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And wonderful has gotten Brolin done for, but now here comes his commitment because
numbers are thinking it's strong for Navi and still they will follow through with the
two kills already.
And Spinks does a good job of keeping himself into the cover.
going to catch the kill, Surtian comes out from library, and the pit cross out of a Kaze, delayed.
Force buys keep on coming, and they're set up here in underpass.
Torsi gonna come back in, and what do you know?
There's three of them, somebody sure nobody... Oh, Torsi! On for the ace, and he's almost there!
20 BALL! A headshot from Torzie!
Monosies, Morettas, find a desperate.
Hero wedding in the air is just gonna fall.
Oh, it's Monosie to get the kill. Niko still able to make up for it.
Not wrong about that one, Nico.
Croser was dead on, but Josuke, here for the farm.
Drops up down.
It sprays just about, gets it done.
He gets run out, locks him in the smoke.
Oh my goodness, needs to be unfolded.
Lobs need to be fronted.
Oh no!
Flashes him up!
They are accelerating.
He hasn't done it, the flash is perfect.
Still piece a lot against it.
Okay, of course he does.
That's just classic down-and-purchase.
And if you want to run a case,
you're all right, we want to get this one done.
All on this side is probably angle.
Oh, stunning!
Beautiful!
A sleep at the real Apex shreds!
With those nades, he's in the middle of the way.
Oh, no, you think you're saving?
You think you're saving?
Zai Wu, quick jump scare, gets onto the bomb, they need to stop him, 5 second countdown start,
Muzinya's ready to go, but Zai Wu puked it out!
One hell of a lot, he's a close!
Hell is first.
Oh, there's the follow-up!
Oh, that is what that trick!
That is a beautiful sequence!
You really want to just to hold the line here right if you feel like you can remove B from the playbook having a war.
This is the whole value level.
This is why you have to hold the line.
Let me go and turn at this game.
He makes that look so easy.
But if any strip fall away, there's still a chance.
Three on one!
He's in the back of the sand!
He's diving on his own!
Captain closes the map!
Alright, you push, they made you've got that information.
However, Aurora has dropped...
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Here he is!
Attack for a double shot.
That'll be huge if he's able to get it, and he will!
Here he is!
It's still going to go back and get that far.
The Furia is the best.
The Furia is looking incredible today.
The Tarkas with their teammates are swarming around the track.
The Furia with their last head shot as well collects themselves the ace.
They're gonna flash up into the sky with Tarty getting back up.
So all the pressure on with Tarty.
But no one's going to deliver it absolutely well, but Claudia can eat exactly three and a fourth.
We've just got another one and it will Claudia place this one perfectly.
At 5v3, and there's no real potential for pain,
you can't fall down to a site that's got to fight their way forward and that is a good shot in the area.
Yeah.
I felt the bomb on the ground, and now I'm going to recover three on two in the favor of Aurora.
There, PSS.
Now I'm going to beat the bomb up here, come to the coach, out through the decals, truck
to down to the interior, getting that jump.
PSS, keep it in the cast, deny no time for the ball plant, but a 5v3 falls to a 1v1
in terms of players surviving pain due to good driving.
Coming to you bright and early from Cluj-Napoca, good morning.
This is PGL Cluj and we are moving into day number 3 today.
that I realized late last night is that everyone and their mom now has a podcast. And what that
means for someone like me as host is that I can now rest easy. I don't have to do a lot of work.
If I want to be focusing on talking counter, I can just repurpose a lot of the stuff we've seen
on the podcast. So Dustin Pimp are with us this morning. And I think just to make this really
easy for me, Dustin, what was your good, bad and ugly from the last two days of PGL Cluj?
Did you pay the licensing fee for that?
Is there a licensing fee?
You'd have to ask Duncan on that one, I think.
I'm not really sure.
But we'll go into it.
Where's my friend?
He'll let you slide.
Where do you want to start?
Do you want to start spicy with ugly,
or do you want to start with the good?
I mean, you can do whatever you want.
I've lost the question.
All right.
So the ugly would have to be Canadian curling
at the Winter Olympics.
That's been a pretty tough one out there.
We've been seeing everybody with the finger
on there a little too long.
No, all seriousness, the ugly for me is actually heroic.
And the reason why I say ugly and not bad
is because they're in a tough spot, right?
You know you've had a situation where you benched youngster, you know
You've made some other moves to bring in a new in-game leader
You clearly want to move on from the past
But they are stuck in it now because all Karen's unavailable. They're having to use youngster
You know as an op stand in pulling him off the bench immediately after you know sending him off
So that can't be good and obviously there's not able to really put up in results because of that
And so that's been
Unfortunately kind of an ugly thing to watch transpire as far as bad goes I'm gonna go with 3d max
3D Max is a team that usually is able to get some wins, make a playoff occasionally, but
let's be honest, they've basically been stuck in the same spot for a year, you know, I mean
like 9th to 14th place is kind of where they always finish, but they haven't won a single
map so far this tournament.
0-1-4, it's a chance they get eliminated in Dead Last, and now all of a sudden instead
of just kind of plateauing at that 9th to 12th kind of range I'm talking about,
they could sink even further than that.
And then my positive, my good, would be Foot.
putting on a hell of a show so far this tournament it's really cool to see a young team with a you
know Romanian player you know fighting on home soil be able to already get one win on the board
to put themselves in the 1-1 pool and they fought well against Furi yesterday in my opinion you
know went all three maps the overpass was a crazy game good stuff we'll talk more about that match
after a little bit but first pump you have a hot take for us a hot take for you oh man
Oh, a hot take for you would be, I think, is that even a hot take?
G2 is going to come back and they're going to make the playoff despite being 0-2.
And I don't know if that's a hot take.
I also think a hot take could be that there's going to be no hot takes at the rest of this
switch stage. I think most of the favorites are doing well.
I think most of the favorites will be showing up and I think most of the favorites will make
sure that we get a stacked playoff. Most of the time we have a lot of upsets coming in,
especially in a format like this, but I feel like the way it's been going so far is that
the good teams are slowly but surely coming alive into the season. You know, there's been a couple
of tournaments now with obviously Krakow and then obviously the blast tournament to kick off the season
where the rust have sort of been played off. So I feel like we're getting a scene now and teams that
are stabilizing. So yeah, our hot take could be G2 making it back from an 0-2 position,
having most of the favorites in the playoff and then obviously FACE eventually will find a
way not to make the playoffs. We'll talk about that later. We'll talk about that a little
Let it dust brought up the the foot furia game yesterday. You were on that game
I mean what were your takeaways from that that foot probably could have won that game to oh
It was a hyper competitive game to be completely honest
I think we saw foot play exceptionally well in a lot of these scenarios
Overpass in particular was a great map point into treble overtime food
Even went up in the first overtime 14 to 12 and I thought to myself, okay
They're gonna nail this one
but for us we know them to be very resilient. We know them to be a team that can always fight back
and they did, in case of Rado coming in with a massive quad kill when it was needed the most
and then we went into another over time. So in terms of laping them as something good just I
very much agree. I think foot has been the revelation of the season so far. I love watching them.
You know it's always nice to see a new team come around that shares a lot of prospects
and a lot of potential and to see it actually come to fruition in tournament results and not just
in the practice rooms or in smaller online competition. I think the Dean and Jude's rifle
in combination is a brilliant one. I think Locke's really stepped up yesterday in particular.
And so they really have a lot going for them. I think unfortunately, it's just they've hit
a, you know, speed bump that you're going to hit when you're a young team where it's kind of
like if your initial game plan is not working, how are you able to make adjustments? How are
you able to mid-ground? And that's just something that you have to kind of work
through those progressions as a team as you encounter those situations more.
So I have a lot of respect for Navi for selling this roster because it was their
their Navi Academy roster and I think by selling it they gave these players an opportunity because
had they have stayed with Navi they wouldn't have been able to compete in a lot of the tournaments
they are so I want to preface my next question by saying I completely understand why Navi did what
they did and I actually respect them for it because they've given these players an opportunity
but there must be there must be a little bit in that Navi management like a little bit of
frustration going wow we had like some really good young players that we could have picked
up and possibly put into our main roster if we were looking for more consistent firepower
And now we don't have them anymore.
I see what you're saying, but there's a lot of nuance to that.
Obviously, Navi sold them also to make money.
I'm pretty sure Footpeg brought a lot of money to get that entire roster,
as it was evident that it was going to be a decent team.
I'm also hoping that Navi would have played it, you know,
smartly, either required more money or have some sort of buyback clause
or first right of refusal on some of these players,
because you look at D-Mon, you look at Dukes, you know,
there's definitely players in there that you could use in your main roster,
maybe in the future.
So I think if anything, they've put themselves in a good position.
And I also do think there's ties to Navi still, even though you're part of the food team.
If Navi comes knocking someday and they want Demon, then you've been under the Navi
junior system before.
You've been under the organization before.
So you have a little bit of loyalty perhaps to that.
So depending on how they structured the sale and how much money they got out of it,
I think Navi is quite happy that they also gave them a platform where they can develop.
And then who knows if in six months or 12 months they'll win some of them back.
Let's focus in on G2.
obviously your heartache is that they're going to come back.
They had a bit of a rough run, though,
at the first two days here in Cluj.
They really have, and it's really sad,
because I've seen so many bright things out of them.
I feel like they had a good run of things
when they put this roster together.
Obviously, last open one is going
to be the highlight from last year.
But even coming to this year, I
thought you saw some good things.
And I think Hunter's doing a really good job
as developing his leadership and being a guy who can still
put up numbers on the board while the net leadership role.
I think we're seeing Mattis continue to be a good pick up for this squad and really show
you his value.
I do think there are a couple of people on the hot seat though, where you kind of want
to see a little bit more because we know what Mouth is capable of whenever he's in
the right situations and he's got the right mindset, but sometimes he's letting it slip
a little bit and not having the same impact you're used to seeing out of him.
I also think that some pious on the AWP is one where you see the flashes of brilliance,
you see the potential there, but again, it's a little bit streaky.
So I think there's still some potting up to do on that team.
There's been a little hard done by, you know, with the draws.
Well, you face off Vitality in the first game,
and then you get Paravish in the second as well.
And to be honest, you're facing the best team in the world,
and you're facing a team that is on an uprise right now,
who's currently ranked number, is it four in DIS?
So if you're G2, yes, it's disappointing to go to.
They did make the game against Vitality very competitive.
I think they played a good game of Counter-Strike.
I want to hone in on your point about Malph's,
because I highlighted that, you know,
saying that we need to see more from him.
And then he had a fantastic show in versus Vitality,
little bit more absent yesterday versus P vision and that's what happens with
the with mouse at the moment he's just way too inconsistent you know if he
finds consistency within the system of G2 then that's a team I'll bank more on
but now they're under pressure and have to win the the remaining three games
they're part of that's the thing they're up for elimination today let's
take a look at the schedule on the B stream because some of these teams
are going to be going home that is the the format that we have which I love
and and that is the the reality that G2 has to live with now there is no
more excuses there's no space for mistakes. No and I guess the good thing is
they're facing a pain who's in a crisis right now you know the roster changes
they've made coming into the new season on paper didn't make a lot of sense on
the server makes even less sense the way they play as well you see them
play good on one map all of a sudden everything is clicking and then they
fall apart the next two so if you do at least you have a I guess an opponent
right now where you can feel somewhat comfortable that you're getting the
Yeah, you're 100% spot on. Pain went from what was already a very painful 2025 into a situation where they haven't really been able to alleviate any of it.
You know, I think had they been able to go out there and make a bigger blockbuster signing like an insigning from made in Brazil, like a lotto from legacy, you know, really bring in someone who could have brought them additional firepower
because I still think big was Arab has value as a leader and a fragger in that slot. I think NQZ is the best opera from that country right now.
So you have some things to work with but unfortunately for them snow has really never developed into the star
They hope that he would be and at this point you've put in everywhere on the server
You know he kind of came in took more of a backseat more of a lurker supportive type element
You know when the things weren't going on our David Davis
They kind of put him back into some star roles and try to highlight him more and in either case that it really pan out
Maybe it's too soon to call in the other two additions. I'm not gonna be totally out on them yet
But yeah, it's definitely been a rough ride over there in that cancer sure
I'm really sorry that might be the last time we speak about pain because they could be going
home a little bit later.
We'll have to find out.
Let's focus in on what you get to watch here on the A stream today.
We'll be figuring out who will be making playoffs.
That's a big one that's going to be coming in.
And then of course the two games that we're starting with today, the Mongols up against
Bates and Navi versus Aurora, which is a matchup that should go in the way of Navi.
If I'm going to be honest, that's how I feel.
I think if you're looking at Aurora right now, there is no way there is a world where
majors are playing Alexi beyond the server.
No, but that's the litmus test for Navi because we heard Blades saying the part of the reason
why they didn't make roster changes is that they felt they could win trophies and content
for trophies for this season.
And so far it's been a little bit shaky for Navi.
We saw them at the major do a really, really good job, being content for the
trophy go far into the playoff, but it hasn't been a great start to 26 and for Aurora.
Like they're very hard to figure out right now.
I personally feel like it's a team that I'm losing faith in and I have been losing faith in for quite some time
Then a crack up they make the playoff they go into the quarterfinal by beating Falcons beating some good teams
And then they they have one of the worst playoff performances. I've ever seen from a team of that calibre
So how do you make up this game? You know, how do you rape the two teams against each other?
I feel I roar struggling in their own way and I feel not be struggling in their own way
So it's like a team of struggle sums I guess periods right now going up against each other where in
In reality, you know, in the mid of 2025, you probably put them equal, you know, two teams who are on the similar level.
Yeah, I mean, look, it's a tough one. I know that fans have kind of come my way, but it's come sort of a place of, I want to see them do better.
I want to see them be a playoff contender. The more contenders we have in the scene, the more fun we have with having so many competitive matchups.
And this is a squad that, you know, the first half of last year, they were fighting for a top five spot in the world against Mongols for pretty much the entire first season, right?
You know, you had by Tauhti, Bowles, Spirit, they were the fixtures of the top five,
Falcons kind of came in and out, but they really were on the precipice of doing it themselves.
They had such a hot start to the year, but you look at the second season and all the playoffs
they missed, you know, all the disappointing results, and then they finally won a small turn
and then you're like, all right, here we go. Then they go out on stage two,
not even make it to the main stage of the major at Budapest,
but Crack High was a nice sign with, you know, the new addition to
hopefully that they're going to get back on the right track and I went over Navi today,
I think we'll do wonders for them. Can they beat Navi though? They can. Is it a team that we think is going to be in contention?
I know that you've said that but I'm just not seeing it. And I haven't seen it. I didn't see it last year either to be fair.
The drop-off has been consistent. Yeah, but the thing is both teams are inconsistent, you know.
We saw Navi yesterday disappoint by not making a fight versus Maus. I think that was disappointing the way they lost.
Again, losing to Maus in the best of three in a group stage. You know, a lot of teams are doing that quite consistently.
but it was more so the fashion Navi and the blues yesterday that disappointed me.
So yeah, I wrote definitely have a chance of beating Navi.
I'd agree with the sentiment that Navi are the favorites on paper,
but we just saw what is it a week and a half ago that a war took down the felicans.
They took down another top team.
So in that sense, they've shown in that sense, they've shown they can beat
some of the top echelon teams.
Now the issue for Aurora and that's part of the the context of this
matchup is that they play a couple of times last year and Navi seems to get
the grasp of it.
They beat them thrice, they beat them in games where it met up, and I think Aurora have shown that this structured style of Navi, the blade preparation, that something major can't overcome in the middle of the games, and that's going to be an issue today.
But you see, Jacob, this is where I'm going to woo you a little bit. There's one thing that was missing from those two previous matchups. Do you want to know what it is?
A new Miss Baby.
It's back.
A new Miss is back, baby! Woo! That's what Aurora is going to be firing off on today. I think that is usually a guaranteed win.
win a little bit of shaky overtime game earlier in this group stage of
Ferrana so it hasn't always been comfy but they have that in their back pocket
I will say they have been competitive on Dust2 and Nucleic Lee in my
opinion as well those are some maps where they could maybe fight my issue is
you know and kind of going along what he said is they there's limitations
right outside of the three maps I name the other four maps in the pool are a
struggle for this team T sides are a struggle for this team leadership is a
struggle for this team consistent firepower outside of Zanterre is
a struggle for this team so there is a lot of things that have to be
patched up. Can you do it all, you know, in a hurry to try to deal with a
Nobby team who, yeah, let's be honest, I didn't have the best crack out, but
that's such a strong finish to last year. And you see hints of what could be.
And I think this is the perfect time for these two teams to meet my opinion
because they're kind of two ships passing in the night. And it's a
now question, which direction is which for each team. And this is the one
good positive I could say about Aurora that you still got this guy.
He's still, he's probably the second best entry frag in the world after
at all. Yeah, the heart to do. I think Santeres is a fantastic talent, a fantastic prospect
and he has been for quite some time. It's not that people underestimate him, it's just
that people don't realize how good he actually is in an environment that he's playing in
with Aurora. A player that has also, you know, I guess dedicated his life and his career
to stay within Turkey's Counter-Strike. Was in big for quite some time, went back
to Turkey's Counter-Strike and sort of like build up Aurora to a point where they
are an international top team so in terms of that he has my full respect personally you know being as
I guess equal to tickle as I am I would love to see since there is an international yeah I would
still love to see that because I think he has an awful lot to offer I was gonna say I feel like I
mean I think he's a bit wasted on this lineup to be free I would love to see him under a stronger
RGL I do too I mean the one thing I will say is he does have some supporting cast on this
this team. You know, I think
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generally putting up you know solid numbers to be a supporting cast of steam
whereas Ema has been very impressive for B lately you know he's kind of the one
guy alongside wonderful's major performance that gives you a little bit
of hope that there's firepower there for Navi to make things happen. I think
that's that's my issue you know when we compare players again you said
Voxic I feel like that's the player who's stagnated you said my lady is
getting better Voxic has stagnated a little bit it's not that he's a bad
player but he's just not putting up as much impact as you would like to
see as of recently and that has been an issue especially in a world
where it's very tough to find capable up players like we talk about pretty much every single team right now
Whether that's broken face whether that's some pairs in G2
I'd even say boxing and we're like how do we replace all players when there's no market for the up players out there
So those who can sort of like raise above and and still find impact those are incredible valuable for the teams
I know dust mentioned some of the struggles that Aurora has been facing. I'm curious
From your side, what do you think the struggles are that novice been facing?
I think it goes down to the team chemistry and how they conduct themselves as a team.
I spoke a lot about it in 2025.
I observed that a lot whenever I'm at a tournament, whenever I'm at a LAN,
I like to stay close to the team and watch them play for a half.
And I feel like there's a lot of frustrations building up within that team so quickly.
I was observing them at certain tournaments where they're leading.
You know, they could be up eight to three and a half,
and then they'd lose one stupid round and the entire team would just full tilt.
And I don't know what that is, if that's certain players or certain dynamics within the team,
but it has been an issue, I feel like, in terms of their mental resilience.
Whether that's, you know, them having to accept that it's not 2024 anymore,
where you're winning trophies, you're going into finals, or what that may be,
if you're going to be wonderful in Monbeetha.
I don't know, but in terms of that mental resilience,
I almost feel like that's the biggest downfall this team has,
because in terms of individual quality, you're looking for bits,
you're looking for wonderfuls, there's a lot to offer in the NaviCamp,
Played as a coach. I think we all agree that he's one of the best at preparing his teams and maybe even changed the course of a game in
In the middle of the timeouts as well
But I feel like mentally they've just been weak compared to what I would expect from a team of this kind of
It's a fair point to me
You know, I do think that obviously the core of this roster has been together for a very long time
And obviously when you have that happen and you've been through so much it creates a lot of baggage and sometimes it puts you in
positions where maybe you feel like you're stuck
and you feel like you've been doing circles
around the same problem over and over and over again,
not being able to find a solution to get them going.
But it's just so tough to give up on them
because you can kind of see the core pieces that they have
that you feel like should propel them to heights.
I mean, you have a great in-game leader,
Lexie B, with a good reputation.
You have Blade, who is considered one of the best
coaches of all time.
You have a guy like Bit, who has at times been
considered one of the best anchors in the world.
But I think for me is he's not the same player.
he was, you know, last year or even the year before where he was up there in
contention to be the best in that particular role.
I think that they do lack a true star entry fragger, in my opinion.
Like, yeah, he was a decent secondary guy.
And yeah, they brought in Mikaze.
They need to give him a little bit more time to see how he develops,
but so far it ain't been what they needed in my opinion.
So I think there's some discrepancies and some of the firepower on this
team.
I think also the other big thing for Navi is they try to do this whole
seven map pool thing for a while and that didn't really work out.
Then they lost train, which is that they were trying to invest a lot
into and now I feel like they're without a home.
Like I think they have ancient is pretty good.
There's a couple other that they're okay on,
but they don't really have a whole map in my opinion.
And I think that they're a little bit limited
where else they can go, you know,
once they get past some of their strengths.
Yeah, that is a bit of an issue
when you're playing the top teams.
I don't think it's going to be too big an issue
against Aurora.
If there's a player would love to put a bit of focus
on it is Alex B.
I think it goes under the radar that obviously
as you said, he's been on the team
for a long, long time.
I think he's a great prospect
as an in-game leader as well.
And I'm starting to feel that
if he doesn't figure this out now with Navi,
if him and Blake can't solve this issue,
you know, roster changes will have to be made
or could even CLXB maybe moving on to another project.
He's been in Navi for a long, long time.
His individual level has taken a massive hit.
He's sort of like following the same route as Kerrigan
to some degree in terms of how he's conducting himself
on the server.
And that's okay to a certain degree
if you are then the player or the in-game leader
that is, you know, bringing up your team
and bringing up the players around you.
And I think he's kind of hit a point now in his career where there's only so much he can do
what in this current Navi roster.
So either bring some fresh luck to the team that he can work with, that he can maybe hone in,
and that he can make better.
I love the room about frozen, perhaps, joining Navi back in the day.
Sintu was potentially an option for Navi as well.
We heard the rumors about that.
But if the lineup stays the same, I'm afraid that LXB is also losing interest in this project,
being like, okay, maybe I need to go to another team, another organization and try to rebuild
because we've seen that yesterday's capabilities.
Well, this is the thing, right? So obviously that blade interview, which we spoke about
yesterday, Pimp, you brought it up earlier, him saying, well, we didn't make any changes
because we believe that this lineup is strong enough to contend for trophies, but we've
now since heard there was they were sniffing around some players, Senzu included. And
so I'm curious as to whether or not that that change happens in the next few months
if we don't see more consistency from Navi.
But obviously the video coming through now,
let's see how this plays out.
Exactly how we've thought so far.
I think now Navi picking Mirage could be a nice punish.
I think that's a map that Aurora's really been struggling on,
so not surprised there.
I wonder what Aurora might pick.
Hmm, oh, Anubis, shocker.
Yeah, back in the map pool, you know,
back as being their home.
You described it saying Navi doesn't really have a home.
I'd agree with that, since Aurora have,
and that is Anubis, and they're trying to reinforce that.
So, to speak Mirage coming in from Navi, that is usually the go-to pick for them as well.
It's a map that Alex B loves to call on.
It's a map that is very, very, very potent for a team like Navi, but so it is for Aurora.
No Dust 2, no Nuke, no big surprise, and then inferno, the classic third map decider,
which I think in this case is very likely to be relevant.
I don't think neither of the two teams have shown a shape or shown a form right now
where I feel comfortable saying that they can win 2-0 either of them.
This is no surprise.
So let's move on from the Vito.
I want to go back to that blade comments, and I'm curious,
but I did actually pose this question to Maui,
ESA, but I'll pose it to you.
Do you think that this Norvey lineup
is a trophy contender this season?
Absolutely not.
Not the big trophies.
Not the trophies they want to win.
There are certain tournaments where they can come in,
maybe and have higher aspirations.
But I don't see the Conruster being a team
that I have any confidence beating
for in the Grand Final, beating a Vitality for that matter.
Even beating a mouse team.
I think they're below that right now.
So there's a lot of teams that they will struggle beating even Falcons for that matter as well
So I don't see it
But it's also a question of what's the right player available at the right time and and it's this classic thing
Does that we see so often we saw it would face at the major we saw it would navigate the major
If you go out on a high if the last tournament before a little bit of a break is on a high
You kind of you kind of build up the story and and build up the belief that oh look what we did of the major
Let's give it another shot, you know
It's like the thing when you have a girlfriend and you know in reality 80% of the time it's a mess
You're arguing all the time, but sometimes you're having a good moment together
Sometimes you're having a good tournament
So you're like oh, let's try one more time and one more at the end of the day
It often turns out not to work out, you know life advice right there for you guys out there
But I think it's a question of time
I think they've given themselves the first six months of 26 to figure out and if not then now
We will be a team that will be sniffing around for more players for sure
I think that every day segment we've done at the start of PGLCruise, a day one, day two, day three, at the start there's been some sort of relationship example that we've used.
I'm starting to think we should start a podcast about relationship advice for Counter-Strike fans.
I mean, for you Daz, let's have a little bit of fun and I know that we should be focusing in on Anubis, but I kind of want to pose this question to you.
If LXCB did have to leave Navi, where would you put him right now, right there?
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, I think that that's a team that
has a lot of value to distribute a talent.
Right now they're dealing with a situation
where they have an inexperienced in-game leader.
They're struggling with their T sides.
Alexi B is definitely a guy who I think
could help correct some of that,
help bring a little bit more structure
or add to their playbook a little bit.
So that would be probably,
that's like the number one target I would say.
You know, it would make sense, I think, for Alexi B.
If he isn't, he's gonna leave.
Not that I'm not saying that he should or
that that's just a right move.
But if it were to happen,
if it were to be something that does go on,
I think that would be, you know, the landing spot
where I think that would align pretty well.
T2 is an option as well, you know, a bit of a reunion
with that free uphunter, potentially,
from the in-game leading duties.
If they figure out that doesn't work out,
I even suggested, you know,
why don't you go instead of Kerrigan, you know,
change it up a little bit and face clean,
and then Kerrigan find a new project as well,
because that's how it's called, you know,
or coach for that man as well.
But I think Kerrigan could go to Maus as well.
I think Kerrigan could go to a new project.
So I think in terms of in-game leading of his quality,
you know, LXP is not gonna have any issues
if he were to decide to leave Navi,
but he's also an attraction power.
He's also a player that people want to play with.
So if you're a Navi, maybe you want to keep him.
So you make sure that you can acquire the talent needed
in order to get this Navi a new freshman.
How do you think he's going to call on a new bus?
What can we expect from Navi?
Well, they've only played one game.
It was an overtime loss to PowerVision.
So I think a lot is still being figured out.
I think I enjoy what they've kind of set up.
I think that the positions make sense.
The roles make sense.
The roles you think that's going to come in
within their well-practiced, well-drewed,
That's just the whole map of Aurora.
This is one of the few maps where they don't lack on the T-Size.
They're very good at throwing consistent pressure all across the map.
They leave their options open, they have great mid-control, they have great set pieces with
high utility, and they have guys who can bang and trade and gather and go, and that's
what this map's about.
It's gathering and going.
Focus on LXB and McCarthy towards that B bomb site.
If I'm Aurora, I'm going to pound on that bomb site over and over and over again.
I would argue those are the two weakest players in terms of the individual output.
I've seen Mikasi as well. It's a small sample size, but he's very easy to rattle out with utility.
You know, it's a young player, inexperienced player.
How do you manoeuvre when there's a lot of utility flying in?
Anubis is one of the most cramped maps as well, where you really are playing like a fish in a
barrel almost all the time. So I think LXP and Mikasi will essentially focus on them,
but even more so on Wonderful. I think he has to come in, you know,
and be a lot of backup with the AWP in order to shut down the pressure that's going to be
be from a war on that a box. You know what we have our classes ready and we
actually get a little opportunity to chat to them now Launders and score new
home. I know. I just wanted to ruin your morning. Jacob. Yeah, Connor. My favorite
guy in any room. What up Connor? What's up Jacob? How you doing man? Doing great.
Such a treat to talk to you today. Yeah. This is the most awkward conversation I've
had to switch. There's some kind of tension. I can't remember what it's
called, but yeah, there might be some of that going on. It's love, you know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's, we haven't, yeah, you can call it that, beings and Canadians.
We love each other.
I'm gonna save everyone from this weird cringy interaction.
The game is live, why do we go and do that?
I mean, my heart was full, I wasn't cringing wonders.
I was Jean Genuine, and that's the problem with Pimp, is he can't genuinely express his love for me.
But you'll get there.
I'll break him down day by day.
Ready for this one, Mohan?
Navi versus Aurora kicks off on Anubis.
You said it in the green room before we got on the mics. Navi kind of need to win this.
Yeah, I feel like they need to because nothing's guaranteed in their next match, and this is like a...
like Aurora are in a place where they can lose for sure.
I think the mood will be weighed down for Navi if they can pull this one together.
Aurora are kind of on a downtrend at the moment.
And it sounds obviously they're hoping to get it together.
full-blown execute, out of Aurora, into the bombsite,
and sure enough, Wacadia finds an opening kill with it.
So, see you later, Bitt.
Xantera's taking over storage, rotate deep from CT.
You've already lost M'cause.
He was ahead of the pack in that moment,
and now Xantera has friends.
So fly with Wacadia, and they're both going to swing into it.
They're going to come out with the frags.
He has attempt to...
Ooh, okay, hold on, halfway there.
Beautiful couple of USP shots,
but the promise is a deep push
if you're going to go get Wacadia.
So he's forced to instead play towards site, trying to figure out where that second one's at,
Bob Plank's gonna scramble him, yeah, tough stuff here for EMA.
Beautiful couple of shots, we'll give that credit where it's due,
but it's an Aurora, a T side pistol for the kickoff.
And Aurora are always in an interesting spot because they're a team that,
in the last few years, has been criticized heavily for their calling,
and yet they can be remembered as like the best, uh, Anubis team ever.
And so they enter a series and it just sometimes feels like
based on the reputation they get a free one.
Everyone's expecting them to be able to pick up a music no matter what.
So then they constantly deliver on it.
Like, they are actually so good at specializing
and finding some consistency.
They are a team that's really trying to hit a lot when a map comes out, that's for sure.
I think their problem is almost too much set stuff, right?
But they actually try to create a lot of 7-minors.
I think a lot of people try to default and work,
and then pick sites after.
Majors got that idea at the beginning of the round.
Well, the idea was B, so again,
no, Sam Harris is going to find a challenge
coming his way, three players aggressive into E-box.
That's an AK upgrade for E-man.
Lovely for him to be able to appeal that gun
back into the bomb site.
17-9's been left on the ground,
but that's fine, we got Desert Eagles
on the remaining three.
B-Mass caught another frag, and all of a sudden, these outer B bomb side players are feeling
held at bay.
Another flashbang that finds its mark, and Wonderful's gonna lock into jail here, trying
to couple with that Desert Eagle still back on the platform.
Bitt's gonna go for the long word, back towards the middle, well placed boy made,
but still he gets away with the headshot.
That's incredible.
Falling back headshot with the Eagle.
And now how do you win this? You've got one on the flank, you have Alexi waiting for you to come in.
Even if you know that he's here.
Damn, it paused for so long.
He's got HP on Soulfly and he just got spotted.
But they're still kind of working slowly.
Oh!
Alexi B nails his headshot as well.
These Desert Eagles have found plenty of victims and Bitt is quickly now moving in onto the flank.
He'll try to jump on Woxic and Navi's forced by Pans out.
It's Emeda kicking off inside of the E-box, but that's a real team effort.
Desert Eagle headshots across the board.
Yeah, that's I think that wonderful kill.
And I almost laughed because it just seemed ridiculous that he got that shot in.
But you know, Mauler's always in out of jail. It's a perfect play to do.
Maulies, it holds the Maulie.
You know, if you have a straight left and right, that's one thing, but he had to run backwards and then go left.
He just thinks he's gonna die. He doesn't think he's gonna get a kill in that spot.
So, I'm definitely feel bad for Aurora right there, but...
That's that little bit of X back there, I don't know if they've always got the backclaw here.
I'm sitting here today hoping to see the version of Navi that kicked off Clujnipoca.
Day one Navi was impressive, how does he think he may be favorites versus Maus?
That game obviously wrapped up, and so will this round three.
No challenge crosses that bridge successfully for Aurora.
And Wikipedia back into the T-Spawn of which he came.
You see Navi playing for a lot with Ema on the roster.
It's the low-hanging fruit, the elephant in the room.
You need to get the Romanian in front of the Romanian crowd,
especially because they didn't get to compete at the event last year.
That's the absolute minimum.
Maybe he'll be the driving force in doing that qualification, still elusive.
You sit here in a 1-1 game this morning.
I mean, it was not the fifth best player on the team.
He definitely has been putting in a lot of efforts.
Win or lose in novy matches.
He's getting a lot of credit for being like a secondary or, you know, even the most active caller in a lot of situations.
As important as it is to have a clear idea of who the leader of the team is, it also needs to be understood that it really isn't just a one-man job.
You know, even if you have a coach behind you, a second guy for ideas, especially in those games where you're losing a lot of rounds, a lot of egos, you need that pistol,
Having a second guy you know can come up with a plan for the team that you can use
Helps you do your job even more so
Let's say sometimes I see this narrative where it's like if an in-game leader has somebody like that a second voice in a team
The way Ema is to Alexi for some people that kind of undermines the in-game leaders
Authority in certain ways, you know, it's like well, isn't he the leader shouldn't he be able to do all that?
But the reality is I think if you ask most in-game leaders
They're dying to have a second voice right somebody that can support them
Why wouldn't you want to have that set of helping hands? Yeah?
I've always felt like the best makeup for teammates is to have three guys who talk a lot and two guys who are very quiet
New year anchors are kind of quiet guys
You're like rotation players or star players in your IGL are like way more active in comms
But you have all five talking doesn't work. You have two few people talking doesn't work, right?
comes the pistol push at 35 seconds.
We'll see if any kills can come through.
Ooh, a little chumpled up back here on the platform.
It's a couple of kills.
And a gun grabbed.
That distraction for Soulfly puts his paws back
on another rifle.
This is far too costly for Navi's liking.
I wonder if they can get this bomb plan on table.
It seems like it.
I only got two guns.
I'm worried about the E-box flank.
I don't know if they have info on both guys
right now, but they're watching it.
Very awkward jumbling of the CTs in the back of the platform there costs them their lives and within that
distraction goes down number three. Oh, Wikadia's caught the fourth and they got it! That is Glock's,
baby! No way. In through the B bomb site, they burn a minute talking in spawn and Sulfi
Rips through three with a Glock.
The sight defense, the messy sprays
that we just saw right there,
thought it was gonna be fine,
even when Ima threw himself at the problems head.
I'm just gonna pick this up, pick up two frags,
and ended up getting traded there, leaving another gun.
At every single moment, I think Navi thought,
well, it's not too late, we're gonna save the day,
and they did it.
Yikes.
Oh, he immediately under pressure with that one.
You've got Woxic on his op, you've got an M4 in Madger's hands, AK's, and extra cash
in their back pocket, Zororo.
That is a huge round to get right back to where they started.
Now they're going to try to test the wonderful's limits inside of this site, he's burning
momentarily.
He has so little support, but he gets out of this, okay, they keep him there.
So now Bitt trying to catch them on the cross over to the fountain, it's a 4 vs 4, and Wukadia
sits inside of that fountain smoke.
We get this mid-play coming through from Madger slowly, he's trying to creep down into camera
which will compromise Alexi B. Woxic getting a kill in the meantime, but then he counter
rushes.
And as he sprints in, Alexi is able to react to that, there's still so many Aurora players
that all is good.
E-Mass 7-3 denied anything further and it's majority alive Aurora as they test
that A site and follow through with conviction.
might be full tilt now for Navi. It's another chance. And again, we look at wonderful in that
spot. He's having to dodge flashes, throw a lot of nades. Once he takes a shot into baskets,
you would assume that a teammate on Navi has a flash ready so he could fall back,
repeat after theirs, or go for a second kill. Nothing. He just has to hide. He has to
smoke himself out of the molly. He has to sit there, get double-naded. No one threw counter
grenade for him at all, and it seems weird to set up an oper in that spot, so both good
for Aurora to be able to punish a situation like that, but really questionable for Navi
to like put such a high value gun in a position like that, especially through everything by
itself.
Right, quite literally just one layer to it.
And he's successful, right?
First shot Lance gets his kill, but there's just nothing beyond that.
Okay, wonderful, his Desert Eagle from the background.
I'm trying to control the hardware here.
Corp sits in front of SoulFly, he's got two pistols to come out of and all's good.
Another multi-frag here for SoulFly as he'll sit on one HP and Woxy greets the Alexi push.
From the A site flashbangs to the B long rush, Alexi not getting much going.
That is another for Aurora.
The question is for Soulfly.
How many games does it take to get to the guy that they probably see in scrims, the guy
that they felt this would be a good replacement for someone as quality as Johto was.
Also the question of if that's even possible, because Johto left, it's not like he was
necessarily cut because of his performances.
But again, like actually like Aurora, in terms of their second layer of talent in Turkey,
they have a lot of it and their academy team has done a good job of kind of growing these
players, right?
One of the best systems of any academy team to main team in any country that we've
seen so far in a very kind of in a smaller region in terms of the amount of pro players
that they produce.
So I wouldn't expect the next guy after Johto to really be just totally ran, you know, I
would expect him to have something pretty special ready.
But I'm already needed, yeah, right?
We saw it versus Soul Flies, okay, well, you know, first few games, in tournaments.
Understandably.
Now we're at 6, 10 and 3, 6 rounds into the game versus Navi.
A big factor as Dwyer-Rora were able to get into this lead again on the attack.
That B site triple kill still has me scratching my head.
Katie trying to soften up the potential repeat positioning from Wonderful, not the case.
But even just showing a little bit of presence out towards A has this majority Navi setup inside of the A bomb site.
And that's going to mean Alexi B leans back in middle on his own for the moment as this Aurora pack starts to work his way
Smoking off the camera right now from middle is Aurora
And now not only have you drawn so many Navi players into the a-bomb site
But you kind of box them in with this camera smoke as well. They're stuck there for the time being it sets up the Aurora B
Hit quite nicely. They're still walking over towards it
They're not rushing the process and that has afforded wonderful the ability to kind of go back all the way around through CT spawn
And they'll clear out middle here before the commitment comes through and with that clear
We see the scramble here for Navi to try to get into the B bomb site in the end
So Aurora, they've created the situation where the B is a numbers advantage
But it is still Navi figuring it out in time
And now with the Incentaries ahead of this, the defense is rock solid
Holding them back, Santerres is going to clear out that flank
And as you have Soulfly's hands busy to the plant
Wonderful's caught a kill, but it's cost them a lot of damage
And then in the open, Soulfly from the bomb plant to the frag that's going to win this round.
It's a slow squeeze from both teams, but it really did feel created by Aurora here in the 7th.
Yeah, I think they were in control of the tempo.
Like, as soon as Navi figured out what was going on, Aurora were halfway through executing their game plan.
And, like, you know, Imma gets a pick-off on E-Box, they get a little scared about it.
But they- But because Navi clued in just a touch too late,
They got there just in time to throw a Molly down towards the box if they're a smoke down towards main
But not play active positions in the site to try to defend they didn't get that mag jump clip
On the back of the site they didn't get near early frag and it felt like they were just reacting the entire time so
A roll we're just showing off again on T side how comfortable they are
That comfort is not going to end now. You can see the money here for Navi, certainly not in a strong position to stop what is now this slugfest out of Aurora, 5-2 T side lead.
I think what's nice about this one too is like we've had jokes in the past about what about Madger calling on this map, you know, hit A site, 11 rounds in a row and then switch the end.
Yeah.
But this has been a nice, very game plan.
Yeah, definitely.
They've worked both sides of the map to kind of force Navi into some awkward positions.
It's just nice to see Aurora back on Anubis, like Dust said, right?
This could be the difference maker for a team that had lost this part of their map pool for a little while.
This time number is strong into an A site that has clearly understaffed the entirety of Navi.
Of course the lead whip and this D250 hits the ground with nothing
So Aurora wants more just showing us that they can go back and forth and come through with an execute
Making sure they go down with the grenades as well to make sure nobody has to die unnecessarily
Free mad you're up to go hunting but 6-2 guaranteed Aurora on their map pick
Like, phase wakadia is coming man.
Phase wakadia, yeah it's true, we talked about that once.
I've forgotten about your wild ideas.
So unlikely, but we've seen, like, I mean, symbols on a portuguese team, like anything
can happen.
That's fair.
Yeah, symbols on a portuguese team, fit and flame are no longer on Virtus Pro and
James back in the top three
Maybe I'm exaggerating. Why was that so costly man, huh?
Free upshot no death no problem
You can make light of a situation Aurora end up losing way too many bodies on the exit
It's kind of okay for them
It's more of just nice for Navi that they pick up a couple guns here because Aurora still rich
So painfully rich right now
ever since winning on that clock round they've been saving and investing
right
wiping their tears with the franklence
go for a boost through windmill
yeah a boost catches e-man
Yeah.
Oh no.
Well you couldn't see Zanteris' face on the Kool-Aid Man.
No.
Going through that hole in the wall.
Oh yeah.
The Kool-Aid Man smiles.
So, it had to be somebody else.
Yeah.
Maybe if he wins a land we'd get a smile.
Nope, we watched him win a land.
We did do that.
Yeah.
Remember the Boogers major?
Nice big land like Clue, surely.
Ah, we'll see.
Are they in contention?
That's a question for you.
In contention.
Soulfly says yes right now.
Soulfly says yes because he'd be the difference, I think.
The rest of the team would be in contention.
It really comes down to Soulfly's
going to be ready now, you know?
to show us what he could do.
Boost another player up, and then you join up
with the two players' bridge.
This round could still end in either direction.
And what you've got is because of the E-Box presence,
a nobby that thinks they're going to stack up
inside of the B site, it's going to boil down
to some individual moments here.
And B is operating on his own.
He got his kill, but just the one.
And multiple bodies come over top of that bridge.
Bomb's going to go plant on A. Another moment here,
where Aurora have done a great job
of getting an open route.
I'm loving it.
I think they're doing excellently with just like...
And yeah, it's not too inflexible the way they're playing. They're just... they're kind of reading the map well.
It feels like they're the ones positioning Navi.
And Navi just keep having to try to figure these moments out. And this frag grenade, if well timed, could be costly.
Wikipedia chucks it out. There's half a wonderful gun.
Waxi Scott U2 is well here for Wikipedia. Flashback could make a difference. He throws it now.
And Wikipedia's never even given a chance to fight off of it.
Makase goes over top of the fountain, bomb is being diffused, but he maybe doesn't know
how much just in time he'll catch the kill, all three frags.
Wait, did he win?
Oh, nope, he didn't.
The diffuse happened.
The diffuse happened?
Yeah, no, it's just like on the same frame.
New HUD.
I wasn't sure either.
That was just super close.
But, um, just barely locked that in.
Oh, statement stands true.
He gets all the kills.
He does, yeah.
Well, he doesn't get the round win, huh?
No, but he's within my...
Mill is back in the right.
What's that?
It's a used bar.
Oh!
Oh!
What?
It's still a little blue!
Am I crazy?
It was still a little blue.
I'm calling the referee on that one.
I don't know what happened there.
Somebody touched the curling rock twice.
It was past the hog line.
The hog line, that's what they call me.
Santera is walking it down.
Ooh, nice reaction. See you later, Eman.
Oh, so mad about that. He got the ding constantly.
Catch you later, boss.
And then it is matter to find Mikaze trying to get around that side of the smoke,
so everybody ready to just go back into this A bomb site.
I would not want to be bitten this moment.
Who just landed a perfect flashbang to slow down the camera side.
It looked great.
Ooh, and that gives him a chance at a kill.
Wonderful comes out down with the Soulfly frag.
Waxit gets the answer, but it comes right back.
And this is unbelievable.
Now Bit will still extend into the fountain.
He's got a chance to just dog pile.
Waxit! I mean, Bit is the reason this round is still doable here for Nobby,
and he doesn't waste a moment.
But he reconsideres the flank, and as he goes back,
Xanteris the health disadvantage gets cleared.
Bit goes big inside of the site.
That flash on camera bought him time to win this round damn near on his own.
That's very true
Did he really dip into that smoke and come out knowing exactly when a CT would walk through?
Surely not, but it's because he went zanteros went into the smoke and came back so quickly. Yeah, that was so instant. Yeah
Why'd he go in if he was gonna just smoke by himself?
everything goes right there for a lower for a second until bit
pull up this one on three check this out what's he up to goes in he just
changes his mind right yeah he changes yeah it's because the kill is a
the locks they kill okay and great push your back no one's that smart you know
like that's just too hard of a that'd be unreal
here a lot can't see that off though
I think it's made the map way more dynamic.
I'm not sure what it feels like to play against it, but it's definitely made a ton more options.
I'm down with the angles that can be taken on the other side of the canal here when
You can just get an angle into middle at least
Wasn't that much damage exchanged could have been worse for sure. I like the email pushes off of that, right?
It wasn't found out in that fight. He was just extended
You just pull back from the e-box
Good decision by you gotta make that move but tries to go for second servings that'll cost them as wakidia trades back
Acadia though, still has to deal with Alexi.
Dropping Maid on him to soften him up to 80.
Mikaze is going to see this as a chance to just try to hang on to the bomb possession.
Acadia, inside of the smoke now.
Pretty ridiculous. Well, he's waiting to get flanked. He's making sure.
teammate's flash comes over from bridge. Difficult though to flash this position for Mikaze.
And so CT's decide to just reel back into the bomb site itself.
He's really bad.
Don't die trying to play possession this badly.
go down to 12 seconds, Magr's gonna just creep out through the E-box, and now with 3 players
inside of the site, it looks like a chance for Navi to hold strong.
Santerrez versus 2, they're both here, but Macase is gonna shut it down.
And so Aurora slow squeeze into that B bomb site, where Navi had so many bodies and
early bomb possession, because E-Med decides he's gonna make a move that could damn near
win the round on its own.
They created this real puzzle outside of me that just drew so much time off the
Aima's flank, them pushing behind it and then trapping Wokadia who's like, he's
messing with them but they also know we're gonna win on time at this point.
It doesn't really matter how much more time you stay alive. So we get to the
last round of the half. I mean there's been a few sort of moments here for
Navi that would just be like you could be on full charge. They could be
embarrassed, they lost two of Glock's, a Glock attack. But they still come out with
Five rounds so far here on CT.
I got the off of the back this guy is dragging Aurora kick
and screaming towards the 7-5 lead.
This Glock impact over towards that B site
has been felt all half long
and now Santerres with two players in front of him
is gonna line them up. Nice headshots.
Yeah, all too easy.
You know that BIT's gonna be inside of this A bomb site
and so it's easy to just run that bomb over with confidence.
Soulfly to be uncontested
and a difficult move here for BIT to 1 vs. 3.
Looking like the Aurora 751 is secured off of a Soulfly Double Tech 9 bridge entry.
They start stopping, cocked by the door, and Wikipedia is going to get traded out instantly,
and all is good for Aurora, considering that this half could have been worse off if not for that Glock round.
BOOM! Back to back two bullets!
Fuck you, you really made a good adjustment there. Crazy sequence from both of them.
So if I absolutely bring something to the table for Aurora and early in 2026, we continue to see it.
A 15 and 7 half.
Did start to feel like as that half went on, Navi were able to kind of figure things out
a little bit more.
I think back to the first few rounds where they were just constantly reacting to what
Aurora were up to and kind of falling for it, right?
There were a lot of tricks at the start of ST side 4 Aurora, and they worked wonderfully.
By the end, Navi started to, I think, kind of make their own impact on the game.
That flank around from the bridge, for example, from Eme, right, decisions that take control
of the rounds is what we started to get out of Navi after they were sick of kind of
being fooled.
Yes, they were putting the position all half to play reactive, so the fact that they were losing rounds and still made it a point to make the initiative themselves does speak volumes without their confidence here.
Off it and move, damn! My shot, soul fly.
They felt so certain that Alexi was on that side of the bridge, and that's a ton of utility down as well with Alexi's death.
I mean, that flashbang designed to kill Alexi B, and they get exactly what they want, so...
There's still one back.
It's a good counter play in the first round of this CT side.
A Magr has missed a couple of bodies passing by him.
Oh, yeah, that's a third as well. He won't even know about the first two and how quickly they're gonna move up to E-box.
Roar is still a couple of bodies in the site at least but they start to press outwards and as they do so they're gonna get caught off guard walks
If Soulfly could still hit headshots though that much we know
Soulfly looking for another 3k, but it's elusive. Wikadia 1v2, bit in another clutch
Starts to walk back and he will catch Wikadia trying to chase Navi to take their T side pistol too
Answered back on Zantairus to kick off and then
Again, because Madger's info, it felt so recent.
It felt like the guy that killed him was probably the first guy that got the water, but there
were already two by Evoxx.
Woxic was lucky to get it killed, jumping backwards, came to the site.
Yes, they had two players here, but mentally they weren't prepared for a full-on attack
to happen at that moment.
Terrorists win.
And it does pull off the clutch.
So, this is pretty big for Navi.
If they get the T side and the 7-7 score line, like for a bit it feels like, you know, this
is a game where I have full control, but you know, suddenly they're not even really in
the lead at all.
It's three 1DX wins for Navi throughout this game, two of them by way of bit.
Yeah, and he's got a 1D3 in that first half.
the
baby big things he's Romanian
they love me
they really love me
this is my event
now a bit has no main character energy
No, no, no.
Some of the things I like about him.
I don't know, he's doing this for Ema for sure.
I'm only watching still because Soulfly was able to get block kills in a round like this in the first half,
but his USP gets flanked fully,
and Navi doing a great job of just dodging any losses in this one.
Very evasive.
in this round, as Aurora don't get their hands on any of the mid control.
Chance for Alexi to make a bit more money, and he will do exactly that.
So instantly off of the second pistol, we are all tied up at seven rounds apiece.
Let's see if he doesn't want to lose this Kevlar.
But wonderful take this final fight.
A very spangable wafer was these walls.
That's five up for Navi in their conversion.
They went with the heavy rifle play in this one too, right?
Two AKs through the Lilz.
You shot through sandstone like that in real life
with the bullets go through.
I don't think so.
No, right?
No.
Not even close.
I mean, it depends on what kind of bullet, but not 556 NATO rounds.
OK.
Not 762s either, I don't think.
So you need like an AWP.
Yeah, need a .50 caliber bullet perhaps.
Maybe a .708.
Seven oh eight. What's that usually fired by a high caliber pullback?
Maybe a different firing mechanism, okay, you know
I think after all these years I know a little bit more about weapons
Well, I'm glad that you don't because it means that this game isn't turning you into
Yeah, one of those like who guns that this guy this game is just not realistic at all
We've been firing from the hip for 25 years
Yeah, we learned how to look down a scope for about a year maybe
Maybe. Short-lived Ogre, Freak, better.
Walk out through the bridge and an eye towards Middle versus Zanterrez.
They're creeping that tension that means that if you kill one death for Aurora and then suddenly the whole round is lost, that's what Nobby are trying to do here.
And Zanterrez looks ready to fight.
Jerry ready to fight it. He won't get his kill.
He was ready, but...
But now the splits coming in, rotations are a little slow. They're trying to go quickly.
Flash doesn't find any CTs though, doesn't really actually bounce in holy, holy, holy damage out of Wikadia.
But at that same time, it's the long A-split that manages through.
Camer get smoked, main get smoked, spawn gets planted.
It's still worthwhile to go for the three-take maybe, but I mean...
Honestly, that was almost a Wikadia 3K mow down, and that was made possible because the Navi flashbang that came through Camero,
that was such a weak little flashbang attempt.
I didn't see it, but he just went right like this.
He didn't even come out camera, right?
So, player playing the bricks jump up, full vision,
ready to go, with Katie on the stairs.
We saw him almost just nail that follow-up on Wonderful.
Three kills with that spray.
Very quickly.
That's the player that they're kind of trying to make awkward,
trying to flash off his hold.
So, Navi end up getting through.
Yeah, they find the right spot to exit from as well.
That's wonderful, Dye.
Terrorists win.
I feel like Navi'd know that that one was on a very narrow difference between Wikadia
finishing off that third kill or not.
Oh my god, Launders.
Is that phase, clan?
Oh, that phase actually have 13.
They've won the best day of 13-2.
I didn't expect that to happen at all.
Not after that ancient game last night, alright?
Haha!
But face-clamp, baby.
It's day by day.
Map by map.
Just have no idea what they're gonna do next.
Now good for them, I feel like they needed that.
What's happened to ParaVision?
Well, I guess honestly, ParaVision, we watched them play their second match.
It wasn't that convincing.
They're getting a bit repetitive.
That's a real issue.
This repetition in terms of bringing it back to the A site, but we get this heavy long emphasis, a slow burn, solo mid-play.
Pistol to serve up a distraction and try to set up Acadia's rifle once more.
But unfortunately, it's nothing here for Aurora.
Nothing other than a window of opportunity for Xanteris to lock in behind Newbox.
And Mikaze's got him, so flawless moment here for Navi.
Navi the pistols that played in front of the rifle unable to serve up a distraction big enough for Aurora to thrive
Hell not even thrive to get anything
Barely damaged dealt beyond bits and that is Navi making quick work of this T side so far
Hope Aurora don't suddenly implode
But also just it feels like Navi are aging like wine in this game
They weren't respecting the fact that Aurora came in so confident.
They kind of ignored the fact that they lost to those Glocks.
They still kept playing aggro for information.
They started off the second half very well.
They win all these clutches to get here.
And now they're playing some of their best CS that we've seen so far.
It's real crushing map control into a lot of conviction on their execute.
And they're making Aurora look very small right now.
Maybe the Soulfly heavy carry is not going to be enough.
It's wild as there was a time in this game where it was like Soulfly didn't feel alone
because he had Woxic and Santeres right there with him, but for Santeres, he'd mostly
Woxic.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think unfortunately, you know, Santeres, his T-side impact is going to dry up in
the second half as he now has to play the defense and sure enough his score line
now negative since this second half has started.
Keep the guns coming.
That's the silver lining for the moment.
In Aurora's case, full Lyron loss bonus.
So we go 4-0 straight so far from Navi's attack.
I don't think he's taking looks at this bridge, but we really haven't had Aurora kind of defend it all too well.
I think Navi are getting confident about this gap.
Testing the water sooner.
Awkward.
I'm gonna miss one.
It still does the job, but it's real poofy.
That was Antares. What's he thinking of this?
He's like, let's beat this.
Yeah, what is this?
Should I shoot it?
Why not?
They're making it online.
Yeah, just in case.
Processing variables, formula unknown.
Now he's just tucked into the temple and allowing Navi to take over more space when they choose to.
We hit 50 seconds and we've still got nobody, kind of playing the extremities.
For that reason, I think Legadia starts to take a snip over towards Long A.
It's why this E-Box beat comes through.
Aurora want to know, where the hell are Navi? Were they in that mid smoke?
No. They still sit back behind the mid doors and basically everyone...
They're real all here. Yeah, I think this would be the most unlikely thing, you know, maybe you think there's a lurker
It's a full crawl the terrace
Is he getting cleared?
They're ready for them and now they're just gonna put the real squeeze into this B bomb site plat and E box
All the Aurora will have so try trying to divide these players one by one
And it's great coverage coming out of it as because they email and bit all take heads off shoulders
Spacing wasn't great on the second crack, so I could have definitely had another kill there, but also, Xanteris' spot.
Not that good.
I'm still trying to figure out that smoke grenade, you know?
It feels like Xanteris should have been taking a line that he can shoot and fall back a bit.
Not a full commitment. They will clear this because they're going here, type of position.
position. Yeah, it's the kind of angle that all of a sudden T's can just, I mean you see it, the two
players go that wide into the swing. You will get traded 100%. Whereas if you are playing, let's say
the CT side of the temple, you get that angle down into middle, you get that warning sign, if
you feel like there's too much for you to handle fully. Okay, god! Olox, it just
dared it up the whole time. It's probably got the most up head shots ever, right?
It's a style point worth a worth street credit. Yeah. But no,
Zantara is being stuck up on top of the temple stairs. We see how that one goes.
And when they built the map, I don't really think they had. I think they had people
defending the other way in mind for pushes into temple while you're about to retake
or something like that, you know, but you'd be standing up on the steps, but anyways.
I always thought that position was honestly made for like tees, actually, for anybody
that gets away with like a mid to lurk, you know, it's a boxy, it's always felt to me
like that's an option for a terrorist, because then as you're a CT who's running to the
other bomb site, sometimes you don't clear that.
It's a terrorist's reward to be able to stand there, because as a counter terrorist
I've not seen the value make sense to me. So
No marks on the record here for Navi in the second half
That's just been five straight and it's been eight of the last nine rounds for them in this game
You look at the bye here for Aurora men. They've got three sports
Three smokes and a flashbang that's it
Sampterra is burning, with an FD9 he's going to be found out and it is another one where
Navi are just slicing apart Aurora's setups piece by piece, kill by kill, zero trade potential
on any of these frags, even this desperate temple move from Woxic.
And you know what's crazy is it's not even the most flawless stuff from Navi either,
You know like they've kind of jumbled up a little bit. I mean maybe I'm super picky with details
I think they have left openings a little bit. Yeah, but they're getting away with it
And even when they come down into like clearing E-box you get two guys on top of each other
If that temple push comes through those are those kinds of moments where maybe it could cost you
But unfortunately for Aurora. They're just not they're not fighting in those moments. So
Yeah, and that's where it comes down to
Xenterus is fragging, Badger being 3-15, Pocati is 4-1 falling off, like that.
These are where you catch those moments.
Yeah, he is 3-15, duly noted.
Far, far worse than Alexi's.
Alexi's 4th road?
Yeah.
And that is going to be an 11th for Navi.
We're just kind of waiting for Aurora to figure something out on the CT side,
or else this game that we thought with 5 rounds on the CT half,
You know could still be a naughty challenge is all of a sudden just
Stages on the brink of being over and I mean I had high hopes for Aurora on a new bus
OCT rounds
Gives I think you not be living some gap, but still overall they're strong. Yeah
I like their default two rounds ago
I don't want to try to take anything away from Nobby, but we can see the holes, right?
Same for mid control and then going back into the Fort guys at 40 seconds, plenty of time
to do it.
No response from Aurora.
I think it was still, it was hard to get ready for.
And it was a little different, which was fun.
They got a box info. We're getting a little jumbled up. Here we go
Sulflight gets acted with a nice double kill
And it's gonna find himself with a duo as well. Alexi is able to unravel that and now it is just watching the back of the site
Three versus five to a three versus zero even when Navi are pushed
They shove back stronger. I don't know what says it better than that that this game will not be one on Sulflight's carry alone
Amazing first two kills so good on that hold freed people up and no one else delivers
Not a nop shot in from Watson on the back of the site nothing in from Badger who was watching his back
Because he was probably pretty proud of this game up until this point yep
I mean even the eighth like Russian like that being caught by a bit that another kill
That was a 5v3 that they decided to rush out long A and give two kills back over to Bid.
So Aurora fighting for a singular CT round win.
They open up again with a man advantage, but it's pretty quickly traded back this
time in the hands of Mikaze.
You get Aurora, walking around in middle, and Soulfly is 20-12.
That's a lot of visible impact in this game too.
He's going to try his hand again and he gets popped.
At least get the trade back this time from Zanterres.
He'll find the M4 upgrade, but he's operating on his own on 30 HP.
And what's left of Navi, all three players are ready to take over this B site.
Long scramble for Aurora to try to send any support Zanterres his way.
And they're still stalling out, worried about a lurk, worried about something.
Maybe because last round they died, two players going for a fast flank.
Now he's locked into the platform, utility pressure continuous.
And they know he's back here.
He'll try to fight his way out.
It's not going to happen wide swing through from Temple.
There's Woxic's impact.
In for the third kill, it is right in front of him.
Alexi from the bottom of the board of Navi's scoreboard.
And he's down.
A little life left in Aurora as they'll find their first CT round win.
It's a very nice play there from Woxic.
So if I get to the opener here, they defend the fight.
Site after a lot of time going back and forth on duels.
doesn't really put a dent in the economy just yet, so Aurora are going to have to do this the hard way.
But it is only a four-round game.
The only thing that's staggering is just that this is the first round they've won in this half.
And it had to be off of a clutch.
So fly start again finding impact doesn't feel like you went around without so fly giving you something first
then also though when he goes out to the second push I'm like does that terrorist just say go peak this
He's like 10 feet back with an MP9. What was the setup they were gonna go into?
And couldn't have Zanteris been the bait for him to get the trade.
A matter of timing, but...
There is flustered by the Nates, dives back, and well done between him and Woxic.
It's gonna be a 5v3 with Kadya gets aggressive on Long A and Aurora got a little bit of fire in them now.
Find your first round, and suddenly you press the issue up against Navi all across the map.
Total control of round 21.
Damn, they look loose now. That's, uh...
Where was this for the last seven rounds?
Yeah.
Guess they've just... they finally stared death in the face.
And for some, that's when they begin living.
Damn.
Time up.
Aurora, close that gap. Like you said, it was only a four-round lead.
Now cut down to three.
Leave it to Aurora to wait until...
The only other issues they just,
they've made so much money, they're going to buy again.
Would have been an amazing feeling to get an ego off
a round like this.
Not quite yet.
If Aurora win this round, this might go on for some, it's mostly laser focused, however
the heck they just did that
Confident opening moves to a more passive hold back Aurora.
We hit the minute mark and there's no control of the doors.
Nobody taking a look through window.
Just this passive Xantera's mid angle.
Soulfly feels need to get something going but it feels like a bit of a trap.
I'll be now waiting and allowing them to step into wonderful scope.
Wide swing out from E-Met because you know it's probably not just one player going
for a peek like that. Low and behold, a little patience from Navi next to the Mify vs. 3.
Oh, he wants to push so bad.
Fire prevents it for the time being. Santerra is looking to go huge, looking to be the hero of this round.
But unfortunately for him, he takes a ton of damage in the process. You've already got this deep push from Alexi,
and that's going to blindside. Walks it. So this one feels wrapped up.
Aurora catching Navi off in the one round prior with that all out aggression across the entire map.
Slams themselves against Navi's approach and win the round this time passive angles betray them
And it is Navi right back to winning ways only two rounds on this CT side of Aurora's map pick is what seems like they're gonna get
No, he would have to make a mistake to lose this one to Acadia
They're just gonna keep the pressure on thick Navi's second half out of nowhere and
Unfortunately here for Aurora a masterful map from Soulfly simply not enough
This was obviously Aurora's map pick and I wonder if this is a good example of why Major
gets so much backlash online.
This is meant to be where they shine, it's where they're meant to be strong.
And yet this team just really struggled to have any answers to what Navi was throwing
at them.
Yeah, it's hard to, you know, in isolation based on this map alone, you know, say that's
Major's fault or that's, you know, anyone's fault, to be completely honest with Aurora.
I think it's a symptom of what we've seen from Aurora over the last three months.
I know what they did in Krakow gave a lot of people hope that maybe you know gave them
a bit of a leeway, you know, and gave them reinforcement thinking that hey, we can still
play a good counter-flag, but when you look back at the last three, four, five months
ago, it's been very, I want to almost go as fast as I'm miserable for Aurora compared
to where they came from.
They were a stable top five, six, seven team, always made it to playoff.
Yeah, then we had the conversation about them, you know, not really doing much
in the pair, but they would get there. Now I see them as a team that really has to fight
Nathan to just stay within top 10. And I think this map is a great showcase of that. It's
your own map, it's a new place to get up to a decent start as well. And then you just
slowly but surely as the game progresses and lose control, no mid round adaptations,
no timeouts to change the time of the game, no new look at all. It's just more of
the same old Aurora, which I'm not a big fan of.
Yeah, and unfortunately the same old Aurora is a team that's now become a squad that
rarely makes playoffs anymore, right? Rarely has big results. You know, the
majors cologne last year is so horrible this year. Like you said, Cracow, you know,
was a spark that you hope they could bounce some gas on. But look, when you come
into a game like this against Navi, where you're in the 1-1 game and you're
potentially going to get thrown in the 1-2 pool if you don't come out on top,
you cannot afford to lose your map because of the new best. This is your home map.
This is the one map you can always count on whenever it's not banned,
to be able to give you a foothold into a series and play off of it with their
Limitations across the rest of the map pool that makes it even doubly more important that you secure a new bus
But totally fell flat really on both sides of the map did not see the same Aurora that I usually see and
Yeah, this is a very disappointing loss for them
But also this is huge for Navi because now they've shown hey we've got a new bus in our map pool now
You got to worry about that going does it show that they've got a nervous
I feel like I don't think there was anything magical coming. I like what I saw. I like what I saw personally
Yeah, I agree. I think Navi played well. You know, it's not like a ground-breaking performance
But it was a stable performance and a performance where you could clearly see that it's a map
They've been putting a lot of work to they've been paying attention to to how to especially on the CT side
You know tried to to make it tough for a war and try to make it tough for the T side
Not giving them too much space not giving them, you know, too much free space
So to speak without consisting for this world bit in particular had a great game on that CT side
keeping Navi alive in a lot of rounds winning a lot of you know crucial
rules crucial moments pushing on this B bomb side you know when he was a
turret this round in particular you know the scoreline is 6 to 3 he's been
getting a I think it's a clock kill in this round at that point a war was
slowly but surely running away with the first half so in that regard I saw
good moments from Navi yes one thing is doing it against Aurora I want to see
them do it against some of the best teams in the world but to get there
in the first place you've got to beat their roles of the world and so far so good
Let's talk about that first half, Des, what could Aurora have done differently to stop
Navi from getting those rounds on the board?
I think that they were not ready for the disruptive nature in which Navi played their CT side.
We know that this changes to the map that came into when Anubis got re-adduced, gave
CTs a little bit more opportunities to be, a little bit more aggressive on the map.
That's what Anubis always lacked.
It was so hard to get aggressive to CT because if you try to get aggressive,
be made.
There's so many angles you have to worry about.
you try to push out a it's the same old story trying to take canals timing just
weren't there getting aggressive middle also seem risky because it's a really
long walk but now you know there are some little things tweaks that do give
CT's little chances depending on you know T counter utility if it's there or
not to be able to make little plays and they were able to make multiple of
those they also obviously it's a big thing that they won the second round
of the half right you know or wins the pistol on T side you take that
away from immediately reset their economy you know that gives you a
little bit of spark to work with as well so I think it was just being
crafty enough to get enough CT rounds to be competitive. Then on T side it was surgical.
But they showed you a good mix of mid control, execs. Even when things didn't look pretty,
they said we would trade their way with just brute force firepower. So you kind of got a
little bit of everything I feel like for Navi in that game.
Let's focus still in on that first half because I know that you have a round,
you want to break down. I think Pimp actually bought it up during the bit highlights as well.
So let's take a look at round 11. What are we looking at with Navi?
What you're looking at with Navi is just, again, CT aggression. You're going to see Ema
find the timing here to be able to walk down middle as they're kind of understanding that Aurora
like to just kind of gather up usually and gather and go one side of the map and then even after they
get the trade back on Ema you see Navi and me respond by putting a smoke down in controlling
B main and they know that they basically have Aurora kind of trapped here and from that point
forward they're able to put up a good B defense. Yeah and then you see you know it's tough
it's very tough to to be aggressive on the CT side you have to do the little bit
Billikit in some sense here to do it with a finesse feeling and I think now we did that a lot
throughout this game they found a good balance of being aggressive but out between two over aggressively
and overall you know this point in the game we had the bit round in round 10 I believe that is
and then the follow-up is round 11 right here and if you get six rounds on the CT side on a map
like Anubis you put yourself in a prime position to win the map quite easily and quite
comfortably which is for me the biggest takeaway here on Anubis yeah we can discuss our
Aurora struggling their own map pick, they need the newbies to be a safeguard for them,
but Navi winning a map without breaking too much of a sweat coming into this matchup.
That's the biggest takeaway for me because that's the Navi that is competitive longer
in the tournament.
Again, I look at the scope of Navi being a team I expect to be contending for a semi-final
spot, going deep into the playoff and its performances like these that gives me hope
that that's still the case.
I just want to jump to the other side really quick and I'll position this question
so you're similar to what I did to Dust earlier, but now on that second half,
What could Aurora have done differently on that CT to try and get more rounds on the
board?
I think one of the biggest wing conditions for Aurora has always been Santeres and how
he's playing the CT side in the mid-portion of the map so aggressive, how he's constantly
taking away space, constantly taking duels that he's more often than not winning.
Unfortunately for Aurora this time around, Santeres didn't find much in the back, didn't
have a great game.
Even with Shoflai, you know, having a fantastic game on that CT side doing an
awful lot of work. I think he finished the first half with, say, 17 kills or something like that,
you know, doing a good job, you know, trying his absolute best to keep Aurora competitive on
the T side. So, overall, you know, it's hard to pinpoint it to one player, but if I were to find
out a player that has the most impact out of all of them within Aurora with the position he's
having on the CT side, then I would say Santeris. He's always good for a couple of fights
in the middle, always good to take away some space, always good to find the timing where
where he's pushing middle, flanking, et cetera.
We saw nothing of that from Santeres in this game.
Yeah, that's very true.
I think if you're gonna pull one positive out of this,
if you're an Aurora fan,
you're looking for something to sink your teeth into,
Soulfly is putting up some good performances.
I hear you had a good crack-out.
This game, we just kinda saw a highlight package for him.
He was trying to drag his team
across the line, kicking and streaming.
You know, he was putting up good kills.
He was trying to get aggressive at B
and find picks here and there,
and he was certainly putting up some good defenses at time.
So, you know, that's kind of the one positive
you can pull for this.
At least your rookie is at least coming out
and doing something to show you have a little bit more firepower in the tank going forward.
It's focusing on Mirage now. This is a Navi pick. Kind of feel like Navi might be able to lock this
in 2-0 if they continue to play with what we've just seen. They should be, you know, and they're
definitely the firm favorites to win the series. We know Navi to be a team, sorry, that likes to
play Mirage an awful lot. Alexi B in particular, if you focus on him, you know, the way he
takes mid control, the way he calls out a spawn, you know, with a lot of different variations
of the mid control, sometimes it's just him by himself faking that you're two or three
guys out middle and you're running a default and then an APOP will hit you straight away.
So I feel like LXB, not in the fracking department, but in how he's setting up the team and how
he's constantly the guy that is taking attention allows for the rest of the players to do
well.
So if anyone had focused on LXB and I'm curious to the pace as well on the T side,
I've seen Navi approach the game in a lot of different ways.
