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[A] FURIA vs. Team Falcons - PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026 - Group Stage: Round 3 High Match (2-0)
02-17-2026 · 9h 56m
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That looks great, let's do it.
Oof, that gives him a chance at a kill, wonderful puns out there.
He's got a chance to just dogfile, walks it!
What he reconsiders to flank him as he goes back, Zantera's the help disadvantage gets
cleared!
goes big inside of the site.
Think about the start for Laura, not for that.
Oh, double headshot through the smoke.
Make it three.
Make it four.
Flashbang meant to slow things down.
Smoke will help them clear the graveyard.
Going to block off Pip, but I don't think he checks it.
Oh, OK.
Jumping in for headshot.
Wonderful reposition.
Delft with Swiftly, Wikipedia's the hero yet again.
Another 1v2.
Galloping their way to victory so far here on Ancient.
Alex taking down the 14 health, so his odds of the clutch go low,
but the flashbang, okay, low odds, but not impossible odds.
Or rather, 14 health.
This is not a lot for Alex to work with.
9-10's thinking rampant.
That anti's nail-fix! Unbelievable, Alex!
NPL's gonna strike the unexpected challenge down in through Khan, and NPL nails all of them!
Quad kill from NPL!
A fifth here, and Inya looking for the door.
Wow, NPL.
Rock solid stuff throws himself into the challenge.
He's got a whiz up next, but he's the map choice of mouse.
Oh.
Come on now.
Your name's not Ziloo.
Oh nice, we're wrapping it up.
Alright.
Oh, that makes sense.
Yeah, we really can.
And there it is!
35!
Georgie did find 8x in a new turn though.
Couple of their phase in this map.
Oh yeah, as you can.
On the three-volt, watch for Torgy.
Double-swing him.
He's first.
Ooh, Niko catches a quick tap.
Got a bit of that sniff up.
Never mind, honestly, he's ready to afford possession.
And Niko!
He's going to be caught on the edge of the smoke, well that is close to perfection.
He bailed out his team putting twist in a clutch.
That's a really nice way for this to start.
Twist!
Belchinov, okay. That's nice. Finally a man advantage right off the rim. Five people.
Oh, I'm turned. Belchinov finds another. And there's three of you carrying him. This is a Belchinov round. Through and through.
One away from the ace. 15 seconds. Fantastic in the clutches. Belchinov on for the ace.
He's pissed off his right now, and he's purr-flying for Belchinov.
Ah, great results here.
Jayman's sweaty.
Get past both of these pit players that are ready for Belchinov.
Yes, they are!
Carrigan!
Oh!
It's longer ataps.
That's what they say.
He goes back and he finds him all the time.
For the captain of FaZe.
The ground is nothing more than a train.
Move down!
Ah!
Good, getting at least one back in.
But he was the first position.
He goes back. He goes back.
Make sure it's just the one.
And so that bomb plant is going to go down front.
It's right top of the player's attic.
No longer.
Stabbing just around this corner, but actually,
everybody's off the base and he's got it!
There's a 5-7 coming in with another couple of kills
and can diggining a few...
Another 5-7! Oh my god!
We are past the halfway mark of the group stages here at PGL, Cluj, Napoca.
And today we are saying goodbye to even more teams.
We're seeing who gets into the playoffs and suddenly the heat is turned way up because
for some of these teams their last opportunity starts right now.
My name is Sam.
I'm going to be keeping you company for this first game joined on the desk with Dust and
Pimp and we are going to get into all the action coming up very soon.
But first let's talk about what happened yesterday because I think the match on everyone's minds
without a doubt Falcons versus Furia, a nice little taster of what could potentially happen
in the arena later this week.
There was a sick matchup, you know, and easily, in all honesty, becoming one of my favorite
matchups we have to offer in Counter Strike right now.
No doubt Furia is playing some beautiful Counter Strike and has been doing for quite some time.
I know Falcons, they kind of divide the waters, you know, some like them, some hate them for
each respective reasons, but we cannot take away the fact that what did you live at yesterday
was a separate right direction for Falcons.
Finally able to take down Furia in a very hard-bought battle.
I was not expecting it. To be completely honest, the first period had the upper hand in that
matchup and it had been having the upper hand for quite some time, but it was refreshing
to see that Falcons once again is competitive, not only against the teams below them, but
also against a team that I would rate higher than themselves.
Yeah, I mean, I would hold that this is something that kind of just fuels the confidence a little
bit for Falcons. You know, look, they've been a team that has been floating around the top
five of the lower rankings for a while. They've had some finals appearances, you know, some
semi-finals. You know, they've been in the mix, but they haven't been able to put a trophy
on the board in a very long time.
And yes, this is still the group stages.
Yes, we know that typically where Falcons falters
is whenever they're facing those critical moments
on the stage in big games.
But still, to get the monkey off your back
of being able to be a team that has been your nemesis
every time you've faced them up until now,
it's still a step in the right direction,
especially considering how badly they beat them
on one of these maps.
I mean, not only are you getting a win,
but you're getting at least one map
where you confidently win.
It's not even close.
And I think the biggest takeaway for me is also
we saw Q-Shooters having a fantastic series
You know impactful on all three maps came in on a new business world third deciding that and really getting good job done
So I feel like in terms of looking at at what is positive science for themselves
Well, we want to see a bit more from Kyusuke a lot of people highlighted him as you know the new dog
Etc. Etc. I don't think anyone can put a finger on what he's done so far in falcons
But he's slowly but surely ramping up and I think we all agree that falcons have remained competitive
Even after adding Kyusuke and if you imagine and play with the thought that he's getting five ten fifteen percent better over time
then we're starting to look at a team that is getting scarily good. So I think in that regard that was interesting to see having a
breakout series in the sense that he really dominated on three maps in a row.
I mean if you're looking at just this year alone
he's already a top 10 player in the world and he could be top five player in the world. I think you could easily make that argument.
I think that his trajectory right now is truly remarkable, especially in such an important position as an entry fragger.
You know how difficult it can be to find guys that can have an impact in that slot and he is doing it time and time again.
None of that matters though if they can't recreate that magic in a playoff.
True. That remains to be seen, you know, but at the very least they gave themselves a good chance now going 3-0, you know,
likely not to face, you know, the big dogs before we get into semi-finals, maybe in the final in terms of vitality.
So, if anything, Falcons should be happy, they should be proud.
They book a spot straight into the playoff together with Vitality, who also made minced meat out of mouse yesterday.
Not a big surprise.
What a banger grand final that could actually be, within being on opposite sides of the bracket now,
Because they both got into the 3-0 column, you know, it could be very interesting to see a vitality Falcons final
if they're able to navigate their way through the rest of the bracket, but they have at least taken that first step into getting there and
You know, that's what we talked about at this tournament with this and with the Swiss bracket best format ever best teams ever going great so far
Don't write off my boy Fallon just yet. Oh, you definitely could still do about a grand final
That name should be in that that name should be I was just saying that vitality Falcons would be a fun grand final
That's all I implied
What do we think about theory? Let's talk about theory obviously losing to Falcons and I'm going to be very happy with that
How have we felt about them during the course of of PGL Cluj?
I know a lot of people may misinterpret what I'm saying right now
And I think certain people don't even agree with what I'm saying right now
But when you look at Furia's matchups throughout 2026 a lot of them have been way more competitive than I would expect
The 2-0 against bait was a hyper competitive game should have lost one of the maps
They lose a map to foot, you know in a game that they could have lost as well
They lose to Falcons, they lost to Mathieu Huroik, they lost to Paravision at the Blast Grand Final.
All I'm saying is Furia is playing counter so I got a higher level and I have no doubt that once we get into the playoff
we usually see a different focus, a different level from Furia, but it's a team that's beatable.
It's a team everyone is looking at right now thinking that, listen, we can beat them on a good day,
they are not unbeatable, whereas when you face Falcons on a high, when you face Vitality at the moment,
you feel you almost lost the game before you even went into it.
So in that regard, I think Ferreira is a little bit more human here in the beginning of the
2026 season and I hope for them and everyone else to say that they step it up a little bit.
Be Parisian today and make people not doubt about the fact that they're still up there.
But in reality, when you look at all the matchups they played so far in 2026,
I think you could make a case that they could have lost more than they had.
I don't like where this conversation is going, so I'm just going to change the direction.
Let's talk about a team that I don't want to say they've disappointed because I didn't
have a lot of expectations for them but 3D Max not a single map win in this
tournament and now they've gone home. Take something to be worse than a straw
this is so welcome. Listen it used to be that there were only certain things
guaranteed to us in live Sam and many of them still are death taxes those are a
couple of the big ones but the other one that you could always count on is that
3D Max would place 9 to 12 plays they get a game when they're here they're in
the group stage they probably wouldn't make playoffs but they at least kind of
whole position. They are like the kings of like just being on the teeter-totter of VRS
where they do just well enough to keep getting advice on the tier one tournaments
but actually having zero chance of all the pros and cons in the cabinet.
And this is a marked decline now because now you're seeing them place dead last in this tournament
as you said then they get a single map and look I can forgive them for their opening loss
like they played against Falcons first of all not mistaken, lost that game though too.
Fair enough, you cannot be losing to Herolit. They are losing, they're using the stand-in oper.
The youngster, who they bitched, it was a rifle, they bought them back to off because they can't get off there in here.
They're changing in-game leaders. They're, you know, pivoting a lot. They are in such tough spots.
So for you to lose O2 to this team, I'm sorry, but like, this 3D Max team has bored me for a really long time.
And they have to make changes at some point. They absolutely have to.
It is a bit of a shame because I think throughout 2025, again, whether you were bought by them or not, I agree,
you know, they were constantly on the cusp of doing something.
And I think the way they portrayed themselves as well was a team that, hey, listen, our aspirations is to get into the playoffs.
our aspirations is to be a factor in modern day and age Counter-Strike, but as of recently,
the last three or four months, you know, it's just not been great for 3D Max. And it's hard to
see where they're going to go from here again, which being about the daily scene struggling to
foster new talent, I think the same could be said for French Counter-Strike. I don't have the names
at hand who I think could go in and make that team significantly better. So I think they find
themselves in a struggles and period where, yes, changes will most likely happen unless they turn
in the next couple of tournaments.
The issue is as well with VRS, if you fall down, there's a good chance you're not getting
invites for the rest of the year.
Yeah, and then you make a change and then you fall even further down.
It's a loop with no end in that regard, which is why I think more teams are cautious about
making the changes, but it's a dangerous place to be for 3D Max.
Let's talk about the Cinderella story of this event, because this is a team that wasn't
even supposed to be here.
They took legacy spots, footers come in, and there was a lot of conversation around this
lineup.
the Na'vi Academy lineup. For anyone who watches TF2, if you're one of those CCT viewers, like you've
seen this team for a while, you knew how much hype was around them. But they've come in here,
and they look incredible. They've really made an impact. Absolutely. I mean, they're a team that's
somewhat akin to like a Power Vision or a bait where, you know, they did all the right things in
kind of the tier two scene to build their way up. You know, they were doing really well online,
they did a lot of some smaller events. They won one of the Draculands, for example, over a passion
U.A. and then inner circle and ends and some of these other teams that kind of
float around that side of the scene. And then, you know, at Crap Howl, they were
able to make it past the play-in, beating legacy, beating liquid. They get to the
main event, they beat Furia 2-0. That was probably the match that really got
the scene everyone's radar. Everyone was aware this scene had some skilled players
because of their time in the Navi Academy system, but there are more and more
now proven that they can actually go to total to lead level composition. I mean,
they nearly 2-0ed Furia again at this tournament. That overpass game was very
much up for grabs and all those over times, and they do have a lot of talent
across the board and like the average age of the team is like 19 years old or
something like that. Like there's a lot of potential for this squad.
Yeah we get to speak more about football as we get to see them in our first matchup of the day as well.
But I think it's also a bit of a reality check for Astralis you know. I think a lot of people were
looking at this new international roster and thinking oh maybe they're trending
upwards. Maybe there's certain interesting prospects in this team and I
would tend to agree that I like the fact that they finally stayed away from
Danish Counter-Strike and you know staying with Danish players because we
simply can't foster the talents as of now. But it's a project that has really
come off to a good start. I think for Astralis to lose is one thing to foot,
but to do it in this fashion, where it looked like two teams who weren't even on
the same planet, it's a reality check and it's probably a sign as well that
Astralis are not ready for a playoff of a tournament of this caliber, whereas they
would have to grind maybe the CCTs that we saw foot do earlier in 2025. So in
that regard, a little bit disappointing on the side of Astralis. For foot though,
you know, I said it coming into the season, I think they are the most
interesting team to break through. I think they are the most interesting
prospect out of all of them right now and you know they spoke about you know
sitting in a room together saying we want to play together we want to stick
together as you said the average age of the team is 19.2 right so a young team
with a lot of potential and it feels like they're getting better game by game.
So we get a chance to see them but let's take a look at what you'll see on the
B stream first these are the matchups that are going down today three games
for you and obviously a lot of deciders in the mix.
FaZe vs. Strahlus. Someone has to win.
Someone has to win, right? And someone else would.
Yeah, it's just a tough matchup.
You know, I think Faze have looked like night and day, you know,
and all fairness, they've had a couple of maps to this tournament
where you think to yourself, all right, Faze, you're back to play,
but they're super inconsistent.
So in terms of the peak, definitely higher than Astralis,
but I guess in that specific matchup, it's about, you know,
I guess performing over the course of three, four hours,
because I could see that go all the way,
all the three maps will probably be used
because none of them right now are consistent.
Dude, that Beta Rora game is really sticking out to me
because what a disaster class it could be for Aurora if they lose that series and it's very possible because Bait does have some talent
They could put up a really good fight in that series. So that's really one to keep an eye on in my opinion
Yeah, and you could say the same for G2. I feel like realistically they're heading into that game versus Heroic
Would I say nothing to win obviously winning keeps them alive in the tournament, but they cannot afford to lose against
Oh, yeah, playing what I stand in and I think G2 as I said, they'll make the reverse shoot
They'll go from 0-2 and then make the playoff and I think beating Heroic in the process is something we should expect
It's basically every game from today is the one that you need to watch. That's what's gonna start happening
And that's kind of the bucee of the format that we have here. Let's take a look at what you can see right here on this stream now
Furia Paravision at the end of the day
I think Navi Mongols a bit of a cracker as well
But I want to draw your attention to that first game because that is the one we're focusing in on right now
our foot up against Maus.
And this is the one time where I feel pretty strongly
that we could see an upset.
I think that this is an opportunity for Foot
to really complete that Cinderella story, win this game,
and find themselves in the arena,
and what a story that would be.
What a statement that is to make.
Absolutely.
I mean, we've already kind of set the table a little bit
on how they've leveled up to get to this tournament, right?
And as you noted, it was a big opportunity
that came last second,
because originally they weren't going to be here.
Well boy, had they seized that moment, right?
Coming in, making a big statement when against Aurora.
Yeah, not one of the best teams in the world these days,
but still a respectable opponent.
Again, they took Furia to the brink.
They won the opening map.
They took the overpass into multiple overtimes.
Nearly won that game.
Could have 2-0ed Furia there.
And then they absolutely tore Astralis apart yesterday.
I know that every time I say a word about how badly
Footbeat Astralis, just another part of Pimp dies
on the inside, but the reality is,
is that they destroyed them 2-0,
and their worst rated player was 1.35.
That was their worst rated player.
That's how bad they beat Astralis and man oh man, they have really just been impressing
me.
That's your man a mistake there.
You thought that pin fails anything.
Oh, that's true.
Yeah, forgot about that.
But look at the results on your screen right here.
I think that's the most impressive thing to me and every single match I've played throughout
the year almost, but especially at this tournament, they remain competitive.
Like they never lay down, they never lose a map without a big fight.
They lose a map to Aurora and overtime, sure.
You lose a map to Furia and triple overtime, sure.
That's the two maps you lost so far in this tournament.
In that regard, I really appreciate the fact that they're always coming in, you know, and remain competitive.
I also do think it's a team that, as we saw per the ranking, they're only going to go up.
You know, this is a team that we haven't seen the best of yet.
It's a young squad, 19.2 years of age on average.
As you can see right here, it's a young bunch of dudes, you know, 17, 20, 18, 18.
You'd argue that there's maybe not too much experience within the team,
but I think it's a team that have gained that experience by grinding through the CCT, by grinding games together.
And you build experience by playing Counter-Strike,
and it's maybe a little bit underrated,
and this day and age where you see the top tier teams,
they would like to avoid playing any online Counter-Strike,
right, it doesn't matter, it doesn't count, yadi, yadi, yadi.
All I'm saying is, back from my time in playing,
the best practice you get is official games,
and when you're grinding out like these guys
have been doing for half a year,
I'm not surprised they're looking who's gonna stay out.
Other than incredible fragging capability in this lineup,
what else does Foot bring to the server?
You know what I like?
I like how explosive they are,
and how I think that it can be a blessing and a curse because maybe sometimes
are overly relying on that maybe they're mid-rounding when things slow down is a
little bit weaker but this is a team that is just so fearless like sometimes
whenever you get young guys like this who are inexperienced at the land and
when I say inexperienced at land up until September of last year
cemetery and demon never played a land for in their life that was recorded on
hltv and the rest of the team also doesn't have that much of an experience
but they didn't let that deter them from still playing the explosive play style
that they're known for in the online environment. I can't tell you how many
teams I've watched over the year, Sam, that I see you have this confident, quick, in-your-face
explosive CS, and then the moment that they get to a land stage, all those chairs, just like that,
all of a sudden, things get a little bit tenet, things get a little bit dicey, they crack under
pressure, they get mowed over by other teams. This team stands up for what they believe in,
and then what they believe in is playing that fiery counter-strike, and so that's what I love
about this team. It's just, it's very coordinated, it's very decisive, and they're all together as one
unit. I think it's a fair point to mention, obviously, you know, being a young team, you're
You're always going to be aggressive.
You're always going to play to your strengths.
But I think if you want to dive a bit deeper,
then you look at how experienced they feel like when they're playing, right?
We just saw the HWT 19.2.
I think whenever they find themselves in a 2v2 and a 3v3 scenario,
I take away the name plates.
I take away the fact that I know it's a young squad.
I think they play with a lot of experience.
It's almost like they express themselves on the server,
you know, being older, being more experienced,
being more calm than perhaps in reality are.
And I don't know if that comes from the players,
it comes from Culeo, the coach behind them,
I also think is a name we need to start paying attention to what he's been able to do with this rustling
What he's doing right now is mega impressive, but I think that's the way I want to frame them. Yes, they're young
Yes, they're aggressive. I very much agree with all that
But if anything, I think they look like a team that play with more experience that they actually have
So James did have a chance to chat to this team a little bit
And he mentioned to me three of the players talking to him all confidently said we think that our play style
Matches up to miles in such a way that we'll be able to take them down
may feel very confident that this is the perfect matchup for them to make it through to playoffs.
How do you think this matchup plays out on the server knowing what we know about
Mars and the amount of experience that this lineup brings?
I think it's very easy right now to almost underestimate
Maus a little bit. I know a lot of people are growing tired of the fact they can't
beat Vitality, of the fact that some people would even argue they occupy spots in the
playoffs without making any use out of them. I don't think that's fair to say at all,
the fact that they're constantly getting into the playoffs every single tournament.
and they also remain competitive in most of those series,
it's a testament to how good Maus is.
If anything for me, they're still a clear favorite in this matchup.
Yes, I agree, FOOT have the capabilities,
especially in a group stage game, to maybe apply pressure
and who knows if they can make an upset, but make no mistake,
you know, whether you like Maus or not,
whether you think it's a borrowing team or it's a team that's stagnated,
whether you think it's hard to get excited about them
because we know everything there is to know about them,
it's still a quality counter strike team,
it's still one of the best teams in the world
and I still fully expect them to beat FOOT.
It's hard to bet against a team that has 12 top four finishes in the last year, as well as a trophy in the cabinet at the very last Cluj de Poco that we played last year.
They are a consistent force, and as you said, maybe they crumble against Vitality. Maybe they have the struggles against Spirit and Falcons.
You know, maybe the moment hits them whenever they hit the big stage, but they are group stage sports for a reason.
This is a team that does not really slip up very often in moments like this one.
They do have wider distributed talent.
They do have a good enough map pool to do it.
But kind of going back to what you were saying, Sam,
like the way this thing matches up,
I think Foot definitely get a map in the series.
I think that there are some clear gaps in Mouses' map pool
that Foot can exploit with some of their strengths.
And I think that a map three is very, very likely
in the series.
And I wouldn't put it past Foot to beat this team.
They've proved they can beat these teams.
They've beaten for a year before.
They've beaten the phase.
They've beaten the liquid.
They've beaten some teams.
Mouse granted on a higher level than all those teams
I just said except for furia. So yeah, it's very much in the cars that they could do this
That's the thing though would mouse, you know when when we see them play so much
It's very hard to to I guess reinvent something to talk about or tell a story that you haven't heard before
But one player that's been stepping it up at this tournament is the man on your screen right here, Roland
He's had a great great great tournament so far. He's only played seven maps sure
But he's way above his normal rating way above his normal level. He's actually delivering old Roland back
Let's wait and see it's a small sample size
but there's a big difference between posting a 1.13 raining and a 0.89, which has been doing for the best majority of last year.
So if I'm looking at Maus, the only thing that's changed coming into this tournament is that the in-game leader of Brolin is having a better fighting output.
And I like to see that, you know, because as we spoke about, if Maus wants to win a trophy, if they want to claim the title once more here in inclusion and poker,
something has to change. And right now we're not seeing a big change in performance from Torci and performances from Xerxion for that matter.
But the one player that's actually stepped up to education and who is the highest rated in-game leader of the tournament so far is Brolin
So maybe that's something to look out for and see how they develop
I wonder if some of apex's taunting last night is kind of lit a fire into Mars's ass and today
They like that anger allows them to kind of bring a little bit more fire to the server if you like
Well, who's not bringing fire to the server right now that's version bro
Because look I mean this is a graphic that me and Jacob were kind of putting together and Jacob was kind of the one that
Alerts me to the rating trend
You know, you can clearly see that this guy is just not playing at the same level that he used to and it's been a steady decline
But you know if we could pop that back up and potentially the other big thing that I particularly noticed
And that's been the most really striking and most dangerous part of really that whole decline is the fact that he is the main entry
Fraggard this team and unlike some other squads that may have like a secondary guy who can fulfill the role their primary entry
Is not on target now
It's really rely on Zershny goes for some of the highest amount of entry attempts
We see of any entry fragger on any team in the world, but his success rate has such
rapidly declined particularly over the last few to six months. I mean again it's
just really really sad to see how far it's gone down. It is, it is and it's
something to look out for. Again you'd also argue that Exersion you know maybe
haunted a bit by the fact that he's playing the best teams in the world
consistently. He's always in the playoffs, he's always facing the
fatalities, the furriests etc etc so comparing his stats to someone else may
be a bit degenerous but we did talk about him you know having to be a player
that would take that extra step and make Maus a title contender once again. If
If anything, I think the only player who's consistently delivering what we expect every
single game, every single tournament, is Spinks.
I think he's Mr. Consistent within the mouse game.
I'd almost argue that he's a bit like Keisarato in that.
You can always count on him.
Now, sometimes would you seem to be a bit more impactful in the game, a bit more aggressive?
Would you call him a beta?
Sure, we're going to have those conversations.
But I think overall, the output he's having within mouse is fantastic.
I think he's doing his job to a high degree and you can always count on Spinks showing
up.
He's the closest thing to a star player they got.
Right?
This is the puts up a good ratings very good trade fragger on T side plays from star seat positions very very well
But now I get to the pick man and this is why I think that this matches interesting because inferno is very clearly the map that mouse
Have used to a good degree. It's one of their best fast
They're not going to get it in the series mouse obviously been a new bus if I'm foot
I'm going for ancient or mirage as soon as possible because those are very marked weaknesses for mouse sports that foot play very very well
I think that one of those two maps is going to be a map that foot should win in this series
They have elected to go for Mirage overpass. No surprise there for mouse sports. They should be favored there
There that's what their second best after inferno
But we've also seen flit go toe to toe with one of the best in fury on this map this tournament
And I think that's a very very smart ban coming out there for mouse sports because that was their other weakness
That was available to foot curious if their math is going to be well not new does too in the mix
Oh, it's a little bit. I like that. It's a common ground for both teams
I agree with you Mirage would be the go-to pick look how many times foot have played at 12
wins two losses, it's a map that grinding 24 seven, but also a map where there's a lot
of data, also a map where there's a lot of information on and a map that heavily relies
on what foot is good at, what is aiming, going for duals and especially a map where
exertion will be put to the test.
When you take a look at some of these stats, is it important to also produce the caveat
of the fact that the level of opposition foot plays versus the level of opposition mouse
plays is very different.
So when we go, well, Maus has only had two wins.
Yes, but look at who they're playing against.
That's why it's so easy to get carried away in this matchup
because I agree, FUT is a great team.
And I agree, FUT definitely stands a chance of beating Maus,
but it is still two teams who are operating on different levels.
It's a team that is new to playing in this environment.
It's a team that is new to being, having this much attention.
It's also a team that is new to being interested at this level.
