, a good win over ParaVision,
but some very, very tough teams they've had to play in this stage three.
Aurora Falcons and Mongols to eliminate them, and we've got Gizmy down ready to talk to us after the loss.
I'm here with Gizmy. Monti is out of the contention for the major commiserations, obviously.
It's been a pretty respectable run. What's going on through your head right now, and how's the emotions going?
Obviously it doesn't feel great.
In the end, we lost where the finest margins.
A lot of the other games we lost in this tournament as well were really close,
but this one really sucks.
We're in a good situation and CT does too. 11-10.
Just a few days it was going wrong, especially this round when I get flashpeak shorts.
I really wanted to delay it, but maybe the excitement to go with me or something
had just sped it up and the play was not as optimal.
And yeah, so over where it really sucks, that's nothing we can do now.
You had a lot of major rookies on the roster, yourself included.
Can you talk us a little bit through the season, how you rated for Monty, what's going to happen
next with the team and share a little bit of an insight?
Yeah, so our season is actually over.
We still have a tournament in China, the XSE Pro League.
We will be going to maybe two weeks or so.
probably take a little break, get back on the practice for a bit and then we'll do
like a late-play break. So yeah you'll see us in action still. Yeah, but that's
the plans. Anything you want to say to the fans? Fans of Monty, fans of UK CS,
whatever you choose? Yeah, I mean thanks to all the support, like it's pretty
insane to win this, like you know myself individually I've been getting a lot of
support but also my teammates and like everyone on the team is really
appreciative of it. It means a lot to us. A lot of our team-mates have had comebacks
stories we've all been grinding in tier 3, so a lot of the things you do goes unnoticed
in these games that you play online and gradually we've made it towards LAN and these tier one
tournaments and the support's been great. So we really hope to keep on showing some
good performances so you know we can we can make the fans happy on behalf of
everyone thank you gizmy for putting up a great show and it was a nice try but
unfortunately this is the end of Monte at a major thank you thank you
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I like it.
All right, All right.
I like this man, don't know about your man-go.
All right, all right.
Tell me one don't call my life key.
Oh, my life key.
Tell me one don't call my life key.
I like high, but no my life.
Key to key, got the flow for movement.
Key broke, put it, watch your man-show.
I like this man, don't know about your man-go.
Tell me one don't call my life key.
Oh, my life key.
Oh my life key.
I'm in the alley while I'm in college, shi-
I'm not in my body, have I said quicker than when I'm running?
I'm in my bed like Karek, where I'm about my carry and all
Ain't nobody here know where to go, no, keep the keys, yeah, no
I'm spitting your whip and I'm going. If I say I'm running get know what I'm showing.
If I say I'm running get know what I'm showing.
Go over key, G got the don't, go go don't, grip on.
You got the joint, go, go, go, go, grip on.
Remember, don't go like no more bar.
If I leave my bar tell me one done come and I key, no.
I'm my life I run no ballet, low.
Key to key goes the flow.
Blow my way.
Beat, coach of 9Z with me here against Abrura.
I want to talk about something that you mentioned in another interview and that every single match
Did you play you learn something new about your team? What the hell did you learn from yesterday's game because that marathon incredible?
It was a crazy game yesterday. I think maybe they I
Would say the experience maybe I think there are some some
Moments that you live in Counter-Stack that you can only learn by living there like for like playing the match, you know, maybe
When the match was too close, we tried to win so much that we we took some decisions
maybe to, you know, in a hurry, maybe.
And yeah, I think it was probably the main reason from yesterday.
How do you even recover from a match like this?
Because I was playing and when the match goes beyond midnight,
you are full of adrenaline, cannot fall asleep.
Now you're here already, ready for the next game.
How do players sleep, prepare, what's going on here?
Because I can't even explain how difficult it must be.
Yeah, not gonna lie, it was a very difficult night for me.
For me, especially, I probably sleep like three hours today, but I don't play, so that's
fine because I think the players, they had at least a decent rest from yesterday, but
yeah, I had to wake up early to prep and do everything, so yeah, it was hard to reset.
Today I woke up a little bit feeling the same as I was about the 50 yesterday, but I got
in my mind that I wanted to refresh today and start everything fresh like a new day,
the new opportunity.
Right now I'm fully reseted and I'm great, we had a good talk with the team, so I think
very good now.
Do you think that those losses, those close games, win against Vitality,
now lose against Team Spirit?
If you show that game today against Aurora, do you think that it will be enough?
It should be. I think we are playing good.
I think it's good that we keep fighting, even though we are losing.
Maybe we had the lead yesterday and we keep fighting over time.
So yeah, that's good for the team.
That's a good experience here in overall.
So I think if we play good today, we're going to make it.
You're one step away from very big history. Let's see how this goes. See you on the server.
Thank you.
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And so...
Aurora vs 9Z here at the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne Major.
This one is for the playoffs, this one is for the Lancers.
Both teams bring a very exciting style of counter strike to the servers.
much individual skill packed into this game and I'm just settling back. I don't know what to expect
from this game Jason, but I'm just hoping that we get to see the Aurora we seen earlier in the
competition and the 9Z we've seen in the games against Vitality and Spirit. I think from what
we've seen so far you can at least expect to see plenty of Luchov entering the kill feed because
he's been an absolute beast. He's the workhorse, the power behind this this run from 9Z almost
making it into the playoffs 3-0. That game against Spirit, that series against Spirit last night,
absolutely incredible so many over times this team has popped up out of nowhere
like out of out of their finish back at PGL Astana everyone's like okay cool this
9z team has some cool things to it they're actually not they're not bad
they're not gonna go 0 and 3 and then actually they're just insane
Lucho's so good he's even got fans in his own team it'll take you pictures of him there
I mean it's just incredible he arrived just how he's been playing and we talk
about Aurora's hard not to mention Zantara's is the individual over there
he was the difference in a couple of big rounds alongside Bucardia in their
game yesterday or you know I'll say this though when I was doing some when I was
looking into this and just doing some research and prep for the for the for
the series today for Aurora I was kind of shocked at what I was sort of finding
in terms of their individual level just send me again this is just in terms of
rating and statistically on HLTV so don't take anything super big away from
it but Zontars is at 0.99 rating in stage three majors at 0.99 walks except
0.89 there's there's a big drop off like the individuals aren't really there but
what you have been getting from the individuals while it's not going to
Consistent fragging volume fragging across the map his major had his pop-off game against spirit
Zontara's yesterday as we saw in their game against g2 was able to get like a couple
You know like really really important impactful rounds
But not putting together complete games and that's kind of the scariest thing to me is
It does feel on some level like aurora on a team wide are all playing beneath their potential
And if that slips just a little bit, you know what I mean?
Like if that slips if you don't get the impact at all this aurora team can very much be in trouble
This is that game last night, 9Z Spirit for the playoffs, or excuse me, no, it's not.
Stage two, round three, when they face off against Spirit.
So, you know, I think 9Z coming into this has got to have some confidence.
They got to be with happy how they've been playing, but a lot of pressure here on them to qualify now.
Yeah, it's just how they figured it out as the tournament's gone and how much better they go.
I could absolutely bang down in stage two.
This is a stage three showing, obviously, completely different stories.
Spirit having to come back into both of those last two maps.
9Z showed they couldn't close it though when the pressure was on them.
But this is for the Lancers pressure is on all the way at the entire stream masses cologne major
It's Aurora and 9z fighting for the playoffs and the biggest thing
Well the biggest thing I think for for these two teams at the moment is I mean like for for the for the 9z side of things
I'm most worried about them going 2-0 at this point.
I'm most worried about them having that kind of run up to 2-0 and then 2-1,
and then kind of entering some kind of a collapse, right?
Like, we've seen some teams in the past catch that momentum
and rattle off some of these rounds, and rattle off some of these series victories,
and then sort of fall prey to it.
So, I don't know, let's see what they look like now,
but you know, you get so excited, your energy gets so popped up after a victory over Vitality 2-1,
and then you have that close three overtime series against Spirit.
But it's very easy to feel deflated after that kind of a loss.
So I'm really interested in what 9Z comes out with today.
And if Aurora can put a stop to it,
we're going to get the map veto underway.
Figure out exactly where we're playing.
9Z take it to Nuke, or Aurora to start on the CT side.
Yeah, we got Nuke coming up first.
And then we'll go to Dust 2 for Aurora.
You know, Anubis getting banned.
I think it's not too bad of a thing in this series anymore
for Aurora in terms of like they're showing their map
a little bit more than Justin Ubers these days.
Obviously we'd love to have had it,
but not going to be there available to them
in Inferno as the third map in the series.
Okay, I like this pool.
I think this is going to be a lot of fun.
Nuke is obviously a bit of a punish pick
and not a great win rate for Aurora on the map
and 9-Z going to be very comfortable on it.
So you're taking that risk of starting on the T side of Nuke,
but you feel like you're overwhelming favorites on the map.
Inferno a little bit more closer between these two teams
and Dust2 is going to be a really nice decider.
So cool maps for this series,
but I think for 9-Z,
If you don't take Nuke, that's going to be a blow, because you've picked this for the weakness that you see in Aurora.
Yeah, and we're getting into a real sumo. We'll start to see the positions, what we can expect.
And obviously, the two players I just mentioned, Zantara, so Katia, they're going to be the right flank or the engine of the team, walks against the AWPer.
But Magus actually had some great moments throughout this tournament as well.
And Magus, a number of impactful games.
Yeah, the Spirit game on Dust2 is one that comes to mind.
You know, Katia is the one having the best performance, the highest rated player for Aurora.
He's really stepped up in this situation and just kind of delivered the only guy really I feel like delivering like consistent game
And game out giving you exactly what you need out of them 1.25 rating for Wakadia
So yeah roar now there
I kind of hold them in a similar category that I had Mongols in as well
Which is like I don't really know what to think or expect of this team coming into this major
I could tell you I was very impressed with their win over G2 yesterday
I thought that was a very very cool watch and a roar seemed very much on point the defense look good
CT side, they were rotating together, they had good reads, getting in front of plays, and just super impactful from Zontara's in isolated moments.
It's going to be a tough affair both ways. As long as no one just disappears, this is going to be a battle for these two teams. A lot of talent inside the server.
And that's just a question of can Nynze get it done. I mean, we heard Magix in the interview last night saying, you know, they didn't all make it here, but they're going to make it tomorrow.
He was like no matter who they're playing my magics was confident with the way they played yesterday against them that they're gonna make it to the arena
And you know a magics if he's not trolling. He's like dead serious
Yeah, so it's like what he said that when I was watching that interview
I was like damn that's a ton of respect they just gained from the spear inside of things
Yeah, he said it was one of the most difficult games. He's ever played and it truly looked like it in some server
They look exhausted after they qualify for playoffs of a major and none of them celebrate it
No, you couldn't that was just relief. I mean even said it to they felt like they lost three maps
You know like that that was that was such a grueling series all of them being an overtime and for magics
Especially stepping into the IGL role just recently. So yeah tough tough one for him to call his way through
And I see you have smiles on their faces
But we'll get bigger if they can somehow qualify into the playoffs
They're gonna be taking on Aurora for the playoffs spot in the Lanxess arena here in Cologne
And that's Vitality dead and out.
Just as damage as your partner's rise.
It's out deep around the corner.
And so it's not only needed.
It's desperate for Vitality.
And he's tired for Vitality.
Aurora vs. 9Z. It's time to get it underway here on Nuke. Fighting for the playoffs, the
two-in-one games. Lose this, you're going to the final day of stage through yourself
a chance, but you want to take it now. You don't want to have to go up against a difficult
opponent with all the pressure of the last chance in front of you. And we're going to
see 9Z move outside. Walk 6, looking to challenge it. Wasseaupeak, that's a start.
is a shot and a half to the dome of Loxac.
Now you're gonna smoke off Mini Garage, wrap around,
you've got whole access to yard outside.
Aurora got to make a decision now.
They're sitting ducks if they stand pat inside
the bomb site, so time to start making a decision.
How do you shift to get into some safety
and get some information and try and bring this round
under control?
Gonna boost up.
Back into Rafters.
I don't know if they got time for this.
So we'll fly, stepping out.
I can't connect, will eventually natural off, so there is all flight gets to.
So I even know you got the opener if you're 9z you're down and out here at 3v2.
Tough scenario, we gotta go over the top of heaven with Antares looking directly up at
you with dual burratas and you've got Hwaso peak coming on through as well through man.
He's actually creeped a little bit closer and you might anticipate but eventually we've
got him out of spotting him towards man in his Antares.
I think Lucho thought that the dualies coming out of hot was the dualies he encountered
earlier, so he wasn't even cognizant inside the bomb site. What a good recovery.
They did have time for the boost up into the Raptors, and
SoFly delivers a very good round, a double kill to slow down that wrap around towards Heaven.
This is how it began, but no more success from 9z. Defense locked down after that,
and Aurora is going to be super pleased on the CT side nuke. They get the pistol round win.
9z can't give any soft and easy rounds to get out to an early lead.
Ah, look at that. They came to play today.
I'm bringing the energy, you know it's going to be a tough game.
Oh, game okay.
Another one from Quasopeak.
It's exactly the same scenario as the pistol, just banging out the outside player with your
pistol, dropping back 5v4, but this round ain't going to go anywhere.
For Aurora though, it's like coming into the Major and you had a game against 9Z, you would
be loving it.
You know, you're playing against 9Z, 2-1 to qualify into the playoffs.
Oh, sure.
Now you know you're going up against 9Z, right?
Like, you know that is a team that beat Vitality, namely beat Spirit.
One of those, like, if you told them before the Major started, like, if they were playing 9-Z for qualification, they'd take it 100% of the time, but then you watch 9-Z play at the event and you're like, ah, maybe I made it.
Oh my God!
Oh, never mind. Never mind. What is happening?
What?
Oh, Hwaso Peek. We have Zontara's Peek, we have Hwaso Peek. This is what we're all here for. They're gonna try and get down the vent.
They have to try and get down. He's got to what?
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not like this, Aurora. It's truly not like this.
Soul Flies rotated it down the right ball out towards Mayeron
They're stepping out they're putting pressure on them Soul Flies got another one
And it's just was so people this guy can hit land anything apparently. Oh my god
This is just out on the replay. It's gonna come in. That's it. That's a filthy deal shot
That's an absolutely wild shot to get your second one
You know what I think actually of 90 the first player coming out into the lower bombsite has the bomb
Watch this next one Dinko watch this bad boy. Oh
What the hell get out of my face?
That's crazy.
Yeah, if the first player doesn't have the bomb, they actually just go right back up the vents and have a bomb plant.
Cool round from HwasoP. Cool start to the map for him with the P250 and the two Digo kills.
Now they both are out.
Let him do whatever he wants right now. His hand is on fire.
We'll see this AK-47 out.
Probably over the top of the silo. No one dare challenge him.
Blind.
Hell back.
back. Zontara's gonna send him out to try and deal with him. Okay, Walsalpig's aiming today,
let's send Zontara out and try and challenge. He's gonna back off.
Got Luchava crossing here with a secret, and he's actually gonna work his way into big garage
through the smoke, and all his teammate goes down there and gets stopped by the bullets and
sitting duck for Zontara's. But Luchava's gained the space towards big garage. One mistake,
one nice shot. This could all end. Zontara sees one turn in the corner, now he sees the big
garage player. In 9Z's options are running thin. Two flashes and a molotov for the rest
of the rounds. Zontaro is getting forced back in awkward engagement. Lakadia is moving
over towards secret and still 9Z haven't made their move yet. Good kill from Lucho.
I know there's still one more.
Yeah, I gotta send that Moli to try and clear out Zhontarys.
Awesome, a step back.
You've got Max with the headshot.
Wakadia, cut open.
Oh my gosh.
Lutrov's moved past him.
Lutrov slipped by.
This problem-solving is awesome.
Did the bomb go first though?
Yes, it does.
Zhontarys gets it.
Actually spots out Lutrov as well.
Zhontarys loving the fact that he's been able to get this information.
He can stand with the drill for running.
He's gonna force Lutrov into the fight, keep him busy.
This kills two come in for nine C,
But yep, the time, the bomb went down at main, so they can't get it back in time to plant, and that's the all-important kill.
Max went a little bit too early there into Xantara's, and he wins the round with that all-important kill.
Yeah, the lovely work from Arami, and actually, I kind of think the 9Z played the round a little bit better,
but getting over those obstacles outside just took way too much time.
Another option for them to do it safely, had to be patient with it, but Xantara's just surviving behind Redbox as such a nuisance outside just stalls this round out for 9Z.
Lovely work and staying alive, Luchov is unable to find him.
And Aurora's defense holding strong, some early struggles in each of the three rounds.
Opening kill and the pistol goes the way of 9z, the Deagles in the next round from Hwaso Peak.
Now this one here starts getting a little bit sketchy as the round comes to its conclusion,
but Wapsik's able to survive.
And 9z by right back up into it.
Two tech nines, three rifles.
I am saving some cash, I am going to invest in utility next round 4.
So early to the event, I thought I would break it open, get that opening frag with
There's two smokes layered there, so...
Made an effective in clearing the cloud.
Gonna send Luchov again on a play outside on a zone.
It's quiet though, so nobody really knows yet from Aurora.
There's utility towards the upper bomb site, gonna drop down the vents,
gonna try and connect the pieces from the ramp room, but Soulfly's got one.
Yeah, spot's the extra players coming their way too, so passes that information over to Zontaurus.
They're coming through the ramp room, backs are turned and that's gonna cost them.
Luchov activates down lower, but...
lower but thumbs to go and get the bomb yeah so there's a big problem here for
9z and we got a match and I'll like it out DGT sport of the second player to
not take the kill so 2v2 it is winnable here for 9z but they still gonna come
towards Santaris and Woxix now joining him also it's not just like you're
picking up the bomb on the ramp and disappearing right you got to come all
the way up and wrap around the railing to get that bomb 48 seconds DGT and Luchov
split off from each other so Luchov just waiting patiently I there's not
really time for this. Yeah, they don't really have all the utility in the world to deal with it either.
Santaras and Wawksick, it's going to be very hard to let this round go.
Well, they don't have to commit to fights. They've got three flashbangs. If they get into an engagement,
the other one can flash. Santaras will be spot someone out. Wawksick can just drop them into the
open. Okay, commits to the fight right out of the gate. 2v1. Now Wawksick has to deal with the
Threat is up on top of the block.
Oh, what?
How will they let it go?
Luchov just kills both of them.
And that is a ridiculous round to concede for Aurora.
Yeah, you just kind of, I guess you got to just accept that if you're Aurora.
That's a tough one.
Oh my lord, getting this back.
Such a difficult situation to be in.
Taking kills away from the bomb, away from the action.
Major thinks he has a sick plank coming up.
Luchov reading the jump up onto the boxes,
That little expression from Zantara says it all.
It's just like, yep, we're good at losing those rounds and we've done it again.
Two versus four, converted and recovered for 9Z to get their first T-side round on Nuke.
And then right back down to reality with the Wauksic shot.
Still better weapons with 9Z.
I'm not going to be too worried yet.
Yes, obviously, 4v5 is not a good scenario to be in for 9z, but look at the round they just won.
Zontara is in the ramp room.
He's got Zontara alongside him and two players here. Flash is going forward for 9z.
Wax is coming over at his scout as well. Attack will land on the Hwasu peak.
Finished off by Zontara.
They've got information though. Multiple players in the ramp room. What do 9z do with it?
But, it might not matter. Wakati has caught them outside. That's the AK.
Yeah, it should be done now. Back to the upper bomb side we go. Max is going to try and press the issue.