It's a very pacy, very fast side called by Alexi B.
And I'd expect it to be here against a row and divorce.
I agree with everything that Tim said as far as the strength that they have
and their make control of the different variations and timings they can use
to keep the guessing with it.
But I think the other big thing for them is that they're just so
deep tactically when it comes to, hey, if we have to pit the executes,
we've got a ton of them in the locker to be able to pull out.
I think they also have the advantage of, you know,
Mikaze being a great driving force.
But Ima, again, as a secondary entry has been so good.
Like he's winning over half his fights on the T side, which is really, really impressive.
And Bit is usually a good guy that can find timings at A,
even if he is more of a passive force, he can sometimes pick and choose battles.
And they also have a really good defense. They have a 60% win rate on the C T side in the last six months.
That's pretty damn high. Meanwhile, you look over at the other side.
This is a team that's one in four since they picked up Soulfly on this map.
Their T side is 35% win rate in the last three months. That is horrendous.
Like that, I mean that you can't win games when your T side is that bad.
And even their C T side has also gone down in the last three months as well.
like you're just not seeing them look confident. They look so disjointed for all the strengths that
we talked about that now we have in this map. Aurora have none of them. We watched them play
there, but so uninspired, one note disjointed, spacing is off, like they just lack the polish you
need to be able to compete against top level teams on this map. I think that's something for
the viewer to pay attention to when we describe the picture of Aurora being a struggle some picture
at the moment. I think it's all referenced in their Mirage performances, you know,
a struggle some T side, lack of adaptations, a weak CT side as well. Everything that's
is wrong with Aurora at the moment is being showcased in full force on Mirage.
So there's two ways of looking at it, you know, I'm sure they realize that as well.
So maybe they put in a bit of extra work on Mirage and can come up with a different
look here. But there's not a lot of stuff that is suggesting that to be the case.
Quickly off topic, boys, I think I know the answers to this, but have either of
you been to Singapore?
Yeah, I have. And it's a beautiful place, a beautiful place.
Have you been to Singapore, Jess?
I have not, but I'd love to. And I think there's an added reason why you'd
to go to Singapore nowadays. Why? Well I mean I wasn't going to bring up the major I was just going to say if you want to go to Singapore
the opportunity may be there that while you're in Singapore you can watch some cool Counter-Strike.
Oh just travel to Singapore for the Counter-Strike? For the Counter-Strike. You can do that as well.
There was a QR code. Tickets are not yet available but you can register for pre-sale which will mean that you get a heads up
when those tickets become available. They're going to sell out quick fast. So you'll be one of the first.
an email and you'll be able to buy dust and I gonna be buying because we've
never been to Singapore. Pimp doesn't have to worry he's just gonna cycle it
that's how far he goes now. So it'll be fine. This is so fascinating. He's got some bodies of water.
He's got this cabinet. We are gonna take a quick break and when we
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the forts from some of our pro players.
When you first saw these changes to the new version, what was your initial thought?
It's great to have that Anubis back, but personally, for example, I was like RIV, love the train.
Yeah.
It was kind of crazy to that happen like this, because we were about to practice train the
very next day, and suddenly Anubis comes in, so we're like, ah, we got train removed
because we were getting their own strain.
But in the end, Anubis was quite an intensity map first,
but quite a long time.
So I was feeling pretty happy.
At first I was a bit skeptical because I played B
and there was not much changing towards that side.
I was like, please, I just wanted some new positions,
some more cover or something.
You needed more cover.
Yeah, I needed more.
I still needed more cover.
I think a change was needed.
Not completely sure there was everything we needed,
but I think as we go, maybe we can give more feedbacks
and then more changes can come.
but I think it was a good start.
I don't know. When I first saw it, I like...
No emotions, you know?
Because I was a bit confused, like with this new window.
In the middle and then in the middle.
I was like, what can I do there?
Yeah. When they moved to the ring, we were kind of happy, I would say.
Because in Anubis, before we were a strong team.
And when Anubis came back, we instantly started to see, to start to play,
to do the stuff that we do it before.
Now, when I play Anubis, I see, okay, meta is changing a bit,
like not enough in my opinion, but meta is changing at least,
so people need to make a new plan.
They need to think about, okay, like guys,
we can't play Anubis like it was.
I just like to have like the new things come up,
like new maps or something, new nades,
like when I just want to check Twitter,
I just want to see like there's a new opportunities
about this nade or something,
so we can create the plan behind on it.
So let's bring someone to the server and check it together.
I mean, always excited when there's new changes, I think, especially to a map that we would...
When they brought it back, you know, there's no changes that were expected, and then they brought them out.
So I think it's good.
After we start to play, play, play, to be honest, we wasn't playing that good.
We start and the first game we play, we pick it against Puriya.
We were surprised, maybe, but I don't know, it's not the best map for us, I would say.
I see T1 and OBS, you normally wanted to at some point in the round try to do something because otherwise you know that you are already losing in the round basically, you have to do something and I think the new changes gives you a little bit more possibilities into that, so I think it's a good change.
I would like to see that kind of things in every map, because when there is new map coming, people already know every smoke is the same, meta is the same, so when I see that kind of smoke change, I like it because people need to adapt.
So if you're good on Olivia's, maybe you're not good enough.
No, because some stuff changed.
New changes are always welcome. I think it's been good so far.
Let's play some Anubis.
Aurora, let's do it!
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Locked and loaded between Na'Vi and Aurora
and what felt like a competitive game in the first half of Anubis,
Mohan, went up in smoke.
Navi looking to streamline their way into the BT Arena,
already with one loss on their record,
but 3-1 doesn't sound so bad,
and here would be their second victory in this group
if they can close on their map pick of Mirage,
and that we know Navi get nasty on Mirage, Mohan.
Yeah, it's a lot of play.
They already have shown us a really good map on Anubis,
where they would have had an excuse
Losing to Aurora on a new bus, you're at fault and say Aurora. Let's play a new bus
They have such a reputation on it and
It would have been okay for not that and they could have been like yeah, we can have that map
We'll still try to win this series and in three
But instead now it feels like the two-oh is looming
Soul fly I do feel bad because he he actually such a warm game exceptionally. Well the
Huge impact round on glocks
He gets three kills the opening kills that he got the two kit the multi frags. He kind of just did it all
The only thing missing was a little zanteris a little walks again the second half
Mm-hmm any major at all. Yeah, and even will caddy. It didn't have a good game. So it's like
you unfortunately was one on an island and
It's hard to explain why right well
I mean why you know Sam asking the analysts kind of what could they have done better on the CT side?
And I think I coincide with Pym's answer and that like you know
Santerra is getting aggressive in the forward stance of middle
We saw it the one round that they did get super in Nobby's face look wonderful
You know, it's like sometimes I just I when I see a when I see a half that's going so poorly like that
I do always kind of wonder like just just get crazy
You know what I mean get a little crazy in the round that they do well it worked
So I wonder if Aurora just kind of feel like they're they were their hands were tied behind their back
And they just kind of took that beating but I feel like on a second map if you're starting to watch the match itself get away from you
I hope to see a little more crazy from Aurora Mohan
I think it's hard when you play against Noffi because it constantly feels like
You should go aggressive and then they punish, right? You know
That's what they wanted the whole time, you know, yep true
I mean we see it around the place when you play against right? Yeah, they sit back nothing happens
they decide, okay, we got to make a move and you walk into
Wonderful's op. Yeah, perfectly positioned and ready to go.
That's true. Maybe sometimes it's like, they put all the
polar traps in the forest, right?
Maybe would you spare traps on humans? I'm pretty sure it's
illegal. Yeah. But, you know, okay, it's always kind of weird
to me that there's rules in war. Anyways, landmines. Yeah,
much more humane. Yeah.
So, it's a strategy that works.
They really know how to confuse you.
And I think when you watch a knobby game with X-ray on, you don't really get the full move.
That's fair.
You don't really understand exactly how much subversive pressure they're putting on your
mentality where you feel like you're not doing anything but in reality they're waiting
for you to do your next move.
Mirage, it's got to be Navi starting T side, right? Yes. Yeah, it's going to be, we have
seen them leaning towards A. It's been a lot, it's been a lot more, I'd say mid and A before,
in the last few months, it was a lot of heavy ramp takes, a lot of defaults that were quite
lurky, and we'll still have those, but their T side these days feels a lot more even-handed
when it comes to taking over mid-control first, throwing in a couple of B rounds,
not just using A ramp and flexing how good they are at taking A in every single T round.
I think this graphic is a great just point to bring up prior to us getting into it,
because if there is going to be that, you know, maybe expected Na'Vi affinity for the A site,
who do you got to get through, it's Soulfly. And he looked phenomenal back in map one.
In fact, Soulfly, Xantharys and Woxic were the driving force of it.
So, if those three players are lingering over towards an A site,
maybe Navi could find themselves with their hands full in the first half.
Or, you just go slam yourself up against Madger towards B,
who, coming off of that first map, finished with, what, four frags in the entirety of Anubis?
Well, if you look at these positions, right,
it's Xanteris who needs to play well, and Soulfly to do okay.
Right.
Xanteris did not play well last map.
He's gonna be in connector.
It's one of his most famous spots.
He needs to have an outstanding game here to control both A ramp,
and Top Mid, and I mean, Madger obviously, you know, can't have three kills on a map.
That's a given, but this is a game where your core, your Rikadi off-cat, your Xanteros in Connector, your Woxic in Phil.
These are guys who are going to carry, you know.
And if Soulfly has another Top Frag and performance here, it's just completely inexcusable for his teammates.
Because he has less options to take fights. He can't you can't multi kill that often when you play ticket
Maybe if you have an off or something, but basically every grenade on the exact is designed to make sure you can't fight
You watch old old Zanteris like
FFA DM clips or just his
Overall highlights on Mirage. It's him on stairs going back and forth between connector and palace in a ramp
Yeah, right like where you're not supposed to peek any of those three things but the cross replacement is so perfect
No matter how many times he changes that he always gets all the frags and as the games evolve
He doesn't do that anymore because you're not supposed to go to the top of the stairs unless you really know
You know palaces mallet and you can peek the ramps safely or whatever
But he's still still one of the best
When it comes to playing the spot
But I do I do feel like he's losing state in his career right now a little bit
I mean, he's got the reputation where you go,
it's there is, he's the second best entry.
He's so underrated all this stuff,
but you know, even last year
and even some of the big games I watch,
I see Bucadia has just got way more utility.
He's got way more versatile.
His aim is nearly as good.
I mean, you can watch this match last map from SoulFly in.
The consistency isn't always there.
I mean, I think sometimes Santa Terras
is a bit stubborn as a player too.
I think sometimes when he's having a bad game, the amount of times, I remember very particularly like a dust two round where his teammate had pushed into lower tunnels and was falling back.
It was Wacadia. Wacadia had the perfect assessment of a threat, knew that upper tunnels was a little scary, and was walking away with a 5v4.
And what does Santerras do from the bottom of the scoreboard in that game? Runs past a retreating Wacadia, who had all the info he needed, runs up into tunnels and sure enough, dies to the two players that were coming.
And it's like, if Wukadia had told you it was time to fall back,
who are you to kind of rush by, right?
And I think that's, you know, sometimes it's like live by the sword,
die by the sword when it comes to Xanterra's.
I remember that round and I was saying, oh, he's, he's trying to get hot.
Yeah.
We've all had that feeling, but like, maybe don't do it in a match.
That's like the stubborn side of it, right?
Where it's like, I need these kills to get my game going.
This is a weird tech issue, Mohan.
I'm going to pull back the curtain.
It's the first time I've ever heard of this being an issue, but we're currently delayed because Wauksic's table is too wobbly for his liking.
If that's true, fair.
Sometimes it's the computers.
If you don't wobbly.
And maybe that one's on us.
We got a wobbly desk here, folks.
We got a wobbly desk.
Yeah.
I mean, I know the fix.
You get a couple of napkins.
You put it out.
You figure out, you know, put it on a couple of napkins.
Put it under one of the legs, let's get this pistol round going.
And what is that? Why does that happen, huh?
Oh, okay.
It's, um, they have, uh, apparently they have vibrators in the studio that are shaking the table.
Well, the, it's the vibrations from the refrigerators nearby were bothering Woxic.
That's what she was shaking his table.
It's like he's getting electrocuted for the whole game.
So, believe it or not, we have fixed the tech pause by un-plugging refrigerators.
It's unplugged walk stick.
That's live events, baby.
Sometimes that's what it takes.
Your drinks are warm, but your table's not shaken, walks. Good luck, buddy.
Into the action of map 2, we shall go, folks.
That's by a frag grenade. That could have been worse.
Madger into the archside, they're gonna try to take this test into the B site.
Navi just flies through the apartments and you're gonna get
Masked. At least that's what it seemed like, but we've got an answer back.
Oh, great second headshot. Now it's wonderful into the clutch versus two.
He's got the bomb when it's time to plant.
Oh, he doesn't even get the chance.
Woxick in the backdrop of Market, there to slay and we had everybody ready to go
So inside of that B bomb site Aurora take CT pistol to kick off their defense.
It's lovely shooting here from Aurora on the defense.
Pretty much everything good, I don't want to say.
And the fact that S.O.L.F.I.E. just continued.
It was a refrigerator the whole time.
I can't believe I'm still in shock.
You just looked around as anybody else vibrating right now. It's one of those moments where you know
We always make that joke when it comes to tech support like have you unplugged it and plugged it back in yeah
But in this case it was just unplug it. Yeah, that's the solution
We called in the IT guys to fix an issue
Just unplug the fridge guys
I don't think so, I'd say an appliance repairman.
I just do them all.
I would assume so.
Doves, fridges, microwaves, air fryers, coasters, grills, dishwashers, sinks, is that an appliance?
No, that's a plumber.
right that one's different
general handyman
that guy that Carmelo must cheat on Tony I bet he could fix a fridge
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Clock with nothing, huh?
That's what they say. They say these clocks are worth nothing, and yet they clocks keep on getting kills today.
I say clip kills plural, but it's the one here for this round. Not everybody's soul flies, seemingly.
Top mid-D goes down, and it's just that one death.
one death. Could have been wakadia to die as well, but not the case. 2-0 conversion
with four players alive. Aurora, like, that's...
Wakadia's plugged in. Uh, as Antares, of course, plugged in.
Fully wired. So weird.
no I don't know
guys
so I'm feeling frisky, supported by the loxic op, but no actual positioning inside of the ramp
ramp. Just play back. You know, Bitten had such a phenomenal game back on Anubis, but
obviously a constant palace player for what's felt like eternity. Now it may have to keep
Soulfly on his toes as this game goes on, and Bitten's gonna be able to tap back into
that first map potential. It's a scary thing with Bitten and Alice. You just
never know what he's gonna strike. There's some great grenades here. Artillery on
E-Mess softens him up and then that Woxic off headshot for the overkill.
It's one of the worst. He's got hit by everything this round.
5v4 from that one. 45 seconds up through connector goes the bomb.
We've got Wacadia with the kill as he gets active off of Catwalk
and the two A defenders still keeping their positions
unknown to Navi. Yeah, Woxic's spot is just perfect. He can't be seen at all.
Smoke on Con. Nice line up through that to drop Alexi's health bar low
and Bitt will eventually come through and strike. But he's only got that one frag
and Alexi's not able to get the trade onto Soulfly, who dives into the cover, buys a bit of time and returns the favor for a frag.
So Aurora felt the squeeze, I think, at one point, but were also happy with their positionings.
They never panicked, they never rushed it, and everybody hit their shots as needed.
Aurora go up to the 3-0 start.
I absolutely love that from Woxic, because if he's on the wrong angle slightly, his scope is sticking out,
You will get spam to death sitting on triple, but you knew exactly how much of his body was exposed.
You got a scale here and you know exactly when he repositioned, he had no doubt about exactly what he was holding.
Had vision, stayed out of vision, it was perfect.
We need to use Octadia move, but he keeps it clean as need be.
Surgical with the headshot bottom middle.
The tidbits that Navi still have to work with will just tiptoe their way over towards A.
See if these smoke grenades can maybe cause a bit of a problem for Aurora, but would
be comfort that we've seen from this defense so far.
It's funny to see Soulfly playing over towards connector instead of Xanterra's this round,
but I wonder how interchangeable they are as the game goes on.
And we had that discussion about positions at the start of the match, but it would be
awesome to see if they eat.
Ooh!
Good dink and the drive-by comes through.
Soulfly gonna show us what he's made of, but he also gets overwhelmed and eats the
deagle.
Okay, now it's a round that could be lost entirely.
They've got window control.
Bomb is planted on the short side of triple, Alexi has to give up this deep angle.
And the pre-fire from Major! I don't think so, buddy.
Down he goes to the AWP. This is pistols breaking through.
The fact that it was Big got that final deagle shot,
it would have all just been for funsies kills until Big got that one deagle shot.
And suddenly there's no window control. That's E-Map, baby.
Top of the stairs, I'm pretty sure, to jungle.
It gets the drive-by through Palace. That kind of like, frassled it out from the start, and I thought Soulfly is able to sit here and be good to go, but...
Oh, she can't even find anything.
Yeesh, looks like they'll get around. No, they pause. That's going to cost them both bodies, but I think I'll be happy to just have a round to begin with.
Up you go. Okay, got it.
Yeah, Ema getting the Watsit kill when you tried to peek into jungle, right?
Right that one just that opens all the push to grab those guns to get that deep control to frazzle manager inside of the
Drive-by here
Eman top stairs
Yep
Got a tilt early
That's the kind of round that'll test your mental
So fly in the anchor spot lets them out ramp this opportunity to cut down this push
But cause they're gonna try to lock it on them and sure enough
They're gonna go down into an a bomb site with no success from Aurora so far on this defense round five
Katie a pops it open. You'll get no vision. Nobby have just kind of pumped the brakes here momentarily
They pause they allow that utility to come through and then they follow forward with the bomb plant while the cause they hangs on
To the ticket control versus what soon to be too
But there is a gap on that smoke which could have been a problem and maybe still could be
Madgers trade back into tickets key man advantage here for Navi sure
But it doesn't look like Aurora even want this smoke. No point. It's 4v3
They have they've already used a lot of their utility to try to even approach time's gone
got good guns to save. You see this moment from self-line, it looks so small, but like
that's the entire job if you're gonna anchor. You have one chance like that to
get like six or seven bullets into a spray on a guy crossing at a ramp. You
have to get the headshot, then you can fall back into grenades, then your team
has time to help you flash in and swing around the other side of default or
whatever, but that's all the time you get in tier one. And you see we're
We're just so used to seeing players who are so good at capitalizing on that one chance.
They always deliver the first kill.
You know, you still like chimp that and beak, and be on Dust2 yesterday.
He gets blinded, flashed, you know, has to spin around.
Still somehow pulls out his first kill.
That's what it is to be an anchor.
And even though we saw an R-seeing, Softlight play a well again, in this position, playing
dedicated to the inside of A, him going down means Gnavi, they've already won the
round.
So key that you just keep delivering, essentially.
Katie, I was hoping to open up with something, but instead just gets blown apart.
Wow, it's perfect grenade. I mean, it's on the shelf.
Still three rifles in hand for Aurora, at least.
Santerra is picking one up.
Cover's a bit of hardware as we get this knobby bosshrick down to the A site, but again you come through with a clean kill on Soulfly.
Again remember still guns in hand. Everybody's got one here for Aurora. They try to test the waters around the side of ticket.
This is going to queue up Madger to go for this massive T-Spawn flank.
They don't even need to peek this door. They can plant open to their connector side and be fine.
be fine. He's gonna flank it a palace. He's gonna compromise bit. We'll see if he ends
up considering the flank. For now he plays in front of it, so it's gonna take this full
commitment from Madger. Yeah, Bit thinks about it for a second. But you see how Bit's kind
of out there when he's turned around. He's so aware of it. Dude, Bit's an animal in
all the best ways. Tapping back into the aim that left him at the top of the scoreboard
After map one, he is there again, topping the charts for Navi early days.
Map two is Navi are going to find three consecutive round wins.
Tie this game up nice and early and do it by going into those A site exploitations.
You know, we talked about how maybe they would vary up their attack,
how in recent time they have been kind of getting away from just all
any A site over and over.
They're so good at it.
It works wonderfully and that is in the face of a Soulfly,
Zanterrez and Woxic combo that's supposed to be able to hold back
the likes of Navi.
And you know what? Not many people can, not even on the very best teams.
I think they just have the right combination of players who are so good on these angles that it's just like,
I really don't think they're doing anything in particular special.
It looks like it's very individual with the micro. How they peek when they peek, coming out of A.
That they just are so good at covering each other.
They can go down, two fights, and then bring three back.
We saw that on the Eco.
They just consistently can do that. All these awkward fights, they're just so comfortable.
You're not finding a quick timing here as he walks down there.
Right underneath this, actually. If you look on the mini map,
out here with an AWP. It's really key that he has to do the timing.
That could not have been better.
Oh, you know, Acadia falling back through fire though, so he ends up taking more utility damage than he dishes out by dropping that nade on Eme.
And now Mikaze is going to try to fluster the B site all in, jump down there, goes with Acadia.
Mikaze, barely having touched the ground.
Badger will find a chance to strike one of the backdrop gets himself a second so flies on the scene
Badger is doing good work as bit comes through the last man standing already held here
He will evade that off but the back bench player missing shots gives bit a chance back into this
Bomb has to be picked up and it sits inside of the apartments. That's what makes all of this awkward
You can see the oh my goodness. He's got this lined up and you didn't trade him
Salfi gets back at it, but by God, Bit almost pulls that off.
He was moving like a shark right there on the site when he backed up,
and he think about peeking that second window into the hop.
Like, he kept that in his mind exactly where Woxic would play from,
save that fight for the perfect opportunity,
and luckily, again, Salfi's been playing this well.
He saves a round for Madger, and this 3k is fantastic.
It's as good as you could possibly do as a maker on the site.
What I love about that shot on Woxic is it's not even a wall bang, it's just through that
little one inch gap over the wood bit with absolute precision in that clutch attempt.
Soulfly posts a clutch and gives himself more to be proud of.
Ten and four currently as Aurora get back into this lead.
It's only by one round, but it is Soulfly going back to back, top frag performance is here
for Aurora.
Yeah, that's amazing.
Really, yeah, I mean, that round gets expensive because of it, but Aurora will take the
round 20 day of the week.
Senteras wants into the action, but they'll just cancel that boost and get away still
all five alive.
Always gotta be careful as to when Aurora do decide to crank that dial and get in your
grills early.
This is one of those rounds, but it doesn't net them a man advantage, just a little bit
of damage.
Well, I say a little bit, but Alexion 40 health. That's not negligible.
You do decide to test the waters at B site once more, and we'll see if Madger can do it again.
You said that was as good of a 3k as you could ask from anybody on that bomb site.
That was three of his four kills this game.
Yeah, I mean, that's as many kills as he had on a Nubis already.
Smoke fades in front of the Magier does have the early angle from inside of the site.
Yeah, nicely done.
Insta headshots onto Mikaze, player down beneath as well may catch Imeha off guard.
Sure enough, Magier able to get another triple.
Yes, beautiful.
Working this site excellently, Wakadia freed up Magier on for the ace.
It is right there for the taking and the lexie pops up.
It's done for. Rock solid stuff from Madjur yet again.
This is unreal. Hankering out of Madjur here on B2 rounds back to back versus Navi on Mirage.
I mean, that's special.
Again, he was like 3 and 15 back on Anubis, so...
Already worth his way here on Mirage.
And that's why Navi go away so much.
But lately they've been sharing the love.
They really have.
You'd think after that struggle for Madger back on Anubis that you'd be able to get
away with the B plays, but he's giving them something to think about still.
You know, rounds to go for Navis, trying to get back to that tied game, having to
Take this one on the chin, sitting on two rounds of lost bonus.
Can you see if the form is like so fly on a new list?
Oh my goodness.
Hello?
He was just looking at his radar.
He had no idea that was even happening.
It's happening!
Bits coming through from Palace of the Glock.
Not again.
Desert Eagle, four wonderful, still alive and kicking.
Even just securing the bomb plant here, that's a small victory for Navi.
into the A site and then OXDB flipped up by the ticket so fast retake from Aurora all's good from that point on but still sure enough
The shot from wonderful in the bit block drive by
It's gonna say normally you like it like an outstanding carry
I never bet on that twice unless it's someone like dunk, you know happening back-to-back maps
But it is obviously soul fly still playing really well
Well, when it comes to bad performances though, I always assume you have a really, really bad
match.
That's probably going to happen again.
Especially if you're like, you know, you're playing, you're an anchor, you're playing
V, you're an IGL, you've got, you're going to buy a lot of, drop a lot of people, buy
a lot of maids, call a lot of strats and everything like that.
But Madger compared to what we saw back on Anubis, which is a map he loves, it's
just been, it's been a night and day difference here coming up nine and four.
This is a team that Soulfly have been looking for.
They're just wondering why it didn't happen on their favorite map.
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about that yep all right let's go a lot of bad day in the office another round
we're trying to take a look at something earlier right we saw Santair is going to
top-mid last round now it's gonna be for the ramp control once more so fly tip
of the spear but they like to come clear it and they don't always commit to
within it right stylistic difference between some Santair is wants to take a
to swing a bit, but you gotta be careful when it comes to the bit.
He does not like anybody else inside this palace, and if you let him swing out wide,
he can seemingly always get the entry, so you think maybe you can take the fight to him,
but he sits inside that thing like a bear in its hibernation cave, and finds the headshot
onto Santerres near instantly.
Bit comes through then with the frag onto a badger, and it's Woxic's ticket hold
that can still give Aurora a chance to defend.
Another comes out from Woxic and that's the bomb currently dropped on the front side of the ramp 30 second 2v2
They can go and plant it. I don't know if they want to really think about challenging into taking
Mokaze will take one in the head, but through the wall
Woxic taking a wider angle in that meantime Mokaze is gonna be a board on the side
And he's not gonna take the shot into the wall bank
So where Katie and Chuck's the frag out that doesn't connect Woxic waits for the fall back
collects his third kill of this round and now Eman giving way with that utility.
They know that he's locked into triple. Beautiful stuff here from Woxic with the quad kill.
What a monster, man. Four kills in that spot. Every opportunity locked down.
Palace peek, shoulder spot. The bomb trying to get ferried up under the site.
Doesn't rush it, doesn't force with the wallbang, doesn't give... You know, you go for the wallbang,
sometimes it frees up the second player to swing at you and try to catch you while
the ops on cycle but he's patient about it collects on the fallback closes with
the fourth one on to email did not miss and I thought this round was going to be
about that Harris really struggling going into palace one-on-one versus
bitch is getting beat up how refreshing is it to watch an op sequence and then
not have to say the op shot missed not once oh no yeah miss Katie is going to
He's looking to swing with the big green as well.
Wox gets damaged as he finds the first frag.
So, Alexi's gonna finish off with Stardust.
A wonderful comes through with the block kill.
Bomb is going to be planted.
That part uncontested.
Madra instead, attention turned here
towards this jungle play.
And now it's freed up wonderful hands on an AK
to extend towards Ticket.
Bit decides to keep his head tucked down on default.
Bomb planted short side of triple.
And they're gonna flush Bit out with this utility.
He decides to take the fight.
kills Wikadia and now a 37 health wonderful versus two.
But they spot him as they try to close that gap covered
by the smoke.
Xanterres makes sure that Aurora will not waste this moment.
Your pistols may puncture, but they don't hold on.
A nice clear of the jungle and a retake
comes through for the 8-3 Aurora lead.
That a great job jumping up on Kat to make sure
to put enough pressure inside a window
to get that retake started.
They didn't want to go around through CT
And I think that would maybe have been the scarier way to do it.
We've seen Madger walk through that murder hole before and just get killed, so...
We found a safe way to do so.
Now, if you had tried not to be a pushover this half in Aurora, it still dominated them.
A lot has changed for them over the course of the break.
Three consecutive bomb plants in these last few rounds for Navi, so clearly still bringing fight to the table
There's also some real individual struggle here between wonderful and Eme
Clearly bit not enough on his own
Collecting themselves outside of the A site once more so fly looking to
continue to secure this position at the top of the scoreboard and as they step
into his fire he'll drop one. Does get... oh! Okay! Sure! Alright, why not? What?
That is after Soulfly gets caught on the bricks you know he wanted to fall
back wonderful with the Hail Mary shot has actually opened up the
possibility of Nobby winning this round. Wall bang, no scope, bullet smoke. I mean it
It is just total luck, that wonderful landslide.
Yeah, like, I'm not giving you credit.
Oh.
I refuse to.
Yeah.
That is his fourth frag of the map.
And it is, say, it's a game changer.
Smoke in front of them, they'll try to climb up over a ticket, both the CTs coming in
from the same side, and this is indeed a fourth one for Navi.
You can say that he was doing it on Perp, I mean he was looking for a guy who
was there.
He was right.
It was right after his teammate got killed in the mall
Direction he was exactly correct
If so fly doesn't get caught on the bricks on the fallback it was shooting it's not anywhere even close that that wasn't even like
I mean the bullet would have found him anyway
Wonderful sympathizers be like
Your sounding now peanut butter and jealous right now about this talent that we're watching what a shot
Yeah, it's always there before kill all right
You're three and nine you're like that why not what have I got to lose?
That works
Sure thing buddy
See if it makes a difference this game. Nice shot, pal.
It's better to be lucky than good. It's true, I'm one of those guys that thinks luck is a skill, so he did materialize that kill.
You increased probability, that's what he did.
Miss a hundred percent of the shots you don't take.
And he took it all right.
So props to Wonderful.
And props to Navi for robbing away one final round in the half.
Their map pick trailing four rounds to eight.
Now this map feels even more alive than Anubis as far as Aurora are concerned.
And switching sides cost them back then.
So this is surely you'd think a pistol victory, right too fast
No, maybe not
But a second peek into Alexi B and you're gonna lose your top fragger
Soulfly has been blasted out of the round
But at least you did get Navi all the way over to the other side of the map with those first two kills
Yeah, they're so convinced about it for a second because obviously you had two players appear in jungle
No, wonderfuls listen. You just don't want to make any more mistakes though because they're still fine
They get the bomb planted down
Oh, they're really concerned about empty pillar. They can't clear it. Yeah, they think he's here
Nice shot. That'll do it
Santerra's the quick headshot hanging on to the bench place. You'll be smoked off. Oh
Alexis with a third
This man has hit three killer USP headshots good it blinds Madger gets him to spam
Confirms that he is on the front of this site
Alexis going wide with a quad kill now as he missed all
All USP headshots for Alexi so far.
In a 3 versus 5, he will be put down.
Woxic now just dancing versus Bitt.
The Berettas go wide, and the pistol accuracy
at an all-time high.
Oh, gotta feel bad for Alexi right there.
For that one to get stolen away, that was unbelievable.
That even got his first two kills in jungle.
All headshots in that 4K, only to get countered
by a 1v2 from Woxic.
I feel like that is a capstone round to this game, where we've seen this sort of happen
over and over again.
Someone gets an amazing clip countered by a clutch, countered by one small good moment
from Aurora.
Again, they're fighting back against Navi, who it feels like if this was just a map
ago, would have just decimated this game.
That's a classy pistol round as well.
All nine kills by way of headshot.
Yeah, well, no, you know, bogus body spams.
This secret agent accuracy with the sidearms.
All bit of the timing.
You'd think usually he'd get spotted in a position like that, but this one M4 that Navi decided to bring into the round
It's a fake.
Nets him a 5v4.
It's a fake, but it's awkward because a fake hadn't started yet.
They're still coming back at it and Bits M4 is going to have a shadow advantage if he hangs onto this.
But he peels all the way back.
Interestingly, completely abandoning this play right when Aurora are coming into it.
There's no way that Navier are going to be ready for this. They've just left.
They're still making moves, but now it's going to be backturned to Xanterra's in a moment.
Because he crouches, he only catches the tail end of it, but will they know about the second?
I thought he caught a shoulder there of the second player too,
but remember this is all still just a part of the fake.
Bomb over towards that B-side as Xanterra collects another one,
and the pistols should go down.
Nice shooting.
Zanterra's quad kill inspired by that of Madger.
Can someone get an ace?
Alexi B was one kill short a round ago,
and Zanterra's is coming back at it.
Ace is right there for the taking,
but it's Madger's Mac 10 from Catwalk instead,
as Aurora go up 10 rounds to four.
Madger 4K, Zanterra 4K, the Alexi 4K.
There have been a lot of highlights for K-Cinus, man.
I did have this, but the re-aggression here from Zanterrez...
...is a clean shot.
That's that robotic aim, if you wanna see that, it's in Tera.
It's good to see that Aurora can place the action at this level again.
I'd just like to see it every day.
That's the weird thing with Aurora still is, like, when it's good, it's really good.
But sometimes it just seemingly disappears, right? That was what Anubis was.
Just disappear to the second half. CT side, nothing to truly be proud about.
Maybe that'll just end up being the one bad half of the series for them,
series for them, because right now you can start to feel that they are fully confident
steamrolling their way to a victory now on Navi's map pick. I mean, Navi nowhere to be found
an 11-4 scoreline and a gun round back in hand here for Navi as they'll come through with their final timeout too.
This game's closer than it looks. It's just a little bit too late now for Navi, but they have,
they just lost all the important clutches, brought a lot of rounds close. They didn't actually convert in the end.
So their chances have just left them.
But that's still what makes it impressive for Aurora.
They've had to go up against some pretty strong individual
moments.
Paravision up 12 to 11 on map 2 of their series after getting ruffled stomped by Faze in the first game. Didn't expect that to happen.
The three maps in that series sounds about right.
Faze and Paravision? Of course.
Can that ever be a 2-0?
No, not for anybody.
Put them in the same group as Pain.
always three mappers. This one looking likely as well. Aurora would truly have
to blow this. Navi feeling the squeeze, try to get active on the ramp again and
well you can lock Macaulay into the corner but it's Aurora's round to play.
Sofly does not want to get caught off by this duel a second time, so he'll stay alert.
Pulling out the Nade invites some kind of a move, but Mikaze is just going to play committed
in case the flashes come through.
35 seconds to the clock, Sofly still purged, drops down, and it's Mikaze.
to trade it out but he's locked in with Woxic now and that off seemingly does not
miss on Mirage. A late attack into the players towards market, it's Alexi B to
turn back around, give himself a smoke to work with and it's a wonderful off of
the catwalk that stops that apartments play in its tracks. Not the first time we
see Aurora try to go into this 2-2 split with the AFake but the problem
is this time they don't find that perfect timing and they give a bit of a
gift over for wonderful in terms of the shooting gallery through that window.
Yeah, I think both times they're fakes.
It's been a little bit off.
And also, I think Navier are a bit more active on the ramp than they are expecting in both
of these situations.
So right here is a deep ramp smoke and hit there, watching and hearing them thoroughly.
It nades over.
It's clearly a fake because they haven't already taken ramp control.
So that's why Wonderful doesn't have to turn around.
He can sit there, just take the fights.
They actually already know at that point, because Aurora haven't cleared everything out, they need to exact.
They're good on the other side of the map, not to get too scared.
Nice timing by Navi to pop it open with Katie of false to that.
So Navi's CT side has found another 5v4.
That's the purges through the smoke and the test is on for the A-Poy, but you gotta steps
up to that test and bit damn near lines up too, but it's Woxix up again.
Only the kill, I mean.
How they gonna do this?
It's Woxix.
Okay, never mind.
They're not going to.
That's how they give it a shot.
I mean, you know it's a bit desperate once you're down into the 2v4.
You know damn well, Navi are inside of that A site ready to hit you, so yeah, try to get
crazy with it and you see how it happens, Aurora...
The levee's already gone, so...
...on to the five round lead.
Navi can still actually make this a close game, I mean, they actually can recut.
We have seen the ability for Navi to fight back in each and every...
It just felt like the gap was too big, and Aurora were playing well enough that
they couldn't lose it, but it's very possible once again.
There was also an 8 out of 9 round streak going on for Aurora between the end of CT side of the beginning of the T-hap
so that kinda did take the wind out of how she sails, but they're back at it with guns
and it's gonna be the pistols to tear through.
Aurora were victims of this so they tried to pull it off themselves, but a fast attack support to try to cover doesn't stop the cross
and so Ena quickly testing the waters over from the ticket booth,
Ticket booth, nil clear stairs and then THOMB!
It is headshot galore!
The Romanian delivers!
Four easy frags!
Got uh, seven rounds now and a Navi were the ones who were real threats when you had pistols,
but definitely Aurora made it scary there for a moment.
I love that Ema doesn't waste his second, I love that he is confident to come wide with the ticket play.
There's this big emphasis from Aurora to get positioning towards connector,
and Ema just unravels all of it.
Now they'll go immediately back into the spy in round 19.
Woxic's got an op, he, uh,
he won't have any utility, just to show that
they're buying down to zero. Half armor for him, it's not a really big deal.
But if Aurora lose this round, then suddenly this is just anyone's game.
And so Fla has had a couple of stat lines.
I'm going to pick on him as a rookie on this team, but where is that a good first half
Completely there. On the second.
Maybe a little nerdy could be a lack of focus. Could be a million reasons, but it's no want to happen again.
HOOP!
Get up on balcony, front line of this nobby defense, but supported by wonderful, nice
angle, he gets blasted out of the round, and you got bit down, that's half the problem.
Wonderful at least is able to get the answer back, so at least walk six out of this.
You were banking on the AWP to the post-plant towards ramp, now it's going to have to just be right-flers.
See about this flank coming through from bottom middle though, this flank bottom mid is about to find timing on connector.
Yes, sir, Wikipedia executes it to a T, Madger then decides to push the smoke and Mikaze falls victim to that distraction out through middle.
Very nicely pieced together by Aurora and on top of that it secures a post-plant that doesn't need the ramp.
You go for connector side instead, and you push wonderful and Alexei into a very difficult position.
Aurora's 12th round feeling queued up as Navi walk this one away.
That's such a lovely attack. The layers, the lurks, the pace of each player coming into that and taking out Bit as the first guy.
It's just so important. He's 16-16, but he's basically done most of the heavy lifting.
all the hardest kills in the Maltese here for Navi, so very well earned here for Aurora to grab 12.
And they attack that ghost her way, which is it's kind of defaulty, it's kind of lurky, but just
the right extension of the terrorist's win.
Still, all the guns in the world is needed by Navi, but if Bitt's going to be blasted
off of the palace like that, somebody else is going to have to step it up.
I think it's a bit awkward that Wonderful reports ticket wasn't able to kind of confirm
anybody pushing in through the stair smoke because he was just taking more passive angles.
He got his kill on a Woxic, but he did allow the rest of Aurora to kind of flood through
and you see McCauze fall victim to it.
Five map points here for Aurora to steal their opponent's pick
to push our series to a third.
Inferno waits in the wings.
Gonna take this test to the B bomb site. Once again, Alexi B.
Gonna have to do his best match or impression.
Haven't seen his angry. Yeah, test it all too much. It's over Katie ahead of the Molotov because they on the recovery
He's gonna have to go big but he's standing too far forward lucky to have not been punished there. He was blind
It's not fully his fault, but then look what happens when given the chance. He still steps up
Yeah, he just had no he didn't know where he was standing
Open he was totally blind. Yeah anybody hears out that window. He is done
But the thing is they didn't have market windows smoked so they can't clear everything
And he threw his own smoke for himself for the amount of time left
Also a key frag from wonderful to get the top mid player make sure on path they don't get blank at all
It's the kind of round that puts Alexi on notice though, clearly Aurora thinking they
could come and just overwhelm the bomb site and him dropping to nothing because of Wikipedia's
timing.
I think Alexi is actually one of the best IGLs at holding B.
It's going to be hard to hold the candle to Maggie's performance in the first half,
but he's quite good with his protocol.
And then that round, he got very lucky that, you know,
Mikazic just has this outstanding hold where if they don't, then the whole map is over.
So it'll be up and over, but again, it's going to be this bomb lurk towards the B site instead.
Instead, we do get this push up from Alexi B inside of the B site.
This is a test towards A.
We'll see how much of a commitment comes through from Aurora.
Legshot landed.
Woxic low with that Mach 10.
It's a bloodbath at A, and also one is found trying to get slippery
towards these B apartments.
Alexi B ready for the smoke to fade to catch Madgeur with the bomb.
You know that once you find one player trying to get tricky.
Madgeur's got to go die though.
He's got a tech 9.
Easy willingness to just sit here and hold for the next one.
Andrew to come back at it with the 10 seconds remaining, rock solid defense over towards A.
Even if that was an actual commitment on the A site, it would have been totally stuffed.
Bomb never found its chance to get into B. Alexi playing forward instead of a rotate away.
And I think that's kind of a comparison we could draw back to Anubis too.
The start of the T side from Aurora had Navi playing reactive.
And there was earlier rounds on the CT side from Navi where they maybe were falling for those fakes where they would peel away
Get into marketplace and just give a little space over to an Aurora
Whereas now Navi not having that willingness to rotate instead sticking around confirmed that he needs to be locked down and
not falling victim
to Aurora's set-ups
He got them on the backflip with the double AK, missed window smoke as well on a round
where you already have so little wonderful hole, gets popped by Mag'er!
Double headshot into the window from top mid, only two AKs!
Slaughtered inside of the window sill, 5v3 made possible off of Mag'er.
Or Navi gonna stack or not?
from a horrendous first map to now being on the brink of surpassing Woxic as the top fragger.
One thing is, they don't get to pick these guns up because they're both in window.
So they still only have 2-8 days to make this happen, but the group went quick for this move.
Smoking to connector, Bit doubles back, got pistols in front of you,
but he eats the flashbang and a lot of close proximity coming out through these tees now.
And it's Bit to try to take a look into jungle.
You'll find the freebie onto walks and the low health dealt with native escape.
Madger's got a third, and he will be cleared out.
He's got 45 now, with the bomb recovery needed.
Aurora off of the Madger, openings towards middle of 5 vs 3 advantage,
but it's gonna have to be finished off by Wacadia.
Navi have taken the chance to double up towards ticket stomping forward.
Wacadia knows it, and as he quietly creeps around, quick headshot in.
Alexis there, set the victim.
An opportunity not wasted as Aurora's recovery within Mirage pushes us to Inferno.
I just want to remind you that we started today with a rather uninspiring anubis from Aurora.
We came into Navi's map pick quite confident that they would easily close this up to zero.
And then what the hell happened?
This is everything we kind of discussed in the pre-show that is wrong with both of these
They're both inconsistent, they're both not hitting the mark right now, they're both not a known quantity.
There's very few teams out there that I would label as a known quantity.
I think Felicans is a known quantity whenever they get into a grand final.
I think Maus is a known quantity whenever they get into deep playoff runs.
I think Vitality is a known quantity, but I don't think neither Navi or Aurora right now are known quantities.
You never really know what you get from them.
They obviously have glimpses where they play good counter-strike and this is a great example.
For example, Aurora, I think that performance in isolation on Mirage was a good performance.
They looked well, they looked world-class.
Looked like maybe they had a good idea of how to, you know, spear the comeback on the CT side,
CT side, you know, played a little bit rough, but they got the job done.
And then at the day, that was a good performance from Aurora, but I cannot say here and sit here
and say that's going to happen on the next map, or that's going to happen again tomorrow,
or that's going to happen in a week from now, and that's the problem with Nadia as well.
We're looking at two teams, as we described, coming into this matchup,
that both find themselves struggling with consistency.
Yeah, I mean I will say one thing though Aurora consistently usually pretty bad at this map
So the fact that they were able to put on such a great display defensively
I think was just a huge step in the right direction
I think the fact that Soulfly, the rookie continuing to put out big invisible performances
There's a great sign for Aurora fans and for the team itself to you know kind of realize that hey
Maybe this move is actually something that's gonna help us out a little bit
I think a lot of people including myself were skeptical if that was the right roster move
If that was really the thing that would actually fix Aurora or patch up the problems that they truly had
But at the very least whether that's true or not he's at least performing in his role very effectively and again defensively
They turned it around and this is a matter
They have really struggled on on both sides of the map the last few months yet here
Defense on a CT side everyone showed up in their positions
I mean now we could barely find any opening start the course that happened
Yeah, there was a couple if you moments there in the second half to close
But they did get the job done before it got too scary and speaking of showing up
You know we were so much in the very last round getting a sick multi-kill into a window
but overall in this game, as you also saw from the highlight package,
he found an awful lot of impact from start to finish in the game.
A man that on Anubis had four kills was nowhere to be found whatsoever,
had an abysmal performance coming in here
and maybe having the most impactful performance out of any player of his team.
So that's what I speak about when it comes to Aurora and when it comes to inconsistency.
We know what they came when they're all hitting their mark,
when they're all hitting their strike, when they're all contribute.
You know, a bit of a surprise that that happens on Mirage,
as you described just on map that they have notoriously been struggling on,
but that's the inconsistency issue that is with Aurora.
They can play Counter-Strike at an incredible high level
as we saw in Krakow,
but they can also look like a bunch of nukes
from time to time,
and I never know what Aurora I'm gonna get.
It also, I find it a struggle with both of these teams
where, so for example with Maus,
they're consistently good in the group stages.
Playoffs is where we question their consistency, right?
Falcons, similar situation.
What I struggle with these teams is it's in the series
where the consistency is up and down.
Aurora, first map looks not so great.
Some conversation happens between the maps and then suddenly you see them playing at the level they should
and I worry about the mental game that's going on here.
If you're dropping that much, Navi as well, dropping that much in between maps.
That's where they find themselves, right?
Because that's why you can't lose hope in neither Aurora or Navi,
because they constantly remind us that hey, they can play Counter-Strike at a high level.
I think what Navi did on Anubis was a good performance, solid performance.
I think what Aurora did on Mirage was a great performance.
So they constantly remind themselves in the middle of the matchups that hey guys,
we can play Counter Strike at a high level, right?
So in order for us to lose faith,
you have to be looking at an Aurora or a Navi
that consistently would underperform
in pretty much every single matchup
over the course of maybe two or three tournaments.
But that's never the case.
You know, we saw it with Aurora and Crocker.
You beat Maus, you beat Falcons 2-0,
by the way, in both of those games.
And then in the quarterfinal,
you show up and do absolutely nothing,
get completely blown out.
So it's hard to lose faith in a team
that is confident in reminding you
that they can play Counter Strike at a high level,
but it's also hard to buy into a team
that is comfortable, that they're kinda like
trying what I feel to them.
That's the stock you hold.
You buy it low and you hold on to it
and you hold for the best.
But you know, you don't go too heavy handed into this.
And I'm getting at, and look, you know,
it's tough because when this team does play their best,
it could be a top five team in the world.
We saw it for the entire first season of last year.
So come on here.
Yeah, 100%, I'm with you.
And the thing is, is like,
they do have some things they can usually rely upon.
You can usually rely upon
Zanteris being one of the best entries in the world.
You can usually rely upon McHadia
doing pretty well for his roles, right?
I think the big wild card factors for this team
that kind of limits them, but also makes them look really flashy when it works, is
wassak as an opera. Like when you saw on that highlight reel, when the guy's on, the guy's on, he can be one of the best operas in the world.
You know, very flashy, very fast firing speed, he's exciting. You know, when he's on his mark, he's able to really be
that third star of the team next to wakaiti and xantharis, but then it'll have some games where you're completely missing, right?
And then we always challenge the leadership of this team, the T-sides of this team, yet
they look pretty good on it throughout the course of the series so far. So, yeah, when it's there for the taking,
They're able to do it, but it's just like you said,
it's the inconsistency that makes it hard for us as analysts
and hard for fans to really not lose your mind
trying to follow this team and bank on them, you know,
consistently being able to play these performances,
but hey, today, so far so good.
The conversation around Woxic is an almost mirror
of the conversation we had about Wonderful yesterday.
It's like when this player comes online,
it's the difference maker for the team.
Yeah, two players, you know, that are similar.
I'd say Wonderful is playing normally at a higher level.
I think he has a higher peak than Woxic as well.
you see by the stats the last three months as well.
That's kind of evident, especially wonderful performance
at the make as the one that pushes his rating
and pushes his stats up.
And I guess his stock value as well raised quite a lot.
Voxic has been around for a long, long time,
brings a lot of experience,
but it's not often we see him go off anymore.
I feel like Voxic back in the day,
he would have a couple of games,
every single tournament where I'm like,
wow, okay, that's some flashy play,
that's some explosivity on the server.
It's becoming less and less and less.
He's maybe a bit more stable,
a bit more mature as a player, which can work well in a team,
but that goes to the structure of Aurora.
Then you lack something else.
Like you have Santeres, you have a Voxic who's very stable,
but not flashy anymore.
You need a bit more spice from some of the players.
So it's hard to pinpoint what exactly is it within Aurora.
A lot of people are pointing towards Major right now,
saying that his calling and the T side is struggling,
which is the case.
But how much is that Major not really getting it done
as an in-game leader?
And how much is it the tools that he used to have
in a Voxic, in a Santeris, et cetera, et cetera,
not really performing as well as they used to.
So it's always a little bit dedicated.
I guess there's more new instruments.
Voxic also has a great resolution.
Let's talk about what's gonna happen now
on the decider map, because that is where we go.
And we both sort of, I think, coming into this,
both of you said when we looked at that Vito,
oh well, we don't really know
how this map is gonna play out.
And now we're sitting there.
How does it play out?
You're gonna have to put your money
in the map as well.
I did say that we were gonna need Inferno,
because again, I have no faith
neither Navi or Aurora now being consistent. Confirmed.
They made each other two row. That's basically the closing statement. Now you want to put
me my money where my mouth is? I'm going to say the same thing right here. I cannot give
you a clear answer as to who I think is going to come in and play well. Normally outside
towards Navi, I think the Inferno is somewhat decent, somewhat stable. I love the way
Bit is playing A together with him. I think Bit is a fantastic player in that position.
So stable, such a sharp aim. So if I'm Aurora, I'll probably avoid going towards
bit too much and test more so Alexi B and Mikazi who saw them play well on the CT side
of Anubis together but overall I'd say the weakness within Navi is that pair. Mikazi and Alexi B
sometimes it works out but more often than not I feel like they're struggling a little bit in terms of
firepower. Yeah I agree I think both teams have their pros and cons when you look over at Aurora
the the things that are in the positive column for them is that they've won both the games
they played this year with this five they are a team that Zantares in particular has been a guy
who delivers for you as an entry he's very good at controlling banana I think he's going to
a bully, McCauze, when he's on that side of the map.
That's going to be a real problem for Navi,
a real bet to deal with.
They also moved him recently defensively.
He's now more of an A rotator,
so they're able to kind of distribute his talent
all across the map and not just focus it on Banana
every single time.
But the con is that they're a little bit one note.
You know, they're a little bit struggling
to mid-round effectively or make adjustments
when, you know, the going gets tough.
I mean, I think that's the real big hurdle
for them that they're going to have to cross.
Now, for Navi, I think my big issue with him is that
they've lost like their last eight out of 10 games.
Like, they haven't shown the same form
and in front of that, classically, they haven't been able to do.
But the pros for them is that, I feel like their mid-rounding is better.
I feel like, generally speaking, they have good protocols and have good approaches to the map.
It's just more about all they're going to get the performances out of the players that they need
to be able to thrive.
And again, I think it comes down a lot to Mikaze's Venturi work
and E-Mass, that second kind of star rifle for them
that I feel like can have substantial impact when he's on form.
TLDR, we have no cooking clue how this is going to play out
because these two teams consistently surprise and disappoint us.
One of them will surprise us and the other will disappoint.
Somebody has to win.
Somebody has to win.
I hate that we're ending this like that, but there you go.
We're going to the break now.
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We are talking all things anubis with a team that I know is so happy that it's back in
the map pool, it's Aurora, it's Voxic and okay let me ask you this because I'm sure
you're happy but obviously Train went out which you guys also played pretty well
so is it just like a win and a lose at the same time? How do you make it the
map pool right now? It's like it's great to have that I respect but
personally for example I was like really love the Train yeah so it's going it's
But at the same time, why did that not come?
But I just came back, bro, it's like in the middle.
And do you feel like Aurora is a team where you are like trendsetters on this map of how
to play it, how you do things?
Yeah, I mean, overall, from the start until now, there's like changes about the window,
but our play styles didn't get affected too much.
The way we play, I think, if everyone even knows, they cannot still kind of beat us.
Like, if you watch a 5-6 demo for our run of this, you will see similar rounds to each other.
One we're doing it in a third round, one we're doing it after three games in a sixth round.
But it's kind of still the same things.
We are playing really successful kind of defaults there.
I think that's why the map overall is feeling comfortable for us
because everyone in their position knows what to do on the T side
or which lanes they need to troll, and all great timings, we are catching it.
So I think because of the default of the playstyle that we're making great on that map,
I think that makes us play good and kind of like scary to play against.
What are your thoughts on the mid changes, the door change, the window?
When you saw that, what was your first thought?
It was a midnight at home and I was about to go to sleep as far as I remember and I just saw the news on Twitter
and I just went back to the computer again and I checked like what they brought and I saw the window
okay what else and I just saw the there's a big box they put it there and I said okay the T is gonna sneak now
from now on or something I was thinking it but I haven't seen yet because if you are not closed
the pillar you don't see who is coming from camera yes if you are like inside the A main or A pillar
someone can sneak to the left towards the left side position because of that big box so I said
this can be game changer it's like a good thing to add and or switch so overall I like it
because I like always like some changes inside the game. Same for when smoke was exploding with
1.8 people, like half of people was like disagree with that, like bring back the previous one or
something, but I like it you know. It's something new, something more making exciting.
For Anibis, I think it's great. I can do like more early picks for example from that
window and they can have the control either they are taking from like a stairs or they are taking from
carpet side to AC. So if I see that nobody holding them drop guys can push or something and I can
we can do flash peek in mid and with timing because I'm holding down and I'm really close to
pick mid. So this makes like gives me kind of like some moves around the map because in Anubis
There was no such a move for the Alp, for early round. Either you're picking drop, either you're
picking mid, either you are just deep pushing A and getting one flash or Molly to stairs and
taking the control. But otherwise, there was like no, always you were on the back.
So but with these changes, you, Alper can be like in front of that everyone,
if you have like a round to start with it. But now there is an auntie's for it.
Molos, Smogs, Nades, so sometimes you are just wasting your health while you're making a move.
But overall is great.
Like when the teams are starting to adapt something, it's getting much better.
So it will be in the future if the teams are playing like a lot.
You'll see like more different type of things.
Pro-of-rule, are you happy with the changes?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm happy.
There can be some changes, but probably not on Anibis.
It's okay now to let's see how things go.
And if it's so not balanced for anything, I think they need to add something as well.
But for now, I think we can try this a little more.
Well, thank you very much for your thoughts, Woksyman.
I appreciate you and good luck in the tournament.
Thank you so much.
Time for map 3 between a Navian and Aurora that were both incapable of winning their own
map picks, Mohan, and it's just nice to see some individual prowess come out of magic because
he had a rough go of it back on Anubis, and I thought, oh boy, it's going to be one of
those days.
And lo and behold, here we are, going into map 3 in a map where, sure, maybe Navi had
chances, but once we look back at the score, it's a rock solid stuff from Aurora on
Mirage.
I mean, you know, if Wukated doesn't actually pull off the 1 on 2, I could have totally seen that game getting, you know,
even if it's Aurora still winning 13-11 or even an overtime, because Navi were playing just that well.
But it was a bit of a taste of their own medicine.
Both maps, so far, we've seen the lesser team of that map play their best, yes.
Right.
No, that's what it took for Navi to win a Nubis.
That's what it took for Aurora to beat.
That more mirage I think we are in store for an excellent final game here. I don't think
It's been super messy in a negative way for
The opponents there's just been a lot of good high-level individual moments
I mean even within rounds on on mirage
It was somebody getting a 4k and then countered by a 1v2. I think three times that happened so
It's a salt inducing game
I think if you're on the on the receiving end for sure
But now it's one where I think both teams come into it and they go
We know we can win this map now. We've both seen the we've both seen ourselves do this
Or a couple hours into this match as well, you know, you've shaken off kind of the morning blues and
I feel like everybody's had a chance to at least get some impact in this series
So time to put it all together on the third matches. Yeah, I know right. I
Yeah, I wouldn't I would want to play the later games as a player as well
I would want to play the second match of the day. Yeah, last no lot last game like vitality having to wait around yet
You know vitality Mongols having to wait around last night
You know you see that those overtime doozies and you're thinking
So I do I get the one second second. It's the perfect one. You still can catch breakfast
You can watch another team play, you know good for the brain and you know you're up next
You don't want to be the appetizer
You also don't want to be dessert
But I suppose this map in a way is dessert.
Final map of play between Navi and Aurora.
Someone moving on to the 2-1 pool off of this.
And so it is banana control already.
Four Xanteras taking an angle towards the CC cross.
USP shot whizzes by.
We saw Alexi B's USP ability back on Mirage and it was lights out.
Damn near ace for the guy.
Still lost the pistol.
walks the charge through the smoke.
They don't give a damn and they will catch Alexei within it.
Now, Mikaze, in some sort of desperation,
has to fight back and they will bring one down short.
Eme's interruptive piece of utility
doesn't actually expose any of the Aurora members
and so they'll sit comfortably in the 4v3 post plant
bomb ticking at a double up here for Navi
through the church to work their way around
and play off Eme's flashback.
That's got to serve as the trigger for the retake
but instead, wonderful eats the team flash.
E-Math comes through with the headshot.
Well actually.
He goes ahead and executes the pick player and now all that they've got left up is banana
but there's no confused kid on the round.
And so you're gonna have to stick this the entire time, you're gonna have to hope the
cover's good.
And it's sis!
Oh my god, but still the time.
I don't know, they might actually have it.
Oh!
What a retake!
Okay!
No way they pulled that off!
And by they I mean Ema.
Salt inducing, I believe you said.
Ho ho ho.
down to the absolute millisense.
That just looks beyond impossible.
I mean, the fact that Ima got the first kill at quad
after he threw the flash for them to scale,
that brought it from like 99% in favor of Aurora
to maybe a 70% in favor of Aurora like.
And that first headshot kill from Bitt
into the player on the left corner,
that's the one that really makes the difference
The second guy never even had a shot on a wonderful stick.
And you said one body blocking, bit doing the rest.
That's...
That's a...
That's a maddening moment if you're Aurora.
And honestly...
Xanteris?
Like...
Just don't be Quad, man.
Like, you're literally in the best spot ever.
Use the word before.
stubborn
still go there's no guarantees in this series with the force by threats looming
there's only one SMG in the mix here for Navi so it could end up being very costly
if players even die. That SMG is here on this B site where Aurora comes stomping forward
They're not going to respect the utility, the cause aid from the back of the bomb site with the Fommas.
A beautiful sequence from him. Triple Fommas headshot is exactly what you're looking for
if you're Navi considering Alexi went down empty-handed with that SMG.
And so cue it up again. Another retake needed out of Navi early days.
This is already a very cost-effective round for Aurora. Sure they come through with the force.
There's actually no smoke here.
Deep position from Xanterra as he hears the rumplings of the retake.
He takes a cut-down, and gets bit.
Yep, they charge right through.
Disrespect into that B site to hell with Mikaze's triple kill.
Wonderful versus Santeres, and it's Santeres
with a multi-frag of his own.
Big one there with the quad kill.
He goes beyond Mikaze, and maybe makes up for the quad peak
and the pistol.
Totally has.
Not the way you want to have to do it,
but he completely does.
Especially the emotional ass back of,
Novi getting there, opens up after a pistol round like that and then him just dealing with right back itself.
That's well done.
You foreshadowed the chance that an eco could happen and for no one to get too comfortable, well...
I don't even know if Novi did, but they still lost.
Right. Expensive one to lose as well, right? Novi, four rifles in that round. It wasn't just SMGs.
Cause a 3K hold and it's not enough.
This isn't a horrible place for Aurora. You group up, you go 3v2 into the B site, but
the thing is it's a 3v3. You've got Alexei doubling back with those Verettas. Wonderful
needs to get this damage in. Pistols around him are so little healthy. There we go. Picks
up Madger on his own, and Stilzan carries in the backdrop. It's Woxic from within
They missed the opportunity to finish, but they're gonna write off this third player, aren't they?
They knew Alexei was around here.
Oh, he's still inside the pit, keeping his head down, walks it, thinking about these corners, wants to come and clear it.
Yeah, he's gonna find you.
E-Man hoping he'd have the element of surprise, and Xanteras wants to hang on to the flank.
Bit gives him something to think about with that 5-7 headshot, and he goes into the Mach 10.
His own flash comes out.
Xanterra's M4 back on the side of Banana and Bit going over top is going to be caught out by Woxic
sitting in the back of the site for the head shot. These rounds on a
Razor's Edge as we go back and forth Aurora able to stabilize to the 2-1 lead. Yeah, so not exactly
stabilized
economically just because it's going to be so expensive
to even have a round like this come close. They won on a force up but they didn't spend all their money last round.
So very very close calls. Two up in the last, one in this.
This is one where Wonderful definitely could have, well he could have just closed it down with the scout going up on top of Coffins, but that was a few missed scout shots from him.
Now a totally open V-Site.
A roll of that plant's good form.
Pistols come running over, but it's pistols of roof, but no utility, no armor, no real
hope in the face of an Aurora that just wants to stamp you through these sites again and
again.
I'm sure enough, pressure's really on with the deep utility, Aurora working well as
a unit in these ones and finally making sure there are no costs that come with a round like this.
Yeah, 5 alive, all's good, Aurora 3-1, T-side starts. It's a very energizing start, lots of money,
clean eco, eco, finally a moment of reprieve.
It's a perfect way to start the third map, especially after losing the pistol.
It's nice to have got Xanterra is kind of playing hyper aggressive towards the top of the board
instantly.
Yeah, before this map Xanterra's had one good round.
It was that very cool 3k from Sanway shopping to the top of stairs.
That was it.
Besides it, it was everyone else having a lot of highlight rounds.
True.
It comes through on map three.
And they got a whole squad of highlights.
It's funny, this is a game that's going to be full of highlights, and yet his name hasn't been stamped on many of them.
Like you said, just the one.
Funny too, because obviously yesterday we had that conversation about now's a Na'Vi and how there are no stars,
and now finally a game for Na'Vi where there's supposed to be a clear star on their opponent's team,
and, well, hasn't been that guy just yet.
There's no better time than map 3.
Push comes to shove and Xanterra steps up, him and Woxic both sitting pretty 6-2 out
of the gate.
Narura gonna give us a different look.
There's been this affinity for the B site since the game started.
Now we're gonna go into arch control versus the rifles here of Navi.
Two Famae on the field, E-Met, tall box cover for one side as he gets this double
pit layering behind him, but he will fall victim to the Mach 10 of all things, and Soulfly comes
through with his entry. First two players go down, and at least Bitt's gonna give Navi something to
work with, but it doesn't seem enough to inspire the retake just yet. There's so much utility for
Alexi, and they're gonna flash through this pit. Like, why are they even peeking if they're
really, are they really gonna go for a 2v3 retake with a MP9? Maybe because they have a real
right now.
Until maybe we have them inspired like as if they had a chance but the reality is you're
going to need these guns in the next one and Aurora have gone for one up off the back of
a pretty quick a commitment.
It's like if there are upgrades nearby sure.
Oh my goodness.
Try to dive this.
Wait a second.
This is the fallen.
Sitting on top of it.
Stamming in through.
Covered by Mikaze.
That's why.
Navi with another one.
They do the period impression they do the fallen right off of arch learning from the best
The fact that they stuck around so they they literally flashed through CT to make it seem like they're gonna go forward the retake
Showed that they were leaving. Yep just to get Aurora to get out of there to sell it
And it still had to bank on a very clean kill to get through with the timing
I was like, what are they doing right now?
MP9 flashing back into arch, two on three.
And boy, did that work.
Made no sense for a second, but then we all saw the vision.
You know, right when you want to say perfect, start two again.
Yeah.
This is a prime example.
This is a reminder for all of us.
Navi, they've learned from their mistakes.
I think it happened to him twice, right?
Fallen.
or fall into two different teams
it's fallen has been pulling it off left right and center but uh... not be one
of those teams in a critical moment back in Budapest well lo and behold
they sprinkle it in versus aurora here now
of course they do
The Rora want to go back to the A site maybe because it did crumble under the pressure of
the commitment last round.
You know where you lost that round and it wasn't in the entry or the attack.
This makes you up an attempt to go back at it and Santerras won't be punished for eating
the flash.
Not yet that is.
Navi starting to get aggressive on the short side.
to take a look at this and the boiler angle being held means balcony seemingly
prime for the taking. Oh, but they win both the fights on the short side, still able to get through that smoke on Bawk,
but it is only that one kill for Woxic and nothing else here for Aurora to be proud of.
This setup's crazy for the play that was coming in.
Navi get off into the gunfight and the wonderful is going to go ahead to execute that for Alive for Navi,
and we are tied real quick.
They have totally changed everything with these last couple of rounds.
That setup is pretty phenomenal for a lane slash a Hall's hit and they have
To ready for anybody to peek a third in pit waiting for anyone to jump out
This is not the round to hit a in that fashion for Aurora. So they get out read completely
For Aurora the money keeps on coming but fully invested on this one now when we start to see those limitations creep through Madgers Tech
It's not full maids on all
Navi's defense being peeled off brick by brick.
Oh, we are bricked up right now.
It's like you're remembered as the Herculean effort for Navi to pull back that defuse.
Which in one dimension of watching is just this funny kind of creative thing that they
pull off.
But generally, think about the Stark for roar, not for that.
Oh, double headshot!
Through the smoke!
Make it three!
Oh!
Make it four!
Make it four!
Mikaze slaughters!
Two separate bullets for the first two headshots, a helping hand for the third kill in Navi's camp,
and Aurora now our slain.
Oh, soul flying back.
Beautiful shooting for Mikaze.
I swear he was in Crouch Stamina for that last kill as well was tapping it for every single frag not thinking another one would show up perfect reaction
every time.
And these are the kinds of soul crushing rounds now as well for Aurora to have to deal with.
Oh, super.
You know, I almost wonder like for a guy like Xanterra is what pisses you off more losing to a defuse last second or those kinds of just like instant deleted moments where you can do nothing.
Yeah, a guy in your mirror image.
Putting the other highlights just like you should be doing right there winning three rounds in a row off of that as well
Now these deagles in the hands of a war that will struggle to get openings matchers dead to the utility
Kazi up to 12 with that a g holy hell if that pre-k hold earlier on B as well
I don't they didn't win that's almost where everything went wrong. Yeah, they pull off the fake
retake into the A site
Jose had his hands full yesterday when it came to a mouse just because of how good their inferno utility was and
Zershin is another banana player that can just have so much impact
I was a tough head-to-head for him to have to handle and unfortunately
This map stats after inferno were quite atrocious
But here to make up for it versus Aurora to recover a game that was a 3-1 lead to Aurora's favor
And now Navi having an absolute field day with this match go up 5-3
Finding consistency finding style points in the middle of it all I mean look how perked up
He is he's just ready for the next round now
He's pretty excited to play probably because he knows he's feeling it the headshots are coming in
They've regained control of this half. They have so much money. They've got all the utility
They want they're putting together a streak of rounds
and this was Navi winning the pistol going down 1-3 and then not looking back since.
Don't let him get another highlight.
Nice point-blank kill for Zanteras.
Put an end to the beast for this round.
Ooh, and he fights just the inch he's looking for.
Tries to dive Alexi, but that didn't cost a bunch of HP.
And they start to slide away.
Woxic being spotted on the fallback.
It's not going to be the worst thing in the world just yet for the CTs to lose one and not trade it back.
Or I still have to prove they can make it more painful.
Navi are here taking a risk and this is kind of what I mean.
If it ends up being B and they still have 3 over here, if Navi want to leave wonderful and say screw it, that's fine.
He's even needing to make sure they're not actually taking over brackets.
Kind of on Soulfly to make a little more presence so that he can pull Bit back.
But if he's just going to go for the lurk, I set up the push in.
This is not guaranteed for Aurora.
Flash is bright.
Opps the pit.
Xanterra is playing with that one and the site is clear for the taking.
Just having to get through that cross spam.
Okay.
And so they will do so with only bit finding one.
Xanterra is with a chance to shine.
We just kind of, you know, that flash hit anybody.
Even when they got their kills I didn't see it in the kill feed.
I don't think so.
We kind of followed it to the bitter end, but nobody was blind on Aurora's side.
Chance we could see that again where Bits flash landed.
Kind of put Zanterras into the fire pit after Mikaze is the guy giving us highlights,
and well, he answers back with three kills this round.
And in an important juncture as well, still within this T side, Aurora cut the lead down to one
to one and have a chance to still rack up a streak.
Wonderful.
Looking like he's going to lose the off now to this flanking through five minutes.
No gun saved.
For the Navi squad, as four members of Aurora survived this one, and like I mentioned, close
that gap to only one round now.
Chiqui-Zanterres triple.
And not the easiest first fight as well, right?
They put a lot of faith into that flash so I don't know if anyone was
Playing it something someone should have been for sure
Anybody got blind really
So keeps the threat up because they want to stick around
I'm not doing anything too crazy just yet.
Soulfly last round was just set up inside a boiler the entire time waiting for a string
to pull on.
Where is that thread that unravels this new site?
What's funny is normally when Navi start to feel a bit of pressure here they do go
into this short peak.
I've seen this exact setup really dismantled in the midst of Aurora, but there's nobody actually here on this A-Play.
It is very much moving back to Mikaze and Alexi on the other half of the map.
And they'll fall away from their positions with a smoke in hand.
That's a smoke to go down maybe at 45 seconds, still time ticking, and Alexi hangs on for as long as he can.
Oh, that's not good.
Brown's live damage dealt.
PC winner. Yeah. That's also the bomb and spawn. So it'll get picked back up.
Santerras will find the entry in the meantime. Somebody's got to be the hero
as things get awkward. He's got this back pit position.
Mccasey hanging on. New box valuable as E-Mess stomping over towards the church.
But nice headshot. Oh!
Fogliacadia getting through the smoke as well. Wow.
Matt is going to be proud of his team for this. Yeah.
Playing against life. Aurora are going to tie this game at five rounds all.
It's third and fourth kill for Rikadia with those two sharp shots and then terraces entry
and so we don't have to live through that different version of reality where they lose
this round because of a PC crash very unfortunate.
Also of all the PC crashes why is he stuck holding the D key?
The bomb's running as far as possible away.
He made it, well while being dropping out of the server he made it down T ramp and
almost over to the fruit baskets.