Now you're getting up against Maus,
you're going up against Furia,
you're going up against some of the best teams
that will start to prepare for you
as if you were an equal competitor,
most likely not the case in the beginning.
So there's a lot of things that is changing right now
for footwear as we know from what is a known quality.
Yeah, I mean, what I like about footwear on Mirage,
is the fact that this is one of the maps
where we talked about some of the other maps
that are a little bit limited on their playbook,
they're a little bit more reliant on faster pace plays,
and you're gonna see playing that Mirage too.
They do like to run their 4-1 splits, their fast set pieces,
but they do actually have some really good
different default variations to control middle,
to overload one side of the extremities
with multiple players and kind of do pressure.
They actually have a couple of really cool fakes
them use this tournament already. So they're just really well rounded on this team compared to some
of the other maps. And I think the other big thing that's going to help out foot in this series is
that Malice have really struggled on Mirage lately for honest. They've lost their last seven out of
12 games and they are sporting a 38% winner on the T side the last six months. That is abysmal.
Like that's one of the worst T side brainings I've ever seen from an elite team on a map that
they actively play regularly. So those are some things that foot can exploit in this matchup.
Let's wrap this up nicely. Put a bow on it. Competitive series, but probably we'll go the
the way of mouse. I think it's hard to make an argument for mouse not being the favorites in
this one but I also do think it's hard to make an argument for why food wouldn't be able to push
them all the way to the limit. That's what they're done to Furia, that's what they're done to every
single team they've played so far. A team I feel is getting better and better and better but we are
looking at a mouse that have consistently been performing at a high level in group states so
I have no reason to say that they wouldn't win this one. Whether that's going to be a 2-0 or 2-1
time will have to be seen but I think mouse is the clear cut favorite for me still regardless of
of how excited I am about foot. I'm excited about foot too. I think Mirage is definitely
not that they can win in the series. I think overpass is going to be a tough ask for them.
But with Dust 2 being the last map in the pool, let's be honest, mouse didn't play
that map for an entire season. They just started playing it again this year and it's not looked
good. Meanwhile, foot not too shabby on Dust 2. So that's another vulnerability that that
isn't a guaranteed thing there for mouse sports in my opinion. So I think, you know, if I'm
mouse stealing Mirage to make sure we never get the Dust 2, it's going to have to be their
formula.
I'm very excited about is we have a little bit of a morning surprise for you two faces
You don't always get to see in the morning sponge and machine
Good morning
To get to 12 before they brought us in right so which you know before that so it is morning and gaming hours
Yes, definitely
Yeah, so we're very stimulated by this conversation. I'm all for some foot glazing so I'm on board but boys if mouse
Don't win here. Surely. This is the cracks studying the show of this team. Yeah, sure
They have to win this they were the most consistent team of last year besides vitality, and I do expect them to win
Yes, I also echo Jacob sentiments right like as in there's no reason they couldn't but if your mouse if you are the mouse
We know which is can't be vitality can be everyone else
Should be should be a reset now. It's all those things were like the mouse sports thing
It's like it's just become a boring story like we know what they're capable of another a top five team in the world
We know they're gonna at least make some he follows the majority of the time
But it's just like when are they finally gonna break through and actually put a trophy in the cabinet?
was how they did it last time. You think we're bored. You know, imagine miles. Yeah. Well,
it's the breakthrough or breakdown, right? That's it has to be one of those framings
at some point. Either something has to change or nothing changes. Nothing changes. Nothing
changes. Yeah, that's the one. Nothing ever good enough for us. They make consistent playoffs
and we're like, well, now you're boring. But you're either a winner or you're a loser.
There's only one winner, right? That's just a philosopher today. It is some profound
knowledge perspective. If you're 3D max, you'd love to be mouse sports. If you're mouse
sports, you want to eventually be vitality. Damn, now, now, see, what do you got?
Yo, I'm just, you know, it's nothing. Sometimes you got a you got a paddle so you can cycle.
Yeah, no, I'm having I'm having my own crusade against this, you know, if you know when you're
shit, you know, it's the same treatment Falcons is getting it's the same treatment
mouse is getting. I think it's very impressive to be arguably the most consistent. Yeah,
that's out of vitality. So yes, I agree. It would be nice if mouse changed, but I'm not
bought by the fact that it consistently better than pretty much everyone else.
It's good to be good.
It is god stop it now, that's it.
Alright, let's get into it.
Here we go, Mirage.
Woo! Okay, I'm really excited for this matchup.
I think the scene has been beautifully set by the panel.
And foot, shoot hard.
Yes, confirmed.
So we're going to see if they can shoot their way into a pistol win.
Cop this one, right?
Nine out of 14 series this year, they have picked Mirage.
Okay, a home turf.
B's empty. You don't have to shoot them if they're not here.
But the young aim is... Oh, the garage. Jimmy has found a real gift there, hasn't he?
Just taps off the head of last.
Well, they were playing retakes and things get even easier.
They have two smokes, two flashes and a HE for the retake.
Oh, they've even got a nice smoke so you read them running into Demon's Glock.
Oh, it's a horrible feeling. Short must play first.
Surely, yeah. Torsche's boosted up and looking.
looking spots for Benny does put him down to one HP and a very likely finish
him off with a trap note seven takes heavy damage jugs removed version from
the market site thinks advancing does need to find it but caught by crap Benny
I'm here now it's nice shot again from crab any on that one HP he's got two kills
seen out for on that low HP no chance of rolling also while we have him on
screen. Another important fact. It'd be, I would say this will be the biggest win for
foot. Contextually speaking, obviously they're beaten Furia, but this one would book them
into playoffs, right? So that's huge. And Longs, Romanian. One of the two. Means a lot for him.
Yeah. I'll be up a little bit later today. I'll have Emma in the server.
And then you get that freebie right there. Good output from Jugzee. You can see him just jumping,
wiggling while flashed. Those are not to go down. And then Crebeni, good output after that low HP.
So there's the pistol round. Let's see how much more they can get.
It is the force for Maus, to Famous's 3MP9s in a little jaunt up mid.
Nobody tending to this at the moment, at least not from top mid. It's underpass with two.
It's really ready to come out a ramp.
I like the call.
It isn't going to be a fair, a fun fight for Long's Famous at range.
Ah, no head armor.
Profiting.
Okay, Kribani.
He doesn't know he's being flanked right now.
This is tough. Why I don't see how crumb any wins this it does feel almost impossible doesn't that Jimmy's position is just so sound
He's done a lot in this round
You're not clearing it Jimmy just I mean position
Yeah, I mean I'm gonna bring the energy to this is the thing they're just they're not playing vitality
That's why every man and their dog would say that witness one and again. This is not to discredit foot
I'm enjoying the story to the team you're seeing on screen of Mao's about to find a time the Academy team
Talk, right? That's what everyone would say. Oh, that's the next team before that
Now you have now the Academy aka foot and they're exciting. They're fun to watch they've got some
This is this is the problem I have I would like to see Mao's not bring the energy
I just take care of business.
Can you save the energy for vitality?
Act like Mongols when they're winning.
Yeah.
I hope this is nothing.
It is obviously something.
Certainly.
They are the reigning champs here in Cluj.
But you are undoubtedly playing as the favorite here.
I just hate the contrast.
I guess it's hard to have energy while you're losing.
Oh, it's got a slug-locking key.
He tracks his head nicely.
If you go ahead and shot from the cemetery, D,
you can then make a D-cho.
He's gonna find himself a car.
BALL! He's done very well!
Falls into the clutch for Torgie.
Surely you can save mouths here, but it's an awp.
It could go wrong. It could so easily go wrong.
Cemetery incapable with the M4 on stairs.
Torgie tries to investigate the smoke to no avail.
Let's them play.
I will go down.
I really want to give away the AWP right now.
The bomb has been planted.
The flight comes your way, sure, but I'm just giving this one a look.
Jokes is deagle ready to kill's deep and cemeteries will lay the info is top ticket.
They're playing for the round.
Ask the safe.
Connected and that is the end of the round. Okay, just a couple of shots there
I felt that that one was insurmountable foot it did
I mean, you know, it kind of all fell into place at losing the short player cemetery hits that that distracts jugs manages to adjust
You might lose the orp. I mean, it's not gonna be easy
It's an AWP down a free upgrade available. Thank you very much Wow, okay
Hey, force by wars will continue.
Now's a buy back in and continue to battle
for the economic control right now,
but that's a tough one.
It's interesting, right?
Because that fight that comes in from George.
We're gonna catch it in the replay.
This is great from cemetery.
It goes, okay, well,
24 seems unwhittable now,
because the low HP,
scarfs the shot,
rolling, strakes out to guard exertion.
He's low, a stray bullet,
and then a clean one.
It's that second one to exertion
that's the difference maker.
But here it is, the buy back in,
M4 Pundas, upgraded pistols, Pundas scout, and it's great to see already showing a little bit of tenacity up for it.
Being able to win the four spies back.
Gonna convince the guest all those well.
So if you can get out on top of this one, you can start to lay down the law.
What's it gonna be behind the AWP and leading away the bomb?
So, I feel like they're committing.
Yeah, big rotation on the ground.
That's what Mal is doing.
We'll show the bomb.
We'll back off.
Then you double made, I can catch someone's reaction.
Now, Spinks has played as Smaith.
That's smart and safe.
It's new words we're working on.
It's a commentary dictionary. It's harder for you at home to follow,
but easier for us to say.
But yeah, Smaith move, for sure.
The only issue I have with this, and the reason that maybe I feel it wasn't just a play to show the bomb,
is they didn't take any space.
Yeah, there wasn't anything that you could have to do.
There was nobody who could go and take a risk.
now they've actually got info back Jimmy's at van he's calling apartments
clear and well they brought it back to the right site now's prepared for this
this is a proper wrestling match for the early control finances out on a
torgy miss shot on the scout will not get a second opportunity sticks look at
the wrong way staring at the box boost doesn't work out either for exertion
sure he's found jugs, but the century's just what?
Well, four-page shot through a wall, and I have to see if we can catch that.
He was ramp or tetris when he made the shot?
Looking at the X's, yeah, uh-huh.
Wow, Jay, once again on the ball.
So yeah, okay.
Mr. Raz, call that one.
All right, stunner is three to one.
You know how the finance is now, and yeah, should be good for four.
Let's look at tidy and this is their own turf overpass up next and we cast one of their maps on overpass a little bit earlier in the tournament and
When the rounds get late you can see there's some second guessing yank also puts like I on Twitter where showing like little details giving my two D steps
Especially against the two
That's uh while we have this eco coming up next. I want to draw people's attention to an interview that was done with flamesy
HOTV
This was after their victory yesterday to secure themselves spot in the playoffs and there's a pun here regarding
the match-ups with Maus and Flamesey, he likes to talk a lot so he gives a long answer.
So in the third paragraph of the answers to this one question which is regarding the match-up,
the head-to-head, he goes to say, I'm not sure because there were 70 rumors that they looked
to switch players. Some players wanted to leave so if internally they have these things in mind,
I think it makes you weaker as a team inside.
When the game gets tougher, it's a bit harder to get back into the game.
You're not like you, Nip. That kind of...
Five fingers on of a fist.
Yeah, I think they've tried to...
Keep a Unified front, at least as far as interviews have gone with Maus,
and it just seems more of the same dialogue, which is all you can really do,
but it's not about what you're posturing, it's about the reality of inside, right?
It's exactly what Flamie's saying here, because if there is any doubt,
Don't forget to plant down a mid-flash over.
Off in.
One kill, but it should be fine.
I think he's going to die.
He knows how to pass.
He can play for the gig.
He gets himself forward towards underpass and that B-Round can be helped by Stunny.
Okay, hold up.
He does have to catch jugs and equip himself with a rifle, so this can...
There is grounds for this to fall.
He's just a head-jull, yeah?
He's got Jimmy.
He gets two chances, Demon. Bests him.
I haven't picked a side just yet. Oh, this will make the decision for you.
I think they're going to want this fight.
And you know, Zershin's probably going to engage.
There you go. So, he's secure.
Xershin should likely just hold on to this.
It's such a tough conversation in the modern game at the moment
with the mouse problem, because, yeah, they're a very good team.
They are extremely consistent, constantly making playoffs, deep runs.
It's when you see at least the last two outings against Vitality, there's a lot to be desired,
especially when you know the level of counter strike they can play when they're on point.
That's why I'm saying if today they lose to Fudd, I think it's a sign of finally the
damn breaking.
Yeah, right.
And again, once a discredited Fudd, I think they're very exciting.
I'm on team making some noise because they do add the fourth round to the tally on their
see how.
I did see a quote as well where a player who's played against Foot recently said that they
are Foot.
Oh, it was Maga.
Maga, that's right.
So they shoot harder than some of the bigger names.
Yes.
So that one wasn't necessarily well received by the community, but regardless, that's just,
You know, the way I perceive that and the way I like process that is that for Maja, he felt like, oh, these kids are, you know, these are demons.
Yes.
These guys can shoot incredibly hard.
I think that if anything, he was just trying to praise Foot, not necessarily trying to discredit the others.
I understand why it was misconstrued.
Well, I think as well when it comes from Maja, we're like, okay, listen, old man, and everyone shoots hard to you, right?
So, it is a funny one, but yeah, this is a team that definitely has a lot to give.
It's just finding a bit more experience and that's going to come, right?
They are high up in the rankings.
They should continue to get invites down the stretch, just discussing how they weren't even meant to be here.
Obviously, legacy pulling out and then filling the void and looking competitive.
The fact you're in a 2-1 game, you get a free swing right now at Maus.
You don't win it.
Well, you go into tomorrow.
You have one more opportunity to get this man in the arena
Friday, we've got the four best of threes for the quarterfinals. It makes sense
Saturday the semis
Third place to Cider and Grand Final on that Sunday in a best of five
That's some good matches yesterday. Obviously Vitality walking over now's was reinforcing what we already knew
But Furia versus Falcons is finally getting that win over Furia on the fifth time of asking
Big on the opposite side of the bracket now from Vitality could be a banger final plenty of good finals available
Obviously spirit not here opting
up to come
Halley admitting he didn't expect all the big names to be here. So mistakes are made
Think when you see the field you want to be here especially with the roster changes to spirits of their loss
So 10th issue
That's actually what the music implies, that's actually them fixing it right now.
Well at PGA people don't know but they've actually got these micro-robots that they send into
the computer.
Do they send them in?
Because the future is now controlled by an AI.
Yes.
You must keep the AI on our side.
Everything gets sorted just like that.
As far as all the faces, things are going well right now.
When did foot first land on your radar? When were they a team to keep an eye on?
Certainly, it was only when they lost Maccazzi, he got promoted to the main squad of Na'Vi,
then they became four, and then it was a CAC last year in the second season. So they
hadn't Mishuta for a while, and then they brought in Longs. Now, I think when you're
the academy team, you're not getting the opportunities to play at the same events as the main team.
So they were essentially liberated by the fact that Na'Vi let them go and Mikazi got
promoted.
Otherwise, you just would have been grinding.
And slowly picked apart by Na'Vi.
Potentially.
Yeah.
So Mikazi was the one that Na'Vi saw the most.
That would be a great game, wouldn't it, for a 2-2.
Foot versus Na'Vi, Mikazi versus the academy squad he was a part of.
That would be fun.
better in the playoffs. You know, either way. And Mongols would have to be
Navi today. Yes, I saw, uh, I don't know how true this is, I mean double check, but
I think Mara's pug account got, uh, bad for smurfing a little bit earlier, so.
It didn't have him. That was a smurf, huh? No, we need to get down to the bottom of that, don't we?
Well, I don't think he was the one doing the smurfing. We're back. A 4-1 start, solid as a
a rock foot of one out of the early force by war but the guns back out for miles.
Standard opener, nothing too crazy, flashed at the ready front roll and a hook up middle.
Here it comes, steps to the swing.
Nobody home, a lot of you to invest in, it's nothing right now.
Gonna make it a little bit harder to block, we've just gone sub 130.
Two players ready to pounce out of palace, demon and jugs, bomb will be joining them, that's the back of Cemetery.
Krebeni will be coming up the ramp and on the lurk will be longs.
It's insane that all three players coming out of palace get a kill.
It is.
AWP opened up and then the two rifles...
But like it couldn't be better, right?
That's the Bishbosh bash that Counter Shrike's been talking about.
Yeah!
And here comes Bingo Bango!
It's the GME keeps holding his rifle at least,
get some self-in-up grade and a fancy Molochoff.
Fancy one.
That's a fancy one.
I think...
Look, it's the better one.
I think the CT one's the fancier one.
You're right, as it has been to like, you know,
that was made in a factory as opposed to like someone's bedroom.
But it's, you know, it's that homemade feel.
Okay, yeah.
It's artisanal.
Yeah, we're trying to get away from the big manufacturers, 2026.
Yeah.
Big things yourself.
Pick and set the area.
Terrorist's win.
5-1.
All right, boys.
I loved the fact that the AWP has got the first as well, just sets them up for success
because it goes, oh, AWP powers, you're not immediately, you know, adjusting ready for
the fight.
Jug swings out.
Cycler.
And Cyclone into the timeout.
Yeah, okay
Yeah, you don't want to see this spiral if you're standing behind the mouse squad
I think the best bit this is gonna sound like such a stupid thing. That's fine
I either I don't mind the best way for foot to win this series is to make sure when they're in a dominant position they keep
Dominating right they don't they don't allow mouse to get back in because once the game gets into
to 10, 10, or overtime.
That's where we will see
Maus with the experience take over.
But if you're able to keep them mentally in the mud
and feeling like they're not in the game,
getting more and more frustrated,
you don't give them an option,
you don't give them a fire starter,
a spark to get back in, you can topple them.
So right now, if you own Mirage,
which is still very early,
this is only what the second real gun round for Maus.
That's how you do it, Georgie.
Just go down to the early aggressive.
They're looking at A execute, but if they do it now, they will not have the palace case.
And they've been blocked.
Okay, so this is the first kind of road bump you've hit. You've lost an opening kill.
So now you'd want to go back for map control. Or at least that's an option.
But if you do, you don't know if they're pushed up near it, if they're pushed under paths or B apps.
They're really looking down on this A side. The op will tuck in to default.
in here, hang up close as well, and you've got exertion. So they're aware nothing middle,
but Benny's heading back over to sell something to at least keep them interested. It does
Probably make the play.
Thank you, well, nice.
That's when it's a launch, and that exertion
knocked down demon.
It's more or less from mouse.
I have to admit, he pushed from seven trees.
He gave it a really good go.
Yeah?
Well, I'm going to lose everything, aren't I?
Then he can't find a kill, and that'll
all five stand alive off the back of the Cyclo time-out so he likes that.
Orp searches, Panless gets the opening kill, they then put the orb deep in the side to worry about Conn.
The connector player exertion plays with the A to fend up the Earth-focused ramp,
to remove any of the play and it's just a three-round game. So just something, don't let the foot off the gas,
Maus bring the fight and show that they are here to play. So three AKs brought in,
It's gonna bolst up forward and look at Sharpen.
Roland's view model makes it look like he's a very lengthy man.
I look at it again.
Yeah, it is a long AK-47.
Okay, so, I think it shows something a little bit different this time.
Well, they might just want to try the same strategy,
not expecting the power search with the AWP.
the rolling, aggressive ramp again.
So, game leader for Maus, making a lot of moves early,
staying active, informing his team with info.
It's one of the things the desk also pointed out,
is that Foot have a lot of tape on this.
So, are there holes that Zip and Cycran are able to find
in terms of tendencies to inform their decisions?
And something also for a young team like Foot,
to continue to reinvent the wheel, it's gonna be tough.
You're being put under the microscope,
out more than ever and by better teams and players.
trying to keep people eyes on middle jimmy
very well transfers into number two
double headshot in defense short acknowledge space position where about
noted quick one from the sniper cemetery provides
and what access to the site now long as a smoke what's he plans
they're gonna come from three different vantage points
Just look like you're probably working on the apartment crawl.
Longs is jumping up.
Will you consider this?
Oh, Torgy catches one through market window.
Oh!
Big one from Longs!
That could be the round winner.
Certainly could be.
He's actually now rounding that short corner.
No one's going to be presenting themselves and I think you're right.
I think you're right.
That is the kill.
That is the difference maker.
I felt like Longs was getting caught off guard there, right?
For sure.
Running into the elephant foot.
But happy to hit the shot and then the immediate repost.
You see exertion still worried about the v-apartments. That's not the case and then they're backing off. So after that Jimmy double look like trouble, but
Yeah, yeah, so does salvage it
It's good to see what happened
I believe towards you blew up in the connector smoke and exertion was there in concert the fight
So maybe it was just mistimed once favoring foot on this one, but six rounds T side already
Looking good. How many more can they out on top those sags come through a bike and follow for mouse
of his own and he does spot the elbow, he's a dead man, great opening kill, Speaks attempted
trade provided that acknowledgment though that he's not on site, heavy shot, long to
spray them both down, round! Save it Gameboy, it's time to get out of there.
He wants back to back ground with round closers.
Spicy.
So, Proveni saw it sitting an awful lot there in middle, and they've just initiated me off of that.
So, normally we're seeing them go island box or tap parthing. He's just played straight down the ramp, and exertion's gonna be...
kicking himself there, just elbow sticking out.
The betterment of the jewel.
He was so fast on it.
You're gonna expect him to have had to in order to have the confidence to be that far progressed and fighting exertion
You expect multiple bodies they react and the b-side a little too open
I mean, yeah, I'm gonna sound like a broken record, but foot or a fun team a very exciting prospect
Beautiful okay
Look how many bomb explosions they are just getting into these sites. Yeah, well that's you know a top squad
I think on the other side of that is there's been saves right so so mouse
Once they lose these sites, they know they can't get back in and that's what's keeping them competitive in the bite apartment
Right now it's about salvaging this so three rounds left before we get to halftime
You're gonna want all of these if you mouse you've posted nothing consecutive one of the rounds you've won
It was a force fight. That's what should have got you back into the game early with round number two
See here the various forecast foot very high up in the rankings already and
A lot of points in line for them could propel them into the top ten
So this team they continue in this trajectory gonna be a certainty for the major just one stage
Said speaks does remove Kibani. I can't be again
That looks like they want to try and test Jimmy's sight.
Distinguish your guns.
Yeah, he's got the HE reaction.
Plays out a smoke, gives you a smart shift, and a nice portable frag.
Torch it. That's his one.
Took the move, and that's number two, demon.
Fall down just through the edge of the wall there.
Jimmy's even got the angle for the rest.
You can just tidy this one up and finish it.
Is that a treat? Give some stuff to him.
Ooooooooh! Quick onto Torgy! Swaps out to the 8k and he wants... he's playing like he wants to win this!
He's playing like he's gonna shock them if a Spitz has already hit one into their head! Denies any more hopes and dreams of a crazy clutch!
Valid attempt though and a nice one onto Torgy.
So, Krobeni not getting away with the same exploits in mid-lanterns as Space to draw all the bodies.
He goes down and they can focus fire towards B.
So, you two being so deep here, you see that's the peppering.
And then they get extinguished and gone, but because it's a long runway, I think that's how deep that molly was.
It's a long way downtown. It's a great second shot, it's...
Ah, shooting, but...
Coach Cooleo, he wants more on this T-half.
It's gonna take right now a timeout before the bank balance is completely rumbled, and they have to operate with very little going into the next.
So, a good time to take it, before the finances are bled out.
No cemetery AWP, 4 AKs, Digglefoot, Krebhany, and I imagine it will have to be a little bit of a different approach, whether that's the pacing, or that's more bodies to help Krebhany in middle.
Something towards A on Torji.
Okay, so this tells me they're expecting an execute. No, they're expecting a starting ticket.
They're reading an A play.
Spinks is going to be going for a cheeky smoke right here.
Ah, the bag!
Beautiful!
Teamplay on display.
Demon, just claw one back by removing the window player.
Is that right, that is what you expect from Mouse?
Yes.
Ooh, that's not what you expect from him.
I think it's window smoke.
Jim is going to go for a little bit of a play on his own.
That's his jugs.
That's good.
He's got in and he should be dead.
Jimmy's going to be kicking himself.
How's he let that go?
They can pivot now, it really opens up options for a B finish, the bomb is on its way.
Oh-oh!
Nice, the timing on that!
The activity leaps and hunts down demon before he can round the corner.
Another miss smoke.
Couple of these.
They're looking a bit funky.
A bit of a bumpy ride, and for Benny in the clutch, has managed to get our attention with one-on-two exertion roll on however.
I'm ready for this, take that turn to him, and Maus will make it four to seven.
Yeah, and should be five, right?
So the lost bonus piping in right now of only 1,900.
This is suffering from your own successes for foot in this first half.
So this final round will be Tech Nine Heavy.
Smoke break, flash, beautiful start to the Maus round.
Yeah.
It gets a bit exciting after Jimmy struggling to win out the one on one.
Yeah, well, demon ready.
He's just thinking, I've heard Bees clear.
I need a back half towards you in the window. I'm just watching that timing unfold
Toys he drops out a moment later demons away. Yeah, so he drops out a moment sooner demons looking at it. It's really
my type
Hello conservation
by the ticket player as well.
I don't seem to find that much cleanly nice shot from 4G.