He's got the bomb on his back as well
It feels like he has an opportunity here to inflict some pain and apply some pressure
Gonna wait for his teammate who's trying to wrap over towards heaven and nobody's looking for this
This could go unnoticed from Aurora
The ladder they go yep once looking no one's checking Mayhem with a Mac 10
Gets the one good response out of a cardiac and walks a scale look at what work it does in this round two kills a tag and
Feeling good now Roy at least bouncing back after that ridiculous round loss
Yeah, that one'll put that'll put that round loss back in the back of your mind
That'll help you get over it real real quick and 9z have a decision to make
Likely gonna save or have a half investment. That's how it opened up
No fun when you're the one taking the opening deaths nice shot from Woxic to start round five and good conversion from a roar on a low
Bye
No, I'm see you gonna be playing with tec nonce Mac 10 and picture 50
I'm gonna burst open that door until he's flying out, he's gonna try and get past the
smoke, Zantara is gonna be running with the top off.
I like the speed here from 9Z, just flooding out through the smokes.
Aurora handling it though in the end, the initial kill is good, but foreplay stay up
for Aurora, it's a 5-1 start here on Nuke.
Yeah, this is the risk you take by picking this map, right?
This is the risk you take by making this your choice inside this series, you give Aurora
that CT start, and if it doesn't, if it's not going your way, you start to feel really
buried and overwhelmed.
Lines E, all of a sudden, in a four-round hole, they've got to dig themselves out of
round seven. They've got all the AK-47s, they've got all the utility.
A few pieces missing on Hwasapeak and DGT.
At least they've kept the bunny limited from Aurora, right? Some of those early
force buys have done good damage.
Soulfly, steps coming through that smoke, peeks on out, walks again, Soulfly through a couple
of kills, says Lutrov has to dig deep to try and recover it, knowing Soulfly was last
spotted around here, now they've detected him but he gets one extra out of his life.
Massive work from Soulfly again on the SMG, and the rotation has arrived and Wakadia down
lower, so this round is difficult no matter which direction you decide to go in, and they've
split up into 1v1s, there's a free kill.
Wakadia steps around the corner, Max looking the wrong direction.
Alright, well, 9-Z not have any success on the openings.
Lovely work on the MP9 from Soulfly to get that first kill, even with Woxa getting dropped pretty much immediately, able to grab a second.
And Lutroff has a 1v3 now, a whoopee and ace if he's able to pull it off.
Yeah, this is going to be very difficult. The position of Zhontars is really good, he's not even really peeking.
There's every now and then having to look towards the door, but Lutroff gets out towards Vent, gets in the Vent, and back down the Vent he goes.
Now, Mikhailia is here.
Does Luchov check this angle?
No, he's been spotted.
That's the bathroom.
Mikhailia's just going to take that one.
Where's he going?
Oh, there he is.
I didn't really expect to see that, but cool.
You're going to be loving this story.
Now, part of that one, Luchov 1v2 and a throw from Aurora.
It's 6-1.
It should be 7-0.
Yeah, I mean, at least that kind
of quadruple throw of the round is more like it
It seems like it's got them locked in, and you know, it seems like more like it's been
like almost a motivating factor rather than one that's made it worse.
It's a good response to the situation from Aurora, rattling off three in a row now, up
six to one, in this opening map of the series.
If you tell outside, it's Tech 9's in a galil on DGT for this round.
So smoke while not being utilized at the moment.
There is a heavy presence outside for Aurora.
You got Zantara's here, you got Soulfly and Big Garage, you got someone down at secret as well.
There's the jump around to the single box major.
Even pops out to grab that kill, completely blinded.
and
the studio yes it was just
for every very loud about it
that second half of communication not just the content but how you say it
unfortunately they've shifted into the wrong position based off the intensity
of that column so majors on his own against foreign lobby
now major going into the hot though
he wasn't spotted
all these still being very vocal yet calling them all back but you can't go
events
Yeah, it may be, it may be.
No, you can't go up vents.
You guys are so far protecting you, now you can go up the vent.
Now you can go up the vent.
Now you can go up the vent.
Smoking a double kill makes it a lot easier.
Yeah, the boss is going to be down as well, loose in the open.
The Ruler are hunting down these kills, making it look very pedestrian today.
Yeah, it has been.
It's been a very slow start, first time out being called 8 rounds in.
9Z buried under their own map selection at the moment with no success here on Nuke.
having a tough time getting anything going. They've been shut down in a number of ways.
The only round they have is a miraculous 2 vs 4 that they were able to convert and recover
from. Outside of that, it's been all Aurora. And they've started to rebuild some cash flow.
At least in the early stages, 9-0 was able to limit some of the money to put them in an
awkward situation with that round win. But now, these have been so clean. And Aurora
starting to look really good. Major tracking them every step they took in this round. We
heard him being vocal inside the studio, just shouting out across every time he spotted
someone making sure his team was in the right place at the right time.
I haven't really tried anything too quick, 9z, not towards outside, not towards the upper bomb site at all. It's been a lot of
spread out work that they're getting picked off in.
That might need to change.
Now something's gotta change and fast.
Speaking of fast flash,
to be unleashing Aurora into an aggressive CT play. They've taken away Ramperum all the way up into radio.
I think that flash had been missed. Nothing with Audio. One behind the smoke. Dangerous. But Woxic has an opening pick. That's Luchov down and out.
Okay. Now second spotted. TGT trying to get away with one, but with Audio seeing it.
Now they're able to get the work done. It's so easy right now for Aurora.
Yeah, this... I think 9Z has just knocked out of this game at the moment, to be honest with you.
You know, 8-1 in the favor of Aurora, that's not a roundout of a timeout that you're going to be happy about.
You know, like one player gets picked off towards ramp and then what, we just decide we're just going to kind of walk out upper with two guys and see what happens.
I think 9-Z at the moment are so stunned by how comprehensively they're getting beat that they don't really know what to do at this point.
I know the HUD was frozen there, so you guys might not catch the situation when it comes to the economy.
You can see the galeel up in play and the tech 9 so you know that I see good enough money to fully invest in this
Gonna give this a go
On the outside smoke so deploy that you're trying to strengthen numbers on the cross
Another beauty up to what walks it. I like this though. Look at all the chaos. They let slip while so peek is slipped all the way towards heaven
Like he's actually in a position of backstab good kills from soul fly not done yet. There goes DGT
Oh, it's turned so fast!
Man, it's got sour, quick, hasn't it?
Wasp peek. We'll always have that one kill at the start of this round, but...
Yeah, that...
...I'm not able to get much more.
And this is the bump. I'm assuming 9z is just way too dedicated, or like,
not, maybe not way too, but they're just so dedicated to the call, the fast tactic, that when Wasp peek gets this kill and scales towards Heaven,
it's like, you guys can actually change the idea.
He's in such a strong position to help you win the round, and he's the only rifle you got.
Not the case here in round 10, so...
And this is crazy though, isn't it? You see 9-Z playing that marathon of a game last night against Team Spirit.
This is what I talked about coming into this. There is that element where you've put so much energy, especially after you upset vitality.
You're pumped. Like, emotions are sky-high. And dolphins everywhere. They're all over the place. Going crazy.
Then you get that close series against Team Spirit that you lose, but you're still like...
You're still kind of pumped up, but you've put so much energy into those games. You come into one like this and...
You probably feel a little bit flat compared to having to play off against the best team in the world,
the greatest team of all time, and then going into spirit having to play against the best player in the world.
The second best team, you know, in the world, the second best team at the event,
the team that everyone's starting to say is probably going to go on to win the Major with the way it's looking.
So, I'm now going up against the best Turkish team.
Yes.
But, you know, like, it's, I don't know, I just, I can see a world, I've seen it happen to players,
it's happened to me, I can see a world where this 90 team comes in and that energy just isn't there to latch onto,
to help you through these difficulties the way it was in the past two maps.
Well, the energy is definitely there for Aurora, who is so hungry for a playoff showing.
Well, the support of an entire nation with him as well.
Aurora trying to get through this, and they are doing a very good job at the moment.
9-1 up.
Now, as he's sitting in a situation, AKs and AWP, and there's a chance for a fight.
Is there really a chance?
Don't kill over the top, Waxix taking the opening.
Oh, my lord.
That's a spicy shot from Woxic.
The Luchov is gonna cross the wall outside.
DGT gets a kill to its door and finds a way to get away safely.
Really well done, Zhontaroz hits the deck.
The equalizer found and control of the outer yard for 9Z.
Oh, Luchov, really trying to make the play down for his team, but every time there's a kill from Nancy, there's a response from Aurora.
They're doing them one better every single step of the way.
DGT has to step away, and Aurora, 10-1.
I actually just can't believe how easy it looks.
DGT's stepping out with Woxig. Now, this is a clutch you can't win.
you can win.
Bombs could've been, nevermind.
Even that tonight, really goes forward.
And you can't win that, take that back immediately.
Faster stop talk.
Yeah, maybe we should.
Maybe we should.
10-1.
Man, we came in today in the shuttle,
and I was like, man, this is 9-0 again.
Could be sick.
I'm pumped for this.
Just due to vitality, they nearly beat Spirit.
They got a game against Aurora.
And then I also said, imagine the disappointment
that they go to.
You're so close, so close to the playoffs.
you're gonna have to play the final day.
The mask is gonna be so tough mentally for 9Z to try and stay in it, but
Galeos and 1 AK-47 here, 9Z not putting up a fight.
Not at all, not even a little bit.
Xantara's gonna peer over the top of the smoke, how's it gonna ruin their day this time?
Right, like that. Just slide up slowly, loot shop not ready.
Deadly peek from Xantara, small atop to delay any kind of cross towards secret,
secret that's gonna help us your offer and walks it's gonna help us your secret
player who is what caught up
much like on the car yeah
before the steps being heard dgt likes that
yeah good sound cues I'm done for dgt now do you want to take some space or do
you want to sit and wait for the return
so fly dedicated outside dgt gonna come in he's gonna turn this corner he's
ready so fly not at all
So perhaps a second round for 9z if they can just close this out.
Bro, if Aurora have read this like 30 seconds in advance to rotate two down low.
Checkmate.
I mean, you saw the decisions going towards secret.
You saw they wanted to emphasize this.
You saw the presence over in ramp room.
So I think it's not out of the realm of possibility that they would read this.
But like the fact you call it so early and shift down.
We're in good places to stop this. Also, Pete can't do much on this flank.
Sondara is all the way up to the control room that Plant coming through is coming to stop it, so it does require a retake.
Trying to get that third player in position, silently down the vent.
No one from 9Z budge. The fight is coming through. There's the door open.
Waiting for the darkpeak, waiting for the kill out of con, but we've got Centaurs now coming through control room, out he goes, walks across the utility town, Centaurs has two pinned in there, they can't leave their cage, Centaurs taking it down, Mayhem squats, what's up, he can't get to it, and Aurora just retake it and defuse it inside of the smoke, domination from Aurora, 11-1 lead.
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The end is to the Taurus, we've had a car strike bringing these individuals together,
Chasing the same dreams truly a global sport and right now only one team showing up 11 to 1 for Aurora in that first half
I pissed Serano put this first map to bed and all the pressure will be on 9z and you gotta remember to this is
9z's map pick they wanted to take it here
They got done with that spirit game last night. There's three over times exhausted
They came and looked at the map percentages for Aurora. They saw nuka to 25% win rate and they said let's let's take it there
That's perfect. They've obviously bitten off way more than they can chew and it might be over right here
Oh, I got away.
Snuck away from that one.
Looks like they want to do a little bit of a fake piece towards the upper bomb side,
show a little bit of love and presence over in hot, and then break the doors.
You're coming into a three-man stack in Ramp Room, though, and you don't expect it!
Good job! Oh my God!
No way! Soapfly got away to do this!
That's what he gets done! Three kills of Soapfly rips the Soaps out of 90 here on Nuke,
and it's gonna be 12-1 unless Mayan can pull off a 1v3 miraculous moment from Heaven.
And now he spotted they know exactly where he is that bomb will get planted. It doesn't even matter
It's on this first map 19 kills for soulfly in the opening map of this series
His first major and he's looking to push Aurora into the playoffs in this 2-1 game
That is so crazy. What was the last time you saw Aurora styling on a team like this?
It's been a long time. It's been a very long time, but it's awesome to watch. I cannot believe he got a third
I can't believe you're jumping off me!
I can't!
Oh, it's...
The average is just so high over there, smiles on their faces, absolutely lovingness.
One map up.
9Z would have to pull off an unbelievable comeback.
They move outside.
Santaris.
Full of confidence.
Taking the first kill.
Grenade's landing towards Marin.
He's done decent damage.
The scout has connected.
They haven't been able to pull a kill back yet.
Yeah, but they're messing around with these fights, so I mean, the opportunity is still there.
That Nade is gonna find Zantares.
Now all of a sudden it gets a little bit weird.
Jump up on Unbreakable, a good shot from Wakadia.
Alleviating the pressure from that scout, and now you got Major in prime position.
And Aurora's figured it out.
Walking into the upper bomb site, this will be the first map.
Four on two, make it one.
Also peak with the Diego get a great start to the map. Yeah, the great start. Here's some nice shots
Why don't I hit some nice ones on the way up the door a
13-1 win teed up here for Aurora
Also peak will drop woxic, but we're Cardi is up next
Also peak moving into that but he moves into a headshot
headsets off ripping off Aurora. They are looking so ready to go to the Lancers.
They thought team 1 went over 9C, the team that gives so much difficulty,
likes the vitality and team spirit. Well they're not showing up at all versus Aurora.
Something special to talk about this deep hole.
And that's it!
We're gonna have this!
Gotta mix up!
We are back!
Oh my god!
I see you have to be strong to get here!
And I will not leave you!
Contacto is now!
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lost certain rounds but credit to Betboom they definitely had some awesome setups.
Apex has flashbangs to interrupt a monster commitment which at the moment is exactly
what it looks like we're gonna get. Wasting no time in this second pistol Betboom right on the
brink of going for the commitment. Here's the execute, smoke for Messi just gonna try to keep
himself alive in here. Ooh he's in the middle of all of it Apex flies out through heaven now it's
Mese Mese turn and Flammeis pops him instantly.
They're still concerned that somebody else is in there.
Robs going through the long flank,
exclaims he quietly creeps beyond the graffiti,
missed chance at a blindside freebie.
And they didn't even try to double swing him,
which would have been his main whole fear.
They're still not even worried about him.
It actually gives him a chance to get this fight for free,
but he loses.
Flammeis with two.
Nice gush.
Zaiwu now down to three healths,
still able to find one,
and Robs up against the Flammeis,
Two, three kills deep into the pistol.
Rob's taking his time to just crawl this forward.
And Flammeis, hands on!
Excellent round, man.
Four frags for Flammeis.
Oh, the score.
Because it's not with his motivation.
OK.
It's 7 to 6.
Yeah, it's 7-6.
That's why I did it backwards.
That's unbelievable.
I didn't smell the way that just happened.
Also, you're mostly...
Oh, he just got a fork to take the lead and did a 7-6.
6-6-6.
It's potentially your most impactful round of the major.
Yeah.
You get one chance to celebrate, kids.
That's why you gotta practice in the mirror at home.
That's what Apex does.
They got to put Robs up here, no one's better than Robson, and they're two of the jumping
FD9 kills.
They'll try it from a different angle.
Flamas keeps just escaping slightly.
They know he's in there.
We got a bunch of utility usage cut out from Betboom inside of Connector as now Flammeis
is safely tucked back into the short pipe.
A player, I mean all the players don't believe it on the CT side, they think they've shown
enough here that Betboom should be scared about them and Magnetja is Dilladess starting
to go back up, they have some utility so it could just be to serve a fake, maybe go for
a scout which you know, never bad to scout when the other team's forcing.
No, they'll recommit. Actually, kind of taking too much time.
Rops has already cleared out bathrooms.
A good move from Vitality. Nice proactive and early.
Everybody's back.
They just want to play the most committed spots possible now
and just really press up with these MP9s.
This could get scary for Betboom.
Execute over top. It's an emphasis on monster.
Messi turns over, sprays into them, catches a second.
Dillardes opening up the other side.
A sortes bomb, pushes through monster.
And now Apex swings out, drops it, and the force by sticks the landing.
Uh-oh, that's uncomfortable.
But actually, you know what?
It looks like Bat Boomer the ones who move a little bit too glowy and take too much time.
But in reality, actually, Vitality with Robs clearing out long going to top bathrooms,
the right wrist to take, did it early.
They looked like they were over rotating to A, but no, they had a plan to make sure that
they weren't just blindly gambling.
They put the MP9s back into really strong spots.
How convincing of a CT side do vitality have to have for you to believe that they're really
back?
The first half, I guess they can forget about it if they are really good for the rest of the series, but
You're still seeing worrying signs. Yeah, I mean you can't ignore what we saw
I don't know. I never saw Zai we missed two shots
What shots? What shots? I didn't see a POV
Never happened. I need to see that PLD. Nope never happened
The French news media will never show you that clip.
Grouping inside of the bathroom to try to get the bomb close.
I mean we all know this one.
An attempt is all this time.
If the Glock's close, try to swarm and look for a bomb plant, but not with this many bodies
on-site vitality all too prepared will pull back into the lead and actually
time we had some good rounds in there too it just wasn't with the op that's not
really that wasn't really even though those two op shots were kind of crazy
strange I was formed so far at the event has been stellar you know stellar it's
not really about that is actually about the calling that was most concerning
with vitality where it just feels like they just weren't talking at some points
and there has been a lot of it's been a consistent feature of coaches coming into
the team comes just to remind people to talk. It's about energy and everything like that.
Fire lit by the energy. Nice wall bang. Almost barely alive after that one. So that Mac 10
tucked into the corner and just hoping a frag grenade doesn't get underhanded over that
wall. Yeah, even a Molly would kill him.
Drops in the meantime is going to have his hand full in a second.
There's a lot of players on the front side of the bathrooms, and now he is stuck here.
He is stuck here because the smoke fades.
That was going to rifle.
I splash over from the B site, he'll hit a dink, that's two players low, on the side
of Betboom, and yet still 5v4 held onto.
That dink, it does good damage.
Trying to put the rifles in the right set of hands with two low health bars in Flamas
and Zortay still problematic here for Betboom.
Stuff as strong as possible around.
Obviously there's no up here to support and down a player.
But honestly, most of the time you
take the five players alive, but with the HP left over,
I think it'd rather be vitality.
Three players moving forward.
Apex's spray, it leaves a little meat on the bone.
Zairu slipped by though.
He's going to execute too, but he did take a shot to the head.
And so Zortay, this is suddenly a fair fight,
but Zairu looking to disengage from it.
Long player gets caught out.
And now Zorte, 11 HP, V3, and Zywoo, it's got your number.
He's got this one secured as Vitality take it forward, 9-7.
16-9, massive come up here for Zywoo, definitely taking over, huge impact overall.
I still want that POV.
Vitality is seemingly now in high spirits.
and joins the round wins they're able to secure so far on this defense
You're gonna translate
Wait, that's what I heard
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Bang
I'm starting up here
And it's obviously just versus some pistols
So that's a little bit doesn't need to death match it a little bit at that point of the game where now is I was score
It's still looking fantastic
Yeah, and if you just saw that clip in isolation the clip that is maybe out there on the internet of him missing two shots
by bathroom I don't know still kind of unconfirmed let me see that with that
floating out there you'd be shocked for this to be the same thing if he continues
to just now rack it up I mean on the break of 20 and 9 farming the freebies
being accused of being a baiter by apex and the close of the last round oh is
Is that what he said?
Yeah.
Oh, another one.
Re-farmed up.
That's easy.
That one goes down smoothly, double digits secured by Vitality, who looked to just smooth
sail their way to a map one win.
And here comes the buyback from Betboom.
See what Boomage wants to try.
He's called some very interesting stuff in this stage.
I've been really loving the setups.
Oh, well, there's a first-bomb, Craig.