Oh was your own banana when it happened? Yeah, he was like
You know it doesn't get stuck on the staircase down in T spawn. He's gonna save anything
Just the off on wonderful
That drew was a give that a second wild stallion making a break for it
Maybe we got to plug the fridges back in
Who knows how any of this actually works
Luckily for all of us, Bullet dodged with that one is Aurora are still able to win the round.
Not just win the round, dominate the round, right?
Nobody at the B site even got a kill.
So yeah, yeah, that was not even close.
Don't worry about it.
if you're Aurora still tapping into what could potentially be a lead at the end of this half.
Cause they started this game off nicely with his 12 kills, but things start to get sketchy as Zantara
taps back into his own talents and now they're tied at 12 kills of pop. Identical score lines
actually, 12 and 6. I'm saying this game we're getting like such crazy individual moments from
so many players. Just felt like those moments were drying up for Aurora, but isn't the case now?
Yeah, it's also just like we could have had a we could have had a Major and an LXC Ace in the
same series. Could have had a Xantara's ace. Could have had a
Soulfly mega carry Anubis win. Could have had a Bacca's ace. Yeah, it could have had a Bacca's ace as close.
His crosshair was on the one guy in the field. The moments are there. A lot of them aren't
getting clipped, but there's definitely been a bunch of flares of individual skill.
Well, Bitt's got a number of clutches, and for all the glory, we'll find out who wins
this series on Inferno, could very well dictate who makes it into playoffs.
Yeah, there's nothing at this point, it's a game they both can win.
Okay, enjoyable about dropping down into the 1-2 pool, and that's what awaits the loser of this match.
Especially at an event where you shone on cold, fast charge from Madger off the tech cause,
and back into the action with an opening frag onto Mikaze, limiting his impact in Banana yet again.
In a round where economically, Navi are also limited.
Alexi's not throwing this name. There's a chance that they can keep Five alive in this spot,
and MP9 to hold.
Hard pit commitment on the other side of the map.
Wonderful peels one. Oh, a second!
Zanterras is down.
And now, with Katia trying to inch that
off forward on a single point of health.
For a moment it felt like Navi
were going with the hard commitment into the pit
on A if, in case, nothing went well.
Keeping the pressure high. All these Molly's coming in.
Going down the bomb plane.
Double off sequence is huge.
MP9's going to gun down the planter.
Pop up from Orange, dealt with.
to fall on the matcher in the backdrop of Banana, smoked off already.
Bomb is in front of him. Does he try to get some kind of Hail Mary moment going forward?
You see so many CTs ready for the play. He'll get his instant headshot, but nobody else there
for Aurora pull it off. And a two versus X situation inside B goes well, surprisingly
for Navi.
And there's wonderful the last guy that we didn't talk about, essentially, with
they great hold
from coffins
was it not smoke that why coffins was not it was not smoke
sitting here with a shooting gallery in front of it
oh it was smoking
it's on back into it
after the two shots he backs up and there is smoke but he just played in front of it from the start
uh... uh... uh... uh...
situation of Aurora's making
It winds up being there undoing. They could have thrown it on purpose to make sure no
They're at all, but then they got to make sure that they clear the site
Oh right underneath that scope
It comes out ahead what a fine
No, there's no other player here to watch this
Well, Katie is going to make this into a B-split.
I slipped a net. Total blindside now for Mikaze as he hears that stomp come forward, but what?
They're still watching. They watch CT a little bit. Alexi's walking.
But now he goes back, but yeah, okay, he stomps in the first place.
He's going to get struck down in CT, or at least whittled down, and B-bomb site looking prime for the taking.
Mikaze clears out spawn first. What can Alexi do with 8 health?
Knowing that Aurora were probably about to dive that bomb site.
can actually lose this round now.
Flashbangs find their mark as well.
That was a fully white Aurora and McCauze catching
Madger inside the CT cross.
Navier getting away with robberies at the end of this CT side.
Yeah, a massive loss.
On the brink of their seventh round now,
Alexi playing in front of the utility,
blindside Xanteris on the climb up, tough to stomach
some of these situations.
And the bomb possession is also here on the cross
because of that McCauze killing Smoke.
SoulFly, what are you made of?
Two CTs as the smoke fades, he'll hit that first headshot,
McCauze go right there to trade out,
and Navi get away with back-to-back robberies,
as far as I'm concerned.
I think Wakadia kind of blows it here,
because he could actually walk the entire flank,
they could turn this into a B-split slowly,
but he wanted to just so badly take a fight,
which I sometimes respect at moments like that,
where if you let one go too far,
then suddenly they're in a good, like,
good falling quad and you're gonna have to get cleared any way to fight him but in
this particular moment I don't know where Xanteros was in this whole
situation but died on orange. Oh okay well he was kind of cooked. I think the
expectations though for this round without the team we're gonna win when
they got that lurk off and so I'm putting it on Wikipedia here who you
know if he doesn't shoot it's fine if he gets the kill it's fine but he
shot didn't get the kill that's not fine
now the tilt flows through you
got a teammate yelling
sometimes you just gotta get out of the system though, remember Nikko's desk smash, that's what he said, he said if i didn't hit that
Some people have to yell. I mean, this is fine. Like, as long as, um, honestly, like,
if you're not yelling into the mic at everybody else in TeamSpeak, then okay. Get it out of your system.
As long as you still do the calm, whatever. Because you do have to, like, you can't just build up all that
dark energy in your body for the whole game.
That's how road rage happens.
Yeah, sometimes you just got a T bono. Yeah, just yeah pull the pit maneuver halfway down your problems your whole life
Everyone's a nice guy, but so they're behind the wheel
Sitting in the driver's seat right now is Navi
You go execute into the B bomb site with the double smoke for her or three
He's a retake with no kit as well for Aurora
Gonna find one deal with it one's pretty good fast banana flank moving through but again
It's got to be a fast flank because no kit on this retake and it's a four-player banana hold coming out for nobby
They're kind of ignoring major for the time being so fly
Yeah, that one ends up looking a little wild
He got him all!
Oh my god!
Just one the round.
Just like that, everybody wanted to fight for Banana and Navi, meet their maker.
Well then, excuse me?
You're excused.
After these two?
They all just try to fight it.
He killed every single player booking.
Woo hoo hoo!
That is unbelievable.
Okay, yeah because if he doesn't get that guy and then they switch places on the back of the half wall it becomes a time problem
Oh, yeah
She's done. Oh, Paravision has won
map 3
After the stomp on map 1 from base
That stays in the 1-2 pool now, that's their favorite pool
The FaZe Silver Pool.
Karrigan in a free event interview said it would be really nice to just go 3-1 this event.
And I like that he gave himself the wiggle room of 1, but 3-2 is what it's going to have to be for FaZe Clan.
And 4 potentially, whoever loses this match, which is suddenly closer off of the back of that pistol round.
Big Beretta mow down for Wacadia.
Santerra is stealing the groove in middle.
It's going to be the first victim of this one.
Falls to the Mac 10.
And now this short setup starts to feel bad.
The balcony challenge is coming through.
There is support on site.
But Woxic's still bested.
But Lexi's Mac 10 gets him.
Tradefrag comes through once again.
And it's going to be Wacadia to have
to be the hero once more.
That smoke looks like there's a gap.
It's really free handed it.
Yep.
Okay, that's pretty massive. Maybe you can certainly push through, but I don't think Alexi's positioning in graveyard is gonna be predicted
You've got wonderful whittled down to three-quarters the health
Flashbang meant to slow things down smoke will help a clear graveyard gonna block off pit, but
Okay, jumping M4 headshot wonderful reposition dealt with swiftly with Katie as the hero yet again another one V2
10 second defuse, a little dangerous, but fine by his standards
Aurora tying the game off of a wakadia, jumping head shot
What a clutch
Every round is key is the last it feels like
Every clutch more unlikely than the last as well
Miss the jump, hit it falling off
and tracked out the one V2.
Well, KD on that pistol round, well KD on this one V2.
How much more magic has he got?
Every time we think we've got this game figured out.
This has been a rodeo.
Oh, but it looks like the streets strongly believe in Aurora maybe after those two
CT side ahead of them to diffuses
She got to be a fool to write off Navi
Yeah, and while those are good means exciting wins they were expensive still so
So, you do that on T side, it doesn't matter that much, but CT, have inferno, like one of the top three maps you can get a lot of utility.
Crazy that WCAD has doubled his kills from T side to CT side already.
That triple Beretta play, the two kills just now on the 1v2.
Just like that, you've got WCAD as a part of the formula here for Aurora, and he's gonna have to be, it feels like.
Clutch factor is real. We'll see if Mikaze's scoreline as the very clear top
performer of Navi in this third map starts to taper off as he's going to be
tasked with the challenge that is T-side banana.
But he's gonna be eating every grenade in the book. We see that already down
to sub 30 health here in round 15. Like you said things have been
expensive, so as Xenteris takes to the top of this archside smoke, really not a lot to
see here.
Whoa, jumps up and catches a glimpse of that crawl outwards, and they're happy to just
try to rotate around and stack site instead then.
Crazy how slowly Navi moved.
How slowly they move here.
They've got Arch open, they know this boost is dismantled.
Everybody's coming over from the CT side.
Tentative steps here.
In through CT.
Splash, finding Wakadia with a chance to challenge the arch play, but the wrap is now real, and they're skating out the open, unprepared!
Just fully exposed!
Woxic tries to save it, the damage is real!
And now this critical kill on E-Man, who's working with the half health, is the single point of Wonderful's health bar, is all that remains for him.
Wakadia tasks to another critical moment. He has been the savior for Aurora once more.
He got jammed.
Spam comes out, but it doesn't connect.
And maybe there won't be another 1v2 for Mokadia.
Wow, of course, the sight players really believe that somehow the library and arch players were going to be able to hold off despite both of them being smokes.
I mean, Mokadia was actively defending it, but once you hear the smokes, and also...
Mokadia delayed for a long time, actually.
Yeah.
Unless you think you'd get into a better spot at the end, or...
Just laying in the back of us, I'm not sure.
They just misreading exactly how long it would take for that hit to come in, I think.
And that's that not-be-awkward timing.
Maybe the arch player himself said he was coming through the end of that smoke,
and they thought that would hold it, I don't know.
Without hearing communication, it's impossible,
but for me, I'm not really putting this one on Makadia because...
I think if anything, they're hoping he can slow them down.
Right. And I think he did that. He did?
He was like a mag and a half of ammo.
He forced them to smoke it. Plus they can hear the smokes. Plus they know it isn't our trap. Like it's...
Three rounds where Aurora needed a hero. Two of the three, Wakity is able to step up.
This time, Dink comes through the smoke and that limits his ability to pull it off.
I haven't shown a moment of Aurora controlling the apartments so far throughout the CT side.
Navi not being shy about their approach using their utility liberally to at least get what
was momentary control of brackets and it's enough to keep Aurora wrapped up in this
A site. Four players standing here as Mikaze starts to take a look back at B.
How far will Aurora push the limit of this site setup? You're working with quidruple MP9s here.
No smoke grenades either for anybody on Aurora to slow it down. That incendiary on
Majors, the only thing over towards B that could stop the Navi that wants to come forward
with the commitment. It's basically a non-existent B hole. The Navi's, this little bit of
The utility is kind of perfect. It'll hold their attention a little bit longer.
Madger's held on to that Flames until now.
Drops it at 30 seconds.
It has freed up a couple of bodies to rotate over.
There are flashbangs here to set up Zanterres.
Madger left these flashes so that Zanterres can fuck through and he does with one.
Inside of the pit though, you've got Tees already, so Bax turned to them.
And Madger's unable to hold it back on his own.
Soulfly and Wakadia to the 2v3 retake.
It's an AK in the mix of all this. Soulfly's flashbang could be used to try to get the retake going.
Cross smoke fades. Makaze to the top box with a M10, not ideal.
Soulfly is going to catch him on the fall down. Confirms bit back by Newbox.
That's all they've got. This move around from the Galil into the deep corner.
Bit just hoping to draw them forward. Desperate attempt here from Soulfly and the Galil kills connect.
Bit's going to cross it over the line and push to the 9-7 lead.
And there's that clutch potential out of bit who's got a number of them miss series
The trades coming back. It just felt like oh my goodness. They're gonna have to go through it again
Somehow Aurora are gonna figure this out. Wacadia involved, but not the guy necessarily getting the kills
And also we know about Aurora in MP9. Sometimes they get too many MP9s, but they get too many kills with those MP9s
I see why it's so long before the perfect time to go for this duel, still ended up losing
it.
Gap goes to two.
No, it's a real go.
And finally Aurora playing something inside of the apartments.
Four spotted instantly.
That'll catch ya.
That's a B-play.
They didn't get the bomb though, so they just gotta go support that coming back.
Bomberly leaving now. These pistols will test the flank, but there's a smoke up. Fresh smoke at the base of the banana.
Vanilla pistols aren't getting through this one.
Cadius, Mach 10 attempt to try to stop the bomb plant. It does get Alexei off the plant,
Yeah, that part of the plan works well, but you're not gonna stop Navi in this round 10-7 lead secured
There's a question about the price tag
Navi have survived heroic Aurora moments
T side that now streaks together three rounds in a row
10-7 lead, map 3. It's not a bad place to be. Soulfly doesn't have a kit for this, but
taking a late look at the bombsite, just trying to frazzle Navi. Again, banana control, you're
not getting away with the win. You could just get away with racking up another frag,
but it's covered. It'll boil down to Woxix, who's also unable to get it.
Very solid here for Navi on this anti. Obviously it's because of scouting and you go down into the halls.
They didn't see that. They wouldn't have had the guaranteed infelbite.
Not enough of a punish here from Aurora to really make it feel scary.
Full by left for each of the players of Navi as they go and purchase up.
There are a couple of missing rifles.
gets into the mix is how do we make this hurt more during Aurora's tack pause
Sucker! It's in that moment he just like rounds over yeah yeah to hell with
your Zeus. I'll take the round win.
I had to wait for this but guns back in hand for Aurora.
Time to bounce on it. Yeah, nice coverage here for Makadia but it does cost them a lot of health.
16 HP remains. Oh, he got one tail into that Molly.
he gets picked as well. But will they expect Santeris to be here? They just
mollied that fallback. But Santeris is really staying here without support.
He's quite a big swing and he gets traded by Alexi. With him dying this early they have
CT wide open. It can just get smoked. It's kind of a huge issue for Aurora.
Part of this system to try to rotate over walks it can drop utility in front of
there is no commitment from Navi behind that until... No one can pretend with this
Molly, but no one can actually smoke B.
He can cross it and save this quick scope into a lexie that moments of pause here for all the
Nades that have tracked down both low players
Still walks it back to the cross has landed another shot so far with Katie has been the hero
But now it could be Woxic. He has to read bit
I mean bit just planted could go con on him Woxic not even thinking about that stepping it forward
And yeah from inside of the little pit it is bit with the clutch his second kill of the round
That's nobby another an 11-7 lead off of that one. I think bit has like six
Clutches in this series already. He's including a 1v3 a 1v2
Just pretty nasty
On that output and that's that's why he's you know, that's why he bits on that's why he got hired up
from Na'Vi Junior back then, to be an anchor that puts together all these 1vx moments.
I'll be on the brink of another second half blowout now.
This is four rounds in a row and the two rounds that could have also been there is that could
have ended this game where the Wikipedia heroics try to challenge in the middle of versus Bid.
All while we get this heavy emphasis from Navi just charging down the B site, Majors
The FD9 is not long for this world and Aurora may not be long for Inferno at this rate.
They're not here to think about this too much.
Right through smoke.
Through the block.
The A-stack that Aurora have consistently been looking for on rounds like this.
That is true.
The deep CT smoke and the best Aurora can do is maybe punch some exits,
but Bitt's going one step further than that.
He's gonna catch Soulfly walking around through spawn.
How sweaty is this?
Fortunately for Aurora, this is generally the team.
CT side calamities that they have to stomach in the series.
Their own map pick, there was no defense to speak of.
And now in this one as well, it's a pistol and a conversion
by way of Wikipedia moments.
And do they even want to save that MP9 for this potential loss?
They save money.
Enough money, yeah, fine.
Madger's only 41.
That's the only thing.
One more round, that's right, blade.
Man knows math.
It's crazy because I think if you're sitting there from Blades perspective, you're watching this,
you know you could have lost the series.
Sure.
And it's not even like you're on the stakes, it's just a random pop-ups that are happening,
the clutches that have taken place.
The fact that, well, Katie has had these moments and yet still,
Navi have had more of those moments in the same map.
It's one of those games you're just lucky to get across the line.
The five clutch victories in this third map will come out.
But three of them the way of Navi. All they're gonna think about is being in that 2-1.
That's the only thing they're gonna be thinking about.
Get it over the line. You've given yourself two best of three chances to secure the BT arena to hear that crowd roar for even.
That's what this victory is all about. It's all for him a here in clues
We said it was called the bitch Reno though. No sir. Oh, maybe that's why he's been playing so well
Feel about right with the way he's left a mark on these knobby games so far
Doing it for his teammate
They eat a lot of utility damage at the start of this one and suddenly knobbies thinking about taking this a site
Where Aurora have been trying to put bodies and Woxic who has not been missing shots in this series
Who under pressure does deliver will need to be a part of this defense. You'll find the first one
No whips Santaraz comes out with one towards Archside
But bits able to trade back into Soulfly who also had his one they know this op is in the middle of the bomb site
Madger now announcing his approach
And she will come through with the frag. Pressure on Woxic, Madgers got it covered, and Aurora, the first of five to extend play into overtime map three.
One foot in front of the other. It's a super solid hold here. Normally you'd want to have four if you could.
Watching Arch, they do give up rack control. It's actually a fine time to try the A-play here if you're Na'Vi.
And when they spotted Arch and fell back onto the side of the, oh my goodness, they're going to turtle up again too much and let this wrap happen.
but they do well from those more reserved positions and the malty from, I think,
Zanterras was just enough.
We're made certain that they would have the money to make this comeback happen to push us beyond regulation.
And sure, Woxic continues to hold on to these AWPs because his defense is solid.
I love about Woxic's play as well, it's like sometimes when you throw him into those frazzled moments
when it's a high pressure, high octane hold, he will still find those kills.
He saw it as he scrambled over the B site previously, but McCauze has already gotten his way through the banana smoke.
He was looking to do this before.
Now he's got-
They don't think anybody's tried it.
teammates right behind it. He's gonna blindside Madre, who gets traded out by Alexi.
You've got Wikipedia here. Full belt of utility. You've got Wax in trying to run
that off over blindsided. That's wonderful takes to the top row before and she is
cleared with ease. Wikipedia pushed back at a quarter of his HP. Everybody for
Aurora inside of the CT spawn, barring Wikipedia. They're so low on utility
though. They can't slow this plant down. Navi starting to feel a little bit
Limited within that little pit
No, we're worried about alert. Plank will go down. Unconsested. Clock starts. CT's take position up inside of the church
They're currently trying to keep this one split as the smokes begin to fade and we've got still flashbangs for soul flight
Everybody trading tools for the job where katia takes over the AWP and goes back towards CT spawn up close
It'll be xanteris. It catches the shoulder, spams down a lexie. Bits trade only the one. Galil versus three
E-Man from the top shelf of the back site comes through with a bit of impact,
but it's another round for Aurora, one step closer to OT.
You have to appreciate them in retakes.
They have been really, really strong on those.
When the clock is ticking, they're good at staying organized.
I think it fits their style of being able to put together set stuff.
Like, they drill this type of play, and they make it happen.
And when we looked at that round, it's two golels that came in for Navi.
So they spent to the bottom dollar to get that buy together.
I roll it, maybe they're not out of it yet.
That's awkward, didn't see anything.
You may have fasted the chase, but Xantera is sticking around even as Soulfly stops the
fallback so it's Nami thinking that maybe they had found that timing without him seeing
anything into the apartments.
But false confidence, Nami feeds them.
Two kills over.
Xantera has shown a little fear with that one.
One bullet over the truck falls away, doesn't want to be the victim of the Desert Eagle,
and then an additional two kills come through here to Aurora's favor.
So I'll be letting this one slip, saving up their money.
I have a real go of it in the follow-up, but this is Aurora, a majority of the way through
the five rounds they needed to push us into overtime, three down, two to go.
So close to glory are both of these teams after what has been a serious fight in this
series.
Aurora has a little bit more pressure for them to make this one happen, but I mean
they're in this by-save cycle right now.
If Navi don't win this round, it's going to be an almost guaranteed overtime.
Kha'Zix had to deal with a lot of UTile out of this Aurora banana play.
We saw the Nades come out from Navi, we've seen Utility finish off Aurora players on their fallbacks,
But this one does come at a cost. They stick inside of the corners and dunked on by the Fragger Nade.
Did a posturing going down on Banana in a very important round, and it's gonna leave four players wounded after the Nades are done sailing.
They're going back to the site with two mollies left over. No more AGs.
Awesome, unconfirmed damage exchanged on both ends.
be a little nervous though if I was a roller to not have got that kill.
That would just make this feel a little more simple.
An interesting move.
Woxic, assuming that they might try a walk up.
And you know what?
I wouldn't be surprised if they did in this position.
You look how empty banana is right now from both perspectives.
But Navi are working on a making him regret this rotation.
Oh, into the smoke, but that's occupied.
That that smoke is occupied.
He crossed paths.
W-W-Wikadia and Alexi B have crossed paths inside of the Arch smoke.
And they're gonna, again.
As we go over towards Banana, Madger's holding it on his own.
Madger's under pressure, and Ema's got that trait back.
He's not watching!
Yo!
In with the tech 9, able to catch that second.
Wait, I feel like Bit should be running around to Alexi in this spot.
Three players coming up Banana.
Alexi's in CT.
Fast charge.
They're sharpened to him.
Fast charge.
Oh, wallbang!
Wikadia doesn't let Bit get off the position.
Yeah, good luck with this, Alexi.
far-range bomb planted for him at the very least, but still three players from Aurora ready to hold it
And Alexi concerned about players, but look they're starting to check coffins
They're starting to write off this potential CT threat
And now it's been confirmed Alexi in the open dealt with this fast move from Aurora to wrap back around and
Imagine a world where bit gets away from coffins, but instead with katia nails the headshot through the wall bang
I think it was impossible for Alexi to be sure that everybody was
It's rotating down my son.
He's playing serious right now at that place.
That's so funny.
For Alexi to make the call for a bit to go over to Wardson
would have been so unreasonable.
But he did let them run by.
And they ran because they just didn't think
anyone was there, right?
Or they just didn't want to deal with Alexi
inside of the spawn, but I mean.
But he didn't get a kill or shoot, no.
But they looked for a moment
They could have bumped into each other.
Wikadia did turn to look at the smoke, so I don't know.
We have to watch it back.
We're vibrating.
It's another one.
That's the vibrations again.
It's one of those moments where it's like you need the replay
to figure out exactly.
Yeah.
Awkward, to say the least.
Money managed by Navi still nets them
four Galils to try to put this one in in the 24th.
He's allowed Aurora to catch up four of the five rounds,
Secured for Aurora to get beyond regulation
And leave it to Aurora
To play with those final five rounds not always making it easy on themselves
This utility oh look at a lexico willing to risk that back ten for an opening kill and you can understand why
Shot landed through the wall bang
That's gonna push mccasey down to reload it. He don't believe it and he doesn't make a fast step
He doesn't think though, he didn't even hear that.
Macause got hit, but he still walks it forward.
Madger now reconsidering it because of the lull in the action over on A.
He will still get the better of Macause.
That wallbang worth its weight in gold.
And so now as the op comes back to the cross, the smoke goes down and Navi are going to try to test the limits of this B site at a man disadvantage.
They're looking just on to get picked off as they get this plant off, but Aurora have been good at finding a kill or some damage.
Again, their retakes have been solid.
Fresh smoke into the cross and there's another one still for E-Mess to throw.
He's got it equipped at the moment.
Yeah, if they throw that to Coffins, that's the way.
Plenty of kits.
We know Aurora loved to retake through Coffins.
Plenty of flashbangs.
That Coffin retake had been the pain.
They're cutting us up about this.
They don't want to have to do it this way.
Flashes over to the cross.
Many bodies coming at this E-Mess, fully blind inside.
Little bit of wonderful double.
E-Mess here to close it.
Box it goes wide and they will push the limits jumps on top of the bomb
And this is Aurora to go to OT after a five-round streak
Just when push comes to shove of course Aurora pulls through what an amazing comeback once again
Somehow on that retake especially after their can their plans get canceled trying to come through coffins
Still managing to find each and every trade
And I don't know what happened here when Madger came back, I think it was just a long
con to draw out some kind of push, but didn't really know how close that guy was behind him,
Makaase.
But he was there just in time to get that kill and slow things down.
Double up in the apartment.
12-8.
Yeah.
12-7.
Aurora really don't play much inside of the apartments in the gun rounds, so this double
up for Falcon is something fresh and overtime and it nets them a 4v4.
But within that you get this pretty quick flurry from Navi in through brackets, already
contending with the bomb site.
Easy pickings now.
Alexi going wide and not able to finish that immediately but he gets there.
open the door for Matcher who follows up with the commitment but ultimately
defaulters and so Navi they meet something new in a double apartment set
up but they are very quick to respond to that with the flood out through the
brackets. So five rounds streak of rounds answered back from one for Navi
finally luckily for them they had already secured overtime. No this would
have been the ultimate tragedy. Hard to say what went wrong all we see is
that Navi really open up here. They play it almost for me.
Towards a very fast, very light on everything.
It just decides they're going to trade down better.
Four players all getting a kill each.
They just want to give them the hope and then take it away.
So we're watching right now.
They're trying to torture Aurora here.
I mean, it's not the first time I
feel like we've seen Navi kind of like test a brackets play,
right?
They've usually peaked out through mid.
I just think this time with the double apartment
setup, that change up felt like Navi.
That's all they needed to really follow through.
There is this thing about overtime where it's like,
all right, new strategy.
You know, it's like, let's slowly work on B for five rounds.
And then, wait a second, that's not done anything for us.
even Aurora trying to change up from what was working to what really opened the
door for Navi to just slam into an A-plane. Maybe it's because they didn't
think Navi would do it, but given the chance, given that information, Navi
flood forward and a lead secured in overtime instantly. This is a little
more par for the course in terms of Aurora's usual A-plays. This two-player
Racket hold, and Soulfly just chilling back towards BALC.
But Navi, no strangers to taking a look at it.
Santerras wants to test around the flames, but wonderful on the angle already.
And when you've got Bint's position to try to play out now, he's gonna go.
And he has fighting damage on Soulfly, snarls disaster for this AD fence.
Bint nails the kill coming through, very little left to do, versus the wounded Soulfly.
And watch, it's not gonna be given a target. Bint knows better than to overextend.
All Navi have to do is off of the positioning of Aurora and the B retakes are impressive, but the A retakes are just not going to happen.
No one's good enough to pull those off consistently, so it feels like that's where we're getting a total change up for Navi.
They know they can get into either side, but unless it's going to be with Katie getting a jumping kill, A is pretty safe and sound.
It's time so far feeling like a whole different game, but it is the back-to-back A commitment
coming through and two different setups from Aurora that just can't stand the test. That peak into
middle, you know, Santerra is thinking he's got something behind those flames, but I think that
goes back to late game Anubis as well, right? When push comes to shove, you just get this moment
where Wonderful leans back on one of these passive angles and somebody from Aurora steps
into it when they feel the squeeze to do something. Always got to be cautious when
Wonderful's got that off because you never quite know where you're gonna find him and he's off to the 21 and
16 scoreline with that opening kill on zanteres and it's a 5v4 that just guarantees the round
Essentially because soul flight comes forward on short and that gives bit all the info he needs to know
Belk at that point belongs to him
Gunning for a singular CT round with now our Aurora in overtime.
Seven CT rounds in regulation, but the all-elusive one here in OT.
They start off with three players B bomb site this time instead, Aurora.
They're going to try to get something going, a little jump spot over the half-wall matchers
seeing no actual presence.
Still just utility from T-Ramp, but if this is going to push Navi into an earlier A-play,
they're going to find this one understaffed.
Soulfly from the balcony is going to shut down BIT this time, at least getting revenge,
but as he plays with A, it's E-Mata come through.
Clears out both Xantera's headshot instant, and then Soulfly caught playing with grenades.
Then the challenge out through Arch walks into Mikaze.
Three consecutive slaughters of his A site defense.
You never asked for your abs sky to take apart a crossfire like we just saw from Ima.
That was close to impossible.
The complete difference here.
Three rounds one on A. If they can get this bomb planted.
Surely.
Just take it extra second.
He's not gonna miss the head shot on that one.
Woxic forced into the retake attempt.
He's been playing a lights out counter strike.
25 kills to his name.
But a 1v4 with locked in post plant positions.
And a very confident Gavi in their ability to storm this bomb site.
It's what nets them the flawless OT.
Sure you allow Aurora back into this game with that 5 round streak,
but they have looked like a whole other beast since we've got here.
Three rounds in a row, out of nowhere.
The only difference is it's the A site hits this time and also like this
That's just exquisite
Yeah, I think he's happy as well that he gets a couple of shots on soulfly while he's holding that mate
Because then once you get the kill to zanteras you see him snap over commit to the spray down knew a couple more bullets
We get the job done and knew damn well that the rest of Navi was sprinting over off his entry
A golden moment here for Navi to just shut this down, advance to the 2-1 pool, be that
one step closer to playing in front of a Romanian crowd.
Dust described these teams as two ships passing in the night in terms of their rankings and
kind of meeting this victory and you can see it with the VRS forecast.
7 and 8 both up for grabs. These are the guys that just can't quite find the consistency to be in top 5.
So Navi looking to be a difference maker and Alexi B will find the first but also falter within that moment.
But you've done a great job of softening up Woxic. And before I can finish the sentence even,
Mikaze's dunked the nade on top of his head.
Man disadvantage for Aurora to have to stomach and a hunting wonderful will be the guy to give you back the even keel.
Awkward position here for a bit. I mean, I wonder if he thinks maybe it's time to push if like he actually might not believe that
They're gonna play a off of this. I feel like it's clearly very tempting for Aurora to still get it to the top of banana and
The rotation is coming in from Emma actually. Yeah
I'm not sure if this is just too obvious here actually for Aurora
No smoke for the defense
Mikaze looking to take a look at this
That's it. Oh, that's how it got retching situation for Aurora now
Wikipedia was the guy that posted those heroic round 13 and 14 moments
He's got needs to pull this off
But a perfectly time peak for Mikaze trades out Alexi be at the start of this round and overtime is coming up nothing
But nobby
Wacadia dropping Util trying to get the challenge going, fight, tree kill whips it around.
And that is E-Man drop down to 20 health, 20 seconds as well.
And as he charges in, he's doing this!
Two kills deep into the clutch.
Another moment here for Wacadia as Bit doesn't bike down fully.
Another plant attempt, the nade's gonna be blocked by the fountain.
He is on the brink of a critical 1v3.
And as Bit has the kit, the incendiary and the smoke, not to mention health advantage,
with Kadia just dodging the flames.
It won't get cleared now.
No, he's locked in and he is on that final challenge.
The bid is ready for the swing
and Navi are ready to try and secure the BT Arena games
with two opportunities.
They will advance to the 2-1 pool
after a flawless overtime close.
One game away from Emma being able to play
in front of the home cup.
That will be incredible here at PGR Clues.
Unfortunately for Aurora, they are now fighting for their lives. What did we think about that last map?
Messi, very, very messy game of Counter-Strike. First half, a lot of crutches won by the team in disadvantage.
You know, you saw Navi pull off unbelievable rounds, winning a 2v4, winning a 2v3, retaking a bomb side that wasn't supposed to be retaked
because so far I thought the round was over and ran away. You saw the same from Aurora winning a couple of rounds, they weren't supposed to win.
So it was a scrappy game of Counter-Strike, a messy game of Counter-Strike where I guess the team that stabilised first, which was Navi in the, you know, later portion of the game were also the rightful winner.
But let's be honest, neither of these two teams, the way they're playing today, is going to make the play-off or at least make waves in the play-off unless they step it up.
This was not a beautiful game of Counter-Strike, but it was a fun game of Counter-Strike.
Yeah, it was a slobberknocker. It's one of those ones where they're just standing in the middle of the ring and they're swinging away, swinging away every single time.
defense, all offense and, you know, it was a very brawly banana
throughout the first half was really the big one. And even the
first two rounds of the second half, you obviously have two kind
of crazy clutches take place in those first two rounds to allow
Aurora to tie the game back up to seven in peace. But then Navi
go on that run and you're thinking, All right, this is
about to be over. I'm not here about the walk with this,
you know, 13, seven, 13, eight, 13, nine somewhere around
there. But, you know, Aurora finds a second life, so to
speak, pushes into overtime. Unfortunately, they used all
the gas left in the tank to get them there. Because once
they did outside of this 1v1 that almost looks in the DOT,
that there wasn't a whole lot of life there
out of Aurora in the extra rounds.
Let's talk about how Aurora got it to OT though,
because that was the last fight for them,
and it kind of looked like maybe they were going
to be able to turn this in their favor.
And Jupiter, that was a good comeback on the CT side,
really stuck it to Navi.
Navi also went down in the Kings, I think, a little bit,
but that's what we know Aurora to do.
You know, when they're at the best, the CT sides
are decent, you know, sometimes good,
which was all a great example of where he edge.
It's more so the T-Sides that over the last three or four months have been a big part of conversation.
So I'm not really that surprised that the world had it in them to come back on the CT side.
What I was surprised about was the frustration sharing by some players.
I make it for that matter as well.
You saw after they lost as well, you know, he was seeing a little bit disjointed me in a way.
I'm not happy with it.
And I think that's the general notion that is going on in the world right now.
They are a team that are struggling quite a lot, you know.
They can't really seem to figure out why is it is not clicking.
And it does feel like from watching the body language,
from following them from tournament to tournament,
that the frustration is building up
within the camp of Aurora right now.
And losing like this to Navi is not gonna help them.
No, it's not.
I mean, I think it's the repercussions
of the group of players that have been together
for a very long time and have been through so much, right?
There's a lot of baggage there
whenever you've seen the ups and the downs,
you see what you're capable of,
but then the frustration of not being able
to reach those heights in a very long time
definitely weighs on you.
And I think again, that crack how maybe
was something that probably inspired, you know,
was that debut event with SoulFly.
It was a, hey, let's try to turn into chapter
after kind of a rough second season of last year.
And unfortunately, here it's been kind of back to
some of the struggles we've seen them classically,
not be able to handle tempers flaring,
people not getting along, it seems like,
I hate to be like the vibes guy thing,
but that does matter when,
internally you can't really do more than what you've got.
Unless you're gonna go international,
this is kind of the best that you're gonna do.
And then, so when you're stuck in that box,
and you can't really find a solution,
it just really can boil over.
That disappointment that we saw on Majors Face
right at the end, the frustration that we're seeing
within the team is dangerous, because it can fester.
And this is where it becomes really difficult
if you're Aurora.
We've seen it in the past with Navi as well,
where they look so despondent.
And I think we've seen it now with Aurora,
because to turn that around
and get everyone back on the same page
can be very difficult,
because I'm presuming within the team,
I'm here to play professional Counter-Strike, but in any team dynamic, you do start turning on each other a little bit and start pointing blame where you can out of frustration.
I tell you what, you know, it's one of the most underrated aspects of being in a team in Counter-Strike is to, I guess, recalibrate your own expectations.
Because we, we spoke about it a little and we saw in 2025 a team that had a streak of going into every single playoff, you know, a stable contender in the top five in the world.
and that's sort of like how those players are perceiving themselves, right?
If we've been a top five team for six months, that's where we should be at all times.
I think from the outside, it's easy for us to say,
yeah, Aurora right now, you should be happy if you're in contenting to be top five.
But that's not how the players feel.
So for a player that's been in one position, who's been great at a game,
you know, I can even attest to it myself.
You know, one of the reasons why I don't play a lot of Counter-Strike recently
is that I hate the fact that I suck so much Saturday.
I'm supposed to be better, but I'm not.
And that's the same frustration they're reliving right now in Aurora.
They feel they're supposed to be better.
They feel they're supposed to do better.
They feel they're supposed to beat now in this game,
but more often than not, they're not.
And that's sort of like the frustration
that is building up right now
and recalibrating your own compass
and thinking, yeah, maybe a year ago,
I was a top five contender,
now we should be happy for top 10.
That is one of the hardest
and almost impossible exercises you can do as a player.
Yeah, it's all a matter of perspective, right?
If you're a team like 3D Max,
you'd love to be making playoffs all the time,
at least being like somewhere in the conversation
of the top eight and trying to strike for top five.
But when you're a team like Aurora,
who's been there and once they reattain that,
you know it's a different level of frustration I guess you could say so
again all about perspective and and it's tough because again
at crack all you beat some elite teams to have a fifth six-place finish that's
awesome but now you're coming here
and you're struggling against teams that are lower than the teams that you beat
at crack all and and now he's definitely formidable opponent you know there's
no shame in losing them so to speak it's a matter of what you lose
and uh... you know i just feel like
they haven't really addressed the issues that have been lingering for a
while
when you know where your ceiling is and you're not reaching it can't be
easy and that's where aurora is currently sitting is what they're
going to have to deal with this afternoon into the evening because they're playing for their
life now. Navi is going to be feeling really good. One game away, like I said earlier,
from making it into playoffs. We'll see how that plays out as well. We are taking a break
when we return Mongols faces off against Bates.
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Pimp and Dust are with me to walk you through what is about to happen as we watch Mongols play Bates.
And of course this morning if you woke up or maybe your time zone is a little bit different
you would have seen all the news online and it's all the conversations around Senzu.
If you watch any Mongols games the conversation always goes back to Senzu.
This must be somewhat infuriating for the players in this team to constantly have the shadow of their former player brought up and mentioned to them, do you think?
You know what the fix for that is?
Just start winning, you know?
Let us forget about that.
Oh, fair enough.
If we produce results without Sensor,
then we forget that's even a conversation anymore,
and eventually it will die out.
The problem for the Mongols is, I think,
you know, one thing is the whole sense of the battle,
you know, not knowing what happened
and why he's no longer part of the lineup,
but another one is them not being able to produce
the same amount of results as we saw before.
And I spoke about recalibration before.
I think that's what we have to do for the Mongols.
As you can see, as per the rankings right here,
there were a team, you know,
There was all the way up there.
We're talking major final in Austin.
We're talking number one on the VIS and HMTV for that matter, winning EWC,
winning a big title and then ever since it looks like Bitcoin as of recently,
you know, to be completely honest.
The question for me is, is it going to stop there?
Where that right now, you know, in VIS, are we looking at a team
that is 10, are we looking at a team that can fight back to top five?
Or are we looking at a team that is in the risk right now of dropping
out of the VIS position where you're having them in 15, 16, 17?
I'm not quite sure.
I think that's something that we we can look forward to the next couple of
tournaments to see where the muggles are going to stabilize with this new lineup.
Yeah, it's so so tough to watch what has happened to this team because there was such a
fantastic story to follow. You know, they were the first East Asian team to make a major final
when they did so at the Shanghai Major, right? Then they upped up the ante whenever they're
at the Blast Austin Major and they would make a grand final. They were, you know, alongside
Aurora fighting for a spot in the top five and they won that battle and they held on to
to that position for a very long time, up until Sun Tzu walked out the door, for whatever
reason that that was.
And when they got controls, things didn't go so well, but they still managed to somehow
make the playoffs at the Budapest Major, which I thought was pretty admirable considering
the situation.
But now, you've had the offseason, you've elected the guy that you feel is the future
of this team with Klobazera, and unfortunately, Krakenau is a rough debut, and this event
has been a little bit of a mixed bag.
And it's sad because I want to see this team be able to get back to those heights,
Again, the more contenders we have, the more interesting the scene is, and you still have
four of the five pieces that helped you get there.
And yes, Senzu was a critical piece, the aggressive rifling star.
That's one of the harder roles to kind of replace.
And it's obviously too soon to call what Kroberterra is going to be.
But you still have Blitz, one of the best IGLs out there, a great fragging IGL.
He's become this defragging IGL for a lot of people.
A lot of credit goes to Mara and the coaching.
910 is one of the best operas that's come out of Asia.
So they have a lot going for them.
But they have to find a way to, as you said, kind of recalibrate what this do-fit to get
back there.
About two years ago, I sat at, I think it was a cologne where they weren't quite the
Mongols yet that we know, but they were on the rise and they had made some changes.
And I remember a bunch of analysts sitting with me going, well, now that these changes
have happened, we're just not going to see the Mongols anyway.
And then for some absurd reason, they just blew up.
And I think that is one thing we do have to do is give Mara credits.
He does find the diamonds, so maybe Cobra Zero just needs a little bit of time.
Yeah, maybe, you know, and that's the big question mark, you know, it's, it's what we know now is that they've obviously dropped a billion levels.
The results haven't been able to be reproduced, but we don't know if they can bounce back.
It's just when you look at a graph like that, that's why I love using the world ranking.
It sort of like it sees a trend, you know, so are they able to stop the trend?
Are they able to revert back up?
Or is it a trend that is going to continue to go down?
At the end of the day, we don't know.
We'll have to wait and see.
But I think this game against Bate is a great litmus test in that if you're going up against Bate,
You're the mongrel, you're supposed to win that game 9 out of 10 times if you want to have any aspirations whatsoever of coming back to the level you were at before.
That's not to say anything away from bait, but that is not a team right now that I consider to be, you know, emerging.
That's not a team I consider to be, you know, a foot as an example that is exciting, that is making waves, that is climbing the rankings fast.
If anything, bait is in the same position as the mongrel, they're trying to stop a bleeding.
No more head trick within the lineup. Sissy comes in as well.
They made some decent results in 2025, but I think it's a team that right now, the only
focus should be to somewhat stabilize and see if they can stay within the fund via as
rankings because I don't really see them dust as a team that is punching above the weight.
Yeah, they're a team that's kind of a similar trajectory as the ParaVision in the sense
that they went from doing really well in the online environment kind of in the middle
of last year to doing really well in a smaller land, you know, for coverage that
was winning land to the land for this team that was coming third at Star Series
and they built off of that.
top eight at Masters Bootcrest with us, you know, and then obviously they had their own run
sort of similar to Parvish at the Star Ladder.
That is between, you know, it's going up, it's going up, it's going up, and then it's just crashing.
And the question is, will it continue to crash?
Yeah, and the crash would be not making it out of the play-in at Crack-O, right?
Like, that's an event where you showed you do it the major, you want to be able to attend another main event,
they weren't able to do it, obviously they've had a roster change since then because they had the one guy kind of come in for just one tournament.
Now they've tried to go to Sizi to see if that's going to be the thing.
And look, I think it's a team that has some good pieces.
I think NPL is a solid aggressive rifling guy.
I think Kinsey Zor is a solid entry.
Alex has been adapting to the IGL role.
And since he's so far, again, a guy
who came out of complete obscurity
had really nothing to look at before this tournament,
essentially.
He had a great opening map on Mirage against Furia,
kind of fell off in the inferno game,
but played really good against Furia yesterday.
So he's doing all the right things to get your attention.
but now it's about where is he at exactly?
It's a bit tough.
I mean, he hasn't had a lot of experience.
So is this the tournament where we sort of judge him
or do we have to give him more space?
Now we would get to see tendencies.
We get to see whether or not he has glimpses of great play.
And I think he has had it so fine in the tournament.
He's been doing a decent job.
He's immature.
He's 16 years of age.
He's going to have to learn.
And going up against the Mongols,
that's going to be a tough one.
Now heading into the Vito's world,
that's going to be a bit of a tough one for bait.
because there's only so many ways you can go against the Muggles who may not have the home map right now dust, but at least they have a white map pool.
Yeah, interesting that, you know, Bayt decided to ban Inferno. They've usually been banning Overpass and before that there used to be a big, you know, non-Nuke enjoyer, I guess you could say.
So they decided to go with the Oat Inferno ban and said this time obviously Muggle's going exactly the right that we went.
Bayt picking into Ancients, that is probably their biggest strength. They've won their last time in the 10 games on land on that map, so I'm not surprised to see it.
It was a classic good models map though back in the day, so it'll be interesting to see how that
you know rides out with CobraZera now on board
And the rest of it kind of playing on as we thought you know
I think both these teams like playing Mirage both these teams like playing the ancients
So you kind of figured those two maps would come out. It's a fun video in the sense that it's it's clear now
We've had new guests as to decide that it's clear that both of the lineups are thinking coming into this matchup
Yeah, we can sort of like play the game of not necessarily punish picking but picking a map that they may not feel comfortable
ball, but bait, picking ancient that's saying that's our best map. That's what we want to play.
We know the Mongols historically speaking have been a great team, but we don't care.
Same goes for the Mongols, right? Picking Mirage, that's a map they feel comfortable on,
and that's a map that Beta played an awful lot. As you can see as of late, not really that
successful, but comfortable with the map. So it's two teams who are heading into this video
with one, I guess, clear strategy, and that is to pick maps that is comfortable for
ourselves because we believe that we are the better team. And I think that's a great
approach to have if you have two teams who are somewhat evenly matched up.
What do the two different styles look like in the server when you put these two teams together?
Actually stylistically pretty similar. The very explosive teams, very aggressive teams,
teams that rely on a lot of fast-paced plays. I think models are even more relying on that now
and you're embedding a new player in Cobra's air or maybe the mid-grounding and understanding this
critical like default situations maybe haven't been totally fleshed out yet.
So in that regard you're going to see a lot of spicy early rounds in my opinion.
This is a team with Bates running out on the T-Sci where you're going to see a lot of
of, uh, Kenzie, Zora, Alex, and, and MPL doing these really heavy three man
middle setups.
And that's going to be, you know, them being tested by a guy like Blitz,
who normally is quite strong.
So that's going to be the big thing is just how well does this
Mongols lineup deal with that heavy mid pressure?
How do they deal with those really fast?
With that secutes, but then flip the script.
It's going to be the same with the other way around.
Mongols is a team that just likes to run a lot of fast set pieces at
you.
And, you know, this is a team that's going to get tested, you know,
by, uh, you know, a group of guys who are still very skilled.
Let's try this again.
I'm going to bring Launders and Scorny back.
We have to.
We have to pump.
You have to learn to get along with your coworkers.
Same, guys.
I love Jacob.
Nothing has changed about that.
You just, you know, you just got a weird way of showing it.
That's all.
I feel like I could picture Jacob at the Winter Olympics.
Me too.
What sport would he be doing, though, Launders?
Maybe curling.
I'd be playing curling and cheering like Canada.
There we go.
Oh, hey.
Oh, no, no, no.
Why don't you shut up, buddy?
I think I mean they don't have bicycles yet at the Winter Olympics
I feel like cross-country skiing would be your thing
It's like running on that hill like that one
Those are bobsleds at the Winter Olympics
That's a two-piece bobsledder, maybe
Skeleton, he did skeleton, right?
What is the one where they lie on the stomach on the little cinema?
Is that skeleton? I could see you doing that
Hit first into a pile of snow
No, I don't know
Or a wall
No, I don't know
One of the two, whatever we prefer on the day
What do you think of this matchup between Bate and Mongols, seen as we've got Dust and
Pimped away in on it?
I think Mongols are going to spank in this game.
I think the Bates are, yeah, I'm ready for the Mongols' comeback, so now that I've seen
a couple of good maps from CobraZera, I really think that he's kind of finding his groove
and I'm looking forward to that in this game.
That's what I think.
I think it'll be a bit more even than that.
I think both CobraZera and Sizi were just like good and not perfect yet, and I think if they're
getting thrown into really high responsibility positions as we get into this game, then I
think it's natural that they're going to have good maps and they're going to have rough
ones.
So we'll certainly see.
It is said that Senzu is a position, and Mongols have proved time and time again
they know how to slot in new players.
But we're talking about Sizi coming in from Team Spirit Academy, and that has got a good
track record there of developing talent as well.
It's safe to say he has impressed, and he's already off into the pistol with the 9-10 headshot,
so Mongol's into the 3-V-5.
Blitz, it's escaping him.
Yeah, Sizi just trying to set up Alex to find the kill off the box, and sure enough,
that one's secured.
So, Cobra-Sera.
A little to be desired in this one, five kills for Bates, and, well, Mongols, they, hmm,
seemingly just got spanked.
There's still time for you.
Of course.
You know, this could still easily be 13-1, so, yeah, but like, I mean, two maps, they
both like, two teams that are, one's replacing an AWPer, one's replacing a Star Hybrid, whatever
you want to call Senzu.
It's kind of like, they're kind of similar, right?
I mean, yeah, Mongols are more established
as a higher-ranked team overall, that's for sure.
But they were still in a position
where they could lose to a team like Bait on a good day,
because Bait are impressive.
So, Bait, just like, you know, foot
or some of the other lineups that are brand new
are still impressive, scary to see, or run teams.
It's easy to be pretty resilient
with their roster plays, though.
Bomb is like, yeah, I was scared for a second because that was going to get tested fully
because bomb's just floating outside the middle on its own.
Now Alex is going to join up with the mid-play, so they've eluded the MZeno push around through
a main, or have they?
It actually doubles back.
Alex is clearing it a second time.
This is still the bomb floating in elbow alone.
I really thought it was going to group up, but now MZeno is going to get this
back to a flank.
Bomb dropped.
Easy.
They're gonna run back and go get this. MPL Scott so low though. He gets peeked again. He's dead
Careful now
Trying to make it happen takes a little more damage still hanging on
We get blitz down in the T spawn. It's crazy MPL facing forward in elbow when he needs to bring the bomb backwards and to die
He is still sticking around. He is still trying to peek even deeper. They're worried about some kind of a talk mid-play
B players trying to split this different slightly red room peek will eventually come through from Cobra Zera
I mean these are everywhere around them.
They are understandably scared.
A late elbow peek again for Enzenio.
He's not dead though.
But he doesn't land any of those bullets.
That one will connect.
Bombs drop once more and this whole time's allowed Blitz
to now get down to the bottom of the ramp double doors.
He finds the MP9 kill.
We've got 15 seconds and that bomb's got to be picked up by essential.
He doubles back around but it's going to come down to the absolute limit
and he doesn't believe in it.
The Mongols with the force by victory.
that bomb seemingly wasting a ton of time bottom mid.
I think that NPL, as much as that was scary, that MZenio could have peeked,
basically made that as possible as he could for Mongols to ruin the round.
I feel like NPL needed to get his teammate out of the cave,
to escort him back up the cave as soon as possible,
clasp his hands and pray that no one was going to peek,
keep that bomb facing towards the bomb site, not towards elbow,
and just get out of it, because there's a huge error.
I mean, it was a great play for Mimzinho to come through a flank right here, but the amount of chances he got to basically get the kill in in the end, it was only a matter of time.
Forceback out of bait features an AK on one.
Take over lane control, but...
You can see Galil AK-47 here between Tecno and Blitz.
They'll be happy about those freebies and Bader happy about this open space top ramp.
Nobody really testing the limits of it.
And so this deep angle is going to get popped out, one AK finds its victim, hits the ground,
second one for the A4, and the flashbangs frazzle this back of Bate players, but the
kill's not going to be able to find the multi-kill.
And so now M4 picked up, MPL blindside, Blitz into the 1v2 as bomb is planted, and
This is the Mongols fumbling a chance to convert or at least it goes late. Sorry.
Blade Blitz goes for the spam, maybe, but no.
He still has the element of surprise.
He's got a kit and he's got a smoke grenade as well.
If you wanted to block off one side.
Oh, and PL gobbles back and executes him.
But it is bait to get right back on track with a lot of free space top ramp.
Yeah, some people have been playing with that a little bit.
And if they come in just not scared of the Mongol, I feel like that's going to be really key for them to pull out these winds.
It's going to be the same style of T side play that we're going to see from them when we switch over.
Nobody out middle here for Blitz to find.
Flash and A main is going to have the mongoes scratching their heads as to whether they need
to peel away from the bottom of middle instead just try to take lane control in the meantime.
Hearing all of this stomping is essential so we start to get an active bait move
towards the A site where there is enough time for the Mongols to get into position.
That M4 is still in Blitz's hand sitting around Red Room so it's not quite where it needs to be.
It's an instant headshot out from Sizi.
MCGOS 5-7 though finding A victim singular.
KENZIS OR THE LIONUTE!
Wow! Blitz comes through, he forces the team kill from Sizi, finds two frags on his own but they jumble up in the crosshair
And we go back and forth four rounds in a row.
This is the chaotic gameplay that I was really expecting.
I mean, great shots in.
I don't know how that kill went down outside of B,
but it all mattered right here between the team kill
to spray down the entry.
And even if they don't want to play
scarecrows to the Mongols, one thing Mongols are so good
doing is like keeping their playstyle no matter what happens to them.
Staying aggressive at all costs.
Ooh, a little bit of pressure on 9-times.
You get more than one kill because the site is a little bit open.
Smoke's coming in to the top of Donut.
Flash is interrupted.
You can set the fire site ablaze.
They take positioning into the deep of the site.
This is the fake plant once, and kills come out through the spam out of the mongols, flexing
the gun advantage, and the bombs just panic rotate back into A main.
It's a slaughter down.
The mongols are the first to establish back-to-backs.
I love that, man.
I mean, spamming the top donut smoke, there's just so many angles.
You can cover almost the entire plant zone, just from behind that smoke, off of memory,
of audible from the plant going down and putting lots of pressure with your bullets is the
same as when you're taking Mirage and you're behind a jungle smoke on CT side.
You should be going for those kills constantly.
You shouldn't just be waiting for the bomb plant to go for a retake.
Oh, that's also very possible.
No investment at all here from B.
He's gonna lock this one up pretty quick, massacre outside of the B site for the Mongols.
And there's a bit of an affinity right now for Mongols to go for fights, right?
They're gonna jump onto that A bomb site with all the spam to make sure that there's no free space for bait this time,
throwing themselves to just ensure that rounds go down smooth.
It's probably why they persist so well with the, you know, no matter who's playing on their team,
because they just, they don't change. They just, you know, install a new guy.
uh... is a here's a system
here's the style here's the personality
listen tomorrow
listen to blitz
and you're gonna be fun
don't grow ego
that's a big as well for the models
i don't know it just feels that way
in with a couple of kills
full rifle
nice and easy
the way he slashes down at the ramp and look at him go
Yet again, just suffocating these attempts from bait to get out into mid to get out into lane.
Finding fights at the choke points right now is the Mongols' motto.
And you've got Kensi's or pinned in bottom middle bomb possession here by Alex,
but smoked off since the get-go, since his two teammates died in front of him.
And so this is going to be the 5-2 lead out of the Mongols as they yet again just charge headstrong into these early fights.
Galloping their way to victory so far here on ancient
Alex taken down to 14 health so his odds of the clutch go low but the flashbang
Okay, low odds but not impossible odds
Three kills into this one versus four he tries to fake that rotate out and it looks like 910 bites
And he's like please why why 910 is asking? I
I have an AWP. I don't want to be in this 1v1.
He's looking to cut off Alex in the past coming back to A, but that never happened.
9-10 could be wrapping around A depending on where he thinks the timing's at, but he doesn't believe it.
Now he realizes that he's been tricked.
This gives Alex a great chance to actually put this clutch together.
He's going to have carte blanche on this site.
Will he read that 9-10 is coming back through page?
That's his first option he wants to cover. He's going to come back and check this surely.
Second too far goes for the deep red peek.
He said, just don't let it be a USB headshot.
That's all he's thinking.
910's not wasting a lot of time, but 14 bullets, or rather 14 health.
This is not a lot for Alex to work with.
910's thinking ramp instead, and he's nailed it!
Oh, man.
Unbelievable, Alex!
Flash over the doorway to truly set that up.
Believe from the get-go, despite help disadvantage.
That's actually incredible.
Unlikely but not impossible.
We're off one on four here from Alex a 14 health 1v3
Beautiful
While we can sit here and bask in his glory there is still a problem at the starts of these rounds in that the Mongols are
This is the spirit I wish Liquid had. Can I just say?
There's a lot of things I wish Liquid had. You know, but like just a just a belief I swear
I mean they can win a good round. They can lose a bad round, but then the next round I want the same guys
Like that's what we're getting out of Mongols and they they're never out of it
They keep they stick to what they know works for them. Yeah, they're not afraid to be aggressive
It's okay to lose your game of counter strike, but it's not okay to lose your identity in
the process.
I think there's two teams that can hang on to that.
They're waiting for the Mongols move, and here it comes from Blitz.
He wins this duel though, NPL trying to step into that one with the Galil gets bested.
Still a slight edge in the rifles here, the way of the Mongols, and they seem confident
to exploit that.
Hopper looking both directions, Sizi trying to fight a chance to leave a mark on this
round.
As the Mongols add another layer of defense to the B site, do anybody step into the crosshairs?
Yeah, they'll step in it and past it.
Slick move to go beyond the AWP.
Techno off angles, gonna catch Kenzie Zorba's headshot, but essential trades back pretty swiftly.
There's a world where bait can in the final 30 seconds still find footing inside of B.
Bombs gonna have to cross, Blitz beautiful timing on the challenge there.
does lose his teammate, and Alex on the brink of a multi-frag cut down.
And now Sizi's clutch queued up, doesn't fire off into place,
peels off the short side instead, but is met by his counterpart on the re-aggression long.
And that is the Mongols right back to winning ways.
It's been a great match so far.
Lots of great shots, very quick pace.
And we're seeing some frustration here.
I'm not sure if MPL was actually talking, or if he was just kind of letting some steam off.
I always enjoy when Blitz starts to feel like he's taking over a game.
Yeah, I mean, I think if Mongols, if they're the best in the world at one thing,
it's that they will literally never change up on being aggressive no matter how bad a game gets.
And then they don't ever mentally look like, oh, we're foolish for keeping,
for continuing to continuously try.
They will keep betting on black, keep betting on black,
keep betting on black until it works.
And every time a team tries to go toe-to-toe with them
in that regard, they always give up first.
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I guess we need a challenge from Alex, Nets the nothing.
So rough round to lose.
MPL has been around the world and back. Was that the B doors?
Joins up A main, just as it's time to go back the other direction again, so...
They really can't find any footing in this round. They don't have the tools to do it.
Central decides, I'm walking all the time in the world and around like this for Bate.
Hoping somebody from the Mongols makes a mistake, but right now three players strong on B.
Another off angle from Techno, just keeping it fresh, right?
That's always fun things about Techno inside of the cave.
It's not a very wide room, but just slight adjustments make that challenge from the
T sides half of cave all the more difficult than he is a guy that'll just thrive in all these small little differences
Especially here versus those pistols 6-3 lead for the Mongols off of an easy conversion
Guns back in hand for base for round 10
Fast catch of Blitz out middle, folly of utility to come with it and it's gonna be 9-10 to find
the trade frag back.
Kensis were not allowed to get up close on to donut just yet.
That's pretty huge, but no, they'll keep pressing on.
Don't mind that, but 9-10 he's done reloading.
Oh!
And there's a collact.
Stepping forward into the AWP, a dangerous game, especially when you both decide to
take the same angle.
We're actually counting his off shots, weren't they yep, but just enough time to get that mag back in
His first peek as they await that challenge, but he skewers to
Just like that a gun round for bait falling flat once more and that is off of a five versus four as well
It's gonna catch timing on Cobra's era
or the flash deep inside of B, we get this rumbling of Mongols coming over.
Okay, the sexual continues to fight on, and two is always going to end up finding.
So space here for Alex to go into another critical clutch.
They're going to slightly back through donut, hoping they don't have the utility to make
this happen.
Right.
But they do have a smoke for donut.
So it's not going to be that easy here for Alex, especially with where the bombs planted.
Kind of comes down to if they read this right.
Xenio could be smoking main in this position.
Now he's going to just go for the bomb.
Okay.
Insta head shot out for Alex, 9-10 with an AWP on the angle.
Trying to bring it closer, closer and closer, and gets all he needs.
A bit of a shoulder.
And the beauty of 9-10 in those moments, he goes a quad kill on the round.
He fuses with time because MZenio made sure to bring the only kit over from the B site
towards this.
Yeah, that's actually a very nervous moment for at 9-10, another spot where he's like,
oh no, I've got the AWP in the 1v1.
A huge moment from 9-10, I mean once you've got that collateral shot earlier in the round,
what's the 1v1 to close in?
Sure.
Guns once more for bait.
Full loss bonus in effect for the T side.
3-1 off round wins and a bomb currently dropped over towards Swamp.
They sit outside of the doors.
Last player in is going to pick it up in Alex and they're going to try to take ramp timing
in the meantime and that timing works wonderfully.
Once again, we've got bait able to test the waters by just rocking up the ramp.
Challenge there for Blitz, and he'll go down with just the one.
Man advantage, but low health.
Trying to test in front of the smoke already, and then 9-10 still within the mix of it all.
And this short push here from Mzeno just can't quite come around the smoke just yet.
But once this starts to fade, Alex, yeah, done for,
and so Cape control, all that Sissy's gonna have to work with.
Galil vs. 2, and 9-10 is not missing off shot.
Seriously.
That is the Mongols with an eighth CT round win after a frazzled defense just because Bake come charging up that ramp with confidence once again.
No, 9-10 can definitely be streaky and when he's, you know, off he's shooting too quickly on shoulder peaks and missing or just not hitting the fundamentally more easy shot.
But if they like today it's everything and then the hot ones. So that's a quick kill.
This is a quick eight for the Mongols
And despite the X factor that they have shown in a couple of rounds here there's only three in total could have been a total shut down
Carpuling through the sky
I mean, I don't think even blew that open. He didn't I was just straight up through the red room last time he popped it open
gets the kill this time. I mean I don't know what that shot was from 9-10 but he's coming
back for another one and Sizzy's just trying to get out through donut. Sizzy can go forward
to lurk but they can also wrap this bomb around to A. It kind of depends if he can get lodged
into a nice outpost on the site. So maybe they can start to throw a fake attack in
Aw, rotate a little too far, but he hasn't pushed yet.
The Mongols just remain more active.
Try to be a bit too cautious, perhaps, in the face of this constant aggression.
9-10 slips in with another op shot, up to a 14 and 6 CT side.
And he will not miss a single shot in any of these sequences.
Don't think he ever missed.
beautiful half out of 9-10, beautiful half out of the Mongols, a little back and forth at the beginning with the four spies
But they're the first to find consistency and they never really let go once they found it.
No, they were crushing again. They never gave up on the aggression. They kind of just ignored the one before that Alex put together
They ignored the pistol round where they got run over towards the A site
Really, I think it's their true strength
And when you look at them, they just seem completely out of place.
They don't look like they just were running at every single fight in this entire house.
Also helps that 9-10s just like collecting a 2k every round, every round, no matter what.
9-10 finishes that half with four multi-kills, a 1vx.
It's crazy to think that of the three rounds that Bait have on the scoreboard, two of those
are clutches.
Obviously Alex with the masterful 1v4, but Bait barely in that T-side.
Their map pick, by the way.
Let's see if the T side pistol can very quickly put a bow on this matchup for the Mongols,
as far as Ancient is concerned.
The most successful Asian team in Counter-Strike history, trying to get back to the top.
After having to deal with one of the most shocking roster moves,
uh-oh, then CobraZera catching an easy kill to essential has cracked open the A site.
Despite what was an opening Bateman advantage, NPL is going to collect another one,
and every time they find a kill it goes back pretty swiftly.
CT lane challenge, no? That one's going to come through well enough.
So, it is Bait with a little more runway here once we switch sides.
Like Bait are putting significant counter pressure, they're trying to play the same game.
The same style as CS and sometimes they make it look like they're built for it for sure. Both pistols going their way
But uh the key is gonna be finding a diversion. Could do that in the first half
one thing the next generation has its aim that's for sure
for this reload.
Yep.
He goes for another back dump.
They're ready to swing into it.
Oh, you can see that.
Riding was on the wall.
Yeah, seriously.
Cobra's there with two Desert Eagle kills.
Now this bottom ramp challenge is coming through
and the fact that they got the bomb stuck,
that's one thing.
But now Alex is stuck within this smoke.
Couldn't fall in back, I think.
You know, it doesn't wanna go too far forward.
He waits long enough.
He'll have a chance to flank this.
The bomb started to feel like it needs to go
wrap back around and Alex is going to test it over there from behind the cover
draws them all the way downwards and Mzeno gives the coverage needed so we go
man advantage for the Mongols. It was a 2k from him on the ramp maybe they make
this an A-play instead. He just got it from the corner, he heard it.
Essential's gonna jump on it. 40 seconds to still try to figure this out.
I mean it's been cost-effective already. It's still possible they've taken it
over towards A, so I'm not sure if Bait can feel super comfortable about sitting here.
Like we've got Kensie's ore thinking about it, it's going to go for a split the difference.
You're going to give up the bomb site, let a central push down around.
All the way down, and he leaves to A, this bomb plant comes down for sure, and if it
keeps open entirely, they want to take a small risk here, 10 seconds.
must go down now but it's actually because you have it and
yeah just make sure you okay yeah
they're gonna charge it down and he's missed his timing
well then sent the old plain and a back and around and
boiling it down to the perfect amount of time yeah but it's maybe clearing one
too many things that much there
little too mustard on that hot dog yeah a little bit too much mustard on that
Damn, chess player is thinking too many steps ahead.
Still, Mongols gonna be happy with how much damage they got out of it.
Maybe he just couldn't believe that the site was open.
Yeah, right?
What's the hell of a move for a sentient to go down the ramp, back around through cave?
It opened the timing that the Mongols found, but he also wraps it in closes, so...
I can't quite question it when it works.
Mongol's banking on two Desert Eagles this round between Blitz and Mzigno.
Just because Sizi is alone on A right now, I do have a bit of worry.
Desert Eagle headshot opens up the bombsite and we could find the Mongols with a plant
as we'll get that bait scrambled through donut no doubt.
They are far from donut here.
Sizi sees the shadows.
gonna start bringing us the mid players but it's sure enough the Desert Eagle kill
Etsy's horse M4 isn't able to go wide into this just yet Mxeno's trying to get the cover of the box gone down
his mags empty the spast a main flank already into position and now NPL can
really start to open up this retake but Mxeno's found another one at least
bomb plant and two Eagle kills not half bad. Wits missing a chance to add any to the tallies.
Gonna drop it forward and it will be majority alive for bait but another round where the Mongols
make a lot happen with little always keep it it's scary no matter what the kind
I mean literally down to Glock still bait are enduring trying to close the gap
a little bit we're on pace for a total embarrassment if they couldn't pick up
the second pistol couldn't convert and they have done that
Everyone at or above 10 kills in the mongol, lots of contributors.
Off battle, one by 9-10.
One way street right there.
It's had to wait a few rounds to get it in hand, but now the 79th of the corner is going to get traded after just the one.
Fast kick swing costly.
Obrazer has double kill collected already.
Perfect flash dodge.
Kensi Zor whittled down to 30 off the nades.
And he'll lose the duel to MZeno at the health disadvantage.
So the moment guns are in hand here for the Mongols,
we are right back to reality.
Yeah, right when you get excited.
You get two rounds and then boom.
The Mongols act like they're totally unscathed.
You know, it's like in the UFC.
You get your body worked, you get leg kicked too many times, you start to slow down and then you don't have the power to go shoot for takedowns.
It's as if the Mongols, they ignore all that.
Unless you go for the killing blow right away, which you can in Counter Strike, they just pretend like there are no past losses behind them.
They don't bring any baggage forward into the next round.
They don't bleed, they don't embridge, they just ignore.
I'm sure on the receiving end of it, it kind of feels barbaric, you know, unrelenting in
a lot of ways to have to handle the likes of the Mongols.
The best teams in the world can kind of not believe it sometimes with how much, especially
on the come up, right?
Now we know the Mongols, but back when they were just breaking out, it was sort
Like how how are you and who are you to do this to the world's very best?
But now they are one of the best and it's just a matter of tapping back into it
Versus challengers like bait who are trying to also crack through in the you know footsteps with the Mongols
It could just be such a suffocating style of counter-shock to have to go up against surely
It is still guns and hand for bait so we shouldn't write them off
They've got the tools for the job, but they've lost Red Room already.
CobraZera sits outside of it.
There's not really any players on the Mongols struggling.
CobraZera's been finding his impact in the middle of the pack,
coming through with these helping hands and sight-takes.
Such an enormous gap.
I always get so nervous for teams that leave Window open this long.
It's gonna be a lurk in place or just like,
lodging in to hold off the rotations,
and as soon as they get nervous,
You want to cross by?
Oh, that can get dangerous.
Somehow 9-10 after seeing the op shot doesn't get into the spot soon enough.
And the total reserve will also let this one die.
Okay.
Thought that was gonna be a tough fight for him.
I don't know how either of those things happen.
I thought he was watching it the whole time.
I thought 9-10 after the op shoots,
repeaking seemed crazy and he still got the kill.
Good lineup for MPL made easy by the smoke
and this round for bait is looking flawless.
It's a bit of a disaster for the Mongols for sure.
Now unpack that one, would you?
Um, not much more to add to that.
That was two very clear mistakes, especially just like the, I don't know what happened
with 910.
He just went so wide, he was heading to shoot, but after Sizi shoots the first time,
910 was just like very late to get on the line.
Yeah, he's peeking that angle that wide with a NATO.
He deserves to die, no?
I mean, maybe he had a NATO before.
OK.
Yeah.
I've got a bunch of Columbus capsules.
Oh, I'm sitting on a ton of them.
Hot shot.
I just love those stinkers.
I thought I got stolen last year.
No, because it was in a container.
Oh, a container.
Yeah, that's the only stuff I got left.
Keep your valuables in a safe, kids.
So it's tragic. I don't know why I'm laughing.
That's great buddy.
Out of middle, Kogucera on a path and eating flashes the entire time.
So, Ascentfield's gonna find him and Blitz.
With the 5v3 and bomb dropped at the bottom of middle, bait CT side.
Start to find some legs to stand on.
pistol to the conversion to just making sure that the Mongols first gun round is nothing but a one-off
And now we're on the break of a bought-out economy here for the Mongols. Oh game is truly on unless the Mongols can recover somehow
It was to be five
Starts with a crazy kill
Still seems like doesn't
Not to worry about that shot through the foster for a big
And now are you for himself here off the HE?
9-10 is just petrified, but really it's this angle here as he walks in the middle behind
the boxes.
Oh my goodness, he's on it.
My lord.
Ready for the peek off key?
He's the flashbang.
That's a better way to deal with 9-10 just toppling while he's blind and closing this
gap quite quickly baits CT side delivering.
We've got our interest now as it's down to a two round lead, 10 to 8.
Full A plate's about to take place, but I mean CT's are stocked up for this.
I think it's Kenzie Zora's down to 39 health, and it's going to be a focal point of the
attack.
Now he's looking to get, not, he's looking to go unclear.
They won't have them all A for single.