Minimal pixels visible, still removes symmetry.
Now this is another highlight from the desk
talking about Brolin's output.
And he's continuing to find impact as Long's left in 8.
Tough 1v3 as he's gone around the world.
Is it 3CT or the murder hole?
Either way, could get past Jimmy or Torgy.
And the bomb down, highlighted here
over towards the A ramp.
Jimmy's just looked towards the vent, so he's ahead on the timing.
But still, if he gets the first kill, all good, but now they know where he is.
Oh.
No, still, though, has managed to find Torgy.
Rollins gonna rumble him.
I think so.
The power position just doesn't set up the maze.
Okay, a recovery from Maus.
Three consecutive rounds to end out their defensive half.
Still, competitive game.
Looks like Maus have kind of reminded themselves who they are in the tail end of the half.
Yeah, and this is where I think it starts to get a whole lot tougher for the foot.
Again, it's a very, very good T side.
Des was discussing some of the deficiencies for Maus on Mirage in recent times.
But I think this is more about just playing to the caliber of the individuals in the server,
right?
If you are, Maus, you know that you're an elite level team, so you need to just play
like one.
It sounds again reductive, but a lot of counter strike is mental because we know what they're
able to do.
We've seen it.
We've seen it now for a year straight.
It's been impressive.
Shuiya, Brown taking over as in game leader, Sphinx comes in, gives them a little bit of
winning pedigree, but only one trophy to know because of that, maybe not because of that,
but since that.
It's a little bit of the lower
stakes in the sense that if you
do lose this, you play again
tomorrow, but for that's when the
pressure will start to get on top
of them. That's why I'm thinking
this could be the biggest win for
them so far.
There's a golden opportunity to
feel like you get some repair on
your chest.
Opportunity for playoffs and
taking down a big name and a
whole lot of points as we
discussed.
you discussed.
Right, quick!
And I think the people are ready, you've done well to find something.
Well they know he's been boosted.
Yeah, Graven is hoping that he can still win out.
There's a little laser clear there, but it doesn't cost him.
From uncovered by Spinks.
We're accessing to the site.
Certains eat jugs.
This is the one with the kit.
still. Chance for cemetery if you get that first one tap. Double swing, mouth playing
as they should. Convincing.
Alright, well that'll be just a one round gap. Jugg's hanging around having a look but
I don't think he's going to get too much down here. Kill will be nice, sure, but that blinds
added a bite. Jimmy, the timing and great work. So, that demon does well to get one
sure but Krebbeni not getting anything in that rotation being quite far away. I felt
they had the early signal now it's the uphill battle. Some of you have already boarded with the
scouts so that's going to be a pause by. That's up. Draveni not set up for success after the
death coming in so early not able to establish the tools they were looking for.
Well it's a foot's turn to try and win out of force after losing the T side pistol.
We're going to be clearing Palace foot, so at least playing for early infoes, seeing that nobody's home.
They hang around, or do they back off? Well, they're only going pretty deep, as they're about to have this mid-game problem.
It's still too early to understand what the finish is.
So, Cropani is playing to contain, so they're selling A because of that forward position.
The biggest nightmare is going to be a connector to ammo move from mouse.
The other side could be in the right place.
Remember with this there's always the bailout.
Exertion likely in the middle slash connector.
And if they take too much resistance coming up short, they just dip back and go to A.
The symmetry would last, but the tension on his feet will hide as well, nails him first
on to parol and that way he falls to the grid court.
No, Torgie gets double entry, jumping out of the apartment as well, Long's hoping to
be overlooked, but Lid still wins it.
Long is blind and now they realise that Diggy's off the boat here, no ammo for him, Long jumps
off, perfect dismount still, high octane action, Krobenny the late arrival.
I think Jimmy may have done enough by removing Jigs on site, Zershin's gonna plant.
Ooh, Krebberny does get to start his pull.
Oh, that gap, Jimmy Pinkson.
So they run into the stack and win out anyway.
Yeah, Juggs there just throwing some guns at that back pillar,
so I'm able to get a weapon out
to be able to take the fights he was hoping for.
And now it will have to be the eco.
Double Galil entry out of Torgy.
Good to see him rocking the rifle.
Yeah, so tough with the last fight.
Here's one bullet left, just like,
well, I am going to die.
I'll do my very, very best.
Hero M4. Alright, so keep it a little bit spiced in the mix, Foot.
We're going to make sure the mounds continue to work for their money.
So the logic here is just to avoid going down
with five alive for mounds. Is that the plan?
Getting something. Well, because it's a surprise, it is winnable.
Right? It seems unlikely, but give it a go.
Especially if this angle is cool, because you won't see it from Delphan.
No helmet! Spectius knocks him off his roost!
Oh, is my max ammo like that?
Yeah, same.
Ah, the no head armour. That's the downside.
The team that, on their T side, buy rifles with head armour.
Without head armour the most, excuse me.
But when I'm watching them play, the amount of times I'm like,
okay, yeah, they're in Galil armour utility range,
it's like, no, I'll buy an AK.
I just, it just baffles.
That's the new gen, you know?
It, yeah.
I think it's, it's sure you back your reign, but yeah,
I don't know.
Sometimes I see it and I just question it.
All right, well, that would just be able to put this one in now,
that hero M4.
Absolutely nothing done and now it's looking to keep all five alive,
so very well-handled from them.
Thank you very much, Spinks.
He solves that mystery for them before they even go going.
Yeah, so some good moments from Jimmy,
Brolin within the first half,
Spinks now with an important one.
Sure, that's not in range, if anybody was hoping to get his hands on it.
Task has just become a whole lot more difficult right now.
Well, handled the last two rounds for a mouse, not rushing the play and when they're dealt
with the stack hitting the necessary shots, so they take the lead for the first time.
Good stuff, diligent stuff.
Playing together, teamwork in the late stages, even when you're just up against one, knowing they're on the live-by.
Now back in things in the driver's seat.
see. Yeah, that happened so
quick. Didn't that? All right.
Well, Longs will now have to
operate with an MP9. Cemetery
does get out of the AWP.
Four players ready to find mid.
Cemetery's holding the town cross, she's selling an A fake early, so just draw us the
gap and look, preventing you from crying now, worried about A and not Kinecta.
Ooh, Cemetery's open, the ladder's been spotted.
Tryna hunt it down.
Big name!
She's just f*****g f*****g fashion.
She's very f*****g ass, yeah, you aren't expecting someone so cheeky to push it so
quickly.
I say pushing actually interesting to see the demons continue to push the
apartments we're hearing some of this yeah okay so he's gonna have so much
info they'll get a little bit of a read that is gonna have longs borrowing deep
into the ramp with an MP9 which is good for him
not ready for this Jimmy attempted to drag him to come and clean and he first
provide massive frank from Jimmy stops things from spiraling for Benny is
running knife out to make sure he can respond to B.
Torchy may have heard this from the vent.
Oh wow, he finds Torchy cleanly as well.
Nishdoff is Torchy's all.
Genie vs. Krobeny, big...
Harry!
Oh!
The adjusts!
Jimmy has the jump on him!
Crazy from Krobeny!
Jokes to swing.
Oh, he's isolated that jewel.
Guess the Infanterjugs as well.
still grounds for a potential clutch. If Spinks can pull this one off, it would be nuts.
That's the plan. Let him make the move.
Just don't give it a fight, because he will take it and he'll win it.
One on one. One hell of a redemption tour here from Spinks on the clutch and calling the bluff and longs.
This is cool. This is calm and he like it. Well, collect.
Denies the Spinks 1v3. A massive round from foot and very, you know, unique.
That's got a very particular smell. That's special.
How have you got so much info off a demon apps push to reactions?
Krobenny's reactions to Jimmy, the trade from Jimmy, so much action in that one.
There's a coming in right here to get him to open up.
I thought they were going to get caught off the scale of the cemetery.
Canary is a whole mine, this one.
And then sticking around, do a good trade work.
Tumbling that kill to Krobenny considering the moments Jimmy's been having.
He's had two where he's had advantages now and dropped them.
But still, 17 and 8, it's hard to fault him.
Doing an awful lot.
That was a very costly round coming down to 1v1.
Longst was able to get back to the AWP before the round expired.
Cemetery gets that again.
Need to win consecutive to break him out.
Playing for a mid-fight.
Longst's sandwich, Juggs for Benia.
But we're going to accelerate through Connector for a fight
with Demon on short because the ball, over towards B,
has the deep line. So returning to A, a lot of Util for the execute. But the Mollies their
desire to one find its way into Sandwich has a smoke to go for an extinguisher. It's all
going to happen very quick for Longs. Jugs has a Mollie and a flash to try and help Krubenny
with no Util. So they're going to be behind this smoke or they cannot break. You need
Longs to do some damage right now as Krubenny makes his way over towards Ticket but he might
be a bit late to the party now they're playing full retake
extinguished situation as well why demon does well too late on mid
It's demon sandwiched in versus three.
They lose it all right now.
I don't really want to go back through the smoke, surely.
Do you see if you can find anything?
There's a kit just to the right of demon.
It's a great response, Brolin, not playing scared.
Yeah, I like to see that's Nasty from Mausetown in some of these fights.
There's that kit I was talking about, demon not able to get back.
It was going to be such a tough round, especially when they're being diligent
with the Sandwich Molly.
Long says Pope and in praying that doesn't happen
so he can be a disruptor on the way in.
I mean, how many times, how many multi kills have we seen
in the course of Counter-Strike
where they just don't throw the Molly
and it's overlooked, the lazy Clare, and the Colts and Clare.
So, it's Molly's for both of those fights, right?
It's the Sandwich one to force him away
and then it's the one to prevent him.
He doesn't have a smoke, he's committed
and as he runs away, he gets taken down.
So, a tough one to swallow is they do save the AK.
Second tactical timeout call from Coolio,
so operating with a very little.
So they want to try and force in this situation.
Stranger things have happened.
It'll probably be the Mongols mantra,
but I think take the light by
and go full investment into the next
to get everything you need.
That round, you're a little bit hamstrung, right?
Longs wins out the 1v1 against Spinks.
That was a 1v3.
Spinks did a good job to limit it, right?
That's where impacting the round from Spinks.
Sure, it doesn't convert the round,
but it's fell into the next.
And now those ramifications bleed through
into that following.
So all connected and counter strike,
even though we're contained round at a time.
Now you want to have an idea,
last time they had a hero rifle in the mix,
it was a boost on short and not obliterated.
I've been invested in many smokes,
so it's going to be hard to channel the house.
So over towards eight,
you say, okay, longs are here,
and unfortunately for longs,
it feels like they're coming his way.
Yeah, no fun allowed for longs in this one, right?
Cemetery's coming over, but still the two of them.
Just with pistols.
You can get under the window, maybe there's a chance.
With this 5-7.
5-7's a perfect weapon for it, plenty of bullets.
Ow, but the Zash's got the perfect weapon.
Saster, reload his magma there.
Oh, looks a long way.
Perfect entry, Parvin, from exertion.
It's going to put mouse on the double digits.
The team is going to hold on to this, and this is what you expect from mouse.
So after such a tough start to the game, they were down 2-7,
sandwiched the half 5-7, went out the pistol,
you have one blemish on the record that you almost won off a 1v3,
and now you're running away with it.
So this is it.
This is what we know this team is capable of, looking to make another playoffs.
Yeah, you can see the changing the tie, the shift of momentum.
This one round in the last patch.
And this is somewhat of what I was discussing about not letting it back in.
It felt like it was going to have to be dominant for foot.
And it was up to the point.
It no longer is.
They did just take that light investment.
Now we'll see the guns.
Cemetery can get an AWP.
Demon has this AK.
Everything they need is the odds now favoring mouths and understandably so.
They're in control of this and now it's just about parking it in.
The one kit brought in and that's on the AWPer.
So they lose sight control to keep an eye on that clock where it might just be another save.
are the selfless from spring so maybe he's got a plan without Mac 10 like the
way it felt
is an exertion the
outlaw to demon look for answers middle
really system from breaking that miss most so trying to get numbers
act 10 will have a chance to shred again longs preventing and demon all
without head armor
The boost again, okay, well.
And Sphinx has a mag 10 again, but they've got helmets this time, right?
No, no, no, just said that, they don't have them.
They're not very helpful.
Maybe he could have any help if he was making a response here.
Oh, maybe not as he goes leaping out the window to give him the opening
He's so worried about a site execute. He's just made classic in-game leader move. It's quiet
I'm concerned about too many things on the map. Let's get on. I'm not in a position where I'm able to help them
So let me inform them as that jumping out to his demise. Even though there's only
30 seconds left on the clock. It feels like this would be mouses every day of the week
would require a multi now to keep things competitive. Jugs, towards A with Cemetery's AWP, and that's where they're splitting.
Let's get a cheeky around the smoke, because actually you managed to get past them.
He's gonna have multiple targets.
And the back's turned info-flowin', Jimmy's gonna have to push it.
It's going multi-girls, only the two, Cemetery and the Clutch.
One versus three goes 1v2 instantaneously.
You're now really gonna be threatening with that smoke on the bomb.
You will get a little nervous.
I think you might want to do more than just sit and ram, smoke, fade.
Space is really unloading. He's trying to get info onto the second.
It's towards you, Ram. It looks like he's gonna be peeking towards you, Ram.
Surely you want to get on it, but now the smoke is gonna fade.
You've lost your opportunity just have to hit this one and won't be able to do it when he sets himself up nicely
And so some threatening
Closes some clutches get close, but he will secure it and deny the only way he wins that if he sits it
Yeah, you know the smoke comes in these he's not winning it
Otherwise, I think he got fortunate that there was the reroute back to ramp from Torji, but
Otherwise that was always gonna be a tough one to play out
especially against a team like Maus. The final tactical timeout call from Foote.
Considering that's how it started, it did get close, but I feel like Maus
control of this the entire time nice comes low tense thanks getting a pat on the
back for that and oh wow be stream update on the right close your eyes if
you want to see I think that's no surprise really is it not at this point
and I actually I never thought it would happen I didn't think it was possible
Like this new Astralis roster are exciting to me.
Okay.
It's nice to see Yabi playing well.
I like this tournament.
I think he's not been playing well at this tournament.
Has he not?
No, I think he snaps with pretty bad people.
We'll have it a bit of a jibber jabber.
Oh, well, I mean, I was referencing this tournament.
I haven't seen him play once.
But, you know, Ryu's an exciting prospect as well on the rifle.
last chance to get into the game right now from foot see if Krabani wants to jump out
the window again I think he should maybe you'll get a better time yeah but this has
just been a very contained T side from mouse it hasn't really required any bells and whistles
It's default, we get the mid control. Once we establish that, we group up, we go for the finish together, and it's been very tempered, right?
They're not in too much of a rush, we're down to 40 seconds again. They know they've got full control over foot.
Russia applied.
Yay, side.
Fanny swings into Zershin.
The jump is going to fight him. Yep, not able to find the second Jimmy good on the trade.
Cemetery court without a right to the scope of Masterful.
Back to roundup exertion.
Just falls nicely into place for Malz and their 12th round.
Jimmy and exertion getting a fight between them.
It's just late to a lot of those fights, not ready for it, right?
Even though they had the signal in the connector with the Krebbeni fight.
And again, it'll be another one of these with the lost bonus in play.
So Mirage, about to go against Foot.
This has been their home map.
This has been the map they've been picking more often than not
and especially when available.
Yeah, and it has been historically very good for them.
Now it's just a cut above Jimmy in form.
They've picked up 13 consecutive wins on Mirage.
So this is a counter me snapped, unfortunately.
Time to see them be able to battle back in for 4 straight to take us to overtime.
I'm sure there's 13 consecutive not all against the best in the world, but the last couple they definitely have been Astralis Furia Aurora Astralis due to Furia
That's names that you know in love
Jimmy versus Jugs
Spinks starts to throw out this one man
Nile of the jungle side
Oh, but it's a dink.
I don't think the damage he was hoping for.
Wow.
Just the tip of his items.
It doesn't matter. God, I assumed he was covered.
Just a self-inequalizer.
Let's watch him on some long-sass ticket.
Gone. Just cemetery here on the side with someone.
Somewhat of a voice.
Yep. Oh, the flash stocks!
The spray!
Nice one from Jimmy in response.
Puts us into a demon clutch.
I think that's such a great example of what we were talking about in the pre-show.
Obviously if you take what Sponge just said, first time in Man's Foot's Lost Mirage, different
level of opposition that you're playing against a playoff team now a team that regularly makes playoff said they do bring a
Higher ceiling so this match not just a playoff team
But a team that is exactly the most consistent group stage team out of all the teams in the world together with right
I believe who's dominating in that regard so yeah, you can make that case
You know and be like it wasn't a bad performance wasn't a bad game
You're leading 72 in the first half as well
You're making the game a bit messy in the beginning as well you win pistol lose round
You're kind of dragging mouse down to your own level in a way that is positive for you,
that is beneficial for you, and then yet you're still not able to convert it into a victory.
And I really like your mouse, you know, in control here in the second half as well.
So in that regard, I think I kind of got what I expected.
As I said, I know a lot of people are very high on foot right now, and I am also hyped
about them.
But I think there's a limitation to how much we can allow ourselves to expect from a team
that is still new in this match.
No, that's a really fair point to make and look I think foot put themselves in the position to pull it off
I mean, I think the rounds they got on the T side were really good
They basically do what we talked about in the pregame they play very decisive. They're very fearless
They just kind of grab up and go and they're very good exchanging and spacing together to make sure they're not giving away
Anyone we want or anything along those lines
But unfortunately when we switch over to the defensive side, which is where I really thought that foot would thrive
You know, we mentioned mouse have really struggled offensively on mirage for some time now
I really thought that, you know, the anchoring of demon and Jews, you know, usually is very solid on a map like this one to see them both
Not perform to the level that we expect out of them was definitely very damning
It seemed like cemetery was really the only guy who was consistently putting up numbers defensively on that one and
Just a couple of like weird mishaps that I think their nerve got to them
You know, there was one round for instance second half where Cabinny just jumps out window under two people underneath him
For really no reason at all other than then try to get information
I guess, but he did it so carelessly and he gave away an advantage and it's just one of those things where
You could see the cracks kind of start to happen in that second half
See to me that's the that's the interesting, you know aspect in this game if you want to focus on an individual
That's Jim that playing so well and finding so much impact
Consistently throughout the game. That's a player who coming into this game was a no Israeli player within mouse
That's a player who I think the last they say 12 months have been underperforming and it's it's kind of hard to say that you for 12
ones that are not performing, but I think we all agree that Jimmy in 2024 was probably
the hardest prospect in his position in the world.
We had him up in the conversation together with Robs, together with the best anchors
in the entire world.
I think that conversation has slowed down a little bit, naturally to Robs being as good
as he is, but also the fact that Jim Fett have been struggling a little bit with the
individual output.
So for him to have a great game here, where he's finding impact, not just in moments of
the game, which he has been doing throughout 25 and in the beginning of 26, but actually
from start to finish, be a difference maker for Maus.
That's again, you know, another thing that I look at
and I think, okay, if that's gonna be not necessarily
the norm, but if that's gonna happen more often than not,
then maybe that's what's gonna change Maus
and this whole boring story of not getting
over the finish line.
So if anything, I'm just trying to find the small signs,
you know, the small positives.
And I think it's fair that we highlight it
because we also have been quite critical
of a lack of consistent output for Maus.
I also say this towards, he's had a hot amount of time
so far this tournament as well, you know,
I think he was like the one guy in the vitality series
who's actually putting up steady numbers
throughout the entire course of it.
And he had a lot of impact in this game as well.
So like you said, they have the talent.
We know they have the talent.
They've shown that for years at this point.
You know, all these guys coming through the master guidance
for the most part, you know, they've always been guys
who turn from prospects to really talented players,
to veterans.
And it's just about making sure they get the form
at the right time.
And definitely we saw that in this game.
Can I have a little rinse?
Go on.
I don't like that we're calling this boring from mouse.
I don't like that we're going on about this.
I remember when it was they were chokers on stage.
That was the big thing.
Constantly we went on and on and on
about how mouths choke on the big stage,
mouths choke on the big stage.
Then they overcame that.
Now it's oh, they're boring because they're not winning.
Like at some point give them a little bit of a break.
They're making playoffs.
I agree with you, but they're still choking on the big stage.
Well, I don't think they are choking.
I think that we've seen them beat Vitality on a big stage.
Once, cologne.
More times than you or I have beaten Vitality on a big stage.
We want to give them credit for that.
Yes, here's, let me kind of like,
Where it comes from for me is that I know what they're capable of because I've seen great things out of them for so long.
I love these players. I think they're very interesting.
You know, they aren't the guys who have been around the scene for a long time, who you've seen already do great things elsewhere.
And then they kind of move on somewhere else and kind of continue a big legacy.
Their legacy is with this organization, right? And many of these guys came from the academy system.
You know, Spinks is kind of the one veteran who did come in from another place, obviously coming from Vitality, a major winning organization.
It's just, I want to see it all line up. I'd love to see them win trophies. I really would.
They won the last clue so there's a little bit of romance in the air in this location in particular
But it's just like man to see them keep getting hard stuck
It's just tough to watch because I'm a fan of this team
I don't know if I'm getting old of them getting soft, but I certainly know coming into the game as well
Just before we went live. I'm kind of getting annoyed by this whole, you know
Stigmatization that we don't think being second best or third best or fourth best is apple
Well in itself right here a great example for me and that is just to give a perspective
and I think it's something we deal with a lot in eSports for whatever reason.
Look at the Olympics right now.
People getting second, people getting a medal at the Olympics
are celebrating like they won the entire goddamn thing.
You know, they're being celebrated, they're being recognized for their great effort,
they're being recognized for their hard work.
I think we have a tendency in eSports and in Counter Strike in particular right now
to look at teams like Maus, like Falcons, basically anyone but fury and vitality
because they're the ones winning the trophies at the moment
and be like, ah, not good enough, or ah, that's not impressive,
or you're just the first loser, you noobs.
It's like if you consistently get into the playoffs,
if you're Falcons and you're consistently getting
into semifinals and finals, that's not bad.
Sure, we could be critical of the fact that you're not winning,
but we can still, you know, acknowledge the performance
that it is to even get into the semifinal
or the final, same could be said for Maus.
Now, I also get the stigmatization that, yeah,
it's a bit boring that they never get over the finish line,
but if anything, maybe I'm just getting soft,
but I would appreciate the fact
that they are consistently delivering in a world
where consistency is not being praised enough, right?
We often talk about teams being inconsistent.
How do we find consistency?
All you guys playing out there in the Twitch chat,
what is the number one thing you always ask a pro player?
How do I play consistently?
Some games I get 30 kills, some games I get 11 kills.
Well, look at fucking mouse doing it consistently,
tournament after tournament after tournament.
So if that's your biggest issue yourself as a player,
why don't we recognize that as a great performance?
Not only that, just to add to this,
we are saying that they're boring,
they're not lifting trophies in the vitality era.
This is unprecedented.
The last time we saw this-
Liquid were boring, you know when the starters were winning everything. That's my thing during the Astralis time
Like not only are we saying now you're boring. You're not winning trophies
Also, we expect you to do it in an era where the one team is dominating the top anyway
We could go on about real quick. I agree with everything you both said I really do
But my only contention would be is that I just want to see them occasionally
I don't think they need to go on a streak of big wins
But let me give you a perfect counter example G2 stuff a trophy in last season. I don't know where
They did want a trophy, but we do need to move on. Let's talk about the next map that we're going to.
This is Mars' map pick, an opportunity for them to close out the series 2-0, make the playoff so you can have the same conversation all over again.
Or, alternatively, on the other side, could Foot do a little bit of an upset here?
Yeah, they could. I think we've seen Foot play well on Overpass, especially against Furia, who I guess we recognized to be the top dog on Overpass.
overpass that streak going on in 25 so they're definitely capable of doing that. Again we highlighted
the last time when they were playing Furia, Dukes and Demon playing towards that B-bomb side. I
think that's an incredible strong duo and they were able to shut down Furia a lot of the time so
that's something to look out for. I do also want to reiterate what Chat said coming into this game
as well. If anything for Maus, we expect them to win right but as Chat said if they were to lose
to Fude, if they were to lose overpass, go into a third map and lose the series then we start to
to see the cracks where it's not the conversation of they're always getting it done. Now they're
losing to teams they're not supposed to lose to. So if anything, I think there's still pressure
on Maus. I still think there's expectations of them winning. And I think on a map like Overpass,
which we've seen before, foot can definitely remain competitive, make no mistake, but I still
have Maus as my favorite. Yeah, I mean, Maus, it's hard to pick against them on Overpass. I mean,
they have such a substantial record on this map. Eight and three, and two of those losses are,
you know, 11-13 to Spirit and Overtime Maus at G2. They are phenomenal on this map thus far.
I think whenever you're kind of looking at it across the board, they just have good fundamentals,
right? And they can bring in the pacing changes, and they definitely have a good distribution
in town across the board. I think Spinks is a fantastic B-side player who create pressure,
create presence. Meanwhile, you do have the others who are able to kind of model up the other side
of the map. And I think this is also another map where Torsi really shines. You know, this map is
all about mobile optic, particularly defensively. I think Torsi has really shown a lot of capacity
on this map to be able to do that. You mentioned Demon and Jigs, you know, and I think that is a
a combo to watch defensively because normally they do put up a style defense.