He can get a double.
It's still two players left.
He's got no help.
13 and three.
Oh, my goodness.
How did he do this?
How did he do it again?
Welcome back to the Intox3 Masters' Cologne Major.
We moved to Dust2, and 9C have fought so hard
to get to this point, an exhausting match versus Spirit,
a win versus Vitality earlier in the competition.
Those are matches that they'll never forget,
but right now, this is a nightmare scenario.
They're up against Aurora.
The first map, 9-Z were nowhere to be seen.
They got absolutely trampled.
So what I mean when I mentioned that I think,
like part of it is, I think the inexperience
of handling the emotions of this kind of path
that they've been on, right?
Like Vitality, your emotions go sky high.
Spirit you're probably sky-high during the match the intensity of the match and then it comes crashing down
So you've got two days straight up just an emotions on a roller coaster
You get home late last night what that game ended at something like 1115 1130 local time that we saw probably can't get a great
Night's sleep, maybe you wake up early and then all of a sudden you're just all over the place
And you could never find themselves settled into that first map
They just got trouts and they just looked lost which is unusual for what we've seen out of 90 so far in this major
So hoping for a rebound here on dust too, but this is Aurora's map pick
This is exactly what they wanted to take it and that's the craziest part I guess about nuke is that's where 9z wanted to play
They wanted to play on nuke and they got destroyed now
You got to recover on your own that pick and you got to forget about the fact that you just lost 13 to 1
That's hard to forget
It's really hard to forget definitely hard to forget
Going into this though, you know all the pressure of the final day looming over you as well
You know you choose zero what how often have we seen underdog team?
And that happened, it feels like we've seen it so many times over the years at majors,
you get to another start, usually we're best of ones.
They've done it the hard way to do it the best of threes.
And then to watch that all drain away, it's just going to be so, so heartbreaking.
Yeah, it's a very, very scary prospect.
I mean, but coming into Dust 2, they beat Vitality on this map 13 to 11.
It's the number one map in Spiritspool, and they took them into overtime in a very narrow
16 to 14 loss, so think of your 9Z, you're trying to focus all the conversation on those
two things is remember how we played against Vitaliy, remember what we did
against Spirit, remember what was working for us. You're trying to get the focus on
your good performances on Dust2 heading into the second map of the series, but
everyone needs to wake up. There needs to be a lot more focus, there needs to be a
lot more individual stopping power from this 9Z side because they've just kind
of reverted back to pedestrian in that first map.
How devastating would it be as well going 2-0 and then falling to 0 and 2?
I think it's only happened of the 120 teams you've been to a major only 16 teams have failed to progress from that point
So it's happened before and this seems like a perfect moment for a P prime to happen again
Just because this team we haven't seen this level out of them throughout the entire year right the entire year was a grind
Much like much like in the previous series with multi a grind to get enough VRS points to make it here
And then put themselves in a position to capitalize on the moment
There's still a chance the bottom falls out of this 9s 18 might have seen an indication a hint of it back on nuke
They've got a recover on dust 2. No one goes home today
It's just for progression in Aurora one map away from the lengths of stage in the cologne playoffs
We're doing things on dust 2 for map 2
Got a gathering of the forces here for Aurora. Oh look everyone's here
Everyone's here for the party. It's gonna be a big fight early on max and luchov. Okay, they're around done
The pistol's over, and it's a perfect call here in 9Z. They walk right into five Aurora players.
Okay, well that's a great start. That's a perfect way to rebound from the previous map to help you get it behind you.
Just dominant collapse in the tunnels of B bomb site.
And Aurora never stood a chance. They never expected it. Everyone caught with nades and knife out trying to
get the execute started. The bomb rush into the B bomb site. 1-0 for 9Z, M4 is coming out.
There's no bomb plants and no investment from Aurora just a scout on Woxic.
Common player here on T side in this kind of scenario you lose the pistol on T side
We know bomb plane bring the scout through and see if you can get a few tags of it and make those glocks a little bit more deadly
I think another point you know we talked a lot about 9z's mentality obviously
It's a pretty important thing to bring up being down 13-1 and all the reasons of what they were in experience
But Aurora, I mean that's been something we talked about around this roster for a very long time is the fragility of
like the mental strength sometimes, like they do kind of get frustrated and sometimes they're
logged down by the emotions, and we can make sure that you put them in that position of
your lines, you try and force that out of Aurora, because it's a high pressure moment too, like
you know you're going to the playoffs if you get through this map, and a lot of emotions will be
involved throughout this game. Making a try and hold Woxic back, blocking him with his smoke.
smoke.
There's really not a whole lot of options for Aurora
than to give Wauksic the time to try and find a pick.
The 9Z's not giving him any clean looks.
Playing very conservative on the CT side,
knowing they've got just massive advantage
everywhere they look.
Not even a smoke for the CT cross.
38 seconds left on the clock.
without walks are given finding a shot to take
nazis just gonna have to make a decision
pick somewhere to attack into and hope it goes well
and they're going to run boost around the corner
waiting on to dgt
welcome them
And we'll take all those unit kills away. Nice and easy.
490.
So now the buy is coming up for Aurora.
No bomb plants in these first couple of rounds.
Walkthrough's gonna be in a tough scenario.
We have to go back to a scout again.
Yeah, the double scout.
When you buy it on the second round like that,
didn't get anything the first time,
but now he's got some AK-47s to clear the path
and let the scout take some deeper angles into the bomb sites.
Do nothing as the gun rounds get underway.
Few pieces of utility missing for Aurora as they get started.
This time, not with a pistol round victory.
So it's gonna be a little bit before the money grows enough for them to get all the bells and whistles.
On the Xbox Smoke, coupled with the door smoke.
But no one from Aurora actually moving with them.
They're going to be going heavy long.
Defenses are committed here either.
So, Wauserpeak is just going to secure the timing and back away.
Now they'll kind of shift over.
Try and take Catwalk control Molotov down now, shrinking the map,
but Wakadia has a chance to punish this.
There he goes back down.
Just the right time to spot it.
You can't get the kill account fully punished, but at least
prevents it from happening.
Wauserpeak's out of the smoke.
Wakadia eventually getting his kill elsewhere on the map.
That's Lutrol with the danger man out of play already.
Wauserpeak dead!
So, very good start to this round for Aurora, Wakadia unleashed after his killing.
In fact, he's even fighting for a CT spawn. Wakadia doing absolutely everything in this round.
Three kills picked up, Mayeron steps forward into the winning arms of Soulfly.
And that's a Soulfly Wakadia duo to win out their first rounds here for Aurora.
Beautiful full buy for Aurora. I mean, all five players survive.
No real issues whatsoever. Wakadia does a ton of work in the tunnels.
Forces back the push in towards upper, able to turn around and look for the push in middle, grabs this kill.
Finds the upper player at the B-bomb site a little bit later on.
He just works this out perfectly and look at this one.
Third one even just falling right into his lap.
DGT never aware and trying to back away from the pressure at the bomb site.
9Z out of money.
Right on the edge.
So instead of investing in rifles and forcing it,
the send him to some upgraded pistols really early on.
through the B tunnels to grab a player who's kind of jiggle peeking at the corner,
I think made 9z feel like this.
They were clearing out some positions to come back to the B bomb site late.
So they've all shifted to the other side of the map.
With the smoke up at double doors, they can't really retake mid,
but time has arrores taken this round slow and
making sure they get all the detail work in place.
So the defense has shifted back to the A bomb site,
but still going to be near impossible to hold.
30 seconds on the clock.
Tandara's going forward.
Wasupi cut open.
For a second here, Zantara couldn't get it done.
Sawfly throwing away Luchov.
Last few bullets as well.
And even going to the glock.
Sawfly's having a great start here.
That's a 4k from him in this one.
Pistor on back on Nuke as well with the 3k so he's performing very very well through this stage 3
He's been the second best performer statistically for Aurora just behind Wakadi up
Good to see him stepping up here for them as well
Clearing out the bomb site now we get the buy out of 9z
It went down to Deagle so they could forward the M4s here in round 5
One kid on Luchov that's all they've got to bring to the party
This looks faster from Aurora they have the long spawned soul flies gonna lead the way could flash they're both blind
He catches it regardless.
He gets the one pick out towards pit.
He's got a hot hand right now, doesn't he?
He really does.
Aurora making good use of it as well.
Although, now he's going to take some damage.
He's not a 40 HP.
He's going to reposition back over to the tunnels.
Yeah, but I think this is where the experience
and just the tactical nature of Aurora,
you can kind of exploit the fact that you have the opening
kill.
Four on four.
The T's love that.
Defense spreads thin.
We've already seen Wakadia take advantage of that.
just a couple rounds back
blocked off by smoke for the moment looks like aurora is always gonna head
back into the B tunnels
neutral moving forward flash is going to activate the P for the party at two
players that it don't get blinded at all
yeah look like it went around the corner maybe it was a little bit shallow and
B just got re-smoked
so I mean aurora was kind of making that play happen so that they could
not telegraph that they're sitting behind the smoke and then now they just
have to sit behind the smoke. Yeah it doesn't feel good for Aurora here. They're
setting up for Luchovs, even rotated over. Should be tough to lose this one now
for 9Z. Headshots solve all problems.
Oh thanks for the body shots. Santarys, we've gotten leaking out of the tunnels.
We got Luchov for the second and the rotations arrived. Not even required.
Luchov taking two on the way out there, so some stopping power from 9Z. Didn't
recover the AWP though that Waxacad that burns inside the flames, so they
won't have that tool in this round as they're not investing. Here's the flash.
Okay, maybe it can stop just a little bit shallow. Looked like it should have been
damn near perfect. Would have set Wakati up I think for at least one. Maybe even
two if that flash was there. One round lead.
Up still hasn't connected on the cross.
Smoked toward double doors and this is how Aurora's been opening up most of their rounds.
Three players outside long, one player in lower, and Arcadia setting up a little bit
of utility.
I'll be to fake the mid to be split, force out some defensive utility.
Let's see if you can get him to burn a Molotov and HE grenade, anything that might help
Set you up for later.
There's been patience from Wokse, because Wokse walks into him, so opening kill for the Turkish Sniper, and look at this.
Madger's moved through the doors.
It's a strong position to get. You can cut off these rotations. You can activate a play late into the round, but
there's nothing to do with it. He's actually going to start peeling away, wanting to be a part of this split.
Two-man push-up short, but there's two players. Make it three now for 9Z at short.
Yeah, and actually, Wakadi needs to drop his flashbang over to Major so that Major can set him up.
Smoke down now, 53 seconds. Aurora might want to wait a little bit for this to clear, so you can have two at the attack. Here it comes.
Rokadia threw the smoke, DGT, on the other side of it, burns.
They push forward. Rokadia getting away with one, but couldn't get away fully. Walks it.
Punish his man, who's forced to the open by the utility and down to 1 HP. Max, lucky to be alive as he flees the scene.
It'll be Aurora tying things up.
Yeah, they're able to take down Major, they're able to put a smoke down on Katz at the night,
access really, but you can't control it ever enough to be able to turn your gaze out towards Long
to help the other side of the attack, or the other side of the defense, so Soulfly gonna back away now.
Bomb is gonna go up shortly, Max looking to save this weapon with one HP.
And Aurora is not letting 9Z get anything going in these two maps.
Money's a problem, I have to imagine we're gonna be seeing a timeout from 9Z after this round.
No losing bonus, they're going to get an extra 1400, and I think once again if you're 9z you kind of have to sit around out.
It's really painful that their economy just keeps bouncing back and forth from being able to fly to being able to get really nothing at all.
Single M4 Max brought forward, they've got, he could drop one and that's about it, that'd be the two rifles outside of FAMAS they could have.
a really weird by-situation for 9Z, talking it over through this first time out of the map.
Aurora got to be feeling a little bit surprised at the series too.
When they just watch the Vitality games, when they watch the Spirit games, and then you came in and you destroyed someone 13-1, you got to be like, what's going on?
This is what we said when we started the series as well, Aurora coming into this, like, we know we're going up against 9Z, right? This is the team.
team, they're causing problems for the best in the role, winning against
Vitality, causing issues against Spirit. You know, this is a very different game
than they would have expected, especially that first map, but maybe things start
to heat up here on Dust2, not so much at the moment, it's going to be Aurora taking the lead.
At least you're keeping it close for now, right? Yeah. It does have that feeling about it, doesn't it?
Aurora just going to grab some control of this game and run away for a while.
Normally you see that when a team has a little bit of a run, like the underdog has some money
and they're having good performances, and then the first time that money's taken away
and the in the favorite kind of gets a plenty of cash flow and can rebuy utility every say around that's feels like that's the
moment where normally it goes the other direction
I haven't really gotten there yet
So far I probably surprised to see so many people at long out in the open
His AK-47 on the ground and majors not gonna let them pick it up now. We go on an investigatory mission
investigative
And there are investigations conclude as they investigate
MTP bombsite.
Well, my bomb will get planted in just a second hit.
Woxic making sure there's no one hiding.
Centauros goes back.
It's a little catch-of-loot-12 looking the wrong way,
so a flashbang at the ready for DGT.
Max has got the rifle.
And he's trying to run away,
trying to get to safety.
He just about makes it around the corner before that peek comes in.
He only got a USP.
Might as well stick around and see if he can challenge.
and they won't
so now he's going to play down into the lowest levels
well we don't have an analyst segment here on the B stream but imagine they
would have highlighted again
the Aurora CT side where we see Madra who flanks a lot
you know that game against Spirit
yeah but here's the thing when you're that long player you have to be really
cognizant of how often you do that
because that's something that's easy to pick out on
and I mean the way Major was doing it he was taking a lot of risk against Spirit
and he was paying off
But especially if that starts to become a trend and players start to catch on,
I go, this is one of those long players who likes to push long, you know, three, four rounds.
They're just going to start parking there just way more often, way more late,
and then you're kind of going to be stalled out, because you're looking to push,
and then you kind of also have the feeling that they're waiting for you.
So that'll be interesting to watch on the CT side, how Major handles that.
Well, we'll see what the CT side of 9Z can show us now.
I mean, what they need to get money back, and they've got some of it,
they got two from Asin Play, two from Inforced, and an AWP from me.
We're just going for a B rush. We ain't slowing down.
Ah, excuse me, Woxa gonna take the angle with the AWP if he gets a pick, I imagine they scale and they speed up, but smoked off.
I'm just making sure nobody's pushing, but still feels like they want to commit to this.
Waxit can't land the shot, the jump spot.
But happy to force out another piece of utility.
Aurora need to clear hard left.
That's why so big.
I'm not sure if it falls away.
Loot short, going forward, max, spraying away,
getting both Woxic fights on,
but it's still a very difficult round ahead of him.
His B attack is falling short for Aurora
and Woxic getting tagged up.
Oh, this Waxic really liked his Sintigete,
although it couldn't work against him.
He gets out of the door just as he realizes,
okay, didn't finish off my meal.
No peace.
Getting out of there.
Another push of the tunnel is alongside the window.
Woxig just doesn't have the weapon to fight on multiple fronts, but maybe his skills will help him!
No! No way! That's unreal!
That is unbelievable from Woxig!
Have you ever seen anything quite like that? Woxig plays it perfectly. After every shot,
the perfect micro movement to stay away from danger, but this should never ever happen.
Dude, that is one of the best plays we must see for a long time.
Walksick, stood no chance, but somehow makes the impossible happen.
An unironic graffiti, just give it to him now, that's crazy.
What a sequence.
I wasn't familiar with your game, I was saying you didn't have the weapon for it.
I was familiar with your game, I didn't think you could do it.
Well, if 9Z wasn't buried before that, surely now you're just broken.
You've got to just be so confused how that's occurred.
Woxic has just ripped your heart out.
Well, those kind of plays, get him in the arena.
He's going to stop playing those off.
This is insane. Aurora 5-3 up, shattering round that for 9C, back down to pistols.
That's the kind of round that's going to fire you up for a long time if you're Aurora.
Ho ho ho.
Oh, he's back.
That's what we like seeing at Woxic.
Then the coach knew that that's a tilting round, calls the timeout immediately to settle
9z down into this game.
Absolutely brutal turn of events, but what are you supposed to say to the boys, Bitt
probably doesn't have anything for that one, no coach quads can get you over it.
He might have just said Graffiti, that's Horace, headshot's in, Aurora controlling
over the top of these pistols. Easy as you like. Six to three.
Alright, well let's see if they can rebound from that. Six to
three, a three round lead. Round 10 coming up. But now if
you're 9z, you're like, we're already getting beat across the
map. But now we can't even win three on ones. Now even when we
do everything right and we have all the advantages, they've got
the players to bail them out.
the
stunning
and the seat is not as he can bounce back from it
well i like that they've at least called something aggressive and disruptive
Hop and lower tunnels, M4 peeking off short, and they're actually both just gonna go down.
Miss shots from DGT, miss shot from Mayeron with the AWP.
Easy as you like, Aurora.
Shove them to the side like it ain't no problem.
Running forward, chopping them up, and that is 7 for Aurora.
Smooth as you like.
Oh, come for it.
9z knocked out of this. Lucho is going to give it a go, but utility hits and walks his guard. They kill and they've just got an unbelievable amount of momentum now.
Yeah, I think you're kind of knocked out on your feet if you're 9z.
A little bit different look than what we saw on Nuke where they kind of felt lost. I think this one is just one where they've accepted. They got no chance in some of this.
You're starting to get a lot of confidence on the Aurora side out of that clutch.
Seem to see the swings off Catwalk as well. This kill from Zontars, but after this the hardcore trade teammate goes down, but Zontars right at his hip.
You have no chance to double up.
It's a four-round lead now.
And the uptags, swasso peak on the cross.
Aurora ready to knock on this B bomb site. I bet they're clear left.
Smoke goes forward so flight steps out.
They do not clear left. They do not.
Sholf gets one of the MP9, wants to repeat coming in with a 5-7. Luchoff up next to the low, there's the headshot.
He's going to hold on. USP going out, good flashback of the top position
and Luchoff making a big play here himself. Wokadia, can he clutch now?
It seems like every Aurora player has a possibility of winning any round
And Wokadia smokes out the doorway.
Flank is the issue.
Just a USP at the window.
It's just a USP at the window here.
Wokadia looking to undo the hard work of Luchov.
But he gets picked.
Mayan comes in at the right time.
And another round for 9z.
They so desperately needed that one.
Yeah, had to take a risk somewhere Wokadia in that clutch.
Unfortunately, the peek from the window puts an end to it.
Lovely hold from 9z.
Everyone fighting just as they're stepping out of the tunnel.
And 9z needed that.
They needed something to go their way just so they could take a deep breath.
They end that run five in a row for Aurora before 9Z can respond.
So first time out taken from Aurora.
They want to bury 9Z with a last round victory before heading into halftime.
Trying to keep 9Z from keeping this as close as possible.
A full-by coming in for 9Z,
They allp in the hands of Mayer and M4s across the board, but gun rounds have been few and far between for this 9Z defense.
Lovely sequence from Luchov to save the day.
Mayer as well with a little jiggle, spots Wakadian, able to clean him up.
I'm going to be more into a walks extending the fly to his feet, may I get a backtrack?
So open there'll be a little bit gap in that that he could slide into for an angle.
Not going to happen this round.
Now all the moves up short.
For Aurora dodging the spam, small target is Soulfly as he crouches down.
Zantara's soul fly and Wakadia with some supportive utility a flashbang to let them turn the corner
Major's just playing with him right now. It's really showing me to be they're just gonna walk up catwalk again
Nobody's home. They're going quiet. They're going contact now some flashes over to block off the off
Good timing on the flash, but Mayeron gets there just a second quicker to grab Soulfly, but that's all he'll have.
Yeah, Madzruh, here's the flank going forward now. He's flanking the flankers, he's counting behind them.