He just has to times peak properly and he'll be fine.
Smokes come over top, but still looks to be like Sizi's ahead of it as well.
So he's going to serve up the distraction for Tenzi so to strike.
And Sizi collects his one and second.
Semi-Tenzi Desert Eagle will also respond.
Ooh, nice A damage.
You've got two of the three remaining CTs softened up.
You've got two rifles in their hand now as well.
They're going to ignore the bomb for the time being.
It's not even picked up in the process.
But there it is, this forward position from MPL to catch Emsinho off guard.
I think they were right. If they tried the plant, they would've just got ran at.
There's no chance.
So you're just kind of hoping to give you some space,
but as they trickle out through the temple, that is where 9-10 gets caught off guard,
and it is bait to close that gap now to a single round the difference.
Very, very impressive.
And again, even though they won both pistols, they've only converted one.
So they've truly made an impressive run run at this
Got a couple moments from co-bizarre a couple moments from Sizi in this game as well
Watching the new kids on the block in this head-to-head
One that felt like a stop in the first half 93 CT side for the Mongols has just dried up since they've taken to the attack
We'll be adamant about getting out middle, but there's a lot of presence here.
Two players up in the red room, a set of helping hands from Donut, soon enough.
It's all a ruse though.
They're working on speedplay.
They're making it feel like an A-split's coming, or a cat lurks coming in through
the window by neither of those options.
Oof, gets past.
The smoke fade.
CTs don't quite take that challenge.
That could have caught CobraZera off guard on the climb up.
I like a re-clear here from Bay pushing out a donut.
I know they need a little bit more info.
He's waiting though, just in case there is a climb up, you see them kinda checking it
every once in a while, but now this nice boost from NPL halfway up the wall,
and Xenio doubles back once more, and NPL's already tucked into the corner.
They throw all their utility, he's gonna strike the back's turn, and PL shooting gallery!
He's managing two of the three kills, but still Techno with a double as he goes back and forth to that one.
Bob's gonna be caught outside of the doors, but Techno still comes through a multi-kill, much needed.
And he'll run to A this time around, right?
Wait, the Bob is chilling?
What's going on? Why is Techno the one running over here?
They're trying to bait the rotation, but the Bob's coming in first.
Oh, and this is the shot, Sizzy.
That was there was 10 seconds left in that round when Sissy peeks into cave you were banking on selling that fake with a frag grenade
That was all kinds of risky
Sissy a few inches away from just winning off that shot alone
Having an easy fall back didn't know it of course so far away from even hearing that grenade
They will burn their final time out here.
Will it be just another one off?
So far, that's all this T-Sides been able to secure.
It feels like we're gonna get an A main fight early on with Kensi Zor trying to get into the corner, but CobraZera right here...
About to clear out Galil crouches, and that's gonna get Kensi Zor's crosshair off the mark.
Quick scramble out of NPL to try to come and join, but he doesn't actually dedicate himself to the A site just yet, still trying to keep eyes on mid in the meantime.
Now go to Smoke grenades to create more uncertainty for Bait to have to handle.
Every round they do this. They use consistently.
These are control mates. They're just trying to make it so you've got to watch them, essentially, so just slow things down.
But if this one goes back to B, these cave players, they haven't moved the muscle since the beginning.
Blitz and Mzeno tiptoeing in to try to clear...
Ah, he wasn't ready!
And they're just going to clear that out. That's even a team kill here for Blitz.
So giving a gift back over to B, otherwise 5v2.
NPL is going to drop with nothing to show for it.
And Mongols secure a 12th off of a tiptoe forward cave clear.
Just looking at the angle that was being held there.
You saw he was going to clear before the trade came in.
in so the angle was too depressed it needs to be a slight bit deeper. And crossfires are you know
fundamentally speaking the main advantage of a CT side is whenever you can use them
because you get the first kill the second kill is even easier but if you allow that to take
place one person to walk into a crossfire and isolate a fight well there is no point in it.
It's really textbook clears here for the Mongols and it all starts to go poorly once we get
that Cobra Zera with a little crouch.
5v4 held on to strong by the Mongols.
Three map points.
The first half was dominant, losing second pistol, gave a little runway for bait,
They were able to cool Mongols off after winning their first gun round.
Things have felt good, but now it could be...
Sprint to the finish.
Alex has other ideas.
Playing with the only M4 on the round now for bait.
We've already got this close red roof control for the Mongols.
And the SMG is not gonna be enough to stop this.
Nor will the pistol.
Sissi dealt with AK on the flight.
No tapping away.
Ascentiol gets there.
9-10. Does he clear down beneath? Of course.
Again, he gets that tight snap down.
And it's the bomb spotted in the process, but MCNEO is going to go deep and clear out B.
There's no reason for 9-10 to take me down.
Mongols 13-9, a strong finish with three rounds in a row to close it.
It felt like a guarantee after that dominant CT half takes them a little while, but they'll get there.
So if you tuned in at halftime, there was a very good chance that you would have lifted that scoreline and thought,
wow, Mongols is just going to run away with this.
In comparison to what we see now, so I think a little bit of credit to Bates in the second half for the comeback.
A little bit of credit, yeah? I think...
Just a little bit. Just give him a little bit now.
He really gave him a little bit of credit.
It is, and was what I'd like to describe as cosmetic comeback, you know, there are moments, you know, where I think,
okay, if Bates, if you continue this, then, yeah, you can make this game competitive,
but they didn't give themselves enough of a leeway after the first half, and
even the first half, I feel like they got more out of that than they probably should have.
Alex had that fantastic 1v4 clutch early on in the game.
You think to yourself, okay, that's the chance for Bait to get into it, to maybe step or something,
but without that, to be honest, it was just the Muggles really annihilating them in the first half.
So, yes, scoreline a bit deceiving in a sense. I think the Muggles were by far the better team right here.
They allowed Bait back into the game, allowed a bit of excitement, but I don't know what he does.
I was never worried on behalf of the Muggles.
The worst case, it would have been slightly closer. The Muggles would have wanted regards.
Yeah, I think so too. I mean, I think just how down they were in the first half
they could take the pace at middle. Mountain was being able to be very
dynamic with the off kind of all over the place, finding his picks as well.
They're just really out in front, then you know they get the hot start in the
second half and you feel like okay, like they should be kind of feasting this
one together to put it away once they get guns going. But you know, like you
said, the housecuff is a nice one and all that jazz, but in the end
Bate just couldn't hold on. You know, once mom and sister are coming back
and they kind of settle into the game, they're able to, you know, stamp it
before I got a little bit too dangerous. I think if bait gets like 10 rounds all of a sudden you're
like okay well hold on we might be seeing it over time here or something like that but
never got quite that dangerous but it's close. I suppose it is defined by the fact that bait
lacks the experience at these tournaments on land at this level right so this is a lineup that
needs more reps under the bolts maybe? Yeah maybe but maybe also just a fair rip and sensation
of where that right now you know I think we described it coming into the game the
The Morguls and Bait are facing the same similarities in where they're at in terms of rebuilding their line-up.
Rebuilding a bit of a presence in the VS ranking.
The Morguls obviously to a higher degree, they've been placed high, being a top five team for the vast majority of 20-25,
whereas Bait established himself as a top 10, top 15 when they were at the best.
Both of them have been doing roster changes, both of them in a bit of a struggle some period.
But when you put the two teams up against each other and you say they're in similar positions,
models and where they came from, where their flaw is that
is much, much higher than Bait.
So if anything, I'd say we got what we expected right here.
You know, a somewhat competitive game,
but the better team that was supposed to win one up.
Yeah, that's kind of what happens when you do have a team
that comes in that is the heavy favorite,
and they have a shared map with their opponent.
Right, you know, in the ones since you had maybe
the underdog at least feels like,
okay, at least we're gonna play some apps
we're comfortable on that we have a lot of reps on.
But now you're gonna be in test at the highest
limit possible because you're getting to play,
again, the favorite team who also feels the most
comfortable when there's something in situations like this one.
And you can very clearly see it.
One of the things I really like that Mongols has kind of done
is they haven't necessarily thrown Cobra all the way
into the fire, if that makes sense.
Sinsu was really the tip of the spear of this team a lot.
Blitz was more of like an aggressive worker.
They really kind of relied on him and Miss Ino
to be kind of the entryman where you're seeing Blitz
take a little bit more on his shoulders now.
They're not making Cobra go in first.
They're not making him have to be a true entry.
They're giving him a little bit more space to be in the pocket
and kind of get a little bit more comfortable with his
trade-fragging things that nature.
So there's definitely been a very, you know,
kind of noticeable adjustment in that regard
that Blitz is kind of taking a little bit more responsibility
being that point then.
We saw that in this game as one of the one-two punishment
that almost is 9-10 and Blitz together, you know,
both aggressive, both really hitting the mark right here.
9-10 even more so in the second half as well.
When it was needed on the two-side for them
to get over the finish line, you see right here,
he was the spearhead of some of the entries.
He was the guy closing out some of the rounds as well,
clutching it out.
So in terms of 9-10, I think he was brought up,
you know, coming into this game as well,
that when Senzu is no longer part of the Muggles,
someone else will have to pick up the reins,
someone else will have to step it up a little bit.
Ninten have not been able to do that.
You know, as of recently, he's been okay,
he's been average, he's been doing a decent job,
but not better than before.
And I guess that's the progression we want to see
from a player like Ninten.
If we ever were to get back to our conversation
when we put the Muggles in, you know,
playoff contention, there definitely are at a tournament
like this, but you know,
a team that is going into a semi-final,
maybe even a final, then Ninten has to be
that spearhead in isolation is just one map but it's a good sign that he's
seemingly starting to ramp up a little bit again. What happens now when we move
on to Mirage obviously the Mongols map pick are we expecting much of the same
from them? It would be nice to say yes I expect the Mongols to win outright right
here I still think we're gonna get a competitive map I think Bate is
Bate is not a bad team you know we made the trailer as not being you know
competitive enough in order to be that team like the Mongols they are a
decent team I think Mirage is a map they played a lot they also lose it a
But some of those games are competitive, so I wouldn't necessarily expect the game not to be a bit back and forth.
I don't see the Mongols as being a team that is playing well right now in terms of, you know, outright winning without leaving any doubt.
But if you ask me who's going to win the map, I'm going to say the Mongols nine out of ten times.
It's just a question of how are we going to get a slobbernock, you know, where it's going to be a fistfight back and forth,
which Mirage as a lay-out often, you know, kind of invites to.
Or is it going to be the Mongols taking charge of the game and make me a bit more clean than with Orange?
Yeah, I think that's a good way to put it.
I mean, I think for me, it's just
that Mongols are going to be a little bit deeper on this map.
I think Baylor are team there.
Look at them reliant when they're going
to be attacking to just go for the ace at pieces,
go for the faster plays.
And then defensively, it's about Sissy
trying to figure out, where should I
be with this AWP at the start of the rounds?
Where should I be rotating in the middle of the round?
This is a map where dynamic defensive opting is so crucial.
And it's all about decision making
or maybe where your coach or in-game leaders putting you
to see if you can be someone who is going
be able to disturb a models team who's very comfortable playing the control.
They're very comfortable going for their own faster pace plays.
Again, they're putting Cobras there in a position where, you know,
he's not having to be necessarily the point man.
They're letting him just kind of trade frag and things that nature.
Again, you're seeing Blitz take on more responsibilities as an entryman.
And so I've been seeing a lot of good things on a model.
So this is a classic models map for one.
This is always one of their best maps at the core of the team.
And it hasn't really dropped off that much since you left.
I, this is one of the maps they've kind of retained in my opinion,
still showing an ability to be dangerous on this map.
So, if anything, I think this map could be even worse to nature, in my opinion.
Maybe. Maybe. I will say, you know, for Bade, we've seen them play Mirage once already in this tournament.
A game that made them very competitive, and the one big note I had from that game was Sissy.
You know, that was the first time I saw him play it. That was the first time he put himself in the mage, and his AWP on Mirage was spectacular.
You know, very fast, very movable, you know, always all over the map.
You know, like to describe it as having an AWP, you know, that is calling out a spawn saying,
I'm gonna go B after this one. I'm gonna go A after this one. I'm gonna go middle
I'm gonna play take it for that matters
Well, he was changing his position every single round and to do that and sort of like dictate where you're going as a 16-year-old
That's a healthy sign. So if anything, I think a big win condition or let me rephrase that not a big win condition for bait
A big condition in terms of making the game competitive is CC doing the same thing
Why make sure that you're movable make sure you all over the map and first and foremost hit your shots
And speaking of newer faces really quickly. I think for Cobra's era
He's having to take on some new responsibilities defensively that I'm going to be very keen on keeping an eye on.
He was an anchor on his previous team on the B bomb side.
So you're not seeing a whole lot of action unless they're executing your sight.
Now he's having to play more of a rotator position because they want him to fill his shoes.
And so that's more responsibility, you know, tougher decision making.
They're going to be in the action more a little bit middle defensively.
And it's games like this one as well as again, they had against pain.
Well, this is the opportunity for Cobras area to really get his feet wet
and a little bit of a less pressure situation like you're not up against the big dogs.
Yeah, you're up against teams that are kind of in the top 15.
There's teams that can play you well,
but it's not a trial by fire like playing a vitality
or playing a inferior and things that nature.
And this is where hopefully you can kind of learn,
build some confidence and kind of better understand
where he fits in this team.
Do you think for Sizi right now,
this is the start of the audition
where a lot of the bigger teams may have an eye on him
purely just because as we've spoken about the off market
is slightly lacking at the moment.
So maybe it's an opportunity or let's see he's 16.
Let's kind of watch and see how this plays out.
I see what you're saying, it's just early in the process, I think for him, you know, establish yourself as becoming a prime member of Bait first and then you can always make the next progression into a better team, but you're right, you know, right now, there's not an obvious market, so to speak.
It's never been harder to find good ADVT players out there, so if you want to replace guys like, you know, Sun Peers, Broke and you name it, it's very hard to find someone, ultimate for that matter as well.
I feel like there's nothing we want to cut all all players from all teams.
It's just that right now you know there's never been a bit of time to be a battle because there's no one to be patient.
Really good point. I can't really crack it.
You're basically like not everyone's going to be a Molledoy.
When you go out and gamble and you're trying to pull up an offer for an obscurity and put them on the big stage
not all of them are going to turn out quite the way that the rookie of the year did last year
which is of course Molledoy who had that crazy you know coming of age story
in front of his home crowd at Astana and really tore it up from that point forward.
forward. Yeah, there's some other young operas out there like Gricks, you know,
who's over there at big. You got, you know, Clem, who was from the Academy
System at G2 is now playing on Made in Brazil. There's a couple of names out
there, but those are like irons in the fire. You're kind of waiting to see
if they're going to get hot or not, but we don't know yet. We don't know
if the flames are going to take too much out of whether or not they're
going to be, you know, really cooled off rather quickly and we're going to
see them fade away again. So you're right. It is a tough operas market right
now. You're either gambling or you're having to sit and just wait and
hold your cars and wait until someone truly comes through again. I think one
One of my biggest highlights last year was the Molodoy story, when obviously when Furia
signed him, how many people can go back on their social media and see some terrible point
that they made about what a mistake this was, and then to see him arrive at the Major and
yes granted, they didn't make it through to the finals, but being able to see him in
the playoffs of the Major and me just being like, you're the favorites, like Furia was
tagged.
It was such an incredible moment and I'm excited for this year to see at the Major's
what other magical moments we'll have. Obviously for Singapore the tickets are
going to go on sale soon so you'll be able to register for pre-sale and you
should probably do that because there's going to be one of those moments at the
end of the year and you could be there to witness it happen. Yeah I just found
out there's 11,000 kilometers to Singapore so if we got to bite that
dust we better get going. And you can in fact do it. You don't have to go
over the ocean. You have to go through like three very dangerous
countries pimp but it can be done. But it's quite fast enough maybe they
can't catch it with the missiles or whatever. But anyway, that's like a new challenge for
you. I mean, you're talking to Iron Man, you know, this is your moment.
Why is it Pimp Challenge? I'm thinking Dust. Imagine if you joined Pimp and you did the
ride. You meet him in Denmark and you ride to Singapore on a bike.
I feel like people get tired of waiting on me a lot.
I'll push you.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
It's like a whole content series that you have training Dust and getting him
to ride a bike all the way to Singapore with Pimp. I would pay money to see that.
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I'm going to start looking at some of the changes that are coming through on the maps and looking
at a new risk.
Do you like how middle can be played now?
Does it give you an advantage on CT?
For Anibis, I think it's great.
I can do like more early picks, for example, from that window, and I can have the control
either they are taking from like stairs, or they are taking from carpet side to Acer.
So if I see that, nobody holding them, drop guys can push or something, and we can do
flash pick in mid and the timing because I'm holding down and I'm really close to
pick mid.
It's also more opportunities for T side, so you can boost, for example, it's used
Abrura, like Xantara's life to boost a lot towards this window from water, so you have
opportunity to kill city guys who is rotating, you know, it's one more opportunity for T-Sci.
Right now, like when I play on T-Sci, it's very hard to take it very fast and you have
to wait for your teammates to group up somewhere and do something, and then I can take it all.
I think it helps a lot, because now the T's have to worry about one more thing in the mid.
It's easier for the T's to work that angle than going to the mid of the bridge and try to do something, you know?
And so it's definitely not a great from the CT perspective.
The fact that the T's now have to also use a molotov kind of instantly,
it removes a molotov that's gonna come end game later for the T side.
It can be helpful for the big guys, for example.
They're always getting molotov in a lot of places, so now you have to
take an account that one more molotov is gonna be used.
There's no gap on the bridge, so it makes it kind of easier for CTs to play aggressive on the bridge.
And also the gap between connection to the water, if the connector player is a K-flare,
and also playing aggressive into the water makes it easier for the CTs.
And also it's an opportunity for CTs to be behind so fast, you know.
Or flanking.
Yeah, flanking.
So for me, like A player, if you are stuck B, for example 3B, I just can block A, rotate to mid.
If I have mid control, I will be so fast behind him, so, and he will be so strong around B, you know?
I will just drop down and kill Kiggy.
So, but with these changes, you... our op-ro can be like in front of everyone,
if you have like a round to start with it, but now there is an auntie for it.
models, smokes, nades, so sometimes you are just wasting your health while you're making a move
and but overall overall is great, like when the teams are starting to
adapt something is getting much better so it will be in the future if the teams are playing
like a lot, we'll see like more different type of things.
It just felt like the Mongols were there to win it.
We switch over to their map pick of Mirage now Mohan
as the Mongols will be gunning for a 2-0 series.
And gunning really to kind of get their reputation back
as world beaters, I think.
Mm-hmm.
I think they kind of, the way they played
always feels like they believe it.
I have to say, there's got to be at least one guy
that can't overperform that comes onto the team, right?
Like Shirley eventually.
Brother, think of what they did in Budapest.
Yeah. I know.
I know.
If there was ever going to be a moment...
If the guys' control has got the quarter-finals.
Yeah, if there was ever going to be a moment where somebody joined that team and failed,
there was supposed to be control.
CobraZera, speaking of the new guys, right in with the opening kill towards this A site unraveling and their...
I'm trying to understand.
What?
Why did they find out that they're so ready for the role without ever how much time did they even get to play with him to find out that this is the guy?
Well, I think that's the beauty of how it goes down in Mongolia with like the really strong internet cafe culture, right?
It's like, I feel like everybody kind of knows one another when it comes to the Ulaanbaatar scene.
And so I mean I mean getting
And we're like getting over there ready for tier one or him being able to
Learn how to play into your one like surely not everyone there
Just like before they join the Mongols or whatever
It's prepared to play into your one because they don't have the they don't even have the like a team spirit Academy where right the coach is down there
It's no coach walking around in our cafe. I don't care what you tell me right now
I know there is no
Walking around internet cafe training the copers era of tomorrow right now, so yeah, you don't know that you bend it on the tar
I have not been to I think it's safe to say we have no clue. What's going on over there?
That's a fact, but all we do is appreciate what come. Oh
What comes out of the place?
Beautiful desert Eagle shot from NPL
Eesh, couple taps gonna welcome the wide swing from Kenzie, so Palm is able to trickle out through the apartments, but you're gonna have your hands full.
This is a 5v2 retake. Techno 4k and Politz tasked with a tough one. Double maids go into the market.
Look at that paper towel interrupted one of the trajectories of the frag grenade. That was weird. Physics and whatnot. Yeah, that's what I thought.
Now CT's come roaring towards the back door. There's a real chance of a lineup to that, Khalil. MP7 gets whittled down.
They've whittled down, Blitz is trying to dodge shots.
They don't have a kit for this, but they do have the time.
So they'll jump on it, and the force by out of bait works.
We skip a couple of protocols with that walk up catwalk
and bait strike all in time.
Little deagle shot through the smoke in the mid.
That definitely helps, for sure.
Mara is not impressed.
That's how he looks when they win, too, though.
True.
So you can't really.
We have no idea what's going on in the middle on the top.
You know, Mara used to stand, but more often.
That's how I think, maybe that's the secret is when he's impressed or not.
Playoffs? Ah, it's true.
You see, you get used to winning suddenly these kinds of games.
Maybe I can afford to sit down.
I'm gonna sit down. Ooh.
Up a bath.
Up a bath, have a seat.
PGL got the extra comfy chairs.
Now Baiter gonna convert off the back of it seemingly because you get yourself a bunch of free guns.
Two AKs and a Galil for free.
Don't mind if I do, says Baiting.
T.V.O. is gonna go ahead and spam that Tech 9 headshot through Smoke, and we've got the 910 Deagle under...
BOO!
Two kills into it from possession his, and plenty of time to make Bait sweat.
He is a bit of a monster today.
9-10 was a highlight reel back on ancient unbelievably quick off shots.
Kensies were making it happen though, yeah.
He's just pulling around with that knife too much.
Just goofing and gaffin' and laughing his way through it, but this is a serious affair.
Bait CT side kick starts off the force by and converts for the 2-1 start.
All these operas use the pillow.
James, Shiro, 9-10.
Yeah.
It's an epidemic.
The stream is map one. Nope. Map two. Map two? Yeah, map two. Oh my goodness, but when
well done, got smoked. You know the question about foot winning is one thing that foot
owning is what we now got.
Charles fall victim to yet another hot prospect in 2026. Yeah, it's crazy how this tournament
That's 9 out of the 10 top teams and yet all these prospects are actually what we really need to be watching for.
Yeah, it's like usually an event like this, it's because some of these in terms of form, they might actually be in the top 10 as well right now, low key.
It's like invites get declined and then some plucky underdog makes a close first map, but I feel like 2026 has really just been featuring a lot of very promising rosters.
It's so awesome, man. The amount of good teams that we've got bubbling up in the tier 2.
I just love that it never ends, you know?
I would never end.
We've done this job, you and I, together for almost a decade.
Yeah, like the amount of...
I can remember years where things get a little stale.
There's not like a big breakout player or a big breakout team.
And it just feels like we're blessed right now.
We have more stories to never eat here than we used to.
Used to get one cold Zera every three years, roughly.
Ooh, Copenhagen Flames make a run at one major.
Yeah.
Brother, ParaVision have lifted a trophy in 2026.
They don't make them like this years ago.
That's a weird example of who's Jayden.
But Jayden too, you know what I mean?
Jayden Dastan.
The body sent the ground inside of the B site.
No bomb plant for your efforts, Mongols.
It wasn't much of an effort.
They just go flying out through the window sill into the lying weight of baits.
Guns back in hand for the Mongols.
They'll be looking to get back to where they started this half with success.
All made possible by the force by Bait the 3-1 start.
Who you taking?
Uh, Jamin Distan or Blitz and Mara.
Blitz and Mara.
That was quick.
Yeah.
That's a quick one.
Quick choice.
Careful back there.
Utility keeps Cobra's air on high alert, but 9-10 crosses over with him and the bomb?
I think there are no kills at the minute mark, we have more utility trickling out through
the windows.
Continuous pressure has got them distracted, and NPL is going to strike them.
Unexpected challenge down in through Khan, and NPL nails all of these!
Quad kill from NPL!
And it could be a fifth here, and Xenia looking for the door.
Wow MPL rock solid stuff throws himself into the challenge and there was the utility out through the mid window that kind of served up a
distraction for him to strike, but those were players shooting back
The most insane keyboard placement in the world by the way
Yet he makes it look
And then for a poor commercial right there
But I didn't see any keyboard, was it like Tarek's style?
Oh dude, it's under his mouse arm pit.
Is that?
This keyboard is vertical underneath his right arm.
Tarek's his favorite player probably.
If I may request a shot of it in between these rounds, it would be nice to just kind of
highlight it for once.
Right arm?
Under his mouse arm?
Yes, bro.
His mouse pad is in front like this.
I wish I could show everybody at home what I'm doing, but man, oh, that's good.
can't do that. Makes it look so damn easy to hear that. Just couldn't do it live probably.
Not under pressure. Okay. Trying to get that bomb planted but not able to even get the
fan kill. So on to the next one we will go soon enough and they're showing us
there no joke. They got stomped in that first half of ancient but I mean again
they've made it respectable as the game went on and that was a very hot
Not long, but it's out of the cage.
Show me a view.
A view that was all the way down there.
It's good. We'll keep everybody on the line.
You know, now you're waiting in anticipation.
Got you glued to the screen!
Yeah. I feel antsy thinking about it.
Just want to see if he has a keyboard right now.
It goes back with weaponry, but Mait still been rock solid and happy to just keep signing
up for these midfights.
I'm happy to just keep on trying to charge on through.
Cobra Zera's already made it ahead and Sizi is going to get slammed by that AK, but
Tenze Azor's got the trade pretty quickly back.
So it's just a lot of jostling going on between these two trades right now.
Nice trade there from inside connector
Crazy how low the time to kill is in this match
You are not allowed to waste ammo here
And an interesting timing on this push because you have MZ no on the other side walking in
But Alex is found to found his final spot as Mzeno clear it
Oh, no, he's pushed forward still works out for him
And then Kensi's are catching blitz at the same time
So really takes the wind out of the sails of that a attempt from the Mongols
9-10 crawling forwards gonna get caught off by this tack corner of NPL and right now bait can seemingly do no wrong
All the action that they make happen in this round nets the McFrag
Very stringy moments, right?
Those are three separate 1vx situations inside palace on the fallback from a cap kill is really the most
Advantages for npl. Look at that keyboard. Oh
My goodness, it is really
It is under his mouse arm
armpit under his mouse arm arm pet 50% off the table
The keyboard is off the table half of it half of it's off the table walk a third of it
The third of the keyboard is off the table.
I heard of it, I'll test it, I'm nervous.
You know, I know we have a lot of different binds and whatnot, and everybody's setup is different, but I just never understand how you get to that point.
Yeah.
You know, I've like, I've tried the 45 degree tilt, you know, I'll go for the wider stance.
Sometimes I put my forearms on the table, but I've never gone, hmm, maybe my keyboard should be over here, over here.
Oh
Maybe you try it one day and then boom
I'm a pro too
There's no denying it's working because he's 12 and 3 at the moment
Trying to keep that pressure up on middle, but Mongols just continue to remain adamant
Taking these duals beautiful wallbang back from blitz to maintain man advantage
There's not even enough time to react to these kills are so many nice ones in succession
Mzino's already back out through ramp. He's gonna catch the jungle player off-guard because Mongols just keep coming.
Slowly, albeit with these walking, crawly kills, but they are constant in their pressure.
Alex is gonna give Mzino something to think about. 3 vs 2 advantage for the Mongols,
but it's barely held on to by Blitz's low health.
Ascential top stairs catches the headshot to Techno, and now these CTs, yeah, they're gonna keep pulling you apart piece by piece.
Alex with the triple and bait with the 7-1 lead as a thought for essential to even regress through top stairs in that moment is
ridiculous
teammate had already got killed outside a connector and Mongols like again, they're so brash you think they could be anywhere
I'm just picking up freebies by the end of that round.
So it long goes back to the drawing board, side arms and utility.
He's up beside the smoke, and PL has stood up to a lot of these tests.
This one's seemingly no different.
Easy stuff for Pinn and Sissy, locking down connector yet again, Palace player trying to
get out into the action, but by the time Emtigo makes his move, his whole team's dead
and he'll join them empty-handed.
Damn bait. This is now
Not even bomb plants for the last seven rounds
I'm not I'm not surprised that they can play this well, but
The fact that they can do this so dominant mongles won the pistol round
Never forget mongles won the pistol round
This is lights out confidence speed
And these guys are a perfect matchup for each other really
So they weren't as successful on ancient they really did try to do the same things and just couldn't keep up with the Mongols
Whatever happened on the break
You do the channel that for map three if they can bring it there
It's just crazy that like the pace keeps up at this. Yeah to greed the entire time
Oh, it's off, goes beyond, set the deal from the corner.
Yeah, you're getting stuff to get in the mongols.
Techno's gonna try to break down the door,
but it's a lot of damage dealt to him.
Ken Cezor tucked into the bench
is gonna let them slip down into site.
Techno cleared out, offer, stop the rebuttal back,
9-10, trying to get into the action of site.
NPL has been spotted, but that's not gonna stop it.
Back in with a kill and an assist,
rapid pace being set in this game.
It is a violence and it is incredibly lopsided at that nine one baits lead
And they've got the same affect like they don't really celebrate. They don't really yell as much
They're just they're happy to play quickly. They can't celebrate because they're down a map launder's
That's true as far as this one's not done yet. No, I know it can happen at the switching of the sides
But it's also two teams that respect our time
This is uh...
Back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back aggressive rounds
Who needs to waste time set it up and get it in or at least try to once more
NPL's got first blood once more
The Mongols missed a little bit to work with
Technos found himself a multi-frag despite that low-age heat
That was one small mistake and now a chance for the Mongols to bring one back
What do you rounds will they need?
Best case scenario, 9-3 half, 9-10 stop one off to Galil, but again it's damage dealt in the meantime.
This wouldn't be the first man disadvantage that still gets picked up.
NPL is a monster at the moment. Headshot into Blitz like that.
This is one of the best halves of the tournament already. He's 18-4 in ace in there.
This guy is hunting down the Mongols body after body, and he's got himself yet another frag.
That's four kills in total for him this round. What an unbelievable half.
Doesn't break a smirk.
Yeah, seriously.
All business at the moment from NPL.
From everybody.
I'm not a stick of it.
The fact that's a headshot too, that's the kind of bait he's having.
Making up for lost time having lost out on ancient.
He could set some kind of kill record at this rate if he wasn't just going to beat
the moggles so quickly.
Sissy catching another opening kill and baits, this is a master class.
in its domination
it's kinda what you'd expect the mongols to do to them
it's damnation
like it's evil
alex666
yeah like they're you know
they're damning mongols
to the end
there's no saving the mongols
it's damnation
it's the horse meat
That's the kind of beating that leaves a mark.
Now the hell are the Mongols gonna pull out of this tailspin once we get to map three?
Because spoilers, we're going to a third map.
If Mongols can win this round then it's gonna be a while
My internal crack it open at least at least try to first frags good and all but then again
Aseptial not gonna let you get away with much space
Valiant effort for techno on one HP, but this has gotten with the Desert Eagle a
Domination of a half year from Bay 11
one and an incredible performance out of NPL
19-4 on the CT side. Just action-packed inside Con,
held mid, held A, gave no space to the Mongols this entire time.
The guy who once got the call up to Navi and wondered,
you know, on a team like Bait with Head Trick as well,
like, would we ever really see from them again?
You know, and then they started to build up this project on the side.
And now, well, they're a focal point of this event as a dark horse, maybe,
to make some kind of run bait. They show us a level of aim that basically can compete with
anybody. If they can compete with Mongols head to head with this kind of aim, they can compete
with anybody. It was so impressive. We used to watch bait. It would be a little bit
on Mirage, a little bit lurky on T-side. Sometimes it'd get messy. They always had fun though,
like they would always play very fast, even before when they had a head trick.
stylistically, just like how Mongols have brought in Cobra's era and are still the Mongols,
I think Bait have really been able to manage to keep their personality intact for the way they like to play CS.
This is just obviously both Bait playing well and Nip MPL having an outstanding performance at the same time
in a key position on the map on CT side.
But if they win the pistol, they win the pistol, I hope that's all.
I'm just adding gravity to that gun, what the hell was that?
It just got slapped into the ground man, head first.
There's a crater on the side.
Okay!
Woo!
Doesn't matter how hard that first guy nose dive, 9-10, is into play triple USB head shots.
What is this around?
That was so ridiculous.
That was like Wiley Coyote falling off a cliff.
I've never seen a rag doll do that.
I've seen them backflip into the sky.
I have never seen them nose dive into the ground.
And it made you think the round was done for.
Nine ten though this sequence
to tap
Beautiful execution for the two
Can't show what was missed the most important of the whole game
We're just gonna pretend that never happened
So yeah, now the game's on Connor's okay, and we better believe it better believe it
Oh, I'm excited because this gives NPL more time to just continue to rack up rating.
True.
This is how, like, maybe a record could be set.
Problem is, the rest of his team is also having a pretty impressive game.
He's not just, like, out here, you know, pseudo-carrying, he's got a lot of great
help.
It blitzed from four fries, but he's about to put together the easiest ace of all time.
A-4 gets those.
Yeah, A-4 gets those.
It's the guns fault.
MPL gets cleared out bottom middle and now what's left of bait here as they were just
looking to rack up some cash in round 14, Kenzie's are cowering, just let everybody
die around them.
And that goes about exactly how you'd think, 9-10 puts a swift end to it, third round secured
by the Mongols, but I don't have to say it, it's a long road to the comeback.
It is.
It's eight rounds, I mean.
Eight rounds?
rounds? The rounds to the tie NPL 20 and 6 still got to kill that round by the way
block frag on blitz. Oh good. Yes. So we need to see. See records. This is kind of
game you want to see some records get set.
But he can't have too good of a round otherwise he does this game's over.
We're waiting to full save last round just to come through here now with guns
and so it's turned.
It looks like there's a big lack of information obviously with Blitz on default. You can check on connector.
There, watch across the cat, but when connector gets smoked,
This is where it might become a little bit of an issue for the mongols are leaving a mid-window lurk potential a B split the rotations will be kind of slow
And maybe they can blow open this cat
Connector spot, but no split something in fact Cobra's arrow almost caught with grenades, but fine by 910s
Standards he's willing to slow it down to the smoke spam and PL's position gets found out thought if there was anything of an answer
It was gonna come by that, but it's ridiculous that he got a 3k basically from the A site
yes so but yeah they were that's what they were ready for any small bit of
action towards connector blow those smokes open brought to you by CS to have
control help out
remotely
we're gonna run nowhere to hide after time now that's oh where was that across
the hog line after time curling reference was that across the hog line it
was after the hog line it was I cross the hog line
definitely were cheaters man I mean cheat but hey yeah just be Canadian when
it's convenient what's crazy is that both the men's and women's curling team
got caught doing the same thing I heard that the British men's team actually
got caught doing it too as well now that people are reviewing the whole damn
Commonwealth. Curling is rigged. Counter-strike? Legit. Cobra also legit from the perch inside of the
cap plate he finds himself two kills to kick this off that Desert Eagle on
NPL's hands finds a little bit of damage a single kill he's 21 and 7 still
just trying to keep the score up despite the economy being against him.
They always knew that their willingness to fight top mid like that was going to cost some bodies.
Trying to shake up their approach towards middle.
We get this movement from the Mongols inside of jungle and throwing Mzeno back over towards ticket
It's also a great way to exactly grab the guns
Let MPL cook
And he grabs the op off it plenty of time to right
Spoking off connectors ticket about gone for the B-Walk. That's extra risk
But they're also gonna catch this flanking.
Oh, he paused.
Take no pause on that.
Let NPL get through the murder hole.
Techno is actually playing this with great awareness right now.
It's gonna be very useful for both sites if he doesn't overextend here.
Ah, the old wrap to A.
But Mzeno is kind of behind default, moving over towards Tetris.
Ken stay here.
Actually probably the best spot right now because the amount of time left over.
This plan is forced.
It's gonna be too hard to clear him right away unless they're gonna go for
The default that they don't cut down on the pass.
Now NPL, gotta go for the wide swing.
Doesn't have the time for this.
Yeah, completely outplayed just by the clock.
And now NPL, threat of dying after time is real.
Yes, sir, he will be dealt with.
That's absolute perfection out of the last two players
here on Mongols on both sides of the map.
Techno was inches away from getting caught
in the murder hole peak.
Super careful about it, knew exactly how far
could go didn't give a chance back into the round just when you think they're
gonna be overly aggressive no they know how to just be smart so six round game
now that's an interesting round but two kills after time in this half that does
set your economy back in a big way wonder if those kinds of limitations
can wind up catching off the bait squad and costing them more as this game goes
on NPL is gonna eat the frag grenade
The first time in this game is on the receiving end of an opening death walk up here. Let's could get flung
Will exactly
Catwalk players got the answer good on cobracera, but Kenzie's or keeps it clean. Oh, they got shooters, man
Fully blind is 910 bomb in the hands of sissy
Kenzie's or trying to go wide around that smoke is 910 crouches keeps himself low
Cobracera offers the distraction. That's right. They don't know where a senthule is
Stuck on Tetris, giving the 1v2, goes wide, connects to the first one, but the Mongols get through with another clutch round.
Another close round for Bates, and yet the Mongols are the ones to put it on the scoreboard.
I mean, it's perfect. Did a two on one to toss that Molly down. Don't know how the first skill came out.
Cobrazera did a ton of work there from Kat, though, to grab a frag before he came over for the retake.
This cap presence is huge. Yes, six opening duels now. Well successful opening duels
And you get shuddered of these spots as a new guy
Like you're not you're not coming in as an anchor. You're not coming in as a
Support player or something like that. You're you're coming in with just all the responsibilities
and
And delivering it's very impressive to see
Still a five-round game though here for bait
We saw how close they brought that too. It's not like they suddenly look scared and lost.
But they're about to get to a point where even if bait hit 12, longas are going to have so much money left over if they're not careful.
Even though these CTs are racking up wins, it's still rounds where bait have something to stand on.
Doesn't feel like they've felt out of any of these, despite the Mongols winning them all so far since we swapped sides.
This round is the moment, early up. FBL goes down first. Heavy hit or out.
There's a second opening death. It was untouchable for a little while there. 5 and 0 and opening duals, now 5 and 2.
Let's backing up.
Constantly smoke grenades into the window sill.
Man, the Molotov bought a middle to keep Kensi's or back from just tucking into these corners yet.
Will be a key piece of this A-split.
And CobraZera usually finding the right timing to challenge this connector play.
And now that that frag grenade's also found its mark, they've been effectively softened up.
We go to 45 seconds, we've got this techno 4K position down beneath balcony.
balcony and CobraZera so constant on this catwalk pressure beautiful flashbang out
of bits blitz to get that player active and it's Alex dead with nothing now you've
got the Mongols powering up it is a four-round game five players survive on
the Mongol side NPL is getting shut down and opening deaths and there's an
ego coming up so this is just that they just won five live on the rifle
round this was the one they're supposed to make money on and now
Now there's going to be barely any advantage when this round becomes 8-11, unless bait can
come up with something right now, and it is actually worth talking about how do we pull
off a miraculous e-kill.
With tech 9s, the players they have, it is possible.
They have the right combinational words, maybe a stroke of luck on one kill, and that
seems unreasonable to ask for considering how well the Mongols are playing, but even
to them, it can happen.
might need something to save the day. They're coming in with a fair bit of
utility. So, Lasbonus reaches max.
Cobra's arrow knew the whole time, so I have to walk off on anybody right side
of the connector. As soon as they want to try to peek, they could die. He's doing good.
I'm gonna go into the execute.
This is gonna be MZinho under pressure, trying to drop utility ahead of it, trying to hang
on to what will be that solo palace duel.
He'll touch down back under, we get to try and buy out a Ken Teesore, and Ops under
pressure, being swing from the Tech 9, upgrading into the AWP in the middle of all that.
They gotta be careful with that bomb, they really want to go down, but they know
all we on default.
The bomb's in a weird spot though. They're all playing left side. If he dies, pushing.
NPL, close to the ticket smoke.
This bomb can get infused under their nose. They might need to get an extra kill.
Techno dies to this ticket push though. It's gonna be so difficult to get NPL out of this buy.
What?!
Okay! Reads the positioning!
Oh, he was spamming. Sandwich.
Pop's NPL. And now, Techno.
Trying to move this forward with the smoker, but Ascent feels got something to say about it.
to say about it, his tech nine fighting at least the one victim, and now over top goes
Kensi Zor with the sidearm out, he's collected another one BX, but he can't find the bomb.
Oh, he's gotta get away from this.
Witz jumps onto it too late, and Bait will take their 12.
Uh-oh, it's that one swing from default, and he realized that he wouldn't be able
to be covered if he went for the straight diffuse.
And there it happens, off the tech nines and the pause.
It all comes together, double entry from that $500 weapon and the Mongols now have to make
the comeback from that point.
Generally, they're genuinely really reasonable before this happened.
That has really just changed everything.
CobraZera still trying to take a look towards middle.
NPL gonna be his test in a second.
Fired his feet, he's gotta offer it over,
so space taken by NPL.
Ladder room belongs to him now.
Challenge towards Blitz as 9-10 sits down
bottom con.
NPL running all over the place,
dropping utility, letting them know exactly where he is.
Bomb posturing over towards the apartments. We've got this three player Mongols lean towards B in the moment.
Missed shot by the oper, but CobraZera picks up the kill from Catwalk at least.
Bomb starts to double back off this connector challenge.
We've got a solo defender over towards A in Emzinho.
They're a little stringy right now, man. The bomb's going back to A, but it's super slow.
They don't have full info on all the CTs. They're still two players on Catwalk,
which is not going to let you fight in the window. They're losing targets.
Mzeno catches the contact into jungle at least you'll figure out that info for the Mongols
But it opens the door for a sento to come down out from palace and get that kill instead. So low HP here on the majority of bait
Mongols gave up 11 rounds in that first half
Got it back with a streak of six
Tech 9s kicked the door off its hinges around the go and now techno coming through connector gets blindsided
Kenzie's or traded out swiftly. Alex is the guy working with health in this post-plant.
And now it's CobraZera who's gonna have to go above and beyond versus two.
He will come out with one. Taps the bomb to try to elicit panic.
And a sentiel inside of the smoke slashing away.
And this time is up the essence. And he doesn't get the kill.
Bait are here to close this. Back to back rounds.
In that A bomb site, it felt inevitable after that first half,
First half, a flat attack from the Mongols on their map costs them the chance at this 2-0.
That's a bit messy from the Mongols.
Yeah, to say the least.
I don't know how else to, like, I'm a little bit in trouble.
Can they won the pistol round?
You shouldn't be losing to Baig, man. Sorry, I'm just gonna say it.
This is a team that was contending for Grand Finals in the Major, and now we're here.
Yeah, I mean, that's one way to put it.
I think that first half is what's gonna haunt the Mongols for a long time.
in this matchup at the very least when you isolated from your ass.
There was lacklustre of T-Side.
You win the pistol and pick up that jump, you know,
and then you lose the follow-up round.
And at that point you do nothing on a T-Side of Mirage,
which I would argue is one of the more open T-Sides in the game.
You know, one of the T-Sides where you get to express your individual skill,
you get to express that explosivity you could play with.
But whenever they have an opportunity, they would fumble it.
And I agree with you, Sam.
Again, it's one map in isolation.
It's a poor performance on Mirage,
But it goes to speed, but we kind of set the scene coming into the game that it's two teams right now really fighting a battle of recalibrating expectations because no, if you're the longest, you shouldn't be losing, especially not in this fashion.
Yeah, there's no way that any sort of recalibration should screw you over this heart.
I mean, look, I get that Cobra's air is new to playing at this level on a regular basis.
I knew that you're trying to get used to him and trying to figure out what roles you want to do, maybe try to integrate him into the team fully.
But there's no excuse for quite literally one T round, which is just a pistol.
And the fact that you weren't able to call it anything else in your T-Side, and the identity of this Mongol squad has been a team that can play an explosive, fun, and effective mirage T-Side.
And we saw absolutely none of this, completely disjointed, one by one peeks, no well coordinated executes, no ability to really control them, and they take the pace of the game.
Like, the identity of this Mongol team was that they were so fiery and so fun to watch, and, you know, this explosive kind of strike, but calculated chaos.
What we saw absolutely none of that they got ripped the shreds and you know MPL
Credit to him the dudes tearing it up. You know, he is one of their star CT riflers
He's a guy that we've had our eyes on for a long time and you know, definitely give him his posture having a big game
I mean those are some monster numbers and it's exactly what they needs
But they want to have a chance to pull off an upset and try to still stay in the playoff race in this tournament
But still like if you're moguls, that's just unacceptable in my opinion
Like I don't care that you change the player out. It can't be that bad. No, I agree
And I think that's that's you know, the other side of the coin obviously moguls having a necklace that he said
That's one thing, but NPL, just look at the heat map.
Swan spot in connector.
Exactly, how he dominated the most important position
on the CT side of Mirage.
Whoever plays connector is the star of your team.
We see them pretty much all teams out there,
apart from Apex from time to time,
who goes in there for vitality.
But your Nicos of the world, you rock back in the days.
You have all your star pairs situated in this position.
It's just an aim-heavy position as well,
but all these duels are just dry duels.
Taking duels left, right, and center.
And when you're NPL and you're consistent in winning them,
against, I guess, an in-heavy, strong squad in the Muggins
that he got to give a break.
That was a breakout performance.
Where's the flash?
Where's the spacing?
Where's the trading efficiency?
There's none of it.
When this guy's getting two seconds
between every frag he has to go after to reset,
of course he's going to pull it off.
Again, I don't understand how they could be this divorced
from what they used to be.
I get it's a rush change.
I get you lost your best player.
I get Sinsu was one of the best players in the world
last year.
Again, he was your investor.
Vyaflik star, which is an important role.
I get all that.
But there's no excuse for this.
Isn't that a lovely conversation to have?
Because every single time a team isn't doing well,
you just see everyone online.
And some analysts, not pointing fingers, boys,
are like, roster changes.
Roster change has to happen.
Roster change has to happen.
He has a good example of what can happen
when you take one player out
and the new one comes in.
It's so much more than just a roll for roll swap.
There's so much more that goes into that change.
And the Mongols might be the example we use
in the next few months
to show you what the drop-off could be.
It's also the nuance in the direct context of what is the Mongols right now.
You know, a team from Mongolia where the scene and the country is very small,
so there's a limited amount of players that you can choose from.
If you're a Mara, you have to constantly reinvent like,
who am I going to bring in now and who can possibly be as good as Sensor,
who can possibly find the same amount of impact.
I'd even argue that controllers did way better than I think anyone would have anticipated.
You know, whether that's down to Mara, the system of the Mongols,
who knows, but he did a decent job.
So was it necessary to replace them?
Perhaps.
Is Cobra gonna do better?
Who knows?
What I do know for a fact is that I think it's gonna be
incredible tough for the Muggles to find anyone
near the level of Sensus.
So again, I keep speaking about this recalibration period,
but it's not like they're a big international team
that can go and pick apart any English-speaking talent
out there, and even if you were,
you see teams like FaZe, G2, Uname,
it's struggling finding replacement for the players.
So I think the limited map pool,
the limited player pool for the Muggles,
given where they come from, what language they speak, et cetera.
It's just another, I guess, nuance to what we're discussing right here,
which is, yes, roster changes don't always help,
but when you can't really replace your players one-to-one,
because there is no players out there, then it becomes quite tough.
Now, what we've seen from CobraZero so far, it's fine.
I feel like it's the same scenario as we saw with Controllers.
He's doing a decent job with what he got to work with.
It's just never going to be a center.
Yeah. I mean, I think that's spot-on.
And to me, it's like, look, I know that I'm coming from a place
where it sounds like maybe I'm coming down on them,
But it's not because I want to.
It's because I know what they're capable of.
Their story was one of the most incredible stories
in Counter-Strike.
To watch a team come from East Asia,
we saw all the different teams from East Asia
over the years attempt to make something happen,
whether it was your Tyloos, your Flash gaming,
your Vici gaming, all these different squads
were at CSGO at the very beginning, 2013.
They were around, but they were never
able to make a major playoff.
Up until this team right here,
these core players were able to make it
to the Shanghai Major playoffs.
the first time a team from East Asia has ever done it and it took such a long
time for it to happen right and then you see them build off of that become a
top five team in the world be a consistent title contender win a trophy
make a major final you know all these things that were so impressive to see a
team be able to do from an underrepresented region in the world
when it comes to Counter-Shack right but so it that this level of fallout
is so sad because look when they had controls as a stand-in they still
managed to have this magical run to a major playoff spot like no one would
that Mongols are still capable of making a quarter-final what controls.
Especially after what we had seen and some of the termites leading up to that, like that,
Rivals-Honk-Honk with it, they were horrible at that event.
It's like, yeah, there's no way of doing anything at this Budapest Major.
And then all of a sudden, what do you know? They're in the quarter-finals.
So to see them now have an entire off-season, you know, have maybe some ability to boot camp,
hopefully, I'm not sure if that happened or not.
But this is what you've come up with is a team that's losing that badly to bait on
what used to be one of your home maps. Like, it's depressing.
Like I don't want to see that I want to see them do well
So it's just man. It's painful to watch that happen. Is there a flip side though as well?
So like if you are a Mongols player, right? Like you said you're coming from a very small region
Limited opportunities I eat one you're in the Mongols now. That's it
But you've tasted playoff success. You've tasted major grand finals
They must be a part of your brain and this is where the team versus individual comes into play where you're thinking
I need to maybe take some English lessons. Maybe I need to see what Senzu's doing
Maybe there is a global roster out there that could need me
You know, the open market's looking a little bit bad.
Maybe I need to start looking at what other options exist for me
because if this team drops off, if it falls out of the rankings,
Mongols were able to rise to where they got before VRS came into play.
Now it's going to be way harder for them to do what they did before.
That's got to be running through some of the players minds as well,
which is not good for the team dynamic.
No, but that's the general nature of, you know,
how it involves in competitive sports.
It's so easy to forget and people do it all the time,
including myself, but when I look at Australia's weather right now, you know,
they're in the drop-off as well.
We're talking about maybe the greatest team ever,
an organization that has a rich history.
It's not like whether they're playing this tournament
or any tournament of relevance as of right now.
No, NIP, you know, have been fighting and struggling
to get back to being relevant.
The same could be the case for the Mungles.
I'm not saying that's what they're heading right now,
but I'm saying that's always a possibility for pretty much every single team out there.
Even face, it seemed that you'd never,
you'd never think in your wildest imagination
that it'd be like a top eight, top nine, top 10, top 12 team,
you know, which they've been quite consistent now for a long time.
So that's always what you're risking and whether or not you're trying to divert
into speaking more English or you're looking out for your own interests.
That's what you're always fighting in a competitive environment, right?
There's so many teams, so many players who want to take over your position.
So if you don't step up to the occasion, whether you're the Mongols,
whether your face, whether you're Astralis from the old days,
Fnatic, you name it, that there's someone else coming in to take over for you.
And I just want to say the nuance in this case is that it is a Mongolian team that speaks a selective language.
So a lot of people speak so that they have limitations in who they can pick in and bring up.
Let's take a look now at this decided map because that's where we're going.
And maybe if you've just tuned in, you probably weren't expecting that.
I think a lot of people thought Mongols would be able to do zero.
Bayquack, but the base has proven that they have the resilience.
Can they now close this series out on that third map?
This is going to be an interesting one, right?
Because, you know, Nuke has been really poor for Mongols since they left.
Even when they had since it wasn't really at the top of their pool, but now they're 0-1-6 since he left the team.
Meanwhile, you look at a team like Bait, and until they played against Heroic yesterday on Nuke,
which they won in kind of a crazy fashion, they hadn't played Nuke since November of 2024.
It was their permaband for an entire year, right? That's exactly like Captain Kirk was still on the team.
I mean, this is a long time ago, right?
And even to this day, I couldn't tell you how they're going to play their T-Sack.
They didn't spend much time on it because they just dominated defensively in that game.
And so they're basically, for the first time, exploring this map.
You know, this is a pit they had to make because of them wanting to find another band that they could, you know, deal with with the map pool changes.
So I don't know what to expect from Bait to be honest.
I haven't seen enough film to know what they're even capable of.
Meanwhile, what we've seen from Mongols so far has been very depressing, but we just witnessed their mirage as it leave a whole lot of confidence left.
So it's definitely possible Bait could make it happen, but I don't know if they have the reps to feel super comfortable against like veterans like they're playing against our Mongols.
That's the thing with the Mongols, right?
We have seen them consistently underperform on Nuke for quite some time and the contrast between
I guess the models we saw yesterday with a beat by Talody on Mirage
You know quite convincingly to them getting absolutely smacked by bait on Mirage
Like where do you put that you know which models is gonna show up?
So I agree with you
You know one side you have a very unknown quantity and in bait that is slowly but surely not only integrating a new
All-player but also integrating a new map into the pool and you have a team that unpaid by other favorites
But have been struggling a lot on the map
I think if anything it screams to me like this is a 50-50 matchup
This is where it's it's very tough to call there. I know that the odds are siding with with the mongers
But I'd say it's incredible close in terms of what I expect coming out of it
It's gonna be interesting because like the late bait were playing the one new game that I did get to watch yesterday
They were just sending it every single round full sin on the PSI like they they never actually did the typical place
You would see on nuke like, you know, hey, we're gonna some like three guys out or gonna do a smoke wall
We're gonna try to control secret. We're gonna try to set up
Maybe an uppercut too many no
They just packed up as a bunch of five and went all five outside all five ramp all five uppercut
It was just all fast plays and that can be a very impressive play stuff
It's working that they could definitely bulldoze to feel like models if they're flat-footed
But if the models find a way to respond to that
I don't know how much deeper the playbook is for bait to be with a hand of those situations
So that's what makes the game even harder to put a finger on in my opinion. Yeah, Alice can't make a decision
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The answer was real back on Mirage and now we're left kind of scratching our heads as
to where exactly this game ends, because Star Potential on full display out of NPL in that
first half of Mirage feels like he himself almost fueled us to this decider map in the
Bethzter 3.
I agree, especially just throughout that entire first half, I mean, I don't know where
that leaves us, honestly, like, it's just like emotional, you just can't get a read
on who's happy, who's sad, who's like, you know, who is going to happen next.
You don't know.
Sure.
We almost saw a comeback.
I honestly, if it wasn't for that eco, I think the Mongols were going to flat out 2-0 that game.
They already had so much money. They just needed a one-round buffer.
Their CT side was basically flawless.
And then obviously after losing a round like that,
I'm sure that affected them. But
what I mean is when we come to Nuke, I just don't know what to make of it.
We have a strong ancient for Mongols, a decent response.
We have a strong barrage from bait and a great response out of Mongols
And again the stylistically just a fantastic matchup the aim is on display today
Who's gonna be the star
No, not the pistol anyway as Beretta's dealt with in Cobra's era back sites
Got a headshot to work with heaven support coming out
But Sissy's got a player bushed and Sissy just sends one through the smoke and response to blitz getting close
The flashbang goes over, not wasting a second.
It is sissy to shine here in the pistol, turning Blitz away before he ever had a chance to test main,
swapping over to the Berettas and catching a second for Bates' T-side pistol win.
The wide swing out of Heaven, both going down instantly.
They're not missing either. You know, I don't think the Mongols are used to playing against a team that are like that.
Maybe they're not totally buffed out in every other category of the game, but like this is some of the best CS we've seen play.
Probably expecting, you know, post-Head Trick, it's gonna take some time and it's big role to be replacing, but so far so good.
That's the most impressive thing about the modern era of CS, is how quickly everyone and every team can get good.
Yeah, I used to feel like you'd get like a glimpse of greatness and then it would kind of fizzle out,
but it feels like people are hanging on to those moments more and more often.
What happened to Honeyhoes?
That's a good question.
Some teams still get them.
They just don't seem to end.
Alex, cautious around this corner and with good reason, figures out Blitz is in here
Trying to make sure that they get through this force by unscathed.
First kill made easy.
That's going to force the vent rotate down and Alex was ready for it.
So Techno very swiftly swept under the rung and Sizi catching a headshot
and MZnio unable to do the same.
He drops out of it to go back in.
They got a two-killing there too.
Yeah, makes a little awkward, doesn't it?
But they just continuation, spray down and catch the flank.
Kenzies are not going to fall victim to your antics.
Bait, convert with majority alive.
What I really want is, like, to get back into you, you know, one of the things that I get is, you know, to show us how you feel.
Tell us about it.
Terrorists win.
Or broken English, that's alright too.
Yeah, whatever English.
Translated or even English?
I don't see it.
Oh, what's up. Whatever I have to do.
There's another forced frag here on this anti-eco.
Easy, man. No.
Oh my goodness, it's an obsessed match, man, this series.
Even the best way, of course.
I mean, the fact that Mucinho just lost half his health to that outer wall bank mileage.
You know what I mean?
That's what we're pulling off today?
It's the kind of game you just report, everybody.
Yes.
It's like no way these guys are that good.
Including my teammates.
That's how hot Bader right now, man.
Like, just to be safe.
You report your own teammates.
Every once in a while.
I wish the curling team did that.
God.
Got me broken up.
That's the embarrassment.
You know, bait start their endeavor here in Cluzure, that game versus Furia to kick it all off.
Not easy to go up against Furia nowadays.
13-11, 13-10 pushed to the absolute limit.
Slammed Heroic out of the way and now trying to make quick work of a recovery from the Mongols.
I mean that first half of this series is still really where Mongols did their best work, obviously.
9-3 on Ancient, but Bait kinda snapped out of their lul ever since, and they have not
wasted a moment to leave a mark on the Mongols here so far on map 3.
So waiting for things to fizzle out, we hit the minute 15 mark and get grenades across
the map.
We get a good flurry of them into the ramp room, but none of it blinds 9-10.
So he's happy to just strike down a sentiel, Emsinho catching you off guard from the
In the face of a CT smoke as well, now a collateral comes through.
Sissi block it and survive it as 9-10 goes back in 4 seconds.
And NPL is the only player across the board this round to do anything to the Mongols.
Yeah, he's dead in just a matter of seconds.
Bomb possession over towards the ramp.
He will die to Tecno up from the rafters in the moment that the Mongols have guns here on Nuke.
They've also got a round win.
This was a bit of a mistake.
I mean, it's not even 9-10 was hiding and timing to peek off the flashes.
He was just open the whole time. They just invited all their clashes, focused everything on somebody playing ramp.
Maybe someone playing at robs, but not really anybody even considering turnpike.
And they didn't throw any kind of lurk smoke either, so just a really big gap to be honest there.
and there's not even any pressure being applied by Mongols until that 8 comes out.
Perfectly timed out too. They did wait for a while, but then they just see everything.
Techno swift to the kill on NPL, so 5v3 established. It was looking like it was going to be free real estate for Bait, but...
a slow burn contest for the Mongols, and that's them two kills. Great flashbang on Techno.
He's full blind, but regain vision before Kanzizor goes around, so he does fight back for 2-3 to the health.
health but this time that vent clear Alex gets blindsided and Bates are about to
lose two consecutive rounds as this squeeze on Kenzie's order all he's got
left at 30 seconds trying to keep four up in the process nicely done puts knows
what you're up to and that is the Mongols to interrupt the perfect moment
I like that they waited but not too long that the smoke was already gonna come
up and they come in to check things they kept it dead silent then suddenly
blew it open and did a full clear of outside yard. It was a huge call out. They needed that
info back. They got the kills and some of those shots from that 10 spots. Sometimes you see
an AWPer and you're like, that shot's easy, that shot's hard. Offing from hell, I've
always hated that. I guess this is just the range. You know, targets went that far
away, but he did great. Through the glass, through the smoke, from that distance. There's
pick up
war drums of bait outside
shadow scares coca-cara
nice spray control for the head shot on the sentiel there it's usually the
second player that can get by is
up close pistol push like that, not on his watch.
The drum keeps beating and MPL still yet to really have a chance to shoot at much.
You'll find the head shot eventually,
and that's all they will find out in the end.
A singular kill on Mzinho, a 3-3 scoreline early,
guns in the hands of the Mongols have made a world of difference since the start.
I think you should have swung for the ace, man, I mean, it's just right there.
Gotta go for the guy on the wardrobe slash.
The moment where we can start to slip away from the bait, because when this is slowed down
a little bit and they try to go a bit more tactical, it's actually where pangol's looking
most comfortable.
That's where they experience on a map like Nuke, compared to a mirage or a ancient,
which is just way more from a discreet place.
where it's gonna be a little bit harder to stand out and where inexperience will show the most.
See ya. Sizi caught off by the MZ no peep from secret. Throw some maids at him and try to get
closer. Alex taking over Grosh in the meantime. But that was also bomb confirmed behind red,
so good headshot from Asentheal to bring it back for a second. Alex's Grosh challenge
has been found out, and that is crisp.
The person's head to the box, blitz popped, back by spawn.
Techno, wrapping around credit card, but Centio's still just locked in in anticipation of some
kind of a secret push that's not coming.
They're about to expire on this actually mattering though, because we're at 40 seconds
during big garage, they have to move now.
The bomb is in a spot where it just has to make a decision, so now they basically
You gotta get lucky on their timing.
Techno doesn't have to go anywhere.
I think they know they're pretty positive, yeah,
that there's still someone here.
Techno's allowed to still just stay tucked into credit.
That's just 2-E-D.
Yeah, big get positioning, but they're kind of banking
on a mistake being made, right?
Yeah, exactly.
They're asking for a mistake from a team who have
all the positional control.
You can't plan in big...
either the Mongols four rounds straights.
They look a little bit like a fish out of water now,
even though they had a really quick start.
Mongols been kind of shown up
on some of their faster plays,
which you know, they think probably,
they'd be down for that foul too,
but as soon as they get a little bit of utility
in their hands,
and they start to have to think about
how to use everything properly,
and then they just slow down naturally.
Yeah, that's where Mondos can keep a bit of a distance, but a distance between them and
their opponents.
They're going to have better rotations.
started off dropping bomb like that still crazy some of these shots are just
Start over.
Some upgraded pistols.
Yes, so we're hanging out of the corner. The tech gunshots were not too far off the mark.
CT allowed to disengage for a second, let's drop these smokes, C6 downstairs alone for
the time being.
Does have ramp rotators if need be.
And we'll see how much bait are willing to just test this smoke grenade, right?
It's one thing to respect it, it's another to just come charging right through.
They'll get away from that engagement.
Blitz on the full fallback.
Yeah, but actually two rotations down, but this makes the op a little bit more vulnerable.
Ooh, if Xenia picks that up and immediately walks back...
It took damage there, that Tech 9 headshot.
Hensizor is gonna finish off MZ, but 9-10 whips around a deal with that one.
And this 1 HP essential challenge down into the B site with the bomb gets found out.
NPL nowhere to be found.
He's gonna have to climb in the rafters while Mongols are racking up rounds.
Yeah, something that doesn't...
I'm like wondering how bait can win now, honestly.
They might be best off instead of going for a standard default, default-y style round
out of, um, in outer yard to just simply go for their upper pop again, get back into
the game.
Um, they've got an op-on, says he, I think they're going to try to make this, make them
The Mongols sweat a bit.
I've already had a pause, but their coach get involved.
They don't seem to unlock anything yet.
And really like that the Mongols keep using secret to their advantage.
We'll throw Molly in front of this.
Oh, the offeror spotted. Knocked down as well.
They're not ready for this again.
Blitz has got it in the back.
Him and Mzinho have played this position interchangeably.
There is still an answer back in the 2 vs 5 at least,
but it's...Kenzie Zor is still already such low HP.
You've got the double rotate down, and CobraZera,
brazenly, is still here inside of Mini just peaking everything,
and he will see this play.
Oh my goodness.
The reaction time. It's perfect.
Instant with the headshot.
He's got the crosshair placement there for that angle, really?
He's done a really good job of maintaining control of main.
And it chews up the blindside of the techno.
So very active moves here by the Mongols, sometimes getting caught by a killer, too,
but always ready to seemingly respond back to it.
It's just such a thorough stuffing now.
And the way that rounds are being won, I don't...
I mean, I'm not their coach, you know, but I just feel like they need to get
through this T side, which is pocket plays at this point because it almost ironically feels
like the throat slower or more methodicals as they go, the more obvious it's just going
to be the Mongols who, once again, they played secret like every round, they may have run
into them like every round, but it seems like the Mongols are the only ones who are aware
of how good of a move that is.
They weren't even cleared last round.
They're going off of this, yes they've got them all and they're off.
This time, Cobra again, able to stop it inside of me.
We do get Kensi's sword at least cracking, the tech dying kill once.
Sissy's bomb spotted is stuck inside of Hunt here, Techno knows it, but as he changes angles back site,
that does open the door for Sissy to leave.
It's gonna be huge. Alex can make something happen.
That is it. MZNIO.
But with the gun dropping down, 9-10's gonna turn and get that kill, right?
You want the AK more than anything, and it's gonna cost you your life.
KFCs are trying to charge down main controllers. The bomb carrier
crosses over into the site, gets cleared and 9-10's on its hair.
You'll pick up that AK that dropped down through the ladder and put it to good use.
I mean, what was that tech 9 doing going back down to hell anyways?
The AK dropped when he got the kill. Oh, I see, I see.
Yeah, Alex got the frag, but the dead body and its gun dropped down.
A little unfortunate then.
Well, that's what would have been a good time to just split on upper.
Yeah, it's like you really want the gun to give yourself better odds, but at the same time, isn't the position of heaven worth more?
I think it means the middle with walls moats and then trying to just hit me in the opposite.
That just means I'm out at her face and say that's a little success there.
I'm sure they can try again, but I don't think they can see what we see.
Seven CT round way into the row without even a bomb plant from the side of the bait.
Said maybe try to tap into some pocket strats.
The thing is they're taking outside, they're not even getting to the lower successfully.
Like they haven't even crossed through control side once.
Yeah, the closest they came was like the three tech nines charging down the
and you still stop them with their drags.
And then a gun round, even less...
Oddly enough.
You got a vent drop here from Techno 4K?
Got the hybrid at MZeno.
Threads coming this way.
The lids looking to scramble over to maybe help out.
Ooh, it's still sizzy.
Okay.
Sizz back and collect it. 9-10.
Swapping over to the AK, just to catch you off, he kills the counterpart, and Ascentiol gonna take that challenge into the hell.
CobraZera's in a dire spot, dropping out of the bet, but he will still find out with their headshot.
And he didn't take a lot of damage for that. It does send the bomb back up top, but we've already got this deep play from Ascentiol, so bait will break through 11 rounds into this T side. They collect their fourth.
So they do go ramp they don't even they I don't even think they faked outside though on this one
Or they had one person go down to to lower to try to make this split happen, but yeah simplifying here
Good grenades. I mean they had ems in yo blind pretty much
Whenever they had someone ready to peak the one shot an opportunity he had he missed
And because they already got their first three rounds out of the way
It doesn't really matter that Mongols have made this massive comeback, they still could
have a decent half-dumerically.
And just hopefully for Bates' sake, a CT side to tap into.
I feel like running back one more time, you know.
Thruxum outside presence made that ramp hit happen.
Are Mongols really going to double up on it this round?
I hadn't realized that Mongols were actually sitting outside of the top ten.
Because of their roster moves, yeah.
They've shown us promise trying to get back to it, but I suppose we've also had the
likes of Paravision and Foot robbing all the BRS's of late.
a couple other contenders knocking these other boys down a peg or two but they want to make
this work man they want it.
It's gonna pop up.
He just saw three guys and got out of there.
Sprint's out confirms it all puts everybody on high alert brings all the attention over
because they know for the time being they really only have to worry about outside.
That's gonna be Col Brasera who more often than not was doing a good job of holding main dying a couple of times as his game has gone on
90 burned to the ladder techno gets one very awkward here for 910 momentarily NPL down beneath him main fight comes out from a senthial
He's gonna catch another kill. Oh
Whips it back
Triple headshot and now 910 position known
But the bomb control belongs to 910
And then, blocked by Sizi, we get that fifth round secured by Bait.
Three at the start of the half, two to close it out.
And like you said, numerically, by the end, enough.
And all those rounds they didn't get a bomb plant,
these last two wins, they didn't either.
They just fragged out and won.
They really have made this just like a backyard scrap,
essentially.
And that's what's made Bait feel like this almost unbeatable
force when we saw them on Mirage.
It's really just, they've highlighted their fraggin, they've dragged Mongols into the mud with them.
Mongols always want to play rounds like that, but you can see where, that's where, no matter how good you are,
there is a first ceiling to aim than there is to the other parts of the game.
And if Mongols, Mongols have shown us on Nuke that they can, through their tactical expertise and experience,
really put a gap between them, and they couldn't really do that back on Barrage.
And I think these last couple rounds for the bait, they're just going to be happy to spot
them.
But again, it's off the back of massive individual efforts.
Huge sequences.
Yeah, that multi-kill for Ascentiil just now.
Just 1-E after 1-80 headshot after headshot.
He'll be happy he was able to contribute towards the end.
I think just in general, Bate happy they were able to finally get the better of Cobra Zera.
9-10, 16 and 6 on the half.
So it really just goes to show you how dominant the off was for the defense.
We'll see if he can bring that over to the offense as well.
P250 to try to kick it off at this range.
Flash towards the ramp.
Looks like Kensizor is pushing lobby though. He just took him to the corner behind this pack.
And he's got the Beretta kills to go with it.
He's gonna find three kills on that flank.
I'm sure there were nice shots.
Shit, yeah. Seemed like they could be.
Perfect timing, slipping into the flank like that.
Yep.
It's pretty fantastic.
Every time I meet Duallys, they're probably the best investment you can have on a pistol
round just straight up.
It can be embarrassing to die at simply do a block when you have them, but most of
the time you're going to get two.
Most of the time.
We're there.
This is where the game gets out of hand for the Mongols now.
That last round of the half, the last two rounds of the half, this pistol, doesn't matter
who we call the better Nuke team at this point.
This is also where the Mongols aren't playing with Senzu.
It's kind of an important moment, Cobra's era here on a T side of Nuke, and he's newer
than anybody on bait at this map.
They can rob a bomb plant here, I'd be impressed.
MP9 sitting on top of this doorway.
To hell with your flashbang.
Alex will have vision the whole time.
He's gonna hold down that trigger and blow them down.
Scott Kancy's ordered to back off, Scythe Sissy's here too.
Sure, one D.GoChill for their efforts, but what could you expect?
Bait with the right position.
Convert the pistol and the Mongols who are waiting to get these guns in round three tap into the weapons early.