On Mirage they went missing. They need them more than ever now in a game like
this when they want to stay alive in this series. And so those are definitely
two guys to keep an eye on. If there's one duel I want to look out for
Excercian versus Krabini. I think there's going to be a lot of, you know,
face-to-face titles right towards the toilet area. We know Excercian to be
involved in a lot of opening duels. He loves to be aggressive. Krabini the same
thing. He's not a player that likes to play all the way back on the bomb side.
He likes to be in toilets. He likes to set it up with symmetry as well and do a
a bit of a dual punch right there so I think exertion will be the center of that seaside
from us.
Those are fun chats, thank you for letting me get my rant off my chase boys, I appreciate
it very much.
We're gonna take a quick break when we return, our second map of the day is underway.
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It's a very exciting time for the team we've got coming up next year.
FUT have shown themselves to be a contender, who have been grinding up and making their
way forward as a unit right now.
We've got Lance with us joining us and dude, for you, you've done some big events in the
past but obviously it's very new for the whole team you have, you're still very young
as well.
So just talk to me about what you're seeing in the team,
what the feeling and mood is like for you guys
when you're now in this situation
that you've wanted to put yourselves in.
To be honest, after China, I kind of like personally,
after China, I kind of realized that
this is a very good team with a lot of potential, right?
Because I had some very past teams in my teen years
and that kind of affected me in many ways.
And like I kind of saw how it's supposed to be, right?
like you need to have a dedication, you need to have the talent, but at the same time you
need to have the passion, you know, because you can have the dedication, you can have
all these things, but you still need to have that passion going on, you need to have the
fuel going on for the game, because otherwise you'll just tilt each other, you lose, you'll
just be mad most of the time.
Now, before we got into this 2026 season, there was obviously a lot of rumours around
your team in terms of people wanting to take the call, they wanted the VRS side, was this
something you guys all sat around and discussed like was there ever any
worries that it could happen it could break up this team? I mean we never had
like a team meeting where because I think it would be crazy also to just have a
team meeting and say like hey no one is leaving right because I think then you
show like you're scared yeah and I think the way foot handle this and the
coaching stuff it was very smart like they kind of said like hey if you want to
go you know we do the trade we do the deal and that's it but that's the thing
and like no one wanted to leave you know like they wanted to stick by their side
they wanted to stick with Kulio with the management to the coaching staff and
that shows to me that's a family you know. What improvements are you seeing as a
team from these experiences you're going through playing these top teams?
The league is the mental because like I mean of course on the game side we learn
from our mistakes because when you play top teams the mistakes you do are getting
Like instantly punished. Yeah, so you can do stupid things around right but on the big side
I really think the experience because the only thing that made us lose even in crackle
It was the pressure and the unexperience we have
Because like in every game I even watch when I was at home
I could see the situations like we got ourselves into it was because of the pressure
You know, we are young we go a bit chaotic sometimes and we put ourselves in bad situations
But we learn from them, you know, and yeah, that's the good thing in this team.
Each game we play, even if we lose, we always make the mistakes.
In terms of another thing that's good to see, you're kind of, you know, a home field advantage in some ways.
Does this make it more special for you as a Romanian being in a possibility you could play in front of your home crowd?
Do some players never even see that as an opportunity?
For me, yes, because I said, especially in my half years of the career,
Some of the Romanians, I'm not going to say all of the Romanians, but some of the Romanians were very close to me, they were very supportive of me.
We have this inside joke in the team, I have never lost getting Romania, like neither national or international, like I never lost any tournament on LAN.
So I told them that semi-finals or grand finals, I'm fine with losing there, but until there we're not going to stop.
Good luck, you're going.
Yeah, and even there we are not going to stop.
Well, Lancer, thank you very much for all the insight. I wish you the best of luck in the tournament, Lancer.
to see what we can do.
Hope we can get into that arena and go far,
especially being a home crowd.
That's the goal.
And yeah, thank you for having me.
That's the goal, however, with the loss on Mirage,
it does feel a little far away today, right, Chattie V?
Yeah, I think Maus are about to lock in their
16th consecutive playoffs with this roster, right? They came together last year. They
covered a Shui after Bounty didn't go so well. They had to use Xalex for Katowice and then
they kicked off their campaign in Cluj with a trophy. Since then, it's been consistency
but no silverware. And look at a change that fate into 2026. The desk having a lengthy
discussion about that consistency. Jacob referencing it. Why don't we celebrate it
more like the Olympics coming second well the Olympics happens once every four
years Kamishtrad tournaments happen every week there is a difference and
then they reference liquid liquid at least one when Astralis weren't there
so a couple of holes couple of holes but we're going into pistol rounds on for one
on the first map of play. Jugs is gonna have his work cut out for him here. Sweeping through
the pipe and oh there's a whole lot more than they bargained for. Nice work line. Somehow
still alive. Get away. Oh well. Number accounting still. Can't pivot. Lots of time in the round
a minute and 20 left on the clock. If you even got that, like a nice package of Util as well,
the double flash on Torgy, you got the Molotov you could throw out towards the Barrels position,
He's actually done it for a three clear and that's going to cost him so jokes in pursuit of answers
It was put them into an even more uncomfortable
Position I think there'll be more of the pace of what we saw a mirage on the T side from mouse
Now you're just gonna see it slow defaults and I think that this is where exertion will get his confidence back
I think his head to head against Krebbeni on a is one that he should be able to feast upon I
think
Again one of the big obstacles for foot to overcome is gonna be the amount of tape
this out of your show against top teams and continuing to reinvent the way that
they as players address situations. When you're younger you're a bit more stubborn
in the way that you want to attack scenarios. So a little bit more resistance
to change. You know what works, you don't want to guess you output, but that is going to be counted as...
well, Molly does land on B but they are going to just jaunt swiftly into the A site.
The bomb will go down and for Longs and Cemetery, all around.
Cemetery can hold on to this Kevlar, I think for Longs.
He might hang around and look for a kill or two if he can. That's going to be
two of the three pistols so far, four mouths.
Yeah, three waiting in short pipe as well.
The fights came to them, it was all too easy.
I think you know that's going to happen a lot against these guys, right?
That's why if you're patient and you use your default you are going to be able to topple them more often than not
So if I'm cycling that's what I'm saying. Hey boys, we know they shoot hard
You know, they like to set the tone. Let's make sure where the ones controlling the pace and let's not get drawn into the table
Type of game that they would like to play if you can limit the multi-frag opportunities of jugs and demon
Right while they're anchoring be you can make sure it's been more pitter-patter or you you know
you have some fakes or some space in to kind of sketch them out a little bit.
I think you're gonna have their number here and this is always gonna be tough
against a team like Maus.
That's where they made their money against squads like this. So with another
playoffs on the line we'll see how quickly they can make it and give them a
day off too with the Thursday. Just to calibrate we'll see how the playoff
draw lines. We've got three more teams locking today, three more teams to be
eliminated today and then tomorrow well more of the same.
Last out of groups.
Not enough.
Jimmy can declare I'll come in safely.
No need on the door, so he's got safe passage as well.
The Yanko saying we're in the Fury again,
he just wanted to see them default A.
And I think that's likely what Maus are going to do.
This will be relatively quick announcements
of their presence onto A as they just
up silently with any jumps running long. Cemetery has rotated back to the A-side with the Famous.
He's aware of the possibility they can be damn close. Already missed the info.
Yeah, already get involved on it.
Hello?
Yeah, got to head up for all our jumps up and...
Confirms it.
Couch commit to the spray, so clawback provided Jimmy does well.
Armored USP, bit of a rarity.
Norma's attack has been overloaded, it actually leads to a team kill now, the spread comes through.
He's managed to break in.
Flanking from Juggs right now, if he can get a kill, maybe a conversation.
Yeah, maybe.
Norma has been playing 5-7 versus Bilal.
I'll save that, Jim has got his blocking.
I think it's going to costly if Torgie goes down with this bomb, seems likely.
I'm going to have to try and get out of there.
Couldn't find Jimmy.
Yeah, this one will be done.
Time to go for it.
Jimmy does get it done with the block.
So, okay, two consecutive and it will be the eco now.
So, relatively light work there.
I'm not sure a moment of threat at the end, but just waiting it out, letting the fight come their way, and great start from Maus, looking to go 3-0 with ease.
How much of this focus will be towards A? Obviously the pistol round they were setting up for will be finished, but ended up on the A side.
Now with the anti-eco, it was premeditated to go towards A, and now it should be even easier.
This is why I think going A on the anti-eco makes a lot more sense, because you have the rifles at range against pistols.
As long as you're not getting caught in the bathroom fight, so you can draw it into like a flash pop set up, you have all the advantages in the world.
Oh, it's smoking, I can't clear it.
So it should be in combination with Jimmy, we'll be securing all this connection control.
This would be a good game for people at home to sit and take a look at defaults and the
protocols.
Right, what each piece of utility is for, oh hello.
Nice one there, so this goes down and so does Brolin.
Yeah, it gets a little uncomfortable but they are actually reacting immediately, just snapping
into the A site so the gun's gone.
Should be set to collect despite some nice deal headshots.
You hear the rotations of demon and longs, maybe he's going to flank and the desertion's
ready for him.
Cemetery hoping to find that later trade, but he's not being so loud about it.
Jimmy down, just three HP on Cemetery.
The desertion's going to go all the way around and if they take down Torgy, he gets really
uncomfortable for the desertion.
Cemetery's ready for this.
It's not planted for you in the bathroom, it's on the truck's side.
He's going to hope to call the bluff.
He's got to go now, the cover fire is going to be provided if he's come through and but it off.
Lots of tricks in their book, a boost to get your pick on Spinks.
You hit a nice one on the long side and it all falls into place.
Yeah, that is a beautiful one right there. A couple of zingers on a dig. So there you go.
Able to win a round that felt like it never should have been theirs.
The long kill on the Spinks and then it's the one towards Long.
So yeah, here's the boost that three men required to erect this one.
this one. Shot comes in and has they re-taken and went okay they didn't want that AK but that would
have been another rifle to give the go or maybe to set this one from Proveni onto Brolin completely
shifts the conversation. Beautiful. Alright maybe a bit of a conversation start up.
So he does get his AWP that's a nice little boon thanks to the eco win.
This is where cemetery could very well start to have great impact guys I was talking about the head to head between
Caribbean exertion this is where if cemetery puts the leash on exertion that changes that
convert so she doesn't have his all-pounds to play so that makes him for Brolin and take 9 for Jimmy
So right on in this is they are going through the motions they're getting the map control
up of Arthurins's bears and that pressure is actually drawing longs over to A.
So this is working quite nicely if they throw a question mark smoke deep long.
It's Jugs and Demon both posh and on short.
Exertion still continuing to kick up a fuss.
Well, I'm enjoying this as the towel right now. They need to serve the execute
before the rotation comes in.
Yeah, there is no some movement yet.
Just these two on the stage.
It's not very cold.
Oh, there you have it, the timing here. I think you're gonna get the money.
I made it. Yeah, you might as well just have a long smoke, Dino, over the one.
Now they're in the site.
Listen, now he loves a smoke. He loves a smoke.
He's managed to deal with it, they broke it out, they spat through, they've now...
At least got some support from Heaven and longs.
Longs, what catch for if you look at the wrong way?
Trade needed on spades. Longs for a fight.
Nearly has Jimmy dead, but it's good to play off of each other, falls into the 1v1, but the jump is punished!
Cemetery closes it down. God, that was back and forth throughout.
Yeah, just the survivability of Juggs right there, just staying alive and drawing all that fire, right?
They can't focus to CT, they can't focus to Heaven because he's a bit of a nuisance and...
Round winning move to allow the rotation to get there in time.
So 2-2 will be the eco now for Maus. What should have been a steady start to this one?
Maybe not. Brolin's in with it. Galil is just him alone to limit.
Looks like it. So when the hero Galil to try and
define answers, it's in a lot of pointers.
Brolin was having a good map on map number one. Some really impactful frags as they are grouped up
over towards B. No U-Tilt to make this possible. So we'll have to wait for Smokes to fade them
and hope you're getting a heads-up duel. Cemetery and Crebeni have nothing to report
to keep the three man hold.
Struggle to see how you're
going to do anything with this
galil with any absence of.
An overplay.
Oh.
Okay.
It's one of those convos that we
have about teams who are doing
nose flash pop throughs.
So this way, not only will you
stuff them in the pipe, you'll
be ahead of the flashers and
just be able to, well, I want
to say, mow them down.
It could get really, really
them down it could get risky but you see how wild these kids are when they are in
these spray transfer moments they're always just flicking around while
holding mouse one seeing if a stray bullet catches its prey.
It's just really on the shoulders of Brawlers to see if he can break into the
site.
Oh, wow, a sequence out of Ginny's P250.
Incredible, impeccable output.
But then he's trying to stop the bleed.
And this is great.
He thinks it won't be wild.
He closed it down, Miles.
That was just a Galil and a P250.
They lead with a round and an AWP.
Both teams essentially with eco wins.
So, Maus, again, this is just running the clock down,
waiting for the U2 and taking heads up Jules.
It's slightly different to what they were doing
on Mirage, but still, this must be such an annoying tempo
to have to play against if you're full players.
You want multi-kill opportunities
and you want those fights to come in early.
These came in late, getting a little bit skittish
And a really nice round there from Jimmy continuing the impact as the smiles are on the faces and you have humbled foot early.
Yeah, I mean, that's going to be a real nasty feeling for Jugs and Demon.
It was your responsibility and just caught out a lot. I mean, the efficiency of that finish as well.
Like, Spinks gets output with the one Galil after Bollins already got the opening.
You don't win that round without Jimmy, of course.
How do you not spend a little extra 300 bucks?
You can always afford a piece of 50.
That's what Jason says.
That's what Jason says.
Now he's not right if you are in that situation.
That's where it looks beautiful.
Okay, well we already had Nico win.
This is a force by a back from foot.
Now this one is going to be tough.
Everyone has an AK and there's that scavenged AWP.
Full belts and aids.
This is one of the toughest situations to see this work and likely why they're going
into one of these four ones. If they hit the B bomb site, we lose jugs, we save, we do it again.
If they come out, we have a snack, maybe we can capitalize. We see a lot of this thought process
from the teams makes a lot of sense. It does require a bit of a gamble. A late lunch as
jugs is peppered down, throws out his block smoke and it's not enough to get any rotation happening.
they need to stick to this. There's another one available.
So Benny just got a smoke from Logs. Is he going back to spawn to donate this to Jugs for another block on B?
He's just gone back in. Okay, let's try out another one.
So just keep channeling those smokes. Yeah, Logs is going to get a headshot.
Wow! That's incredible output!
Bomb spotted!
Bombs spotted, double kill on the 5-7.
And time again, now it's a problem for Mouse.
Yeah, this gets awkward, this gets uncomfortable.
You wanna go down corn, you're gonna have someone hot on your heels, you're throwing out smokes, you're...
They're flanking, they're time is right.
And they are starting to move on the flank.
The Benny's will be there, short his smokes, a channel that's long enough to confirm Sphinx has occupied it.
Now that quick unholy heel of exertion, he is distracted.
He's trying to kick over the door, great control.
control. Ten seconds through the wall, eagle head shot, and down go Mouth. God, no one can
catch a break. Damn, okay. That is around where Mouths have everything they need and
more and they still can't get it across the line. Longs for the statement, double there
on the 5-7, longs just pound for pound, this gun, delivering. That range, it looks like
I think a beauty.
Yeah.
I think that says it all.
All right, well.
And that's the other side of the playing the clock game.
Yes.
They're running down the clock.
They ended up with 30 seconds in a really uncomfortable position.
And you see the idea work, right? They channel the smoke.
They block them.
Cromen. Cromen, he's just swinging.
No, like flashbang, no utility whatsoever.
He just goes running into connector of fair play.
Hey, he has taken Fallen down.
We have seen some maps where Jimmy's been abused in Connector.
Right, there was just a lot of setups of flashes to be in his face.
And I think that's something that is a good learning moment for Maus, right?
If other teams want to do that, they need to have different ways to assist him or
to be able to deal with it.
So the fact we've gone 4v4, Krebbeni has his life on the line, and
that is a gun to be scavenged for Spinks, who at this moment has the tech knife.
So we're going to creep up, grab that, and everybody has something to work with.
Understandably hesitant on the retrieval mission could have been a little bit of bait
After contact on the finish actually don't have a smoke. Yeah, but jokes might be called by this
Here's nice adjustment from spings brings him down with Krabani take a
John demon
Nice response.
Click on the trigger.
Nice flank.
No, she did it!
She was on the base of that.
And now jumps up to the clutch
and logs will close.
Wow!
You can do it with the Deeks, but now you've won them consecutive.
Demon says nice shot to exertion it was.
You've won out of the financial control.
I don't think we'll get a hero Galil on Brolin again.
You're gonna have a real functional CT Hall?
So it's like five or seven, T?
Yeah, there's nothing crazy coming in just this T gone exertion right now.
Maybe the comms were crazy. I swear that flank was very loud and Torgie just posed it with the AWP.
Let me hope and pray it.
We're going to donate the intel. Throwing over the hedge.
And you know that, uh, mouse are really gonna make full work for this one.
I did no rush.
Ha ha!
Couldn't get him to spray.
That one has been communicated.
But that's fine.
It's okay that you know where we are.
We're breaking balloons.
Mouser's bar is just going to be four rounds on the T side and they're just one way around,
excuse me, away from that.
So they know that they can still take this into it.
It is going to be labored.
It is overpassed, but they picked this as complete weakness against F.O.R.D.
There we go.
There they go, from any, I think he's up in the way, too.
How did he get his EECs? In-game lead attacks.
Beautiful.
Finally around where it's not stressful.
And this is the difference with the last time they played against the expected EECO.
I know there was big galil, but they've actually gone and taken some space,
closed down the map, brought the fights to Maus and secured that fifth.
So she's allot of possibility, timeout by Sarkin into this one.
So I'm just going to hold on to this Famous.
So how will that shape the CT setup coming into it and coming out of the timeout?
Coolio also gets that 30 seconds.
So does he have something that they want to respond with that can, so the tempo maybe unravel
whatever Sikron had in mind.
That would obviously come with something aggressive or maybe a bit of a trap laid.
I just realized now is they're wearing a different jersey today, you know, right?
They change pretty frequently.
Yeah.
Let's get it up.
If you lose in one color, you change.
The Format B start, and the defense heavy towards A. This is the 3-1-1, Jimmy Conn,
skinks outside B, and the pack, which is the Ocean Taugie, and Brolla will work for this
space.
So, when we slide the boost up, nobody posture forward, okay?
Just straight up wall banged.
Just straight up wall banged for Jimmy!
And Jigs will take the space.
I like this.
Staying slippery.
Yeah, that is inspired from Jugz.
Spinks is coming back noisily.
Yeah.
Well, you don't play that yet.
You have to wait.
You have to let him pass.
Now you take the timing.
Jugz has so much info.
This is massive.
They've heavily rotated towards A.
They're like a free man.
Hold on, A.
This would be a free kill.
Yes, no, it's gonna be good.
I'm ready for this.
Exertion cracks open.
There's no way to get any.
Spinks down.
Now what do you do?
Try to connect your other gap.
Could be the gap.
Could be the gap.
Could be the go.
No.
Possession is going to go long to try and sell their finishing A, but already Juggs is going
to try and beat them to it.
And rotation is already back on B. They're aware of some possibility of a slip, but Spinks
has gone down.
That's the player that is the outside B defaulter, so inform that there should really be nobody
here unless it's out of the box for Maus.
They clear off connector, they regroup with 30 seconds again.
This is classic overpass.
Oh, yeah.
You've only got one smoke to the finish.
for the finish, gonna have to do some good flashbangs.
Longs, in the right place.
Here he comes.
Demon proactive brings the fight to them.
That's a sick round.
I love the fact that they kill the connector player and then as soon as they know he's dead,
they just walk through the smoke.
Great, that's the type of gamble that you have to take in games like this.
It's a risk right he walked through and they were playing more than one con which we're dead
And we're in a 4v4 that's a wall back a radical range Jimmy
Spewing right there in this one. Okay now you can do so much information
Very well done as if you back down to just the pistols I've got to have a timeout for that
Something 4B again.
Really do not want to allow the house to get away with a B execute or a hop again at least
in the early stages of the route.
Off the boost I'll take the space a little bit deep.
Now waiting for a B finish you can see that smoke was lined up before there's flashes
to scale in with there are two HG so these to break or these
the snack nades we will never find out
yeah short control, retain, looks backs away
gives him the space and now here comes the finish
and amongst the half of the time HG
shot must be
on the end, can't tell you no problems there
triple other jobs, yeah this is nice with five staying alive this is going to set them up pretty now
There's at least two buys available extra down the stretchers that's the exact amount of rounds we have left to play
So they're in a really strong position to continue this domination
five straight rounds bomb not going down and
Not being able to come out on top of those forced by wars mouse. He'll be kicking themselves
Third map of dust to how about the death to start the day has been seen as a bit of a weakness for mouse
It was their permaban last season when Anubis was not in the pool
So if it's all to be decided there, maybe foot,
maybe other plants.
Important timeout from Cycrone as well.
Showes how important it is to end this T side with at least another.
You said four, right? That was the kind of the bare minimum.
Yeah, I think that's enough with the pistol to get them going.
Well, it actually buys you the buffer if you lose the pistol, right?
It just means that you need to be relatively flawless with your gun rounds, but...
Now's the capable.
Yeah, strange things that happened.
Now, from 4 man P-Stars to a 4 man A-Star on the offensive foot.
Okay, first time I've seen him go for this kind of maneuver, it's actually even caught
on boomsting.
Ooh baby, it's now a shit.
Strides towards the playground from any flanking, but he's here so good.
Catches the aggress, not expecting another though.
Gets away, gets away, this is a little too-
Oh no!
Give me up the ladder!
It's gonna come back to his demise though. There's no way exertion doesn't frag him now. Well now he knows he's there
He could have himself a third
Into the main compo Krupp any does it with three what an inspired round of aggression
Yeah, this is such a nice way late in the piece to set the tempo right because you know, they're gonna have full guns again
They're ready for everything cemetery ready for the booze. They play up close to the smoke
So sure exertion is unknown but play ahead of it and really just turning the screws on mouse right now
And a similar philosophy from the the connector round we loved so much where jugs push on off of the wall band
The symmetry gets this and immediately Krobeni's like okay, there's a gap here
And it's a massive gap. I mean how often Jimmy died
Around the first half and they salvaged this one
So much he's piped up long, very aggressive.
There is a blind spot.
Oh, the tree saved him!
Mother Earth, some mounds inside!
Oh, a jag.
Well, he knows he's tagging the bullet straight through the stump.
Not reactive. Very reactive.
Oh!
Awareness from Brawlhalla.
Catches him going walkabout, expects him to have come in pairs.
Just looks away though, as Demon does catch him.
Well, not in a rush.
Maus is still strung out across the map,
where they haven't immediately tried to snap in and take some space elsewhere.
Then at Krobeny, the A-Ryphthler alive,
longs the Rotetta and Demon, one of the Bianches.
So piecing this together, they know how valuable this round is.
Symmetru also said, hey, I hit the exertion, he has to be low.
So she's gonna take a multi-killed to tip the tides.
And they are grouping up to finish B.
Krobeny continues to play for Info, he's pushed up just above Connector.
So long to demon get to batten down the hatches. It's ready and holding for this
Opportunity Krebbenny will not waste big fine pauses even the head shot provided demon is low
They run him down important from exertion rated by logs overlooked on the swing
I don't know about this reposition, he's shitting his head off, he's ready for it, he just keeps holding it down, gets torched, he's got the 20 HP.
For Benny, he's getting lost in short and that's enough, that's one hell of a defensive half.
Considering the ebbs and flows of that, you lost the pistol, you lost the force, you won an eco.
That's where it started to go wrong for Maus, that's actually what brought them back into it.
Their mouths win an eco of their own, but from that point, they don't win another round on the T side.
So when you think of the rounds that mouths won, they didn't win a gun round, right?
They win the pistol, they win against the force, and then they have a little P250 round.
So not a single rifle round.
Quite condemning.
Yeah, that is a stat line that feels like it's awfully against you here, but great output from Longston, Krebbeni.
Both of them in the teens, 14 and 12 between those two.
Oh, and Torzja didn't even notice.
I didn't I didn't even notice
Man's got 59 damage. Ah, I can't believe that
It obviously wasn't a great. I wasn't a great, huh?
You know how players can have like quiet 18s. That's a quiet zero. That's a quiet zero is a quiet zero
Jeez, okay. Well, uh, Georgie you need to get one
And then you can open the account CT side or being overpass that
Keeping in mind you have to get the all so you're gonna have
You're gonna have to get the pistol to get you there another pistol. Yeah, let's see. Okay. This is backfiring right now on mouse
Yeah, the overpass pick not looking too comfortable
and inspired CT side
He's going to have a chance.
He pulls his solo away as well.
Yeah.
Let's see if he can get up.
How bad can he get?
How bad can he get?