And then Tars and Madzruh in tandem take headshots.
DGC never realized he was spotted.
Turns the corner, everyone's looking in his direction, that feels terrible. Smoke towards CT, AWP, angle out towards Long with the flash.
You're not missing any details. Aurora's in a flow state right now, and 9z can't handle anything.
They're bringing to the party what a final kill quad kill for zantars in the last round
But this half is marked by walk six clutch. It's an eight to four lead and Aurora looking for those playoffs
Oh
We can do it, we can do it, we can get lost!
The impossible made possible by Woxic and that is the kind of play that earns you spots
in the greatest arena in Counter-Strike.
Surely Aurora gonna do it after a play like this.
This is crazy.
I mean, he uses the box perfectly.
This is nuts that he's able to hit that.
I never thought he'd have the time to even get a third shot off, much less landed.
And everyone knows how incredible it is.
That got the team fired up, Laura.
This reaction as well.
I know, every single one, because how are you,
you don't even see that in practice.
You don't, you just don't.
That is one of those freakish moments from Woxic.
Legendary moments already here in Cologne.
Woxic steps up with probably the clutch of the year.
And let's get into it.
Reaction begins with a second half, 9Z off their feet. Aurora knocking on the Cathedral door.
Activating up Catwalk, this is going to be a split towards the A bomb site, but the defense is standing here on Cat.
It's not out towards Long Flashbang, it's in. There's the peek from the dualies, but no damage done by Zontars.
Now he's got to fall off, but now they're in trouble.
Man, moving forward, gonna give it a good go here on the glock, smoke is up on that cross.
And Chef Owassopeak locking in towards the site, it's gonna be man up forward, man that's
gonna be knocked over and 90 into the site with the bomb going down.
Oh man, Aurora's had plenty of looks on this pistol, I haven't been able to clean up any
of those kills but it could happen quick.
Zontaro's gonna scale up behind the smoke for the moment, it's gonna fade shortly,
he doesn't have a whole lot of time.
And so on, it goes around the corner, TGT, sharp shooting on the P250.
I can see what a convincing Pistor on only losing one player. That's both pistols.
Yeah, both pistols now for 9Z. You've got to be happy about that one, but again, the bigger problem is in the first half,
you get the first two rounds off the pistol, but you only win two gun rounds.
So gun rounds once they're out, Aurora's just been completely dominant.
But a great Pistor on put together here by 9Z, good job.
Aurora just couldn't slow him down, couldn't stop him, not long, not short.
They got everything they wanted and pinching across on that defense inside the site.
Double scout for the CT side, two MP9s as well and a 5-7.
Any attacks from the scout can be so, so deadly and 9Z's got to play every single round as if it's extremely dangerous, nervous in every single one of them.
They all mean so much to this team to keep the momentum up or to gain momentum for perhaps the first time on this map.
All five players tunnels, Woxic's gonna be here with the scout, 5-7 and MP9 close up, you can get bottlenecked.
Antares, MP9, look at the stop limit, they try to charge their way through, Antares has done exactly that, Soulfly's right there too, and now he's going for it, slices them up!
A round for Aurora that braced the energy right back!
Back yeah the timing on that smoke that soul fly drops is so brutal
It's like you look you can have the first two players coming out into this mp9
But this the third fourth and fifth are gonna be blocked off by smoke their fights are gonna suck
Nothing they can do to come through and help their teammates just getting deleted
You also see the trajectory of the smoke and your focus more on soul fly
Just a perfect sequence of events you add the knife in on top because why the hell not
He's passed walks again up early due to the extra cash of the knife. Yeah, do it
Can't give it to him, he's earned it!
It makes complete sense.
That's his map, his domain.
Nightmare scenario for 9z.
They've taken so many body blows it feels in this map in particular.
So many situations that felt like they had in their favor.
Walks the clutch, it's just the tip of the iceberg, so you just have to be feeling like you can do nothing right.
4v5 and now you know the AWP is in play.
Little bit of a standing in mid, inside this smoke.
After Catwalk we go with DGT in position.
Zara is taking a while on the rifle, actually it took him way too long.
He doesn't get a single kill at all there on that hole from that,
since it ends up being cleaned up by the rest of his teammates.
So no worries for Roar, that's four from Wox.
They give him the AWP and that's exactly what he provides for you.
Yeah, actually, great call. Great call to drop on the AWP.
There's not enough flashbangs for 90 to actually turn that corner.
You need like four of them to keep Waxer off the angle long enough and...
Well, you have a clutch like that, you get the AWP. There's no stopping him.
There's no ending his success.
Oh, he's full of confidence right now.
Yeah, just let him have it.
Yeah, he's earned it.
He's gonna be untamed.
Only Glock's now for 9z, they have to give Aurora basically a free pass to get up to 11.
All that nade could do work, maybe it goes too deep, indeed it will.
Major gonna back away, here's the footsteps coming, calling his teammates,
over's on tolerance on the rotation.
And the Galil doing some more Q and up these eco kills, runs out of bullets, otherwise you might have had the A.
Zantaras will mop the last kill. 11-5, Aurora 2 rounds away from the Lensis.
9z is gonna have to pick up the pieces today. They will have to play again tomorrow
All this hard work, but yesterday you had donk today you've got walk stick
Stars like counter strike world toppling 9z here on tusk to
Well, they've huddled up around X-Box at the moment, Aurora letting him have some space
over in middle, Woxic dodges the flash, second one misses its mark, easy kill, it's Luchov
on the ground.
hitter for 9z out of the fight in round 17.
Woxic. Another victim off his scope. It's two in the round from Woxic. Soulfly jumping
through smoke. Mere moments away. It just feels like it's done already.
Can we throw in a towel?
It feels like we have to.
Throw it all in.
Hwasu peak, stuck in the lower tunnels.
Know what a run, know what a hide.
It is going to be series point for Aurora.
13-1 on Nuke, 12-5 right now on Dust2.
If you're 9-Z, if you're in staff, if you're a coach,
if you're the analysts, if you're the assistant coach,
if you're the performance, whatever you are,
it's time to start thinking about the conversation,
the dinner you're gonna have tonight
to get these guys focused up for tomorrow.
It's going to be a hard conversation, I think, to get through after you play two incredible series,
beating Vitality, as we've mentioned a couple times, with the close loss to Spirit 3 maps of overtime last night.
And then to get decimated like this in back-to-back maps, you're going to have to have a very, very...
Just, I don't even know, you have to have a strong conversation to get them past this moment, to get them focused up on tomorrow.
Feels like this is the first time in this major, maybe even in like a little over a month's time ever since PGL Astana,
Where they kind of burst onto people's radars yes first time since I've seen them look just just lost just beat
And they're making magics look silly
He said they were gonna qualify to he said he didn't he did not predict the divine intervention of walks his clutch on that B site
Is there a reload? Interesting time to do it. Here they come running at him.
He's gonna panic as he backstraps, but Matt just got two.
Come on now.
Yes indeed. Three kills away from Aurora in the playoffs.
Didn't know what to expect from Aurora coming into this event.
They're so up and down all season long, but they are in fine form in Cologne.
alone.
Fucking really good. The best I've seen him in some time. We'll see if that can hold
true for the playoffs. They're going to have plenty of days off to cool down, so got a
lot of time to prep and maintain your focus.
Under one minute on the clock. 9z now, no. But the hard work must be done on the final
day.
They kind of have to finish at the A-bomb, so you have a player in pit, you're going to want to be able to utilize him at some point, and nope, that's the bomb.
What?
Now we sit, and we shall mark B as Waxix Holy Sight, because that play has sent Aurora into the playoffs, open up the Cathedral doors, because Cologne will have an Aurora Sighting!
What an impressive performance, an impressive run through this stage.
Aurora came in and has looked excellent. Some of the best counter-strike we've seen them play.
And you add in those plays now today. We saw the individuals arrive.
They walk, sit, clutch, soul fly, having good games. A great series from soul fly.
And Steam is primed and ready for the playoffs. They're looking better than they ever have.
No, we see Aurora with those kind of plays with this ceiling, with these individuals.
This is the team we've been dreaming of for years. We've asked for a Turkish Super Team.
team. For years you couldn't get Woxic in the same team as Xantar as we all
begged for it to happen. When it came through we've seen glimpses of their
potential. But we are going to see them on the biggest stage in Counter-Strike
and who knows with plays like this with performances like this who knows what
they might do. Yeah for 9z it's gonna be just back to settling the team down
settling the boys down. You got one more game such a hard situation to be in
when you felt so close a number of times you've taken some really big
Scalps in some sense beating a team like Vitality gives you the impression like you've won the event in a way
You've accomplished an incredible goal, but now you got to reset you got to realign yourselves one more best of three
One more chance for 9z playoffs or bust for a roar
We'll get to see what kind of form they can bring in a number of days off to prepare
But they started strong we saw a glimpse early
But they fought with our hearts and so we've got soft light down on this sideline this fire burns eternal in this squad
Aurora is in the playoffs of this major and this is the first rookie that actually makes
it to the Langsons Arena and what a way to do it with this performance.
Can you talk us a little bit through it?
Because you just told me before the interview, this was a live game.
Yeah, I've been honest, everything is working, you know, like Nuke, T-Site and they were like
stacking on the radio around and then I somehow get three kills and then we need some rounds
and all my shots and all my plans working.
So I'm really happy that I did it today.
I think that Nuke was your best map ever in Aurora Jersey.
I just checked before the interview, so I have to double check after.
But you're feeling good about this performance?
Yeah, obviously.
They offered me because I played really good Nuke, so that's why I'm here.
And today I carried their ass, because they usually carry my ass on the Nuke and other maps as well.
But today, it's a really good day for me.
It's obviously about celebration, but Nainzi put up a good fight.
Obviously, they had a pretty good Stage 3 and Stage 2 prior to that.
Do you feel like that yesterday Marathon game that they had against Spirit
could have affected this game as well, because I spoke with them before the game,
and they said they were feeling really tired, it was hard for them to fall asleep.
Did you feel this on the server, this sluggy-ness?
Yeah, like, I mean, they're always shooting hard,
but I don't think they shoot hard as they did Spirit game, you know?
They're tired and I can understand them.
From Stage 2, I think they're playing from Stage 2,
and then playing a late game and like long time and then you know losing this game is actually hard to handle with emotions.
But I think they handled good and also we had a good plan so I'm really happy that they did really good job today as well.
Obviously this is the celebration of you and that means you will be playing in an Al-Anxis.
I have a feeling there will be a lot of Turkish fans coming in.
You want to invite them, talk to them a little bit?
Yeah, I can talk to them.
We did 3-1-trafes, we are very happy.
We are very proud of you, we are waiting for your support.
Thank you all for your mother, auntie, auntie, thank you all very much.
We are here with prayers, thank you very much, see you soon.
Quarterfinal secured, good job, and see you in the arena.
Yes, see you.
And if they walk downstairs, I hope the CT is quite a disadvantage.
It'll take some time for Robs to be able to get out of this position.
The only reason I say that.
A couple more rounds.
It is stolen a chance for Beth Boone, maybe to make this close in the second.
This one's very strange.
I mean, I'm sure there's something here where the upper players, they,
they really want to help out before a plant is tempted.
They're not assuming no CTs have moved.
And going back up the ladder could definitely be a play.
No one on the site floor right now.
Nope. Just a bit of a fake.
They'll get this bomb planted.
there wasn't actually anyone here.
That's a nice move out of Bat Boom.
Actually, so big it's upper.
I saw just how close they could get at last round.
Now, a third.
If only they had been able to squeeze out the finish a round ago.
And it was still a commendable
amount of T rounds to be had.
It's not gonna win now. They need to like, dive this plant.
Plants
They've got everything they need so they're just gonna go for a late retake
Hail Mary rate. No, no just literally just on to get to it. At least they get their kills
Nothing to lose for trying but
Just rack up a cost lead sort a the sole survivor
Everything in the world vitality could afford in the follow-up
To be honest very nice round out of it boom publicated position. They organized it perfectly and
and it was a very believable fake.
And coming back off of the previous round
with the half-bi that still put them in a post-plant,
first time they put that bomb down
since the second round of the half, essentially.
There's a slight uptick in improvement here
for Betboom at the very tail end.
It's just we've been singing Vitality's praise
from the second half of Overpass
to the start of this one,
they felt so untouchable for so long.
Yeah, we got up to that quality, but no quantity.
A real chance for a fourth T-side round win.
I'm going into the squeaky challenge, frag grenade, on boomage, poor guy down to 60 health
already.
They'll open that up, almost giving him something to shoot at.
Boomage takes a bullet of damage.
It's not going to keep him from trying to press through main though.
Magnetja is able to get through.
Boomage over towards the garage.
Apex trades back, but they have lost track of Boomage in the middle of all this.
Well Apex, they're not punishing him. He's going to be able to get into mini again.
That's fine. Flamis on the other side clips him.
Zaiwu didn't waste a second though, dropping down into the back of site.
And Robs gets the audible by Dilladez.
So it's a 3v3 secured.
The bomb is out here right in front of Robs, but
Cy will the back of the site's roaming around. Yeah, they give him space
Boom, it's a bit too late from the heaven wrap will get a shot onto Cy will for free
It's kind of has to take it but getting this bomb back so whole a different can of worms
They hear that gun swap by Zorte for the side of the fence flames
He's just waiting for a moment to come up and that is a hell of a headshot from Zorte
It's all about this sudden pop
They are so low that even a wild spray to the body would drop either of these players
Do they want to take a peek? Oh?
It's doable. They're both walking by it's just gonna start firing
Okay, I shot by boomage a much needed headshot to end this a curious sequence of rounds right here at the tail end
To keep us in tree bed boom do still have a chance
I can see it in your eyes, it's a feeling that you can't deny
I'll bring you higher so deep, so we can feel the light of the world behind
Let you still go, enjoy the ride
And if we fall, don't forget to give it a try
Don't forget to just go with the light
But just with the light
You're the light
I'm just with the light
Just go with the light
I
You're on the bottom with me
I bring your heart so deep
Let yourself go
Enjoy the ride
And if we fall
Don't forget to just go
I
Just go with the
Legacy is in the building ready to fight for their life.
I managed to grab Art ahead of the matchup.
We were hit with news yesterday about your coach being no longer available with you.
He's obviously banned because of violating the rules.
I want to ask you how does this change the move?
How does this change the preparation for you as an ITL?
Yeah, it makes some difference, mainly during the game for the preparation.
It doesn't really matter because you can still talk to us and help us, but you cannot be during the matches.
So that's the biggest issue.
So we have to be more aware of the pauses, when to pause, and just be more aware of what they're doing and trying to change up.
So I think that's the biggest problem, but we have a new coach for today.
Seriously? Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna see you later.
All right, we will see how this one goes, so just to be sure, ADR is able to talk with you between the maps, is that correct?
I'm not sure about between the maps, but he can still be like in the hotel or talking to us in the preparation.
What does this change for you specifically? Do you share his responsibilities among everyone in the team or everything falls on you now?
What are the changes in those regards?
Yeah, we also have an analyst with Bobbi's and we also shared the burden of
Choosing stuff and getting new stuff. So it's just a matter of
Each map or what one to do or change up our play style on some apps depending on opponent
So just a word turn shop. All right, let's focus on the match actually G2 ahead of you
What do you make of this matchup because G2 so far at this tournament?
They feel very shaky, you know, there's in my opinion like no real clear favorite in this matchup
do you feel the same?
Yeah, I guess so.
I think they're shaky just as we are in the Taiwan, they're not established I would say.
Of course they have way more experience than us and being together more time I would say.
But at the same time we have similar results, maybe we have a better momentum coming to
this match.
So maybe we can use that to our favor and try to grab this win.
I remember when I interviewed the Atlanta and I let you talk to the fans a little bit
that brought you a good luck.
we managed to grab that third place.
We'll talk to the friends and family back home as well,
right now.
Yeah, of course, in Portuguese, right?
Yes, of course.
Yeah.
I think that's it, guys.
We're in a situation that we wouldn't like to be in,
but it happens, right?
We're falling into a situation of 0-2, now 1-2,
looking for a victory to continue alive.
But more importantly, we're not dead.
We have a chance today to come back
and play off tomorrow.
So we're going to give life,
like yesterday, all the time,
but we will look for it and we will try to get there.
Thank you for your support and we will try to get there.
Thank you G2N Legacy.
Just one more game for us here on the B stream.
We got legacy taking on G2.
They seem like they're in good spirits today as they rock up for this do or die affair loses major ends
And you heard out just prior to that one talking a little bit about their confidence levels
They have momentum he claims as they're trying to turn this zero to ship around. Yeah, it's gonna be tough right?
I think two of these five players in the bottom seven of the tournament so far
That's just stage three
I think nerds also falls to that category. It's sad to the nissan
They haven't a tough time and then as mentioned on the other side
It's going to be nerds, but all the drama at the moment is around the whole ADR situation aren't touching on the interview
And we won't bother getting into it too much
But everybody will be able to understand that this team will not have the coach with them during the game to be able to assist
So how much is that going to happen them? We'll find out. Yeah, I suppose if you know if you do kind of hit the ground running
You don't need those kind of you can still take them technically
Sure, I think maybe even just for the 32nd breeders that's still an option
But as far as any sort of input, it's just not gonna happen
And this is it right the coach changes had a couple of times this season so far already for legacies
So look it that's a big storyline. I think if a community perspective perspective
I don't think art was was necessarily downplaying it by any means, but it's it's something that
Is more for the news cycle is for the actual outcome of this one
So we'll see that the implications it does have as we take a look at G2 on the screen yesterday
They lost to Aurora Aurora just taking down 9c locking themselves in all that arena
But this G2 roster, they excite me.
I think they're a very brawly team.
If people caught their series against Falcons,
that was very fun, same as their foot game.
They're having a real tough time in this tournament
being able to convert second rounds.
So pistols are one thing, conversion's gonna be another.
That's been in conversation around a lot of teams
here in Cologne.
For Legacy, in my opinion,
they are a very momentum-based team.
And I know Art was talking about momentum,
but that's off of a ParaVision win yesterday.
And ParaVision socks are at an all-time low.
Yeah, so it's, you know, we're going to counter strike maths right now, trying to weigh this all up on what does it all really mean.
Head to head wise, this is when mobs were still on G2.
So you can take from that what you will, but just know that it's not the two five man Rosses that you're seeing locking horns.
There is that differential, I think Nertz definitely is good for the mood and atmosphere of the squad.
He's not having the best stage three, but he is one of those players that I consider an X factor to be able to make the moves and win rounds on his lonesome.
taking a look right now at the map pool too. We will not be getting any nuke and I think where legacy are going to go.
They do this. People can't sit at home, but I am doing it. Yeah, the seven map pool, I believe they're going to ban Anubis here.
And then the picks are likely going to be, well, I won't lie to everybody. We know the first map is going to be Dust 2.
I then have to ask the question of what is going to be picked from G2 and they've really started to bring overpass into their map pool.
It's something that they've played a bunch of times since the inclusion of nerds here
So I would expect them to look to turn to overpass as a
Punish but also a map that they have been finding success on as of late
So there's the legacy dust to pick due to be setting on the CT side. I think we're gonna get overpass
Yeah, okay, and then the third map G2 would like ancient
And I was gonna say legacy would like mirage
They're probably the infernos in that case, right? So this should be an ancient burn and there
So it will be infernos the third and decided if we need to get there for my money
I I have G2 is the favorite in this one. I know that their results are a little bit spotty
I feel like they could have won that Falcon series a little bit earlier in the tournament
Whereas the legacy losses to mounds and now V both of those being zero two
It's just in terms of the form at this stage so far. I've liked what I've seen from G2
Yeah, and I actually echo your sentiment as far as my expectations. I think I also would lean towards G2 Mattis is such a good player every time you
I see him on my screen. It feels like his decision making is sound. He is a role player
He's a team player and he's got that mechanical output as well. He can he can get his two
I think when I look at this G2 roster with the rifling trio of heavy god
Mattis and of course the introduction of nerds any one of these players can carry a game
but they all know when it's necessary for them to make the move.