There's a scary streak of rounds from the Mongols for bait to have to handle, but
Starting to feel like there's a momentum shift that they can follow through with a gun round of win here, too
Problem is SMGs are limiting
Obviously, it's money in their back pockets
So they try to circumvent that
Yeah, the thing about a bonus is we spent a few extra dollars on
all your armor, your HE, your nades and stuff like that, there is still an investment but
also Sizzys off the attack, it don't matter what, the repeat is perfect, he knows he doesn't
have to worry about them doing it, that's Cobra Zera down, he was thinking he'd get
away with that drop, but he's caught out in the moment, Mzino's got a kill going
and the headshot onto Sizzys, now all of a sudden you've got an SMG allocated
downstairs of the two kills so far for the Mongols they were versus the better
guns mp7 and mp9 still out here on the field
so catching his m4 versus the squeaky peep
oh they dodged the frag grenade the Molly just pops midair that's
damage on kenzie's or as well with no support at the moment on this floor so
So inside of what, he'll go solo?
Oh, missed it.
He could have been caught out.
They're gonna expect Blitz up here.
It's in an interesting spot.
If they come out of Spooky, he could be in Jeopardy,
but they're not going to win.
Well, play Smoke to keep NPL out of this.
He's gonna give himself his own Smoke
to try to wiggle within.
Again, this is the main angle he has to be worried about.
They want to come up through Heaven,
but that's gonna be a little bit of time.
It's taking its sweet time at the moment,
and it's gonna have to work with that MP7.
A little bit too much, maybe.
Jump it up, bomb past the halfway point, Kensi-Zor is the only kit and that kit just got dropped on the Brink of Light.
And Xeniel gets that second kill from up above, and there is no time for this.
MPL doesn't have a kit, it's over towards Hut instead, and he doesn't recover it on the path,
so that is going to be the round win to the Mongols, despite those opening upshots out of Sizi.
That is ridiculous keyboard placement, I just...
Yeah, it's in the mouse pad.
that's like how you pack it in your luggage that's what it looks like also it
seemed like they didn't even know what to call Blitz's position he had no idea he
was up there shooting Francis with the block
Emzino the hero
You can see how desperate Emzino is on the raptor right jumping up like that
Holy moly. He's mad because I guess he thinks the player still has a kit like if he dies there
Was it a blitz up there? No, that was emceeing. Oh, they switch that. Yeah, it's like, oh you just won the clutch
That feels bad if you had a kit
Damage on the SPL. It's time to see how much of matters for that
Flash Alex!
Wow, both of those kills were absurd.
He got a kill, and that's what's important here for Alex.
It sends the scramble down the ramp.
They've got vent control. They actually still have upper as well.
This is the hardest part for the CTs.
They don't know how to rotate efficiently.
Um, I don't know if they'd kill.
Kills would make a difference, but it's actually one of the favourites of the T's.
Elastic, maybe.
Centiole still downstairs, just tucks into dark instead.
9-10 looking to bring the bomb in as the second player lower playing dark is
interesting if they get a little sloppy I think about Mzinho back behind box yeah
ops gonna hold that in sentio's been able to creep in this is gonna catch 9-10
off guard but he closes the door behind him yeah and the bomb is just
amicable
9-10 opens and wide off shot misses and the little just mows down the last two
So the Mongols T side starts to pull ahead as the economy here for the counter terrorists bottoms out in the meantime
That just couldn't be a stick. I mean he's got to tap that go left wait for his teammate before even tapping it
You could see that Sizi off running it
There was a way to win that that was not it unfortunately even though he was close
He was only physically close. They weren't actually close to just sealing that up
So needed a little bit more work
Those are the moments again for bait unfortunately feels like that's that feels like that'll make the difference in this game
Centiel following forward from dark really would have been better off catching 910 getting back
But misses the time and you have a cover to do exactly what he had to right walk up and forward. Yeah 910 no hesitation
Down those last two grab a free offer his effort as well did like the obvious thing
but when it's stressed it's like if a guy was on the wall left of the
diffuser you maybe just instantly get that kill close the door again then
you're in business but so see decide to run game but no money to work with
crossing your fingers at a single Desert Eagle and be able to stop a full
blown Mongols by.
One Desert Eagle has very much announced itself by now.
And there it is.
It is able to beat the AWPer.
I think they just love the raw duels.
Oh! They just love those fights.
And Alex keeps delivering with this one small weapon.
No way. A single deagle in round 17.
I refuse to believe it, but he's coming back for thirds.
His teammates are still all just sitting upstairs.
Yeah, they have an upper hit if Cobra's... He didn't even go up.
Might as well go up there now though.
Very bad drop back site, but Alex is still giving away into Hut.
The players down there are really getting to this idea.
They're gonna be able to come up with the bet if they want to, but...
Smoke for the time being, Desert Eagle inside of Hut.
Still just on the brink of the flames.
He's gonna try to pre-aim the angle on the plant,
but it's been allowed to get into the back of site now instead.
The player down beneath Heaven for CobraZero to have to consider.
Everyone's exposing themselves to different things that's scary right it's like a matter of like who peeks first and
He doesn't know how to properly hold this right now
There it's all done four kills instant desert eagle down valiant effort out of Alex with that desert eagle
You have Mongols working it out, but they slowly split into that site and find what they need a 10th round of the scoreboard
I don't mind the final risk there from bait to just lower stack right away
It could have been three guys outside crossing the lower and if you were up or you're not winning that re-take anyways
So even though it's 5v3
You still have to take some kind of risk. He got the deco shots from that distance
You're not getting those guns back as well
And that would have made the difference to your chances of winning on a slower pace round. So
It's just good play here for the Mongols.
Maybe if I had been the over rotation lower and then kept one guy in heaven to just stop that upper hit from feeling comfortable, that would have been the golden play.
Hard move to f**k.
Okay.
Gun rounds?
Yeah, gun rounds.
Head shot.
Some costs in the end.
Let's see how good the Crossworks for the Mongols.
Stop shot.
There's a chance for MPL to tuck back in, but it's a quadruple cross
and minimal damage to have to stomach here for the Mongols.
Yeah, they don't blow it open again.
They didn't actually get a confirmed visual.
They did rotate down, over-rotate last round,
but I think they're too afraid to rotate it all now,
and that's just even worse.
Just feels like Bader in a constant state of catch-up so far.
Yeah. Okay, the sensual down here is something.
But they again, they still don't actually have the info.
They've got an inkling, they've got a doubt, they've got a second player here, MPL.
Gonna lose his angle to the smoke grenade, essential top spot to pull a player off of, Cobra gets there at the cost of two.
And then Kenny Zorkatches, Cobra trying to get over.
You've got an advantage now to work with if you're bait. Four versus two, all the top down on MPL.
Double swing from the T's and it's gonna cost them.
Bait put enough in position, a little hesitation there for the Mongols and a critical position on top of the Silo that gives Bait their eighth.
You know what? They didn't go control side, so they didn't molly and smoke off the ramp when they decided to exit through Deacon and Ascentiol's position.
He got two because he stood on top of the Silo. Again, because no one went control side, so he wasn't worried about someone jumping out and trying to frag him.
That was good use of his spot knowing his teammates were coming left.
The only real way he gets screwed over is if someone opens control doors or breaks open
the window.
That's a well-earned opening by bait, but you've got to find the follow up can't be the one off round win
I mean for both of them. It's just so expensive
Long is not much closer to the finish line.
Not much closer to the 2-1 pool.
Trying to open up an angle for Sizi.
Then do it himself.
Yeah.
Oh, boy.
What do you do?
to the Blitz headshot and Gale tries to track that movement.
Here's the stomp over to the garage.
All it does is give Blitz a chance at a second frag.
Brutal that happens after a pause.
So handedly, two raw duels they were looking for.
Senfiel trying to cut it off.
Blitz in with a triple.
In fact, Fawze had nothing to do with this.
Just Blitz popping off outside, countering all of their plays
to try to find that first frag in 9-10,
contributing when this round is already done.
Kenzie Zora's going to be on the line side as well,
and there is not a single kill here for Bait
in the follow-up of round 19.
Rock solid rotate downstairs last round.
Good showing of a hold, and then you are just
meeting your maker in the form of Blitz.
And now you got to decide if you want to invest.
I mean, surely you just even out.
Spend two grand on these two and...
They really thought they were taking fights on their terms.
No, they're buying.
Instead, Blitz punishes each and every time.
They're going for it.
It's game time.
They're making a big decision here.
Crossing the rainbow.
You need to take it.
It's daunting walking up on the smokes like that because you don't know when they're gonna
get popped open and you can be exposed but instead the Mongols, and particularly Blitz,
kept his alertness at an all-time high, gets paid off for it, now he's got this 5.7 and
MPL's hands and just trying to tuck it to red.
Well once this smoke grenade fades and obviously the smoke being there is already a red flag for the Mongols
Think you would make sure cautious
Might have snuck by they were kind of they thought they were watching this so it's possible. They don't actually
But still oh and PL comes out with a double kill
Not a bad start to this one considering guns on all of the rest
Sissy with a scout takes a leg shot out of the op and
And 9-10, 20 kills into this game, gives the young prospect a little more to work with.
A second chance at life here in round 20 for Sizi.
Senthiel could have tried to move this MP9 up to the secret challenge.
Lots to be desired on that one from Mzinho. He falters and now what's left of the Mongols is to walk out into the lobby
where Alex is deducted in and waiting for this kind of a move.
Time to clear him, and it costs them 9, 10, 10, next, and bait still with a bit of fight left in them.
Okay, that's why you invest, I guess. They keep it a little bit loose, and I think there was this one moment where,
I mean, the default was they go top silo. They're holding. They're kind of jiggle spotting.
Anybody walking outside of that spot, they just missed him at some point.
Maybe they were there a little bit too late, but that's what opened it up.
And actually, second kill from MPL is very impressive. I think it was a quick headshot, because Koko was full health.
two-round game no freebies back on the office is a
couple AKs brings two filled troubles
What a lifelike ramp, yeah.
Okay, ooh, SZ's dead, now he's got a real challenge.
He's getting destroyed right now.
Main ramp is going to be a problem here, the player's going to step up with one, but
It's a glory out of the Mongols, and it has done any matter of seconds this 21st round of play.
Again, it pops like a grape right here. That is nuts. How quick that split came to fruition right after taking the kill outside.
It felt like the default was going to go a little slower. No, 9-10 with his first second and third kill of the round. All perfect.
Unfortunately for the new kid on the block, Sizi is getting slammed against these last few rounds.
Yeah, every way he's wanted to play outside.
Doesn't matter if he has an op or not, it's not been useful, really.
Sitting a 9 and 16 score line in the face of the Mongols challenge, 12th round secured,
three map and match points by the Mongols.
The final timeout between either of the coaches to be burned right here right now.
just these smokes that Sizi has kind of been neutralized with at times.
Yes, they open them up, try to give him challenges.
You know, they've been trying to set up Sizi for his impact,
but the Mongol is just too sharp in denying him.
That's really the way to put it.
I mean, it's not like he's getting knifed and shot in the side or anything like that.
It's really just like as soon as he's in vision, boom, he's dead.
It's not a lack of awareness.
You know what's coming.
He barely has time to do anything.
It is just Mongols shooting at that sharp.
Right now they go heavy into the lobby again for round 22.
Trying to catch players top silo with the triple nade,
but nobody's home for the Mongols.
They will still drop smokes outside
to create some uncertainty
and then take this challenge towards the eagle,
which does hit Koba Zara.
Fommas is here to work as well.
And BLL from the corner, this one's not done yet.
The FP9 tries to swing in, and as CZ goes for the reload, this 2 vs 3 is evened out again.
The Mongols fighting for ramp tooth and nail.
Instant pause. Get there next two duels. Make it a two on two.
But I bet it's the Mongols who are a little bit scared now.
They'd have the chance to gamble if they'd like to.
Get into spots. Make the hard read.
It could be a spot where the store gets swung open for one kill and suddenly you can't plant.
Someone might have to pull it made out.
Alex is waiting for his chance to strike.
Yes, he's low.
But he's also a guy who has almost nothing to lose right now.
Alright, Chen dropping the bomb down.
Interestingly.
Wanted to keep that gun in hand.
Okay.
Okay, get your gun out brother.
Blitz!
Oh!
From beyond the grave, he's so lucky Alex was tagged.
I think there's a stack.
I feel like you wouldn't believe it right now.
9-10 starts to depart the bomb site. This could catch him off. Shadow advantage.
And 9-10 blasted away by the SMG. Bait win the first of three needed to get to overtime.
He blew the door open and mauled it, which I guess if he's actually playing back makes sense
if he's not there right in front of the door waiting the whole time.
Yeah, it would prevent somebody from swinging in, but what if the guy's standing right there?
The only thing I was thinking was, let's just have a guy watch it just in case, at least that first.
But obviously, that does mean they have him in a spot that can watch more things.
Ooh, this is interesting because we've got tech 9s for two of the five Mongols.
Let's see if it matters.
We've got them fully invested, playing with one round of lost bonus.
Everyone's broke this round.
Our little low on grenades on the CT side. We have an MP9 for Alex in upper.
You see these entries before.
Flash comes over, Molotov for the player on hot flashbangs.
They're so alive!
But still, CT's regain vision.
Wait, what?
Alex jumps into a terrace that just seemingly doesn't shoot back.
You've got two players barely standing now on the side of bait.
Both of them are here on the 8th floor.
Let's got the kill.
He finds his, but he sits back down on 11 health.
What's happening?
Kenzie Zor is just pushed into hot.
Blitz should just get flanked right now.
He does.
It is now a one round game.
It is a high probability of overtime in this match for Bait.
And it really didn't feel like that was gonna be possible
with the quality of rounds that we've seen out of the Mongols.
Hell, with the quality of the utility
that was even a part of that execute.
I can't believe the guy backside didn't die.
Boi blind goes wide, standing out of the open.
Yeah, those flashes hit everything.
It gets very awkward there for the Mongols, and like we said, had nothing more to play with, so it has tech nines and even fewer utilities.
Has bait slot in to a likely round win here in the 24th of play.
Overtime right there for the taking.
Ooh, that smokes a little. It's shallow. I mean, it's fine because it's watching it.
to take a challenge to ramp again, but this time it's a solo essential in the corner.
Yes it is.
This is all it is, but that's by his standards.
Good into the corner, Sizi on the scene, and Mongols busted open as they tried to take
that ramp room, bait, string together three rounds to force overtime, and the Mongols
with that full-blown execute into the A-side are going to be beating themselves up
for not ending it there because they've given bait a real chance now.
Yes they have.
I think bait are going to be happy to take this first overtime on CT.
Try to put together some more rounds based on what they've seen so far.
And again, half the battle for them is shooting well, and they're doing that.
Maybe this gets tricky when they switch over. Maybe they don't even need more than one round when they do.
All that come back here for bait.
That's a nice way to activate somebody who's been struggling just going to Yard to try
to play those harder reads outside.
Nice simple push.
Still comes down 1-1.
I think that's exactly the best positions for the CTs.
It feels like he is the most important part of this puzzle, to activate and upper him,
but he's really taking the time.
He's right up left right now.
I think he's trying to drop.
Yes, they are.
They just dropped entirely.
I've seen you guys caught outside.
challenge on the lower floor and you see the head of a sential frag grenade with
his name on it he's gonna bounce right on him he'll sit on 73 health and still
a challenge from both sides of the ramp retake already and Alex finds the opening
a little whip around here from Techno but too many targets to topple and 9-10 of
it late to this party despite his best efforts but they are all defuse and he
hits that first one defuser flow and he gets him off Alex doesn't have a kit
but it's a 10-second defuse, so still plenty of time for this one.
Bait are in the lead off this round.
But if he doesn't get that kill, if somehow 9-10 kind of gets lost inside of that smoke grenade
with no kit on him, things get extra awkward.
Bait find the first in OT.
Yeah, they don't really care about that though at this point.
I think they're just looking to get Nuke over with.
It's the third map in the series.
They'd have had to really punch upwards to make this happen, and they honestly have,
showing no fear.
9-10 still in the kind of form that could just be game-winning if he pieces together the
right sequence, if he's put in the right position.
But it's been harder and harder to get through this defense as Sissi's positioning has been
refreshed, right?
Getting him away from Grosh has bowed very well for Bait, NPL finding that kill, the
lurk outside last round.
It's not these early deaths versus the CT AWPer.
Yeah, give him some easier fights, just more aggressive, and if he gets comfortable, it feels like now this needs going.
It shows us he's capable.
A little good challenges into the ramp room, good rotation as well at one point, and right now he's just going to probably keep popping these smokes open.
we saw the extra cash of maids and there is just nobody crossing behind this.
Careful, they're really assuming there's this play coming
on the secret cross, but it's Hummer that we're worried about.
Kenziezor finds the skill first, CobraZera's gonna try to crank the pressure now onto Maid
and Alex isn't able to fall back. Kenziezor does get into the vent tuck
And you've got a 7-feel up in Heaven already.
Sizi collects the kill. Outer.
And now they're going to turn their backs to Kensi.
So our element of surprise looks good.
9-10-5. It starts to get active.
But the trade's effective here by Bate.
And a miss shot now by Sizi.
Reopens the threat of Blitz.
Ooh, a second miss shot.
But the slide down into the back of Scythe's been hurting.
Testing the side of the silos.
Sizi closing the gap.
And the pressure on the flank is real.
It is two rounds in a row
for overtime now out of bait oh and now they're starting to have a little bit of
fun too they can finally breathe it got a lead and a gap I love the mini splits
out of out of the mongols and we've seen them in the past they've just been so
overwhelming and fast but so impressive that they deal with it one guy talked
opposite that was enough
I think that was a Mara Strat through off the Taccloth, and while those are niggas, we need to try to figure this out.
Try to keep it simple with the ramp hit and the trade is good by Blitz.
You're never going to expect Sissy down here.
He drops right into the off-scope and Sissy back for seconds.
for seconds, pot by 9-10 is relegated to KK, still capable with it,
bought off by the double door swing, it is flawless in overtime here by Bait.
What are we talking about here? Bait are just crushing all of a sudden.
And just as I said before, they might not even need more than one T-round
now that they switch over.
It's been some real resilience shown by Bait in this series.
They were smashed out of the game in the very first half of Ancient.
Even within this nuke game, pistol conversion for the start of their T side, only the fourth and fifth round win coming in the 11th and 12th round of bad T side.
We had five rounds in the second half where their CT side economy is tested back and forth rounds. They peel up forward with those last three in regulation.
Another big problem on T side was getting wins, bomb plants. They were winning without that.
Rockles gonna allow them to win that way. They're gonna force them into a slow structured round where they
inevitably, inevitably crash.
I'm gonna give those Rod Duel's where they've been shot.
Tensies are truly looking to be the difference-maker here on Decider.
25 frags to his name.
Sissy finding form as this game has gone on as as he was repositioned.
It's nice to see that Alex kinda saw that.
Keep the AWP mobile, give him something fresh, and let him find impact which he's done now.
Full-on successful cross here, this hasn't been blown open, there isn't full vision for
the CTs, and Blitz is playing Big Garage, which means he could slow flank lower, but
Amdino, he's coming in just in time, but it's without any other assistance.
The big garage is great, especially to cover wraps, to cover anybody walking into mini,
but it's slow for having to rotate downstairs, there's a lot of pressure on MZeno.
Climbs up.
The opposite still just played behind the railing, and they've got this lurk in place.
Down into the single-door swing, Tecto collects the Kenzies or frags, all atop in
front of 9-10 is going to make this uncomfortable, bomb planted, 4 vs 3 advantage, sure,
and Sendieres keep the CTs in bay.
Secret duel picked up by Ascentiol.
Suddenly that man advantage is gone up in smoke.
CobraZera on a similar challenge
makes one loud step alongside Tecno
who's gonna find the back of Alex
prior for the taking
and a frag grenade that doesn't kill Ascentiol.
Porter will get cleared,
but Ascentiol still fights on from this position.
Fire in front of him.
Surviving an extra second,
they will jump on top of that bomb.
Wait.
No, he doesn't have a kit!
Oh, it's so slow.
Techno doesn't have the kit.
This comes down to the wire, and Mongols got it.
Both good.
Very close.
Sketchy situation there with not everybody having the diffuse kit,
but still the Mongols move forward with the first in overtime.
Yeah, Leasy runs right for it.
They put that one together.
It's too away to bring this to another overtime.
It's not impossible, obviously.
But it's already a good first effort here from Bate.
I wonder what the greater, obviously you can lurk cut, you can lurk, uh, squeaky, but what
the greater plan was with Kenzie Zor, if they're definitely going lower, everybody's unspotted
and he's in a position to stop a vent rotation, they also had no idea anybody could be rotating
down behind them when they were in D-Con.
And that makes no sense because Techno got the kill on their lurker A site, so you
know somebody's coming down from A, why wouldn't you consider the vent?
idea maybe you just love the color orange just staring at the door I think
maybe a cential when he caught the flank on blitz they could have thought I
think maybe he took a look into vent at the same time or who knows but either
way Alex was certain his intention was needed on site
Fact that they could even avoid that kind of a snake in this room.
Oh, see ya.
The peel gets erased.
but Blitz goes big in a critical round of overtime
with a quad kill that kicks off outside.
Yeah, from the first glance outside to that rotation,
Kerberzerra, he was playing with house money in that position.
And now it gets a little bit scary,
because yeah, they had three rounds to play with.
They knew that coming in and winning a T-side round
was going to be difficult.
Yeah, they won the last two rounds
of the first half of the map,
but they did it off of frags alone.
They didn't get it into a good bomb plant position.
They didn't really outplay the mongols per se, they just had a huge highlight moment from a Senpheol in one.
How are they going to conjure up a real opportunity to beat mongols straight up here?
Now that we're down to one round, the first half of the sober time doesn't really matter.
They're not surprised they did try ramp for that reason, again the majority of the rounds
We're guard focused, default-y, and slow.
Worried about Blitz coming at it again, and wall of smokes in front of him.
Intent's been a monster here on map 3, 31 frags to his name.
I'm serious for him, but you need to be patient.
Flashback towards squeaky.
Oh! A place gets popped this time!
Close pops is held by CobraZera!
Third kills his!
Whips it back around as the site's just getting melted all around him.
Still nobody else barring CobraZera to post anything in this attack.
Mzino, a little too fixated on the hut plate,
but he will still get that trade back.
Alex swings, and Mzino's the one to force us into double OT.
three back. Whoa. And they're laughing.
Enthusiastic all of a sudden.
A 1v2. MZNU goes unchecked, gets enough time to go ahead and look at opposite
vent and they can't pull off the 2v1.
A clutch the way of the Mongols, a full reset as they get into another over
time. And first over time, Bait got to start CT.
Now I think it gets a little bit scary for them.
All elusive T-Round win, and that last one had the makings of a victory for Bait.
It really did.
Honestly, Cobra's era.
Great showing from him to save the round.
Kentsy's are under pressure.
Three players coming at him inside of Lobby will see if Bait decide to play fast elsewhere.
And as they try to challenge outside of main 9-10, that was looking awkward for a second, but he's still able to adjust it.
Mid-Stove had to click down, that was difficult.
Lands it. The Centiole will find the recovery frag towards Cobra ashore, but still 4v3 for Mongols.
They'll smoke off main, put a Centiole on ice for the time being.
That's where he put up his highlight near the end of the first half.
Smoke them out.
But you've got to expect them to start to make their move towards heaven once you smoke off main like this
It's just gonna be tough for 9 10 up close with an awp. There's just no one no one's splitting though
So he doesn't have to look
Seq you're coming through double kill already this round
Let's make sure that nobody can move over to ramp an MC. No just gonna blow down the double
Sissy slips down into site bum on his possession and worried about this other CT
He's the new guy, but he's by himself, he can do whatever he wants, and Vent is open.
That's what he's looking for.
He catches Tecto, sticks around though, and that moment of hesitation is going to cost
him blitz making sure he can't escape.
He had the perfect idea right there.
He saw Vent was open.
He would have dropped down, I think, if he had not seen anybody inside of Squeaky.
But when he got that first kill, tried to do a little extra, couldn't have, didn't
have the info and you know, not surprised, Heaven was the last thing on his mind.
That's where they all came out of.
It's like half a second of reconsideration after he gets that kill on squeaky,
but half a second makes a world of difference when Blitz is the guy hunting you down.
There's nothing to get upset about, you know, with an attempt like that going wrong.
The only issue is that those two rounds won't be hard to come by.
That's two of them back to back with big half-time footing in a round.
It feels like, as these overtime go on, they're getting closer and closer to this all-elusive terrorist round of wind, still without one counter-two.
Yeah, I just lost four straight two rounds to go to make it happen.
That's probably what it's feeling like. The question is, does it get easier? Does it get harder?
Either way, they're getting closer.
The Mongols' T-Site struggle also real.
They just don't have that burden of doing it back to back.
That's Bates' problem to have.
His forward positioning from Blitz could catch somebody off guard, but it means he's not
to be a part of actually holding site if that is where the threat comes through. Alex getting closer
to this great flashbang, making sure that they don't write off the possibility. Trying to lock
horns now with the duel over towards main. You've also got to be careful about secret. There's a
lot of presence here for the Mongols. Yeah, they're always half... Oh, M.D.O. pushes forward
and Alex takes them down. That's an interesting prospect.
Now if they were mullying back this push, well, now let's turn it into an empty outside area.
Up to players.
Alex is going to get hunted down, or he can actually deliver another kill.
No, not on such low health.
Squeaky door held as well.
That is the bomb thrown forward by Bates.
Shooting gallery as far as 9-10 is concerned.
What is even happening?
He will continue to lock that down.
They tried very adamantly to make that one happen, not expecting an AWP maybe
on the other side, but pretty desperate for the bomb to go in first through the door like that.
I mean, they thought that CobraZero was the one mini guy. It ends up being 9-10 behind
with Smoke at opposite, and then both of them coming through.
They're getting tripped up. This guy run around inside a mini, hearing the offshot wondering...
Who's who?
So closer it might be an illusion to the Mongols.
10-35 kills off that sequence. The Mongols on the brink of back-to-back CT sweeps in both OTs.
Xenio tries to throw a frag grenade into the middle of that pack and it does do good damage,
but he is sitting inside of the fire, burning himself out. And so Kenzie Zork could have
Add that headshot to the tally.
Mad Advantage here for bait.
He said they've gotten close.
Well, this is their final attempt at it.
And Techno 4K out through single stops them in their tracks.
At least for one.
Double up towards the dark corner.
They do find boots on the ground towards B.
It's dangerous.
They don't have control side.
Are they really going to go for the plant?
Hearing that utility come down from secrets,
drawing CTs away from the duel.
And then we've got Sissi, the blindside Techno.
Single door flung open.
Cobra Zera can't get into the kill.
And it's a four versus two advantage now for Bate.
And they're sixth outing in overtime.
They stick the landing, one finally on the scoreboard
for the attack, and Bate back to the comfort zone of defense
next.
Yeah, that'll be key.
They got into control.
They got down lower.
They got their trade quickly when they got out ramp.
So they both kept it simple and got the bomb down.
The two keys for them to win a T round.
I think this is a situation where both teams will be happy.
My bait, at least they got their one-rounding goal, they can try on CT Mongols.
Even if they've lost some of their T rounds, they have a way better T side overall.
He's really gone just a high volume of frags in the last couple of rounds.
Everywhere under the garage.
Yeah, that's the thing, and we'll see about this half.
Start to use a little bit differently, but until that trend continues, they haven't been around again.
That also beat me. You can not participate outside, but that doesn't mean it's not going to get taken.
It was just giving too much value to the long-distance flash to be able to get a kill so easily out here.
It'd be like bits of bits floating in the open and instantly getting two frags.
Oh, that's a mistake and a half in LPL.
Thinking he could get away with that.
You give over the five versus four to the Mongols.
Blitz already deep and Sissy goes wide.
That's 9-10-10, and now Cobra up front!
Blitz still gets behind the box, and that's what's gonna blindside Suzy in the end,
so a good sequence from him. Techno 4k collects the headshot, down to 10 health, but flanked by Ascentiol.
That's one of two spotted. I mean, Alex already lost a little bit of health.
I don't know if they have confirmed info on him, but Uppers is theirs for now.
These bait players so split up.
They join up into the ramp momentarily, but it's really no what's happening.
Molotov popping inside of the A site that's going to confirm it.
Bomb is not planted for Blitz.
Yeah, interestingly it's a bomb planted back site, which is going to draw them out of hide.
There's no greater move at play here.
Blitz is not flanking around ramp to go upper into heaven.
Get on Alex, plus the smoke.
You put that smoke on bomb and Blitz has to cover this distance.
This could get awkward and on top of it.
Emsinho gets nothing. So sure enough, on top of the bomb with the smoke. What are you gonna do?
Banking on the incendiary. He's gotta charge it down and there's just no time for that.
Oh, it's exactly what you envisioned when he put the bomb there.
Emsinho needed to multi-kill. Couldn't get a single one.
And just as much as bait didn't know what was going on, Mongols didn't know where they were gonna retake from.
They thought that Mini was open, they would have planned for it, but they thought that someone was gonna be there.
Maybe thinking because of the incendiary, it's alright to go for the back plant, we can always set it a blaze at a fine time for Blitz and the clutch.
Yeah, it's true.
Spoker, Nath0, fully counters that, suddenly Mongols looking foolish.
That is true.
That's a volley. It's gonna make the difference.
But that's a game of chance you play. That's what you're gonna bank on.
Rock, paper, scissors, rather.
Bait, rock solid in the close.
Longo's cut down, Molotov towards secret, that's going to force MPL.
And then also his teammate to dive back.
CobraZera gets the trade, 9-10 scours the field, waiting for what's always felt like
an inevitable challenge from Garage, from Outer, but it's already MPL dead.
And then Ascentiol right there, stacked on top of it, two deaths for the CT side
in the same position.
These are the guys that have had to pick up the mantles since Sissi struggles
outdoors early and unfortunately it is a position where the Mongols continue to thrive.
It could be walking directly into him on this round. Cobra's there to give him a lead here but
they're actually it's going to be a little bit too slow to go around if you can't go lower so
a late squeaky walkout which is actually totally unprotected is going to be on the menu. Are
Are they dropping or not?
Yeah, they are.
Down they'll go.
Nothing these players on A site can do about it.
Sizi does he have a move?
Alex, Alex over towards control gets shredded by CobraZera.
And Sizi rotated into upper.
It is a little too late for this.
Trying to make a move into the upper at the very least.
One before attempts, dropping down into it.
They've already got Vents under control
and so done for 18th round secured by the Mongols.
Another chance to close this game right now.
It's the way in which they get these trades
that it's just so hard to game plan for, if you're bait.
It's, you know, they force you to respond
to their outside presence,
and they're just so good at lurking.
Like, who's gonna be better than Blitz
at finding ways to shoot you in the side, outside,
especially if someone like Sizzy
is way too uncomfortable or too inexperienced
to be there right now?
We'll see what kind of play Longo's going to bring.
You know what their least variance option is, Nancy.
I was close.
I've got to kill like that previously.
I would have felt nice.
I would have felt nice.
And then this round, contrast to the last, Zero Garage Control.
No threat of a secret heat coming.
Glitz may be concerned about it. But as they put that wall of smokes up, if it's anything for bait to have to handle, it's just total uncertainty now.
They have kerneled up inside of this A site and they are hoping with fingers crossed that the offense comes their way.
Sizi is going to be weaponized, taking a deeper ankle techno to tiptoe into it in a moment.
Yeah, might just walk it...
Oh, no, no, no, no!
Sira got missed!
Rifler also popped. There's a third piece here in position, but it's also dealt with.
And so NPL has to be the hero, 2 vs 4 for Bait to try.
And Blitz is going lower, excuse me?
CobraZera.
This is drawing the bomb back, NPL is ready for it, but he gets pounced out!
CobraZera comes through with another multi-kill, late into this game.
And AscentTheOld tiptoeing his way up to Heaven, which has already been hit with utility.
The Mongols with a slow burn squeeze in this series.
An unwinnable situation for Asentheal, smoked off after the fire and the frags and a CobraZera
performance here, propping up what has been an amazing play from 9-10 as this game has
gone on.
Oper makes the difference here on Nuke.
Sizi was well weaponized as the game went on but his struggles outside continued
for other pieces of bait as well.
All of this team could not hold back the Mongols' outer and they will move through in
double OT to the 2-1 pool in Cluj.
So I said this after Mirage, I called it a Macy Counter-Strike and I feel like that is
the best descriptive word for this as well.
However, despite it being Macy, the Mongols still comes out with a victory.
So I mean, at the end of the day, that's what we'll remember versus how hard it was
for them to get there.
Yeah, I think that's the biggest takeaway.
At the end of the day, you know, you can always, you know, hide behind the
the fact that as long as you get the win, it doesn't matter how you get it.
I'm sure if you ask the Mungles, they're not necessarily proud of how they got there.
They would probably agree that wasn't the best performance we've seen from them,
even with the new guy coming in.
But, at the end of the day, when you look at the scoreboard,
when you look at the bracket, when you look at the standings,
Mungles will be 2-1 and that's what we expected them to be so far into.
Yeah, I mean, I think even before the game started,
you kind of knew you were in for a recipe for something
that could be a little bit messy to deal with, right?
You got a team in Bate who have only just started playing Nuke for the first time
basically a year and a half. You know you have a models team who is going through
multiple roster changes over the last few months have you know only played Nuke a
handful of times and all of them have been losses and so at that point you're
kind of you know in a situation where both teams are trying to discover
themselves on this map you know what is our identity what are we good at where
are we lacking at you know what do we feel about how we should be approaching
things and I think that you saw the limitations from both sides you know
I think for bait particularly kind of when you're looking at the T side in
first half of the game. It's the same thing that I kind of saw yesterday against her go up,
where they're just really reliant on just playing very gather and go punchy counter strike,
but when that's not working, they really haven't had the gear to shift to. And then when you go
to models, it's the same thing. Like, you know, I think, you know, covers are actually trying
to settle in. They're still trying to figure out how to make things work. And it just
leads to Memphis CS. But like you said, at the end of the day, the W is what matters most.
And, you know, while models clearly are still struggling as a team, and the post-sensory
era of their story. They are at least right there on the precipice of making the playoffs.
What do we think about Baytcher on you?
I mean they did a good job coming back into the game and forcing it into overtime.
First half was somewhat decent but as Cornelius said being the cast, the outside
was a bit of a problem for them. I think some of the regression on the CT side as well
was a bit of an issue for them. We saw it a couple of times on Yard. We even saw it a
couple of times in overtime as well that they really wanted to fight. Especially Kropa got a lot
job done in overtime. So in that regard I think if you're bait you you're
obviously sad that you lost Nuke you had opportunities to win it you see it here
as well you're up to 2 to 13 that's a winning position in second overtime in
that regard. So I feel if you're bait you're a little bit disappointed because
I also do think both of these lineups are on the cusp of not making the
playoffs. You know I'd expect them both to be two two teams and we kind of
got the strength you know measured out right here where you would still
actually that the Mongols are slightly ahead of Bate in that race but as I said you know in
in the days time or after tomorrow I'd expect both of these teams to be two and two and now
they can't face each other one more time so someone else will have to do the job but at
the end of the day you know Bate where I expected them to be the Mongols slightly
disappointing but getting the job done. Yeah it's a good way to put it I mean obviously you
know we have a team in Bate who are still very much trying to figure things out right I mean
I mean, they obviously had a really cool major run.
They had maybe a couple smaller things before that
that made them interesting.
They've gone through their own changes bringing
the new 16-year-old opera, but they're still, you know,
working through the growing pains of moving up
to this level of competition.
And for moguls, it's kind of the other way around.
You know, you've been at the peak.
You know, you've kind of seen what it's like
to be one of the top five teams in the world,
but now you're kind of sliding downwards.
You're trying to stop that fall
and try to get back up again.
And Koby Zara, I think, you know,
there's definitely a guy to point out the new guy.
He did come alive.
critical moments in some of these overtime rounds that really helped get
to see him across the line. That's a good time to see from the answer. Yes it's
good standing the pressure you know because coming in as a new guy obviously
there's gonna be some nerves there's a learning transition period etc etc but
one of got down to the nitty-gritty when he went into overtime he was the
most impactful player on the server together with 9-10 and I think if
anything that's a healthy sign you know not really crumbling under the
nerves under the pressure etc etc so there's positives to find for the
outside of the win, one of them being Cobra Cera.
Again, there's always going to be this unfair conversation.
Is he going to be the next sensor?
Can he have the same amount of impact?
No, but he's not expected to either.
I'd still say that it's up to the 9-10s.
It's up to the misinios.
It's up to Tecno for that matter as well,
to step it up a bit, you know, and cover in that regard.
And then we look at Cobra Cera,
what he's done so far this tournament,
I think it's been a positive,
just like we saw with controllers when he came in as well.
So I think there's positives to spot in the Mocles,
but we need to see a higher level
level of counter strike if they want to have any aspirations of mixing with the big boys.
Okay, so talking about the big boys, this is a stacked event right? We have all the big boys here.
When you see Mongols and Bates, based on the series we've just seen in their previous days,
do either of these teams find themselves in playoffs?
I think one of them, yeah, will probably make it. I think the Mongols is the most realistic
answer. Again, it depends on who they match up against, but I think there'll be a
placeholder team in the quarterfinal. I don't expect neither of the two teams,
even if they were to make it to the playoff to do much action in the playoff.
Yeah, I think like quarterfiles and actually getting to see the arenas about
the best it's gonna get for either one of these teams, unfortunately, but honestly
for both those teams that be a step up from where they were before, right? I mean
you have a mogul's team who obviously came dead last basically at Crackhaw and
again you have a bait team that's never really tasted success like that
before to make the playoffs for the big tier one event. So you know this
is an opportunity for both of those teams to kind of take that next
step. You know again you can learn so much in practice and things at
nature but now you're getting the real reps in pressure situations you
you know on that you know tournament environment and so this is a opportunity to
take a step up. Talking about playoffs we're gonna find out which of our first
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In this, we're going to start looking at some of the changes that are coming through on
the maps and looking at Anubis.
Looking at A-Site, the new box coming in.
Who does this benefit more, the CTs or the Ts?
My opinion right now, it's a little bit better for the CTs, but the fact that only one
One Molo from the T side can take both the right next angle and the box at the same time.
I feel like it takes a little bit of the power on that addition because one Molo can still
do the job during the executions.
So maybe the box is still too close to the entrance there.
But other than that, I think it's a good thing and we need to try it out more.
It has helped, it's not like a huge change, but I think it does help a little bit
in terms of the retakes.
because it does give you a little bit more cover.
And before, like, the T's would,
when the box was down, like, down the stairs,
before they could, like, for after-pants,
it was easy for them to hide behind a bit
and give, like, a bit more cover for them.
And now it's a bit more open
where they can't really just stand there.
They've kind of opened some more angles.
So, and for CTs, yeah.
I think it gives you a little bit more cover
and something to play around in the situations.
If enemies are going out there or something
and we are close to do some chaos,
like fighting or something,
it's easier for CT to go out through camera.
It's a bit easier because you have this cover from the box.
But if it comes to retake, like if you're CT and you want to retake the bomb site,
I think it's so hard with the box because you can just play around it
and pick in some good timing, and I think it's hard.
But I like the strangles, but you have to show a good game with it.
You get that, you grow with it.
There was like maybe 2-3% of like advantage for CT,
but it's like useless box, I don't know.
It's like you can use only one wall or obviously you can smoke them all and hide there, but it's like not that big of an advantage, you know.
It's still like, I'd say nothing changed on Anubis, except for Nidale.
I think it's a positive change. I mean, it doesn't really help for holding the bomb site because the molotov still gets it.
But I think for retakes and not making it as strong for tees on the after plants, I think it does do its job at least.
Welcome back to PGL, Cluj and Napoca. I'm your host Richard Lewis. We've got a very familiar
game coming up so some familiar faces on the desk to talk about it. We have of course
got Maui Snake and a premium analyst at this point, one of the last man standing.
Does Moses count?
Only for the majors.
Yeah, only for the majors.
Yeah, he's the desk abolitionist.
He does count though, yeah.
And of course, Yanko, you know, the former face coach in here to watch some high level
counter strike.
And then MBR.
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Don't you dare shout when you're winning around playing against them?
Yes, yes, I did see that fallen tweet yet to put out for a FUT, so yes, it's sad to see,
but fallen a class act as ever.
Now that we're going to talk about that, we're actually going to talk about the game a little bit.
It's a one that is familiar.
I know the community of Sixie and these two teams go up against each other because
as rivalries go, you called it El Asicó yesterday, which is fair because a rivalry,
The other guys have to win sometimes and that's not what happens when Vitality play Maus
and that's because Maus lose a lot.
Yeah, they lose all the time really outside of that Cologne semi-final which was a big one.
There hasn't been a meaningful really series that Maus has won.
The only other time was a seeding game when both teams were already in the playoffs
that I am trying to do and I mean the reason for that is there's no real analysis to do about this matchup.
Like mouse players, they just break down.
Against Vitality, they just break down.
And they break down individually.
They break down as a team.
They start playing way, way worse
than they do against any other team
in the circuit.
We can take a look at some examples, I believe.
Absolutely. This is just from Krakow.
And you're thinking, okay, maybe you year,
you us, right?
Like, new mouse.
Some resolutions.
New rivalry. Something's gonna happen.
You know, this is around towards the end
of the first half.
coming back into it. Vitality is actually on a half-bite with, I think, one saved gun.
Perhaps, you know, they're working outside where they have the weapon advantage. Maus is,
Maus being on the T side. Vitality going with three players down, secret, sort of to
re-aggress. And these are USPs at the start, right. Great trade from Bezzi.
Hojimis is a shot close range. Apex pushes to main, gets a kill.
And now it's the Zybu show, really. I mean, he had a Blinder of a tournament and it hits
to great shots, and this is just how the round collapses, it's like players can't do
a good enough job of holding and they fall apart.
It's a really simple anti-eco and one that you would expect that mouse would communicate
a little bit more through, because in the beginning of the round, Exersion gets tagged
by a handful of Deagle shots from Xayah who was just spamming through the smoke, and
he doesn't call for any help.
It doesn't, it gets worse.
This is the second map.
Torgy with a shoulder peek from, what is this angle for the shoulder peek?
Gershwin is telling him, this player is going jumping up, he falls down, now they only have
Roland in front of car, he's the only A Defender, having to worry about short and long, they're
coming out, this is a Glock Eco guys, this isn't a Force Buy, this isn't like, oh we
have four Deagles and you know, one Hero AK, this is Glocks and a P250, right, and
the A Defense crumbles, now they're 3v4, they're taking ages to even start this
retake they sort of don't even believe they can retake this but it's like they're
on a glock eco we have to try and retake this we can't save in this round and
they are making an effort but in the end so much time as fast getting situated
for this retake that in the end they won't have enough time to diffuse and
this was just it was comical at this point watching the game it really just
feels like mouths are bringing in an unfounded nonchalance to how they're
playing out some of these situations the way that Torzzy just lingering
around short there the way exertion on the new clip is just holding for the lower push but he has
20 hp i mean you have to communicate that hey maybe somebody should help me on this because
that was a losing condition and they just played right into vitality's hands to vitality's credit
yeah they're creating these opportunities for themselves but maus on the other hand it just
feels like they're not speaking to each other nearly as well as they would in a group stage
game and vitality just obviously after so many games against maus there is not a single thing
on the server that makes Vitality uncomfortable going against Maus, like all of their calls
are instant.
The reactions are instant.
Players in every single position are never afraid to make a play, never afraid to go
for a move.
Even if it's not like the ideal situation, they have a bad read on an aggressive play
perhaps, it still works because this is what happens on an individual basis too for
Maus.
You have the stats up top from Krakow up until the semi-final, right?
It's things he was top five. I think maybe in the tournament great tournament, right?
Torji was doing well and so on and so forth then you go to the vitality game
I mean they just fall off a cliff. Yeah, is it that mouse a mental midgets though or is it a dwarf is the proper turn there
That's my bad. Or is it that?
Vitality and just have such a good handle on what mouse gonna do. They're able to just shut them down
I mean, you know, look, I've seen a lot of classic matchups and rivalries down the years where it's like the two teams are good
Individuality when they play each other one just has such an understanding of the other that they can never beat
I would boil it down to a couple of the individuals on mouths that play much beneath themselves and in both of those clips
We saw exertion at the heart of the problem in a couple of them
I mean he was the new colder that got pushed and he was also supposed to communicate to Torsey that they're jumping up
But rating-wise, on top of that, it's one of his worst teams against anybody in the top 20.
Despite the fact that he's played so many games against them, he just falls off a cliff completely.
It feels like he's just going through the motions of whatever was devised by Cycron and
by Brolin in the pregame, and he doesn't actually exercise any individual freedoms.
And I don't think he even brings the same level of focus that he does when he plays
other elite opposition.
I think it's also in regards to what you were asking, Richard.
I don't think it's a matter of, you know, Vitality has Maus figured out.
That's maybe if you go back to 2024 G2-Navi matchup, right?
Like G2 just couldn't really figure out the proper way to play against Navi, you know?
They were just losing in the 5-5s a lot.
It wasn't like they would crumble and all constantly have advantages and lose them.
No, they would struggle to be in advantageous positions against that team.
Here, it doesn't matter, right?
They're like, it doesn't matter what's going on on the server.
They had in another game, because in Chengdu, Maus beats them in the seeding game.
Then they play again in the semi-final, right?
And Maus had a 12-3 lead on T side Nuke,
on Vitality's pick, and they lose it in overtime.
It's like there's no situation that they can sort of...
That's unloosable to them in this matchup.
Well, we can look at some of the maps
and some of the head-to-head record that they've got.
I mean, it's kind of crazy.
You know, this will obviously factor into the veto a little bit later on,
but that's the head-to-head record moment.
Yeah, obviously, this doesn't include a couple of the maps in the pool, took out Train, which was probably Malz's best map versus Vitality last year.
But unfortunately, that's not in the pool for them.
But I mean, just look at how lopsided some of these are.
I mean, this is why it's such a wide open field for Vitality in terms of what they can pick.
Nuke undefeated since both of these rosters formed against each other.
Inferno incredibly lopsided.
The only saving grace for Malz is probably Mirage there.
And that's mostly just off the back of Spinks and Torsi understanding and playing around Vitality so well.
But if you look at some of the other players, it still is in Vitality's favor on Mirage,
because exertion just gets absolutely nothing done on that map.
I feel like that's going to be the man for me to watch in this series,
because big arenas, I feel like he definitely has an individual problem.
So at least show me some signs in a group stage that you can stay level at.
I also wondered how much respect does Apex have for Maus at this point,
and at this stage of the tournament, right?
Because we've seen them in the G2 series experiment a little bit with the maps,
and the Veto, and wanting to get more reps in.
What's the approach going to be here? If they really want to win this game and go 3-0, they're going to pick Dust.
If they have maybe other priorities and want to get more reps in on other maps, perhaps we see an overpass.
Perhaps we see something third, right? Maybe an Inferno. They've also been trying to work a little bit on that.
But that's in a way a problem for Maus too, because it's like, wow, we can't necessarily pinpoint where this is going to go outside of obviously their own mapec.
We can talk about Vitality obviously as well. They've been workmen-like. I think there's the framing I would use for them here
Hasn't been their best in the group stages, but as you've said, they've been happy to experiment with the veto
Maybe ban outmaps they would ordinarily pick to let ones they want to get some reps in through
And of course we've had the issue with Robs. So deathly ill that he nearly sat this one out
Now I actually did talk to the vitality support staff.
I caught them late last night when they would wrap up
and basically I asked like,
where is he on the scale of feeling better to back to bed?
And they said, let's call it on the mend.
And he did top fragging the last map he had as well.
So maybe not a factor going forward,
but just something people at home
might wanna be aware about.
Obviously that's gonna have a pretty deep effect
on vitality and their communication
and their coordination.
But I feel like in the stead of that,
you're getting a Zywoo 2026, which is almost exactly word
for word how Zywoo fans want you to believe that 2025.
I'm glad you framed it that way, actually,
because I've made a similar point.
I said that basically I think how he's playing at the moment.
If he'd been playing like that for all of last year,
then I wouldn't have had a problem with him being.
There'd be no question, because he has just
been the best player of this year thus far.
So it's nice to see that he's been able to take
the reigns as we saw in Krakow especially in the grand finals, hardcaring, just backpacking
everybody else on the team even when they're not stepping up to the level that we saw in
the previous year.
I don't know, I mean there's one more guy who has an MVP too this year, I'd say it's
pretty even.
No, I'm kidding, but I think, listen, there's one saving grace for Maus in this game, right?
And it's the fact that the stakes are relatively low, you know, that it's a 2-0 game,
if you lose obviously you're already in the playoffs, if not you get two more opportunities
And this is where vitality, you know, if they were ever going to be a bit complacent,
it's going to be at this phase of the tournament.
Right. So that and also for miles on the other side, but the stakes
not being so high, they don't crumble as hard.
They're, you know, about their top four streak and all of that.
They're very, very good at this stage of the tournament in this studio environment as well.
So I'm hoping at least for the fans and the viewers
that we can get a slightly closer series because of that.
So what are we going to see in the beat-down, guys?
It feels like it has to be Mirage for Maus.
Unless they want to go full loco and then go for an overpass,
because they did try and nuke in Krakow statistically.
It was the worst map for Vitality.
They haven't played it that many times.
Either I think that was the first time they played it,
maybe in that tournament in the semi-final,
but it backfired horribly as we could see.
OK, Vitality going for a Dust 2 pick here.
I feel like by the numbers, this is the strongest map
for them lately.
It's punished against Maus, obviously,
given the fact that they were permabaining it
in the previous season.
And to me, actually, both of these picks
look like you're really considering your current form,
because Maus, Inferno has been a bright spot for them.
It's one of the few maps where I actually can really
trust Brolin's calling, despite the fact
that the rest of the pool can be a little bit rockier
for him, especially in mid-rounds.
Although we did see that record, you know, I mean, it's kind of crazy vitality.
You're picking that map sometimes.
There should be overpasses last year, vitality with this one, you know, Mirage has been a
bit shaky.
It's a good map for Maus against vitality in the past too, so yeah, I don't want
to invoke that for the decider here.
Yeah, and I think for, you can see for Maus, you know, what they picked just a
week ago now is their ban in the second phase.
They're just struggling to find any sort of comfort against vitality on the other side
and it's really going to be an uphill battle.
Are you surprised not to see the mirage coming from Maus based on what we saw yesterday?
Because obviously Vitality did drop that map against Mongols.
Yes and no.
I'm surprised because of how vitality has been doing on it.
I'm not necessarily surprised because if you're a Maus, you want to make, you want
to go to as tactical map as possible, right?
to limit the opportunities for the individuals
on the side of vitality, you know,
make it so that the protocols matter more,
you know, utility matters more
and maybe you can choose your way a little bit at all then.
I feel like this veto still though,
favors vitality pretty strongly.
I mean, Dust2 is to me probably the most lopsided
of the three maps in favor of one team over the other.
There have been glimpses at times
where Dust2 comes together for mouse,
I think that vitality is going to be looking back after this first map one up. All right. I will bring enough commentators
It is of course sponge and machine
I'll ask I said yesterday. You must have been sick in commentating vitality games vitality amounts. You got to be sick of this one
Come on. Honestly. Yes
So flat in the playoffs, but this is the thing I agree with everything that was just said there on the desk by everybody
right even the stuff about the Tworves now, but
What what happens if mouse wins today? Right? It feels like it means nothing. They win. Okay, great
Right, that's what does it mean? They'll meet in the playoffs. It'll be a different story. All right
Well, let's have some deja vu boys take it away. Good film. Yeah, what's your win now? What's it? What what's this up?
Yeah, well, let's see. Let's get into it. Shall we dust orders at 41 and four?
Well, yeah, the numbers were crazy. There were numbers were absolutely crazy. They still are
Yeah, that's the point. They just keep building. It's nine in a row looking for ten right now by tiny
They're longest us to strictly this one. I'm sure ten in a row. They're longest is 13. Okay, so I'm still trying to track that
down. Yeah, indeed
Greatest competition themselves and their greatest enemy. Oh, Brolin's doing the apex flat. I see. Okay
Fight fire with fire and beat my town team with their own pistol setup
They have the advantage after the fight and they've lost the bomb.
Yeah, they do have this A site, sure, but this one now Apex, he's been good in the pistols.
Yeah, but Jimmy's been called for Brawland to lend a hand.
Two for him to consume with him.
Over, calm.
Nice and clean close.
Okay, pistol round, that's a good way to kick things off.
While we watch Messi play out this 1v4.
227 maps played for this five man roster of vitality. 33 of them have been against
mouse so that's roughly 15 percent of vitality's total maps against mouse.
It is definitely a matchup we've seen an awful lot of. This is lucky number 13.
You know the desk asks us, we say you might be sick of it, but how do you think
mouse feel? They must just be, it just must feel like a horrible episode
of Groundhog Day. Especially 10 to 2 record.
record. And as Yanko highlighted, there are some things going, you know, I actually support
your hypothesis that this is the kind of environment where mouths do have a fair shake of the stick.
The odds being relatively low is the fact that you've already got nice cushion to zero
up in Swiss. This is just your first opportunity to secure the playoffs. So this is where perhaps,
you know, like a third, fourth place deciding a little bit more confidence, a little less
overthinking weight tortures on short against pistols.
Yeah, it's alright, they're not E-Kators, I'm just going away.
It's a little bit more firepower behind this one.
Some of the desks showed from Krakow. Short control taken.
Options available right now. Will it be the crisscross? Will it be the short move?
Well, Flamzie lines up mid to B. Humps leaves for long lurk.
Hpx running to keep them busy on A.
So you smoke both sides of CT.
Spinks has got the angle for this.
He doesn't find the immediate frag, but Flames he caught.
Eventually, he's going to have to jam EBA, he's not that scared.
Spinks can jam EBA almost entirely doing the job themselves there.
Don't kill from them both.
He's really not overplaying here.
Just going to look to play it to close out the round.
Yeah, we have it. Exertion secures it.
Vitality is forced by only the signal kill to celebrate.
I think you're bringing up the context there of,
yeah, this matters. This is for the playoffs, right?
And that's probably the biggest thing you can take away
as far as this head-to-head.
Sure, Maus, you get another win against them,
but your biggest one, what the desk highlighted of Cologne.
So in the big scheme of things,
a finally corner back against Vitality
or beating them in the most important games.
No, this doesn't mean anything,
but to make sure you don't have to play extra days.
That does mean something, especially for Vitality.
They really are gonna want to win this, especially when he's got blocks on the road to recovery.
And we don't really talk about it, but now's the defending champs here in Cush.
True!
I think Apex returning after 11 years has been an established, I had that in crack-off.
Well, he won the Major back with Envious, so I'm sure he's gonna want to get the W as well.
Few less grey hairs back then.
And, uh, call them more entry-fragging.
Yeah, remember yesterday he was on one?
Shades of retro Apex for sure.
His staff hour shining yesterday they already go now
Yeah, and torgy's just gonna continue to reinforce that he's fine solo short against you guys. It's not a problem
Oh, it was there already. All right, so
I'm allowed to own any wall. Yeah, they should be able to find this one pretty easily now
Three zero start the mouse so
Money for the AWP but does go down some pops
A little bit worrisome, but just deathmatch, isn't it?
How much more?
How you can by Tati get out of this one?
Mezzie's got his signature cutie-deagle out.
Signature now?
Yep.
It's his signature cutie-deagle.
That's right.
You saw it once.
You've got Niko's deagle blaze.
You've got Mezzie's cutie-deagle.
It's Niko's birthday today.
Is it?
Yeah, so he's playing later today.
Oh, it's a mulberry.
The gradient collection.
That's a colour mulberry.
How's it be feeling, Radiant?
I'll stay here in this series right now. Here we go.
I'm not going to buck it out.
That'll clean it up. It actually takes the final two.
It sort of goes down shore,
but he didn't want to carry it through the MP9 anyway.
So out will come the AWP.
So we can get his and we'll get to see this tussle.
So it's over on the tags. Let's see if it's nades or smokes.
Now it's one to use for the cross.
Yeah, I think they've definitely learned that it's going to have to be something.
a lot of HE grenades used yesterday to get across safely. I think surely the HE is the answer.
I know Zai we obviously can hit some things just off feeling, but yeah. You don't want to be spending a smoke.
It's not going to cost the making that. Torji aggressive won't have the angle they've gone for.
The right side boost from his perspective left into the tunnels and that's quick.
We've seen flames get some absolute blinders yesterday.
Looks like he wants to make that specific close angle.
In fact, he put down low. 41 points.
They've got no short control.
Holding the channelment into that smoke actually, perfect.
There's a little bit of a gap over the top that can be played around and they're reading this as a likely fee or mid to be finished with
Exertion cheating over to join the likes of Spinks and Jimmy
Contrary to that belief he begs in the bomb on a rub with Massey outside of line
Yeah, they're still just struggling you till right now and this is actually quite perfect
Right the fact that Brolin who was meant to be locking down this position has given up the space
They're gonna be playing from sight slash goose
44 seconds. There is hope if Torgie trains his orb on long, but the fact that the orbs
on short. Yeah, they don't believe it's long at all.
Yeah. The setup here is very, very fragile. Could be a nasty death for Torgie's in the
open.
Attention.
Attention.
Attention.
Attention.
Attention.
Attention.
Attention.
Attention.
Attention.
Attention.
Attention.
Attention.
Realizes he needs help, Cavalry coming through CT, he's done very well.
Solid output, Apex trying to sprint that bomb across.
Zywoo still managing to find output, there is a push through the smoke though.
Has to plant.
He comes out, oh Zywoo adjusts onto the short side, Apex gets it down!
A recovery!
And a sphinx clutch demanded of him.
Zywoo has one bullet.
He only needs one, hasn't been missing a bead, hasn't been missing a bullet.
Apex just crab walks in to close.
Outrageous from Zywoo, they were in such a compromised position.
He still manages to prevail, just left and right, adjusting to the short player.
That's very stressful for the Apex coming out long there, and you strafe around that corner,
they give away the telebuff flash, it allows players to adjust anything, what is going on here,
and Brolin pumps it in a second.
It does good work, doesn't he, Brolin, but it's all about Zywoo.
These must hit right, if he doesn't, Round is going with it.
One of those, Vantali can break them early.
Close all-plant, towards you looking for the head-to-head.
I'm going to plane for a shorter grass, we'll not be getting out of this tonight, so the
jowls between the two orpas wanting to stay active, mid-door smoke, lobbed out now, and
the short molly-classic combo over on at home.
They're going to throw this one in their back pocket.
Now with the util and display, they're wary of some lower tunnels pushes.
Yeah, they weren't spotting it this time around.
And they're not gambling, at least right now, for the B finish.
So, how well does Apex read the place from mouse?
That's that re-smoked door.
It's becoming very vogue as of late, isn't it?
Saw some pyres throwing out a lot of G2s, those twos.
So one flash but no reaction you're thinking okay is that just meant to keep us busy?
The answer is yes, so coming to Tiger Brawlin again, gravitating towards this.
Brawlin's already done well in the previous.
He brings the fight to them!
Because the anti-flash does punish.
Opening death for Brawlin this time.
Torji committed to this fight.
Flash, yeah, effective.
He still manages to pull the trigger.
Still though, he's just gonna respect the flanks.
Crossed this, 100 for zero.
Late on the extinguish, I guess he counted on his teammates for that while it cost him his life.
Jimmy's lucky to have his.
20 seconds.
Yeah, that will become a fact.
The bomb carrier goes down. Apex taking heavy flak.
It's exertion on the site. You've got to get past.
Spinks in support on the short side.
Nice headshot from Exergi.
Double up. It's Flames of Response.
And the site falls.
Jimmy last seen B ramp.
And with what a second or two to spare, Vitality get into the site.
Two rounds, absolutely, now, by the time you're happy to draw the clock down.
Well, maybe not happy, but that's just the way that they're playing into this.
So avoiding a lot of the threats to the Maus utility that opened there at the flash just
a moment earlier would have been the difference, make up.
Mezzie not blind, gets the opener, Brolin goes down.
Someone's screaming likely in that situation, they've got a smoke for Torgy, and if
he swings he's dead as well.
So at least he's buying time by staying in power and not just getting away to
freebie.
But he can take someone with him as he burns great.
unfortunately doesn't look that way
hold on to this one in four
now broken
you'll see now has to
chicken around that with some lighter investments
well Apex there we are confirming what we
just saw a full burnt Torsi
yeah I assume someone must have told him
Yeah, well, the smoke came, it just was late, right?
So, it was definitely one of those situations
where there's no good option for Torgy in that scenario.
How's Jimmy gonna insert himself into this round?
Safe across.
You really need Jimmy to try and get stuck in.
You've got these USPs, you have the flash on sphinx, but...
Right, if you just sit to the back of B...
It's pointless.
Yeah, if you can get a couple of kills, maybe save a few guns even limit the finances a bit. That's gonna be great
I'm hitting back over towards be now. Let's start pressing tunnels on early timing and Rob's is here to catch this
Places the first bullet between the eyes of exertion Jimmy's M4 now sounded off
Quick reaction you can see on the minimap vitality are pivoting and told you can hear all of that
You see motor mouth relays the info of the pivot
And there's Jimmy finding out, but he's gonna stay by now, make loses out, flames he finds
him.
Not bad headshot, good output.
Oh, two USP headshots, well it's a different target, you can see Vitality walking winded,
but no problems, just spanks to get past.
And understanding that it's the B Defender, Rops will just pound back, value is life,
Apex.
This could be risky.
Now Rops should have it, there you go, okay, swept into the Rogue 4 stand alive.
I don't believe there is gonna be enough money for a Torgy AWP in response.
Should make a dropper but he's not gonna have enough money.
It's the armour.
Oh, okay, never mind. I have been able to get it out.
Who's this time?
He does his job.
Chicky and Spinks get across unscathed.
It's largely not going to be on that short aggressive line of support in front-hand long.
Oh, the perfect flash.
He catches a glimpse of the shoulder of Jimmy being on the forward.
Doesn't deter him.
He continues to push forward.
He drops in that same position from the previous way ahead with a smoke, supplies the expectation
and tips with an opening.
That's a nice play.
Now I've got an opening move
and it removes usually a hard piece to get out of place.
They were going for a B-POP
and now they'll probably draw them into it
because they go, okay,
Rob's down, B-Lurk, they're likely elsewhere.
They're going into this quickly.
You can see it's just gonna be Jimmy and Spinks
a mile away from any sort of help.
Molly's a back flat.
Yeah, you're gonna need trouble with him.
He's gonna need trouble with Jimmy.
Oh, unpeak, oh, uncrouches into the side with warp.
So, Ollie does get caught on his vacation hour long,
but Apex doesn't win the duel,
So now it gets really uncomfortable for Vitality that he could be top mid.
His urchin lets him know they're on their way.
Into Torshe's ult.
Yeah, it's perfect. It looks absolutely set in stone that Mal should be finding for here.
Stop smoking some flashes to work with. They can get past this line if they do use their nades.
They're gonna do so.
Oh no, Torshe goes down. Brolin's very low.
single bullet from Flamesee. Oh, the site's down. It felt like it was a guarantee. Just
needed to hit one. Solid on the entries is Flamesee. Demonstrates.
It saves the better option right now. Brutal. That's going to shake your confidence a little
bit. Well, if it wasn't already coming up against
Yes, I'm valid for straight now
That was now not meow
Namaste
Yeah, I don't think I would I've ever heard you know, I think that's not something to have a total dose. It's not an irreparable
No.
Barking!
Barking?
Yeah.
I think now's are gonna be barking mad if it continues this way.
Yeah, there's another fun one, right?
Because a lot of the time is okay, well, nothing changes if nothing changes.
So, how many losses to vitality does it take for mouse to change the complexion of the roster?
Told you man. My theory is they don't change the roster. They just changed the logo
You want to go back to mouse sports? You go back to mouse sports and suddenly everything's gonna feel different
You know that new team feel you know different jerseys. They tried the jerseys
They always have a different color right we get that the home one the away one. They're always away
I'm home for these guys. Yeah, maybe bring back the red jersey. You like the red. They've got the red
I'm sure it's in the hotel probably in the hotel. I just want to Sabrina say can we bring out the red?
He's a played out. Oh, don't start that. It's the best for logos for sponsors
Oh, you're right. You got to think about the sponsors. I think about the business of course, okay big business right here
It's just cool to have a color identity, isn't it?
Vitality with the yellow. Yeah, they went to
To yellow for a while for lesson. I had a lesson like a tennis ball
now that's threatening could be lower but oh look at this this is kind of that signature
apex walk on dust 2 the dust 2 variations for the moonwalk but for the French and there's
two HEs if exertion times is right you could do a whole lot of damage but already apex
is ahead of us there's no tails no smoke no flashes head shot from torches dig this
This is looking promising. Bullets are being hit both ways.
Mezzie taps one back. It's a nice one. It just skinks.
Robs as well. Gatches rolling on the long side.
It looks like they're backing up.
I'm worried about the long wrap, understandably, after Robs' frag.
You know it's a live-by, but these saved weapons.
You've taken out Spinks, one of the B defenders, so do you want to pivot?
Well, the fight's coming your way.
He is, Torgie, an exertion partner up.
Oh, things are changing.
in combination with Zywoo. The job is done. Just Jimmy, the B player left.
Zywoo's ready for this. He's locked in. We're second in the round, six overall.
They're blocked behind them. So safety first as we'll be grabbing another.
Promising scenes from now as you get in the re-aggress, you find the frag.
Couple of nice shots being hit.
Couple of nice shots.
hit that with the AWP in the previous rounds. Could have been this. Thank you very much.
We'll grab that one. Very happy. So I was gonna ask, you know where he was? He still
is. He still is. So we just double checking. I put my all right there. Okay, might be getting
it. Unfortunately for Toji, but we'll be able to afford it. Don't you worry about that.
Time to three, two round gap, looking good. Who's doing secondary orping on mouse? Who's
doing primary orping on heroic? Well, youngster, but he's not on mouse. There isn't really
Get out some double orcs please. Why not? Try something different.
Who would it be?
Guess it would be Spinks.
Wait, like Spinks or Jimmy Rafferty?
Because Torch is gonna be more mid and ace, I'm tricking you.
Spinks Torch, here he is.
It's been a while since we had a strong finished sniper.
We can't have to alley one time.
Yeah, I was just going, I know alley.
That's all we've got.
Yeah.
Who am I forgetting?
There's someone at the bridge gap, we haven't mentioned a Finnish player though.
Oh, er, potty, potty, potty.
Okay, that's fine.
He's split.
Fools, this is what Janko's talking about, nothing to make him feel uncomfortable.
Vitality, yeah, okay, we're gonna get near, we're gonna get short.
And we're gonna get to your expectations.
Blocked you till from Spings, Apex.
Containing the rotation of exertion, who goes first?
Nice find from Jimmy.
Rob goes down.
Blanky breaks into the site, though.
It's just Jimmy at the back of the site.
Apex versus exertion.
He lost the site and Apex wins out.
Surely that's enough for the round.
Once again, falling into place with vitality.
It's blown a little too nicely, isn't it?
Quicker tempo there as well, right?
So they had those first patch that were very slow,
finishing the rounds in the last 30 seconds.
And here, this one's come a whole lot earlier.
Sure, it's been broken up.
Red ball.
And once they've gotten to space, everybody go, OK,
we've got this area.
Now we'll wait.
Let's connect.
that's used the U-Tilt, Zowie there with a very important supportive kill with the AWP to confirm the B site.
I've got a lot of admiration for players that can pull off moves like that from Flamesy, where it is almost entirely solo.
Maybe there's a supportive flash or a teammate baiting from elsewhere, but it is straight up run and get yours.
And he does consistently not only take the space but find the impact.
Just runs into the doors after the, or through the door smoke of Spinks.
Job done. Another round. Six consecutive.
off of the mouse pistol.
It's fucking time out. Okay. Yep. There it is.
Feels like, uh, about the time to call another one.
I just...
You're only calling adjustments because we did hear in Crackle we're listening and it's like,
you know, it's trying to be inspiring. Boy, it's gonna feel so good when we win this one.
And he's right. It would have felt very good if they won it, but all you can do right now
is just hope that you can, you know, call the macro. I would be saying we need to be a
a little bit more jarring to their default. We have to stop giving them all this space for free,
which might mean we take some risks. We push in a lower and does that mean Zahua might have an
opportunity on us with the AWP? Yeah, right, but we are going to have to do something because if
we just continue to meand around the map in these default setups on the CT side, you can see how
much they can punish us with the space. If your gambles have worked earlier, you'd feel like
you would have, I wouldn't say apex in your pocket, but you'd have a read on maybe where
where he wanted to finish, and well, they weren't on point with that.
I will say they haven't taken a single bullet from Zai Wu on the cross,
which is something to celebrate.
I think they prefer a round.
Well, they're just doing a default hole.
Torji, look at this, short, short, but I see what Yanko's getting at.
You know, throw something different into the mix.
How do I tell if you have to adapt and adjust?
Yeah, play Anubis.
Play Anubis.
No, that's the answer.
But when Anubis went out of the pool,
this became Mauser's band in the second half of 2025.
And now, Anubis is back.
They start playing Dust 2 again.
So there are currently three losses in a row on this.
Vitality being one of those three.
Whereas Vitality being nine in a row.
41 and four overall on the map.
So it is a comfort zone.
up a bit when it was here. Yes it did. Now it's hit quite heavily by that.
Sure, they're a bit more util than that. I've got a lot to work with still, so mid to
B. Exertion might even play around. It does block it, so it gives him some vision.
Just head, he's exposed, nice action.
Roll out, lovely double kill.
They need to pull the trigger onto Zaiwu, Claws one back,
but they've recede.
No breaking bounds, no one's looking at his archers.
They weren't expecting such a forward position.
Now it just taurs you on the side.
Just taurs you.
Okay, you had to hit that one.
He picks in the clutch and they'll just be
tripping in here as they can.
Miles, break through.
You're very surprised in that round
of your vitality that they didn't have any long presence,
They did that same side that we saw earlier in the piece where they weren't punished for it, but they did end up losing the round
And they've gone back to something similar in that moment. The good work's going them out
Going forward on short flashes
They were hoping for
It's just that easy it was to mop up those two and that's exertion
Just off some of the chose points, it's a whole lot easier to get yourself to fourth
So two more available to tie things up
Well they begs to get caught.
There you go, a bit of a tall pressure.
Oh yeah, Spring's just bringing aggression into the mix.
This is nice.
Just give that three-hand shot to Flames.
There you go, you get your first blood.
You destabilize the default.
Now you can dip.