He's going to have a chance.
He hits for Benny for two bullets, and backs away, pulls the rotate.
Beautiful.
Well, exertion pushing out the shores on his own right now.
Can they isolate the man with the bredus?
He's actually backpedaling to join Jimmy so a safer route now that he's lost that heavy
He's on the board getting on the board a clean headshot on to grab any so she's lurking a right now
Yeah, so if they fight toji cemetery kills spings there in a
Oh, it's a golden opportunity
Georgie still got another vote
Crazy crazy cuz now they have got the ace side massive rotation though
You can see them coming in to from the dumpster already throwing out a smoke to try and
Deny full control of the sight.
Important fight.
The jugs will win.
Crazy.
Mouses, pistols slipping away.
Exertion, good black.
Oh, no.
Reveals it too early, pulls the trigger, cemetery aware.
Him and Jimmy got to combine.
It's a nice headshot.
Gives Exertion room.
Now use Mouses' smoke against them.
Fake the runaway.
Now decent on-to-truck.
Touch.
Exertion.
Don't miss them.
Time taken.
Good again from Jimmy.
Saving Mouses.
This is a pistol that they must convert.
Even getting onto the defuse as well.
The covering fire required from exertion.
A 10 second stick that all could get him off it.
Get him off it.
Ducks can disappear now.
Unwinnable.
There's nothing you can do.
This is a foot pistol.
This surely means a foot overpass.
Knife kills.
Crazy.
Until she even gets on the board.
It's still not enough.
The man gets two kills in that round.
And that is not enough to get them across the line. The cemetery lurk, you think there's the thorn in the side. This is Torgie, his existence. It's going to make it so tough.
And this is a labored fight from the two of them. The cemetery says, ah, you're not getting away from me. This one right here through the cusp of the smoke.
Jimmy gave it his best shot. Look at this shot. The angles he's tipping right there. Good attempt from Jimmy.
I'm so good man, I have no idea!
The genie up his boi!
Yeah man, up it up the stand of Lee!
Jimmy's gonna have to door in his own!
Look at these layered flashes they've got!
Oh pop, genie down after one!
Fast down Con!
Maybe not, I want you to brave the door!
and then open so the long way around,
exertion and brawl in through spawn, cemetery spotting this.
Arm has been plated.
You have to save.
You don't wanna, you really don't wanna.
You really don't wanna.
You don't have a choice it's been made for ya.
Wow.
Okay, dominance.
I mean, you call that like a real simple
clear cut call as well, right?
That's what, that's flash and go big.
Yeah, and with the snack that's come in from mouths, right?
They're in the wrong place.
So really just having a tough time
getting the reed on foot with this one.
Gonna be a single gun round to note for them in this map.
And then Dust2, okay.
And isn't the Dust2 was the map where we,
Miles did look, you know, kind of,
how classed by Fyfe County
when we were watching that recently?
Yeah, so it's not their favorite, right?
Last season, it was a ban for them.
Now watch, the train was in the pool.
Once a Nubis comes in, they remove a Nubis.
They don't like that map at all.
So Dust2 they deal with,
but still showing some problem signs on it.
So there is a real opportunity.
I think after it was Mirage, he's sitting thinking,
okay, man, I should, especially with the way
that they were in so much control.
They were in so much control on the CS side,
just the tone that they were setting.
They were going through the default.
They were never really getting pressured at any point.
They were able to finish together good trade work,
just simple counter strike,
and Overpass offers you more of that.
But because of the force by Wars earlier,
they weren't ever able to get on top of the money.
And now it is essentially going to be force buying out the game.
So it'll be a similar round for Ft. to have to deal with.
This time there's an M4.
So a slight upgrade from the Famous and the hands of Spinks, the A Defender alongside
a Torji's orb, which in this equation is a scout.
4-1, you healing for the defense this time?
I thought you were playing forward on A, can you get a tag?
Good job, flashed off, back off!
Certainly Trony. This is the standard 3-1-1 from the T's.
We saw them have an issue with that setup against Furia, right, where it was Molledoy, alongside of Ykin, playing the orb rifle setup forward in the bathrooms.
They've used two mollies there to make sure Divider is clear.
They know that they're up against these lighter weapons and...
Big rotation back to A.
Staging area of Long being taken now.
We have...
What am I doing here? That is...
A crouching static target.
Ooh, for Benny still throwing out his nades.
Gordy really wants to finish off the job here.
But he lost Brawland. Jimmy checking in, and he comes for the T's, longs back and away, but
Cemetery pushing forward, forging a path into the site, spots the shoulder. Jimmy on site,
backs into Longs, what he won! He even hit the headshot! Cemetery just one point of health!
Still gets it! 12 on the board for Foot. That's a 5v5 on the A side right there. I understand they
have the weapon advantage, but that's tough. You're going into the snack, you get caught ahead
head of the play, you're trying to execute through it.
A single point of health makes all the difference.
All right, now it's gun rounds.
Not everything you'd want, but everything you've got.
And you're gonna have to give it that
because you're not going to need a run of nine
if you want to see overtime.
This is where for a young team like Swoop,
you would love to see them get over the line
right here right now. That dominant fashion. You start letting him back in.
Now the score line looks condemning now.
Oh, that looks pretty condemning as well. Longs flashed through. Not blind was
spings, but not blind.
Okay, so two noted on a one divided one pushed up long. Surely you accelerate B
now. You have in phone two players.
Was he taking that? Jimmy?
Jimmy, yeah.
Exertion's gonna peep through. Surely, Cribbetti's a dead man.
They're gonna leave the bomb here.
They're gonna make a decision.
They're gonna go on another.
They're gonna be damaged onto South Street.
Looking good. Exertion.
Solid defense.
Missed incendiary cost him nothing.
OK, Maus will repel the first of the many tests ahead.
I think Cribbetti's gonna be frustrated
because, as the in-game leader,
he's noted immediately...
He's heard all those comms.
We've killed one on A, we've taken contact,
the Vida and Long, I've killed one on B.
We need to be going B, but everybody else
was a bit slow to react, right?
This is where Theory and the Counter Strike comes in of,
okay, so we know this,
but, but, but, the Info's here.
You need your players in those moments to understand,
oh, I have a smoke, and I'm in this position,
I can quickly smoke Heaven.
You need to be able to connect very fast in those moments,
but Krebbeni in that situation,
I guess he's hoping that's what happens.
That's why he's leading with the bomb going in on his own.
He's hoping it's clicked with the rest of his team.
He's probably said, go be, but the details aren't there
and that's going to cost you.
So unfortunately, it is the right call,
but in that situation, if he called a pause
and they reset and played it out,
probably the better of the options.
Now they're down to a little bit tougher of a situation.
One more of these from now is
and the finances are broken and for a consultant working in.
This is a mouse consultant working in.
Yeah, no mirage anymore.
That's so tough, that's one of the review. So alright boys, you know we had this info,
we either did a react breaker or... Oh, what a timing on that. Tell them they played into
it, we saw the nade come and they started strafing and now opening kill comes in. Longsie's been
having a strong map, 17 kills, offers up an opening death.
It's going to be a long walk, Torgie's jumpsaping this.
Compared to those who have a good weapon for that fight, he doesn't hit the opportunity.
This is where Cemetery can scale up behind the scout.
Okay, no spings towards you back side, squatter flash is good, block smoke is better, he's
gonna put it there, the whole squad is here, he receives them, he's gonna get shot down
and push through and yes, energy successes, fate there.
It looked threatening for a second, but tough one.
Okay, eco now.
Told you knowing that, he's gonna be in with an MP9,
so we'll see Tauji play aggressive,
so he can fund up some extra cash
with a tiny gate that's in, that's his longs.
I like the idea.
All right, so we, I'm gonna throw this MOL E,
so we can scale up, and the fight came in from Maus,
so maybe it's a very well-handled.
There's a lot more where that came from.
There's probably a bit of a non-start-up for Foot.
They're totally out of the eggs.
And that should be the plan.
So he went from zero kills in the first half to seven now in the second.
So he's already tied up with Brolin, and he's only two away from Spinks.
So, you can already forget about that first half of play.
And when you're the AWPer and you only have the AWP sparingly,
It is going to be hard to fulfill what you practice.
The value as much as they can with these clocks.
It's going to be I'll show them how it's done, right?
Well, it's just it's just going to be hard to.
Now I have to buy every now.
So to put them in a position where their money
is tough, you have to have like a spree of
rounds coming very close, you know, just like one
1s 1s 1s 1s 2s
I will just continue arm up a few of these
Of course you get something inside the door this is for a reason
Have it ok, just a 6 round cap
I'm wondering if he actually just wants to go to dust too, so he does, he moves away
from the MP9, the op comes in.
Alright, this is what you need to see.
Up that on screen, close your eyes if you don't want to see it.
Finally, hold the torchey.
And immediately, torchey's impan felt.
The impersist is going to say, Spanx, but gets caught by the wallbang.
Blonks it now exertion show the proficiency there and this is where T-Side Overpass starts to hurt, pop-timing
Jimmy just an easy headshot
Is there Jimmy damn not messing around
What was that range firecatches cemetery through the smoke to make it just
I think when you look at it, obviously, they just need one round. So it just one moment has to go wrong for mouse for them to lose this map. But it's a bit of a worrying sign. I understand that the buyers haven't been the best, but they've managed only three kills in the four consecutive. So they need to start making a bit more of a dent. And that is just to, first of all, keep a bit more pressure on mouse. But also, the max loss bonus is in play. So if you can be threatening enough to get inside and keep planting, you can keep having gun rounds.
just to first of all keep a bit more pressure on mouse but also the max loss
bonus is in play so if you can be threatening enough to get in the site
keep planting you can keep having gun rounds and that is going to be the way
that eventually mouse should crack but it wouldn't surprise me if they bring it
all the way back to overtime this is overpass and really CT-sided now how
this goes and you're up against an inexperienced squad who are very eager
to be done with this. These are the learnings. These are the hard lessons.
This is the worst case. Keep it threatening. You want to be in positions where you can trade
off of each other. And right now the fact that you're just hemorrhaging turbine kills, well,
on the opposite side of the map.
Oh, very quick.
The action of that sword is fast enough.
Oh, hang on.
They might get the sight.
It's Brolin, though.
And now, at least, at the cost of longs,
they know where he is.
They're making a lovely work from Brolin,
making it look casual, and then a supportive flash
to deny further.
OK, so a slight bit of sweat on the brow,
but still, Brolin, the safe pair of hands to Swede,
keeping it cool, kind of, and collected.
Let's make it now just a four-round game.
OK, OK.
You can see it happening.
You just have to look at that foot game against Furia.
That one went triple over time,
and eventually the world started to come off.
It started to get a bit more disconnected.
Players taking gaps, playing on their own.
That's it for the timeouts.
Nothing left.
Both coaches find blind for the next handful until we get to overtime,
You get a little replenishment.
Alright, let's look.
Another partial, another gun round.
Send the tree all.
4-1, going to B.
This brings fucking A-standard combo.
Stay smoked.
They're probably in that group.
They are through as quick.
Once you've been relaying the info of Sphinx's retreat, he wasn't quite about that.
I told you he's back now.
He's coming off the long side for Sphinx, so this is the gap.
There's some noise.
Sphinx is glad that I'm already out of Sphinx.
Spinks on high alert, Krobeni's coming.
Number two, denied by Cemetery.
Told you coming in for this, okay.
Nice to see him not playing scared.
Forced off by the flash, heard the scout, the shot baited, nice quick switch to attack
nine, secures the frag.
There's another one where that came from, what's the info there?
The info and instantaneous trade from brawl at nice shot bomb loose
Get caught we didn't get caught
Exertion I feel premonition there a little too late 2v2 35 seconds bombed down long bomb under Brawlins boots
So if you win out to 1v1s you can win the round and there's one 1v1 for Jimmy
Now all onto demon 20 seconds
Let's get the head to edge, you all, while I'm not scared, impact-fragging from the captain of Maus.
And what looked like a ridiculous idea of Maus being able to take us to overtime, looking a little less silly now.
Yeah, for sure, because again, this is a situation where the bomb doesn't go down, it'll be another pass.
Team side overpass can be like this, right?
This is the nature of the beast, to pass Maus, not single gun round on their team side.
That's east side.
No foot have to show for his the pistol and the two rounds conversions.
So this is where Krebbenny is going to need to do this with his team, right?
Does he have any ideas today if they want to call or does he feel a flaw of the game
something he can create to get them to round?
Well, three through connector.
Oh, you're just lucky to be alive.
Yeah, very much so.
So, unconfirmed.
I'm going to close up Connector.
I mean, they are hedging me, right?
I just think the problem with this is they do have nades for the execute, but the flashes have to be perfect
because you don't have any mollies to displace dice or truck.
I understand the stacks on the other side, but I do.
And now that's info.
There's a lot of mob speed out of his face.
Here come those flashes, Torgy's just gonna pack away, they feel like mission's accomplished, they've already got the early advantages and so,
things can take along nicely for number 10.
They haven't been able to get anything out of this hero, okay?
I'll have to see a way in.
Torgy's played a big game.
I mean, folks, played by the guys,
but he's only delaying the inevitable, the 1HP, 1V5.
All right, we're at the business end now.
Yeah, we've got that.
We're at the most tense moments.
And this is tough for an inexperienced team,
a team playing in the big boy league now
and having to take on mouths who are perpetual playoffs.
This is them looking to get it done to a wall.
And sure, oh, it's close.
Yeah, we picked the overpass.
But this is a confidence builder.
This is OK, we're down, we're out, but we're still mounds.
The same team who's making playoff after playoff after playoff.
And that round recap really does just show the kind of duality of overbars.
Yeah, in both teams, you can see really struggling to get the bomb down
in any of these key moments, right?
So within this run, they're starting heavy A.
Not going to let them default as they'd hope.
This is it.
Yeah, this is going to be one hell of a fight,
They're all in ready to react off the long push as well.
They're just lining up for a sort of perfect setup here from Mao.
Spinks, they're gonna do a fake.
Toshi pulls the trigger first.
Then Spinks will activate.
Good from Jugs.
Oh, nothing from Toshi.
A nice double from the double Ds.
Jugs down, exertion matches their output.
Puts us into a three on two.
It's messy.
We ain't gonna be easy.
Long occupied, and that's trajectory of the HE.
Tells them that there was a body there.
Jimmy's already tucked truck, or Benny, as he is.
He's not clearing this.
What does he do?
Cemetery.
Is that all to do?
Winnable.
Certainly winnable.
Does he consider it?
Doesn't look like he will.
Oh!
Drop on him, doesn't finish his meal.
George, he's right heading in.
Bomb can go down.
That's exerted.
Excuse me.
OK, planted backside.
That's what she has to win.
Let's see if the exertion pedigrees once again
on display or can cemetery disruptive youth force a third map.
He has no idea where exertion is coming from.
He's got 10 bullets.
If the smoke lands on the bomb, he's going to have to reload.
Smoke and kick.
Exertion's got the health advantage.
He's got the experience advantage.
And that's that nightmare combination of sounds.
Oh!
Exertion gets away with it!
Pulse another round and out of the bag for miles!
huge impact from him what a massive round that triple obviously the 1v1 to close
up the double while he was in con what a nuisance and the fight comes their way
it's essentially deathmatch at the fountain that's their top performer
well the pureing the bomb the bomb's gone down the bomb has gone down in this
one so finally with the way things have been going they can't
an average rhythm of gun round partial gun round partial for the final round round
224 before we hit overtime
In the mix, there's you two here this can still
Go wrong for mouse and they push us from 12 3 to 12 12
Let's find out would be one hell of a run from mouse
At least you got the bomb down cemetery has facilitated this
Let really have been all for naught could be a somewhat of a heartbreaker if mouse
pull this off all the way only to trip at the final hurdle similar rounds right
they're playing heavy towards a on the T side but the difference is now's his
defense it's time they've hedged for B they start with the 4-1 and now Sphinx
comes back to join Torgy and Torgy's gotten 13 kills on their CT side
not long so she's all not overseeing it Sphinx jumping from bank steps made up
her bathrooms. Jug's still lurking outside of B. Exertion looking like he wants to start
rotating and assist this A side of B.
Sphinx might get a shock here.
Yeah, especially with the Orknow trained on this.
So much we're hoping to catch the jump spot. Sphinx is gonna flash the body-longs ahead
of Demon there for the trade and the bomb goes away. Into the site. Quick reactions.
The mission further forward is long for the flock, but looking good now has already got the frags, but there's two back!
Exertion reveals his position on the way back in, catches the lurker on beat.
In the nearer bit of moments, Rest fights a plant.
Do some scavenging.
This will be all, really.
I'm not sure about that, as an M4 in front of it might have been next to it.
Creak with the AWP first around Dice, powerful position.
Jimmy, using the sound cue to just walk straight through the smoke,
who could subvert the expectation and confirms they're both like he stares.
There's this incendiary for the bomb and there's no smoke.
This is the kill. Jimmy's in the perfect position.
This, yep. Nails it. Cemetery's gone.
Longs, what are you made of? Not enough!
Maus, run it all the way to overtime!
What a comeback. This is the class of Maus on display to tie things up.
Truly.
Okay, and now this is where they take over.
This is where it could even just be a sweep.
There has been no taste of success for Ft since the pistol and those conversions and
They even had that 4v3 scenario where they just overplayed their hand went fast into B
And since there it's just been one-way traffic. Take a look at that last couple
Yeah, they get a little bit closer. Sure
They had some opportunities some tech 9 slipping the net, but otherwise over time and mouse can take this into
A brief sigh of relief for Maus, a little bit of room to maneuver now.
You know, this is where one of two things happens.
If the Maus just continues to dominate, or the pressure gauge for foot gets alleviated
oh so little, that they go back and you see them win this first, you go, well where was
that?
Right, why couldn't you do that in that spread?
So if you have a question, the mental side of Counter Strike, here it is on display.
Let's find out which of the two it is.
Oh, the setup's brilliant.
You have to throw it under shallow smoke and then Jimmy just catches you as you go walking through. You can't flash it.
Oh, you need to get kinda lit up. Heal it, breaks down.
First on the site, Xershin swings one out in combination with Rolland. Just a shutdown of the B defense. One versus two if you can...
Run out of exertion he's got the opportunity for the dual towards he's not fighting
That is it does actually fire off the shot the damage onto exertion
in a ball
Yeah, that's all though is the exertion swings on out and puts him down
Okay, just a debriefing there and what unfolded trying to keep tabs on what could come next and I think with a lot of these
4-1 B-stars they've been expecting B-plays so there it was a bit more
standard but it hadn't come at least not when they're expecting it during
regulations so Jimmy handles that well sure only the one kill before traded but
that's what you need from you also defended to slow the roll down.
Coolio straight into that timeout.
Who knows they just need something right?
Crveni even got the opening pick in that situation.
You're just an idea.
I think it's just it's so tough right it this is I would say the worst map to call on the T side
Flex and so many little details go wrong
With the CTs are playing a strong transition with defense right where it's got we do the smoke Molly
We you have to tell your time you have to work through connector. They don't even have to fight you
They just have to posture. They just have to slow you down
on me there's a lot of space they have been consistently throwing this kind of
molotov though I wonder if it's gonna force exertion to react no he can tuck
in oh whoa nearly got 200 smoke 13 with those down exertion burning to 36
as long as he gets out he's there to punish this but he's flashed it
diligent stop exertion in the meantime for Benny's fallen and now you know I've
seen brawling and exertion on a at this point we walked into the trap we've
Given up to cemetery gets them something to work with unnecessary jump spot gets punished jugs
So he has to make a play on beer
I might go back to finish on beer. I was gonna say if they want to get into this round
You need to try something a little bit more risky. He's caught them pushing. It hasn't made the play
Towards his all posted short it has to consider the monster slip
Well
He's always been very nice and nimble on the AWP, and now Sametrius has got nice scoping.
Spinks boxing him in. It's all onto shoots.
He's drawn on there for it. Yeah, looking like Maus have not stopped winning rounds, since 12 was red for foot.
Yeah, 11 straight now.
So 13 consecutive to close it in what would be quite the fashion.
You forgot what winning around feels like a hundred percent 100 percent just feeling like you're on the eternal t-side misery
And you're gonna swap over and then if I mouse I do something I take a massive risk on my first
Yeah, you do so ridiculous. I did do something a little bit out of the box
Say the mind cash off got because also
He says no
I'm done
He's been waiting for that. He has been begging for that call to be made.
Feasts.
It's just tough to watch what is a talented squad's experience on display.
Again, this will be a learning for later.
Now it's a plenty of these.
This is domination now.
There's one more required.
I knew they need to do something.
Yeah, he's right. They did need to do something.
I'm throwing a smoke to their demise as yeah, you imagine the mental what this team I've
rejected from 19.
Gosh.
My more experienced playing the game than probably anything else in life and right now
when you're going up against some of the world's best and you're in these tough games,
you have this one and you have the Furia, right?
Both of those.
Yeah, and you know, you know they're going to be drilling to each other over passing
the sprints tonight.
Trying to add a couple more tools to the toolbox.
Maybe, maybe the CT side feels like the breath of fresh air.
Toji might get his first T-side kill of the series.
Yeah!
Sorry, off the map, not the series.
Not the series.
It's definitely present.
Yeah.
On Mirage.
It has been that long over the past.
It does feel like a series.
And there it is!
Okay!
Immediately.
Beautiful.
Okay.
And that's it.
Toji, for a lot, is probably...
Yeah.
Beautiful. Okay. That's it.
Torji, for a lot, is probably
people's favorite mouse player.
Right, he's gone with the energy, shows some
vulnerable emotion at times
and definitely can have some moments.
So, opening incision.
Crazy from him. 0-11 to 17-16.
Yeah, I respect.
So, great mental here from Torji.
He didn't look too flustered on the cams, did he, on the swap of the sides?
so it's admirable. I think most of us would have put ourselves into a pit of despair for
half a second. It's over, I can't hit anything. We're washed, we're losing the foot, and now
you're about to make it. Straight sets to get things done. Yeah, this is a different,
I mean, impeccable frontmouse. If you can convert this in quantity, you will have had a perfect
But...foot have been frozen.
On 12.
20 seconds, they gotta go.
Slow break, punish, Jugs catches Jimmy.
That's important.
This is his war so people can't quite close it down.
But Jugs doesn't avoid.
Look at the health on them.
Look at the time against them.
Jugs brings down Brawland.
Just Torgie.
No time to win this one.
Cemetery win.
Should I just stay alive
and let it get swung upon?
He'll tuck in safe and sound.
But finally,
We get the taste of victory once more.
Well, it's been a while.
Now we get to learn, is it really just all about the CT sides?
Maybe.
That could be the next conversation starter in this one.
Will we see Maus win a gun round on the T side?
I guess the same can be said for Ft.
Yeah.
So how long can this warfare continue?
Maus, the perpetual playoff team.
I mean, as far as, you know, the flowchart of winning a T-side round, you got your opener.
Yes. Well, the same thing did happen to Fort as well as just this map.
This map.
This map. Some people like it.
Yeah, it is kind of like the Marmite of Counter-Strike maps. You either love it or you hate it.
Right now, I don't know which it is for Fort.
But either way, they're in it and they're still in it to win it.
Okay.
If it was Dominan, if they got it done, we'd be on Dust2 right now, that conversation with
potential weakness against Maus.
I think you're foreshadowing a segue, so you can see the winners for the first round.
Yeah, it was just that...
It was always going to get harder round after round.
Yeah, you saw the right one on the wall.
Let's boost this.
Try and catch it.
You want to try and cheeky business on heaven?
Stack things, barrels would work.
It's just sphinx?
I guess it's just sphinx.
Who starts a demon does work out wonderfully.
Jimmy was unprepared for that, so now the CT side has got the opening.
Even more promising for a foot 14.
Try some of that.
Well, that doesn't, you can stay 2-2.
When you're in a 4v3 like this, you can stay 2-2.
There's no need to overplay your hand to B.
Absolutely no need.
You jump, spawn at your own peril here.
There's him. Okay.
So we've just got the bomb, got the orb.
Cemetery is gonna be shooting like he wants to get out of there.
And he will be allowed to.
You can see the B set up as well, starting to play a bit more retake.
That'll allow a quicker rotation.
So 40 seconds, it will be the A finish.
Yeah, you're gonna be able to get over there.
Okay, now he's moved to long. Maybe you do start to move.
Well, the utility's out. It has to be.
Here they come.
They support and fight one by exertion.
Semi-trip, a lot of pressure.
Maybe edge of the smoke.
Oh, losing health.
Still has the line.
Overlook by Brawler.
Imported from the sniper.
Another one as well.
Flood fine 14.
The T side woes continue for everyone.
All right, well, last round's T side over time for foot.
They rushed B. I don't think we'll see the same for a mouse.
but I still think something with where a bit more of a risk is taken and the
problem is now that you're doing it in the final round this is where it becomes
more obvious to be on a higher alert for those quicker pays the plays where you
try and catch a bit of a timing
well foot are playing for a beep on the other side of the ball one again it's just
preventing who needs to be very careful on a it looks like problem will facilitate
I see one and two.
Yeah, they've got something to smoke by virtue of the artillery.
That looks slightly weak in this B-Defense.
It's the round time it goes on.