There's no clear star in this roster, in my opinion,
and Sampias is someone who's under a lot of flak
and maybe understandably so for some of the games,
but he needs to give a lot of room
because this is a very rifle-heavy team,
so he's always doing a lot of supporting and throwing utility.
Now, people can say,
okay, that's an excuse.
You're all passed out.
A bit more impact.
I believe that to be a true sentiment as well,
but it's not your normal complexion of a roster
where Sampias is necessarily being set up for success.
have five players in my opinion who can all be lights out in any given game
hunter as well right I know he's doing the in-game leading but he's one of
those individuals who's he's the most experienced player in this roster and
he's gonna play the key position on this map is the a rotating rifler not to be
joining have you got over towards B Ray you saw matters of the woods long
some players doing the choose the AWP and in a moment while we had a hunter in
the middle but we'll flick over and you can take a look at legacies T side I
think the key for legacy is if art's feeling it and that's such nothing
analysis, but it's the sense of he's a caller who calls with his gut, right?
And if he's feeling around, whereas I don't think they're going to pick middle,
we're just going to wait suicide for the first five seconds, and three of us
going to run down straight for short or mid-doors control, right?
He's the type of man who is going to make those calls.
And he's earned the trust of his team throughout the season
since he's joined this roster.
I think the issue for Art of Once Upon a Time was the way that he would approach
games, he would be doing his own thing, and the rest of the team had to
capitalize off the back of it.
He's been able to kind of pack that in a little bit better with the responses of his roster coordination now
You know, yes, he's had some temperate so for art
He's it's more well rounded of a game and he was pretty young when he was in game leading before as well right now
I'm gonna say young I am inexperienced level so he's had time to mature and he's got some heavy hitters
Do you know in Lato those two rifles who have been together for an awfully long time now?
They're the centerpiece of this roster if sadden can have a good game
He's very explosive on the AWP Nysim's first bullet accuracy. He's sitting so close to the screen. He had some absolute bangers
But as mentioned him at sadzen before today started with bottom seven bottom seven feels like a weird number
But that's good. I think nurse was the seven followers
I was just trying to get the lowest performing members from both of these teams into one neat box
Which is unusual, you know, Nysim's often, you know a valuable asset
We'll see if he can turn his fate around in this
Matchup loser will have their major end and hot favorite G2 start on the defense of dust 2
Yeah, so I don't think we'd take the foot off the gas until we have the first third round converted, right?
So the first consecutive rounds converted because G2, their second round conversions are absolutely miserable so far in stage three.
We've got a straight-up long pop. Somebody up the guts with a flank.
So they're boxed in already.
I'm sure of a pressure coming quickly onto Mattis.
Oh, that's an important find from this, him immediately removing nerds from that car position,
accelerating into that site matters, trying to catch that first head up the ramp.
Some players spamming away, gets nothing, and already matters,
catching a bullet does well to find anything from that compromised position.
Looks like Legacy have managed to get that bomb down.
Maybe something from Heavy got here on the flank, but it's latter he's got to get past in that pit position.
Hunter just has to hide away and hope that Heavy go can get something down,
and now that he's been noted this is tough.
Yeah, just find it quickly and now enables him to find a number onto Art.
Okay!
Hacker the second of four versus two.
Suddenly all onto Savzin!
Have you got an hunter?
Just flip the script!
How have they done that?
Yeah, that looks so casual.
Doesn't it?
You should be completely locked out.
I think the response there from the G2 individual shows you
they know they got away with the highway robbery and that one.
So legacy, a slip up early.
That should have been the conversion.
But as mentioned, no foot off the gas in the early stage of this.
It will be a forced by back guaranteed coming out of legacy.
You can already see the buyer starting to take shape of these two German on the
Jorba Redders. How do they pull that off? There should be no way in to a
scenario that was so easy at the gates from Legacy. Yeah I think Legacy can be
scratching their heads about that one. Okay well Tugalil's a scout man, Tech
Nines to respond. Can G2 win a second round? It started off
fantastically for Legacy. Already you've tanked up someone on the cross, Mattis
is sticking around on Long. Now there is a block smoke and they might respect it.
Okay, well, uh, it could have gotten out right if they had flashed
I don't know if matters would be willing to brave the swing on his lonesome
Couple of breaks over towards the mid-doors to set up some parts with the AWP
Like they've been able to pull that out early and what felt like a lost round
We'll see how many rounds of past can hold on to this while they are coming along eventually after that smoke
So Mattis is good as work at our friend Hunter's debate for him. How's he supposed to help?
Now he's burning and feels like he's a dead man
Surrounded by two do you now will overcome
Hunter's got to try and play his life here.
Play for that one and done, does dip back.
Perfect.
Dequalizing Frank provided, he goes in for a double dip off the flash.
No one blind.
To one site though, maybe Nerts can pick this one up on the accelerating art.
He finds it with ease.
A scout from Santa fires off a shot.
Doom out, unknown up close.
They're swinging in for it.
Both of them are inflicting heavy damage to one another,
but with Doom out on 19, into the smoke, an easy pickings for heavy god.
Nissen's gonna have to find impact here on low HP.
It doesn't seem like it's too tough.
Heavy God's not considering this.
He is like, intermittently checking.
And now he's going to be locked on to short side.
His teammate assuring him he's got long.
Scout versus AWP, though.
Doesn't want to overcommit to some pious.
The bomb's under their boots on A.
God, they are playing the waiting game,
just hoping to catch that timing.
Maybe they're going to clear through.
Sad to advances and has hit that shot on the scout.
So it gets a little uncomfortable now.
heavy god versus the scout. He's gonna try and reposition.
Sad to acknowledge that. Oh my god, a bullet hit both ways.
Hang on a second one. Scout bullet would do it.
Sad to connect. He hasn't got the time.
A wall bang. This is his only hope.
Can't he find it through the box?
It's gonna be G2 converting. Still low.
Heavy god by the skin of his teeth
recovers the orb and brings home round two.
Okay, so this is sketchy now.
I want some of sketchy.
Legacy wanna go again with another force fight.
It does seem crazy, but crazier things
that happen than I saw foot on the CT side
of engine go for double force by his back to back and that had me scratch in my
head they still put the map off respect to foot and sent home mouse and it will
be the force by again that got way too close those the situations where some
players need to hit one shot right that's that's what we're talking about he
doesn't need to be going lights out just hit one shot
saddened hit two okay out top mid so beautiful on the scow this is gonna be a
rocket-socking game of Counter-Strike Rises it's just the way that these two
teams play G2, they always find themselves in exciting bangers and
matches, right? These are back and forth games that some of the most entertaining
CSU won't say it's the most beautiful. No one's saying that. It definitely delivers
in the firepower and punch department. So they thought they were out of the
woods. They now need to claw back a 3v5 disadvantage thanks to Sadsen.
There's some in Doom out with Tunnels control. Madisonie's earned towards long
here on this context. Cam, the one on R in suicide. So waiting to see if the CTs
want to commit with a push at all they do go into an ace split that's where the
stack now finds itself for g2 you got one flashbang you better be using this
one wisely and it look like it might be behind Mattis no okay gobs for the doors
now they will they get the info on the SMG
Mattis will remove Lata do now for that trade attempt there's two bodies now
spotted from Mattis if he lays the info has heavy got in support and a scout
bullet does connect that's big big big oh they've lost heavy god do now Pete
It's a B Defender, so this should be an empty site right now.
What if he feels like the round is lost?
Hunt's up with the AWP, just has to hit a shot on the cross,
and that is not a just at all.
It's not an easy shot to hit, and doesn't even take the shot.
Yeah, they might just find themselves saving here.
I think this is too tough to get into now,
and you'd be giving away the AWP Mattis,
looking like he's going to have to do it all
if they want to win this.
And maybe it's just the consideration
into an upgrade if he can find one.
Sadsen, beautiful double there on the scouts
open up the account and it's a lot of some price defender by any means but you
can't be given away here we go like this that is a cracker of a shot right
there and the second is even better so it's a winster round essentially right
there and then they put their toe in the water towards long a little bit of hot
they reroute and just right is that B site is before the start of round three
sadson if he opens middle killing I'm sure well sadson he was dad damn sure and
He delivered, beautiful work.
It's a sick shot.
He's had it clearly back in his aim.
Feels like he's got a one up on his counterpart
on the other side of the server.
They're going to force by back on the other side, right?
So we're well and truly into the force by wards here.
We'll see if this relents at any point.
And they're going to have a lot of these jarring moves, right?
G2, they have no issues taking risks.
Whether it's running up mid, pushing into lower tunnels,
even just staying in limbo in the well of mid and short.
So all wants to take the time out.
So, the boss man, it's on the microphone just to give them an extra 30 seconds to discuss
the plan.
I think that's exactly it, Ryan.
How often have we had listen-ins with the teams and the attendants here in Cologne where
the comms are, you know, we didn't have a plan.
We need more of a plan.
We need to all be on that same page.
And so, maybe Sorgis knows this is going to be a round.
We need a solid plan.
Everyone understands exactly what our objective is in the opening.
It's just as well, Legacy can take two rounds off of this one.
While you have some of the resemblance up by,
your best shot, that's with a good spawn to push in your lower tunnels if you'd like.
On the other side, Sans is not of a scout this time, it's not of an AWP,
so the scope advantage is with some pies, but that's been the case since the second round of the game,
and it hasn't seemed to matter so far.
So round number four, I'm about to kick off.
The pies opens middle again.
I want to put more long pressure on Hunter Mattis, up to back.
Throw ahead of me, Sendier. Flash is connecting beautifully from Legacy, and this guy's already out.
Heavy God's responded, and he's actually taking a big risk. He's just pushed through the upper tunnel, smoke, briefly.
God, I nearly lost this. I'm going to do a lot of damage through the smoke. He catches some flags, sure, or half health, and you can see such a quick pivot.
With Heavy God's intel, the entire G2 squad just congregate on A, as Legacy actually backing out of Long.
This is where the gut calls of art come into play because this is crazy to be having to
go all the way back to what's being without any space, right?
You didn't have a lurk, you didn't have a loose PC, you don't actually know what's home.
Heavy God only has the MP9 short.
Coming in for this, I don't expect them to announce their presence with a flash, so this
is going to be a dry clear.
Heavy God, if he gets a multi, rounds on.
If he doesn't, the B-Side's lost.
He's had an art and star! He does provide two!
Looked like he lost control for a second, but a nice double.
Hustle gets time, gets the info, gets the frag.
Lata removed, sads in, in two mines.
With the bomb behind him, he has to go and retrieve it, and will regroup with Nessim on that 10 HP.
Looks like the round is going G2's way, thanks to Heavy God's contributions.
There's no way to AE, there's no position over towards Cat, so likely just to see them save.
This it's not Glamorous Wave for the round to go up, it's a sloppy.
Even after those kills come in, no one picked up the bomb and they still tried to breach in the B for the space.
So we're gonna tie...oh, excuse me, it's gonna be 3-1, we're not gonna tie things up.
Legacy unable to go with consecutive rounds, but they continue to be a threat.
So 2-gun save, no loss by us to come in for Sads and Onnisum.
You can start trying to piece together what their next round of buy will look like.
Nertz is coming over to see if he can find himself an upgrade away.
And well he's gonna get an M4 for his trouble so that's quite nice for G2.
Timakubai himself a Galil or an AK with head armor right, Galil means he can get that U-Till
out.
Art's bored in the media lead.
They're juggling guns right now so Art's gonna be wounding something a little bit less.
It's a very light smattering of U-Till which tells me it is gonna have to be grouped up
again.
The legacy like to take their long spawns and looks like they're gonna go once more.
Here comes trouble.
Feels like it's the same round again, consider them this time Matt.
His Pokes his nose out of that long corner smoke.
Hunter just gets his head blown off by Doom.
Our peeks in, reveals through the smoke with the spray and provides an opening kill.
This is the coin toss of Counter-Strike in full effect.
How many rounds are you gonna get long spawned, right?
This is something that they had a lot of against FlyQuest too.
They were just taking their spawns and completely barraging out long.
The nuance is not there, but the effectiveness it is.
I've seen Jitsu already struggle to deal with this, so on a fast timing, dinner with the flash ready on the cross.
That's a matter of investigating elsewhere.
On the break, they're not going to get the info they were looking for.
So out of position now, they will lose the sight.
That's playing proactively here and the flash doesn't catch him, he gets info, they are
committing a, he's going to need some backup, Lato catches them both.
With combination of frags, we do see the site fall, they can see to close that gap.
They're stuck in CT, this is actually going to be difficult for the two of them to save
right now.
Nisman's just coming up to make sure no one's jumping up the elevator box, but as soon as
he's done that, he will start to path back, and Lato actually has them.
So he'll get the information before they're able to path away, if Nisman gets towards
middle. These two feel like they're dead to right and back and forth we go again.
The concerns right now obviously it's holding onto these guns but for me the flow on effect of
this is going to be G2 having to start for long potentially to win out early.
You're not going to have the money to do so into the next and it's not going for the hunt here.
Holding the line. Sumpias is pinned. I think you put your body on the line right now to make
sure he goes down with the bomb so Sumpias having an absolute mare to kick this map off. He's going
He's gonna go down with a bomb here.
Every God has been able to pick up the orb.
I think at this point, don't have fuel.
He's missing cities.
Some cities here.
Yeah, his form is in question.
At least it's maintained.
It will be put back in his hands.
Like I said, I think that's a bad thing.
Yeah, I mean, sure.
But at least he's gonna have a chance for redemption, Charlie B.
I'm with you.
I just got from every God with a rifle right now.
If I had the choice between some pass who hasn't hit a single shot with the AWP and he's had it since round two or have you got
An rifle I don't have you got an right. Oh, that's hit a nice clothesline on the swing from Matt is trying to get to pit
They did a start three with the bomb towards B
The backup is quite disconnected so poor nerds has got an awful lot of work to do with what an armored 5-7
This is essentially an eco with a couple of glide investments
Let's see what nerds can do.
Oh!
The second headshot's instantaneous onto Lato.
They might have to back up.
He's actually swatting that on, meet this whole beast.
He's finally felled by the spread of the flame, but it buys time for that warp to deliver.
Some buys his first connection, and it's an important one onto Nism.
G2 have got heavy god flanking it onto R. Can't hit the shot.
Great awareness, but there's some players picking up his second. He can close it all down. He's down three. That's the impact
That's the trust you to show in their sniper paying off for four. Yeah, this is just gonna continue throughout right?
It's gonna be another buyback from legacy. We're not gonna establish a standard game where teams are having to relent here
It's just gonna be whatever they can strap on themselves and take into the next round to play because again
That was essentially an eco. It's just this 5-7 and this one beautiful
That's after the wrist right into Lotto that is the heavy hit is dead not considering that's tucked in tight
And Sopias, the Spaniard, does finally hit a shot.
Now it's emboldened, like the way that previous round felt.
Now he's gonna try and take a fight on his terms.
Aggressive in tunnels.
He's got a flash from this, and has Doom out.
Here comes that combo of Utah.
How does Nerts traverse this one?
Call it his back turn.
Doom has played it to perfection.
CT aggressive with Uber.
There's not an X or anything but a disadvantage at the start of round 7.
Now Tyra is kind of a reward, but given we're an opening pick like this,
someone on G2 now needs to find the multi.
That is pressed in towards the long doors.
Pies are all trained on middle and heavy go will be tasked with dealing with B.
Flash out some pies, doesn't fire off.
The bomb on the back of our now dropped and scuttled into mid,
so they're going to try and take the short control and just see who's on.
This will help up he's the pitcher together of what the defense currently looks like
Taxi month to 60 they are set up for a mid to be right now
Yeah, and it is only heavy got here they've managed to push some pious further away the smoke is up
And it really does feel like it's all on one man. He's in a terrible spot for the mid to be
He's just gonna be exposed spotted on the door. Oh swing him hang on a kill from Lato
At least he found heavy God as well
Through his teammate, but that should be round.
Plenty of cash for some pice and punter.
It's delivering exactly what you promised, Chad.
It's going to be this throughout, right?
Overpass will have a slightly different flavour,
obviously just by virtue of the map, but that's two.
And if I know it can have a whole lot of this action.
Just non-stop punching each other in the face.
There have been a lot of landslide halves throughout the Major so far,
but not when G2's in the server, right?
This is a team that definitely forced the game
into some of the most entertaining counter-strike.
People remember Entz with obviously Snappy,
but there he saw some pious nerds, right?
It was that combo of players with your deans of the world
was offering some very exciting games.
This is weird.
The legacy let out a roar.
They get their third and we keep it to a one round gap.
We haven't had consecutive rounds for either team since the pistol and that G2 conversion.
It didn't count for an awful lot.
It got damn close.
Remember 1v1 between Heavy God and Satsun.
Straight down middle.
This is risky from Doom.
I don't hate you or anything.
You wonder if that's telling them how unscared they are of some prices AWP.
Yeah, fearless.
Now they can just kill them in space.
Are they light on the uterus?
Won't you have to invest too much?
Smoke a flashbang and you're already up short.
One minute 30.
Quite the luxury.
Supplies a lot of pressure as well.
Some passers here in those steps.
So that puts the onus on Hunter.
It's crazy that it's actually chosen to throw a smoke
towards the long doors first.
Gives Mattis a little bit of breathing room,
but Shaw is under some scrutiny.
He's still got his smoke and he's holding on to it.
The longer the better.
Sumpires on a mid sweep.
Sanzin carrying that bomb down to Xbox.
Looks like you'll have cover just as Sumpires rounds
this corner.
Now he's missed a shot.
Restaurant towards mid, all across the B ramp side.
They know it, and they're still coming.
He's gonna hit that one onto Art.
Good start from Sumpires.
The Spanish jumper was a double dip.
drops into the site, scared away by the flame. He's got Heavy got in support, finds a comfortable
double, even a third as well. Heavy got dinks onto Missim and now it's the third piece undetected.
Will bring home the bacon. It's five to three.
I couldn't find the AWP right there, but we're good in the hood. Some guys are going to buy
another one. We keep this trend going. And this buy is going to be a little bit more
question right now for legacy. So now for Saturn on an AK Missim as well.
Lado's been able to one bullet in his mag, I think. So they're just missing one rifle.
Art works on a P250. So the way that they've shoved their cash around, it looks pretty threatening,
but they need to respond to it otherwise it's going to be eco territory with only 1900 going
into the next. So this is it for legacy as far as being able to bite back.
back. Well, the trend to continue see the flow and affects some of those earlier rounds
right that Molly right there from this and tosses dealing with anyone up close and personal
just harassing the B defense, but it is just heavy got home notes close doors.
I can go away now. No one's put their nose out and it makes sense to want to play positions
like that against legacy because they will just contact through smokes. They'll take
some of these chances, so you need to be prepared for anything when you're playing its arts teams.
Oh, he's just been caught jumping up, miss him.
Caught by Nert as an opening provided.
He's still got that short territory, but they haven't done anything with it.
And if you were to try, you've got a lot to get past some pious posted cart.
It's a good understanding of the situation from G2.
They went out of that fight, now they congregate, they're grouped up ready to deal with this.
So this is beautiful.
He's even got a flash for the parm.
Sampaius on the contact.
Never mind, he's eating the flashes but has them on the cross.
Force wide as Nert has to take this fight.
The flash connects, the spray doesn't, it softens them up for the Hunter HE.
Double trouble on the blow up.
Cross it, easy pick for Sampaius and G2 will find two consecutive.