Actually, I'm going to invest a smoke to avoid the Zybu scope.
There's one.
Spring's his blood.
Just another one.
Oh my gosh.
Well he is out of there.
And now if you want to respond along, there's still two players waiting here.
You've got Brolin alongside of exertion. They're both borrowed in exertion playing anti.
So they are playing this number advantage quite nicely now that most fragile sight would be B.
Tromps. They're trying to force the U2 and a Jimmy.
They've already expended a couple.
This doesn't look like it's going to go well for Messi unfortunately.
Molly won't make Rollin move.
Oh, he's done very well. The damage puts him down to four.
Still though, do you get the bloodlust? Does exertion get set up for succeeding?
Bird flashes. Mezzy goes down to exertion. Solid work. Double one now for the field.
That's the bomb, Apex. You've got to turn the boys up short. No other option if you want the way in.
Torgy's gonna have a head-to-head here. Should be set to collect.
Just so, I was there down number two, Robs.
For the round, just a peg. All too familiar for him. Last man standing up against a 4-5.
Should be absolutely no problem here for now.
It's just the second for the headshot in Sticks trades.
Hard work done.
Solid CT half now.
Those initial three and now you found some gun rounds.
Yeah, unfortunately that spree was
Well to be easy for my time to keep in quite a lot of players alive
So they have been able to put up enough cash that now's have to get to gunround up to gun rounds
Flames not ready for that at all doesn't
During the lower tunnel box until she hits the ones, you know, he can
Just for the last nine rounds with no one hope in what aggression
Immediately, Nez and Apex have taken long away from us.
We find a corner, smoke, a well-layered flashbangs,
and you lose that territory, but how about taking mid?
Incertion.
You have to catch Zauru off here, which is possible.
It is hard to do.
Nez is flapping around with his nades, taking the bomb back.
Even considering a deeper mid-push.
They are hoping for reaction vitality
Throw that cross smoke is that when exertion moves or is he gonna have enough faith to brawl on the torch just to hold the line
It's good to play head for info right because you really don't know how many are out long you didn't investigate tunnels at all
Make sure you have top middle, but
It's not the long rotation available. Oh, this is tough
Who does the time remaining
Yeah, Torgy sound off.
Still with two in tunnels not moving, just yet flightality.
Yeah, I mean he's starting his fight, so he might be visible in front of another tunnel's
players.
Another block smoke.
Oh, but Sai-Wu punish you for falling off the swing!
Yeah, careful there Torgy!
He's in the double trouble.
Exertion can still win the round.
Yeah, with this flank no one's locking at him.
He's been slowly concocting this, however Torgy is going to get sidelined at the
same time.
Down goes Torgy, but there's the flank.
I would goes down apex now aware and ross provides the cover
I self flashes it's a bit clunky Jimmy to clutch
Bum to cross
Good new tool from vitality to ensure the seventh round goes that way
Give it a good go will you?
Pipe it up short in if he can
1v3 that I'm even playing close to him
They are just going to play the bomb on goose one ramp and burrowing down towards long will be messy
It's tough enough, but now with the bomb
He's working all right
He's gonna make a move by tante
Swinging as he jumps to his demise, okay, so seven for vitality's T side
A lot of these dusters that they have been winning at least in the recent patch have been dominant
We did the storyline just the other day against Mongols, right?
That was where they added number nine in a row.
So, no strangers to the winning.
In the last few, it's been 13-4, 13-6, 13-6, 13-8.
The closest was to game-illegional bounce.
That was 13-11, then you got another 13-6, a 13-3, a 13-8, and a 13-4.
So, they're pretty dominant on Dust2, but Maus are making them work.
Nice patch arounds for them as well.
That's when you do get that pistol round.
So, let's see if they're able to make it two from two.
The most recent head to head was sounded a little bit like those score lines, you know,
single digits.
Perhaps a step in the right direction would just be, you know, pushing vitality towards
the tail end of regulation or help take the whole thing with this pistol.
This is it, right?
Because we now have beaten them before.
Sure, it is a two to 10 record as it stands right now.
Yeah, but I think they don't want the final.
Yeah, that's the thing if they've beaten them in cologne and then won the final
That's where I think a lot of us would have expected them to be unlocked. I agree
their account being open as Harry likes to say but
Unfortunately, they still just have these tougher times. That's why coming into this. Okay lower pressure match
To be go
Do doors and window are they just doing doors maybe an extra smoke to keep them stuffed
So I will car rops back plat and apex has flashes that have come rallying over
Rob's gets the first now the flashes come sailing over your vision and it fades to black football and
Solid tap supported flashes are there the frags flowing nicely
So I will with the right position to lend a hand and it's either and rops in combination to shut down the pistol
well
No plants
I mean, Emeek looking inspired for Mao, so they're just still having a good old time.
That's the apex evil laugh. It's a rare remote. You don't get that every day.
Richard's describing Natali's run so far as workman-like, and it has spelled a bit labored.
So their series all go in a distance, and being pushed in moments.
G2 had a pretty good crack at things, so I'm taking on Payne at 0-2.
I'm on the 3rd day already.
Bit of a surprise to see G2 so quickly crossed into an elimination game.
Yeah, I think pain is one obvious answer, must be.
Yeah.
It's a pretty obvious handle right now, but I think it is a comfortable win for them.
And for G2 they ended up losing to Paravision.
So that was their 2nd best of 3, and that one they won the opening map of Mirage,
Mirage then they lose Inferno and Dust2 they get blown out. That's the one that stings
that is because Dust2 can be a good map for G2 losing 13 to 4. It gets packaged and that's tough.
We've still got this one to conclude and Furio vs Falcons coming up later and that one is
another one where it's a bit lopsided in the head to heads.
Still very exciting for her to see those two play again.
Yes, it's a nice clash.
I think that the next up to bat, I think people are a little bit enchanted with Mauswick.
It's one of these teams who, you can't say are bad, they're a great team, they can
secutively make these top four placements, they're always a threat.
Apex by his own ambitions says, yeah, this is a tough team to play against, but they're
just lacking whatever the punch is.
And people can say, yeah, but what about Falcons?
Yeah, but Falcons have the monosies, the Kiyosuke, the Niko's, right, players
who you get excited for.
Sure.
Let's get excited for this one.
rifle round, now's his T side, they've lost the pistol, took the eco and now out with the
AKs.
So I was starting to hit.
I was wondering if he was going to really be the kit player for a day, that's not happening.
They think they catered upon no immediate contact there, it does look like there's contact
coming though Flames, he's going to try and maneuver up close, anti flash, anticipating
this.
position if they want to go for that last second pop out of smoke
doesn't play that's the case well I know there's post-message still in the mix
right so just wait it out
action does manage to catch Jimmy oh wow double kill from flames he's relatively
open right now yeah it's a wide open bronze sphinx confirming that now as we've
You've got three members of Vitality Walk going for a quick shot.
Yeah, Bom's gonna feel quite sketched out having to cross long, so waiting to get this room is Torgy and on the flank swiftly is Zywu.
Like, I think Torgy's acknowledged as he's coming.
He's really quick to this though.
Yeah, Torgy, you need to get across.
The cover is required and Brawlham provides.
Great shot.
Really nice.
Just be a tough winner right there.
as I was to expect so Robs however is the next challenge for him and he's done very well back quick
burst of base and a second on top. Okay Spinks in the clutch. Last gun. It's an opportunity to give
your team some hope. There's something to hold on to. Look how late Messi is to this. Yeah he's
taking his sweet time isn't he? Spinks is using this smoke to have a little bit more of an
unorthodox position. Robs won't be expecting this. Did Messi spot him? Yes he did. Messi
He secures it vitality. Do you want us to weather the first by that's so frustrating this things?
Come on, are you?
You've just killed two players long.
Messi hasn't even shown himself short at all.
He's been left there to simmer in the silence.
There's now five round gap.
Bomb does go down partial by the menu now for miles.
It's about called number three.
Yeah, the fact you see that red blinking lights on one side.
I tell you, not having called any just yet.
It's been a comfortable affair
I still think we should have a big red button that the coaches can press wouldn't add a bit more pageant tree to counter strike
It would just imagine like X has like grumply smashes his fist on the button
But it would have to be in the middle. Yes to walk out into the middle and press it
Or is it just behind them? I like to fit it all because you need
Yeah
Give us more to be your arm chest
I'm just about the way he pressed the button.
Well, Yanko tells him they're not going to throw a towel for some reason, don't they?
No!
Is that a foul?
I'm not!
I think we went the bot!
And you in!
Of course!
I do love it when the banter is, like, analysis.
It is against their old teammate, right, and the one who left, and now look how
good they are.
So, always fun to rub a little bit more salt in a self-inflicted wound.
Okay, he's on his way to cast the second man out, he's not confident, competent, gets
here.
Can she's done something with the Deagle?
Oh, hello!
What are these Deagles hitting today?
Couple of zingers, they've got that long control rotation on the way in through CT.
Okay, so Rob's in Meji move first, an all-petrievable.
Oh!
Just as he turned his back, they strike from the long side, flames he's done very
well.
A straighting death.
I'm about to say they can all get a gun because they bought a Galil.
There was a A4 on the ramp and the AWP and Flames.
He goes, nah, I don't think so.
Number five.
I said disappointing round to lose, especially after that from Torge.
Yeah, a couple of those.
Yeah, it looks good with the desert eagle.
Well, you've been getting the bomb down.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's just all over by now.
Got the orb.
But it's like it is, like when you're trying to pick which site you want to hit versus mortality, I mean it is just...
There's no good option is there?
No.
Like do we want to go towards the definition of a Bianca personified in Robs or do we try some analysis?
We can go towards the inside where we want.
You're like a messy man.
You're a little unique. Take off your head.
Just spotted a tiny fraction of exertion.
Thank you for coming. She's lost the opening kick.
And this is for 12 rounds of vitality.
You just have to bask in the glory of the counter strike from vitality.
Individuals in all the perfect roles.
The fact that you were at sub one minute and your AWP has been able to stay in a 2-1-2 set up. That tells you how confident you are.
If you know you're given a cat, you normally worry about an execute, they're not worried at all.
They're going to get you killed.
Cat, you know? He did it in.
Very out of character it's a good move if they're looking to pot B
so he would actually get one. Yeah or he'd lock them.
I was thought Ronald finished off the job and the prompts were activate.
Let's get caught by Torchy on the way out but two on two on the site.
Wow on hell of a nade.
He jumped off like a pig. Yes he did.
That's promising. He's low HPs I wish he had that information be laid.
Cover from Torgy necessary, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but I'm the Desert Eagle, now Torgy hasn't got the time to play this one out.
This has to allow utilities 12 to convert, 32 of the clock.
So that's a Zairu round, you know, it's not like these Zairu rounds, but that is a Zairu round.
It's one of them, he's still 18 and 10. It's like a quiet 18 and 10.
It is a quiet 18.
It's just a quiet game.
Two's.
Hello for the opening.
Are you wanting to try again?
Probably. You thought maybe I would have to head over to B.
No. No, no, no. Okay.
Inferno is up next. That is the map choice of mouth.
Oh.
Haha.
Doesn't really matter what side he's on. He's just a demon.
It's a double-orbit, boy. Yeah, Robster's get spotted out.
He's got a lot of gags.
Please!
Come on, now!
Your name's not Zywoo.
Who do you think you are?
They've got top mids, Chad.
They've got mids down to the side.
They've got top mids down to the side, yeah.
Alright, with the Desk ready, yep.
Yeah, they probably put it on there instead, I know.
Actually.
I'm glad I posed the question of, you know,
what happens if they do win.
Yeah, right.
Because you look really, really smart.
Good.
Ah yes, gentlemen, come on back. The water's warm.
Not your favourite, dad.
OK.
So you get a couple of kills, you clear out the mid-prong,
these are the aggressive pieces.
So I was gonna tuck car.
Spinks? Looks like you're...
No, he doesn't have the molotov.
Brolin does? Brolin does?
Yeah, Brolin does.
And so I might just be forced to smoke it, they're not...
Oh, nice, we're wrapping it up.
All right.
Oh, it makes sense.
We can run the music.
Yeah, we really can.
And there it is!
13-5!
Vitality take down Maus!
Again!
And again, and again.
Listen, guys, we're right there with you.
I mean, I made the joke about Pajaboo before we throw it out there.
Actual slight regression from Krakow.
That was at least 36 on Dust2.
But yeah, Vitality not breaking a sweat against Maus.
telling if you've heard that one before. Many a time Richard. I don't know if I have one more
of these matchups in me man. No joke can qualify it. Talk me through it. Yeah we will get into
some of the specifics a bit later but it's just so many times you see the same story again and
again right like tactically outplayed, individually outplayed, just vitality, the reaction times,
the decision making, it's never in doubt and for miles it's a combination of okay we need to try
something differently and then maybe going for some gambles or trying to will yourself that
you're going to get it done by taking being ultra aggressive at times and whatever it is that
they try and do, Vitality has an answer for it. They just shut them down every single time.
Yeah, on the flip side, Vitality, they're just so much more imposing in this kind of
matchup. I mean, the amount of time that you see them moving up middle into lower B fighting
for position, I feel like they're the ones that are always jockeying for it. Whereas
Maus, on the other hand, just a bit limp, just kind of ready to stand aside. I mean,
they're the freest bouncer entry into any club you could ask for. So I hope I get
No, I didn't require it, you know.
It's just one of these things where it's like,
look, I do genuinely sympathise when you're just running up against your nemesis,
you know, for example, in other sports, you know, if you play in someone else's era and you're always second to them,
very frustrating, but it's like, look, I mean, the presence of greatness.
But here's the thing, you have to change something.
You have to try new things.
I mean that just was I know this this literally what I was gonna ask is it possible if we could just run the death segment from crack out
See if it was any any different. Well, it was different. They didn't lose well
Wouldn't be really much different with it, but I think they didn't lose to Glock equals right?
They didn't lose the pistols
Set up up. I was ready for the same sort of
of a instance to occur, but they were more in the 3-2 setup
on the anti-force instead of the 2-1-2.
They're lost in a more classic fashion.
Yeah, that's fair.
I mean, obviously, as well, it certainly
doesn't help that.
Every time it looked like they had a break,
like a sort of narrow opportunity,
if Zewoo was alive, then it wasn't really opportunity.
Zewoo was just fantastic in this one.
I can't believe I'm taking up a Zewoo, actually.
Zywu was so spot-on with, mechanically in this one, every single opportunity that he was gifted,
he was just flicking people down, left and right. I mean, eat your heart out for boring shots. This
one had all the exciting ones. I think it's a great game for all the people that didn't want to
categorize him as an opera or like put him in a conversation as... He didn't want himself to
be an opera at times. An opera of the year, yeah. But I think we can get into some of the
specifics Richard because I saw something yeah let's do it blew my mind because I
thought it was maybe whatever but then they did it one more time later on in
the game so it's the first gun round right like there's three zero up but that
is gonna go back towards long there's a three B set what is this setup on a like
there's a 3B stack they don't have short they don't have long look at them
torgy is on slope he's not even like what Brolin is holding long from goose
And Georgia is holding short from slow counter strike 101 on dust 2 is if you lose control of both long and
Short on a you're screwed. You just get a pincers. You have nowhere to hide
Nowhere to do anything to turn from flashes of aid utility. That's why you see teams when they lose long
But how do they do run towards short ballie deep flash get there get that control fight for mid push B tunnels
Do all this stuff they have willingly put themselves into the setup where in the end
sort of it took Zywil getting a couple of kills, but that wasn't because the setup was great.
I mean, Tozhi even gets sort of caught by the players coming out long and I cannot, like,
I don't know, I lost a lot of respect for Cyclone because of this one setup.
What is the thought process here?
Like, okay, you have a 3B stack, then they did it one more time later on in the CT side.
Okay, you have a 3b stack and what are you if they come a you're what what's the plan like if they go five short the
The only time that's what happened the other time they went sort of five short execute and okay
You see torgy and the other guy is hiding in goose right to be the Joker player
That obviously you don't have the long guy in that equation and that's the only thing
But that's the one way where it will not go terribly wrong is if that this just one thing happens
That's why you see teams when they do this try to play for long right the opera is holding the angle and someone else is close by
Because you can always retake short the opera can always with T with long being secured all those angles many maybe get a kill
Keep them contained so they plan for short and have to stay at short
So then the three players from beacon, you know crunch and you can go for a retake together
I do see Mao's more than other teams kind of commit these Cardinal sins of counter strike
I feel like beyond just what we see in that set up there so frequently are the big kind of team that seems to just kind of be
Outmetta mind gaming it like I've heard before when they have had four B stacks on inferno
They just keep cycling through smokes almost disguising that they have a four B stack
But then you just see teams move away from the stack and I feel like that sometimes it's almost like they're out thinking themselves
They're trying to just be too smart for their own good
I mean if they take some long control with nades or they take some short control of nades
They might it seems like they expect that oh that's gonna signal to the other team too much of what our intent is
But then by just playing into a bad setup here. It's just completely
Undermined every single kind of metagame trick you're trying to pull right there
It's one thing to consider consistently lose to an opponent, right?
But apex is actually broken
Cyclone I feel like in the rest of mouse because when you resort to things like this you feel like if we just do the
What I explained sort of a default way to play 3b2a, right? Oh, they'll know
You know, they'll just walk out short without throwing a single piece of utility and shoot us in the back like on on on longer
Something ridiculous like that. That's why they do things. They feel like oh, I tell it. This is too simple for vitality
There's no way they'll be able and that's not the reality like they don't have x-ray
They don't know like you don't need to go this much out of your way to try to disguise what you do
It has anti-stratting gone too far.
Just what I thought I'd take from it.
We didn't even have time to mention that Inferno, that pick, is coming.
It was the Yanko-Catharsis hour, is it?
I've never seen something like this.
I've seen some bad teams play along.
I've seen teams do weird crap on servers.
This has broken me.
Like, there's nothing...
Like, just for anyone who plays punks...
It's so inexplicable, it's just so inexplicable.
Anyone who plays punks and you fight for longer, CT, and you lose it.
What do you do?
Viewers in chat.
Tell me, you take short. That's the only thing you can do. There's nothing else you can do.
No, they willingly give it all up and just chilling in Goose. Maybe Brolin really likes
that fight from Goose to Xanth. I don't know, with an M4 against the AKs.
Right, well the good news is it's not just two after the break, it's gonna be Inferno.
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Vitality have been dominant once again and when it comes to the prestigious events, and
they're looking to do it here.
The Cluj de Pocah got apex with me from Vitality and let's just look at this, right?
You're starting off 2026, similar to 2025.
Does that give you some vibes?
Does it give you some feelings already?
Is it too early to say, mate?
So yeah, I mean, it feels good, but no, it's not like bringing the step of 2025.
We're not even thinking about it.
We just take event by event, give our best at each event and that's it.
And that's what you guys always do and it's worked out pretty damn well.
Now, you yourself, you said that Zairu played the best event ever for himself, right?
And we saw this. I think this was a standout performance.
But did you notice something different in him? Or was it just...
No, yeah.
Can you explain Shed some light? Because there's a lot of people who go,
oh well he always plays like this, but this was a different level.
People don't imagine that that day, or that event, he played way differently, he was more aggressive first of all.
Something that we liked a bit sometimes of him, like doing more openings etc.
And he wasn't missing, while with AWP he used to miss a bit more, and he used the AWP more than usual.
Yes, yes.
And that felt good for our game because of course when your AWP has the AWP of time and he doesn't miss, it's quite good for your team.
Actually, I think that two of the five players didn't play the best at this even partially.
I think Robson and Messi were not in the best shape, to be honest, but we didn't see too
much because I was just too good.
Imagine if I was playing like that and the two others at their level.
That's a problem.
That might be game breaking.
I guess so.
And you're already close to doing that as well.
You say it with a smile on your face.
Is this something you're expecting to see as the change for him now?
Can you rely on it?
I mean, we can't rely on what he did because it's too high, to be honest.
Not what he did but maybe the way he was playing, like in that style now.
I actually hope that he saw himself that he can be so much like even more useful I would
say in our game because he was like really, of course I was always good but people can
see that it's a big difference from what he's done there than what he usually does
And it was like, yeah, it was actually really good to play with that.
And it helped us so much overall to, to get a few entries or it was
communicated even more than before.
So it's, it's normal when you feel it like that.
Of course, it's a lot easier.
Yeah, definitely.
Looking at clues, clues in the poker history for you here, mate.
Eleven years ago.
Eleven years ago.
Some people watching might not have been watching Counter Strike back then,
right, but you did lift your first major trophy then.
Now, does there come any feelings, does there come anything into your mind?
Do you reflect on a bit of nostalgia?
Of course. I mean, when I arrived and when I knew we were about to participate to this event,
I was like, okay, that's where I won my my my first major back in 15,
when I was an intro fragger. That's a long time ago, 11 years in a career as a long,
long time, mostly in CS. But yeah, I mean, it's a good vibe, different, a bit different
moment of the year, I think I won in November, no it's February so it's a bit different but
actually the thing I think that the city itself improved, I think it's a lot better now.
I liked I went to went to work yesterday and like I remember a few things that were not the
same so it's actually good to be here at 11 years after and hopefully make it happen again.
So it's like you've improved, the city's improved, it's all improving around you,
ready to listen to the trophy? Let's see, that's the goal always when Vitality participates
to the man, it's here to win, but other team also wants to win, they also want to get their
hands on trophy, and he, as in Paris vision for now, get a trophy. So yeah, I think the
big dogs are hungry.
Definitely so, you're going to keep trying to steal it away from them though. Now, I
also want to look at, you've always spoken about how good you guys managed the schedule,
especially last year, right? Obviously here you're doing beginning of the year, three
events back to back. Still feel good, still have that same kind of idea on the
energy and feeling?
Well, you have to make choices between events and for us, we have to look at the rest of
course, we have to look at the VR response, we have to look at like how big the tournament
is and how many teams are going there, we need not to look at the green slam.
So we had a lot of stuff to look at but for us that was the best idea was to do that.
First of all because a lot of things came to Cluj and PGL got bigger and bigger last
year.
also for us our first women with PGL and every team are here except for Spirit so it's actually
pretty good. And last I just want to finish up we're asking I know your goal is obviously
to lift the trophy that's all you guys ever do but what do you feel could be the biggest thing
that could stop that from happening or which team could be the biggest threat to you guys here?
It's a classic answer but first it's ourselves we know that if we play our A game it's tough
for any team because we have the players because we have the team play because I think we have a bit more
everything than others but here obviously Furia, I mean we just beat them in the
complainal of Fercow, they took time for them to come back at the 20-25 end level that they are
here now, Fercow is always a dangerous threat, they are amazing players and fortunately for them
they didn't go to the group stage in in Cracow but we always know that never comes out of
of the tournament, that's for sure.
And Miles are always a tough prospect,
even though we beat them in the last few times,
which we didn't even know.
We lost to them though.
It's possible.
Spirit is not there.
I think that's the three big, big dogs
that can stop us.
But once again, if we play our A-game,
it's gonna be tough for them.
Well, let's see how tough it will be for them.
Thank you very much, everybody,
for your time, and good luck, mate.
Thank you.
to listen to. It wasn't probably enjoyable for mouse on the first map, but in Farno, Chad
assures me it's going to be a better game. A lot of fake news going around at the moment.
I like to spread misinformation. That could be some of it as well. I can't guarantee anything
right now, but I do hope for a better game. If not, here's a mantra everyone can play
their pugs by. If it can't be good, let it be quick. That is a solid mantra. So
If it can't be good, let it be quick.
But also don't I would also say you don't want to jump to the
can't, you know, sometimes.
Oh, look, hold on.
Yeah, give it a go.
Right.
But if you've lost it, I don't know.
You get an hammered.
You get an hammered.
Yeah.
And if the team you're up against, I don't know, is vitality vitality.
Yeah, one of the teams of all time.
That would probably be, you know, where it does become a can't.
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It is nice.
It is a very nice airport.
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There's got a garden.
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A butterfly garden.
I have been to Singapore a couple of times.
All right, let's get this one underway, shall we?
Tea staff.
Been to Inferno a couple of times.
We split the pistols on map number one and they're going to try and blow up the guns here silently but there is an explosive finish behind it.
There is. So, Mezzy's not going to be faster. Zywu's a track!
Oh! Wow! That is a clean double out of Zywu's USP. The tracking!
Just absolutely flawless.
We're going to have to fight back from brawling. He manages to remove one.
Bomb spotted dipping back down mid, so they will need to rotate somebody back to B.
Two bodies to B.
Well, this is the problem, they won't be ahead of the banana play, so if they brazenly, they won't brazenly just start clearing top and hour half wall
they know that they've lost that on the timing, but they might...
How about this?
Pair up and slowly walk down to trade off with one another.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, no flames, he's gonna do it on his own.
Well, at least he was punctured in.
Yeah, right, but Apex trusts him, so he'll scarper over, and if he gets to library before
they exit...
Ooh, okay, it's gonna be like a 3 on 2.
Ah, guys, we know exactly where you are, and now you're in a worse position than you
were moments ago.
Yeah, and Flames is actually behind you.
You're not clearing this.
Oh!
There's a good headshot.
Okay, now back to me!
This could be fun!
This is a classic Inferno!
Oh, he's kind of cooked the pooch on that one, isn't he?
The pooch has been boiled a lot you can't block you're not blocking no blocking choosing not hearing now full belt
The exiled was a
Does doesn't it?
She's great. I change my mind. You have to plant. Hey, you can run you down
You didn't even get me lost for us there chief so
I was fun though. It was fun. It had an ebna flow.
Oh, definitely had some fun in games.
They smile. They're having it. They can't smile.
There's also an adage that if you don't laugh, you'll cry.
Yes.
I'm good at both of those things. Laughing and crying, so it's obviously...
I've done that before as well.
if they lose this one they will be having to e-k to the next.
That's crazy. That is crazy. Robbs. They've read them like a bork or just got a little
bit of lady luck on his side.
Well, can we get the rest of that A4, Chev?
They're A4, they're A4, Chef.
Look at the, look at what they're done with the flames on the hair of the dude.
Oh yeah, they've given him like a flaming mullet.
Thanks, Chef.
Thanks for hearing me.
Oh wow, you get the full, it's a crown, obviously.
Red zone.
Pretty cool.
Well, 99 kills.
Brand new.
I can't, well uh, they can't be, they have access here, rotation.
No way, it's already joined in, as you can help assist.
Good night, alright.
Eko now.
Chat.
Yes, Alex.
All right, all right, eco now.
Chad?
Yes, Alex.
Could you give everyone at home like a little bit of like a kind of strike fundamentals just
because I think there was a good example in that one.
You know when Flamzy was in that, he's staying, he keeps kind of like moving it further off
of the wall.
He kind of crouches further forward, he keeps kind of going back and forth.
He's not just playing statically in the corner.
It's that we kind of pull it active on the angle.
You know what I mean?
What is the logic there?
Is it just because CS2 or is it always been a kick thing?
I think it's a little bit from Colomai, a little bit from Colomai.
hasn't always been that way, but you would very statically hold angles, especially back
in the 1.6 days. And a lot of times what would happen if you did get caught peeking an angle,
you would just get spanned because everything was essentially paper thin. I think a part of it,
and I don't want to upset Loebuck, something I don't like doing, especially the big 2026,
definitely a part of CS2. It feels like there is either it's the subject, I don't want to
blame it right but that there's a part of it where in the motion right swinging is rewarded right but
I also think a factor of that is the players also so good that they're pre-aim of angles if given the
opportunity everybody now clears angles like Rockston when he first started playing C1 CS and CS go
enables you to punish people who are pre-aiming you know you catch them looking at the wall etc
so right you're not fully initiating the fight there but you are ready to activate as soon as
you take the info so that's why very rarely you're standing still otherwise
you're always doing some microjiggle or you know a patent you just talking about
with maybe a crouch coming in swing utility there but I don't think so but
But I have been reading that if Vitality win this series today, King Nezzie will repair relationships with the UK and France once and for all.
Wow.
So there is a lot on the line for this best of three.
Irina, of course, the playoffs, but France and the UK, friendly again.
That's a lot of knee damage.
How much do you feel damage do you think in three rounds of play, vitality of managed
to uh, collectively?
Yeah, this is a prediction mark, I've just died.
250?
I don't have right click bounce, so I can't tell you.
Oh I can do it.
250 was your guess?
Yeah, what do you reckon?
I'm gonna say 180.
180, ah, rops has done 237 on his own, apex has done 170 and Zoe has done 20.
So we're both well off.
Alright, gun rounds.
Do you like these ones?
Fun.
So if we'll be tussling up an honor against the likes of Flancy and Apex.
He's just holding a nade for a reaction.
Spamming safe from the H.E.E.
I just bring right up.
Take a deep breath, spam and nade.
Exhaust down to 62.
It turns to logs.
And spot it out on a jumpy...
He's a little heavier,
or he'll price them a bit of light.
got it is such a little mind game isn't it so many days
hello
who still gets one they're advancing on the A side quick though this is a four
versus two right now you got robs you got messy across fire nobody threw up
so nobody threw up so robs could very mark up nice clear from Jimmy not ready
for the second on the bottom of double unable to provide miles of taking
the site and we'll get themselves off of that zero okay apex has still got his head screwed
on straight he's gonna be playing for the save unnecessary yeah not cool is it oh gosh
that's the frustrations of losing the rounds yeah sometimes you've got to take the chickens
down with you put all of his sins into it what's with the white eyes it's like a
Haunted possessed chicken
Remember when they used to be pumpkins. I remember they look like ghosts. Yeah
Like when they cared
Don't start up
Strong bit. It's such a good bit. I don't even care about the game
Look at the chickens
Chickens look better now than they ever have that is a high polygon chicken
the highest of bodyguards.
Alright, that is one of the 13 required to win a map against Vitality.
Wow.
And if they win this one?
They're on their way.
They are well on their way.
Vitality on an eagle. They can make it.
I'm excited.
half wall, half health. Yeah, consistently. Oh, they're double. Okay, they evade. Solid
Well, that's the strength of the flames, he's not scared, he's attacked, the flash gets his!
Geez Louise, you know, this is my offtake.
Nice from Apex, the body doesn't spread, he's got our safe haven for his one.
Well you know, Messi was B, the flash assist in the feed, so you can guarantee that there is another member over on the site waiting for your push.
You get yourself into 3v3, you have Zywoo's AWP that you need to get past, which is committed on the A side.
It's Robs who will be playing rotation between both the sites, and Jimmy's still alive.
alive you can piece together likely lurking in the apartment. Zawoo will backpedal to the
bike. There is no molly available to flush him out.
He's going to make the short side a very difficult access point unless Jimmy can remove him.
Zawoo vs 3.
I like the best sentiment. I think now he mentioned this about
out. Zywoo's formed this year. Yeah, I did like that. He's kind of stoned as well.
Oh, are you straight on fake news? What are you doing?
Something to discuss there, but anyway, I didn't just bring that for no reason.
Watching Zywoo so far in 2026 has been a pleasure.
Yes.
He's player, like the best player in the world.
I know that seems productive, but the confidence,
the type of fights that he's going for,
type of fighting, winning.
Wow, he claims he's such a nuisance,
and he goes Jimmy early.
He's got a very completely appealing
star who's in chrono here.
I would give me 10% of his counter strike ability if he could he probably I just want 10 you could have time
How much would you pay for 10% of Zywoo's counter strike ability?
maybe six or seven
I see the audience there. I mean to impress you today. I've got nothing else man
Okay, number funny. Hey, no
Lucky mine
That was it. Yeah
Where did 420 come from?
What's the origin story of that?
I'm gonna find out for you guys, what are your car cells today?
I'm glad we could learn something.
1970s, apparently coined as a code word.
I'm actually not reading it internally, before finishing it externally.
Stanley is in reference to 420 p.m. I see of course
You might get a plan you might
He hasn't hit the wall back smoke is faded bomb does get planted you can swing
I will and he only needs to see your shoulder
hits one into the clavicle
Frame mugged
Got absolutely bat-warm-bogged.
He's warm-bang-maxing right now.
Is it just the maxing?
Now he's gonna be on top of all this stuff.
Yeah.
Come on, Spiggs!
How did I shot?
He's clutch-maxing right now.
He's diffuse-maxing right now.
And so five!
Till one!
And I shot, though, in the attempt.
Didn't engage in that second fight.
Time out time get the music up. Let's go. Don't you want something a little bit more?
OOF? OOF? OOF. OOF. Yeah, what kind of like a not gonna do it, not gonna do it, but like kind of more like
Blade Runner or something. I'm just gonna get crazy from. Oh, you know, everyone would know it's a timeout, you know, you're talking about.
Actually valid. I wonder if they're not the statute limitations, but you know whatever songs when they expire and they're free
They're free for the world free use. I don't think that's it is it
No, you can just like 15 second clips of stuff right? So I just said machine you are 35 years old
Oh, no, he's not. I'm not he's not I am I agree
I am too old to be talking the way I am but we do it for you the people at home. Yeah
Yeah.
Sometimes that is the most recent way I get off of my phone is I look at some of the ridiculous
TikToks or whatever Instagram I'm going to go, I am a grown ass man, what am I, what
am I watching?
Well I'm never watching a video again.
Exactly.
And we're having a good time.
Bah bah.
The tent of our audience.
No one's going to get that reference.
No you're right.
Back in the day we used to get adverts on the television for think sounds you
could buy like mp3 files you could buy by sending a text and that was back in the
day that was what our living room look like all right mouse come on we need
something it can't be more of the same we beg you we the Counter Strike fan I
want everybody to channel their energy to mouse right now in your living room
right now at your PC wherever you are on the fire on the bus the power close
your eyes manifest well I'll keep them open but we have hands in the
sky and out of those fingertips to mouse to help them in this battle against
vitality we just we're saying like a counter strike prayer it's a bit like
Goku with a spirit bomb but yes exactly is that over 9000 yes yes here we go
I will say the observers are doing a great job though today, shout for Chev and Jayraz,
You can find Chev on Twitter, that's Chev's CSGO, that's why I hasn't updated it.
If you feel stuck in the CSGO, if they haven't updated it to the CS2s.
And J-Raz, he's got Twitter, but he doesn't tweet, so I'm not going to tell you about that one.
Okay, that was just, guys, everyone at home.
For those audio-only listeners, that was a partial buy.
Yes, this is the full gun fight now. Scoreline is 6-1 without a control beam taken by exertion.
It's a log, half wall molly, half log smoke.
There's your bug.
Still in the game.
Still in the game.
Apex with utility ready.
Flames the artisan back, fight coming his way,
four up banana.
Okay, this is promising.
He's gonna be forced to throw out his smoke grenade will.
Oh, he's actually found an opening.
Once more, exertion cannot catch a break.
You're in a blood splat. Wash and sping. So lucky to be alive. The double nades are
brutal.
They just keep coming. All right, well, they do have the man advantage.
In a way.
It's a big way.
Torchy and Spinks are 5 HP combined.
It's just going to take one shot onto Maryman and Pit. And they're in.
He's playing assertively as Mr. Merriman, and they are no HBs in the final tournament.
What's the universe?
The torch is going to be on the anchor if he walks it, but he's just going to be in
this kind of limbo position, and he's going to be in a bit of nowhere.
They're going long route.
Does he choose to search?
He spinks on that one HP.
He starts to round the corner, but nobody's home.
He's not going to have any info.
the boiler
mm-hmm
could be de-play
I don't think we have a V-Site
this is cheeky
hello
right here
I think it's fine
I'm not detected indeed
that nasty cook
oh just the one
alright
nice round
regardless of all the YouTube damage
they're gonna walk over there second
so good stuff now
six to two
Because there is a slight delay, that's everybody channeling the energy.
There it is, you're right, you're absolutely right.
Manifest the results together everybody.
Let's check that util damage down. It was already crazy round three. What is it now?
Here's some more baggage. We'll see after the round explosion.
The round explosion.
Yes.
That's alright, second round we're slowly chipping away, Alex, utility update please.
Apex just went from 170 to 400, make that make sense.
Well he drone multiple nades, I did it myself.
Probably one of the best changes.
Yeah, no actually.
The nade drop.
Yeah, and we're all
But the grenade drops and it does feel like you know teams are still like kind of refining their use of it
So feigning right now, but
So the three players from now starting over to what second mid they might want to take boiler and holes a little bit on the quicker timing
So I was all in the mix. It's gonna start porch side
So they have been trying to be sweep in vitality to clear out and
get a cluster of mouths caught around half wall or just a head.
I think they've had enough of that as they are.
Hoping for an A finish with a full man set up right now.
Jimmy burrows in a deep carpet.
He's controlling rotations.
Yeah, this is a nice spot for Jimmy for at least one.
He knows one's garbage and he's such pitside.
So hoping to identify the set up. This is good.
He took a quick trip to a and has returned to his be duties, but does seem like now is feel like a
Cessus could be replicated. That's a big event. Yeah, nearly chased him down there. Let's get real at a temple
It's a fight, you know short wraps him
He's done well robs
Dinkers war headshot from messy as well trade from session tonight. It's solid from messy siren catches a little one onto spanks
Falls into place perfectly on the a setup. I loved robs is proactivity there
I got something for you. It's it's low-hanging fruit, but you know the day you're doing like the many men
Yeah, I literally get married man. Yeah, it's in my head already. Okay, good. I'm just trying to get it out
Oh, sorry
Well, I feel like we could do a whole whole track. Okay, so I need to follow up at some time
Yeah, we put you in like a do-right. I thought you meant just common
We are turning into a whole bit, I see.
Seven and two, partial bite, a couple of techies, a D-Goo, a Galil, an AK, even some smokes.
Merry man.
Another bomb, Bows.
Yep.
Blood in the eyes and they can't win.
Guys, Zahra's orping banana.
He's doing it his own way.
You have to feel that you are going into a 4A rifle setup once you know the orbs established
on the banana line.
Valid.
So maybe this is just kind of fakery.
Well, I said it could be 4A with the orbs rotating back and leaving Flamzy.
Perfect position to receive that open and kill.
I thought you did find Apex in the meantime though, so that you're seeing Apex on A.
He's more than I came from.
But maybe you can brute force it.
I can't believe their phase in this is happening.
I actually can.
You had banana controllers though, if that felt unnecessary.
It did.
I'm not sure if I can find just definitely the power of cover makes it look so comfortable.
On the tree vault, clutch for Torgy.
20 seconds and suspects they're both behind that motosmoke.
Goes for the plant default site.
Here's them jumping through, they fake the movements.
Torgy gets himself that bomb planted.
Okay, this could be a bit of a fire starter.
If Torgy can just tap that first head, they're going to double swing him.
He's first.
Oh, lovely! Ace clutch out of Torgie, gives Mouse something to hold on to.
That's what we're talking about, Torgie. Great work there on the AK-47, and you're up against Zawoo and Robs in that one, so that is a nasty clutch.
She's played that beautifully.
This run down on the Nezzy, scoops up the bomb. He's doing it all, Chad. Five kills, bomb plant, he's done everything Mouse needed.
Give them something to celebrate look at that round timeline just nothing consecutive
It doesn't matter how you get him just as long as you get him sure
You know I think it's quite interesting that
Maybe this could be a discussion point for the desk. Hmm, but have you noticed how many times they've had messy pit anchoring?
That's normally rops his job, right? So I think they're just you know these little mini mind games
So burning the expectation. Okay. You think well, messy is gonna be as soon as like rops has taken contact from site or in some of these scenarios
He's over towards motor. I see and even in rotations rops has gone over towards B to help apex in one of those rounds
So leaving messy as the ankle a little bit more and that's something you've been drawing my attention to you know
They've really refined that on the Raj right where like vitality have always got a Joker shot
Well, I see some maybe that's just something that
players too
It's always good to have the variety in Australia if you've got full they're gonna come through this Alex
Big fight here.
Hey, yeah, he's going to surely not have vision.
Doesn't get him to kill Flamesy does though.
He's franking for two right now.
And a whole belt of utility awaiting Flamesy.
So it's about Shahanah overplaying his hand in this situation.
They are still staying with the 3-man ace setup currently.
They have full mid control or at least they did until Jimmy throws out that smoke so moving the vision
But because they're so far forward rops will say hey, this is fine
And you can actually back off if you want ZywOo go and help out flames
As he dips over you take a little bit of stock right now of what ZywOo has on his belt
And it's gonna be a couple of flashes. So he will be able to alley you claim see who is
So playing very passively just from the coffin side
It's a flash
And another lock.
Beautiful from Flamesee, three kills deep in this round of par for HG down the pocket of Spinks.
Now the option for us to commit here, he's playing it safe.
He's playing it by the book and Robbs has locked the door, tucks in.
He even anticipates Spinks on the Reclear.
I think they have Spinks's number so bad.
Yeah, this is the player they know that he's gonna take the more passive option,
so he's always gonna be considering his length.
And every time they're against him in some of these clutch situations, they seem to just ice him out
That's an 8-3
Up next
Fury up taken on Falcons. Oh, yeah, that's a headliner right there
And you can see exertions opening jewels there
That's just testament to how difficult of a half he's had try break through the flames the apex banana hold
It's been a rough one for him, one kill, ten deaths, five of those guys being in the opening.
Oh, God! These moats are getting out of control! Serious damage! Okay, headshot! Overkill!
Finally, something for exertion! They just want to run at him. They just want to run at him.
So, he's going to catch every single one of you! Dying in and out of the apartment.
The apartment, the quick stove spinks runs out, knows I was around here somewhere to take the fight with the pistol, fire and gets it done.
God, this is a massacre. This isn't a fair fight.
Vitality have got cement in their gloves.
So how many losses to Vitality does it take before you change your roster?
That's the question.
This would be number 11.
This is number 11?
Well, we'll be number 11.
Yeah, it is possible that it's number 11 and if it were I would say look at the ocean
You think he looks happy. He looked like a happy man to you Alex. You look like a happy
What happy people look like is he a happy looking guy? It's not necessarily looking like a hackiest. No, what would you say content?
Probably not that either. I think I'd probably say
Like a familiar melancholy
Okay, all right
I think it's kinda funny, but only funny because if you don't laugh you'll cry, you know?
Is that like Marmalade or...?
Marmalade.
Oh yes, made damage.
Yeah, I'm about to add it up.
I was- I was- wait, do you want me to add it up?
Yeah, dude, just hit that.
Well, I'm doing my best, I'm out.
That's cool.
I had to try to do it on my second time.
In my mind, if you're wrong...
No!
No, don't do it!
No!
Fuck yourself!
Fucking major!
He's saying what, saying what we're thinking.
They have paid the burst up 1,150 utility damage.
Oh wow that feels like a bit of a record breaker.
So that's a lot of utility damage.
That is a lot of utility damage.
That's an awful lot of utility damage.
Another opening get through exertion.
Why are we enjoying this suffering?
I mean...
I mean I mean...
Hello. Goodbye.
Is it going to be two?
Oh!
That's a good one.
Torgey's hit some nice shots.
He has.
That's been the highlight of the series for Mouse.
Torgey is the highlight of Mouse.
Oh, boy.
Brilliant.
Just messy to get past.
He's done it.
So we've had a brilliant ace clutch.
Now we have a 4k shut down on the pistol.
He's keeping us interested.
So you get Torgy.
Yeah, okay.
Dead fox.
Yeah, okay.
Dead fox only 31 or something.
I saw the other guy.
maybe wild at it he's coming
yeah he's doing commentary now
hey listen to his live at the same time everyone's tuned into that Jason Moses
at all alongside of his son kick dinko until everyone tell Jason in the chat
that his beard looks good healthy healthy
4G? No, we're not losing on this one, don't you worry.
Fully echoed guns up now.
Hey, uh...
How much can we scamper back that M4?
It would have been 3 SMGs otherwise.
So, 2 SMGs and a drop available for Spinks.
So they should be all good in the hood.
As they look to turn their attention to the papers.
Now they win this.
There can be another line by out of Vitality and we get a game.
Right, it can very quickly go from the 93.5 to 97 and the match is back on at that point.
So it's all been fun and games up until right now, but will Vitality give the pedal to the metal or do we have a map on our hands?
They win this one, I lock in.
Vitality win this one, they lock in the playoffs.
Yeah, very much.
Good info.
Flames these Molotovs not really going to force any reactions, things can confirm it's clear.
So good info to keep at least the two on B. The exertion-problem combo is starting to group
up to 1 and out, away the view to a lands, over on top of the half wall, a flash and
a flurry as they do confirm sandbags is theirs.
For the finish, it's just a handful of smokes. Molly and a couple of flashes, that's a confident
smoke.
I like that. Love that. Off you go. Crossfire. Crawler. Good for it on the MP7. Then, Exertion
will activate. Solid. Double! Out of Exertion. They'd have lost the site, but a flash
cross. He's got a draper apex. Love the bravery. Puts Robs into a rather uncomfortable
one versus three. It should be
up to deny the plant that is so
necessary for him. Is he really
going to fall into the trap of
faking this out yet?
Vocal fade to punish the first.
The core out on the Jimmy swing.
Now, six. Vitality nine.
Game on.
And we see us a lot from Tozhi,
right? He's the consistent figure
that we see at least loudly.
Doesn't mean that players aren't
saying things to keep the mood
good or trying to bring up the
energy from Maus.
It's just Tozhi is the only one
that has that loud vocal voice
and continuing it right now.
And well, he's been making
plays that should make your
teammates believe he is at the tippy top of the scoreboard absolutely hammering them with his output
so if the rest of them are able to start joining torsion he has 17 kills 11 deaths
he's doing everything he can yeah so at this point you know he's holding on hoping that
the rest of them get their act together hungarians i would
I have triple nades so normally we would discuss this being for pit, I was wondering if it
was going to be used now for banana or they could use it towards CT or coffins if they
know that there's a potential jiggle on some of these anti-force setups or anti-marchants
Excuse me.
Ah!
Piper wall.
And guess what?
Toji is back at the pit with the AWP.
Could be a nasty double-nade door on his face here.
Triple-nade even.
Could be the end of the orb.
Still feels like a set-up set for success here.
My nasty end of Toji!
Nades come in, flashes are good!
Oh, they're broken through!
Sight taken, exertion, and brawlin.
Oh, wait, three picks.
Gonna catch exertion off guard.
Yeah, there's made out of marketing and park.
What a horrible way to lose the round.
That's one way to get past Torgy.
Brawlin, give it a go. Yes, I can.
Yeah, he will, he will.
Oh! Oh! It's the head!
He may not do it!
Good!
Dazz!
101!
Brawlin with 5 HP.
It's not looking good.
The outlook bleak,
but he's taken so many steps in the right direction.
and picks up the kit plays the fade hoping to get into the head of flamesy
forward he's got to get on to that bomb now
fight anti break in the tech nine so very short live celebrations
the chat liked the valorant joke they liked it a lot they did
I was trying to like say a voice line but I couldn't I couldn't come up with one
I haven't played enough of the Valorante.
I know exactly where you are!
That's a good one!
What does Vipers say?
Well, they really doubt it with Valorante, didn't they?
Now you're rage baiting for keeping here, you're just doing rage bait!
We were just talking about this in the green room man, can't be doing rage bait.
I'm sick of it, the internet just makes me angry these days.
Because it keeps my attention on my little box of doom.
Oh, thank you.
It's a high-prince death, actually.
I think that's the most cringe out of all of them so far.
I'm using cringe in ironically.
Pretty cringe.
It's pretty cringe.
Yeah.
As far as cringe goes.
Smoke walk, going out.
Something like that, I think.
Yeah.
He's got the Gramps now!
He's got the Gramps now!
Open the skies!
Ah, that is one!
They are in there!
On the Counter-Strike voice line. Bingo.
Bango.
Bish bash bash.
That's a good one.
Duh!
When you get zoosed.
you when they're out into the game so that's a good one that's very common
Locking themselves into the plane also, beating the place for half an hour.
2026.
11 years on.
Good time blocked, that's a 45 seconds bomb still floating.
They have this brackets control sure think that the concern being there is another smoke on B
So exertion can drop that in to block the B site if
What's gonna be the finish?
Won't be there all gripped up middle now
This mix is rotated over to join this defense and toji has the orb 24 seconds of wrapping long
Oh, holy perfect from sphinx
To 8x but still stretching his legs wrapping into the tour G or hard to see this one going on for miles
Now it's 20 perfect drops to his demise.
That's right, Jimmy, he's been found, but still gets the necessary
No, you don't know you don't what you just kill him instead.
Orquip or quit.
There was four seconds left.
They killed them both.
I'm so focused on Jimmy back at the site.
Oh, OK, update of the score for the audio only listeners.
eleven to six, eleven to six, eleven to six now.
So it's twenty-four, nine.
It looks like, it does look like they aren't just straight disrespect rushing in.
I think this is the absolute best humanly possible for that.
You are just against knowing that their buy is bad, you are going to be going close range
against MP9s and 5-7s have just rushed B with the rocket.
So anyway back to the record, today will be 11 and 2 in terms of series for everybody
playing at home.
The map wise coming in today's matchup was 2049, so 33 played in total 24-1 by Vitality
and 9-1 by Maus, so we'll bump that one up, let me just adjust my notes, that's 26-9
and 11-2 in series.
In just over 12 months.
Just complete this lesson team, game over.
In just over 12 months.
So for our audio only listeners, the score is now 12 now, they just rushed B, just a
straight rush.
He had a CT smoke from spawn to facilitate it because of course Robson, he's down to
be rude, but he wants to do it with good smoke.
So what was the crack off scores?
Obviously it was like 37, 35, 36, so close, yeah, and they're close to that score
I think this is his man.
I kind of agree.
Great name.
The Evolving Shade.
Ooh, another one.
Smoke is breaking in there.
He's on his own.
It's just D1, he's got more nades.
It's the Grenadier.
Look at him, he's doing everything!
The only Grenadiers he throws.
Pushing D, going CT, going head and coffins.
Now he's inside, now the smoke.
He's acting like two players and it's working.
Well they have stacked middle and use your damage is quite nice.
Another smoke he highlighted by J.U.S.CoreRaz.
Now I believe Maus win this round.
I too.
Oh, he needs to get the multi here.
They know he's out of boost.
Oh, plugs from the sky by the snipers.
I will quick follow up onto Torgie.
I'm on the B player.
He might go overlocked.
He is going to be completely overlooked, I say that, Robs is considering it as a potential.
Now reveals himself, puts Robs and Apex into this one.
Backstab, lovely push from Exertion.
And Apex doesn't have their health, but a 1v2.
And then he lined up for it.
And so we see another round of play.
It's Prolan, starting A, making the difference on the close.
Okay, good work from Exertion there, not overplaying that handed banana,
softening them up with the U2, dispelling them from banana and pushing them back to A.
There's always going to be Dicey coming up mid with that low HP, just trades after trades,
but it's a problem in the difference maker. Still money now for the Vitality buy.
Torji equipped with the orb, M4s for the rest, a few skits in play, and full sets of nades.
Just five more rounds.
10
10 to the Mac 10, of course you're gonna start mid with the AWP
I know it's gonna be one and seven strong, but we've hauled it off the pit
Oh, we're actually dodging the nades
Oh my God, he's got some swinging as well
Just a H-Bowl, follow up the brawler, can't beat him in the flames
So, we'll give him a bit of space, oh he's really one of the best
Well, just swing on in to three of them.
Ranters, he's all right, we're going in first.
There was a flash, it was really absolutely perfect,
but just in the paradigm, it wasn't the nays,
it wasn't trying to wait.
Oh, roll that.
Oh, that's nice.
It's okay.
That's his life.
Sorry, bro, it's just, it's gonna happen, isn't it?
Oh.
Yeah, this one feels like even better but it's just you never love to see an orphan in a position like that
But it was kind of funny just an orphan this smoke. Well, they do break the money with this one
That's if
Session can stop Flamesy from saying be look good
The ropes on the lurk and love that mid-bush. Oh, that is so nice
Yeah, perfect sphinx, claims he's attempting to trade here, perfect play.
Oh no, Rob's going to make a move.
Looks like he will.
He's going to be tucked on site, towards his library.
Oh, that's not going to happen, towards the trigger.
He should have it, towards the dozen.
He's operating with the save.
Okay, four round game now.
See how easy it is.
It's super easy.
It's going to be an easy close, right?
Lost bonus at the moment is 1900.
So basically call it 12 man?
The fact that there's AKs in the mix, I want to see what they do with it because there
can be a few upgrades.
You got like 3.5, 3.4 on Nezzy and Apex.
So you can upgrade a little bit, you're going to get 2400 next round so you want
to leave yourself just over that 2K mark.
So we are seeing players start to buy down a little bit.
I was coming with a Digo and a Smoke, it's a Tecna for Mazzie, Apex is really trying to
get value for money, he's got Kevlar but with a P250 and it's still threatening.
You're right, it is.
It's still a much easier situation than otherwise but we know that Vitality is on
the Ecos, they win an abnormal amount of Ecos.
I think it's just three's pistol on the floor and then he picked it up, but he did throw it on the floor
half spot
If you don't get out bow, you need the AK when you get a chance
These pistols have to make space, otherwise flames you won't be able to flash out
Perfect
Oh no, he's getting stuck down
Jimmy as well the ace size under a lot of pressure
You know where Torgy was already the bombs being planted as I would get it down at least have the names
They've got so many needs Jack
Driven one forward you have to decide quickly though. We're gonna wait this out or we're gonna regroup and all get
Oh, just a spam from apex and Torgy just has to wheel his jet back and watch as a two-on-four transpires
He picks a spot another through the smoke
Oh, it's a horrible way for it to go down.
Save gun and some basically an eco around it.
Nice shot from Brawland.
Pushing in for number two.
Gets it, but that's flamesy to close.
Vitality, another one in the mouths.
Vitality head to head.
Yes, and much like so many of the others,
a victory for vitality.
And one that did get a little bit spicy at a moment.
Well, explain why people at home, just in case they're unfamiliar with it, but we're going to linger on the handshakes here, but I mean, just business as usual, really, and remember, that was Mouse's map pick.
Grass is green, sky is blue, Vitality, another comfortable series against Mouse, just another day on this planet.
Probably should have workshopped that.
I thought you were going to run into Vitality.
Yeah, Vitality beat Mouse into is where you could have gone.
Yeah, if I was better at what I do next time, for the playoffs, for the playoffs.
Yeah, we'll bring it back.
No one will remember.
This is just an ever-recurring nightmare for Maus.
I feel like more than even going back into the war room and trying to break this one
down, they just need therapy.
It's true, man.
It really does seem that when they're playing, you know, it's just completely different
when it comes to what they do against Vitality.
So many like unforced errors and bad decisions.
Everything, unforced errors, forced errors,
no individual brilliance from play.
Look at this.
Like Raps just runs into apps
and wins the duel against Jimmy.
Like, you know, like those are the sort of fights
that you have to be winning really if you're a mouse
and it just happens like to every single player
on every single map across every single position way too often and I can't remember.
I mean listen, every dynasty level team has a number two.
Astralis had liquids, right?
It was the same situation.
They even knew which map Astralis was going to pick every single time.
It was Nuke, right?
So Maus is just the liquid of this generation.
I was going to say actually, this is a take that I almost feel like this is bad
for Vitality's legacy. But this is your number two. A team that's not lift the trophy.
I'm not having the miscarriage of number two.
They're not your number two.
What?
Let's be real about the role that Maus fulfill now.
If you want to win Trophy's Maus of the Gatekeepers, right?
It's a good way to see it.
You've got to be able to get past Maus if you want to lift the Trophy
because Maus themselves won't do that.
They're Gatekeepers to contender status.
They're the best team out there that will not lift the Trophy.
And what does that make Valkyries?
I don't know. That's an expensive flop. I can't wait for that. We'll get into it in a moment.
And of course, here it is again. Just have another have another standout performance from you.
I've got to say felt a little bit sorry for Torgie on that one. I think you know, he did his level best.
When they're in these situations, Torgie does seem to be the one that's not as that's not going there Richard.
You know, I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to find the silver lining for them.
and try to find someone to praise.
But even him, for every good round that he has,
it feels like there's two where, even the last round,
like a couple of missed shots,
go back to Dust two, one of the key rounds,
first half, four with three, he misses,
shot from short gets killed.
So I think it's just really hard to look for it, right?
And maybe a player will have one time a really good map,
but then in the next map, he might go completely missing.
Well, I'll just put a pin in it for a moment
because we are going to the sidelines
James who's with apex thank you very much Richard apex is here after cruising
past now's once again but you're saying just then right little bit harder than
last time you face them not too much that didn't seem like too much of a
challenge well I know I don't think it was harder than last time I think was
the same we dominated both our first sides I think we played good overall we
had good plans yeah I think that was a pretty great for for us they can't
work out how to beat you right but do you think they play maybe more scared
against you guys? I think at some point yeah of course there is a mountain hedge
for from our side but yeah I think they played good yesterday I saw like
Cheshire I think said that he was happy because they played the best game they
played for a long time I think yeah they may be up a mountain but also we
play really good so it's not easy as I always say in interviews if this team
plays really good tough for the others it does look very tough for them as
well I just see you getting a bit fired up towards Spinks, some
You know he used to be in our team, he wants you to leave us, that's the payback you know.
I mean I'm on his back now. Whenever I see him last and baiting a bit too much, I just make him sure that I see that he's just a good banter.
When I see him I always check his hand and barrow up, but it's good to trash hook an ulti sometimes.
Definitely is, I got to keep that mental edge wherever you can over it.
I know rops is obviously feeling pretty bad, but you come through this with two two ones right?
You only drop maps against g2 and Mongols in there with it
But overall are you happy with what you showed considering what you had to go through?
Well, yeah, I think rops got better after each game
He got sick like a week ago now
So like he's recovering better and better think today showed a really good game
So he helps when he's there not gonna lie
This guy is such an important piece for us. So whenever he steps up, it's better
I think only the G2 game has been really close to Vanessa where we could have lost it
But other than that, I think the two games the two maps against Mongols were convincing
We won like a 13-4, 13-4 today was convincing. So yeah, the first day was tough
But the ropes was really not there and I was like suffering a lot
But yeah, I think we we just gave our best for him and just to make sure that now
He has a couple of days to rest before playoff a very important few days to rest as well
How will you guys spend it? Do you just plan to get a complete chill mode?
Of course not. We have chill mode on the 23rd when we will have 10 days off after this event.
So until that we have a lot of stuff to work. When we are waiting for like all the games for
last few days I could craft a bit on the computer so I have new stuff to show to the guys.
So yeah we will practice for sure from tomorrow and give our best to do the best
Thanks very much for your time. Richard back to you.
Yeah, thanks a lot James. So that's what we were going to talk about. The spicy moment.
James did mention it there in the interview. Obviously there was a point where Apex jumped
up and shouted its binks and was calling him a bait and we'll run it back in a second
so you can hear it. But a lot of people might not know the history there and how
kind of acrimonious it is. So here it is in the...
Yeah, I took the final round the first half and they just picked him apart, you know, and skinks is at 1.30, you know, 1. before last one alive
And most of he kills a person before he kills him and then dies right after but you can just see that I mean listen
if there ever was someone who
sort of
represents I took that personally in a level of Michael Jordan it is a
Pax right out of all people as he will look at every single thing as a
Slight and it is true spings wanted out of my talent did can you imagine just for a second?
You want to leave a team that has I wanted it's ridiculous. I mean it definitely felt like apex was filled with malice there
That didn't feel like a
Simple trash talk in the same way where he'll call somebody noobs on the other team
I mean I will say this I've known Dan a long time and him saying it's all good banter
That was a very acrimonious transfer. That is not good banter. That is bad banter
But you know, but he's right. He did you know, he'll still shake his hand
But I mean obviously I don't know how spinks must feel you go from being on the team
That's gone on to sort of dominate and have an era and be domestic
Meanwhile, you're the you're the joke. You're on the team. That's the punchline
any joke you make about the fighter. You were the problem. Yeah. Simple as that, you know, and
you go on to Maus and great. You're the best player on the second, well, fourth best, fourth best
team, you know, in the world have a great time. Anyway, guys, I'll put us out of our misery from
sort of the deja vu, deja vu, I nearly said, of having to watch that game again. But we've
But we got a bag of series coming up after a quick break.
It's gonna be Falkens versus Fury.
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Yes, welcome back. We are powering up with our last series of the day. It's going to
be Furia versus Falcons, a tantalizing matchup. We're going to be breaking it down on the
desk. We've got Maui Snake. We've got Yankee, of course. So let's talk about Falcons
or if you're an American falcons,
you have to say it that way
or they don't understand what you're going on about.
So yeah, look, I'm just gonna toss this out there
and I know it's Niko's birthday, happy birthday Niko,
just yeah, there we go.
Don't listen to this anyway,
it's not obviously he's warming up,
but I think just an expensive flop
and I am so tired of the apologists.
Like it's been a lot.
Yeah, because it's just so boring to me to be like,
okay, so they get to spend the most money,
They get to have the best theoretical staff set up and they get to win one trophy and because they're in a couple of finals
we all have to pretend they're actually a lot better than what they are.
That's where I'm at with them.
But are you looking at just the results or like the trophies or the fact how they're playing on the server?
I think if you look at the last season for the Falcons, they were getting better with each tournament
and they had the problem where they played their worst at the most important moments, right?
They had a probably choking and not playing up to their best up to their level.
But they showed some really good things throughout the season.
They given the roster a vote of confidence in make any roster changes during the break.
Right.
Felt like they were right there with this roster.
Just need a little bit more to be actually be able to lift the trophy.
And yeah, they had a bit of a, you know, disaster run in Krakow.
But it was one event sort of first big event of the season similar to
Cologne last year when when they flopped and they look better. I've got a nickname for them.
I call them money bags mouths because they've got the same mentality problems. It's just
a more expensive theoretically better team. I would have continued with the same train
of thought of them improving in successive tournaments in the previous season. However,
the Budapest collapsed to his way to spirits, but his way and also what happened at crack
I'm going to go back out.
Those are warning signs for me.
This to me has to be a bounce back tournament for the Falcons where I want to see them bare
minimum top four at this sort of event.
If not just getting to the grand final or I'm going to feel like there might need to
be a change of foot because even though there was there were clear improvements
over the course of time, I feel like certain players on the team, even if their ratings
jump off the page, sometimes it doesn't feel like the lessons are being instilled
properly.
I think Kyosuke for me is a guy that I see all of the raw ability and the
way that he can match up toe to toe in the server with the best riflers in the world.
But then I also see him grief them on multiple rounds across multiple series.
And yeah, we can point to a lot of different figures.
And a choke doesn't come from a single player, but there's a pattern here where it feels
like he is oftentimes the first domino to fall.
The king of losing 5v2s as well as the team.
I like to be real about it.
So, you know, Janko, obviously I know it's tough to be critical of a team where
you've got like colleagues and friends on.
I mean, it's not.
What's the fundamental problem at the top of all this?
I think the fundamental problem really is,
I think it's hard to say, because I was going to say,
right now, I have a problem with their T sides.
Like their T sides look a bit out of sorts on some maps.
Doesn't feel like the mid rounds look off.
At a point during last season, they
were the best T side team in the world,
like around September, October, November.
Like they were the best T side team in the world and then you're sitting there wondering
It's like what's changed that you go from being one of the best one of the worst if you're talking about the top five teams
Right. Obviously the problem of people going missing and then playing their worst
In important games right the choking problem is what I feel holds them back the most because when they're on their good
They they have beaten everyone outside of fury. Well, we can talk about some previous results
I know there's a point you wanted to make.
Yeah, I mean the last time we saw these two teams
basing off against each other was in Hong Kong
at the Blast Rivals Grand Final.
And it was a pretty close affair.
I know it's a 3-1 in favor of Furia,
but first map being won convincingly by the Falcons,
and the fact that it took multiple overtimes
across the other maps showed just how evenly matched
these two teams were. I mean I feel like
so many moments could have, it kind of was
sort of the choking problem.
You saw individuals going back to some of those games where Falcons were in winning positions
where they just couldn't continue to hold the man advantage situations that they had
for themselves.
So I feel like in a setting that has a little bit less pressure, you would expect Falcons
to not really fumble those kinds of moments where they have themselves really kind of
set up to win.
Meanwhile, Fury obviously their opponents right now, they've been in the ascendancy
to kind of towards the end of last year able to start picking up trophies and you know there was a
There was kind of a lot of people that felt they might have been favorites for the last
May in Bizarrely a lot of people were picking them which is you know a hell of a thing to be
saying about this particular lineup if that was the aspirations when it was first put together
you would have said they were being a bit delusional but it felt like a reality for a
lot of people um and I I think you know their favorites in this matchup for me.
Yeah, they absolutely are. I mean, they won the last four every single time they play against the Falcon roster and they beat in them.
Granted, it's been close series a number of times, but hey, they still came out on top.
So I think they just know how to play against them.
They're not too worried about the individuals per se.
And they had a significant map advantage before, right?
Because they would throw a ban ancient and they would pick inferno.
But in the meanwhile, ancient isn't necessarily as good as it was for Falcons.
they've gotten a lot better on inferno so once you get to the veto it will be more interesting
and you can see the head to head of the obviously moledoy rookie of the year monasy the flash the
phenom do you feel maui like watching the games that that's the case that these are the stats
i mean monasy is the superior player if you if you watch say most group stage games yeah i think
monasy has just been pretty lights out for him oftentimes i think fury are trading around
for who's the guy in any given matchup, even though Molodoy has these ridiculous highs.
I think the Monosy's consistency is simply better. Also, Monosy has always the backup
plan of pulling out the rifle, which I don't think Molodoy always has in his back pocket.
And this is the Vita on your screen. We're probably going to see some very familiar maps.
Yeah, I think, I mean, I was thinking maybe Falcons are going to keep going with Dust2,
even though it's been hit and miss lately. They go for Mirage, which is what Fiora has
has been picking themselves the last couple of times.
And a few of themselves goes for Inferno.
And last time around, that's the map that Falcons
just completely battered Fury on.
So maybe a little bit of a surprise for me, actually,
because of just how well things went for Falcons.
So I feel like, in a way, Fury is kind of playing
into the hand of Falcons.
It used to be a punished pick to go for Inferno
against Falcons, but they leveled up
on the map significantly.
I mean, it's just like, I look at, for example,
sometimes the Ritos baffle me as well,
because you look at the team Falcons has, right?
You have Pioce who came on to see an eco, right?
Like your map pool should be like this.
Mirage, Dust2, Nuke should probably be your
three strongest map, put ancient in there as well,
which is a really strong map for them.
Like Anubis and Inferno should be at the bottom
of your map pool and the bottom of your priority list.
I don't see a universe in which
you should be playing Anubis over Nuke.
If you're the Falcons, right?
Why? Because you want to give your individuals
a map where they can bail you out of tough situations.
where it's not that difficult to get into post plans
because even if you're in a 3v5, 2v4,
but it's Niko and Monacee, right?
Like they can get you out of,
they can win you those rounds.
Like that's why you got them on your team.
That's why you spent all that money and paid them
the big bucks.
What are they gonna do for you on Anubis?
On their own.
All right, then guys,
well, we're about ready to get into the action.
So I'll hand you back over to Sponge and Machine.
And we'll be looking to see if Niko
can get a three zero birthday present.
Yeah, we'll find out whether or not they can kind of buck the trend fury had to have had their number as the desk highlights
It's a pretty good birthday present would be huge right playoffs and you beat furia and you beat furia. So it's a two for one
The best of presents and then you it's okay to have a drink tonight because you have to play tomorrow true
Would work out. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Can go hang out chefs here, too
I do think I have a party the monosy Molodoy head-to-head is just an exciting prospect for
or anyone that's a fan of flashy counter strike?
Yeah, this will be fun, right?
The level of individuals that we have on display in this
should be an awful lot of fun, especially on Mirage.
And this is something we've been talking an awful lot
about for Furia in 2026.
It started to be picked against them as a weakness,
and they bucked the trend.
They've been on a bit of a spree.
They had a little bit of a fault against, well, fault.
So not even intentionally just kind of happening.
So let's see if it is a weakness,
Falcons are able to get out on top of that and yanko discussing similar scenes on inferno from map number two
They were picking at a lot against Falcons. I mean everybody
They've been getting in their reps away
We go for what is likely just gonna be a B execute couple of smokes couple of flashes is falling up on the balcony
Look at this. He held by a Serato. It could be brilliant. Oh, I'm so surprised
Well, they make it to unaffolding to usp
Immediately forced to respect the flame
Respect the aim! Fallen hits a third!
What is that?
This was a young man's game.
Beautiful to see Fallen in form.
I have to accept Machete Kicks and M on a C here.
Good Fallen.
Oh, when he's good he's bad Fallen. I don't really understand the...
I think it's the glasses that make him bad Fallen.
Okay. Right.
Like the mask.
Yes.
Well, it wasn't the man we were just discussing, and I'm looking at your Niko's, your Monocys,
your Suke's, you're going to get some really nice moments out of Molotov and your Kindar
and then Fallen goes, all right, you are not coming B.
What about a fun math problem for Counter-Strike, where he's got the three kills but he doesn't
have Kev.
Do you're going to drop it to a teammate?
You know, you tell us about the M4?
Oh, yeah, but they're going to win the rounds.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
And if they lose the round and you save, then you're dropping it anyway, so I guess to answer
the question, yeah.
Yeah, cool.
The plan would be nice.
It would be very nice.
And we're trying to find the rat in the system.
Molotow is with a quick shot, and just the ones, honestly, no plan.
What a hell of a start from Fallen.
He's got that hot hand and very, very promising signs if Fallen's going to be in this
kind of form.
Yeah, Molotow even brings some energy here.
This team is, simply to get a bit of a reputation that they slowly warm into things, see if they're
hot handed right now.
How is we catching them in the replay?
They're just making it look casual there and the third one to lead to any opportunity
if they want to go.
There's probably an eco coming in, there is one deagle invested upon and that will
be, there's a kixin, another shot, now it's in the presence and they'll rotate
around to continue to look for some of these opportunities. Nico also, you can see him here,
just smoke lined up, adjusting his sleeve, inspecting his knife. Nice knife.
He's a nice knife.
Well, your kinder has an awful lot of information in the middle, doesn't he?
All the way up on the precipice of the top of mid will be the A play you're either received
from Ticket at Range.
Bomb does get down, they've achieved their goal, unless he was quick to that.
Lovely name right on the doorstep.
Let's see who they've got.
Just to accomplish though, it's an eco and you get the bomb down.
soften them up and do any real damage but you do get the extra 600 bucks coming into the bank balance so
you'll take that and you need to get the account open for everybody.
This will give you a little bit more wiggle room in the buy department.
All the names that you'd be hoping for for these defaults and kicks in after investing upon that
digger will just get them in with a glill so this one is looking good to contend for the
first rifle round. So those SMGs in the mix in the hands of your kinder and fallen currently.