This is a short step.
I feel floating, especially once it's baggage you into the jump spot.
You're not going to be expecting two men waiting on the short.
They're even walking on the short side, opening kill.
I'm going to smash me again.
This is a bit of a resistance.
Spinks, however, will punish the push of demon.
This is something that if you look at the heatmaps of these boys they do this a lot
So you have to be aware, but it's the sticking con again. So no one that demises Jimmy
This is the second time he's trying to make this play signature move. He's gonna hear the run back. He's hearing towards you right now
Let's go inform the rotation cemetery
You will be behind them now the question is what can once do if he doesn't have the help
Already close swing it long speeds assistance ASAP
This video ahead of Miguel speaks too quick, and it's opportunity for Draven, who speaks a beast!
How does he flick back into Krupp, and he now is up to Jugs.
If he wants to shout at this round, he has to make this flank count.
Oh, nearly lost control of the spray, does remove Torji, bollocks, wings in, and that's that!
Miles, close it down in O-Team!
And the reigning champs will get an opportunity to defend their title here in Cluj.
I wonder for both of these teams, how much T-side on overpass practice might come into
them in the next few days?
I mean, that was still a one-sided game in that fashion, sure.
CT side dominance from both squads, you know, credit to Fult for putting up such a strong
CT side hold in the first half.
Think Alex said it, you know, pretty well.
Maus didn't win a single buy-round in that first half, and you think to yourself, alright,
that should be it.
That should be done and dusted down 12-3, I believe, and then we see the experience from
Maus.
the level, I guess, the CT side lockdown coming in, which immediately put them into overtime
where they got the job done.
There was a good game of Counter-Strike by both teams, their state on the CT side, and
obviously both teams will be, as you said, Sam, look at that T-Side, sorry, and think
to themselves, alright, we've got some work to do here.
But I will make the case that I think it was more so the proactive and high-level CT side
coming out for both teams, actually, that made the biggest headline for me this game.
Yeah, it's a tough one for Flid.
It's got to be PTSD from exactly what happened against Feria, where they had a chance at
2-0 that series on Overpass, they hit it right there on the silver player and they just could not close.
And you have to imagine a lot of that comes down to just lacking that resilience and lacking that nerve.
Because again, this team's only been playing Lance together since September of last year.
And for a couple of their players, that's the only Lance they've ever played in their entire career.
So they're a very young team.
And, you know, it started very scrappy, but they really controlled the game defensively from that point forward.
Forza got zero kills in the first half.
Like they were doing so good, really shutting Mouse down defensively.
And we talk about how Mouse sports, they struggle on T-Sides.
We've hit that point time and time again. It happened again here, but when it was critical and over time it took care of business
And again, that's that's the experience shining through if anything. It's a good learning influence for food
Obviously is this a point it said about my winning a map and pushing it into a third deciding one
We obviously don't know what would have happened on dust too
But so far this tournament they've lost five maps and three of them have been in overtime
Yeah, even the quadruple overtime or triple overtime gives us free as well
So, in that regard, as I said, coming into it is a scene that, regardless of winning or losing,
they make every single map competitive, whether it's their own map pick,
if they're opponent's map pick, and they're showing that there's some depth to this roster.
Now, Chad said during the cast, you know, experience is still, I think, they lack,
and one way to get experience is by being exposed to scenarios like this.
So, that's always a positive you can take away.
Unfortunately for Foot, they don't win the game,
but they gain a lot of experience playing mouse right here and putting on a good fight.
Is it fair to say that experience is maybe what's sitting them back ever so slightly?
They are going toe-to-toe with some of the best teams in the world.
They are taking them to overtime.
But maybe in these moments, you kind of see Maus adapt a little bit faster,
moves around and changes up the speed a little bit,
which is something that comes, I'm presuming, from just experience and time in the server.
It's not the only reason, you know, that that would also be taken away from what Maus did right here
and showcased, I guess, that big portion of experience.
But sure, if you are a young team, you're 19 years of age on average,
then experience is a factor.
And it's something that there's only one way of getting more,
and that's to be exposed in scenarios like this.
They're going through the progressions, right?
They went from a tier two team that was doing really well online
to doing well at smaller lands,
to getting opportunities to go to bigger events.
And, you know, when they're able to get a hot star with a lot of momentum,
they are able to carry on and hold on to it.
But whenever you get put in pressure situations like this,
where you're up 12-3, and every single round that passes you by,
you start the wonder in the back of your head
if you're going to be able to close this game or not.
and you call all your time out,
you try to come up with all your adjustments.
And then it also hurt that, you know,
yeah, you're at max loss,
but they weren't getting a lot of bomb plants.
So it's a lot of partial buy, full buy, partial buy,
full buy, so you're never really getting
to put your best foot forward.
And, you know, even when they were in the last couple
of rounds, finally able to get the op back and play,
finally able to kind of run over the place they want,
you could see that they kind of got drained.
I wasn't seeing the same confident, aggressive,
you know, fearless team that I'm used to saying
they were a little bit more timid.
They could feel the pressure of each round
as it was going on.
And they unfortunately just weren't able to,
you know, dop the odds and cross the teams on this one.
But as, as Ken said, like if this comes down to being exposed to scenarios
and what a privilege it is for this team to be good enough to be able to get to
games like this and get in these tight situations with the elite level teams.
They've now faced mouse sports in the period at this tournament.
Two top five teams in the world, and they've been able to go toe to toe with them
and look very competitive.
And that is a positive thing, particularly.
I always love that because we say that and we can see that.
And I think everyone in Hansa can see it.
But speaking to players, they don't care.
They all think they're the best in the world.
So in those days, they're just going to be sad that they lost.
We can go, oh, it's great, you're getting to play Fury and Malzahar, we're okay, we're better than them, we lost.
Maus, on the other hand, now secures this bot and playoffs, which is exactly where we expected them to be at the start of this event.
Yeah, for sure. Defending champions of Kruischnapokka, a team that we always have in the playoffs, one way or another.
Also good to see Xershin coming in and playing as well as he did. So a lot of positive from Maus today.
You mentioned Xershin, and I do believe that James is with him now. Let's hear how the team is feeling.
You are right Sam, I do have Zershin with me here, the defending champions of Clusion
and Poker do make it through to playoffs here, but I'm guessing you kind of expect to be
in playoffs at this point Zershin?
Yeah, definitely expect to be in playoffs, but I think every time we make it it's nice.
Definitely a nice one, but this game, oh my, this was a stressful last map there mate,
you put up one hell of a performance individually, but from being 12-3 down, who kept you in
that game, where was the mentality, because you guys, the comments stayed really strong
from what I was listening to here.
Yeah, well, of course, it was a great comeback from us. Obviously, they definitely felt the pressure a bit when we were closing in
But yeah, it was a really fun game. I really enjoyed to play myself
I think that one of the only games lately that I felt that I was really informed
So yeah, I really enjoyed the game and I think the team did a really good job at not giving up
But it was two or three also cities had all process really OP in some way
So we knew that we had a good chance and yeah, I'm happy we pulled it through in terms of that
You just mentioned about yourself right having some struggles from games and some moments
What do you think it is right now with you?
Yesterday I got wooed by Vitality, but I think that obviously they are an incredible team
They are definitely the best still in my opinion. There is no doubt about that
But I mean I think watching back the game is late was not as bad as I thought especially that's to
Inferno T side and not giving up too much because we're still need to catch up to them along the way
But other than that, I feel like I'm a bit too focused on my map and my teammates at the moment and grenades and stuff like this
I feel like I'm walking around a bit like an MPC.
So I need to focus more on my crosshair, which I did on Overpass, and maybe it will help
us as a team win a bit more.
Definitely.
Well, let's hope that continues going forward for you.
I also want to ask you a bit about FOOT.
To me, they kind of remind me about the young mouths in some ways.
You getting that feeling?
Well, when I was in NXT, I always hated when people compared me to other people or other
teams, but definitely there is some vision.
There are great players.
They have five really good players.
I like Robbeni.
He's an IGL.
a lot of difference and Kulio we talked about in our team is also a good friend of
Torish but also of mine from all times so yeah it reminds me a lot of Cyclone
when he started it's similar age similar kids and but yeah I think the CS2
metaphys them really well they are great amers and yeah it was tough today for
sure. Well thank you very much, congratulations on making it through to the
playoffs. Sam let's get back to you on the desk. Thanks so much Banks I mean
there we go we've had a chance to hear from them. I kind of liked how open he
was as well chatting a little bit about what he expects from Ft.
and what are you seeing there?
Yeah, me too.
I think everyone agrees right now
and everyone has taken attention
and paid notice to the fact that FUT is a strong team.
I also think in relation to this tournament,
I think a lot of teams going into this 2-2 fair to where
they have to play tomorrow in order to either qualify
or be eliminated from the tournament.
I'd argue that FUT is one of the teams
that you do not want to face.
It's a bit competitive in every game.
They show they can go toe-to-toe versus FURIA,
go toe-to-toe versus mouse.
If I'm anyone in that 2-2 layer,
I would like to avoid FUT.
Yeah, it's one of those things where I just hope Flit don't lose themselves in this situation,
because I think it's very easy when they were in some of these games throughout the rest of the group stage,
and they were getting the hot starts, and they were having big leads,
and they knew that, hey, we still have more lives left if this doesn't go away.
But now they don't. Now it's elimination or playoffs. Which one are you going to get?
And so I just hope that they're able to kind of, you know, let this one go, work through that,
and show it tomorrow, because it would be nice to see them in the playoffs,
because they are definitely a worthy team to be in that spot.
And of course, if you're a fan and you just like absolute chaos like me,
there are some top teams here who could find themselves in their 2-2 bracket
and foot could take them out, make their way into playoffs, shake things up a little bit.
That could happen. We'll only find out tomorrow.
We still have two more games today, though.
Richard Lewis is taking over. We're going to take a quick break.
Mars is through to the playoffs. We'll see you tomorrow.
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gonna be playing mystery players. I'm gonna show you some team logos and then
you're gonna try and guess which player we're looking at. So let's get the first
one started and this player is from Gotsemp Fnatic NIP.
Fnatic, Gotsemp Fnatic NIP.
Okay, I'm lost.
I mean, I know it's a Swedish player, for sure he's from Sweden, right?
Good.
He's Swedish, for sure.
Wait, but Brolo didn't play for both Fnatic and NIP and for sure he's not by Gotsemp.
How that can be any Swedish player. I'll go with Brolin.
I don't know. First guess for me is Swedish player. Brolin, I would say, but I'm not sure.
You want to go with that?
I would try.
Everyone is a player from this tournament, actively playing the game.
Brolin.
Brolin.
Brolin, there you go.
It's a problem because you...
You're going to say it!
Only because you were like...
Let's go for the second one.
Okay, TSM, FaZe, clan, team Liquid.
And right now, he's on this tournament.
Yes.
I mean, it should be...
I won't say Karrigan first thought, but...
Yeah, but I'm not sure about TSM.
Because, like, TSM, FaZe for me, I was thinking, like...
K-Gamma, he didn't play Liquid.
Exactly, you're going to be good at that one.
I can only have K-Gamma man.
This is where he's at now.
Then it should be...
It should be Twizz, then I don't know.
Oh, it's Twizz.
Twizz, Clown, Lipid.
You are correct.
Alright, this one.
Is this even really obvious or you're not going to get it?
End point, Reggie, Clown and Mezi.
No.
Oh, no.
Hmm. Interesting.
I have it. No.
No, I don't.
No, I have it. No.
Okay.
Who played in Endpoint?
I don't have it.
Who are you thinking?
No, I was thinking about Alex.
No.
Hmm. Who went from Endpoint to OG?
Give him the next logo.
Who the hell is this one?
Cloud9 straight to G2?
Wait, heavy god.
And point, OG Cloud9 heavy god.
Okay, how did you get that so far?
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Nah, I had no idea.
Heavy god.
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Hello Counter-Strike fans, welcome back to PGL Clusion of Poker and your host Richard
Lewis and joining me on the desk is the most toxic, venomous analyst in the world.
It is, of course, Yanko and next to him is Maui Snake, you see what I did there?
Yeah, I mean we could flip it actually. I mean you know as a as a it was snake
It funds. I was doing snake puns because you're wearing a snake. This is true. This is true
I got also yank. I got one of these one. Shout out to him. This material is wasted on this audience
But no anyway looking forward to this we've got Navi versus Mongols
An encounter I'd say if we would go back maybe six months in the last year
This would be big names, right? It happened a handful of times last year
And I feel like Navi was actually bouncing Mongols from a couple of the tournaments, I think notably, but was it saved tournaments like, yeah, Thunderpick here, Pro League.
I mean, this is where I feel like there were, for me, holes that were actually being poked in the Mongols case, where you could actually see the Navi outplays in terms of just kind of understanding the way that they wanted to react to situations.
And there were so many good counterparts on the Navi side.
Like the amount of times I saw extremity duels from bit and Mazzino and bit just better him like it was it was a pretty good tactical
That I would say display of just how many times Navi had their number
Yeah, good sign for this tournament considering bit has had a good tournament so far
But yeah for the Mongols, I mean, they're a known quantity, right when you go up against them
You know, there's not going to be anything crazy. They're not going to try and finesse you like they're a straightforward
forward team that the things they do they do them extremely well right and
they're very sharp in the aim duels and then that's how they play right so it
comes down to are you able to stop them and it also comes down to maps but to
some extent which is why this matchup is they they shared the map pool so it was
always interesting to see them go up against each other yeah I think when it
comes to the Mongols you know you saw it on your screen there at home people
probably haven't really processed the fall-off, the post-Sensu era. They are down to 13th
in the VRS and therefore tournaments like this, it's vitally important that they start
picking up some results because the real worry if you're a Mongols fan is that you are going
to fall so far down that suddenly you're in that maia, you're fighting against teams that
are really difficult to beat and online qualifiers and you might never get back to the promised
of automatic invites.
Well, the one thing is that's always going to help them out
in a major invite system is that they are an Asian team.
True.
So that is, in fact, a boon to them.
I mean, they're pretty heavily gapping whatever
the second place Asian team right now.
I think it would be FlyQuest.
Yeah, I don't think that.
There's too much worry just yet
about FlyQuest overtaking them in the rankings.
And really, if Mongols goes to any of the tournaments
that FlyQuest goes to in China,
those kind of individual lands over there,
I think Mongols are going to like the floor.
Obviously, it does have an impact on the seeding,
and this is another problem they have to consider.
You know, you are going to go against a tough opposition
to lower down the VRS you are.
Yeah, absolutely.
That should not be underestimated, right?
And it makes your runs at tournaments harder, right?
And Mongols, a bad team, no.
But if they have to play Vitality in the first round
or Falcons in the first round, and then Spirit after that,
if they win that game, can they beat those teams back to back?
I'm not so sure right now.
But you give them some of the middle of the pack teams.
Yeah, that's definitely where you can feel that they can best them.
And that's why this matchup is really interesting to me,
because we're still figuring out Mongols without Tanzu, right?
And especially with CobraZera,
because Controllers was there only for a short time.
And Navi on the other side is also talking about how,
ooh, we think we're a contender team, actually,
with, I'm not sure where that's going.
Yeah, not really looking like it, to be honest.
Outside of that major round.
So like, where are these two teams at the moment,
is what will get more information after this game?
Yeah, I mean, obviously, Navi on your screen right now,
we had that interview with Blade saying he thinks
they're gonna be contenders.
I'm not so sure, there's a lot of people at home,
probably a bit perplexed as to why Navi
didn't make roster changes, there was rumors swirling,
the likes of Frozen have been linked with this team,
you know, maybe a rifle might go,
someone like Emma, question marks over Mikaze,
and how he's slotting into the team.
What do you think they should have done?
Are they right to double down?
Hey, if there's one thing that I understand and know
about top tier counter strike is that
you gotta trust Blight sometimes.
I didn't always expect him to actually come up
in the ways that Nobby did as they have peaked
for the big events consistently.
I mean, even just looking at the process of 2025
and how if I actually isolate the prestige events,
made the playoffs of all four. Okay. I mean, you look at Katowice, you look at Cologne, you look at
both majors and they had some pretty big wins in those as well to reach those sort of points.
And so Crackow is to me a bit of a worrying sign because obviously they did not perform well there
and he maybe thinks that they can regain some form from the previous season. But I have been wrong
before about doubting Blade and so that's why I have a bit of an unfounded confidence in this
team for the future just as Blade seems to. I know, but the problem is also who did they lose
to at some of these other tournaments too, right? I mean, getting eliminated by the likes of 3D Max,
you can't call yourself a contender if you're going to be losing 2-3D Max and being last place in
Chengdu, right? Like some of these, the body of work across the whole year, it just wasn't there.
They didn't feel like they were a contender at any point during last year, really. Yeah, they had
some flashes in the pan in terms of results, but could never do it on a consistent basis.
And so yeah, we head into the veto probably gonna see some relatively standard stuff on
Ancient yeah, I'm back in my idea. No matter what and maybe new case the third place the third map
Yeah, the only thing I work okay her ball. Okay. Yeah, we get inferno. I mean, this is kind of a blitz classic
It was sort of I'm kind of surprised they're bringing it in right now in this one
And the question for me is do Navi actually go with and then watch and yeah, they don't so they actually go with nuke
I think that the handshake should land on mirage anyways, which is why if I were Navi
I probably would have opted to go for something a little bit different just because it feels like you could force it into this veto
Anyways, because Mongols have been liking it, but actually now that I don't think about it could be ancient. Yeah, actually
I think Mongols. Okay. No, they do wow
Okay, and this two mirage
Honestly, I feel like the one thing Yankee I would have probably said looking at this is that if I Mongols
Maybe I would have wanted to ban Mirage here because Navi are just to me decidedly better on that map
Yeah, I mean they really like it, but for Mongols it feels like it's been their best they like it
Yeah, that's yeah
I'm just surprised because for me it was always been Mongols if they can get both Mirage and ancient into the pool
Right like that's what they're at their strongest like those have been their two best maps historically
And yeah at different times
Inferno would pop up here and there perhaps
perhaps earlier in Vongos's history.
They were really good at it.
Yeah, exactly.
So I'm surprised that they didn't go for Mirage and Ancients as a pick just so because there's
a good chance they could get the other one as the decider, right?
And then you get both of them into the pool, but perhaps they feel just on Inferno they
have a better chance to punish Navi and also Mirage, Ancients, two out of the three best
maps it feels like for Navi as well.
Yeah.
So an interesting veto.
we had into Inferno. Obviously we know both of these teams very familiar with this map
and certainly played it multiple times. Why do you think Mongols have picked them on?
Well, I just feel like what Blitz showed along with Techno, especially when they were coming
up with the IHC days and even early on once they donned the Mongols jerseys was that they
were very clearly able to segment the map very well. And also your map control pack
is one that isn't really affected
by Sansu's absence as much here.
So CobraZera can just be kind of left
to his own devices a little bit more,
just kind of more responsible for those bracket takes,
whereas you have your pack players,
I think, I mean, what, Techno, Blitz himself
working towards Banana, that's always gonna be
a little bit of a boon, because then they can just kinda
harken back to all the experience that they've had,
even back to what, the Checkmate roster
maybe four years ago or so.
So I think that it's a lot more grounded for them
in terms of what's important.
All right, well, we're bringing our commentators.
That's what they think.
It is, of course, scrawny and launderous Zira.
Whoa.
Yeah, how are we doing, guys?
What do we think about this one?
Doing fantastic.
I'm excited to see Mongols push the speed of the game
a little bit in the face of this Navi
after the last couple days of casting them.
I think we have learned that officially.
Senzu is a position, and CobraZera will be just fine
on this roster.
He has some bad maps, but he really bailed them out
yesterday.
Like, he got better into overtime,
and just continually impressed by how well they
can integrate new talent.
Do you think he's the real deal, guys?
You think he's gonna make yourself forget about Senzu in six months?
I mean, to be completely honest, he's not the quality of Senzu, right?
You're just yet.
But I think they've shown that they can kind of turn any uncut gen into something special over there.
So, all right.
Well, I'll let you focus on the treasure trove before you because the game is about to start.
See you, boys, later.
Into Inferno, we go, Mo.
And, yeah, I think, you know, kind of building on what you just said there.
I don't know if Cobra Zera will make us forget about Senzu, but I think the success of Mongols as a collective
can make us forget about Senzu as time goes on.
If they are really able to tap back into what we believe in them, and that is the system can make
whatever piece they bring to the table that much better. We saw it with control as we've seen glimpses
of it already with Cobra Zera, and there were times in yesterday's matchup for the Mongols that
they were just dominating. You know, I thought they were going to blow bait out of the water at a
a couple of those moments, but then also games got brought back, so we got to keep a close
eye on this.
We know Na'Vi have fight, we know Na'Vi have evolution, adaptation, all the things that
will test the game plan of Mongols, but for now we're going to be going into the B bomb
site which features Alexi and Alexi only, smoked off and unable to stop the two players
crossing over to the pit, fast flank from three.
We see this off from Na'Vi and now all the sudden 9-10 to be pressured.
He'll fall back into the sandbags losing the player behind him, still got another teammate
offering distractions, but it is only that one frag between all the players still sitting
on banana, so MZeno best of luck.
Well, he needed a little more than luck, it seems.
E-Met right between the eyes and Novi, fast to the flank, fast to the pistol round win.
Yeah, quick on the frags, that very inspired looking Novi right now.
We'll have to see how this game goes because it doesn't feel like Novi are sharp enough
to make this into maps, it doesn't feel like that coming into the game, but it's kind of
The question is, how good the top team's form is going to be at this event so far.
I think the thing again that I was most impressed about Cobra's era, because before yesterday's match,
you know, he's had two bad maps in a row, he's had a great map and then a bad map.
It's been a little bit all over the place and he's replacing a star player that's tagged in 9-10.
But, what struck me the most was again, him getting better by the rounds, him getting better with more pressure, him showing like really smart play as well as good mechanics, as time went on.
And so, how fast this kid can kind of mature and break the door locks.
Because things happen fast with the Mongols, and again, all their new players always just seem to step up to the challenge.
The only symptom of kind of struggle we saw from Controles was when he had to take the big leap onto the biggest of stages.
But again, who could have expected them to even make it top 8 back in Budapest?
Let alone go beyond that point.
So now, you know, CobraZera kind of gets more of a grace period, right?
If he's going to evolve and if he's going to get better over time, we just know he's going to get more time than Controles would have.
Because he was very much a stand-in for a short-term real issue.
They wanted the experience for the Budapest Major and they've re-secured top 8, huge accomplishment.
Now you've got a little more runway coming into a fresh season, and CobraZera's going to benefit from that, I think.
It's so interesting that they just know what they want so clearly that they can even turn down someone who brought them to a major play-offs
in favor of what they think they really need.
They're going to challenge this smoke here in the second round.
I was gaunted to be diving smokes like that into a B site that could be stacked, that could have, of course, real threats within it.
And lo and behold, a forced buy for the Mongols, looking likely that the success has been found.
So a sudden pounce and a pop in through the smoke, and that's what I was trying to allude to when this game started, right?
We're going to see Mongols test Navi's in just in terms of timing.
Go back to Aurora vs. Navi a couple of days ago on a Nubis particularly.
Aurora did a really good job of, you know, throwing just a piece of utility there, making a noise here.
And that really has Navi, I think, in the ebb and flow of rotations within a game.
And sometimes that benefits them. They get into the right spot when they need to.
Alexi reads the situation versus the Mongols at so much harder because things are sudden.
And when there's that certain sudden urgency in a game, I think this is a way to just stylistically
really push Navi to their limits.
And Mongols are a perfect example of a team that loves to do that.
Yeah, I like it. They're just like the UFC is always on my brain.
I didn't even watch it that much anymore.
But I just filing when I think about when I think about the Mongols,
I think about Max Holloway, you know, they're always willing to throw down
on the best striker in the U.S.
And like they're there to have fun almost as much as they are there to play
like tactical smart CS, right?
And they do cheat timings a little bit more.
And that's what I think that's what's given them so much rise in CS, too.
If it's the game if it's their playstyle and it does scare top teams who there there seems to sometimes be an exchange
There's some space here's a space to take it back. Here's a cool 2k, but okay now a late mid-round
Or an interesting play in the mid-round
Mumbles it kind of almost keep a
Spirit tier one who I like that, you know, yep, and and for anybody who's been watching they know that if that is nothing
Nice flash in for Eme to get the better of that. Didn't actually blind blitz, but just gave Eme the confidence to step in for the duel.
This was a strong setup at a Navi's start, around three players into banana, kind of looking for a challenge.
Didn't come their way, so they extend around the corner and it nets them in opening.
And of course, working with three rifles, it's good for the formula that Eme is able to find one.
Majority is still here for Navi on the A site. They're gonna start stepping forward on Arch.
We had to look around the brackets just for a moment there from the Mongols, but as they peel back for a moment to pull their utility out, that is when Navi decided to step into it.
And we get Cobra dropping a wonderful in the background, finding damage as well. That is 9-10 to follow suit that E-Med dual towards B left him low, but righting off the threat of Alexi's Beretta is gonna be a lethal mistake.
low HP on the bomb carrier here. Bit very much walked into the corner, will be half-assed, cleared and so he's got them dealt with.