They've got the pistol, they've already got six.
And it'll be an eco now.
Okay, so they've bought themselves a very comfortable CT total here.
Yeah, this is nice to see.
And they're having a good time with it, so...
I mean, because Nerts kind of didn't find the kills,
he let him to get the showstopper.
Single-desert eagle.
Yeah, you wonder in that situation, right, for that read,
with nameplate counter-shot, they take Nism,
who's normally in a default, the upper tunnels lurk.
So I was like, oh, well, if the upper tunnels lurk,
is over the ward shore, is that telling of a group
that play from legacy, right?
And that appeared to be what informed hunter
to put the pieces in the right place.
This economical, whether or not it'll be dealt with swiftly,
it will definitely be dealt with.
They're trying to find the deagle in the smoke.
Little do they know.
Art push, they're a little further forward.
That's unusual.
You can't, right?
I think you can see his corpse poking out the smoke there.
Just curious how long Hunter and Nerts stay jiggling on cat before they really start to make a move to deal with the EECs.
Not to hit that 60 second mark, this is a good opportunity to remind everybody we are going to have an RV,
with the non-falkens on the mainstream.
I still got a chance right now to chew them up, spit them out.
Yeah, I think that's a hot, anticipated matchup and that's a crazy Glock headshot.
Just a flying instant to the brain.
Trying to get ahead of the smoke? Yeah, missing his. Taking his chances. We'll eat the flashback
though, so easy pick. Hunked up. Together, lovely work. Controlling the spray. Get his
eeks. That's the captain's tax.
What's him up to 9 individually?
Well, what can you recover out of this legacy? You knew what you were getting yourself in
for. He wants some good individual jewels to get the account going and well that's flashy
but counts for nothing. Matt is always able to shrug things off with a smile. I don't
think Saturn has had an AWP this half. Nobody's scout looks good. Yeah well he's opted for
the AK so it's pious. Aggressive short, takes the line. I haven't seen Legacy 4 found to
this at all. Mattis even flirts with some aggression off of a long-door flash.
It looks like maybe Sampias is gonna get one here.
Do not synchronizing with his top mid player.
Sampias none the wiser. They are closing the gap on him as Lato starts his walk.
He's gonna be ready, gone on and he has provided.
Open kill on Lato and R tries to react on long side gets caught by Mattis so a
two-man advantage for G2 to post an 8 here on the CT side.
Everything's shaping up nicely, gets really awkward for legacy.
You've got a single flashbang, you've got a two-man disadvantage.
You'd have to just pray for a crazy overstep or mistake at this stage.
It's not going to happen. This is him.
Picked off by some pyres.
He didn't recover a Molotov, forces out a smoke on site.
But Hunter tracks the head of Doom out. Easy from him.
They stay composed, keeping it calm.
this is just to survive and see that last day of play here in stage three. Yeah, it's going to be
some big names to deal with tomorrow for whoever is able to walk through this one today. Obviously,
the loser of Navi vs Falcons is one of them. I'll give you the spoiler on the other results.
If you want to go back and watch them in the box, but it's going to be a tough day at the office.
Tomorrow is the day of the real heartbreak, right? You've come so far, you've got so close,
but one step away from the Lancess and that'll be that. One corner smoke. They've also gone
mid doors and xbox and starting fall lock this is what I was talking about
earlier in the piece G2 at some point we're gonna have to consider the fact
that these long spawns have been the bane of their existence a quick response
from legacy they understand the strong defense and they rotate swiftly up
short. Hunter, where are you the possibility that they could try and pop out mid to be
your isolate nerds over towards that side of the map as he isn't he's lonesome so they
blocked the mid doors they rotate heavy got across they continue to stall out the possibilities
on short. Titan has that scout backs let's see if he can hit a couple of bangers again
Heavy got, shaves one off, Lado down.
This is tough. One flash, a smoke, and a molly to execute in time.
I feel like that's the story of this.
Yeah, that's what happens when you get in those force by wars early.
Yeah, lose out.
Some IS does flash, but Hunter in combination with some IS,
wow, done very well. So sad, Zin.
Need a whole lot more of them than that though.
Ducks under, Hunter tracks their heads.
So, clean with it for a live 9 rounds already in the bank for G2 and believe it or not, this is Legacy's pick.
They got pulled into the mud and G2 prevailed.
We'll be right back with a second half.
I
Hey, boys!
Let's go, damn it!
You're muted, bro. I'm focused.
And that was how the game started here on Dust2,
a two versus four.
You did a disbelief in the comms from G2.
It's pretty funny right there.
So, Pysco's Micky's muted.
He got not focused.
I love the comms from Nerds as well,
just making it clear, like, this player's been spotted as well.
You can anticipate reactions off the back of that.
We've got some pace.
We've got five sets of Kev for legacy CT pistol.
And we've got a flash in the face of Heavy, he's still surges forward, easy for our trade from Hunter.
Sadzim catches a bullet, but he's okay, healthy still around the smoke, he's not gonna go pushing on that flashbang.
That's what this makes it across as well.
Three coming in from the short side.
Smoking our fates.
This is a good post plant setup.
Looks solid, but they've got some hard hitters on legacy.
It's all about that first frag.
It's not the house of cards tumbling over.
Hunter's removed later as well.
That's a solid connection.
Oh, Sadson though, that's better.
Long range onto Sampires now gets hectic on site.
Hunter has to do it all and denied by Nysim.
That is a necessity for legacy to keep hope alive on their map pick.
That's such a tough shot there from Sadson into pit there.
Praise Sampires.
And this was damn close, right?
Hunter gets to stay alive for a split second longer,
and that's their round, so knowing how close they were,
but guess what?
The force by war is gonna kick off again.
It's the second shot here.
Bosh.
Yeah.
You didn't need to swing.
Come on!
That's a, we'll give him that one.
All right, well, their force on the T side
will be handful of Galils, two tech nines,
and the eagle for heavy god.
It's the mid-door smoke out the gates
and it shot Molly to stop the aggression.
they didn't have anyone spotting lower so there is a chance the legacy could be in lower tunnels
they have to acknowledge that and what Hunter is by face checking the bush look at him go
you mentioned the heavy god deagle i do think he's one of those players that
i will associate with that weapon he's very good at finding even those like hectic rounds where it
gets a bit more up close and personal his deagle spam he has a great understanding of the weapon
can utilize it very effectively.
G2 have a very strong B-pop.
We'll see if they run it here.
Lado...
He's actually playing anti right now.
Listen to take first contact.
Eyes on mid to B, Dumau has that at the moment.
They're not smoked off or anything, so he's going to cheat over and see if he can assist with this.
That means that Nisman Lado can stay focused.
And Bino G2 have a good B-pop.
So the legacy.
So can they hold on against this?
Dumau will call the bluff on the smokes.
Alex, Alex might land on B.
One does not blind here, he's doing well.
Swings in for a clean headshot.
That's an upgrade, that's going to draw attention away from B.
Lato looking the other way.
Now they accelerate, missing does great work.
Onto Mattis through the smoke, pivots back.
Sampias committing with Nerts, spotted over the top of the smoke.
There's pressure from every angle.
Good from missing for another, can't find it.
Oh, we got onto Nerts!
Heavy got down, it's Sampias in the clutch.
He can smoke doors and then pick up this M4.
Does so
Spam from Sandsons Galil does tag him up is he really trying to play around the smoke
No kid on these two
They wait out the full duration it does get awkward
He knows he's just got to play his life try and find that first frag without the immediate trade here
They come into the site timing that you Sandson mantling out pulls it into one V1 techno
It's gonna lose some pirates a necessary clutch
That's big you got the pistol legacy, but very quickly brought back down to earth
Beautiful work right there and the key one is unfortunate death effort to my right. What was he shooting at in that initial foray?
He goes down in middle that's what changes the B set up
Lado is now drawn to have to deal with the mid to be crisscross possibility and I understand it's a 1v2 situation there
But some pious holds on
Secures the rounds and now
One round away and you break legacy. You essentially win the map. Okay, see if there's gonna be more twists and turns to this one
They started three long
Art will be the type of guy to push this on a timing
G2 will be aware of it, but you can't account for everything, right? So
They're gonna leave him up for the push. They're gonna pack roll make sure they're there to trade in case legacy try and swarm
That's a doesn't have a scout on the ramp. It's a p250. He's open to a lot of work with a smoke
and I actually hasn't taken his timing or opportunity to push out.
So lining up this AP's, this just saddens in here.
If he even gets a kill, that's a job well done in my books.
Yeah, they're already ahead of his smoke as well, so good luck having fun, Sansin.
A P250 in a dream, 50 HP as well as he's just repositioned around the CT smoke, so he's found some cover.
And he's called by nerds. Perfect, just kept crawling.
Sampiresh got an MP9 to deal with on the short side, gets a heads up with a shoulder of art.
Got support now from Hunter 2.
He's gonna need it.
There's not much time left.
They're in a save, right? They're in a save. They're not going for this.
They're seeing if they can do a little bit of damage right now on the way out the door and get some upgrades.
So nothing's gonna come their way.
Okay.
Last second try to take an AK away.
They do so, Sunpires loses his rightful, but Arch takes on a whole long range with the contribution.
That counts for very little.
Demo and Arch go down, so the fact that you do damage, sure.
But what are you meant to do with this type of money situation?
Just force buy out the game, or you take the eco, and then that'll be 12 for G2,
and, well, you've got to go on an 8 round run.
Neither of them sound particularly appealing.
No, an Archboard of Mag 7, so...
So uh, now we're talking, now we're talking.
He's gonna see if he can insert himself into the play.
Art has a spawn for lower tunnels, so expect him to take that.
He'll get what he's looking for.
They are heading towards B. Is it a full on rush?
It is. It is. They're fulled up.
He's gonna be screaming, sounds like he's about to be ready because they're coming
and he's going in with a Mach 10, running straight into Lato's 5-7.
Very good output.
I like this from Heavy God, right?
He hasn't fully committed with the team, so if he just stays in tunnels, he has the round one.
Not unless a Mag7 hit that instant headshot.
Heavy got dips away, he's getting hunted by Art.
Good work, got the collage double.
To secure round 12.
Here's him, he's got something to say!
Ooh, Hunter!
Stops it from getting awkward.
It really could have gotten awkward there.
I like that from Heavy got right,
putting as much distance in that small amount of time
from himself with the Mag7,
just so Art no longer has the potency.
Didn't just tuck in close on the left,
didn't hang around and try and take the fight.
That legacy will strap together, whatever they can for what is likely the last round of play.
Adds it onto the scout. Everybody else with the M4s. A kit on Nism.
The U2 is decent. This has been a non-contest so far.
That's the two mines there. He was ahead of the U2, but respects it anyway.
Double HE's lined up.
Anywhere nerds go is an A-cups this way.
It's missing deliberately there not going to cost then we can see nobody closed mid
doors.
G2 aren't to know that, but you're gonna have to make some assumptions again, as
I've been able to take a decent amount of map control. I've got the short space,
heavy got still has bedroom control over to what's long.
Hunter hidden out on the staircase. Art is playing forward off this second flash
from Doom out, could catch him. Doesn't get anything. That's bad info.
You can see the attention immediately drawn to ok mid to B, what's the vulnerability?
They're going to breach through this.
Yeah, looks like Hunter's going to be going straight on in.
Once he dropped, because he want to drop, he's flashed himself.
He's getting a bit weird now.
He's lost to the source, bushes in to 2 miles, then 4, look at the damage inflicted already.
They're pulling the plug, they're trying to get back to B.
Ooh, and now they've lost Lato, it could happen.
15 seconds, there's not going to be time for this.
It's going to be right down to the wire, yeah.
This one kills anyone and it's surely round if it's still round. It's still round. Yeah, okay
Have you got just trying to take a couple more away make the finances hurts?
It's good couple of kills right there
It's damage from heavy god and he's even gonna want his life on the line for more
Doesn't quite get it so he doesn't get the lost bonus. He's still got 3.7
He can go straight into AK head armor, so they will be able to have a decent looking buy again G2
That's just a bit frustrating for him to ride again lost in the souls of the smokes
My legacy doesn't even really feel like a one rounds you too lost to themselves in that situation
Timeout calls in the first from the football
Right there there he is I was sitting there like is that?
Art's nickname is not the football. No, okay. I was like a nickname I may have missed. He likes to do the kicking
All right, they've had to sub in the football for ADR.
And the football plays by the rules.
Yeah, haven't seen a blink once.
Not at all.
He's not emoting whatsoever.
And it's cool that they brought it in game as well.
Yeah.
Well, moral support when required.
Yeah, they can kick it around.
Unfortunately, it's gone over the fence.
And G2 has to play with it right now, yeah.
All right, well, legacy, can you extend play?
You win this round, G2 have to win.
I mean, Sampson is deadly with the scout. He's already demonstrated that in this game.
And on a smoke break, players, they accelerate middle.
You could find an early pick.
Look at this pack, Ronald from G2.
Right? Five players mid-corridor.
This is how they've essentially taken their map control.
They're just, no matter what, they can react.
They're able to pop into this as a unit.
Didn't like running out of time last round.
They might even go dry here.
Maybe not anymore.
Look like we're gonna take the timing ramp because just expecting three guys to start waltzing out short, you've probably got nades in your hands.
Okay, Hunter is gonna have a look.
Sads in, just a scout. Molly on the ramp will limit his movements and that's not the headshot. What? Just... over-adjusted.
I'm slipping the net, crossed to Gandalf as Hunter. He's applied so much pressure, it pulls Doom out back on the ramp.
It's spotted towards Gandalf, the rest of the squad committing.
That's a nice find from Sadz and Scout to start off, proceedings here in round 18.
Kuma up the round finding heavy guard, one back from Nerds, and over the top of the smoke, Matt is finding output.
Dits down, but exposed to Lato. It's good for legacy.
Nerds very late to the party.
Three on the A site.
And he's dead. Kuma makes it so.
standing play
Finances from G2 worse for where yeah right now if they want matters could actually buy on the glue and head armor if they just
Want to keep a bit of pressure on so they're by around into the next is
Gonna have 2400 behind it. That's why I said a cheeky investment if they have a pop play
That's the sands in scout again finds himself play out but that shot as well not easy through Gandalf probably thinking how much more could I do if I had the
bigger version of this gun
So just being limited by the flow of the game. I have to feel for sad to the bid is
Mattis will try his luck with a Diggle out long. He's got the Cavalry, he's got the Diggle and he's had a couple of chances there
But it's going to be the headshot or nothing. Art will
Don't know being killed
And in this game, that's really not one of the stat lines that I look towards to determine outcome of rounds
hmm but this one I would say will correlate so the path back for legacy
it's gonna have to be flawless just make sure you remember the score line
that was 12 to 4 because this doesn't start to mount up against G2 that's
That's where the major pressure will be felt.
I know that G2 are still this series and the next away from a plows birth at the major,
but it'll be the first time since Nico was on the roster back in Shanghai.
Obviously, this is only a third major since then, still a year and a half, and G2 are
one of those prestige organizations that have higher ambitions than just getting grouped.
Legacy have had an interesting season.
That's an introduction to the team in place of Lux.
I think it has been a nice change for the squad overall.
The CAC trophy being back to back from 2025 and 2026.
That's the cherry on top.
It's a nice shot from Heavy Guy.
You talked about his deal earlier.
Can he grab another?
Just a Nikita.
I wouldn't put it past him.
Artwood. Yeah, Artwood.
All right, so...
Still finding a way to smile a legacy.
On your man pick in an elimination series.
Right now Hunter has a good long spawn. We'll see if you and Heavy God want to use it.
There's aren't the two names that I'd necessarily want going out first. I want it to be a Nerds or a Maddus.
But let's see if they want to turn the screws in the same way that Legacy did to them in the early stages of the first half, right?
Just bludgeoning their way out. Never mind.
Juggle some nades and just go into a bit more of a default spread.
Oh my God, Saddon's got his all.
That's cause for celebration in itself.
That's it with some crazy aggressive parthing.
It's flashed, oh he gets flashed by Nert and Unison with his team.
Trying to get him set up on that Xbox jump up.
Oh swings!
Down as well.
Hunters provided two.
Could go down to the nade here.
Place forward.
Trying to amplify the pressure on the shoulders,
but missed it.
Caught out with the acceleration of Nerts.
They're just pushing everything.
This is brilliant counter-strike to close.
Brutality from G2.
He's not ready for this at all.
Tap to the skull and doom out in the smoke as a 1v5.
The try and extend play here on Dust2.
And he's been spotted.
Couldn't be played any better.
Puts up the fight, but the bomb has been planted on the other side of the map.
1v5 to extend play. They're pretty rare in themselves.
So, give it a go, son. This one is...
Fair play, Hunter.
Dibba, do you know us? Does he know us the last round?
Does he know it's the last round? Have they told him? He must do now.
Just wants to keep it positive. He needs two kills to have a positive or rather equal KD.
Alright. Pack it up. Put a bow on it. He's got nothing. Nothing at all.
G2, 13-7. They're going to take map number one of the series against Legacy. It's overpass up next.
Legacy in the last three months have only played this map two times.
And right now, the Moon and the Camp Muskie club.
So like they weren't making that leap, they had so many chances, so much time to take
a trophy.
This is meant to be the blockbuster move that gets them there.
And I think this series will tell us a lot for the Falcons, because you consider some
of the other squads have looked shaky.
Spiri yesterday took them everything to beat 90.
Vitality even fell to that South American squad.
Harvey, of course, coming in with great form from previous events and still questions to
to be answered by the Falcons.
The Navi are probably the year to...
such a sharp U-turn after that EPL, man.
They go on to lift the trophy there
and then you see them start to appear in more and more finals,
usually falling at the hands of Vitality,
but that's a win they were able to claw back out in Atlanta.
They go on to lift the trophy.
Yeah, that's growth right there.
I mean, Navi got eliminated by Vitality
three events in a row, being in just a fail
or more likely in finals.
So to actually overwhelm them eventually, out in the US is quite the change and it's at the perfect time for Narvi.
Obviously huge questions of whether any team can do that in a B05, but knowing you could draw Vitality in a quarter, in a semi and win that game,
it's going to add a lot of opportunity to Narvi, shall we say, come a playoff berth.
Na'Vi in an unlikely major run would not be the first time, but you've got to get there into the lancers and
Falcons are having none of it at this point. 3-0 clean start, Na'Vi come in with guns.
Terrifying to imagine that one of these two teams will go to a game tomorrow in that dreaded 2-2 pool.
It's wonderful hoping to get involved with this AWP early, brings it out straight away,
I see he's got his for the side of the Falcons
So nothing offered to wonderful
Falling back to a more passive a setup there's a bit of room right now out here towards the short side Falcons instead
throwing in a
Little cluster of mid to be you till that's gonna keep him it down here towards CT
This means Wonderful gonna get tested from the get-go on this orb
Nobody signed up for the moment he fell back and gave up this short position
Smoke decreases the amount of shots he's gonna get off in this round so Wonderful looks to commit
He's got one flash for him on the long side
right. Miss shot on the 1st and
they close in quickly. All it
takes is that one miss. Falcons
are right there. Might be it's
position here. You lose another
player. Kiyosuke Dodger. Adam
Akazi can't believe he survives
that. And that's enough. 5 B3
not be locked out. Their first
rightful round just passes by in
an instant. You can understand
why wonderful feels like he has
come down if he pulls all the way back and goes back towards long side, he's still going
to get flashed off that corner, and Nabi might never have a kill to beckon them in. Tries
to commit, can't connect a single shot, and they just run at him in spawnside. Huge entry
kill from Karagon, who we do just see kind of jumping around corners, throwing his life
on the line in a lot of these games, often to no result, but right there is a massive
opener to put Falcons back on the board in this fire round.
Harvey, gonna wait a little bit longer to lead guns. Hope a gamble goes their way.