So Fallen over towards B, no dramas, just jump-spotting, block-smoke, playing around and being ratty.
I just think they want to get up too.
Quite the tone being set by the CT, starting 3B, boosting up, making a move.
It's the wrong move, and A executes on the way, so Yuri, holding onto this HE when the smoke wall lands, he could be a disruptor right now.
They know it's not B.
It's just Yuri here.
Holy s**t.
Holy s**t.
Holy s**t.
No one wants to try and be a destabilizing person.
Strike at that early one.
Maybe a well-timed smoke break.
The pawn's only got MP9, so you look at a molotov CT, perhaps.
The test is going to be flashed in.
Beautiful, but he actually manages to evade.
He gets away.
Great movement while playing.
Just as he gains it all,
retains control of CT, but three of them
charging towards him.
Smokes with a fuse.
Kits in play.
He relayed Khan.
You want to see focused on the late-ramp arrival of your kinder.
I think I've fallen.
Watch path forward.
KSRR has done a nice double.
Modesty's gone as well.
Now they activate Kixin and Kisuke should have done enough.
Very little time for Molodoy and Kits.
Alkin's first gun round is theirs, but at what cost?
Yeah, you're right.
In terms of losing so much,
I thought that Kitsubishi's going to take that fire gun
while it had to remove everything,
thing but he realizes hey we really need this and it's only a galile. Let's do get them
around on the board. I think that's fortunate as well that it wasn't an A set up they were
having a breakthrough right it was a relatively retakes set up because of that B push off
of the bonus. Now Furia can have a full fledged buy with the Molotow AWP. The same cannot
be said for monocy on the other side. So we'll have to run another one with the
guns, but that was a simple solution. Let's just execute. Is there more nuance to this?
Seems to be the case. I could just go straight into some of the bespot right now. Plenty of
tape to watch if you're on this map. To continue to try and reinvent the wheel or come up with
new solutions or new ideas and stuff. They're playing so much of it. Most played now for
2026 so far by a decent margin
They heard the jumps. Yeah, they know where it's hanging out. Guess the info safe, right?
They go down to Nico's 8k. It's actually towards middle as well. You can see Kixon's Torana.
Last questions of connector.
Oh, an opportunity kiss!
You can hit the head!
Bunker and QCK haven't been able to hit their openings.
B feels like it's in a bit of a box right now.
So trying to play for short.
What is actually rotating A?
How much does your kinder want to force the issue?
It's so quiet across the map right now it's essentially just going to come down to these
two on B. Cesarado cheating over now so yeah, too quiet, that'll be a third man.
Okay, in the right place.
Okay, cool as best as your kinder pulls the attention of Thorne, straight provided
but brought down by Tessus.
It's Cesarado's that third man, he's the difference maker.
We'll listen to the three on three bites time for the rotations of Yuri.
Poladoi.
I'm gonna see if we'll clear him out and they'll have enough time to plant.
Poladoi not in a position to stop that.
Give this a go.
Give this a look.
Yuri starting to encroach on the site.
Being considered right now.
Not at all.
Oh, never mind.
I honestly thought about it.
Yeah, she's been looking the other way.
two most important jewels that will initially want to kiss you go into your
kinder to be the first dominant start falling in and that one right there
they've just got off let me just swing a little spur of action as Molotow
retains the AWP but it'll be consecutive rifle rounds now for
Falcons looking to do what they haven't in the last four outings
take down this damn team
one was a grand final that was rivals two of them being semis and one of
them being the groups that have flown
It's going to be five matches, the second one taking place in a group stage.
Whoever wins this will join Vitality,
looking themselves in for the playoffs here at Cluj-Napoca.
So very impressive.
And as was that,
And I'm gonna make a statement, which I'm 99% sure is correct.
Alright.
That, uh, the direction can...
...repeat other lines.
Hey, here we go!
Lovely star!
Boosted up and...
...no reaction out of fury, are you akin to just...
...court out by the boost?
Well, they're hanging around in the middle behind this AWP, so they're still wanting to force a fight.
Can they...
...catch a straggle?
Maybe they could.
Yeah, looks like they're gonna hang around.
Waiting for some form of a reaction from the CT, so nothing coming the way.
The point being...
that Vitality and whoever wins this
should be on opposite sides of the player's bracket.
Good point, well made.
Yes, the two three zero games.
Well three zero teams, excuse me.
They've been really stubborn about this set up.
It might pay off, you know.
I think you should be dialed in right now in hunting this right so constrict the map to remove it from Mollard I understand it's too early saves
You don't have a lot of money in the tea side either, but it's only 2400 as the loss bonus going into the next
So this is the type of moment where if you can take this away, it is actually going to be worth an awful lot
And Kixson is coming back turned Molotov. Do you just step into this sort of kicks in
Got a chance to put the blade into the back
It's the kill so there you have it fair play. I mean those flashes were beautiful both of the mid players
Sniper and con case or auto mid
So I making sure he gets his
round celebration
But yeah, nice spray as well from Kingston. Yeah, so now you're going to rounds that
Number six here and you don't have an AWP on Molotov so fallen a worthwhile hunt
We operating just on this five seven there are needs of play in the M4s in the mix
And we saw you just keep force-buying apparently if you know spot goals yesterday against vitality, so
Better buy than what they were pulling off so a good opportunity to get tested
They are essentially playing for A. Two around corn, one ticket, one balcony, and that's the
guns too.
That's all you needed to do, monosie catch his Quesarato, jiggling out from the top
connector.
The more that came from though, the smoke fades, you can detach, no he doesn't, no
he actually wants to make a play.
Kisuke's holding this. All too easy. Frank delivered to him.
You're gonna expect too much when I get from them.
I think as long as you group up now, and you use all this use to look at how much they have for those two kills of Cubs I'll eat,
and I can follow this to my own flashes.
Understand that Fallen is now giving up the B-Side and Rotet over, but if you just play the trade game Falcons,
you should be your round.
Nico
We trying to buy them safe route by clearing beat and
They can pivot so there shouldn't be too many concerns right now as no one's jumping. No, it's jiggling. There's nothing here blocking me boys
Presence of the rotation on the way over now, which is it?
Some self-informed it should be saved so
So, 2100 going into the next, they can fly behind this again, or they can just use the
three and get out the head of your beef, but how do I end up in a future round?
Good work from Monty earlier, he's currently three in L in terms of opening jewels, so
having some success.
Damn, Monty always enforces a bit of a throwback.
Keyed stars.
I think it's keyed. Yeah, that's definitely keyed. Cool. Yeah, you're right. Trust the
gut. Now, how given this one a look right now, so can they take these rifles away that
would remove that flush as deep trade needs to be there.
I think now you definitely don't drop rifles right you just take the two that you have you have some light upgrades on the other three and then you go for a full buy into the next because four to two already on the T side and it is for consecutive
I'm starting off a very strong fashion there about choice. This is what you want to see.
Will there be a falcon's moment? Yeah, tend to get it every time they're in the server,
but hadn't crossed my mind. Well, now it has. You put it into the universe now. You
got to get ahead of it in some of these situations. True. That's what I'm sure
falcons are hoping to do. So that 30 seconds also gifted over to Sonic to just prep
them hey okay this is the money this is the loss burners take our time we know
there's two M4s one's on fallen ones on molotoy are we expecting
well put together T side
it's pretty smooth sailing so far isn't it you lose the pistol and that's
just fallen get three bangers took an eco where you got the plant and then you
one four straight all right crazy the molotov took a heavy year
flash doesn't need to hang around it's ready to support kids to okay here you go
I think there's a lot of elements in team play right because we hope it kicks in to start
off the at talking about team play being a focus for the team.
Not just having your individuals wind up, go out, find some kills.
It doesn't have to be grouped up and doing anything too crazy.
It's just you get the space and you make sure that you're alluding your teammate for
that next move, that next fight.
Tess has already entrenched on A, this is completely unknown and the power smoke confirms it.
Hey boys, they have no idea I'm out and I'll take this one.
Oh, he's had some moments Tess, he's not hitting so far, 1 and 70, look like he's spewing there
on the camps.
Yeah, that's going to be a good play.
We're now Uri with the chip in, nice angle from Kix into clear of sight.
We got Uri.
We need to hit another one of those.
You need to pick the bombs going down so they can just hold the line to make sure they can't get the kicks in.
That's what Monosy's doing.
Ips away from Craig, he advances his chances in the clutch.
He's got his AK and Monosy's got his AWP.
Definitely feeling himself today solid as a rock on the sniper.
That's three added to his tally.
Yeah, and another open kill, right?
So the fact that they're using him as that spearhead.
But that moment with Monacy last year, I was like,
oh, it's not that he's fallen flat.
But when they were betting in Kiyosuke and the team,
they were working out how he's going to work with the roles
and who's going to get the resources.
Then when you have a player like Monacy,
you need to treat him in the same way that Furia treat
Molledoy, right?
We need to get him to AWP whenever we can.
And we should use him for the openness,
because he's so good at it.
He can do more than that.
He can do more than that.
Fall in.
He puts out the secondary AWP.
Oh, look at the kids he's got.
This is so fast.
He's already got a fire on his ass.
He just turns around to react to Kacerato's contact.
Now pressure on B.
Heavy pressure, fallen, under scrutiny,
barns down, Tess just finds himself his second kill.
OK, great.
He's at the nape of Kacerato's face.
He's one, too.
Good angle here from Monosy.
We'll catch Molodoy if he didn't have the plan.
Coming up, Kat is Yuri.
Kixen's ready.
The bomb has been dropped.
Places the crosshair catches the first piece
and Molodoy is piecing out.
Yeah, he's probably feeling like he's not
getting to play the game right now.
He's having to try and retake another bomb site.
So it's tough.
With Molodoy, he wants to be in the play.
He wants to be trying to make those openings happen.
But was that not like the perfect call
to counter a double orb set up as well, like just a fast B?
I don't think they're expecting the double orb,
but they are trying to bully this B bomb site.
We saw it on the pistol, and now just wearing
straight new action and it was falling getting pushed away from the apartments.
You can get blindsided because Fallon's calling he's getting pushed and how does
that?
Six rounds to sign it all ready this is looking damn good for Falcons smooth sailing at
the moment.
Okay, well, there it is.
Honestly, saying I have a good spawn, I'm sure that's music to Falcons ears.
Well, that's if they want to use it right here's a good a ramp spawn right now.
So how do they want to use or do they even want to use it?
This is the balance.
There's tougher kicks and you have players who want to make plays, but you also need
to call the rhythm of the game.
No, it's really tough, so he's coming from the cross from side to con, see anybody speeding
over.
Always the opportunity from that room into the jungle, don't worry about that, but they're
just searching, eh?
Oh, we got another rope now.
There he goes a little further.
There you go, good farm's presence.
Molly's coming.
Molly's coming.
Molly's coming.
Molly's coming.
Molly's coming.
Molly's coming.
Molly's coming.
Molly's coming.
Molly's coming.
Molly's coming.
Molly's coming.
Molly's coming.
Molly's coming.
finish him off. Interesting it looked like they wanted to commit obviously
there's two loose pieces over towards middle but you go and test as we're
on a lot of models here so it doesn't want to be involved in that.
Just surround with just that saved AWP and some operator pistols. One of your
winning rounds like this has been a good half but if you're here you can still
tie things up 6-6 as they go and scavenge some guns.
You're a good very well under that pressure to get something.
It's a prime position here, it's a pretty easy shot, back of the head.
We'll get the info, spots him and ready his aim.
There's no one considering shot.
It's a good shot.
Pull him out.
Good morning shot, distract.
Fall in, connects.
It's not fucking good.
Now we're gonna snatch this one away.
Maybe more.
I'm honestly.
Ready to get on the side.
this on a way maybe more than honestly
ready to go on the side
Oh!
Okay so our two does peek out
tries to keep from attention
and now maybe fallen isn't going to be able to catch it
from the back side
the bait and switch working wonderfully
Furia pulling this one off
limited weaponry but around breaking their silence
after a six round run from Falcons
yep that's their round
falling another impactful multi
I feel like Yuri definitely deserves a pat on the back for getting something after the start of that one, dips up the ladder, peeks on into Ram and gets at least one with the MP9.
Alright, now you need to replicate it in a gun round, right? That one kind of came your way there. We're going for contact ram, there's also the push through the power smoke and the kill's coming in for Furia, sure.
But as far as the gun rounds have been looking, this is where it's looked an awful lot better for the likes of Falcons.
Double AWP's donned again, so I didn't like where that went last time, see if they can make it work this time round with Fallen back on the AWP alongside of Molotoy.
So now if they want to try and flush him out, they could do double mollies, you're playing
through underpass, you do that line up, one for the top lip, one into bottom floor and
see if you can isolate this.
You know that there's a play here.
So that informs not only the setup but the potential if you wanted to try and go in
and isolate this jewel.
Kiyosuke is on route.
Kiyosuke is coming over top middle as well.
Here's the fight.
Flushing back with the molly.
We'll do so.
I think there's gonna be a reaction from one of the flicks.
Oh, Kiyosuke's nailed it!
There was only two options and they had them both covered.
Reaction ramp.
Yuri flashed in, nothing home.
You can further back though.
Perfect!
Quick flick at a monodoy!
Take that monocie in the op-ed to head.
Second one as well.
They're so dynamic!
Yuri covers his sniper.
Falling into place,
Molotovic houses is down!
Good moments there from Molotovic. You can see actually getting an opportunity to play there.
A little jump on top of TK, Info swings in, hits himself a multi.
Falcons.
Run.
At least something to bleed cash now.
You lose this one, you'll have the last bonus.
2400 going into the final round of play.
There it is, the bomb up.
PQ, and Yuri.
Alright, here he goes down to Niko, but it's too late, right?
Tessus couldn't get the necessary drake. Here we have the cover.
So we're just going to take the only shot.
Back to Monosik.
Looking to get the halves right now after here.
This would be a nice run of rounds.
So quick, they show the presence in mid. They immediately reroute back to A.
We got Tessus to play in through Palace.
We're playing sandwich, okay, Cerrado trying to oversee.
They're going back up, no they're not, that's it, mate.
Line up, Yuri, calling for help.
Molodoy, your kid, they're both going to be there quick.
Behind the smoke, but in they cheese.
First phase, they've got to get past Yuri.
Down on sandwich, okay, Cerrado as well will activate caught by the Niko double.
Keeps us level headshot big push out of your kingdom really wins the round right there and then still not easy for monosy
It's got two or two with nearly reacts in time
crazy flick
This is molotov in the reposition
There you get off to
to the plan.
You think the reaction time, there was so many players immediately behind that smoke wall.
There's a cab coming through on the bench.
Just going to the execute right now, so they've identified double orcs, but guess what, fallen
hasn't brought it into this final round of play.
They're just going in, they're hoping to open it over and open it for the ankle here.
Yeah, here we go, what are your approach calls, how do we react, taking the third
perfect tracking, an Elzgeer's suitcase, a second as well with just a spread of
a flame.
Move down easy.
Here it attires up, dead even at the half.
You're on a terrorist win.
That is real unfortunate for Valkyries, you could say,
because the first round that they lost in the spree
was the one that was against the saved AWP in the pistols.
Yeah, and that kind of opened the floodgates.
Yeah, so you lose the one you shouldn't,
and this is what happened.
So all tied up.
That's not the normal color of water in Moldova.
I think he's got the Chucky Milk.
Maybe, you know.
It's not bad.
It's pretty good.
Protein.
He's in the gym all the time.
Yeah.
60 seconds to consider your options.
It's recap.
It was the pistol win from Fallen with the triple kill,
full eco plant that did come in on that round.
And from there, Monacea started to wear into action,
finding a lot of opening picks in the AWP.
It looked good.
It looked maybe too good.
And then what was down the stretch but a dominance from fury to put themselves all tied up
Verna coming up next will remind the viewer that this matchup between these two has gone away a fury up
That's the only conversation. We have the I
Don't even know how to describe it anymore the matchup that was by Tandi versus mouse previously
So if that's anything to base it off of it could be another fury of wind making it five on the trough
Yeah, well the winners keep on winning.
We need some historic heads to heads and we've fallen, keep having impact on pistols.
Tess is at a tough time as me. Some of the aim moments haven't looked great.
And well right now, he's the man on B. Here they come.
Already fallen the first man on the C, two now into the side, over to Eastern.
Something from Gearsuke. Just before that smoke pops, he finds Fallen's head.
got a good idea as to if indiscretion doesn't point connect bullets
that's 13 now after spamming essentially that whole mag
ooh monazine, i think i have an intention drawn
hoping kicks and connective are here
oh golden opportunity for molodoy
sounds like they are so close but it's all lined up
we are here everyone
two shots
capping for the falcons again on the pistol
I'm sure of it four kills for him in the pistol. Yeah, what a difference we serve our both teams
on the T sides go for B plays and four happens in one and this time. Nothing from Tessus
so a very tough time of things to build back into this the Falcon.
Defensive smoke, trying to play bench, segregating the jewels, trying to cross fire with QS2K at range, but no, that won't be the case right now.
It's the force for Falcons. Scalp for monosie, two deagles, two MP9s.
Mr. Baron Falcons are all capable of winning.
I think with the set up right now it's come down to picking the right side as they investigate
Ram.
I see nobody's home.
It's a pirate in close.
Kixxin and Kyusuke sure.
There's information but in this scenario because you are under equipped, utility and
firepower wise you're just hoping they come to the right side.
I'm trying to hold on to smoke for as long as possible, we'll throw it out.
We're going to get shot for advancing short, so fresh on the B, it's just 3.
Oh, no one's even really moving his way.
Yeah, I think I'll see you later, good luck.
Hey Tess, let's kill them all, or...
We're not winning this round, he gets one.
Just enough to convince them, is it?
No, you're just going to try and hold on to this and go for the double, get him to the next.
But in the next you might take a few more risks right you might try to fight around middle wall go for an earlier push into the play
Kiss okay could get an AK if he finds your kinder
And that would certainly sweeten the deal as if your kinder's not perfect ready for him in the early mad shop
They're looking good. It's 11 kills now for your kinder
Pretty decent team effort from Furious so far. That's the top end fallen also on 11
There's all the way to one of them, ten apiece.
We'll add another one to that, so we'll join them on eleven and then it's just Yuri on eight.
So everybody contributing for Yuri right now.
Monosy's been sharp, and Scoutshot is another demonstration of it.
This is 15. That's a coach's dream.
It is a beautiful kill spread. That's like, that's a coach's dream.
You know, everyone. Every piece in the machine, wiring perfectly.
What is in the coach's dream is you stack a site and the game plan is to save the
Upgrades if they go to the other site and then you lose three out of the five players
They could have they definitely could have so now you still have something that is a little bit threatening
But it could have been a whole lot more. I see that's just you know if the plan was to save we should save right, right?
so
You can't be
one foot out. Still problems and essentially the same round. So Tess says well even you
won't be again and we're hoping that this time it's exactly the same round. It's exactly
the same round just with less. But I mean what are the chances for you to do the same
call back to back? Exactly. The mind games. Okay I keep misthrowing these smokes so hang
It's the first, top of the first line.
Jump through.
And it's the third Ghibli Wibli.
Oh no, it's, what, okay, a W and a normal.
Nice!
From Kiyosuke, adjust to the second.
He has kept the book from the door.
Oh, double swing, this is beautifully put together.
This is what was meant to happen last round.
This time it works out.
the fact they get more with less it's just the bodies in the right place this is perfect urie
stranded extra brutal oh you wanted to get up the bomb you want to leave palace
you could have to find for your right right here right now mr urie plenty of weapons the scavenge
back out of this that's nice okay they get one of their own right furia had one in the first
half and this is trying to make up for falcons not going to get pissed off yet this is cheeky
from Kixson. You need to go take contact. Kixson will be able to swing in. You will get blind
sided and that'll be the rounds. Otherwise he just holds onto the Galil, which is going
to be necessary going into the next. Okay, over the fence, here we go. Stop the free
fire! Has the flash flashed! All right, they wiped the board. Well done. Great round.
The Kisuke, take a bow. Proficiency right there on the MP9.
Yeah, I mean they had the perfect flash. They were anticipating presence. You just now aimed them there
And the team players well from kicks and just to ensure that the trade is there, you know a bit that kind of tactical bait
Why are you sure you're not lining up? Look at this auto all
Yeah, so always a little bit of spice, right?
Knowing that he can have the ad of UP. That's something that maybe just maybe fackings won't be ready for
for. Once he might be considering bringing the scout in, thinking okay it's gonna be
a force by 1400 loss. Now we sell back, okay good one it. Had the all things better of
it, goes with the AK, bit of U2. Yeah maybe they want to do an instrument but needs drop.
Still not gonna have everything. Honestly still rocking the scout so let's see if
that limits his output.
Important round for the conclusion of Mirage.
Yeah, this one is to get in control of the finances for Falcons.
For Furious, to keep this battle going.
Okay, A-K is gonna search up Ram.
It's gonna give a cost to make it look like they are
spread out and looking to fight con short window.
He's gonna die, I absolutely lost it, no man lands there.
There was any push?
I mean, dead meme.
Falling back to A now to join 3A Molotoy.
I think top mid case right through underpass.
He tracks it down, he chunked the damage.
Light on with the A7 right now, they're playing retake, they're opting to give
the site kicks in from Ticket.
Where's Fallen going with that bomb? Just holding the flank as it currently stands, but not a clearing like objective to the finish.
Likely eh?
That's gonna be spotted out by your kinder trapped on the boxes and a little bit of support from
Underpass with K serato because this is so late it can go
Ramside searching
Defensive smoke.
Lovely double out of Kiyosuke. Moduloid's trying to break into the side-backs.
The turn of the doubles provided. Kixon and Kessus defend a job done, and with only one casualty.
Falcons, that's a big one.
And now it has to be the eco, so an opportunity to take the lead, or at least take it back.
6-2 up at one point to a 6-6 half, and now they're all turned up at eight apiece.
So back and forth nature, but keeps it going to smile on his face. It's good to see
Or the Falcons sorry Richard
I'm uncouth. I it's just a butcher everything. It's just easy to say
But I say grass and grass and glass and glass what about bath I have had a bath
But I've also been to bath into bath. Yeah, so I'm just brainbroken
That's why when you're born in the Midlands, you just do a bit of both.
Bit of both.
What bit of a thumbs up there from Kiyosuke?
Standing on the grass, holding your glass.
It's tough right now knowing your eco and you're sitting in a technical timeout where
you can't talk.
You know that the next minute and fifty five already sucks as I
Now we're just sitting waiting and stewing
I have good news though, okay, I bet it better be good news pretty good
It's pretty good. It's test. This is already back in the server. Okay. Nice. Nico just typed R. Okay. Well, that's great
That is good news great news. All right, so I wasn't too problematic. No all good in the hood
We get a quick match medic and we can get underway
Now will falcons lose to glocks no Chad they're done with that now that's not a thing anymore
But can you imagine yanko if they do always bash you with the moody's into that?
It's so good. Oh
It's not that I don't want it to happen
But what if it would be funny?
impossible
It does an eagle for Malibu, like...
That's enough.
Yeah, we go looking. We can't.
We're just gonna get, uh...
as many maids as possible.
I'd probably be calling B site. It's gonna test. This is, uh...
Why not go con? Niko's got five kills as well.
True.
He's been, uh, more missed than hit.
I don't like this set up.
What do you hate about it?
So you know they're on eco.
Try to kill two kids who are going to immediately as soon
as Jess is called for help.
But why?
Why?
You don't need to have three players in mid-laners
against pistols.
Just.
You guys think I'm going to get sidelined?
Well, I'm doing an awful lot.
Justifies that Desert Eagle purchase.
You do not want to let that bomb go down and the bullet has found Yuri, the mate could be beautifully placed.
It forces him wide.
You did lose a couple of bodies.
Not ideal, but it's a whole lot better than the alternative.
Well, I definitely got a good output on that Desert Eagle.
Yeah, so they're keeping it stressful, but money definitely building as well.
So 9.9 on Kixson.
Gonna buy the Nades, I'll bring that down to about 8.6, but there's no AWP available for Molotov at the early stages of this one.
An opportunity for Monosy to start playing a little bit dominant, 16 and 8 at the moment.
It begins a cross.
Oh, on the screen, spots Tessus and Kiyosuke.
On the wall pass!
They're talking to each other!
Yeah, not ideal!
Cromwell and Goodwag spams the smoke to remove Kiyosuke.
Already at a disadvantage,
Modesty trying to block B,
but they're going to walk straight through it.
Yeah, that's an invasion, that's a gap opener.
That's a turn to the aim.
He's aware.
He's considered it.
Already in.
And caught out by Yuri.
Caught with his eye to the scope.
Yuri are taking the round.
As easy as that.
You understand the idea,
he's pinned.
We know that he's got some damage.
Let's just nade him out of position.
but you can replace a head of the expectation and it's very well done
just causes all that chaos in the spam through the smoke to find that second
frag
monos he thinks he has to head over the middle to help out no go no no I mean
those are the those are the dream rounds on the T side right don't even feel
like you have to do too much I mean the mid fight of course you can do very
well that proactive push admittedly they are stepping on each other's toes
Yeah!
So optimal.
Alright, so we say neck and neck.
You don't need two more of those to break the money of Falcons.
At that point, we're getting deep to in this number one.
I lose this one I think we'll see them take a timeout going into the next.
One of those is going to try and get set up for a pick-up on mid.
set up for something on me.
Oh, man.
You hit the end of that or someone did?
He must have done it.
Alright, down.
He gets the AWP.
I'm probably not going to be too happy about that one.
There are some more places where I feel like, you know, you just play on the right of the B.
That's where you'd take Steel's advice.
Right, you know, he didn't lie Bogdan's right.
Steel is against him.
You're still anti-Bogdan's law.
You've got to be some special type of player to be getting the orb.
Ooh, they've actually segregated them. Kiyosuke.
Look, don't even squeeze!
What's the tip of the head of another there?
That's fallen spotted, but...
Honesty's position rewarded!
Catch his case, Serato!
Put some falcons into a position that they cannot afford to concede.
No one's going to make it to me, that's enough of a new Niko, we'll get away.
I think it might be, unfortunately, Saving Palace for Flarey for a second.
It's hard to see how you win a 5v3 with your kinder on 9 HP.
not quitting. It's not. No, it's the only way. Yeah. And it's the smart option. And
Molotoway probably wants his AWP back. Nitro. Sorry, what? Wow. Okay. That's a throwback.
Nitro is still going. NIJ expecting some changes. Boston Major 2018. All right. Look at that
from JRaz. Giving everyone the details. History lessons inside Counter Strike. So
The molotov gets his AWP back.
Everyone with the AKs.
Yeah.
Let's go on quick.
Yeah, time's just speeding up, man.
Alright, so that was...
So damage done through a smoke.
A lineup for Q2K where he gets one for two.
And obviously he gets an AWP shot.
Yeah, this is a ball team maneuver to be making a crucial juncture of this game
However is removed test this Kiyosuke cannot go down Nico's been summoned, but
Exactly what he wanted is he thinks he planned against what do I ain't missing that he ain't missing much
and he's even reading quick head shot really nice
mom's going quick hey I'm just gonna send case right to late mid and you try
and break through on the A ramp well see he's close
okay yeah I can do his best work he doesn't hit the flick full of dust
man head shot
That's a great impression of the kids and spray lost track of the hose that is neat.
That very important multi from Fallon.
I mean he has done incredibly well to reinvent himself as a rifle right like he's not a liability.
No not at all very rarely not at all and I think that was the biggest conversation
point last year's oh wait the four full and is actually relatively proficient on the
AWP.
Yeah.
He's good on the AWP as well.
We've seen him whip out the secondary open and he's still got that.
It has happened once upon a time.
Speaking of, he's going to be bringing that through for Moldoi.
I think it's well to go to a lot of these anchor positions where there's a lot of responsibility.
But as an in-game leader, you kind of know what you want from your anchors.
But that's why it's very fortunate that in the complexion of this team, you have your kinder.
Yikinda because if you didn't have Yikinda who is going to be doing a lot of the torsing and a lot of the macro
In the pack
Otherwise, it would be very hard to fall who as the all-powerful always part of the pack
Sure, so that's why this team works is because you have fallen and Yikinda and then this sharp as hell
All the moment I know is why you know fury are such a fan favorite
A different personality
Characters in our Counter Strike universe, your kinder is that perfect piece for the
Furia Squad.
Along the line with this one, Lost Banners, 1400 for Furia, expect 1900 for Falcons.
This can be a very telling round at the business end of map one.
Falcons pick.
Falcons, Falcons.
Falkens, Falkens.
Now fighting for any mid control, they've given it over, they're playing.
You see on the sight line into connector, two turdling up for B.
Tessus acting as the bait.
So you can be the low piece in middle, the rest of them will be executing on A and this is where the setup is very strong.
I get the moves fast and Yuri's so quick to a double needed, Kixman runs out of bullets, no scopes good!
Monosy finds himself a pair of frags, but Mono-
OHH, he's his third victim, quick as you like!
Monosy there to save the Falcon Squad.
I continue to get back and forth with this, aren't we?
15 seconds left now we'll need to back off and hold on to this or is he just gonna stick
around in that belly of the beast in middle.
I'll do the vent break. That is
your last chance to get out of there in case there's a window swing. He can drop an AK.
That's all good. Otherwise it's going to be a bit tough. Kaserado can go AK head armor,
get a little, get some nades in. Really prickly position to be in if you're furia
right now with the finances in this tough spot and Falcons with 11 on the board already.
already so they are gonna buy they take the time out to discuss this and make
sure they get everything they need right what is the approach gonna be what
type of weapons can we facilitate who needs what
and are you gonna try be again
ran into monocles turf and it was quickly sent to spawn
A few dynamic, that way it would sense to add in with the AWP over towards B.
This really is a read from Kixson, or maybe Niko to some extent, of what they're expecting.
He's a prominent voice on their CT side.
Yes, for sure, without a doubt. Not having the best in maps, but it's still going to be contributing.
Honestly, we'll start over towards A.
13, very aggressive now.
Yeah, he wants to do some super aggressive sniping for a Marcy.
Does he really dare go any further though?
He welcomes!
Narmona Pipe!
Ooh, he might want to chase down Marcy with low HP, doesn't.
So come to the bloodlust.
I thought he's gonna be swinging for sure.
Same.
It's the breaks, we play out the 4v4.
As he gets another chance...
That's off the ticket, got so much faith in him.
I think you have to at this stage don't you?
There's a band and a ship.
I find red balls.
What is that mid-util?
A signal to start walking on A right now.
Fallen's lobbing in the util. He thinks it is.
Case red or molotov. Have to make the space.
And your kitty can play late on the lurk.
Jungle smoked off.
That's completely another fight there.
Honestly, Anglia forces you through CT go back to CT and that finds you time to get all this info like
Sufferating death and he goes to be screaming
Okay with the
Compromised finances fury of managed to get that one planted with a man advantage. Is there a discussion about going for this?
On the screen too much to deal with
and I think that's going to be
a great opportunity for the
team.
He's going to get a firm
up out on the back for his
impact.
Yeah, Nico just doesn't really
have a read of the situation
at all right now.
The fact that you're running
now I found to try and quickly
cut them off at the password
that a flank and getting caught
like that.
That's going to leave a mark
and test everything.
It goes from bad to worse.
As it was discussed in the
teetering finances.
Well, now how good is it going
to have to do it with what
is going to be a bit more of
a brittle buy?
more of a brittle buy. Europe is available. There's going to be a couple of rifles in
the mix. And it's actually Zonik who will take the time out to do the same thing as
we just saw from Sid. Have the conversation. It's just, eh, the cup's so exciting. That's
where you get the Niko reaction cam. And it's the classic. The eye roll, sinking
in the chair. It's going to be the one to have to operate on something a little
it lighter right now. Looks like an MP9 and he's the A anchor. So does that mean there's
an opening move? And do they want to try and focus in on an area of the map right now to
see if they can force this opening pick because it has been back and forth. Look
Look at that.
It's an incredible round to win.
Furio, let's pull them straight back into contention.
These are one of the toughest games where the money's like this.
Get the connection, a little lay on the trigger.
Wicked up the mid.
Looking to charge.
Catwalk, Yasuke, caught out by the AWPer.
Full commit from Niko.
Tess is in combination, but it's a bloodbath in mid.
Monosy, tracks, spotted.
Weird fire, weird exchange.
It's okay, Serato, but he will prevail.
Now, Molotowel and Yuri, last seen mid in the kill feed.
Well, you know the Kixx is the A Defender.
They went for a midfire.
We saw them run that round earlier
and they ended up with clunkiness,
getting each other's way into playing ahead.
He's got the answers on mid, on his own.
He's gonna have the one-man army this really.
23 kills deep.
Heading over towards B, that smoke on short,
fading in a moment.
Are they gonna be in off the back of it?
Or will he catch the timing upon the fade?
He's had no idea where they are.
He's had no idea. Now, consider this be just in time.
Just...
Oh!
He doesn't hit it!
Molotov breaks through!
And Molotov makes it work!
He can straight back into the orphan!
Well, do you go for the 1v2 right now, Kix?
Or do you hold on to this?
Remember, lost bonus, it's not there.
You'll be walking into the next round with nothing if you go for this and lose the AK.
Can you get the orphan get out?
Just to go for it. Push it.
He's already three firing costs very well.
Wins it out. Molodoy is low kicks and could be the hero they need.
Surely not just a hole, but the stick.
He's running out with the knife. He finds it perfect.
12 secured. Again, we say the man's name, Molodoy.
Finds the multi. Three kills deep.
Yeah, fun battle between these two, isn't it? 22 for Molodoy, 23 for Monosik.
It's what we all came to see.
the head to head.
Honestly, it's gonna be a bit upset about missing that one there, could get the peek.
Especially because it's such an early like 2v3.
Yeah, wasn't ready for that.
In that situation, Monacy is not expecting an AWP to have the balls to pick that one.
He's counting on it.
Right, so he just gets absolutely blindsided.
A good attempt from Kixson, but now he's in the back, and you know that the money
is absolutely in the bin right now.
Now as the buys start to take shape, we're looking at two MP9s and MP, oh, he
I just sold back guys you three of you just sold back things have been juggled around, okay?
We'll wait until it's confirmed what the weapons are for the audio only listeners
I leave me considered an MP5. Maybe it's an accident. No, well, that's how tilted he is right now
Three MP9s a scout and a Diggle golden opportunities are closed in a regulation for fury all their opponents pick
and you can die he is just striding through middle playing with such
confidence on his own on his own and Tessus will punish immediate headshot
provided in a must-win round almost worst case for you can you don't get any
information right that's the Bianca sure but he was towards short that's not
that unusual doesn't mean he okay there's three mere they had to swarm me
they use nades as a gap right now you're just operating the 4v5 but they
We are operating with lesser weaponry, it's still scout, it's still mp9, so this is still
not a guarantee, follow from it.
I guess I can get the AK.
Pick it up.
There's more in the stairs.
Man, I'm honestly still ready for this round.
Five crashes enough to get Kaiserato in.
We're going to come through the smoke together.
I'm going to have to push the mp9, Kaiserato, he's still led, how is he not dead?
There you go.
It doesn't matter, it just finds his impact to secure OT.
Chaos there to close it down to type things up, 12-12.
Wow, on Earth, the geisha, I lived that long.
The craziest thing that the kill that he gets is on Kyosuke with the picked up AK.
And then it's just the MP9s and the Digos doing work.
They're running straight past the cover.
It tells us he's been on the receiving end throughout this map.
Gets himself up to 11 kills, some impact being felt there.
More rounds to play right here, right now.
Here's the stunner back.
He'll be 5-5 to the smoke, fully blind.
They all just come scrinching out of that one.
Oh baby.
We got a proper match.
Just as you would expect when you see these two logos on the top of the screen.
Opening blood drawn quickly and all exposed on the nape break.
It's important to find, extends their advantage to a five on three.
Quick pivot, perhaps an experimental finish on A.
There's a lot of bodies to receive him here, Kixson's tucked under the balcony,
Monty's going to be spotting it.
The fact that you've won out of the fight when you were so deep in mid on the CT side,
you're ready for the reaction or at least expecting it to be side centric.
he's playing for the smoke and he has spotted the cross-detectors
he was trying to dump his nades, he starts his walk in the mid-fall and joins him
It's so annoying if you've fallen. The round's already lost, but you've had case where you
just walked through that open window, and then as you do, expecting it to be clear, he peeks
out into you. So that's a tough one, but as soon as those opening kills happen in
middle, unless a falcon's moment manifests, you think that one is done. So they get
themselves up to 13, but a little bit too late looking for the magic number of 16
right here in OT number one. We're able to carry through three AKs into the next.
More C in top form up to 26 now.
He just chucked an A down there.
Hit it.
Just get past the sniper bullet, bud.
I want you to march.
I think you're going to avoid the brunt of the damage there just from the corner.
Sniper bullet but
Won't do too much. I think you can't avoid the brunt of the damage there just from the corner
So they really want to go for the palace clear as well, that's where Yuri's hiding now. Yeah, he is very hidden right now
He's waiting for this move
Yeah, naughty from Yuri
To headshots I'm honestly still hard to get past
I guess they nearly went down, but look at Pussy go away, you're walking through the smoke with the door.
Oh, yep! You can't reach it!
That's his last man. They know he plays B, coming in from the jungle side and into the AWP, already tagged up.
They've got two Orbs in play, they're trying to replace one of them, I'm sure.
Shot shooting from Yuri. Very sharp.
And also just processing that information, while focused on one Jewel, you acknowledge you saw like a little bit of elbow from Nico's jiggle.
The Zonic wants two on the CT side. He's going to use his overtime timeout right now.
Because they won that first round of votes, so they won't have any issues with the bi-combat into this one.
Double orbs. So, trying their luck at our Falcons.
Haven't seen them pull this one out, at least on a regulation.
It was attempted a couple of times with the Euribid. Here it is. Two big kills.
This one honestly does make it interesting with this one and then the walkthrough is
closed.
Now we feel like you're in a 3v3.
They're flying back quite quickly, don't they?
It's a good gun to take the free line.
Freeze up, text, that's a good way to drive forward.
Oh, I don't know, he just ran, I don't know, I don't see.
He knew that reaction, he heard that sound and was perfectly trained on his reaction.
So, he came to play first.
That was my question, I think he's gonna learn.
Okay. Yeah, look.
He's gonna have to get through this.
He's gonna lock it up, he's gonna catch up the eco,
reaction on the straight, quick reaction,
catches Yuri, goes jumping up for more!
The combination with Tessus they win out and that lurk is starting to cook.
So they're about to have B. Bomb will be scooped up by Molotov on the way back over
and while trying to piece this one together the bomb site is completely unfortified.
It's very quiet, they're not seeing anything con.
So at the moment I think they've understand the situation, they haven't seen the bomb.
Niko is going to head through underpass because he's going to be too late.
He's going to have to be flanked from him.
Bomb getting punched in, default side.
outside now with the all
job bench you can worry about short first angle taking deep into market does feel
like despite the number advantage for Falcons this is an easy retake I would
have to miss a shot walkie-a-suke could just be quicker okay your kinder hide
it on the bench position but in life time though they perfectly find the
They know where it was, and then he burns him out, who just needs a follow-up found by the Degu-Lukiyosuke.
High impact round from him, puts him up to 20 and a defuse just in time for that second.
Yeah, good orping from him, right? That is going up against Molotov in a head-to-head duel, in a must-hit shot, and he nails it.
Yes, a beautiful work.
All right, keeping the head above water are Falcons.
Fair play.
And immediately as we swap sides, Fury, I want to do the double. This is the O-Ka.
I kinda wish he hit this one on the drop as well, just to really complete the drag movie.
So it's Kixxen combined that, still in the deal on that one, really good stuff from Kixxen
on that A-Defense.
Starting with the double orb, okay.
Straight to an execute.
They've done this before, right?
They were able to get away with it.
It was early on in the piece.
It was against the bonus round.
So they do it now.
is it retakes it up again?
Oh, wow!
We nearly got two of them there, Nico hanging on by a thread as they will commit to this.
Yuri's died off, very strong.
Oh!
Oh, it's grand!
With Kcerato, look at that!
The fangs of fury are filled to feed!
Tasty!
You wanna see?
Not considering the stairs at all.
So yeah, he's gonna lose his head.
Kcerato and Yuri can fight.
A stunning 4K out of Kcerato, but Yuri's gonna deserve his flowers too.
He did a lot of damage there.
Sofand him up for the Kcerato to knock him down.
This is very ancient.
I didn't see his face, and this looks so good.
That's always there, sure, but not a problem for Kcerato at all.
What a round between the two of them combined there to close it.
Okay, who's getting the 15 first?
Didn't even get an opportunity to note.
Double orbs.
Flash Acerato's... Calf.
I think I'd be surprised to find an AWP framed on P.
Maybe if Molotov takes first contact short and shoots his.
I'm ending at that point, really.
Playing one AWP short, one AWP abs.
Bomb down and T spawn.
Well, after the performance that you were in case you were trying to just head on A,
They've got it in safe hands.
Now heading back to join.
It's probably in middle.
The case was made.
Break the door and short it ourselves.
It's both of yours!
In unison!
A little bit of something back.
The monosy and Kisuke.
I feel like against these 2 orbs, his work is going to be cut out for him.
Nowhere safe, nowhere to go.
14-0 goes 15.
So Fallen immediately picks up an AK. Now Pete can get an AWP in again, right?
They have the luxury of that, but we saw this before where they run the double
orbs as soon as it's noted they just come back in with rifles, but since they've picked another one.
So quite double orbs for the rest of you to success right now to get things done in overtime.
Falcons draw us into double OT.
Having all their matchups, the Desk was talking about how close they've been coming.
Yeah, they've been over times there's been every round of regulation, you know that the Falcons have gotten close that final was two over times
Repetition of the same for Falcons can they change it can they change their fate secure a double OT fool and trained on Niko's position
Shades of Niko lovely shot long range
They had to hunt some buses here, it didn't get brought down into 6 HP.
It's a better lad than Nova, that's the question.
He's got his 10th kill there, but I'll help them win this to take him to the top of the
2.
I don't know.
The train nearly provided.
Oh!
How outrageous!
Through the wall!
Yeah, even if you go, BK Siron has already parked the bench.
And if you go A, all the doors open, trained on connector, looking set to collect, Furia
on their opponent's pick.
And Furto up next.
I want to see, to try and ignite a little bit of hope for Falcons.
You can see Zonic there.
Right now.
And be watching behind him.
You don't have to do anything in this case, Rado.
I didn't hide the bomb. You don't need to do anything else. That's all you have to do.
I'm honestly, does have that pressure of time and the necessary sound cue.
I'm hoping for a reaction, Cacerato's not moving a muscle.
And you're going to have to pull the second man over. Okay, Bench. Bench!
Hey Serato closes, Furia take the pick of Falcons.
Overtime short, but again falling a little short.
Furia one up into series.
Yes, thanks a lot guys.
A wonderful pallet cleanser for the previous series.
Great opening map and I'll toss this out there
straight away.
We were a little bit confused with the veto.
Maybe picking Mirage here over the maps.
Do you think the gamble, even though they've lost
Do you think it sort of looked like they made the right decision?
Yeah, I don't think Mirage was the problem.
Yeah.
In terms of that they didn't have a handle for it.
I think Fiora would have been more uncomfortable on Dust,
but probably would Falken, they just decided,
let's go what we feel better on, no matter where it is for the opponent.
It's more of a matter like, you know, what's going,
what is it going to be this time?
This time it was losing both pistols.
This time it was a lack of discipline in some key rounds.
And this time it was Nico going missing, right?
Monacee has an insane map, shows up, should give the good for the most part, right?
And Tico who has a stinker, who's been having a pretty good year so far.
I also feel like from the T-Size, they were distinctly different from me.
I mean, Furia, they're just slowly constricting the map, and then they're able to mid-round with ease,
just kind of going between different bomb sites in the middle of a round,
whereas Falcons oftentimes felt very punched up, very corralled,
and I feel like Furia towards the tail end of this always had a really strong grip of what it was that Falcons were trying to accomplish
Which is why you frequently saw the extra player in rotation spots and
Frequently also being able to just disrupt whatever it is that Falcons were trying to accomplish. Yeah
And look I'll say this I thought when the C was the best player on the server the stats kind of bear that out
It obviously never nice to be on the losing side when you've had a good game
but look who it is, both of them, Molodoy Munisey.
This was the matchup that we highlighted before we went in,
and they're just so good at creating opportunities for their team.
Well, they're never out of it.
They can be clutch when you're behind.
They can pull you back in.
Two best pure orpers, I would say, right now,
just going head-to-head.
Great to see you.
They totally lived up to the billing.
Yeah.
I mean, the heads-to-heads were also really nail-biting
in terms of the tension.
and every time you saw a Moldova versus Monacy scope up,
I'd love to know the number at the end of it,
but I felt like Moldova was getting the better of Monacy
when they were both wheeling.
Yeah, when they were going up.
Yeah, AWP versus AWP, but we saw some of the prowess
from Monacy when he's handling the riflers of Fury.
And even when he's equipping his own rifle,
I mean, again, I feel like it goes sometimes underrated
because I would say Monacy,
perhaps the best pure offer in the world,
but also a top 10 rifler easily in the world.
So versatile.
Yeah.
And look, obviously, we know more.
Honestly, sorry, Richard, but honestly, I feel like Malo though,
he might be better at him, better than him with the AWP now.
I think Monasi is a better all-around player.
But just when it comes to the AWP in its own right,
like, feels like in these big games,
he's just being able to deliver a bit more than Monasi has been.
Yeah, I mean, so fast.
This is why we used to call Monasi with the Flash
when, you know, he had this exact thing style, which,
You know, you're right, he's a bit more rounded now, and he seems to get his kills in bunches, and they seem to have a lot of impact.
Molotov is just the human highlight reel right now, it's like crazy watching him.
Especially when you think everyone else is complaining about how tough it is on the op.
It just makes it look so easy, you know?
It's because for these combat oppers it's a bit different, right?
Like they're also utilizing the peekers advantage to some extent, right?
And they're being more aggressive, and also they're able to get in your face and close combat top, right?
It's more of the passive guys that are feeling the pain.
Yeah.
How did we feel overall tactically, another great head-to-head as well?
We all write Kixxen and obviously fallen the old master.
I feel like Kixxen has actually gone under some scrutiny lately.
There's been a couple of tea sites here and there, I think,
notably on Inferno in recent memory, actually,
where there's just times where it just feels a little bit too obvious.
And I think that's kind of my key distinction between when Fallen was commanding Fury in that one.
Like both teams will be going for mid control pretty frequently on these ones, but then it's just the ability to pivot in the mid round that fallen just has such mastery over still that he understands how to use lurkers on one side of the map to really kind of expose an early rotation from Falcons.
And so it creates rounds that they otherwise really had very little opportunity in production pulled that stat for you. Excellent. Well, it is on the screen.
You feel production W. So in the direct Jules, you were right.
Molodoy came out ahead.
I mean, that passes the eye test.
There were a couple of key moments down the stretch where Molodoy was out dueling
monosy, both on times when he's holding the angle and even peeking him.
But that was probably what was more impressive to me, the fact that he was
winning from both sides.
It wasn't just the CT advantage of waiting for monosy to make a mistake.
Nero from HLTV's frantically looking at that, how to change the algorithm
get money see higher but but yeah sorry back to the conversation about tactic no
yeah I think I don't have problem with kicks and you know kind of some page
changers and them having some set rounds I think that's good you know to catch
your opponents off guard but something that he has had a problem with and
Sonic as well as them being too individualistic at times and sort of
then wanting to fall back to team things and maybe it was too late and
we have a great example of that in one of the key rounds of the first
app where they're being unnecessarily individualistic and this isn't probably
kick some calling for this challenge probably someone saying hey I'm gonna do
this peek and then we can you know and then he's peaking he doesn't see
anything and then they go on from there right so against pistols monosies
close up on round you can see teammate is close to him as well they're going
to try and sort of peek behind them really they're walking out against
pistols and MP9 you don't need to do this like you don't need to take these
these risks. Apps are smoked. Like Niko, you don't need to search, throw Molly, right?
Tess is then feels like he's obliged to come and help him, goes through the smoke, gets
the trade, but gets killed. And then in a 3v4, right? Well, now it's harder to get any
map control. Okay, you have mid, but time is passing as you're clearing it, right?
You're going up connector. They also got the guns. So Fallen now is able to play
from this very powerful position if you're all coming through connector. It's one
killed, they're buying time, right? And they're going to win the eco round, basically, I mean,
the half-buy of the back of it. And these are the rounds where we don't need anything,
Megan. It's just sure, I'm honestly, go for that peek. Don't find anything. All right,
let's go back. Take mid control. Let's figure out how we want to end this round. Like,
you don't need to be walking out ramps, searching when apps are smoked as well.
I feel like for every tier one team has a great idea of how they want to play an
anti-eco. I don't think the plan from the start of the round is ever really that bad.
It's worked for them in the past, but it's just adapting to the new information on the fly
I mean yes the smoke towards palace that needs to be relayed
Niko needs to adjust his behavior based off of that new Intel and then just play back a little bit more
I feel like so frequently teams in these kind of anti kills
They just go through the motions because everybody gets also they get a little horny for the kills when they know
It's that kind of by two and another problem for falcons is also sometimes they have this
hero mindset that no round is unwinnable you know any retake is possible and we
have an example from the second half as well that was really you know really
important round towards the tail end of the game and they have a stronger economy
than FURIA has at this point in time sometimes you just need to take the
L man you know you need to look at the big picture look at the macro and it's
a bit of a you know the sentence on on these players that they don't have a
a better view of the macro.
So 11-10, all right, the Triagress,
the kicks and dies, you're gonna get the trade.
It's 4v4.
Great call from Furia to throw the A execute
with the Kinder hiding
because they know Falcons had mid control.
They probably know someone's close mid
and it's gonna go for the flank.
And then Niko kills, Niko dies.
Why are Molotov and Qosokai not falling back?
Why are you going in a 3v4?
No, you don't have anyone in a good position.
Okay, in the bomb site, it's 3v3
because your kinder is so far away.
But still, just take the L, because if you save three guns,
fear has no money left in the bag.
They have to rebuy guns.
You will have everything, and also the score was 11-10 here.
So it's 11-11.
You need to think about what if it's 12-11 for Fiora?
What are we gonna have?
And they didn't have much for the 12-11 rounds.
Still, we're able to win it,
but only with pistols and a scout.
And these bad calls happen too often.
Yeah, a few macro issues.
Let's turn our attention to Inferno real quick, Maui. Obviously, this is Fury's pick.
We've had some concerns about the veto overall for Falcons because this has been a map that Fury
have been going to and having success. Yeah, however, the last time that the two teams faced
off against each other, it was a pretty commanding victory for the Falcons. It was a punish pick,
of course, against the Falcons in the previous season, mostly based off of the back. In my
opinion, because Kiosk gave just didn't play. Yeah, he just looks incredibly raw on this
map I mean he wasn't really being primed up to play this when he was on
Spirit Academy given the main Spirit roster don't play Inferno so even on
face-in sub 20 maps on Inferno in CS2 and but I think that Kiyosuke's
actually made some strides on this map I feel like he looks a lot more adjusted
I feel like when he's on those B defenses he's not just fighting through
utility every single time in a way that's more suicidal than it is
beneficial at this point I think he's kind of real that in just enough
probably worked with kicks in and Zonic and they've laid it down that hey you
don't need to run through every Molly just because we're sending a flash out
you got to exercise a little bit more discretion. I'm just getting used to the
type of fights and the angles and the timings and the peaks right like we
praise him so much for his mechanics that comes also from repetitions and
muscle memory and and you know finding your spots really on a map so it was
always going to take him time to do that on inferno. Alright thanks a lot
guys we're gonna take a break when we come back Nico is about to find out if
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Falcons are coming into Cluj-Napoca looking to better themselves from where the start
of the year has been, but it's a strange situation to go through Niko for you guys
because you go from the grand finals of Bounty, where you had a stand-in,
then crack out not making playoffs as well.
Where does that put you guys as a team? Where's the mentality at right now?
I think it's hard to say where we are at right now.
I would say that probably at this event, maybe the next one will kind of decide where we are exactly, I guess.
Obviously, it would have been cool to go back to where we were or potentially doing better.
Kind of go back to the finals and maybe win a trophy.
Always try to improve and try to minimize these these ones that we are losing. We always want to
Make sure that we have as high of a percentage as possible
Then we have advantage, but also when you have a disadvantage
These are the rounds that are super crucial if you want to win against the top teams
so
Yeah, we always analyze those those situations
and I think in Krakow probably one of the
the things that hurt us a lot was a bit of
of chaotic communication, some of these rounds,
and that we weren't able to listen to each other
and kind of calm down and make a proper decision together.
So I think this is something that we have lacked in Krakow
and this is something that we will try
to do better here in Cluj.
But yeah, other than that, you know,
even though we lost in Krakow, I can't say now
we are, you know, playing bad
because we have been playing quite good
for the past couple of months,
making it a lot to finals and semi-finals constantly.
So, I really hope and I believe it's just a one-off event
and I think now we should go back to kind of the level that we have
at least end of the season with, but also try to do a bit better
and because this is also the reason why we can be steam together
to try to improve the roster, to improve the playbook,
the experience on the team and everything.
So, yeah.
It's all about having that synergy, right?
That's a very important fact about constantly going through changes the whole time.
What does the team debrief look like at the end of Crackpot?
What did that look like in the conversations you guys are having
to make sure that you come in stronger ahead of Clue?
Because I can imagine you haven't had much time to practice and get ready.
It's a very short turnaround.
Yeah, I mean, we definitely got more time to practice
since we dropped out earlier than expected.
During Crackpot there was a lot of situations where
we would go aggressive and we don't need to go aggressive
or we would not be aggressive and we need to.
Like we would play at some stage, we would play a bit more passive than we would usually do,
then we don't get enough space that we usually have, and then it puts us in a bit of a kind of
stiff situations where it's hard for us to play off each other and stuff like this.
So the debrief can always be different and it's a very game-to-game analysis, I would say.
I'm looking at clues. What are your expectations though? Is this way you
need to hit back and show the best version of Falcons aimed for the trophy?
Definitely, I think we really need to fight back for this event.
I think anything but maybe semis, our final would be disappointing.
Obviously it would depend who we lose to in semis or in quarter if we get there.
But we definitely need to fight back for this event.
It's not going to be acceptable to have too bad events in a row.
So we really hope for better results.
we have done a lot of work, the things we're looking better in practice as well and definitely
we need to do much better than what we have done in Cracow.
And lastly as well, I feel like you guys definitely know, at least a more experienced
players in the team, how to deal with the pressure of it all, but do you feel like
the pressure does affect you guys still in some ways?
Is that a factor in this?
Because you're saying it yourselves, right?
You know you can be title contenders, you know you can reach for that trophy
but you still have these blocks?
It's a tough question and it's a very, I think, complex situation for us.
Yes, I know that we are very close to win trophies a couple of times
and we had some good chances to do so.
I think the pressure definitely comes in play,
but I don't want to say that we are losing just because of the pressure,
because we kind of don't necessarily find a way to play the same way that we usually do,
which obviously can come from the pressure, but you need to rely on the things that you did in the past,
that you didn't practice, you just need to execute, and once these situations happen,
and that's going to release a bit more pressure, then you can focus more on executing things
that you have done a million times already.
I think for us what has been an issue so far in some of these games is finding a right
balance between being aggressive and being passive in certain situations and closing
out these advantage situations.
There's been multiple games where we were playing very good and then we would win a
map almost and then we would lose just a stupid round that would crumble the whole
health and then we'll just kind of lose after that. We need to be honest with each other, when
situation happens, when the pressure is there we need to communicate, we need to be able to help
each other when these things happen and not kind of try to be heroes, if that makes sense. So
we really try to focus on improving those things, but it is difficult, some things take time,
unfortunately, and I have full faith in this team.
Well, hopefully you can find the balance for a route this event and good luck going into
the games.
Thanks very much.
Thank you.
Couldn't pull it across the line on Mirage, Fury, or a map up as we head on into their
soil.
It is going to be in Farno for a potential 2-0, securing themselves a spot in the playoffs.
That's what's up for debate here.
the end of the game. It's
going to be a little tighter
around the edges there. A
couple of individuals not
showing up. Monacee certainly
did look in great at the top
of the scoreboard with the
sniper. Not going to be as
easy to kind of inject
himself into the play on
Inferno. Yeah, exactly. And
I think coming into today,
especially with these last
two games in the A stream
Mounts versus Vitality and
now Furia versus Falcons. This
is what a lot of people are
hoping are going to be
playoffs previews. Now losers
of this will go down and
have to play another best
three tomorrow or maybe even
another one after that but these are the teams that we're hoping to get in the arena come the weekend.
If I could put up that fight that you mentioned but the details pointed out that by the desk and highlighted
some round recap showing you just where things can fall apart. The little details as we get
underway Kiyosuke's B bomb site to be tested. Yeah okay he's got supportive nades from kicks
and being lined up. Does he peek off the cache? He does and no one's there. It catches
is the half-full players and just hoping for that tap-full back.
Not laid the nade as well in combination with the headshot.
Slows your kinder down for that one tap potential.
I think fortunately...
Oh, clean!
Kier's suitcase. Finds a pair of them.
Taking down Mollardoy and your kinder.
Playing for another one.
Swing to the road.
Kier's suitcase catches a gooch and now kicks it on the uncrowded.
He's committing to that fire little...
Yeah, the whole squad up and over for Kaseurato.
On the C plank.
From banana for the flank.
Got to find Yuri, clean as you like.
Conrex, you're the best at striking forward.
Shreds three instantaneous.
All right, that's a convincing pistol.
A lot of single-body drops.
Yeah, first pistol of the series so far.
So can they double up on the turf of Fury?
Let's find out.
But that was really well done.
And we just had that mouse game
we saw the constant barrage of utility thrown out by vitality. See if that kicks in, get up to a bit of the same.
Now the bombs that go down, you know that means it's going to be a juicier looking force by coming through an AK for your kinder.
It's been facilitated by Fallen, I believe.
Take 9's, Diggle, Buttele in the mix.
Even though Kisuke gets the opening kill there on Banana, Furio are lucky it wasn't played with Yuto.
They could still execute, they could still put the position right down to break them back.
How important was that plant?
Ooh, you really thought he had a chance there.
Sturgy.
He's an alter, just sounding a little poked.
Kisuke frags up the AK from your Kim to come in for that trade.
I call that off, give it a better opportunity than just trying to have some blind spams through
the smoke.
You've got one flashbang.
It's just getting harder from here.
Hello.
Ooh, doesn't finish off your Kinderbottes.
I should be able to farm up a couple.
into Niko's cross area if you do push down.
Thanks to Funtime for the guys who walked down before he could pull out the bomb.
That's maybe one of those situations for people who are just paying attention to the James
Banks interview with Niko where he's talking about it's about finding the balance.
Certain situations where we should go aggressive, where we don't, ones where we should be
passive, but we're aggressive.
Right.
Situation monosy, he's in boy love.
They've extended on that setup and it almost cost them, right?
It's a round where a couple of kills come in, the bomb could go down again.
It feels very threatening when your team was fighting for that banana control, and if you
want to go for those potions, make sure you're doing it together.
They were kind of connected, but you see you get caught with that timing.
I know I'm no foul, at least not yet, as it will be in the next one out of the
area.
I didn't get that immediate connection you hoped for, and now you can be one part
of the port, and it just takes half a flashback to get through.
I see half.
I don't fucking caught my finger at you.
I'm sure it did fly in Kyosuke, but I'm able to punish him.
Important.
I'm going to fire that to Dixon as well, so they...
In the opening...
...be able to light work of what remains.
It'll be important as well, after the counter-release, that they just suffered in the previous, so...
Get on to all these guns.
Make their life a little bit easier, as Molodoi's searching.
Remember the Diggle?
I mean, I could find Niko, as he's looking.
That presents his backside and monosie quick tap
Niko has become that a rotating rifle giving up the position of B to kiss suke
I make him as comfortable as possible on a map that's really getting reps in this team
The combo
And there you have it
There's a strong pistol one. It's just gonna be comfortable on the eco
7 and 0 for Kisuke right now. You just wonder when he does find his home in banana. He understands the rhythm and all the different util sets.
When a player like this can get unleashed, it is going to be a bit of a shutdown.
Whose demos would you be telling him to watch?
Call Vitality's. Flakesy and Apex.
Kixin, can you just set me up like that, please?
I got a lot of lead thrown out.
Ouch.
Keisarato gets one on.
Big for Keisuke.
Activate for the double.
Back to spawn with you.
The player is in front of him and they'll be going down so I know now has fallen on
your way.
Team mates went 25 stand alive that is beautiful two rounds in back to back
Where they haven't taken a single casualty the one with the most was the second round
Otherwise it has been spotless three kills in total so far to for Maladote one for your kinder
The Brazilians yet to get going as they have another partial coming up
Two moments another by Yankee the desk where
Score six to two first half Mirage
Honestly, he calls his own peak, kicks it and allows him to go for it instead of just
pulling the leash tight and calling around the hood of security to get to the lipline.
And then if you've got a 6-6 half and late in the piece, they lose some key jewels.
There he is again!
Damn, 10 and 0.
And instead of saving, he decides to go for the play.
So looking to avoid both of those problems, in map number 2 to push this to an Nuvus,
which would be an awful lot of fun.
I think it's not a dying breed of player, but it was a big conversation point back in
the day.
I know you said Ely 2018 years ago, but when we had North with Config and Magisk, those
two players that once they got going if they had really good starts you know they
had maybe a good piss they've got a couple of kills in the early gun rounds
or they really just continue to feel the flow of the game and they take more chances
here so you're gonna get to the same
just the one for the monodoy dig seems like it's always good for one on these kind of rounds
that was something else we highlighted dream map one the flash work felt good
the last couple of years.
Yeah, I think that's the
last couple of years. Yeah,
especially in that spread. I was
like, Yep, top mid box,
flashy and pick off each other
and they're all kind of
sanity disintegrate from there.
So he had to keep the head
screwed on tires. This is a
rapid five. Oh, well,
especially when you consider
that you know, there were
those fumbles that the unless
desk brought up there were
those misplays and yet we
had an overtime competitive
game. Yeah, fury of being
getting better and better
out. So. You know, it's
a tough one to place for
falcon. I think they
as they would like just yet, but this team is threatening, it just needs to click, promptly click.
Kinder-edging.
I mean, they really should have won, Melbourne.
This one, mate, you Kinder-ed Geisarotto!
Finally, win out on the double swing.
Yeah, and this is only their second gun round, six rounds deeper.
Nico's still here hanging around, the rotation on the way.
He's not standless, Sam. I mean, it's the right call, it's just that.
It's such an iconic position, some crazy clips from Nico.
in that position, he's going to play the block game.
It doesn't really have a lot of you till, right?
He's just picked up that incendiary and the smoke,
so that'll buy him a little bit of time, sure, but...
I'm falling, I'm probably just calling a B execute at this moment.
You've got that lurk of Yuri in second mid,
you've got the smoke, small of these flashes that you need for this finish.
Smoke on top of that.
Right, head of the boat, nice to play that.
Swings on the other side, he's down.
Swings across the side, forward.
Nessie spray, your kinder brings him down and that is not gonna be enough
The Imperial have broken through, nice one from Tessus but I think it's just a consolation prize
and Yuri might be there
lurking out towards the short side to take everything away
Monosy looked prepared for this but Tessus might not be
Oh, now so noting this, Monosy can start to, I should say, wrap around but coming over to fight
solid. Well, for low on the smoke and being hunted by
Molledoy as well. So, he is bounced in. Fury will take everything.
Yeah, fortunately, it's been a prosperous in that spree of five.
So, they have more than enough cash in the coffers as hopefully, we get to see the monocy
AWP in the server. Really like seeing the heads ahead of the two of them. Not always
dueling against one another but Molotoy and Monosy lighting up the server on
map number one.
Big fall and my opinion with the second most beautiful player behind Molotoy and Garage
he had some very key moments.
Monosy does get out of the awp.
Seeing Zaru awping more, having these three Zaru, Monosy and Molotoy it is so fun.
Oh yeah, the podium of Orphe.
Entertainment.
Orphe elite returned them to the best in the world.
Obviously, Zywoo from last year, but we've had a bit of a conversation that in CS2 it's harder for the Orphe, so how many of them are going to be in the top five?
So be safe again. They just want to test this site test this duo setup. I say do well. Kiyosuke was leaving
Come on back
Niko to lend the maid
They've shown the leg and now they're rotating over Niko wrong place really just not feeling the flow of the game today
Is he double apps set up Tess S trusting in monosie probing forward for info
You two signals problems on ice. Oh great catch on to Yuri
He's looking the wrong way, boiler.
And if they go short side, monocie is primed and ready for the smokes and play something else.
Niko got his work cut out for him here.
Plays ahead of the duty to eat the flash dips away.
They're wrapping.
Get a double up here.
Monocie will take the first contact as much as he can get.
Niko providing cover from the short side.
Aware of the potential vulnerability from the apartments.
Ready.
Catches Molotoy on that.
Jiggle out.
It's just monocling. So comfortable dipping around, staying dynamic.
So quickly returning to their winning ways. They're all down to Tesla's monocling there because
even though Niko rotates in, the two of them get all five kills, isn't it? Makes it look casual.
Taps this little bit of info. At that point, you're screaming. You know that as you rotate
into A, or at least you try and take the space, apps is given up and
just both playing pitside after the initial exchange. You know, look very easy.
You win one, but immediately respond.
I was falling in with the Tecnan, the rest of the AK's in...
They're gonna be quick on A right now. You two just trying to make it seem like they aren't going to respawn.
We've got west of them, pretty close to them.
The U2 are not lined up so we'll be fishing for a response.
Yeah, I don't love it. They're past.
They are coming at the bar, and then he takes his place and exposes him.
Still goes well to find Fallen, but vulnerability is on the A site now.
Incident in! Quick! Click!
Ah, to the monocly sniper.
Yuri makes his presence known in bow, trying to draw the attention.
Kixen, ooh, a step further, and he would have been tapped by Molodoid.
Didn't quite spot him.
Divided in conflict.
Nice headshot.
Removing Tess S.
Falls into a... two on three.
You're a monodoy turn this round on its head on it up quite well honestly out of position
The monotone's not quite going to be...
Wreck it!
Wreck it!
Yeah Kixas does go swinging a double up for this!
Kixas super closes!
Threatening!
Yeah go ahead tab Alex this is only going for 13 minutes 30 seconds
Eight rounds done.
It's rapid huh?
Yeah it's very quick so the gun rounds you can count them on one hand for Furia so far
and now it is going to have to be probably a partial with the bomb not going down
It gets one and done and this is quick from other suits here.
Talking in the break.
Just match up back in Chengdu as well. One of the four.
And the Chinese fans were calling Molotow the black flash.
So both of these boys quick but yet to see Molotow's orb in play on Inferno.
Yeah, I feel like we've seen a whole lot of tech nines in this T side.
There's a whole lot more into round nine.
So because it's just been so quick, do you want to take the pace out of it?
This is the round where you want to inject pace, right?
You want to use the run and gun nature, the swarm.
Communicators, aimers, movement guards and jugglers.
Kicks it.
So they are taking the tone out, not spamming smokes, not running into anything early, sitting
and waiting for the early barrage of falcons to be lobbed in, not taking any black damage
if you don't have to.
The sequel's very early in the round that they aren't fighting for banana control.
He can, uh, here's those footsteps and like a moth to the flame will go jumping through
off the flash.
Ray is against you, Kate.
Shredding heads.
There's life for more clean headshots, mechanics on display, it's just kicks and hit, supportive
flash.
Game flash.
And I feel at all...
What is that?
What is that?
Kind of gives them a chance.
They get guns, they get the bomb planted, it gets weird.
Fallen's even got a smoke. Do you throw on towards CT? Yeah you do.
Did another one?
Nah, these are the ones you can't lose. Not this again.
Oh, we got a foul control.
Oh, HP.
Smoke ruins. Here he peeks for one and they smoke in.
He's dead, Nico brings him down.
Okay, Fallen, the one HP 1v3 is asking too much.
Surely! There's no way, no way!
He can win this and thankfully strikes into the flame.
Extinguished there to secure the defuse,
I'm not going to use, but it
got way too janky. I'm
spewing right there. If I'm
at the back of the side just
copping a team flash in that
moment, especially after what
Kyosuke does. But the problem
is his Nico's birthday. You
kind of just have to let him
get away with it. Yeah. And
you won the round. Good
flash. Yeah. Yeah, it was
Number ten, man, we see it done.
So let's go.
Still four rounds salvageable.
Just need three tronics, excuse me, before the half-time break.
Oh, we could get that head-to-head.
He's not going to do it.
He's not going to do it.
There's no way he's going to do it.
All right.
Playing by the book.
What are those nades of the little wonky, but the end of the world?
This feels a little easy to try.
I might need to get you in the white light.
What are you doing, bud?
So, Kixon's going to be left another two smokes, so looking very set to block on B
is the ace side that's going to be question marks
very passive setup on our
giving guy control and practice essentially
this is the mark
blocked for another twenty
another twenty
yes they are really running through that you have a cheese to break
no one on Yuri
typically he's not with them he's going to join them now ok that implies he is
going to be breaking the smoke they know what's up
Yes, so the flash has to be back before an orange lands in 35 seconds.
This won't be easy.
So, on the prime?
Always coming back as well.
Flash.
Smoke.
Front sight and smoke.
God flash.
Kiyosuke.
Gonna get the multi-going.
He does catch Kisar after doing the flash back down, so they collapse.
The blue wall erected and a USP finished.
Another multi-kill.
19 and 2.
Kiyosuke looking comfortable in his new position.
Yeah look they gave this to him last year after it was clear this was going to be a weakness and you can just be that sharp object locking down banana time and time again but even in the beginning of it's still doesn't look great but with repetition with practice
It's making this look perfect.
And they just shred them.
For work, obviously having all the u-tills, having monosies all as well.
And no real pressure on air.
You can hear the cheers on the other side.
It's the last game of the day.
They want to push just the distance.
Now, it's not an all.
You take a few more liberties, if you're monosie.
You look for that fight.
The question remains though, will you let one slip?
Can you keep it as tight as it has been?
Or will there be a misstep and misplay?
The B site does seem pure and so stubborn about trying to take this B site away from
Kisuke and Kixin.
You'd have to one tap them on that jiggle, haven't seen them pull that one off.
It's not a one tap, it's a labored spray that you can just get away with.
He goes to be here as a second man.
Oh, the aggressive push gets flashed in for the Monty, nearly three.