Nice rebound back from Navi, making quick work of the Mongols after their successful force.
Double push timing on Arch. I really liked that from Navi. It was really in between just like 10 seconds after a minute
and I think the Mongols put themselves in a good place to trade. That third guy showing up that quickly, getting back to it.
And that's also the danger of playing against a team who have a little bit less control.
If they're going to rotate a bit faster, they're going to surprise you a lot more often.
Now if you pick this back up, get right back on track.
They're really going deep with their banana control.
All that early banana control? I mean, it does kind of queue up Mongols to just take an earlier A-play if they're confident about this.
Yeah, they think it's creepy, which it technically isn't.
They still have Emma spotting on her here.
Just the timing of all this, and the fact that they've done it without too much utility, this is very much unannounced, right?
So it feels like models are going to catch somebody off.
Why do they always go in library?
He's going to wrap it in time.
Does get flipped for a bunch of damage.
Mzeno is going to come through.
Pula player off of the site.
Smoke off Ena who tries to make something happen.
Wanted to help Wonderful, who's now going to do this on his own.
on his own, south player dead.
Excellent second kill here from Wonderful,
trying to dodge these threats as his rotations come over.
Macauze popped, beautiful shots coming through from Emzinho.
That is three kills on the round.
You can see the uncertainty as to where the last one's at.
Alexi has smoke fade in front.
Emzinho tiptoeing into his own death, keeps up his back.
It's just Alexi to lean back, relax, and do it his way.
A sole survivor in this one for Navi
as they begin to truly pull ahead.
knew that Alexei was gonna be flanking from B. He just didn't know if it was
gonna be through mid, if it was gonna be through arch. He just didn't even think
that library would be an option there. So really nice attempt from Mzinio. He was
moving smooth, but it's another round saved for Navi.
Navi are going to play this well, and there really is a chance that they can clean this game up fast.
I think it's all, you know, until we find out otherwise, we want to feel like Mongols are the underdog.
There's not some really aggressive counter-strike from Novi on day one.
Really, I think kind of had their stocks skyrocketing.
at least just wasn't very long-lived, but it was a huge uptick in contrast to what we got from Valti and what we got in Crack-Ow.
You know, the expectations for Navi were kind of nose-diving.
So maybe it wasn't an uptick, maybe it just plateaued for a second throughout the year, as they were on a decline.
Right now, we've just got the 1-devil kill from 9-10 to be concerned about for Navi's ability to go up 4-1,
and he may have a little bit of an exit here from balcony, but he's got players breathing down his neck, and he's dealt with.
So four up, that's good.
Navi, they can, I would say, pretty quick work of this, too, right?
I think there's a certain electricity in their step right now.
That is the thing about the Mongols,
is they get to control the tempo because they play aggressive.
So they can make a team like Navi look fast,
because they're on T side, up in your brackets,
at the top of banana, well before a minute,
and they force you to react.
At a certain point, you have to fight back for space,
even if you are going to try to be a passive team.
But yeah, right here.
they know what the assignment is.
They're happy to meet them at this speed.
And they're on point with these trades,
not getting pushed over.
Start of this game was made a little weird, though,
with that back-to-back successful force
by between both teams.
So things kind of stabilize here.
round six. Let's see if Mungo's T-side really has something to say.
Back to the Banaduol well equipped. Miss shot from wonderful.
Feels like you could value out of the fallback utility here for Navi,
And it's not an entire fallback either right Alexi just giving another burst of MP9 downrange
Mongols have gone for the retreats instead happy to hold on to a 5v4 knowing these health bars aren't all full
Pretty nice for Alexi doesn't see anything, but also lets him know shooting those last few bullets down to the bottom of B
That he hasn't left they are not going to over rotate and
They've cleared up an atom, but I think for in Navi's mind what this means is that now Mongols are gonna try to come and clear them back out
They've rotated three towards B. They have one ready to leave on arch. This Halls play is gonna work out beautifully
It's gonna be one of those moments where Navi have to transition straight to a save running right from the back of Halls
Emma, let's see where he gets off to
Anybody do anything about this?
Yeah, tries to give it a jiggle. It's only bit with the frag. Alexi he's got wind of what's going on here
Hanging on to underground.
Yeah, he's very aware of the drone.
I need to get thrown through.
And he's looking for who threw them.
And finally finds Blitz.
And the back heal feels like the retakes on.
They're still close enough.
You know, it's unconfirmed damage, perhaps, on most of this.
But 9-10 being on 40 HP,
Cobra's Zera on the brink of death.
Chuck's the nade out to get a little more value.
Now, Navi, you're going to start reconsidering their own HP.
Do they have the keys to make this retake happen?
Smoke in Wonderful's hands thrown out.
This is going to obscure some vision towards the pit, make things a little more awkward for Cobra.
He hits more damage in the middle of all of this, and times of the essence.
It's three kits, sure, but they're so late on the retake, they've got to dive bomb it if they want it.
It's time to get out of here, man.
And they've got to go.
This is going to be costly for the Mongols as the bomb will pop and probably kill both.
No escape for Tecno.
Navi put the squeeze on the bomb site and at least rack up the price tags,
but it is a round win for the Mongols, regardless.
I appreciate Cobra's error there, just finding a way to be useful.
That smoke is meant to take him out of the round.
He would normally take first contact, so the guy on site can take the second.
The guy in mini-pick can crossfire with him.
Even with the smoke coming in, he just, you know, lines things up based on his intuition,
exactly where wonderful is.
HP was so low, all he had to do was delay.
And so it's a well-called round here for Mongols.
Even though Alexi is very clever to find Blitz in underpass, who was throwing Nades, just
like he suspected that it was the initial call by Blitz to get everybody up into halls
right after they left Banana Control so quickly.
We've seen Navi just, they've always been keen to stack, but they've been stacking
Way more, I think, with this lineup in recent times.
See the effect of that squeeze with the double Mach 10 here in round 7.
Figuring out whether or not these 3D stars are a huge part of the game on T-Side.
You don't have to do it without seeing everybody.
Right here. They're trying to hold their attention, but...
Navi have rotated that extra player over quickly.
It's a dangerous way to hold for Wonderful if he gets seen from the other side.
Up quick, hopper in a pinch, yeah, not a pretty one here for a wonderful bit.
And Emeth though, still joined forces, good on Emeth, it felt like Bit was in a bit of
a tough spot too hard, a position to hold to get a block jiggle.
Wow, fast to the scenes, Mikaze, you've got a player cut off in Bit in the meantime, but
in a 1 vs 2, they know where you're at and you've got Mzinho scouring for this push.
Yeah, he's got the bomb, he's got to bury that out of the site.
It was a fast rotate though, right, Mikaze?
Coming around to grab this kit?
This is taking the scenic route around to the back of lane
and MZenius is just gonna wait for him.
Because Mikaze didn't press the issue out through balcony,
it feels like now that threat
of a potential apartment's position
is gonna be considered.
Oh my goodness Blitz, it's so much time this past
he actually stops rotating.
Mikaze goes back, carol spotted, but still survives.
Ooh, it makes it tough.
Five HP versus the full bar of MZenius.
You see Glock out.
Asino took a peek, didn't see anything.
Macaulay's repositions have been huge here.
He's got the drop.
But then, Asino considers it an obviously huge health advantage.
So if not for all that blitz damage,
maybe we get this 1v3 clutch.
It's Mongols to break down the doors of the A site,
regardless.
They played very well off of that information.
And I think the way that Mongols saw that was whether or not
it was a 3v3 start, and they started
to rotate someone back.
It may be that he has the merit for some kind of lane split, and the crossfire nearly stood up to this task.
They did a good job of emptying him this ammo, taking out Bid inside of the pit.
I'm not ready to go with the MP7, but he eats a flash as he tries to test the limits of
banana.
Quick pop out from a cause.
Dangerous games to take over car control and it's such a real perfect counter flash for
the CC side.
Oh, trying to find timing. Has a shadow there to work with.
Ooh, just opens the door for MZ to swing.
Didn't anticipate a second layer there with E-Man ready and prepared for the follow-up peak.
And still concerned about the balcony, but there's nobody inside of apps here for the Mongols.
Corner clear. 9-10 spots it.
Still gonna team that up. There won't be any push on B. It's just a posse here.
I'll go to try to help him, but Mongols are already thinking about saving.
Well, it's been a pretty good game so far, I think we've seen a little bit of everything,
some good calling out of Mongols.
Now these counter play, the way they're able to keep up with Mongol speed and still find
all the trades has been good.
It hasn't been any less clear to me as to who is going to win this game.
Economically this game has just been on a nice edge as well.
Counter-terrorists win.
It's nice to see E-man getting his impact nice and early.
We had a shortcoming from one of the Romanian players today.
Unfortunately for Foot, unable to convert that overpass win.
Does that come back of the year so far?
Ah, 12-3.
It's pretty big.
It was overpassed CT side so that takes a little bit of the shine off it still really impressive
Yeah, I was still really impressive, but
Contender because it was actually
9, 9, 18 rounds, help, time is lost, I'm not sure.
Pretty next level.
Now it's going to be up to Emeven to find success today.
Yeah, Emeven saw that and he's like, we're not letting that happen to us.
Vistals 10 for Mongols 9 to the face baby 910 down 53 damage but damn triple mate double
mate Mikaze down to 2 HP your artillery shells just come flying over top of the wall and
well that's the price you pay for dropping 910 by half.
Cause they're lucky to be alive at the start of this round.
Cancel the smoke.
You've seen Mongols kind of step into brackets without announcing it at all before.
They'll just do this dry with no utility and without that smoke, without that flash, it feels like they want to do it again.
Yeah, look at the map though, this is not the round to go, eh?
There's not even a human who has a better chance at a trade, but they're probably confused
at Navi, basically no pressure over on Banana.
Here comes that short peek, right?
Slowly, but surely, wonderful stepping forward, off covers, he goes wide, Ema dies, there's
the pack!
Oh!
Baby!
Wonderful!
Gets two headshots back to back, and that mow down, three kills on the round.
That's brutal after getting the kill.
All about getting past 9-10s off, because if that off shot connects, it's not only
Wonderful dead on the short side, but E-MAT over towards arch down with nothing.
The three of her teammates are going to be alive.
That is a world of difference with the missed coverage by 9-10.
And so Navi easily scooping up a 6th CT round off of the back of that shortcoming.
And they themselves will keep 4 alive.
So wonderful showing us what he can do with the Colt.
Headshots in the middle of that spray down as well.
Nice and clean.
Doesn't get away from him.
Doesn't get squirrely.
And the op difference could be, like N910 could be quite freaky. I mean, moving on, I guess, would be incredible.
He would be in everything.
But if he's gonna miss a shot like that, or shot a few like that today, then, you know, that'll be the difference for sure.
Since Mungle's spiraling back down two Glocks on all five, couple flashbangs for Blitz.
Six will try to charge it all down.
It's the worst that he was protecting a low-bi as well.
I guess I'm right on that nice edge economically well here we get it
the folly
The economy getting broken its turn try to go for the same flight wonderful did email on the other end of things
We get some block headshots coming through but no casualties for Navi to have to handle this boats very well for them closing out strong on the CT side a
7 3 half secured
Yeah, that's their best sort of anti-eco
No losses, so much money made, and they could even start upgrading because they're going
to be able to buy next round no matter what.
This is where it could get real ugly for the Mongols.
The map that I brought out, this is so funny that Mongols used to be like the only map
you don't play them on was in Burnout, and the map was expanded so much that it's really
remarkable.
Hold on, because we've got Mikaze stepping up to the plate.
Yeah, just when the Mongols come back into a round with real guns,
two of them dropped instantly, Mikaze let off the leash as he rounds that half wall.
Supported by Alexi, CobraZero returns the favor through the smoke with a headshot,
and that'll give the Mongols something to work with.
But I feel like Navi have already given them a lot more to think about.
Tough goal of it to start of this round and yet still, and CDO catches his.
9-10 decides to push the limit through a smoke and we go back to the 2v2 with Navi currently very much split up.
Yeah, it's something I couldn't even mind being the Mongols here.
The bomb will be retrieved in a second.
Hima is making a rotation towards A, which is nuts, because again, they've just spotted this.
But is he expecting them to go and grab this quickly or really take their time?
I think it's the latter.
And if they do grab it too quickly, they might still think about going B, so we'll see.
A B to bracket rotate into a double midflank.
They're going to have to rotate mid, so the fights will be right now.
Yeah, they find it timing to perfection, bolstered by QMDing here, so now never do you expect
that the guy who dropped the bomb towards Banana is on the other half of the map.
That is some clean mid-round movement from Novi.
It's just that the decision gets made so long ago to reclaim mid at that timing in a counter strike.
That's awesome to watch.
Round-winning decision 25 seconds earlier, okay, and I go 14 and 6
master of Inferno at the moment
And a very meaningful game for him to get to play in front of his countrymen
Here we go pressures right back on you don't get a
Second to catch your breath in the face of the naughty aggression
And Macaulay goes swinging around the wall.
And Navi truly, I think throughout this half,
have fought fire with fire.
We mentioned it early just because of maybe the force
buys, getting that electricity in Navi's step.
Look at them go now, continuing with the pressure
to try to close out the half.
Huge flank here from Bid as well.
He's got Blitz done for.
That is bomb possession at the base of ramp.
Kobrazera soon to be pinched by both sides.
and Navi Rock solid CT half on the Mongols map pick,
a 9-3 score line they should certainly be proud of.
That's one of the best Navi halves, definitely.
So far, the event, that was really beautiful.
Suffocating there for the Mongols.
I mean, they recognize the fact that they just can't respond
to the aggression on Inferno by playing all the way back.
There was a meta or two where like a big clan would line up
all the grenades from the site and really hit some good
timings and deal damage to you when you took over a car.
But now, these days, everyone's fighting for it.
You're going to Sandbags, even if you're going to take an HE,
get flashed, and have a Molly waiting for you on your exit.
It's worth staying there to do a battle over.
And I'll be proved that that style can be consistent.
A few rounds at Mongols, one were good,
but there were very few.
I'll be making their job easier for themselves by winning that force war we had at the beginning
of the half.
Five round streak to close things out, not even bomb plants within them, just a real
testament to how out of the T side Mongols winded up being.
Just a lot of confident decisions made by Na'Vi, right?
just that Ema B to A site wrap.
But Mikaze in those back to back rounds to close out the half number 11 and 12
featured him just taking his challenge down around the half wall.
So now we'll watch as he will be at the tip of the spear towards Banana on the
attack as well.
Looks to me like Mongols have a decent read on once taking place, setting up in
double pit, really thinking about flashes here.
They're gonna throw the exact together, 9-10 immediately rotates in, he knows it's coming too.
Bop of the balcony, great cover for G-Man. Takes a little bit for CobraZera to get his
so down to just a couple bullets and unable to find the multi-frag.
Oh, the first kill for Mima is unreal.
Holy hell.
I didn't even really see him from the back of Pit there.
One player spinning through the sky, and EMA doesn't waste a second in terms of executing the Pit player.
CobraZera only able to post the one.
And now a two versus four pistol retaker.
We've got Navi on double digits out of the gates.
Even bits dead bodies still chilling in pit looking comfortable right now him and all of Navi
Yeah, they don't have the tools players time or anything to go and attempt this
Try to catch a couple exits and Alexi
He's gonna drop blitz at least push blitz down to the 2 and 11 score line as Navi
Like I said double digits 10th round immediately and this now a six round streak between the two sides
So it's not as if mongols went all in on an A stack, but they did know
The high likelihood of this malting, what is that shot?
Just laser beams.
That really makes all the difference.
If that exchange goes differently and they stop the first guy getting into pit
and you- and it doesn't hit this incredibly hard shot,
then yeah, you could have a situation where Maungal's hold,
but that's just not the kind of CSM he's playing right now.
He's hitting everything.
Ten wants to make it happen with the scout,
but he's gonna be, oop, I thought, caught from the fallback.
Even though it doesn't go hyper aggressive.
Yikes.
A little bit.
You can see 9-10's frustration in that moment.
It feels like things are stacking up against you, surely not just the score,
but little mistakes like that don't have you feeling good about yourself,
nor your odds of bringing this game back.
Break it to place grenade.
It's all to just hold 3 at A.
Ooh, shot in.
Another missed chance for 9-10 to get damaged to try to queue up these pistol kills.
Gonna find coverage behind the tall box.
While Navi have all of brackets, there's still 40 seconds of things feel way too stacked.
Currently 5 players here for the Mongols and Alexi is willing to run a bit of a risk with the M10 at least.
They think they've scared them. They've already started rotating back to B. They had the right idea, but they've abandoned the plan.
Scout shot does connect at least, so we see a couple low health bars here for Navi, but the numbers advantage here inside of the A site is massive and a wonderful catch can be killed deep into CT spawn as well.
Scout misses its chance to find further damage done and Xeo gets killed in a distance.
CobraZera's Eagle catches another one, so the sidearms do their job.
But unfortunately, bottom performing player here for the Mongols in a 1v3 clutch...
...lets pushing the Berettas up close.
Caused an instant with the headshot though and Navi just still take their time, right?
Not frazzled by the smokes in front of them.
Alexi willing to push the limit by walking through one to just be guaranteed that
Even though it felt like all of the CTs were there, like you said,
they just kind of were very confident that they had scared Navi and decided to head back to B.
There's the big value in cutting noise. You know, get the other team to second-guess themselves.
And when you make a big move like that, you always doubt yourself.
You know, you've lost entire vision on the other side of the map.
You think you were about to read a stack, but maybe it felt a little bit too easy.
Well, Navi, just allow you to make your own mistakes.
Falling back in the face of the utility this forced by for the Mongols
Is it gonna be enough to deter Naughty for again pushing the limits?
Smoke grenade in front of them, but not even doing a really good job of playing with the time accordingly
We never see them kind of get squeezed by the clock fully. I
Don't think I can pinpoint a mistake that Naughty have made throughout this half so far
Yeah, I don't not seeing one and like another moment where they're thinking only are they gonna go back to a this time?
and no, they're not turning down car control here, there's only 2-5-7s to hold back, this
is definitely the weaker sight by a large margin.
We smoke down at 40 seconds.
Wouldn't be surprised they even disrespect this, they know that this is scopal, they're
gonna go for it.
Scramble over from CobraZera trying to put the FOMIS in position, Techno gonna catch
the instant headshot, that helps, and Blitz will find one as well, Techno's got it second,
and the wonderful finally clears this out, CobraZera's used this chance to slip in towards
the coffins, and right now his wonderful plant smoke fades, coverage offered by Bit, and he
doesn't waste bullets. He finds the headshot, DP and the mow down. Rotators dealt with, and
Navi can do no wrong. I mean, I feel like Mongols are watching this like, man. Sometimes we play
that well. Like the right amount of aggression, all the great tactics, the self-belief here.
Navi have that in spades. They woke up on the right side of the bed today. This is
Unbelievable.
That's 16 and 5, wonderfuls 12 and 6, Emma's 18 and 8, Ozzie's 13 and 8, like all of these four lines that are going to be too late.
Might be good enough to have a lead.
That's an invasive 45 though, in round 16 is it an early finish or a little left for
the Mongols?
They try to push through the smoke, and the wonderful is going to catch your attempts,
9-10.
You've had a man advantage, and it's gone, just like that.
Until he's interrupted the approach, we got to fall back and pause the game.
Oh, is that kind of game?
Yes, sir.
In on it, and instant with it, Blitz gets his head popped, Techno's going to scramble
back over, Bitt remaining in middle, finds his instantaneous, and this is a novi that
just reeks of confidence.
Every individual finding those instantaneous headshots, every individual bringing something
to the table over top of the Mongols that are in free fall in this 2-1 matchup.
Techno tries to make it desperate, run through the smoke, and sure, Demzinho can mow one down,
but Navi have everything they need not to just win this map, but to blow out this series.
This is going to leave a mark on the Mongols as we move over to Nuke.
13-3 affair on the Mongols' map pick, and no jubilation here for Navi.
It is all business from all five members of this team gunning for the arena.
Well, what can you say about that one?
That was just over quickly. Fight back, Mongols. You were out too.
Great stuff there from Navi. Obviously, just comprehensive across the board.
Yeah, absolutely. I think this is why maybe we were a little bit surprised with Inferno, you know,
Mongols usually stick to Mirage slash Ancient, but maybe New Roster sign of New Times
and they just couldn't really do all too much on the T side.
They had an opportunity being that early forced by,
but then they got forced back and Navi with the economy
just never was in danger on the CT side from that point on.
Definitely just felt like looking back at the veto
that they may be five or the Mongols that is felt
they could punish the Makaase Alexi duo.
We have actually in recent memory had its struggles.
They've had a handful of bad games as a pairing there.
And you know, you pin or pin them against Techno and Blitz who have so many years of experience taking that space together.
But really, there was not much to be too happy about in that head to head.
No, definitely not.
And I mean, yeah, worth mentioning, you know, Mongols thought this could be the curveball.
So it kind of up in the air now where it's going to go for the rest of the video.
But I think the thing that really shocked me actually is just how flat they were.
Like no one talking, no one trying to pump anybody up.
Once they, once Navi started pulling ahead,
it just felt like they accepted their fate.
I think the problem is MR12, life comes at you fast, right?
Sure.
And they did a great job winning that force buy,
as I mentioned.
But in the round right after,
because Navi saved some guns,
they had a 3V3 for a really short period of time.
And, you know, 910 is just running like a headless chicken,
long just dies to Alexi who had doolies like he didn't even had you know and
it's like why are you so reckless in this moment that you don't need to be
running in he was running into a smoke by the way for them to split a and you
know it's it's a small mistake but it's at a key moment and from that point on
I was able to stream three or four rounds together that builds up their
economy so even when Wang was one back to back rounds now he could still buy
Yeah, and we're able to break them again
And just from that point on
Dominator first half you saw bit there obviously still want to now be well
He is now these best performer the jewel in the crown so to speak solid performance by him
What hopes do you have for him across the the rest of this year?
Hmm this year I I figured that he would maybe continue to regress that felt like at the end of 25
We weren't getting the best version of bit
But he clearly was imposing himself in this map here. If he can revitalize himself, find some of the form again, I mean, reminder, he's still in his early 20s.
I mean, he's still a pretty young guy, despite all of the years of experience he has with the squad. And if he can just, I guess, find the motivation again to be the star anchor extremity player that he's been for them in the past.
The sky can be the limit for this Navi team again. Like I'm probably I think of the pundits here and most the most
Illusionally optimistic about this team. I think yeah, there are a lot of things that have to go right for it to work out
But I just still feel like they still have a very high ceiling and a lot of that comes down a bit
So I pin it some of it on him
But I still think that most of their fate is really if McCauze can catch up to speed on every map
Yeah, we can take a look at a key round from the game something you wanted to highlight
Yeah, this is another one later on. It's the wonderful highlight, right? But how does this highlight happen? Mongols? They're taking
mid control, right? It's a pretty, you know, standard round where they want to focus towards the A.
Bombsite, they have to chase in the way. Maybe the player's in top banana. They're gonna throw the smoke for...
I really call it the B split smoke, just in the middle of long, right?
Where you can go into connector to try to put some pressure. You can see Navi's in a 4A setup,
Invite an E-Maze in that corner, but they're gonna do a good job of clearing him and this whole time 9-10 with Yop
He's just holding short, right? Then wonderful after E-Madei, he goes for the pick, 9-10 misses the shot
Like you're in that position just to hit that one shot. You cannot miss that shot, right?
Like when he goes for a wide swing, that's your only job. You hold short, the three rifles are working along
This is a very sort of potent way to split. A, but he misses that one key shot
Wonderful gets a spray down. No one's, you know, obviously covering that since they had 9-10 and the round falls apart
You see wow, I like from wonderful, but it was all comes down to that one shot, right?
If the 9-10 hits that they're in a 5v3
They're gonna converge on the a bomb site to win the round and this was another one of those
Reset rounds where they just didn't take advantage of the opportunities Mongols. What's also kind of frustrating about that is
Just blowing it up even more. I'm supposed to be now be the star of this team practically. Yeah, and and that's a
you're a Mongols player or fan because now your ceiling is just really dictated by can 910 make a leap as an opera. There was glimpses last year, even the year before, say Yalla compass, where he can be the best player in the server.
But now we've seen over multiple seasons, extended periods of time, extended tournament stretches that he doesn't always really rise up to that level of just the consistency they need from him in order to just be as commanding of a team as they could be.
they could be. Yeah, while we're talking about Mongols, we didn't really get into it before we
went into the game, but since that one was a bit of a damn squid, we can sort of talk about it.
Now, it is Cobra's era. It is the question mark, right? You know, how is he going to do and is he
going to be able to fill Senzu's shoes? I kind of feel that he's, I don't know, he's a warm body.
He's there right now. I'm, you know, he's okay. Yeah. But obviously lacking a bit of sparkle.