Two of those rifles at the long side, bit keeping B insured.
No one yet, wanting to tackle monosy in middle.
That's where to put one of your guns forward, Alexi goes on that boost.
I found this player pretty tight game at the moment not giving away any early kills.
Constant threat of mid to B action yet to see a player come through those doors and commit.
and they need to keep Norvey guessing.
It long sees them coming the way of Alexi's rifle.
And upon this boost, potent position, Karagin.
Oh, it was our first test, says,
assistant with the swing and with nothing found from Alexi's M4.
Task of holding this A bombsite now falls to Ema alone with the Deagle.
Molly gonna burn him out into the open, would love to take one with him.
Karagin wouldn't let that happen.
and trouble. Navi are trying to save. Mikazi was hanging around but decided to fight not worth taking.
These first couple of rounds for Navi. Just passing by. They've been passengers thus far on
Dust2. It's Falcon's map pick and it's off to a flying star. Yeah, very impressive game. This is
Navi who are on a full loss streak on this map and with some dominant losses at that, remember
the opener to spirit in this stage falling 13 to 1. They got absolutely blitzed on Dust2.
Got a single CT round in that map.
And so Falcons started a tape already bringing a nice tight game here on Dust.
Up there, Yanca called the veto, assuming that both these teams would be willing to float their
Parma knowing that neither had the balls to pick it. Why take that risk?
And so as a result comfort maps banned out nuke and inferno gone
But not looking like a messy game despite that
Played the sides to get on the mic very, very early.
He gave them one gun round to try and figure it out.
Saw that wonderful orb try to hand it open it from the very first time he boarded out.
I'm curious if we get a bit more of it, because you didn't hang around for too long and it
ultimately gave the room to the Falcons they were hoping for out towards short.
See how gifted a long spawn was wonderful, tries to pick it, Falcons go to the other
side of the map so for now he's out of the action, it's Monosy taking a line with his
AWP.
I can't realize he's not getting anything in mid, or wonderful's not willing to take
that fight so Monosie looks for a pick and Navi still refused to give it away.
He said there were passengers in this game and so far yet to make a move on
this CT side been very reactive but not enough kills in their position so that
you can tend for any of these rounds. Can Navi make a difference now? Bit on a
be bombsite but on his own as Falcons group in the tunnels.
block is annoying. I'd say the very least. Gonna try and couple it up with the lurk
smoke to give yourself the room to go through here. Carrogan just making noise
out towards middle trying to draw attention away from the tunnels.
Don't be worried about the backstab but Bit is not even thinking about it.
Eyes front looks at the tunnels and shoes through this falcons here.
Monacee baited out into the open, so BIT confused.
And that's what Navi had been waiting for.
One of these rifles to rock your world and put you on the board,
a chance to fight back.
Falcons have been suppressing them with Utah all half,
but now BIT gets the chance.
Backside, dodges the flash, perfect line-up,
and it just falls into his lap.
Excellent round out of BIT.
Navi get on the board and they do it flawless as well.
Perfect way to start off this CT side to get back in this game despite a slow start.
They didn't start wonderful at B this time, that's over everyone else.
Bitward spawned down long, honestly holds for middle.
Kaze considering but not overstepping yet.
Wonderful, really wants that dry fight but he's not going to get it.
Harvey pushing up on the catwalk at the same time.
He's going through the smoke, he passes it by, shot the back bomb, dropped another man
made it through.
Karagin responds.
As he moves in, it holds his position strong.
Two versus four for Falcon but there's always a chance we might not see a lie.
not for long. Karagun in a 1v4, a wild apart and an XDB makes it so, so Navi keep him coming back to back and clean at that.
Solid rifle round, calls the pause for Zonic.
I'd love to see Navi still making the aggressive move, not shrinking back into very safe setups.
He was dedicated four strong on A, so he was coming through that smoke at a perfect time
to rip the round away from Falcons.
in attendance here at the IM Float Major, that's it right, it's major aspirations on the line
for the victor, well another day of play tomorrow, what a reward, well at least you keep your head
bobbing above water and right now it looks like we're going one way unless legacy can respond
on the CT side of Overpass, now that is probably the most positive piece of news I have for you
going into this because as far as Overpass officials go, we haven't seen them play anything since the
20th of April on this map, it was a CAC, so not that long ago sure, but no officials at the major,
So what have they got in store? They must have known that at some point teams are going to start picking it against them.
And G2 are the ones to do so here today.
This is a map for G2 since Nertz has joined.
It's their fourth most played map, so that doesn't really feel you as much confidence, but it is the highest win rate map.
So that might, and the man on your screen right now, some Pius, he's the highest rate of player for G2 on this map.
And it makes sense that all but has to deliver.
A little bit tougher to do it on the T sides.
Heavy God is actually the kind of player to play out on the T-Sites of this map and it is their choice.
Okay, that shakes out too.
And Hunter, he's a man who's been growing to love this.
This was a map that once upon a time didn't play it.
He's definitely going to be studying hard.
Overpass is not a map that just plays in a linear fashion, right?
This is a little bit tougher to grasp.
And hard to have good T-Sites on.
So right now for G2, if they get anything more than three rounds on the T-
they could even work with two.
But if they get anything more than three,
I think we'll call it a two zero and send legacy on their way. You said this was growing in hunters estimations as well. Just to reiterate or highlight. Sorry. Hunter with this that fragging output in that first map. He was at the top of the tables. He had seven multi kill rounds, 20 frags at the top of the
over a hundred ADR from Mr. Kovac and this is what plays into what I'm talking about with G2.
There's no single player in this team who I say is the hard carry every game.
There are players in their positions that if they are being asked and called upon to deliver, they will deliver.
They have some very good pieces. I really like watching Heavy God, I really like watching Maddus,
Nerds, it can be fun once he gets going, but Nerds has to really feel the game, right?
And I think maybe the same for Hunter.
So don't come into this expecting Hunter to go massive again.
And even though he is the most experienced member in the server right now,
it could be any of them.
Turn your attention and affections to any of these YouTube players.
For Legacy though, this is where you have to dig deep to see, right?
You're going to need every single one of you on the CT side to step up and when called upon, just shut down.
You can really erect the blue wall on this map.
And, it's actually looking great on the scout.
So, if you can get going on the AWP on the CT side of this map, the AWP can shut down the entire plate.
So we aren't getting this pistol round underway.
The guys, you know how they've taken shape.
The odds favouring G2 for this one are in with a smoker of flash.
Everybody else with Kevlar and Nism gets a dropped pair of Berettas.
Badass. A smoker of a flash, a hunter, the same.
No P250 for long range jewels.
Heavy B start, Lato just listens. This is his ear to the wall.
Let's see if we can catch them running up to stairs or quickly through connect up.
They spring to action and take that short space.
We're just on board with that.
So that's early territory.
And if they keep on pushing, they might catch Heavy God.
They actually have a flash for this.
Heavy God.
Nice ready to play on a path.
No way he turned it.
He's actually turned it a little.
Does get vision back, but Santa's put him down and Hunter for that attempt.
He's got all the utilities.
They're going to swap.
They're going to swap.
Matt's just flashing.
Okay, flash.
We'll be turned by Sads in.
There's a lot more coming this way.
Second flash.
Avoid it as well.
support from out on the monster pipe, looking good for their conversions until it's not!
Because Sunpires rips off two!
This is inaudible. They know he's going to be close towards the short side.
They're going to be anticipating this.
You till deployed, he's going to be behind the slope.
He can unload his silver retters and not going to be able to find the frag.
Ooh, a chance for Lato!
Oh, and he's been sat down.
That's it.
Gonna have to reload on this 1v3 to let them low.
You'd think this is a guarantee now for G2.
Is it set in stone or can this improve something rather improbable?
Yeah, there's Mattis to secure it. Funny turn of events that.
That is maybe the weirdest tier one of the past pistol I've ever seen.
Okay, that's high praise. Or high regard.
guard but just the fact that's like what four kills go down in the back out of B
there's the flash turned right I can't believe you turn that but yeah this is
it's it's just crazy that they also all swarmed that decided to fight this right
it works out they hit some bangers the shots they're very well done but yeah
it's just odd to see those those type of fights
well something you see every day all right well Hunter has given the second
incendiary to Madison connect you can see this tank that's been set up with
The Usps and... Oh!
Ah, shit. Alright, well, uh...
Boys, he should be clear. A great response.
Heavy God, quickly.
Goes and tucks in.
And at that point, Nurtz doesn't...
Have an exact count.
Yeah, I was gonna ask you why he hasn't pushed further forward, but it doesn't look like he's starting to now.
BAM! BAM!
Sampias does need to be careful in his playing his life right now, right?
If he dies as well without anything at that point, you're going to give it a go.
If you legacy right now, you're just going to look for damage.
The bomb's down 40 seconds and counting.
You got yourself a nice AK of Nurtz's hands.
Yeah, that would be very tidy into the next round.
We'll see how that shapes up regarding the AWP because it is the 2400 loss right now with the extra killer given 50 bucks
Do you think when like the server shuts down the elephant comes alive?
Did you have Johnson and friends?
Um, I'll show you Johnson and friends was that like a kind of a bath time thing
They're like a Tommy tippy back in my day. Yes, you guys didn't get Johnson and friends. So this
This is Johnson.
Oh, Clare is Johnsony.
Yeah, that elephant in Australia to most people would be Johnson.
Or when I say in Australia, people born between all before 1990 and 1995.
Okay, so 10% of all viewers...
Yeah, Sizi has no idea what I'm talking about.
Absolutely not.
I was having this thought...
He's been a Coca-Mellon generation.
I had this thought in the green room before.
In three years time from now, there will be 16-year-old professional Counter-Strike players
who are younger than the alt boom come on mates sorry we just yeah yeah time
waits for no one yeah okay first gun round
that's it i think could have gone for the AWP but didn't want the glass cannon
and based on this because of the bonus who's being erected
oh that's a name right on both of them beautiful 80 damage off a single HE
you're you're laughing and you've started 4b right so the fact that these
to get softened up like that. There was already a lot of pressure on Lado. Now he's rotation
is worse for Wett. At least he's got this AK-47.
They're hard work on the EcoStack. There's so many gaps on A. They could be walked all the way
up long right now. He's hearing some steps, so at least that will confirm that it's not the case.
Freeze up the rotation, now sad's in coming up. Wants to do the same.
to now probes forward on short so that's at least a buff up and a flash towards
monsters all just feigning this G2 are lining up and execute in towards the
A site. Bombs been spotted on radar. Sumpias was visible to Sads in. I will be
here on time. Every god with the Mach 10 might be liberated to just go for a
play through the smoke. Bellato is well positioned, anti flash and a boost. Lovely
work. They set apart, he's removed Hunter and Lato is going to be over completely blocked
by the smoke. Immediate trade out of Mattis, but looking good for Legacy to convert this.
One back in the 2-1-4. Mattis finding Sads in might enable a plant. Hang on, the back
should be the headshot. Nice composure. Taps there, offers some pious and Mattis back his
turn. Legacy get themselves started immediately into the first gun.
I don't know, well a bit of a bonus there. They should be all good in the hood. There's
a couple of players who are slightly shy but should see them shove.
What's he talking for?
Sad to say this one, we'll get out his AWP.
A good response to the XU coming their way.
And the quicker that you can respond with those type of boosts as protocols,
the more short up your defense will be and they've actually opted not to shove here.
So even though they could have brought out a few rifles, I think they've decided
T side two rounds already.
If we take the EECO, get the 1900 into the next, we can all get AK.
So, wanting to give themselves more rifle round opportunities, as opposed to just letting
legacy win against it, it's a bit more cobbled together and then get the chance against the
eco.
It seems quite logically driven when you put it like that, especially if your deagles
could get anything, you know, a bit of space, you might be able to retrieve a rifle or two.
Really for me is how far can they get before sadds and starts to lock them down with the
He is passively jump-spotting, sure, but it is these longer sightlines.
Now, I'm gonna get all of the bathroom control if they'd like it.
Lato and Art both rotating back, so they are here to assist Sadson.
Well, Art was between two mines, so he was jotting back, and now he's, like, over towards B.
Still too strong.
That's nice and important. You need to see the individuals on the CT side of overpass
delivering with multi-try. That's for me that's a key whether it's your anchoring
B they're coming through most you get the double coming out short if these are
really important there's a lot of things you have to think about on the CT side
because there's boost that you could be doing there's boost that can come back
the other way there's the multi-nade stacks that are possible we'll see if
that factors into any of G2's T side right now it's only one HE they have to work with
and saw getting on the mic quite early but I like it. On this map if your coach
uses all three tactical timeouts in the first half just to get you five rounds I
I think that's something you take now remember it's the football which I think
we have called pig pig the football I think that's what I just saw on social
media again legacy will not have their coach with them tech pause so we'll take
a little bit of punch out of this for a moment
maybe if you're just tuning into the major first question where you've been
Second we can kind of recount the runs of these two teams. So stage three. We just focus in for legacy
It's a lost to mouse lost to Navi. Those were both zero two big losses
Yeah, and then a yeah to zero victory over para vision
For G2, it's been a bit more up and down right lost to Falcons where I think that they were in a great chance to win that the third
map of ancient going 16 13 really could have taken that away in the opening round of the Swiss
They then went on to beat foot so got revenge from stage two and then lost to Aurora
We're back underway. So that was a quick little tech timer. Thank you for bearing with us for 30 seconds
Yeah, Aurora making it to the playoffs, you know, I mean it was certainly always a possibility
But they've managed to make it look quite effortless and graceful. Yeah, I think 9z
Left it all in the server last night. We'll see if they can pick themselves up and recover for tomorrow's game, but
It's gonna be hard for those young guns trying to make history at the major or continue making history, I should say
Another made stack just a solo dolo throw through and
Just chip damage onto our nothing really to know
Passive stance with the default from G2 over towards a nuts and some pious and not making too much to remove
I think they want to search over towards B first. You could see Hunter
looking to set up Heavy God and some pious setting up nerds so spring into
action
ooh info, Santa did pull the trigger but it might make you overlook the latter
perspective true that is the heavy god that's a stunning way to start it off
Flashbang from Hunter.
The monster pipe and removes a defense from B.
Do now and are still there and you've got productivity from Nerds as well.
He's up close and all Lato's managed to pip the gap.
Supplies as no. Oh, I did. Okay.
Fortune
favors him there.
Just rounds the corner couldn't believe his luck.
Lato back turned and AK upgrade and now it looks like they're pathing the bomb back to B and oh, it gets worse for legacy.
Not only does it look like you've lost your sight, but there's already like a kind of imminent hunt from Nurtz.
He's already here. He's hearing this.
You might lose it all, especially that sadz in awe.
It would be a frustrating death for the sniper.
Can he get past one of these jiggles?
Okay, well he's away now. That'll, uh, embolden the rest of G2 to jaunt over and assist.
Some pyres immediately into connector. Matt is also leaving the site. Hunter in-game leader will stay with the bomb.
How much can they remove here? There is cash for
SADs and ART in the bank balance and DOOMOW as well. It's LADO and NISM that are more of the concern with the
1400 to be added to their tally. There's a cheeky one for ART
and they're actually just going to let them hold on to this. So it will be another gun round.
Important save.
That's going to work. I think that over in the final seconds of this to pick up the AK-47.
And what an entry from Heavy God onto the B-Suggest.
Bangs his head off the pipe, launches himself into the angle,
Nissu gets down to hit shots, synchronized perfectly with the supported flashbang.
Yeah, Heavy God, especially as being the B-defaulter, right?
The man tasked with taking the short control or going for monster pipe fights,
he's actually the highest rate of play out 4G2 on overpass's T-side.
So that shows you that he has to be somewhat of an active player.
You can't just be sitting waiting and letting them react.
If you're able to do that and condition the B-Defense, that's fantastic work.
It's gonna limit the possibilities of Nysim or at least put a fear factor in him.
You're so aggressive, all ping out of Sats in.
Well, two maps are melted there through the short molly, pushed the whole way.
Oh, that's gonna be the end of him as well, just swings into Heavy God.
That's and Heavy God already providing opening kills in unison across the map.
Yeah, this is a leaky boat right now, isn't it?
I mean, you already kind of set the bar for T-side rounds on Overpass and G2 are looking to surpass that and then some.
I think overpass with the art led legacy, it's a map that they don't play a lot of,
but they do have a winning record of 4 to 1.
It's just not having an official on it at the major.
It's always tough when you're playing a map for the first time at the major, when the
pressure is at its highest.
It's not that you can't play it, it's that you haven't had the reps of going through
these motions, so everything feels a little bit foreign.
In short, you've done the prep on it, you maybe even played a couple of scrims just
to make sure everyone was up to stuff and what they need to know, but there's a big difference between a scrimmage and official.
Now they are starting to hedge in towards A, they can pivot down con,
if heavy god searches into B and makes sure nobody's home, but right now there's no probe.
It's the A focus,
and nerds are taking another.
Oh, it's gonna be frustrated he hit the headshot, but...
OK.
Needs to his demise in for missing.
They can still lose.
Oh, and they're not on top.
I thought I was gonna say they could still lose this heading in towards A, but, uh, shaving Lado away.
It's on the side, there's 20 seconds left, they will waltz into B, they'll plant that bomb and then this one is going to have to play the save game again.
They no longer have the good graces of so much extra cash, so 1900.
It's never a good feeling as well if you're an AWPer and you do have the spawn, you decide to go for an aggressive and you lose out to an AK one tap, Nurtz has put him down.
And Nerts was in pretty tough form throughout this stage of the major.
He had a very good stage too.
Well, he had a good stage too.
But he's been having a tougher time.
And obviously that's what happens when you have a higher caliber opponent with the type
of players that Nerts likes to make.
They're always a bit coin tossy.
Miss him.
He has so much room.
He just thinks he's...
It's just like even in the same if you're back close to the screen, you know, maybe on the entry bar they like it's like
He's just disappointed counter-strike isn't VR yet. Yeah, that's his problem. I see it mate. If they're not gonna bring VR to me
I'll tell you how to be out of there
That kill right there from some pious seals around because if they executed into a and both of them were there that there's multi potential
But that makes it look so much more casual than I was expecting
So very well handed from G2 four rounds already. It's like they're sailing to that 2-2 match tomorrow, but we can't count
I can count our chickens. Let's see legacy. Is there any fight that you can give?
Looks like we're gonna get a bit of friction early fountain.
A G2 Molotov keeps them at bay.
Some pyres, high-pressure to the scope is caught off by that angle on the bench up from Satsin.
Lato as well up forward positioning from three.
The vulnerable to nerds and he's hitting it.
Up right now.
Satsin down, nice one back from up.
You should try and take some B-Space if you can.
Still know that there's likely two there, so it needs to be grouped, but due to un-the-position for that, it's still gonna be an A-Play.
Mattis is cognizant that aren't likely here.
Is it?
That's the one to prevail, an important double kill here, how to count in art.
I can get past undetected as Lato on the side.
He actually burrowed in, so he is essentially conceding this.
At what point did G2 announce their presence? They have to be so wary of everything.
I continues to push, gonna take a bit more room, this will turn the screws.
Good useful on Hunter, so he could start blocking now.
Bank smoke, drop down molly.
Yeah, again, you're worried about everything.
And that's quite the catch.
I don't see Lata reacting like Hunter.
This is insane!
He's a real spotty.
There's no way you're ready for this! Like, not with a player bank!
It doesn't get more easy for Heavy God.
Ah, this is another round.
It does look like that, yeah, I mean maybe Doom outlayer's Hunter.
Seems unlikely.
Much more likely that you're gonna give a sound cue over and Hunter will hunt you down.
Okay, it's gonna be another save. This is ugly now.
Five rounds to each side.
Jamal just lingering, I guess he has the kid, he's trying to be...