Molotov is MP7, does stem the bleed.
Monty's gonna go for the shot anyway, doesn't quite finish it off.
Here he gets away with a little bit of space on A, but the bombs B.
Tessa should have this.
Ok, well 10 feels like a certainty, Molotoy.
Noisy now.
He's going to force a fight because where do you go France?
Alright, well they are just absolutely dominating in the opening duel department.
It was the second opening kill for Furio right there and both of them have been 4 yukinda.
Otherwise you've got Kacarotto 0 and 3, you've got the yukinda 2 and 4, so everyone's
just been giving them over quite liberally.
It's very rare you see this kind of scoreboard at the end of a half of Fiora, look at that.
One, two, three, four.
Teaching us how to count and how to get to the third map quickly.
Will you slip one up?
Come and be again, here's your kinder, wants to try his luck one more time.
He is UK's so proud of him, honestly.
I'm gonna put that first, accelerating him.
Ooh, Niko catches a quick tap.
He's gonna impact from your kinder, he's broken into B and then running.
He's got the whole side, look at him go, knife out through spawn.
Yeah, they both must have pushed half for you, you can see the X's on the radar.
Seems like a bit of a slip-up, nevermind.
Honestly, he's ready for your gorgeous vision and Niko!
Nails the headshot on the swing of Monobo, he just clotheslines the kid.
and the edge of the smoke.
That is close to perfection.
That is beautiful.
KSUK just putting on an absolute show in banana time and time again.
What a turnaround it is from Mirage.
They pushed that one the distance.
This could have been over in two.
That's assuming they closed this down right here right now.
Which with an 11-1 scoreline.
I don't think that's an assumption anymore.
I think that's a certainty.
I'll start preparing yourself for an UBUS, everybody.
Third map coming up next.
a sub 30 minute game. 21 50 right now.
She's so big laughing. You don't see that for the big man too often.
Yeah, he's really stressed out more often than not.
Smile.
Kixon has definitely been a key part of this man on the screen's destruction and banana.
He walks away from that half with 13 assists only five kills
That's a facility. Yeah, that is a team player if ever I saw one
19 effective flashes or enemies flash
Now we see you gotta get a ride. It's one of them
right how quick will this be if you're at you just roll over and die or do you
scrap back this pistol give it a good go all range clock pressure I say that
pizza 50 was in the mix
kicks and can throw a smoke from that pit position nothing being given over in
in terms of early aggressions, right?
You take a peek down mid, that's relatively safe.
See, you know, someone pushing out to car
or second window jump peek for info.
But you know that it's likely they're calling
banana clear, right?
So you have to be accounting for multiple bodies.
I think this is, let's wait and see
if they just put out a frustration
and a way to get themselves back into the game.
And then we've cleared out boiler and halls.
So we know that they don't have a stance there.
This helps inform the setup.
Now as they swing this,
the P250 should take point.
Oh, and your kinder's head nearly popped by the PT-50 and Niko.
Baton switched, you'll be able to unload from sandbag, but your kinder can't go down with nothing.
This rat is gonna fight for the flames, nothing from him. Niko finds the opening they needed.
Pursued of a quick inferno, lot's smoke thrown out by Fallen, he's got the flash ready.
Oh, they're flying, but behind the smoke.
They used their flash and they weren't ready to go.
Yeah, that could cost them.
Rotating heavily back, still 2 on A.
This can go wrong for Falcons. Time 25.
Yeah, Yuri though. Two kills so far. If you can find impact here, maybe Fury can start on the right foot here on CT.
Ooh, no, he can't! No, they can't! Psyche collapses!
The bomb will be planted.
He'll give it a look. See what he can find. Falling arrives on the library side.
Taking his sweet time as you're kinder.
he's gonna say he's careful and doesn't have any to hold on to so
as we'll see if we can get a kill or two extra for the force bite into the next
and last round using a Molotov sandbag on pistol
I guess we're always having the same thought that's a real blow to the
mental that that's enough to frustrate anybody I think is he
and it gets in, gets out and keeps his calves.
So, he'll make his force by a little bit better.
Still falcons.
Just one more round, five kills,
and this one will be close and sharp.
Converse is going to be about the reset outside of the furia, do you really want to play another
day?
You could get yourself into the right mine space to win an UBIS.
If you Falcons, you got weapon advantage, util advantage.
Cross the goal, avoid any CT aggression, main point of call, or port, could be banana.
I keep waiting for it to go wrong, then it hasn't.
No, which is surprising, but a welcome change, four on a, few of the furia now, which that
could be the undoing, an apps pop, if you have to go somewhere, I said you avoid banana,
get bit early, an apps pop against force.
Okay, there is some convincing being done, he goes for it, bigger than he is.
Don't think you've written it, you just stick to this.
Stay with the fall.
And if you're running through a grey screen, Yuri could have a field day.
Yeah, Yuri just the one.
Important for Kiyosuke, they're both just standing on top of each other.
He's gotta make his moves, there's more than that.
Finds Lee Thalae removing Kiyosuke.
over the corner. Yes, they are can't get to they've kept them honest kept them in these one-on-one trades
Nico audibly descending as you know didn't hit the block does find monosie
now he caught in the clutch can't handle it. Furia do manage to extend play
into the stacked site. That's my fault. No, but I really don't understand
I understand that again at the school and it doesn't really matter. I know they're still
We're gonna win
I didn't even like going short on anti-eco so you said you can't go banana short or out
Don't go banana early right
You go hit the silent drop on these way down
Fuck!
Are we about to witness?
The Greatest Comeback!
Counter-Strike District!
Stop the clock, it took him 12 seconds.
The time is...
Local or Central?
Central, 8.06.
Score is 12-2.
for the audio and your lessons.
Map 2, last game.
Winner of the arena.
Round 3, PGA please to clock in, 236.
What's the date?
What day is it today?
It's my day.
It's 16th of February.
Well remember that day,
because you're about to witness
a run of round never seen before.
Ahhhh.
It's two through the smoke.
Another eco.
Another eco.
I don't like cluster 40B.
You win the pistol. 12-1.
You do an apps fault.
You know the terrorists win.
You force back.
I want to just keep checking on Zonic like he's still smiling.
You smile it until about 12, 7.
Okay.
And then you get in concern because you know the team that you have.
You mean the team full of stars?
Isn't it when a star explodes, we don't see it for a long time.
That's right.
So this star may have already exploded.
Chad, the grass ties it.
Yeah.
Is it the eco-wind from Falcons that tilts fury off the face of the Earth, and then they
go into Anubis?
I think it's that one.
Blind with rage.
You push this road.
They look at straight down, and then kicks in like it's the...
The clock, real nice.
You know the terrorists, we have finally, there's a possibility.
Top to four for the audio only listeners, guns come out.
Apps pop.
Well now I wouldn't hate it.
It would be a good call.
It would be a call.
be one of the calls available. Yeah.
Let's see where they take it. I mean, Fury definitely going to be, you know, they could very
realistically dig their heels in here. You've got Kaceron, Kindergarten with AK-47.
As you witness, they don't plan. They're on partial.
Again, and then you're at what? Six? Six.
Yeah, and Johnny stops smiling at seven.
They're looking for the two kills around and they don't plan.
Watch out for this, it could go wrong.
Throwing mollies into smokes.
Smoke perfectly placed.
Ah, it's Kiyosuke. The king of banana they called him.
That's it.
That's a new one. I'm coining it now.
Completely new nickname.
Never been used before.
Via Maximo.
You know the funniest thing about this is you know that the desk is sitting there right now.
Oh yeah.
So the longer this goes...
The more tilted young girl will be.
Now don't be killed. Squandered. 4v4. Back to A. Guarding in.
It's a good call considering the defensive resources are complete. 50-50.
I'm getting past the AK of K Serato though. He's got Yuri in tow.
Solid setup. Back to turn. Flaps are good.
and monosy in combination with kicks that is broken in
the tails of falcons
here you come back the way he exaggerated
he's got counter tips and you can pay for my services i'm here all week
let me see your powers now
the grave got set up it's just too potent of a crossfire isn't it
It's just people saying, all right, a new bus locked in Falcons.
They dust themselves off.
They shake off the Mirage and they stomp through that team.
They certainly do.
And just to chat point, yes, we were sat here,
but we knew we wouldn't be sat long
because obviously that was an insurmountable comeback
in a very strange situation to find Furia in.
They're usually well-rounded in the vetoes.
they pick them up.
You know what might have happened Richard?
What?
I think Furia might have thought for sure Falcons are going to pick us
and they wanted to kick Mirage.
So when Falcons picked Mirage for them,
they were like,
I guess Inferno then.
You know, because they might have not expected to have it.
After the second round they probably thought the kids
were going to be new for Anubis for the
decider and maybe that's the reason why they sort of fell flat on the inside.
I mean, Hyde side's 20-20, but would you have picked him further?
I would score, I would try to...
I don't know what else they could pick out of the remaining maps.
What was it? It was Nuke, Anubis...
Yeah, Anubis.
Because Overpass was banned, right?
And Dust. It was Nuke, Anubis, Dust.
So what are you going to pick? If you pick Nuke, have some T-Side.
They've been decent on Nuke lately, and Anubis, you don't feel comfortable enough to pick it just yet.
as a decider it's a different story and that's too you're not going to pick it against Falcons
so I think this was really sort of a least bad option for Furia
which I mean Maui did say last time they lost 13-3 so yeah they got destroyed last time so it was
kind of the same story again and also kind of a similar picture the fact that Kyosuke and Kixi and
just locked it down at B they used a variety of defenses Kyosuke sometimes played forward
sometimes they played back good counter utility every time there was a hit
the B site, with the exception of maybe a single team flash.
I mean, that was about as picture perfect as it gets when you're looking to construct a great D side.
And Kyosuke, I mean, this guy has just, I mean, leaps and bounds better than when he first started on Falcons in this role.
He really is taking like a fish to water here.
And I feel like it's worth the sacrifice.
I mean, Niko moving away famously kind of from that B area to give Kyosuke that space.
But hey, it's already paying off with two consecutive wins versus an elite Inferno team in Furia.
I think as soon as they made that change, they became better on Inferno.
Niko in the Rotator role, you know, on the CT side, it improved them.
Still wasn't, you know, one of their best maps, but it became good enough where it's not a clear and obvious punish every single time, right?
Teams would have to think twice before they just go, ah, it's foul because they're just picking Inferno.
Just look at the dots, though, for Kyosuke.
I mean it's just it's just a title that is locked down but also the variety and and this is key to playing that bombsite
You know you need to mix it up every time and just keep everybody gets keep them on their toes
So really awesome defense from only thing I could ask more of from him is more two-side kills
But he honestly didn't give his team enough rounds to play them. Yeah, he didn't even play tea side
I mean look obviously missed out on rookie of the year
missed out on being in the top 20 due to having a small sample size. Where do you see him going this season?
Top 15 easily. Easily top 15. I would be almost surprised if he's not a top 10 player. I mean, Falcons have really filled in as their star rifle now.
We're giving him most of the good spots on nearly every map. I mean, doesn't say for example, it has still ramp on new.
But regardless of that, you know, Robs was able to get third with that kind of position.
So Falcons are able to just put some some trophies in the cabinet. Kyosuke disguised the limit
I mean, I think the more fun argument sometimes is actually, you know
Irrespective of team results between Molotov and Kyosuke who's actually the more skilled player that you know in isolation
CS is obviously a team game
But and obviously trophies play a huge factor in HLTV's list
But if if Falcons put the same amount of trophies on the board, but Kyosuke had the exact same numbers
I think that guy gets a really high rank
Yeah, but the difference is some of the trophies in Furia's cabinet are due to Molozo's performance in those big games and in finals
and you can argue that to some extent the lack of trophies in Falcons' cabinets are due to Kyosuke perhaps not playing up to his group stage level.
I was saying he's the main guy, there's some guys who did worse in key moments and who you expect more from, Niko and Monesi,
but you know, that also plays a part in the conversation.
Yeah, and look, obviously, it looks like a bit of a blunder, but I think they were favourites.
Now I just don't know.
I really want Furia to win, so we can ask them the question, so James can ask them, because I think that's what happened.
I think they were just sort of ready for the Mirage pick, and then when it was not there,
sort of put a spanner in the works, and maybe they prepared for some other maps as a third,
but not to pick them, and they just went with Inferno.
I mean the thing that's crazy is we've been talking about it all so far this tournament and indeed in other tournaments this year
You know for K Serato to go missing like that's kind of weird
He was lucky that they won that force because he would have had I think the worst map of his professional career
With only one kill was what he was sending on and you know being the main banana guy seeing what happened in
Banana that kind of tells you the whole story. You need to know why things went terribly wrong for fury. Yeah, I
I mean I still feel like he's gonna have a pretty solid bounce back here on this map
I feel like even though Moldedoy I get more consistent highs
I feel like the the floor for Cacerado barring that last map. We just saw generally speaking
I'm more reliant on him to just at least provide some sort of stability for this team
So yeah, I mean it's a kind of an aberration for me more than anything with him having that bad of a map
Anything else you want to talk about for that infernal?
You just want to start to end up in the Ubers. There's not much to say. Yeah
He also came on at the show. Monace also once they started going a yeah
He was also doing work and and they couldn't get through there either just that I feel like also
It's really clear that they're so willing to play back now
I think that probably was the biggest problem I had with Kyosuke early on where he would die at half all
50 plus percent of rounds he was feeling like when I was watching him
He's so frequently a liability, but I mean you saw the kill matrix or the the map that is of where he was standing with most of his
Fraggs that he was so much more willing to play especially around the fountain pillar like in the middle of it
That's such a great spot if you're extremely
Talented mechanically that you can just work around that just showing the shoulder and always peeking out at the perfect time to get a headshot
Yeah, I imagine having those stats and not being the best player on the server must be nice
Okay, so let's start setting up Anubis.
Just a general question for both of you before we do.
Obviously we know in the past it was essentially pulled
from the pool for being too T-sided.
It was a bit too strong.
It's come back into the few changes.
How are we feeling about those changes?
Have we seen enough of Anubis now to say
that it's fixed some of the map's problems?
I like the map more without a doubt.
The CT option to go through the new window
that instead of it being on the bridge is now
towards the double doors in mid,
gives them opportunities to fight down into the canal.
That to me is just a huge boon
to just giving them another surprise factor element.
And I feel like that coupled with the smoke
that usually lands at the T stairs
kinds of towards aiming,
I guess towards K Serato and Yekindar's position
over there, that has really opened up
more aggressive options for CTs.
And thus I find there to be maybe a little bit more
variety of how much control you can take
feel safe about taking it? Yeah, I think we'll, I think we still have to wait and see for teams to
really get used to how to utilize Windows in terms of retakes or late-round rotations and what they
can do. We've seen some teams get created with G2 to some extent with Hunter and then those aggressive
water pushes, lucky playing around that window area as well being aggressive, but it also requires
these to just expend a bit more utility and take a few more steps in default which honestly
could be all it takes because now they don't spawn with instant map control everywhere right like they
have to at the very least you molly double HE that window early on if you want to stop it right
that's a molly less for a late a hit for a b execute for clearing some area of the map and
it sounds like nothing but it can add up right 15 extra seconds off the clock a couple of pieces
of utility because of the change and you know makes life easier for the CTS and
gives them a little bit more room to maneuver in the mid-round. Now within the
context of this matchup you did say you don't think Falcon should be even playing
this map right? So I think between Nuke and Anubis they should always be going
for Nuke really in a way with the players that they have but perhaps
they're just feeling really good on this Anubis early on right I saw they
have some interesting approaches in terms of the CT side, but they're willing to play
retake on B and then have good protocols for the retakes as well, which doesn't sound like
Falcons who usually always like to get into it and get into fights.
Unlike the Vitality conversations, neither of these teams has the luxury to play an UBIS
to test it out at this stage of the tournament, so they must be feeling good about it
to go to it over Nuke.
And I mean, also a map where Furia wouldn't have had a ton of time to get ready on.
Yeah, true. As I said in the group stage, we have seen it as the handshake to Sider a few times now, so it'd be interesting to see where it goes.
Mali, do you have any thoughts about this match up between these two teams in this arena?
Well, we've only seen FURIA play this, I think, on the new version once now, and so it was just against Foot as well.
I've always liked FURIA even before the slight changes on the map. I felt like their just bombsite finishers were always extremely potent.
I feel like their fights for AMA are persistent enough that it actually creates opportunities
for flanking on the CT side, so I just like the active defense from them and I think that
this is going to be a close bout, but I feel like the margins right now for me are lightly,
lightly favoring Furia.
Yeah, I think we'll see also on their CT side, the kinder is going to be a focal
point.
I feel like to honestly, probably the most important player for Furia, right?
Because they live and die by him a lot.
He's a player who gets into a lot of opening fights, opening duels and on the city side
that only really has one gear, you know, in that sense.
Playing passive and holding back isn't really his style.
So we've seen in that overpass thriller against Foothow, when he's not doing so well,
it can create openings for the opponent but once he gets into the swing of things
that's when Fiora becomes really hard to play.
Alright, thanks gentlemen.
It is time for a break, and after that break, we're gonna see who's putting the noob in a noobus.
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It's time to talk about more and new risk changes in here.
Do you feel like it has become a bit more CT-sided or not really?
Right now, I feel like T7 has less space to take map control
because you can't take mid control.
Meanwhile, you are taking the water.
You need to focus on one side because now CTs can only focus on one side.
They can focus on water take or they can focus on meeting
because they have good space right now. They can isolate the fights, I would say.
I think it's still T-sided. I think, like so before, I think with the new window, I think it
slows down the default for T's because it gives the CTs a few more options to push out, be aggressive
and kind of opens up the map that way. So it definitely slows down the T's, but I still think
if the T's play it well, they slow it down and they just default correctly. I think it's
really tough for CTs. You're kind of a lot of guessing. You have to be really active on the
on the CT side, they kind of get into what the night plays.
The way you're doing your rotation, if you are not close to the camera or like a temple area,
it's too hard to go. Like from if you are pushing like closer to A, like you need to go from water.
You cannot go past back by and from CT to B, like C4 is going to be explored.
You cannot just play 2-1-2 on Anubis and you will always, you cannot help B by 2 guys,
it's impossible. They will throw two smalls, two small slashes.
T-side have this side, same for A.
If you are not in the right position, you cannot catch the right timing.
When you're pushing from A, but they are splitting drop,
and if you're not in the right timing,
you're not going to see anyone from behind, kind of things.
I mean, it's going to be more harder for me to do retake there
because someone's going to do fly-flick or they're going to check info.
T-side, they don't need to do anything.
They can just stay one minute, you throw all the grenades, for example.
If they even have 20 seconds for the round, it's fine for T.
They'll throw grenades and come on D, or it doesn't matter.
I think it's still T-sided.
Not, didn't change to the CT one for sure.
As a T-side, I think it is more balanced right now.
Like if you are a good CT side, if you are a bit aggressive,
like rather than your defensive team, if you are aggressive, I think
Anubis is a bit more city-sided in my opinion right now.
far if I remember correctly is you know needs more time but probably still a bit
T-sided yeah I think 75 yeah all right for the moment but yesterday we saw
Fury upplayed the new version for the first time against foot in that series
together across the line to be here right now so they popped their new
was cherry on the other side of things for Falcons they have played it a
handful of times three molotovs that is a hefty util and investment right
now and overkill because we can see just one man at tessus he has got armor and a
smoke and your barrett is that set up a success yeah
terminator well they just jiggled out the box and saw nothing so tessus will
be prompted now to use the smoke and Nico sees lots of players ready to take
that fight where are you gonna stand on the side yeah there's gonna be a
car pit of flame. Here we go. Tessus' reaction to the monotone.
Oh, they missed the Heaven Smok! They missed the Heaven Smok!
They did, Tessus! Oh, he activates, does alright!
Serato, however, has other plans. Quick, 3k into the site. Don't need a Heaven Smoke if everyone's dead.
Yeah, just plant in it now. Okay, Serato, that was huge. Niko, monosy now on the retake.
Niko gonna be coming in from the Heaven Side. No one's pushed further forward. It does look
like Yuri's gonna be that first contact point depending on his approach. Obviously he's gonna
let Niko play. This is a partnership. Let's see if Niko, trying to combine this negative fight.
Honestly, just the one-ish case of Rato closes it down. He starts strong and ends the same.
That was the key on Mirage. He was getting these pistol rounds. They picked up both,
did Furia on their opponent's map choice and then Falcons just did the same on Inferno.
So right now 3-2-2 in favour of Furia. Let's see, he's reading the notes immediately.
Just making sure they follow in the street when the force comes to the ground. So it's a force
bike. It's coming together. Okay Serato, this is massive. Just cares of a new one there.
Yeah, it was a very uncharacteristically quiet Inferno from everyone on Furia,
but it's just bizarre to see, you know, Cacerato ending a half of one or two kills. It was
a bit of an outlier. So immediately he's done better. It's interesting, right? They've come
mainly with people's mis-situation, which tells you they're unlikely to go aggressive, and
similar as to what we saw on Mirage, remember, they did a 4-1. It didn't work the first time.
They attempted to save, only held onto two pieces, ran the exact same setup in consecutive
rounds and one at the second time. So let's see if that's more of the same.
The configuration at the moment for Fury up, loads for a B-Split. Fallen just applying some
mid-press. So seeing nothing middle, you're going to assume it was the very sight-centric
got which one
no clues being given away just yet
just kicks and gonna be here to smoke it be good time to start blocking now
yeah there it is
kicks and can use that smoke you might as i don't know
oh
get freebie
out of way
get away kids
didn't spot the second man
he has been so cheeky
that is a second
they might just wanna go now
I think he's given him enough to start that conversation.
Another smoke for Kixson to play around.
He's going to be able to deny the plan if they had default.
Tessus onto Fallen.
Come right in front of him.
Little left left right.
Jobs are good at...
Jobs onto Molotoy puts him low.
Still a chance for more, but there's the Kiyosuke.
Kaseurara is just punching in the cove
for a little something to celebrate just in time.
But Falcons off the back of a solo Kixson on B.
It is an absolute menace there, the in-game leader.
I was everywhere for the perfect time, parts through against the opener, back in, staying alive, fumbled U-Till from Furia, giving him power, Noia.
We go 1-1.
Damn.
I loved that. That was inspiring from Gixxen.
Consider me inspired.
Well, I think when you just see it's the one guy having to do all of this, and if he gets nothing, it would have been the same conversation as we had back in the garage.
Say, Tess is getting that one, it rained very important.
This is like hiding in the smoke on Heath.
Oh, to actually get a knife kill no less.
You know what's nice about that?
Is he was knifed in that 1v2 situation on the right.
So he's getting one back.
Let's see who wants to take the time out immediately.
And I think it's a good idea to do this now.
But you can see the player's molotov.
He does tend to show a little bit of his frustrations from time to time.
But you don't want to just roll over now
because that momentum you discussed,
You're just taken away with the pistol with you meant to be able to get yourself in with the conversions
And then at that point have a nice bed around this is a moment where Falcons if they win this
They can take care of over 50% of the CT side rounds pretty early because fewer will have to weaker right valid
Another small note is that kicks and tried to drop Nico and M4 and Nico told him to keep it
I said you're the hero the last one days all yours
I'm also playing risky business out here. It's so maybe what's the five extra bullets without the aims big
I mean, these E-Tech 9-Pops can be lethal, right?
I think, you know, the limited sample size we've seen over on the new version from Fiora,
I guess against foot they didn't do anything different.
No, right.
Yeah, it was very limited change.
Even though you two lineups are like
Already gonna take the wind out of your wings, isn't it? Yeah, he gets going like inferno again. Oh, that would be scary
Certainly not a bad
On evacuating
the hole up the water into the site where Kixin now plays retake so they
might give over the plant seems relatively likely now see when they've
foregone middle they know that splits are a bit of a possibility noisy they're
Wow, what? They didn't kill him!
So Arthur, we'll catch Niko.
Just plan and get that extra cash.
We'll have the bomb problem.
We're planning there.
And Tessa should have this fang dead to the right, sort of falling.
Too easy.
Wow, four alive falcons.
So that's two already on your CT side.
And Chad highlighted that a third seems imminent.
Yeah, well, Tessa's able to upgrade as well.
We pixel back a little.
seems imminent. Yeah, well, Tessa's able to upgrade as well, he picks up that galil.
I like it now, as it will, uh, need to go now. And all right,
Shuria, you've gone up against Falcons four times last ship, most of which being in the playoffs,
one being a Grand Final, two semis in a group stage game. This is a
playoff preview, at least I'm labeling it. I hope both of these teams are able to
get their way into the arena for the next week and worth the play.
Yeah, well broken would indicate
So this would be big win for Falcons
So put the three of you on the opposite side of the crack it as vitality
He goes birthday and let furious spoil the party
That's it's flash SS
Say hey, they're actually in it. I think he's happy with this one. It's fine. We just fire them up
I'd like to see that one again, please.
He is quick.
Should have been a little bit easier for Tessus.
They're a bit all good.
No dramas, dude.
They want to bring out the Monty Orb.
And they definitely can.
He can drop that rifle over to Tessus and buy his NAWP.
That's exactly what's just taken shape.
So the orb will not be in a position to be bought back from Molledoy.
So it's gonna be AKs for Fury, yep.
They've been differing philosophies from the new hull and the orb lines.
We've seen some pious attempt a lot of opening gambits with an extinguisher on the door, Molly.
I'm curious to see what Monosly's approach is.
I think he'll take a couple of chances for sure.
Yeah.
I think you need to be jarring with it.
Have some nice flashes set up.
Oh, there it is!
Man, Nico's caught a immediate open.
Case Arta was blind to his own flash, I think.
Like a hole?
Or is that an extinguished smoke?
Didn't see them, Molly.
Well, there's a smoke there.
Yeah.
Could've just been pre-empty.
Oh no, it gets worse for Fury.
A four-linker's got caught on the smoke break.
His suitcase delivered another frag.
He can just got the bomb.
This could be round over if you can just risk.
Doesn't let him a reward in round.
Okay.
Four-one.
Yeah, hardly any damage done.
Might just be these two saving.
It feels like they have been shaken from that inferno loss.
Long time to try and hold onto these guns, so Mollero is going to have a look and see
what he can find.
I've repossed my cam, so now I'll be looking for the fight.
Any hole utility.
Okay, nice.
You've got the hole cam.
There's another hole.
That's another new hole.
We've got to be specific about the holes.
Well, other people are calling it a window, but...
We have a window.
Yeah, but it's not really a window.
It's not really a window.
window than that one but there's no glass and there's a window near the glass no probably not
Windows to look through yeah well you're not gonna you can jump through that one
True so is it a door sometimes you got to close the door
to open a window
Jake can you show us that again
we need to look at the structural integrity of this okay so now yes there is
there is enough to hold this together it is a little bit wonky at the top
yeah but understandable there's nothing supporting that right looking
on the edge there on the top right there's very limited sports of really that's just being held together by the force of the wall
It's pushing me into the other top brick right which as we know, you know discovered in
1267 BC, yeah Newton
The power of an arch
Speaking of foot up in playing well
They have I'm excited to see them play again tomorrow
It'd be nice to get Longston in it in the arena for the Romanians
and there it is an ancient thing known as a pyramid but actually a power source
with people who lived back a very long time ago. An ancient battery.
There is a molotov. Yes. There is a push. There is a nade for the smoke break.
This time, if you may have learned their lessons, they would have damaged from the
nade towards the staircase. You really need to get going, Furia. This is a
tough round to do so. So can you get the space? They want to go for a B-split, essentially, right?
So they're hoping to make it through water unharassed, which is being allowed right now.
Honestly, passive on middle, they're playing site-centric. So Niko and Tess S locking down A.
It's going to be the likes of Kixen and Kiyosuke, that B duo. Honestly, donating some U2.
So you need to stall them out if you are this B duo, right? You're going one for one.
That's pretty good. Slow it down. Hit like that.
Too late. Nades are too late. They're in the site. Commitment coming in. Only the one from Kiyosuke.
Nothing from Kixson. That's a different snaker right there. Rifles start flowing.
Frags too. And you will have a look at the retake, I guess.
Yeah, this might be one of those situations where Yanko said,
hey, look, you've dropped the ball here, just give it over.
Still a lot of rounds to be played.
Honestly, we could have some good retake flashes to the jail,
but this will still be tough.
No immediate reactions.
Flashes in, sprat they back.
Time for four.
Hikinder strikes, Niko trades, swings into Yuri.
They're both blind.
They're both so blind, vision returns, and so does the frag, Niko makes it a two on two,
all the toy loses his head, one hell of a shot from Niko, Fallen can deny this, Fallen can deny this.
Oh no, wait, one on to Niko, but Modesty doesn't have the time. A clutch from Fallen.
You lose everything, but you get that elusive round, and Modesty does manage to get away with his AWP,
so not as financially condemned, you didn't throw it all away on that attempted retake.
They're swimming in cash, so that is gonna help them down the stretch here, but that B defense not going one for one
The retake pretty threatening some good moments in the eco on the way back here
Yeah, that's the best we've seen from here
So caught on guard, kicks and goes down first, kicks and goes against one, then will the chance for the double up, and then the E flash
So, the E through one, monosy through one, and then there was gonna be one more, but I think the eco's played ahead of that
All the comms just happened to be perfect
It's half of the eco solo on HP, the cover not there, and the way we go, but look at this
Five galils
I feel like it does it.
If you've won the lottery, you can work a 9 to 5.
If there's this one, you're 2,500 yen to the next, so you're back into the partial by territory.
You need consecutive.
Two more will be necessary to break the money.
Long way up this hill.
What's that thinking about the boost?
After that, I suppose, they're all quite straight.
What?
Yeah.
That's their own...
Yeah.
Oh!
What?
Oh!
You just get dinged through the smoke!
What?
That must have... is that misthrowing?
Were they hoping to throw it and then boost up?
I think so, yeah.
Okay, so fumbling a little bit, but B splitting again.
Ooh, they're gonna go to bait.
Yeah, there's flashes right here.
It's got this strong flash.
Kix is gonna have to try and get something this time though.
Can't just be PSEK.
I understand you want to go for this but think about the long game.
I think about the long game your kind has got the the save denied with this play
Wrapping through CT spawn gonna have the free friend want to monitor you will take it
Okay, well they can go again and
There is a lot of cash from a few of these players the B site man
It's brutal for people who were paying attention after the segment before the map started
There was the James Max interview with the players were talking about the new anubis and
You can't hold B with two players.
That's what they're trying to do.
Look at the change going,
you can't hold B with two players.
Because if one person kills you both,
as he has now two back-to-back rounds,
the retake is just so brutal.
You can't keep letting this happen.
You either have to play more aggressive for water control
so they can't keep feeling B,
or take some timing fights out of B main, right?
Block the E box, flash out,
at least try and get some information because right now you're essentially just letting yourself get executed on.
Kind of like that philosophy we saw from the, you know, the Kixen and Kyosuke Benferno be hold.
Like, let's get some flash, let's set Kyosuke up to go search and be main. He's got the aim.
Yeah, it's just there's less safety and there's some angles that if the T's are passive,
they can just get the silver gap and then it's like, okay, you've just used a flash, a smoke, whatever and that doesn't get you anywhere.
You try and honestly stop middle.
Jay is just doing it to prove a point that Jay has arrived.
It's fine. I've got to up myself. Okay?
No, but it was cool to follow.
See that Hootie? Just try and stop anyone rushing.
To the window hall.
But now you think you will have conditioned, don't you?
You would.
You would think that they'd be playing heavier on B.
Yes, and they're not. But looking to harass in window...
This will be flashed. This will be flashed.
This will be flashed.
Get back in, you madman!
Okay! Fallen! First is Monocy and Fallen's brought him down!
Got a couple of chances there, didn't he? Fallen!
Good space!
Uh-oh. Oh, he's out!
Yeah, he's posted.
Ha ha! Gallon got a warp!
Two warps! On the T side, fighting in middle!
Of course! Of course!
Oh, you tilt it if you need go.
Crazy. Two orbs on the T side, Kixon still got one too.
So, Tessus, even with any monogamy of these-
AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
Look away!
Wish we didn't get to that one in time!
Fuck boy...
Alright, you broke through the money.
Money, money, money...
Fury, we're laughing.
Especially when you take this away.
It really would limit...
your contributions into the next
Yeah, you need to hunt. I'd be sending in the troops
I can bring the biot together for you if you want
because you should be taking these out if you can
Perfect. Remove this, it's over
He saved that, he could've dropped one
Tess could've dropped one as well
or bought himself an ortho biot. It would've been a biot
in a buy now. Not by by the
all tests this whole time.
Let's get away. You'll be very
happy with that. It is partial
territory. So they've worked
back into things. Pistilman
for Furia forced my back from
Falcons for straight and
predominant for not took with
the B bombsite being batted
with two splits through canal
we've split things open. More like Shades of Mirage than Inferno. They have board. Still
able to bring out two M4s. Let's say it's off of the mix. You never like to see it
Kicks this.
We spell that first test of the ASA.
There's two here.
Yeah, Monty's AWP is getting started trained on this angle.
Can you expect a flash?
I think he does.
It's just going to be a question of if there's
a body in front of him when he pulls the trigger.
Oh.
Flash.
Can you see?
Whoa.
Gayserato, at least traded by Tessus,
but Monty doesn't get a chance to play.
You want the space if you Tessus?
Yeah, you can fight for it.
Wow winds out swaps out to the AWP if they dare swing him
Action set them knocking elsewhere
B main pushing the interim so good information MP9 taking space
Fallen's again in mid space
Fallen concedes it completely
Oh and Tessus is playing retake
Nico will have to watch camera from heaven
So is that Niko just trying to mantel that, looks the wrong way, and a banging head shot out of Yuri VK.
Tess has worked so hard to give him his man advantage, and now Kixin and Kiyosuke should save.
It's also, what's extra frustrating is you're dying, and they've missed like two minutes.
It wasn't even polished.
Kixin might want to head over and see if he gets like a little bit better.
In the rounds where they could have saved Orps and M4s, it's now...
It's starting to...
...for an MP9, yeah.
There's a couple of attempted retakes on B, your resources were exhausted.
And I think that you can justify it because they sit there and they go,
okay, well, we've got heaps of cash we can keep buying, but now...
...now it's a problem, right? You're not assuming you lose those rounds.
You never should, but right now you're losing all, not holding on to anything, boys.
Brutal. Brutal.
Can understand why Sid's so content. I mean this has been one hell of a like a
return to form from Fury. It did look quite bleak at the start of things.
Just like they're making it as easy as they are. They are making it easier than it should be.
That's the fight. Niko wins that round. Yeah I mean just horrible timing.
We live right now to take some clients.
Why did everyone just leave co-intests and just make a piece of art as AK?
Go towards middle.
Double spray, double headshot, of course.
It's for a conversation.
They think you can get Alpa out of this Desert Eagle, but it's just committed to jail, open to punishing commitments.
What is outside be made they know and I've realized now that there is the potential vulnerability for that flank think figuring
Okay, so our tobs cleared out mid
They will here cuz you can make the steps in a box right now as well
They want to go through a middle because of those kills or
Back today, they still have nades for the finish number that's matter. I do think this is cheeky from all I see
He gets the right time. Yeah, we just step back
Right it always felt like it was gonna go that way
I think it goes back to what Niko's talking about, the team that sometimes too aggressive,
sometimes too passive, and they can't seem to strike the balance.
I just wish they'd pick one, and then not a passive team, so I know what the one's
going to be.
Right.
Just fight.
You're going to win some, you're going to lose some.
You can't play complete counter strike.
It's not happening.
Maybe in the future.
I could start somewhere else.
Start aggressive.
So six to four.
Just one more needed for the icing on the cake of Niko's spoils.
So if they're able to get that and they still have two more opportunities to do it,
You're safe, you're all good, you're getting into the inside, it's fine.
I think it's just because it feels like they've given themselves a few more opportunities
to find that one.
It's not over yet, it's far from over.
Just, uh, uh, take it down.
Ah, the clear, the spray, it's lovely to see Kcerado impact on the pistol.
How are you pin himself?
What's the difference maker then? You've got everything you need?
Oh! When you die!
No you don't! Maybe you don't!
Niko's just gone straight past them!
Modesty's gotta hold something! Quick one!
Pushing in towards the B main, great stop as he does hit the first onto Yuri
now, obscured by the smoke and the headshot through it.
Form's done very well.
They're in to make a plan, it's not setting up the post plan.
You can't do anything about it, you have to keep up the plan.
What?
I didn't find anything.
My boy is very quick to kick some...
Another round winner.
I think he could very well be right.
I think that's the round winner.
They all don't want to channel this.
Ooh, he gets a free one back.
Maybe not.
Maybe not.
Mododoi though, he's quick with this.
He can barrel on this bad boy.
That's a stick out.
Yeah, that's true.
Doesn't matter.
Gets one for free.
Just isolating one by one.
Is the AWPer ready for that repeat time?
Against Tessus, pushing in, dust for free fire, running down, now the double-swift, lead it by...
Okay, that'll do! Takes down his teammate, but has the time!
That's my defuse, mate.
Just in time. Tessus, high impact.
I thought that would feel like it's alleviated the space, but I think Molotow expecting more.
I really love Tessus just holding down Mouselot as he runs around the corner.
Got a good shot in this one.
That's a fall, it's just getting caught there, so lost track of the timing on that smoke.
That's the way back in, isn't it?
That's us.
Get out of my way!
Alright, there's the five rounds.
That's a five!
When you set seven to five, we'll see if they can even tie it up even better.
Do you see who can't be comfortable in this E-box position?
of
the
death of
That's a good name.
In case we're out of ready, so...
I was going to say,
what contact ball it takes, you know, trying to name it.
So, I'm all up right now.
Between the flames.
How did you hit the shot?
Not bad, scared!
Oh!
Beautiful from Odyssey.
Sarato catches a dink, but does bring down one.
Another clawback on the AMA.
Look at this! Freebie!
Oh!
Maybe not!
Maybe not a freebie!
Such a perfect gap!
Got all the way to the spawn.
Yeah, and it was noisy as well.
He was running.
Well, with the low HP of these two combined,
you think there has to be right now.
Six six especially with the time Nico gets that one for free and
We run over unless you want to protect your death stat line. This is all tied up at the half, so
Well done from Falcons
It does fall flat at the end there for Furia
The pistol round was the force by back where things got interesting force straight a couple of rounds that would just
be split into the two and
And it felt like it really spilled open. Lower buys, not saving guns. The money getting burnt through quite quickly.
But two rounds to inspire a little bit of confidence thanks to Tessus.
And then the Monacea AWP. The final round of that half. So, we are three to two in the pistols.
In furious favor.
Obviously Falcons get it to tie it up for the series. Reminder to those tuning in.
Whenever this will secure a spot in the playoffs alongside of Vitality doing it earlier today against Maus. Those two teams
themselves on the opposite side of the bracket. So it is a big win.
We just had a ground fight between Fury up Vitality in crack-off.
I think he's not even making the playoffs there. That worst result since Cologne.
Making the playoffs of everything since. So
he could also saying talking to James that it's
semi-final.
It's on the menu and it's all so tempered by saying, what depends on who we lose to?
Great, your life a little bit easier, at least assumably so, if you can win this one right now.
Yeah, well, losing to Fury has kind of been something they're familiar with.
Yeah, this one would feel damn good.
Considering how close those series would be, and this one appears to be another.
You're feeling a bit of a blemish on the record.
Yeah, equally matched teams.
It's three on A, Alex.
Yeah, okay, they're stacked in the right place.
And speciality, ready to just start clicking.
Oh wow, nice for K-Sukai, he kind of stops him early in front of Chorley, nice double out of K-Sorat.
Okie-Suke keeps us interested.
That's six kills of both pistols in this map for K-Sorat.
Did he really expect in the Rog's lurk?
Yes he is.
Oh, he's found one onto K-Suke, now Tessus drops in.
Can he finish? He does so cleanly.
Stunting on him.
Bit of flair there.
okay I'm not going down there's both pieces and I think this one will come
with the conversion we have seen going back to Mirage
Falcons when they didn't get the pistol they took the kill for Liko and just
had himself a plant we'll see if they're able to do something similar again
better looking by come round three it's done so well here hasn't he
around does it on his own in the 2v2
everyone does
nice way to deal with any funny business and if you have the bar, it's a little bit of a chance
it's a couple of bullets but you can run to Yuri
not a hundred percent sure but I think that the console they threw from spawn was
a bit skewy if I don't know if it covered it completely so not a concern
within that round it's more if we see that same one turn again does it land
could it be exploited now we're keeping eyes on that
two round gap how bad does it get for falcons
each other there you're in a molotov
made lands to stop the push
Serato very forward stance
perfect, that's him up
ok Serato knocks him down, check your suit, ok go on, empty hands
nice one back, Nico
finds an equalizer
pulls out forces to block smoke, pull it out, execute it, wait
That's a Heavens-
That's a Frank!
Hicks and Pats!
The reaction!
Two down!
Dropping into the canals!
And they can slow down!
Look at Yuri though!
The chesting couple swung!
Yeah, I love the elevations there.
And they know that Fallon was the man throwing the flashes on Ace,
and they should be able to just waltz into the site now,
get the bomb down without too much concern.
Nico making sure there's no push behind.
Hicks and Dealing with the hole,
and while Tessa has the policy,
responsible for protecting the package.
Bomb punched in.
42nd on the clock and round number seven for found kids. I mean that
Definitely confirmed. We're gonna have a competitive affair into our final half of the night. I
Wonder what the comms were there because
The execute coming through it fall inside all the smoking heaven the money
Maybe that's the trigger of why you kind of went you did drop right, but at the same time Fallen hadn't
Physically taken any contact
He knew there was a threat because he knew Niko played through the smoke to get that kill on the trade.
So just wanted to do a little bit too much, there was your kinder.
And that's how quick the passive cards can fall apart, so...
So we're gonna grind this one out.
This is weird.
Long can drop, more than we can buy.
Very good.
Now we're going straight in with the AWP.
Gonna be MP9 for Fallen
And odds of favoring Falcons
That one finders up back over the side of my little egg alongside you
Hey, she hasn't missed just yet
This one's very close combo.
Okay, well.
There's no more opportunities that Molo-Do is even going to get with this.
Where are they looking to find the finished bomb down the two stairs?
I'm going to see if the water flushing are ready for doors.
Now if he's close.
In case he gets into space.
We're up now trained.
So do we have a big patch up?
2 players close, same main. Niko might go down for free.
Kick some vines and open us, sure. Niko vulnerable if they were to search for main.
Gaser Atom and Fallen borrowed Deeper's look at Kyosuke and taking some liberties.
Flashed off the line. Fallen wasn't blind.
Niko hurts like that, his mouth is going to play a lot.
Okay. Kyosuke though, look at this flank.
Normally he tries to sell us a main fight.
Round one.
No one's looking.
You take both?
You take both.
Perfection from Kiyosuke.
He's taken some confidence.
He's taken some risk and it has been rewarded greatly.
Wiping the board here as well just in case we're able to find that...
Bom will be playing at 40 seconds to hunt this one now.
now 1900 into the next it is going to be a visual position for the fury to find themselves
there it is, Kisuke grabs another 17 and 9, another good map from the kid yeah fair play
back to bangers, mappers that's bangers and maps so yeah bangers and maps that's without
the order in yeah it's a British breakfast specialty mm-hmm okay it has to be the
the real way around it. Yeah, Molotoway doesn't get to even really use the AWP there, right?
The fact you get flanked and you jump-skate in that moment. The fullest of eats.
A pure, nuclear monocle.
Oh, yes! It's a wild place, Nade. An uneasy one to throw.
Tesla's been doing his homework. He went to NAE school.
I like that.
I don't like that.
It's not like that.
It was fun little combos we saw.
Yeah, they had good intentions.
That's alright.
Confirms the information, Bob goes down and
not even Falcons can use this one.
Yeah. I think this is one of the
unloosable rounds.
There's nothing that can go wrong.
wrong now quickly down to the kitchen here's a drink in the bathroom you come back in 35 seconds
nine eight in falcons favor in falcons in falcons favor yeah there's no question about that
isn't tempting fate one of the best things you can do isn't that it is a fun game it's like yeah
let's see especially when it's looking to impact us at all not even a little bit i don't have to
to play to play no we do it
okay it's fine and you get the AWP back we told the viewers just like we said
welcome back by the way if you got your drink now the guns coming again
probably camera tea time so I see that it's Monday night you're back at
work. You haven't a beer. Hold on before the conclusion of this anubis. Will the Molleroid
have another orb? Not right now. No homo-ly. No, I think you can investigate that. Oh
shit, Professor Rato combines his bullet with the HE to remove Kiyosuke.
The top performer removes 4 on 5 disadvantage to overcome for Falcons.
There it is, Ace of Ardham!
Really turned his game around, doesn't he? 19 and 12.
Yeah, just what we wanted to see.
Impacting two very key rounds. I understood they didn't convert after the pistol in the first half,
but able to get a line share of frags.
And he's going toe-to-toe on the scoreline right now with Kiyosuke.
How's Yuri playing this? If Moniz is going to be peeking in...
This is... This is exploitable if Moniz is quick on it.
Yeah, but it has to be... He can't just sweep, right? It has to be...
It has to be a bit more premeditated with the big...
Yeah, like this.
Yeah, like that.
Exactly like that.
Just like that. Suddenly, Fallen's got an awful lot of work to do.
You've just lost your kinder as well.
Fallen, you've got to step up to the plate.
dollars managed to isolate, gets around.
Tessus an important one back.
Already though, E-box pressure applied.
Molodoy spotted out.
Tessus in the one versus two, low HP,
but if he could just find Molodoy,
he'd have a shot at this.
Gap is closed.
He's on the reload.
He's just gonna run to his demise.
It's all too easy for Keisarato's third.
Frustrating ones of Stammer,
because you did get the way back in,
thanks to the Molodoy snipe.
Yeah, well these are the two we're talking about
in terms of the output of frags.
Well, without one, Keisarato gets a clutch
his name and just one more kill. He's there for the buy timeout taking number two from Zonic.
So that opening was led to be very brave a main and look if we can punish or not even punish. Just
show presidents to force out Util and two of them just get obliterated by K Sarato. So
he'd work from him to open and close that one. That dice here then it should have. So
pressure's still going to be on the finance of Furia. It's noted in Fallen just down to an MP9.
to the better of the bison inside of the Falcons server number two and number
three BRS make sense they're equally match yeah sure there's points on the
line for these teams I think be pretty tough to you have to have a real poor
patch results and I'll be at stage three of the major especially when
theory up so is the void of an American state
it's a little bit easier here
there we go, Molly back now they're playing
they're playing around this
that's missed
that's not what he was meant for
What?
I'm sure you can have an opportunity for an opening here.
How the shit is Clue?
Not aware that Molly hasn't landed.
Big way is past.
He's talking a lot.
Well, he's dancing sweet.
An alternative for an adopted.
He's got it again!
Yuri again on these jiggles.
Dangerous, they're ahead of you.
Caution, caught out.
Big one back from Molodoy.
Rotation in is quick.
It's swift.
Support for you, Kinder, now smoked off Temple's side.
Bollardway fires off a shot, but now Monty's just gonna be posted on the line.
You wanna repeat, he's ready for you.
Just as easy as that!
Looks like Double digits will be Falcons first.
Can I need to save this you, Kinder, in case you're out?
Gonna be a long old half here, 1900 into the next.
Fact that Monty's just being able to waltz in.
Oh, does he get to hold onto this?
Ahhhh!
Lucky to adjust as he straight out.
Body and view model. Obscuring the view there.
Still pinned in, still gonna be tough to be able to exit. Kicks it.
We had some very good arming after that initial kill.
What did you like about it?
It just...
I liked it.
He didn't because he knows that that's the player responsible for that space.
There is a lapse while somebody else has to cover this
And then he's able to get that second kill. Yeah, so fall and kind of you know still working on his response
Exactly, and so that's great for him kicks and just taking the space provided by this man on the screen who?
He's found that opening again. You think of yourself on this be defense
What I meant to do can we come and post our all on B and guys?
You know, let's not forget Belchinox law can't play two on B. Can't win around with two on B
It's it's he's right. He's never been more right
Since making full use of the 30 seconds burning that second time out makes sense.
This is it.
A full three map affair.
Going tip for tat.
And your money's weird.
Yeah, they're not going to buy behind the orb.
They're just going to...
So, I mean, here we tried on one side, he tried the other, I think they're going
to have to try...
That's what I'm saying.
buy behind the orb they're just so we tried one side he tried the other I think
they're gonna have to try that's why I'm saying bring the orb over to save the
orb they give it to Mollidoy everyone lightly invests to get 2400 into the
next so it's a weird time out the key is these smokes right now it's just you
can still win this round Mollidoy has an orb Mollidoy does have an orb and
they're flashing early a main does Marcy really want to be peeking back
back into this. Okay, there's the info. If I the shop, if I the shop. Okay. Orp located.
The key for me is the smokes. So Falcons as long as I'm sorry, Fury, excuse me, as long
as they block, Molotow can keep shots at the block. It's all right. Fallen gets the
smoke from the corpse and to pistol upgrade. So, the orb hasn't left the A-Side, just gone
a little bit passive. There's another one, so it's going to buy 20 seconds. So they really
want to get away and they don't have anybody available to investigate the other side of
the map. They are full gambling hay.
Quick rotation back through the canal, sure.
Is this the Falcon Drown?
I would be a hell of a round to let go.
One of the naked, fought by the flame, has to reposition.
He's making some diligent need.
And we hit a bullet while blind.
Got the rotate. It's alright. It's all good.
It's pretty convincing on ATVs though.
It felt like I was convinced.
Spirit thought it was A.
So did I.
It's all good.
11 to 9.
I feel like we've been here before.
This is eerily familiar.
What does Mirage taste very similar to what we're seeing?
Do you remember how that one ended?
Molotow gets to retain the AWP.
That's nice.
That is good.
Some bodyguards their names your kinder and fallen
If one of the bodyguards is off duty right now as long as I'm kind of solo mission someone else
Protected the behind just the buffer
That was the save behind the orp, so now the guns can come back in
all he has not landed in the playoffs two rounds away from Niko's birthday wish
if you can do hold up come on now good angle your kid is lucky to be alive
I've saved by a little bit of stone.
First, I've got to blow it up, I might kill.
Kezirado, he's been heroic.
Yeah, the fact that you're heading towards him, I mean, I will say,
having no nades on your belt as a solo A anchor doesn't feel good.
A bit of nades across the board.
Yeah.
Being juggled now from Molo-Doy onto your conduct, turning A presence again.
Donations.
Oh
Now that's gonna force you why to go bad
Just fine to say pavement. He's right down off the white. You're gonna be a hero doesn't have it in him
He has saved double entry out of Kia sukey has put 12
Okay
Fact Falcons of this close to getting past this after losing both pistols
It's incredible and then even that little mini resurgence from furia in the first half
So showing a little bit of poise on an oevis. Yeah, they only the second adding for furia on the new iteration
They won yesterday against foot. It could be one one in that column
Just arounds time and what's promising as well as in their wins
You've had Kyosuke and monosie, you know both kind of delivering. I think
She was mirage. I'm honestly really shocked at Kyosuke here in the wind the one
That's definitely, you know, really promising signs of development of the player.
Well, they've given it a space, right?
They've acknowledged that this guy has the raw ability.
He wants to flourish in it. He's doing so.
So, very good work from him.
Serious to remember right now.
And it'll be the first time you take down Fury up with this iteration of the roster.
So, this is the fifth time of asking.
All those games have been closed.
Yeah, even more impressive when you see it like that.
Okay, that's it all.
So Falcon's calling a tech and ready, maybe just a bit of the data sets.
Yeah, I can show you there is a comfy.
All right folks, three match and playoff points, he's gone.
He left, Tess has said he was ready.
He lied.
He did lie.
We can talk about the buys, we're not in an arena,
we're not worried about anyone hearing anything.
There is a double orb set up, all in, of course,
keeping mass.
Moldova, a bit of a non-factor, want to do this.
Well, in the few chances he's had to have an AWP.
It's been pure in the far between that.
And he hasn't had.
Remember that round, they went into E-box
and it was the Flash, HE, and he got Team Flash.
I do.
And then I think later in that round, he got flanked.
That was the same round, yeah.
So, it just, there hasn't been many opportunities
where he's been able to apply the trade.
One thing Maui was talking about is,
Monacy is very proficient on the rifles as well.
Like I think Yanko said he thinks Molotov maybe head-to-head in the all-ping battle might give it to Molotov
Where he's supposed to be the more complete player
We'll sit around restart the restart in excuse me is that Tess S
Let's rejoin the server and we are ready to get things underway. So I'm ticking down
10 second mark hit and is this it
Falcons finally get one over on fury up
We talked about playoff preview, well this would certainly spice things up as far as
the head to head is concerned.
Yeah, I'd like to see this one again.
What's it gonna be, Kicks?
So what's the call?
Molotovoy starts off towards a main once more.
So you think it's gonna walk or rather flash without the commitment?
Yeah, no, there's a boost.
Erect.
Kisuke, he relayed some info, you can see mouth moving.
up close. Caster Rato vs Niko not going to over commit.
Oof! Punished.
So we get him from Caster Rato to keep Fury's chances.
I'm honestly going to try and find a pick back on the jiggling Uri.
Just not Uri again.
Don't do it to him again.
Fallen's going to peek into him.
Oof! We was worried about the corner. Works out wonderfully.
Two-man advantage.
Even harder to deal with that bit now.
Fallen forced off of the firefighter shot.
Stand-through reveals his presence on main.
Look at that HP.
Four-bit of flank from the maid there.
Kisuke's still alive, so if anything can possible...
Oh, burnt out! Tessus punishes.
Now he can peek out.
Fallen, are you even missing shot?
Oh, we won't make that mistake.
solid work on the AWP here for Fallen.
Bomb, yes, is going towards A and it is a 1v1, but Cacerato's here in all of this.
He's tucked on Heaven, Kixson's not even considered that he's still here, and so easy close.
So the first of those three match points, Furious survive.
Well, take stock and plenty of cash.
Ten-cow, monosy before the buys come in, everyone else is sitting pretty as well.
So no issues, and they should be able to go gun round after gun round, unless we
go overtime again.
If you missed us on Mirage, that's where we found the conclusion of map number
one inferno. If you want to go watch Kisuke dominate banana with the assistance of Kixen,
you could probably do that in, I don't know, what was it about, 27 minutes or so. It was
Yeah, if you watch it on, like, 1.5 speed, even quicker.
We would sound silly.
Could be.
That's my recommendation.
Yeah. Solid.
A solid advice.
So the double orbs...
are now noted and carried through.
Same idea.
Yes, we...
are now behind us.
Now here, man, box, the boxes come through,
the catch of mine can't catch them.
The crawls are all...
I don't know where he's standing.
No, he's just limping to his K Serato.
He wants to keep that AK in his hands.
Okay, well then it's...
Suki has no idea.
Suki has no idea.
I can't consider this as an option.
He's been booked.
Kisuke with the opening, fallen forced off the react.
Kisuke, in-plane scared, but he just fallen.
He can interactivate up mid.
What?
They're past each other.
So now Tessus is absolutely unprepared for this,
He's unprepared for that so hang on who has more impact on the flanks flanks on flanks
Kingston's got a freebie on tomorrow. Doi, but he's playing the trigger discipline for more you can't reveals his there's one
Keep it a minute with the sniper
Solid open out of fallen man the old master mate. He's still got it. Yeah, he lost it
You come in the clutch. Can we say the same about the car? Oh, yeah, 1v3 30 seconds. I don't know
seconds the bomb down
He's got a smile on his face, someone's cracking jokes.
Case Serato vs Niko, heard him.
Advantage Case Serato.
He's got 10 seconds.
They're planting the smoke, Case Serato.
Just before it!
Ah!
Beautiful!
Two rounds in a row, he's been that nuisance with the bomb not going down, but remember,
But remember, it shouldn't be a problem, so they can go again.
But Fallen coming in absolutely clutched there.
Yuri has emerged at least three opening kills on the B site.
Just getting caught unawares all by Monosie.
It's one or the other.
And Fallen, that is a must-hit shot to stall out the progressions into the B site.
And then he gets another!
The spit around to deal with the temple flank
doesn't even look phased by that level of impact.
One more round and we'll push this one into OT.
I think this series deserves it.
Falcon's desperate to close it out in regulation.
We've had three opportunities,
neither of which have been rather convincing.
Certainly opportunities if Fallen wasn't so quick.
Here's his first of the tier two game.
There's so much pressure on that shot.
It's so good, it's so hard to input into words.
How important those kills are.
makes a little casual, yeah round defining, but it's a mouth defining.
One last attempt before we wind the slate in OT, OT.
Swing it a little bit more tense at your falcons, nobody wants to give away that
I don't even pick.
Hit this time.
Go.
Yes, you came, Kixen. Partner up.
Nice opening, but are you ready for your kinder's position?
It's not blind.
Double swing, perfect. Kixen does deliver.
A backstab onto your kinder, Furia off kilter.
break as well. Okay, well, do
you want to go towards Kcerato's
site? Do you really want to see if
he can find more than 26 in round
24? Here he's had a bit of a map.
Yeah, rough go at things.
This is where the screenshot
happens. Yeah, okay, this is the
mini map.
I think it's hard to overplay this
one. It's that two on B, Kcerato
on A. And the temples don't land,
still not perfect. In a way.
Rough around the edges, and they are looking to split the hate through middle.
So Keisarado, this is going to be some tough fights.
How's he got what it takes?
Jumping. Solid head shot. Not distracted! He destroys!
Needs something. Modesty does what the others couldn't.
That's surely it. Only Yuri, a rough day in the office on the third map of the series.
This 2-0 match, but looking to sail 3-0
on the other side of the bracket from Vitality.
Just kicks in, ready to receive Uriel,
the slow burst, Shahail Mary,
Falcons have bested the Demons of Uriel.
Fifth time's the charm, apparently.
It is, and I imagine Niko's jelly and ice cream
is gonna taste very nice tonight at his birthday party.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday again.
And indeed, I mean, look, it was another very solid game.
I have to say, Furia did probably leave themselves
with a bit too much to live.
Yeah, definitely.
And I think Kiyosuke doesn't need to buy Nikko anything.
He did enough on the silver today.
In terms of a birthday present,
it was much needed out of all things.
But yeah, I guess all the doubting
into the decision from Falcons to go for Anubis over Nuke
were in vain. I mean they showed a pretty strong game on this map on both sides actually.
Their CT side looked super solid too outside of them spiraling a little bit after losing
a couple of frustrating rounds but...
They're picking up 6 CT rounds without the pistol. It's usually enough to win the
map as it was in its old form.
Of course. I mean it was an impressive display from them. They were fairly active. I feel
like the T side in the way that they closed it out and I think they knew exactly
how they wanted to convert the majority of those ones. Obviously, there were some heroics
from some individual players from Furia, but in a rare case, I feel like through the tail
end of that, I felt like Falcons looked like the better, more well-composed team. I think
it was to me, just 10 caseurados bailed them out. Fallen bailed them out. It didn't
feel like it was as much of a deal for Furia there.
I mean, could also see why Maldor dislikes the map. Really, you know, when you got
I talked to him about how he would say that I hate this map for offers, and we were talking
about it.
Yeah, he might be up there with Monacy in terms of on the AWP, but Monacy clears him
so hard on rifles and everything else.
And this is a map that's a bit difficult for offers, especially on the CT side, right?
And Molodoy struggled to get anything going, really, and find the impact on this map
for free or free.
But speaking of a guy that was having some difficulties though.
Oh, I know what, here it comes.
Yeah, I mean, Yuri on that B bomb site, you know,
he went 10 rounds with no kill,
and frequently he was the first one that died.
He just got picked on completely,
and it didn't even really matter who was peeking him either.
I mean, a couple of times it was Monosie,
I think Kyosuke got the better of him at least once.
I mean, he was having a really, really rough day,
just trying to find a way to maintain any semblance
of info towards B main,
but you could see the jiggle peaks were getting caught out.
Even when he was kind of shifting up positions
on the platform itself, you'd get mullied out
and really had no sort of counter ready to go,
no smoke at the feet to put it out or anything like that.
And unfortunately, he was a traffic cone
in a dribbling exhibition.
Fair enough.
I mean, certainly the standout player again, Kisuke.
Look, a lot of superlatives point out to the kid.
I'll just ask you, Janko, in terms of all the attention he got when he came through for it to
kind of not be realized in that first year, I think people were expecting it to go a little bit
higher for him to creep into the top 20 for him to be named rookie of the year and it didn't
manifest. Do you think that means that we should have a reappraisal about just how good he
is or actually is he the truth? I don't think he was underrated really, you know, I don't
I don't think now we need to sort of sing his praises really for people to understand how good he is.
I think everyone is aware that he's an insanely good player, that his mechanics are really, really good.
It's just been about performing sometimes on the big stage and doing some of the big games, right?
Obviously he's had the infernal thing early on during his tenure in Falcons, which was always going to be a struggle.
And you know, people were picking on him and on Falcons on that map.
He definitely had something to do with a drop in his stats and what not, but I think you have to remember this kid.
This is his first tier 1 team, first time on an international team.
He has to communicate in English, which isn't easy for such a young player.
So it was always going to take time for him to get used to both of those teams.
Tier 1 CS on one hand and communicating in English on the other hand.
good news before you jump in there Maui we've got banks and the birthday boy
that's why Richard it is the birthday boy with us here as they go 3-0 through the
group stage finally beat Furia as well it seemed like you guys were very excited
from this win and I can understand why but does it feel like you kind of good
over a hurdle in some ways definitely definitely Furia has been a very tough
opponent for us the past seven eight months like since Cologne we weren't
able to beat him so even though it's just a group stage match it's still
nice confidence for the later on if you face them again. So it feels super nice, especially
after losing Mirage. It's good.
Talk to me about maybe the doubt that started to go into your mind and what the conversation
was after Mirage going into Inferno because obviously you picked it. It's about they've
been picking recently as well.
Yeah, I think it was a very tricky map pool to figure out versus them. Like I think maybe
they didn't even know what we're going to pick. We didn't really know what they
we're going to pick, there was a lot of options out there, so even the preface was a bit shaky,
but Mirage has been one of the most comfortable mess for us lately, so this is the reason why
we went for it, and every time we played them on Mirage, I feel like we lost in overtime, so we're
very close to beat them, but we just cannot find the extra, but I think overall we played very
well as a team on Mirage, and some of the key runs went their way, which helped them win
in the end, but also maybe if I would have played a little bit better on Mirage,
I could have had a bit more impact, maybe I could have got a small edge over them,
but it was easy to kind of just recover and go into Inferno because we played
pretty good on Mirage and we just said to ourselves that let's try to keep it
up and just do a little bit better and it should be enough. In terms of that,
right, when we spoke at the beginning of the event you said about some
of the things like Celtic communication and things like that, how better did
that feel now within these games you've played throughout the group stage?
Yeah, I mean, I think it's...
If I look at the whole group stage, I don't think it matters that much
because some of the matches that we have lost before
those were not matches to usually struggle.
So I think I'm very proud of how we, for example, bounced back
against FaZe yesterday on the Ancient.
That was a super clean map for us and we could have seen some improvements
in this and then today has been a, we can't expect to beat FURIA 2-0 and smash them.
They are one of the best teams, second best team in the world right now, behind Retality,
so we knew it was going to be a hard game, we had to play our A game in order to beat them.
And yeah, I could have seen all of improvements, especially now on Nubis's T side,
like we were crawling back and the rounds were, we were very patient and then we're
making sure that we execute properly together in the end, making sure that we apply pressure
for each other and so on, using the space when the space is given for us so I could have seen
a lot of improvements. Now yes it is a group stage but a super important game for us so now it's
about you know transitioning this to the playoffs. And now you finally get to enjoy your birthday
now the game is done. What's the team doing for you? Were they taking you? You got any plans?
Yeah I mean we didn't plan anything you know of course because we didn't know how the game
is gonna go and we didn't know when we're gonna finish. I don't even know what time it
it is right now, so it was a bit hard to plan what we're going to do, but I think now we
have a couple of days off and we're definitely going to do some small celebration tonight
with the team and with some close people that I have here as well. So I'm just super happy
that I can have this win now to celebrate the birthday as well, because I think if
you would have lost, it would not be as good. I would have to go back to the hotel
start preparing for tomorrow immediately and then that would be my birthday so
super happy with the win and now it's time to enjoy a little bit.
Enjoy it you deserve it thank you very much Nico Richard let's go back to you.
Yeah thanks so much James Nico mate we'll roll it back like the healing days
come to the hotel I'll see you at the bar.
Close people I don't know if you're invited.
Anyway, in the corner like JL during the graph. Wow
Anyway, no, let's talk about Falcons. I'll start with you on this Maui obviously three and oh and look
I think he pointed to something that I brought up in the pregame
Which was you know, I said they're like the money bags mouths in the sense that
mentality always seems to be their problem. They find a way to beat themselves and yet here they've been up against it in some series
Come back and course corrected against two very good teams
At this point Falcons has proved that they can beat every single other elite team
So there's no question about that
Whether they're able to do it in a playoff environment here at Cluj now with all the prestige building for the event when the lights are the brightest
That's a test that remains to be seen for them
However, the quality of play in this tournament thus far in this 3-0. It's been pretty damn sharp for my money
I feel like you know even in the lost maps there. They've been playing pretty darn good
It tells its own story what we're looking at on the screens right now, right?
The 3-0 teams is vitality in arguably the best team in the world
Falcons behind them mouse at 2-1 as a bit of a foo gazee and furia have really labored through it
So I mean in terms of what we've seen at this competition
I mean, I don't necessarily think that the winner between this between Falcons and fury would have really changed my ideas for the pecking order at this tournament because when we, you know, come play off time Falcons and fury are still extremely evenly matched just as this bout went by vitality just seems to be that bit of a step above everybody else in the circuit right now.
right now and then of course you have teams like MAUS who are kind of still
holding on to that elite status but one that feels a little bit less or more
toothless I guess. Yeah obviously we'll take a look at some of the results I
have today and see at home this is the Swiss bracket revealing everyone's path
and we should probably talk about the worst term eliminations today. Do you
You want to talk about that pain going out in 3D Max?
I mean, not a...
I'm going to say it, not too much of a surprise and I'm kind of relieved.
I mean, for me, it's classic 3D Max, right? They have a good tournament in Krakow,
getting to stage 2, you know, beating FaZe there, tough loss, you know,
because they lost to Vitality and then Falcons in that tournament that's going to eliminate them.
And then they come here and you want them to build on that just a little bit.
Maybe they can make the playoffs here because it's an 18 playoffs.
No, we're going to go 0-3, you lose 2-0 to Heroic,
who has a standing and doesn't have an opera on their team.
Like, it's just the same old same old.
They go to the next tournament or two tournaments from now
and they maybe make the playoffs right of something
or do well and it's just a recurring cycle
and pain, no surprise.
I mean, every tournament they attend of this caliber,
them winning a game is going to be difficult.
It's going to be a celebration in itself
if they take any wins because, I mean,
I just don't like how that,
I don't really like the direction
that either of those projects.
Don't worry, two months from now they'll replace VSM, replace Pyrrha, bring two more...
Say that snow is still the future of Brazilian Canada.
Two more other riflers, right, to fill those gaps and nothing will change.
Yeah, well, it's a shame, but we're glad that they came and we wish them a safe journey home.
Let's talk about tomorrow's schedule. This is what we've got coming up, you guys.
The action doesn't go anywhere. We had Valentine's Day just a few days ago.
Now, let's get ready for some heartbreak because obviously teams are going to be going home and all of these teams on your screen right now, you can see, would probably be thinking,
well, we want to be in those playoffs. You've got G2 down there taking on Heroic.
Yanko was stutely pointed out, Heroic using a stand-in and kind of not having their primary AWPer. Always difficult G2 though, looked a bit up and down.
Bait, obviously battling away, they're going to be taking on Aurora. We've talked about mentality a lot today.
Aurora are the most crumbly team in all of World Counter-Strike, still even with changes.
And FaZe vs. Astralis, talk about two teams that you just never know what you're going
to get, the proverbial box of chocolate skates.
Yeah, if anyone was waking up from a coma tomorrow, they'd think they're watching a
grand final, but we're far away from those days.
Well, how long that coma is, mate?
And I think especially, you know, looking at FaZe and the Paravision games today,
I didn't get to see it but following along the score line and everything you know phase after dominant win on their opponent's map pick and then going
You know to
Have a big league. Yeah, exactly not being able to close it out. I mean that's not gonna
Feel great and obviously the Sorals really want to prove themselves because they just put this roster together
It has some bright signs in the beginning
but if they just kind of crash out here in
Not that this is a soft format
but one that just gives you opportunities to prove yourself,
that's gonna feel pretty disappointing for Hooksy and the Bulls.
And I'd be shocked if Aurora and J2 don't when they're respecting games,
you know, I think they have a big advantage in those series.
And of course, because it's a PGL event, or are too strange,
which is what games you like, this is what's gonna be going on in the A-Stream,
this is what we'll be talking about.
So, working our way backwards,
Furia versus ParaVision,
my beloved PVision down there,
that I have put all of the chips on,
to say they will be in the playoffs, all right, it's tough, you're playing Furious, so...
Hey, they beat him before at the bounty.
True, true, thanks Maui, come on board the pg.
Navi Mongols is a rematch of the crack-out game, I believe as well, and then Mousefoot,
I'm so looking forward to that game, because Mouse feels like a wounded animal at this
point.
Listen, I'll tell you, not just a wounded animal in terms of what's happening on
the server what's happening in competition the community have turned from them they love them when
they were the former academy guys now has experienced ten year pros that seem always finishing the
top four and nothing else everyone's really mean your aura less got no aura they're the Cinderella
story without the happy ending yeah exactly just but just a girl looking for a shoe you just
turned into a pumpkin now yeah okay unfortunate any any final thoughts just cool to see a
of Falcons make it through 3-0. I mean, it gives you faith once again that this team
is coming back after a very disappointing crack out. Good for them.
Yeah, it was the bare minimum. I mean, not making the playoffs here would be a disaster.
So to do it in a convincing fashion, being a Fiora, who they struggled to beat,
you know, for a long time, that's going to feel good, gives them a couple of extra days to
rest, prepare, put some more practice in on Anubis perhaps. And yeah,
going to be exciting with those two teams already in the playoffs.
Alright boys, great hanging out. Thanks to all of you for tuning in. Remember, tomorrow we start two hours later, because obviously we've got one last best of three happening on each of the streams, but yes, that doesn't mean they're not going to be bangers, so make sure you tune in tomorrow. We'll see you then.
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