A late piece for maybe a goblin to fuse, catch him on the way out, but that isn't going to
get a chance to manifest their unfortunate for Dumount, unless I'm saving again.
And there's a bit of taste in the F for Legacy right now, you can feel it.
I mean, you can see that discomfort.
The fact that this is the first time you've found yourself on this map when the stakes
could be higher.
It's a must-win map and it's the first-ever pass of the major, like, oof.
And the way the Dust2 went, you know, that really sourced that 13-7 loss.
And it's just, I get it.
I'll do the same thing, getting into the force by walls early, right?
You want to win out that financial control, but when it falls against you, the lingering
effects of it, there's just, uh, there goes.
Okay, and this one saved them four.
I've seen this before.
Light upgrades.
and what should be sixth round for G2.
Little move there, right?
Breaking up in the smoke on the CT side
to see if they're able to find a pick,
but playing through, the flash is there,
heavy guns away and surviving, Nism.
Gets them an opener.
Can't ask for more.
Lato, a test for him here,
train closed with a shot.
Eagle nails the swing of nerds.
Nism's lost his rifle, lost his life to Mattis
and Lato, booked by the Sumpires Flashbang,
just bright, full white.
Just sat in on A, and he's been spotted.
Things they don't know if the rotation's come in yet or not, so they are still going
to play this one quite wary, G2, and it's giving time for more guns to be picked up.
So this could be a bit of a fire starter.
It's about recovery of the half of Legacy Shore, and that will show if they have some
bite left in them.
So with 45 seconds left, the bomb coming all the way back, hyper-vigilant, through-play
ground gonna join up with Mattis they've cleared everything out now it's just
about going back to be and they're in a very good spot with the U2 so as long as
they can land this right they can get the heaven smoke in they can flash around
monster they can even molly barrels or they could contact through monster once
you're through smoke mid-site molly the ramp I'll take contact back they're just
gonna run on in yeah like do mouth is just has to be do mouth ducked on the
barrels, gonna test he to his utility, he hasn't been forced out by the flame.
I'm getting cleared.
Cleaning overlooking him, he's gonna have to fire his time, strike when the iron is hard,
but what he's looking finds that immediate headshot, Doomouse doing it all, that's the
fire starter they needed.
Coming in with nothing more than a save rifle on Nysim, they leave with a round and three
weapons legacy, a must win round converted somehow, some way, and they got Doomouse to
thank.
of a look in the balance position, right?
So late in the round, that's just tough for G2
to have to swallow, but you're thinking
it should even be like this.
You have very nice snaps into the two of them,
combines on the span with art,
they take out some pies, the bomb goes down,
there's plenty of cash for G2,
don't you worry about that.
And they make it a two round gap off of an eco,
so well done, and it shows you they're still fighting, right?
Even just the move to open with Nism,
there was two layers to it, there was the HG
to clear and see if we could find the fight deep,
And then there was the flash.
The first armada that we threw from the bonnet.
We didn't even get the extractor.
They won't get it, you know?
They won't get this first armada without saving and making crazy.
Ok.
It's time to do 8-4 here.
No guys, don't believe it. The game is easy.
It's not desperate.
Just stabilizing themselves here.
So Legers, you still believe it.
See if they can make it consecutive.
Give us a bit of a game here on overpass.
They are now in a position to try and humble the finances somewhat.
Very heavy through connector from G2, the 131.
I can see this every day of the week. Heavy God is about to be under a lot of pressure from Fumau.
He's relieved a lot of that pressure immediately.
Makes it look good.
He wants to extinguish. Lato just starts to back away off the line as they contact walk towards him.
Might catch him. Oh, he's spotted. He does get the info, but he's not ready for the multi-nurse and shuts him down after one.
Kept humble, A-Sci is lost, is the round two.
Might be back on with Sads and Fynd on Heavy God.
Not a comfortable one for the CTs by any stretch of the imagination.
Okay, they're all gonna walk in, right? They don't want to give away this with the steps.
And they'll be heard trundling through on the rotation.
Take a look at the U-Till that they have, right?
They've got the Molly for truck if they'd like, if they could get the smoke on the bomb, that's ideal.
They don't know exactly where the plant is just yet.
But this could be a late eruption, as G2 starts to think they could be saving.
Exploit the expectation of their opponent.
Light on time, they're starting to path away. Nurtz doesn't get any info.
He starts to move. Now they will too. A smoke that defuses the objective.
Some boss has to tend to this from the long side. Get some off the bomb in combination with Nurtz.
It's definitely theirs now. G2-6!
That goes down with the ship.
That's a good lesson for everybody at home, right? Make sure someone stays with the bomb.
I don't ever give a team an opportunity to snatch one away with the goblin defuse
Pretty easy arm. Yeah, I like what I'm seeing from G2 right there looking good on overpass
and this is desperate sure but
That's the state of affairs for legacy on the CT side of their opponent's map choice a handful of rounds away from elimination
This is a pace change
I wouldn't try to go for the uppercut, there's four here to receive the Mattis, charges in with a Mach 10, one back from NERF, good work, two mouths, solid output support from the MP9, comes swinging in, and heavy guard gets them both!
How has he done that? That ready for this presence on the short side, completely overlooked it did Lato, and now sad's it.
This could be wild though, he could do this again.
He could.
I love this.
You know, 4v2. It's sometimes this position that has me doubting though.
You'd have to hit some crazy quick stuff.
He's exposed and the Spaniard takes his head off.
Heavy guy starts, isn't he? I thought he completely lost control of the fireman's hose there, right?
That thing was going all over the place, isn't it?
You're just working up at 4am hungover and you've painted the bathroom for the misses in the morning.
But he's able to get through kills off the back of the tank.
It's wild.
Right, I understand he's the last man to the party, but...
Felt tough.
Yeah, he pulled it down.
Saved the round.
Hectic. I mean, it's going to be such a good feeling for G2 to have converted that, and it's not.
Yeah, same round. Same round.
Oh, god, okay. Well, it'd be the same result.
Nertz and his signature MP7 goes parting forward. A brilliant flashbang. How is he not dead?
How is he still alive?
What is going on? This ship got so many backs turned, it still gets no output whatsoever.
Art can't handle it.
G2, they are speedrunning these last couple of rounds.
This is domination on display, they're not even giving legacy a chance to feel the game right now.
And I think the reality of the scenario is starting to sit in.
Major games done quick.
A YouTube channel, they'll be starting soon.
I think they're going to hope that they can do the same tomorrow.
It's a good opportunity to start recounting who's in that 2-2 bucket already.
We've got BetBOOM 90.
I'm going to do my spoiler.
BetBOOM 90 foot Mongols.
Stacked.
more teams to join that winner this starting to look like g2 and loser of the narbi versus
falcons game so some big names fighting for the last few playoff spots tomorrow
this is a terrifying t-side huh yeah i i'm trying to restrain myself from saying jobs
already done? Yeah I think Dave feels that way for G2 I bet. You came in you know aiming
for 3-4 you found me potentially 9. Have you got has been sat down by art an important
find? On the CT side 4 just doesn't feel sufficient. No obviously the way back in is the guarantee
four. The pistol, the conversion. War of attrition being four. Between two amount matters, he's
left on seven. Okay, there's our to ensure it. You're expecting them to win a 3v5? Two
of them are low. You can't lose this one, legacy. No, I don't think you can, right?
Because you have no reason to overextend now on the CT side. Like Nyssen feels like surplus
to requirement on either side right now.
Power position from Lato as well.
Oh, he's timed perfectly.
Catches Hunter Pullin' out the smoke.
Sads in, has missed his shot, so Nerds will stride into the site.
Oh my God!
Sads in third time to the charm, he connects.
So it's not looking good, is Legacy's major ending at the conclusion of Overpass?
Hope dies last, but they're running out of time and they need rounds.
We'll be right back to find out.
It does look like the writings on the wall from Legacy and their major run.
G2 already making it quick on Dust2, could make it even quicker on their map pick of
Overpass.
Seeing discomfort in the Legacy ranks on their CT side, couldn't handle the pressure from
G2's T side calling.
A couple of pace changes towards the end had them reeling and you can see the bookies have
started to lose faith in Legacy 2.
If anyone dies here online they won't be able to do their executes, so no, it's what can
you get done.
Stick around for another tap, won't he? Oh, he spotted the whole squad.
Yeah, so this is a very standard execute we were about to see.
Smoke towards drop down, one towards the dice box, and Molly towards truck and parving in.
Ah, okay.
Good one.
Rotation.
Hunter-prandon ready.
There's the first headshot, and they all just collapse.
This gets awkward.
Legacy stopped at the first attempt to enter the site.
This was supposed to be the late arrival. Now he's got to do it all on his own.
Finding the first, but a flank from Nert, and he's got to go for the knifed Nert.
He had that senses tingling.
That smoke couldn't have been better on the block.
It was just, it arrived at the perfect moment. You've forced an awkward option.
It's either we commit, run toward Mize through a gray screen, and that's what they elected.
I wonder if they changed the call and just made it fast because they were spotted, right?
The U2 said that they had, you see a lot of teams, they run it, they get that long control
and what they do is they create like a channel to run through and fight for bank and plan
a little bit safe side.
But NERDS got that info so early, maybe they thought, let's just try and bludgeon the site
with it.
Bank and a CT smoke, by the way, that didn't even matter to them, okay.
Monster pop.
It's the monster mash for every goat.
Couldn't be better.
He's playing up forward, he's not going to get flashed.
I say that.
He's going to go over the top.
Maybe they wait for the fade
Can't do that anymore unless you have to wait for the fade then he'll part back
Here's another smoke though
Some parts could also channel another one in if required might be here a while. Yeah, this could be a slow eco
He's actually given the smoke to elsewhere. So this is fading now
Delivered in fact do knows how to cheat you out
It's quick, and it's getting dangerously close to elimination point.
It is a...
A weird deflating feeling for Legacy. Again, the crown jewel of their season was that CAC trophy lift over Falcons, and they owned Falcons.
It was sure a 3-1 Vesta 5, but the maps they won, 13-6, 13-6, 13-9.
their major run has had that's been topsy-turvy right a lost MRBRO a winner
of FlyQuest a lost to Monty a winner of M80 a winner of Tyloo and now that the
big boys are here it has been a whole lot more red in the column Paravigna also
another team who's been in battle of light so until we weren't watching that
I think you're owning him so we'll give you a couple of those
No one's scaled this is
You didn't see any of that problem we will be watching that's yeah the whole time
And speaking of he's got a lot of work to do here
He's playing it forward on his own
Well, he's spotted out, doesn't find a media kill, and he's surely going to run down.
How has he managed to generate a kill on T'Wai?
He might even set himself up for more!
Doomhound is running through the smoke!
Sats into Deadman for charging forward, Hunter good for the trade, he reacted in time.
Mattis, not the weapon, but makes it work.
HP7 shredding through the armour.
Nice shot from Lato.
Some pirates definitely respected the bullet that he just copped in the face right there,
but this round is over.
Bomb down, upper bathrooms, you're in a 1v3 situation.
35 seconds left on the clock
Especially when you saw nuts, you know, not find that immediate burst to the head. I can't believe he leaves with two
do now perhaps, you know starting to
See his frustrations in his in-game body language. Yeah, the fact that you're swinging through a smoke for the trade
I understand why a lot of steps are heard so they know exactly where he is
Once it will go down. That is is low and
Both paired up front side bar and ten seconds you got to get across without dying and then plant
I don't think you've got the chance.
Oh, have you got bullets?
Just hide.
Alright.
This is very disheartening that Legacy Season is going to come to a close like this.
It's a shame to go out with a whimper, right? Not putting up a fight at all.
I think for them they were probably banking on the dust too, right? Going a bit better.
Yeah.
Like, just the fact that they knew overpass was an uncertainty.
It's surprising how some of these teams have gotten so far with weaknesses in the map pool that are so,
but it also shows you right overpass is one of the least played maps of the season.
Obviously in Nubis is the least and then overpass the second.
So this is where Vidos and like head to head to really play in to be rush.
It's pace as he got.
It doesn't matter if the flash is in his face, but the Mac templates do count.
Two now opens up.
Matt has got a lot of work to do here.
A smoke to play around in an easy one on to this series lost control.
Stalys stabilizes and Hunter chips in.
Finally something back for Legacy 2.1.2, but Nurtz just emerges as Lato cycles to his grenades.
And now just sad as in, this is for 12 folks.
This will put Legacy in a boatload of her and Nurtz has secured it.
They can feel that sickening feeling in their stomach.
Your hands are a little extra sweaty.
You start to almost reason with yourself already starting to go through those stages of grief knowing
That you won't be seeing the playoffs the laxess arena will not be flying the legacy logo
Do you two for them it's business as usual I think business is the key word they're hardly celebrating
Right there. They're having a good time. They're laughing the vibes look good, but you know, they're not shouting down to stand that they
They're putting down a wounded animal right now.
Right.
That's not fun for anyone.
Not going to stop Nissen from trying to make a play.
He's spotted on the sandbag.
Oh, so wow!
Matt is quick to the headshot.
He tried to elope.
They all quit on the flash.
They're going to double up and just isolate him now.
They know they've got him trapped.
Zoom out down.
Heavy God makes it so.
Legacy's major.
Just a couple of clicks.
A G2's mouse away.
Almost nothing they can do now.
An entered legacy season, and like you said, going out with a Wimper, unable to really
put up a fight, unable to show resistance.
Yeah, that's the most condemning part against Maus, against an RP.
Their losses, really tough.
13-5, 13-6, 13-4, and a 13-10 against Navi.
So a familiar feeling that is just compounding into this overpass.
They're not close games, they're not games you think you could win.
35, here it goes.
And by it is their hopes of seeing the Lancels arena and those playoff shadows spotted here.
It's added removing matters, two more where that came from.
I'm asking the short side gets overlooked.
Hooked up, double trouble, and it's just on to Lato.
Dead man now at 13-4, it's comfortable, it's business for G2, and it's the end of the major road for Legacy.
It was quick, it was concise, it was comprehensive, that's what you want if you are G2.
This sets you up nicely for tomorrow.
You didn't have to use any of the gas in the tank, you get to focus on your opponent tomorrow in the 2-2.
You're just one best of three, two maps of Counter-Strike away from G2 as an AWP returning to major playoffs.
The legacy for the season comes to a close, and you can see them just lingering in the final moments of that round.
You know that you will not be getting an opportunity to play another day, and this one stings.
There can only be one winner. Everyone is here for the same result, but to be so close to make the run from stage two to stage three,
within the counter strike you've put on display over the last couple of days.
That's not what legacy would consider their brand of CS.
I just think they fell that level up, right? As they go head into stage three,
these are the big boys. G2 somewhat of a gatekeeper as well.
You know, they will humble you. They will humble you.
If you've got cracks in your gameplay, they've got the individuals that can punish
mistakes and you saw that today. Again, just to recount their run,
loss over MIBR, win over FlyQuest, lost to Monty, wins over M80 and Tyloo.
And that's how they made their way into stage three.
And then take on some of the bigger names,
Maus and Navi, they get handed their ass in the same today by G2,
led by Hunter, everybody showing up.
And this was a easy day at the office,
something that would be akin to a business like
Sea of Ladder to Legacy.
They run, it ends here.
We'll see what they look like
when they return to the server after the tournament break.
have to wander. How do you fix some of these mistakes against the bigger names? And you've
really just played with momentum. Obviously, Maad yesterday by the coach being barred from
being behind them, that's going to be the headlines with your legacy. That's it.
One of my main takeaways has got to be the individual form of Lato. He had some really
good days. He's had some bad days, as have legacy. Understandably, when you do have to
to play against the Narvys and Mouses of the World,
but we have got an interview standing by.
This is the end of the road for Team Legacy here at the Major.
I catch up with Dumau, obviously, tough loss and tough result.
Looking at this game, looking at this performance
at this Major, what are your feelings
around the team, your own performance?
I think Stage 2 was not enough in best of us,
but best of the three was good.
And came into the stage three, I think we had good spectations, because of the best of the three's.
But we got sick, and I think it just affected us too much.
I think we didn't play our game most of the three's.
Even today, it was off, everybody.
And I think that's a result that we deserve it.
And we just have to move on with it.
I think, yeah, this is the stuff now, that's all I can say.
If you scope out and look at the whole season, though, are you satisfied with what you have
achieved?
You came pretty far, third place in Atlanta as well.
So if you scope out, how are your feelings about the whole season?
The whole season was good, but the major is our goal, it was our goal.
And I think now, I think just the way we played the Major now was not enough for everything.
And I think that's normal, that's the thing that happened, almost every team.
But that's the thing that we should have as experience and have to move on with it.
That's it.
Yeah.
Even though you're out, I think you get a lot of fans across the world, a lot of new
fans. This is the camera that you can talk to if you want to say anything to them. It's all yours.
I want to say thank you for the support, everybody. I know a lot of messages from
a lot of people from the whole world. It's very nice. Thank you so much. I think that's a moment
that we should feel it and we should not have this deal with the situations that we dealt.
It's time like this and just try to be better.
That's everything that we can do for the next one.
Before I let you go, can you tell us what's the plan for the legacy?
What's next?
Are you taking the break right now after the season ends and prepare for the next one?
Yeah, I mean, just a break.
But the next major like start like tomorrow again.
We have to look to the things we did and how we are dealing as a team to the situations
and just try to get better.
There is nothing much we can do now.
We just think we had too many problems as a dealing.
I don't think, to be honest, the values we had, I don't think we deserved to be in playoffs.
We had, every team has a problem and every team deal with situations.
I think we didn't deal like very well as a team, and I think that's it.
I think we just actually looked at it and just tried to be better for each other.
It's tough to do these kind of interviews. Thank you for your honesty.
This is the end of the road for Legacy Nastra.
Nastra, see ya.
Before we end this, this is the end of the B-stream, because these were the last games.
Tomorrow we have only A-stream, but still A-stream is ongoing.
There's Navi against Falcons, so if you want to tune in for some more construct head over to the stream and I'll see you. Bye bye.
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to renewed form and to multiple trophies this season.
Wonderful has his orb now.
Kyosuke puts his down.
Karagun again for the second time starts alone on this B-bomb site, entirely evading as Falcons look to fight middle.
Or Niko gets a taste of his own medicine, finally the nades connect to him.
We even saw just with that over the shoulder shot Niko checking out his utility damage
on the scoreboard.
This gives Falcons a lot of these HEs down under to punish Ema and they know they're
working.
This is a dangerous peak, Niko won't commit.
They let Narvi make the next play.
Already looking like this might be another go at trying to abuse this B site, but you've got a lot of bodies out towards middle.
bomb alone in the apartments with beer just worked his way into this corner and
caught on it timing wonderful there to bail them out at least wonder if that
kill changes things because you've still got my cars you going short still have
the bomb back at apartments with beer and this B site and hold is dissolved to
just carry again he players ready to come around the corner he's asking for
rotates but they're so far away he is on his own here big damage won't cut it
Needed a kill really, oh wonderful, oh that's a punishing miss, Tessay's gonna mop him up!
Back on!
Game of foot here, flashed it, Senkiyosuke in.
Nades, Brutal, softens up Alexi.
Now they've just got to clear him.
Mikazi try and help, swinging on out, better help there.
So, Navi's game plan of abusing B, this time able to misdirect the Falcons, get them rotating
away.
Everything works out.
Yeah, just saw Karen kind of shrug it off there, he knows he was fighting the urge to
push up on the shore and take that engagement.
He changes his mind, but he doesn't get back around the corner in time.
They trap him in that position.
And only damage.
It's not enough.
are able to convert this solo B presence, finally getting punished.
There's one thing to have your weaker player on the B side,
but when you leave him alone as well, it's going to get even harder.
Despite that, Karrigan's...