Well, just the way that they use him. I mean, I actually looked at both Senzu and Cobra's era as demos last night this morning, just a little bit just kind of pitting them side by side against each other. And they really want to use Cobra's era more as like the typical entry. They want to send him in first on a lot of the routes and things. He he's not really also is imposing as as Senzu like Senzu, even though I would say that yeah, by entry numbers, Cobra's era goes for more entries. But since it was actually more aggressive in the mid late round, whereas Cobra's era,
frequently kind of tucks tail kind of just moves back into a bomb site just kind of hopes that the setup will now work itself out
But one of the great reasons that Senzu was so explosive for Mongols is that he was just taking off angles all the time
He would just press himself forward rely on his aim
There's no one in position to trade and we give
Mongols that extra dimension and X factor which made them more ready to find upsets versus top teams because Senzu
would just get a couple kills shave them off as they're trying to get just map control in general
where as CobraZera it's just a little bit more vanilla right now and hasn't really really uh I
guess just shown what he can do other than just these set pieces and although obviously they've
denied it publicly what's sort of linked maybe with the move to Narvi as well Sunzu so I mean
you know could have been a revenge match that we didn't get the universe denied us that one
yeah and I think also for CobraZera I think it's okay for now in terms of give him some time to
to adjust to Tier 1 Counter-Strike, but I think you'll have to see the things Mali talked about,
change and him take more initiative and be more aggressive because that's just
identity of the Mongols, that's how they have to play, if they're going to be able to find success again.
In the early signs you feel like you've got more out of controllers in his first couple of shows than you are from Kuberzera.
We had a new kind of a little curveball in this very interesting veto, although I've got to say,
you know, do favor Navi on this map and bit of a tall order for Cobra Zera and the boys.
Cobra Zera, this is probably his worst CT side rated map. I think he's got a 0.75. It's just been
disastrous for him, actually. He's not filled the shoes whatsoever that sends you health. Hey,
right on cue. Yeah, perfect. Okay. And we can prep that, by the way. Yeah, no,
but no, even beyond him, though, this has been a really bad map for everybody on the
Mongols seem really nobody's getting this one going. I think I think Muzinho still looks all right for my money
I mean, I think at ramp you just kind of gets to do his own thing
But that's not really always Navi's target
They're not going to walk into the waiting arms of a Muzinho who still gets to work around his position
understand how he wants to get multi-frags and
In the past just Navi they've had a wide variety of
T side hits and openers on this one. I just feel like Mongols are going to be in the blender here
I don't think they're going to know left from right as Navi's just trying to get him through smokes flashes
What have you but consistency has been the issue for Navi
You know they can go from looking great to one map to sort of disappearing on the next and I guess this
Silver lining for Mongols might be a first map of the day for us. Maybe they just need to get warmed up a little bit
I don't know, but they were struggling to find solutions
They weren't even winning the fights which they're usually known for right
So on new that's going to be even more difficult to turn around of sorts. All right
Thanks a lot gentlemen. So nuke will be coming up
But in this break a special interview phase went out of the tournament earlier today and
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Phase we're hoping to better themselves here inclusion of poker
But they end up falling one three struggling here against the stars despite I would say a comeback that was happening
at least on Mirage there towards the end.
Just, I know how much this event was important for you guys
to show a better face as well, Kagan.
So can you just give me your initial thoughts
and overall feeling for the tournament?
I mean, I think we played really good
against Paravishon yesterday.
And then we lost that ancient, which could have meant
we were 2-0 and beating Paravishon going 2-1
instead of into the 1-2 pool.
Today is obviously super disappointing.
The way we were losing ancient,
They went to rounds where it's complete the swing rounds for the economy, rushing A and it's just rough like that.
And we only had hero rounds winning on the C-de-side ancient.
So all really disappointed.
I think we all had a good chance in the Falcons game on the first map in Nubis, so there was some luck around.
But in the end, the face we showed today is very, very disappointing.
It's not something we can be proud of at all.
But I have to look as a leader, I have to look post-hef, and I think we...
And this challenge, Paravishyan and Farkhams, to a certain degree, that I think is acceptable.
Where do you think this current phase is at? If you're like, we go back to the major and you were telling me
you want to stay at this roster, there's a lot of positives around it.
Then obviously we did the interview before this event and you said, you wish you could continue, you wish you could have kept playing events.
Now you've come into this season and it seems like there's a change.
Maybe you understand what that change is, what you can describe your feeling.
No, it's very confusing. If I knew what it was, I probably wouldn't have stuck into an accident right now,
similar to that. I don't know what the answer is. We are trying to do different stuff,
but the way we're playing today, we can't beat anyone like that. It's just how it is.
Of course, Astralis can play good and they're doing great, but no chance to win any game like that.
So that's something we have to look in the mirror and improve on.
Like I said, I can go two different routes being very negative, or trying to find some positive of this tournament.
And I'm going to do that when it comes to the Paravision and the Falcons game that we are getting to accept the level there.
But this game today is completely unacceptable.
When you're saying it's unacceptable like this, right? All the prep and the work you've been doing,
what do you think is the biggest thing you're noticing in the server on a game like today?
I mean, I think ancient might have been frustrating for some players in the way the game was played.
The play momentum day rushed, we don't kill them, we know what is coming, we are prepared, we don't win.
Maybe the catch is over, I could feel tension already after third round on the rush and I took a timeout already,
I never take that early timeout to kind of like make sure that we are locked in, like communicate.
It's a different map, different game, different scenario, different mentality, every time.
We're getting tested as a player, as a leader and today we didn't pass the test.
It's similar to that, so I think that's very disappointing to leading this team, to part
of the team that we kind of up to certain mentality, basic stuff.
Thank you very much Kagan, I'm sure it's easy.
We'll see you on the next events.
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What probably felt like a fever dream to the Mongols is a reality that now has to have
sunk in.
You are down a map and it happened right before your eyes.
Probably felt like you could do nothing about it as that game went on.
That is the form that Navi have brought to the table today in this game to qualify to
playoffs.
That reminds me of those times that sometimes you lose so badly to one guy that you go on
Twitter and you write like Gigi Zaiwu or Gigi Donk or something like that, except it was
everybody. It was just everyone individually not missing anything, hitting the great shots,
hitting the hard shots, hitting the blind shots on your map pick too. That was quick,
it was decisive. It's the fast CS that Mongols are going to bring out of anybody,
but the fact that Navi could just keep up the entire time as if they were the ones
who were driving Mongols to play that way. And that was something to watch. And, you know,
We didn't get the dignity rounds out of Mongols.
So we didn't get to a position where they go into a break
and they're like, well, next map will do better,
even though it's not our map deck.
I don't know if that's gonna happen.
It's funny, because yesterday we were discussing Mongols
and how they drag you into that style of Counter-Strike
and how no matter who you are,
it ends up just being you who cracks first, right?
If you can't keep up to their pace,
eventually you're gonna kind of deter away from it.
But Novi didn't because there was never ever a reason
to stop doing what was happening
and that was anything they chose to go for
just simply worked.
So here we sit going into Nuke, map pick of Na'Vi, and one whereby, yes, they'll have to begin on the T side,
but I think right now with everything going as well as it did, this T half is suddenly going to feel way less daunting.
Because everything you've done so far in the series has worked.
You've got a game plan, you've got four individuals that dominated the server, no offense to Alexei.
There was just not enough kills to go around with everybody else finding frags the way they did.
And I think when we saw Mongols yesterday on Nuke, it wasn't like Cobra's Erid didn't.
I don't think he even went positive until like the very last round of overtime or something like that,
but he got so many kills towards the end, and he was just a key player.
He was actually just a key player by the end of that map.
But that Nuke, you know, in that game, I think that there was such a distinct advantage
between the Mongols and Bait in terms of the quality of Nuke play.
Bait could win because they were very good individually,
but they didn't really have the team level to match up to the Mongols.
But in this game, Navi are going to be able to flex on the Mongols and their defaults on their pace and how they approach everything.
It's going to be a next level challenge for someone like Cobra's era.
So we get into this very difficult map.
Navi just hoping that they can rinse in repeats with the individual levels that they were able to bring in on Inferno.
We'll see if anything turns into a struggle for a team that has not had to really sweat for half of their victory so far.
One map secured for Navi.
Mongols now pick the gun. Xeno straight at it in the trophy room,
is only able to find one with the Berettas as he lets them go.
We've got multiple bodies though, still towards ramp,
and that is where the Mongols will stuff this attack.
Few kills spread across three, and a main tuck by Cobra Zera.
This is a position that we saw him kind of grow into
as the game went on yesterday, like you mentioned.
And a high impact position too, right?
He's going to have to be very good with his timings,
and these very narrow angles as well.
Like he's got great crosshair placement on catching players. They're able to get through garage
Yeah, this is reaction time not today. We're done. Not so very well handled here
Yeah, round MVP right there in mini you have to fight outside. You have to fight squeaky
You have to keep squeaky smoked
You might have to catch someone lurking out of hut like there are a number of ways to attack you where you aren't going to be
Favored they're gonna be dropping on you from above wrapping
And timings like this are essentially what'll be the difference between you succeeding and not.
Here the stomp stomp silo and you know that if there is a deagle in the mix it's looking
for a headshot so you got to be careful if you're going to be any of the Mongols players
looking for duels outside.
Let's keep it tucked in, but these M4s,
the real of them, looking for Noggin to make a move.
That's what I'm talking about.
You know it's out there.
You know it's on the prowl.
And Eman hits the first one.
Ooh, we've got damage on the player inside of main too.
But to follow up, Lips and Techno and Mzinha
are here on the scene.
The clock will try to charge one down
and grab a gun for his efforts.
5 health on Macauze means honestly there is a chance somebody else gets killed
this M4 is huge. Macober Zera's push around the trophy room he can just sit
here and wait he's got all the advantages in the world. Macauze not
considering the timing means majority alive still but dangerous game and a lot
of you know kind of flustered feeling for Mongols inside of main once that
first player gets dropped they were kind of jumbled up on top of one another and
it made it sketchy. It did. But there were so many fights there and you know
them tripling up actually probably saved them from losing the guy who got
gushed right away.
I comes back here, two Galils, and I'm up, so he has an AT on his back, yes.
He's right to those things, thanks.
working around red box as we have Navi's players crossing behind the smokes and into the safety of
red. Lit's going to be found out here if he's not careful. He's going to chuck the frag grenade up on
the fatal way. Got a 9 sand next to unbreakable as we get these Navi smokes coming down.
I think we saw a, not anymore, a timing that Mokuls went for.
what just happened there was that his own Molly as a dud he had a dud
mallets off it popped in his hand it felt through his pants what that's what
happened right there was no trajectory that came down from the I mean yeah
was that someone else that he doesn't have any he didn't have any utility after
that so you must be still holding this is a new one easy I'm I'm I'm tweaking
There was really nothing that could have bounced off of.
Oh!
Well, the 9-10 narrowly gets away.
Time is a resource, and it is getting scarce.
No kill, he's dead.
Oh, Techno's really aggressive, he's not ready for that.
Oh, he got two!
Big guess the trade, that's wild.
The two kills are still found by Techno.
Overbits, shoulder wings, that close to it.
And now Alexey finding Blitz is gonna bring this back to the even 3v3.
15 seconds on this clock and the bomb's gotta get through main.
9-10 down on site.
CobraZera going out through the vents, takes the duel on his terms and the Heaven player's also dead.
Nice shooting here for the Mongols, all three remaining players inside of the A site, ready to hold.
And so, Navi meet their maker. Three rounds in a row.
Yeah, they do, man. That's a nice angle there from CobraZera just to make sure.
But the time left over again, so there's no way they could do anything about that.
That was ridiculous.
What was that?
I mean, he was fully in front of that.
How could his model even...
I don't even know how that happened.
Didn't matter.
I feel like technically I'm getting that second kill.
That was the difference.
the advantage over top of the tech dine, so if that's what he wanted to lean back on
Grey, but the smoke's fade, he gives it up, and tucks into main instead.
Giving over a lot of space for Novi to potentially get a round outdoors, but obviously they're
down to now no utility with that last flash, and the kills are collected quickly.
Bit beautiful, headshot comes through, 9-10 dealt with back sight, wonderful.
It's a 1v3, and he's one kill into it already.
He's got the bomb possession in 40 seconds to figure this one out.
quite scary here for the Mongols. They're not going to have any utility to stop a plant
either. Just a flash. Then they're going to decide how to play it, but it's even scary
at this point in the round for Mzino to get down from heaven. So he's going to try to
find this latter timing. Wonderful's going for the walk up, and I think at this point
he knows he may be in for a plant, but Blitz is ready to open control side. I don't think
he'll be able to stick this.
Tries it, Blitz buys a few seconds before he swings the door wide and executes, keeping
a couple alive.
Still not bad considering Tech 9's on the side of Navi, but these A-sites have held
strong despite the attempts of Navi to get in through Heaven to now just force their
way down main.
Blitz, I mean sorry, the bad Deagle shot was special though, that was unreal, what was
that?
player in Mustang, about a half way between him and how he finds that angle.
Mungle probably finally feeling like they've got something to say in this match
after getting slammed back on Inferno, we go 4-0 Mungle CT side.
I'm trying to find that crawl over to red, but now you've got Blitz ready to go from
secret.
Seize the trajectory, but it's Mikaze to get a glimpse of it.
Nate comes out, down goes Mikaze's health to half, and trying to keep that utility pressure
on Blitz, but he's not too afraid of you, Mikaze.
around.
Kaze goes head hunting, difficult duel to commit to a spray whiz, and that's going
to cost Makaze even further HP.
You get the rooftop futile being set up by wonderful three players ready to go on the
ground floor.
And again, it is good numbers by Mongols inside A.
Ooh, they'll find the first one near for Cobra Zera.
That's going to cut off Alexis.
He gets wild trying to spray through, a bit dead inside of the hut, and totally stuffed
once again by the Mongols.
We can't buy openings in this one, as this overstaffed A bomb site has been worth its
weight in gold securing this 5-0 lead.
Nothing about Inferno would be able to precipitate this happening by the Mongols, but leave it
to them, you know, a team that they've just got Marcus Aurelius all over their face constantly,
just in between.
They're never too emotional, never too upset, ready to take their ground by round.
They come into this game on Nuke as if Inferno never happened, and absolutely destroy on
all these trades.
I'll be having a minute to find a post plant so far on their map.
There's been numbers strong inside of A site, Mongols.
No weakness found so far here on the defensive Nuke.
In this round obviously one AK for wonderful.
It's going to be another rough go of it for Navi unless mistakes are made.
Xenio takes a deep angle versus the trophy hold and we've already got some tech nines
out.
AK in the middle of this pack.
Mzeno plays the cover well and has 9-10 to tether off of.
It's a passive angle, waiting for a real Navi commitment and within that it's a second kill
from Amzino, the lower B player comes up to help just in case.
That does open up a window of opportunity for the secret players to get downstairs.
But what would you trade?
Rank control, secret control, or a 5v2?
Mongols will be happy about their positioning at the moment,
but we'll see if anything does get clipped in the end.
For now, it's just a whole lot of open space.
Crazy, no one's even close to rotating in.
They're just thinking about a retake, but the bomb will get planted.
There is nobody de-con at the moment
I'm gonna say there's absolutely no chance here for nobby to win not with no utility and just tech nines
Zero percent odds right launderers zero percent. I'd give zero. I give them zero on this round
Tech nines the press in Alexi's got a double
Oper now suddenly under pressure. There's three guns picked up bomb site is planted in the back of it all and
And Alexion 16 health isn't going to be able to do anything about it.
Not even a small chance.
Zero percent chance that they win that.
Still zero, it looks like to me.
Man, that was some nasty 10-9 headshot.
Yeah. Holy.
It's the most successful round so far for Navi.
Six rounds into the half, and it still ends up on the Mongols board.
Because again, like, you know, like 2019, there was like Ichi
who made it their playstyle to go for retakes all the time,
and they got really good at retakes.
But no matter how good your retakes are,
you're just adding randomness.
You can still just lose, time becomes an issue,
pressure becomes an issue.
Moments like that are basically like,
it's so easy for them all to have an op on one side,
have two rightfulers to defend it,
but just a couple of clean tech nine headshots,
and suddenly everything's in disarray.
If that bomb was planted out in the open,
which they could have done,
that could have been defended by Alexi from the ramp.
Both of them, in fact, they wouldn't have to run back into the site, so it's never, it's always been a feather in the cap to be great at retakes.
You want to have that in your arsenal, but you never make it like a central part of your plan, you know, throughout an entire half, usually when you need to.
That was an example of 5E2. They wanted to make sure it went as easy as possible and it still almost went wrong.
And that'd be kind of interesting to talk about in a game where it's a little closer,
but it's 6-0 for the Mongols, just another win for them.
They have enough money to afford a round like that.
deep angle from Blitz inside of Garage and a fresh one for 910's AWP, so Navi gonna be
tiptoeing their way into something different here in round 7.
He's not dropping down on this.
So it won't be a surprise to find the cause they caught off guard by an AWP he's never
seen here.
5v4 for the Mongols yet again.
It's gonna have to be a critical part of getting into this A site hit by the looks of it again
once more, wonderful dropping utility over top.
Back turn from the garage play, Sekto holds on to Hut, and once more, Navi find absolutely
nothing in a gun round.
Not a single kill here in round 7 to try and even get close to a bomb plant.
Still, 7 rounds of play, bombs gone down once, and you give a moment here for the Mongols
where after a round gets a little bit close, you let them make all of this money back with
potentially 5 survivors.
going to get his back turned and suddenly you've got Mongols right back at it ton of cash in their
back pockets everything they need for a 13-0 it's kind of whoa everything after what we just saw
Connor there was zero percent chance that this is going to be a 13-0 everything they need they've
they've got at the moment.
Always feels better when you call nice and early.
Yeah, oh yeah.
No, at 6-0 you're just joking around.
At 7-0, you get the party you really believe in.
Nobby will try again, but like you said,
we missed the utility on the execute last round.
Nobby leaving a lot to be desired,
but right now you don't have blitz
bolstering this A site. They're still going to discharge right through, the utility finds it's marked.
Bomb is dropped back site, second player gets the trade, Mactan will collect one, and Alexi can still reside down beneath his awp because Mactan's going to pick off his support systems.
Deal with the players that are trying to get Alexi out of this tough spot.
Because he emerges and he gets slammed against the hot door, there was space on that A take they got further than previously, but it's still majority alive.
It is still no bomb plant. It is still the Mongols with a flawless CT half.
And it's more great shots from 9-10 after picking up a cause in the shoulder peak lower last round.
Some of the shots that he missed on Inferno, he's totally made up for them.
Now he's back on form, 10-2 on this game.
Obby's map hit.
I'm trying to play with the smokes deep outer once more.
This angle from Blitz, I don't believe they've gotten much from it, but just still gathering
information, it's going to bolster 9-10's confidence to hold.
He could have had a fight before with that one, instead he got space taken by Navi and
actual boots down secret so will the rote be able to hold back they all ran
Cobra Zara is going to dive into the fancy here's the rumblings of this
takeover of the lower bomb site bits Molotov it's gonna go deep controls
gonna be distracted on one end which opens a door for Cobra Zara to come
through Alexi's bombs been cut off and so right now he's sitting here hoping
somebody can come help him it's a gun picked up by Alexi it's a kill picked up
by blitz clean up down here on the B site are they even communicating there
Alexi on that side bit running by the door, and it's like Alexi
He'd be asking for the double swing. You know to take care of probes there
So you get the bomb in sight so everything's falling apart at the seams
I don't know what happened on the break to Navi or the Mongols that this is possible
After in Burno, this is unreal
We're just gonna take this one round by round shall we 90 row
No, they look like they tried to switch to speaking Mongolian this map.
That explains it. It is hard language. There's no way they've not made a few mistakes.
It feels like it's the kind of day that will leave both aura and blades scratching their
heads by the end of it once we're back to the crack rooms.
The end of the day, it's the result that matters, but tough to make sense of this.
It's done from impressive for the bongos to damn near impossible for a knobby that you can think about winning, which is, I don't understand how that can be the case.
These two sides going nowhere fast.
My 10 almost got caught by a bit from top silo, but dodged the bullet and comes back
wide, looking to hold it instead, whoo, takes another one to the face, but getting wallbang
headshots means 9-10 still survives on 6, and Mikaze crosses secret, and if that AWP
is back behind the blue box, then Mikaze doesn't have to worry about it downstairs this time.
That'll be CobraZera's role to just slide down vent and go deal with it.
He's the only B rotate for the time being.
Glitz takes up responsibility outside with a passive angle, letting Garage go.
If Navi were to take it over, and by the way, Mikaze is coming back,
it's still a possibility that Navi are gonna try to end this on A once more, maybe.
Yeah, it's possible to... Yeah, okay.
Pre-catch for Blitz.
Goes hunting with perfect timing, bombed towards the ramp.
Look at this trophy group up at 9-10s, been waiting this whole entire time.
Six health or not, he'll find the one.
We get the swing out from Mzinho and a chance back for Navi to rebound.
Colbrazera cuts off the other side of this B hit.
Navi trying to add layers to this late round move and a flank in position here for Techno 4K.
No 4k once again feeling like the Mongols to do no wrong slaughtered inside of the ramp room
That my friends is yet another racked up by the Mongols as the Navi
Squad ten rounds into this half have only planted once
Ten zero a
Single plant every setup looks phenomenal for the Mongols
But what's even more impressive is every round looks easier than last they had some parody early on
That 2B5 with the bomb plan was the closest they got to winning a round, it feels like ever.
Now the averaging 1.6 kills per round in these 10 rounds of play.
Mikaze is going to fast drop into name. As you get into this point where it's just total desperation,
you can start to get a little crazy, and Mikaze finds himself a cool 3K and an assist over on EMA.
So, yeah, little to lose at a 10-0 score, you've got to get desperate, and in that desperation,
they find a chance to storm through the A site, suddenly making it seem simple, spamming
back through.
This one's not over, but the gut's empty.
He still gets the 5-7 headshot, and so this one boils down to a 1-VX trade.
Finally, 11 rounds into this map.
Navi find their first.
And it's a good tactic for the split to drop in a mini, and now they've got the first one.
It's scary that Gokuzero messes up his gun switch to his knife instead of his pistol, and they still get to go back.
So, a gift for Navi to avoid the total embarrassment.
I mean there's still time for it. They only get one round this half. I
Think this is still embarrassing. Yeah
It's no 13-0
But it's sure as held on what we expected after their inferno domination
If you were just tuning in right now, I'm telling you Navi looks phenomenal to start of this series
They look like they're gonna to owe this one hundred percent
This is inexplicable.
Sometimes that's what Mongols are, aren't they?
Yeah.
Just kinda inexplicable.
Like Counter-Strike Anomaly.
Not the sort that wears a ski mask.
Again, I guess it's impossible to predict.
All that and kill here for even, that'll help out.
Little clearing of Main, and the wonderful punishes the Rampush.
push so 11 and 12 perhaps belongs to Navi.
CobraZera going for the span back through to try to deter this follow-up
but because of all the ramp control Navi gonna take that as an opening bomb goes
ramp.
Yeah I know there's another one out there, that guy gets killed too.
Takes him a little bit of time but Navi will get there.
Bomb taking a look downstairs, Techno in the meantime has got duels to go for and low and
Behold he will drop the bomb wonderful takes a bullet to the face
Oh and techno 4k has separated three separate duels wins them all so far by just turning wonderful back
And as he goes into the smoke over the box point blank versus ema
That is the only way techno drops is by losing vision inside smoke and cobra's era will be out rotated for the moment
But do they know because obviously he's normally in mini
me. He's always the first guy to drop B. And they've cleared the upper side. It looks
like maybe to get the timing. E-man going to keep his eyes on the flank as they stop
it over towards the A site. And so 11 and 12 both the way of Navi. But still no laughing
matter if you're Navi. This is the absolute bare minimum still. Well, they are laughing.
So again, I mean, it's probably better that they are than they're not. If there's any
chance that they can put a half together because this one has just been too hard to you know
sometimes you're casting a game you just want you don't even care who went you just
want to have expectations you know and you come out of last map and you want to see all
these great things about Navi and then suddenly it's like no that's not the story at all
mongols are not out of this they are actually still super confident they themselves don't
know why inferno went wrong but they're not thinking about it at all but again like we
We talked about their strengths versus other top teams and I think it's just that they're
unconditional.
No matter what you do to them, you can never make them bend to your will.
You can never make them doubt themselves.
They're always going to show up for the next round, play just like they did in the last.
They're going to try the same thing again.
This is true for this map.
I think the space based on just as nuke play
Expect that's murdered
The red is peel back away from the ramp room which does get taken over by the mongols smoke drop here by bit just by time
See if this redirects mongols
I heard those doors open so it's gonna get jumped on.
That's big.
910 goes hunting with that information and with it is a bomb site primed for the taking.
Mongols have found it opening down into the lower site, thanks to 910.
Yeah, that ruins everything. It's all control side, Vence gets taken back in.
So does the man advantage.
It offers a little bit of audio, and it could damn well cost Navi a chance at a CT side.
Some missed shots by Blitz, gets punished, and now Techno making up for it.
Looking to give a bit of cover here, as if Nino's got all he needs, and still he chooses to fight.
Nice head shot from wonderful his second of the round back sight still occupied
Time is of the essence and it is the Mongols with a T side pistol
Cracking open the strategy down into that B site all because bit opened and closed doors
Yeah, it comes down to just that one lurk. I mean bit was
Holding then for a second turn around to watch control side, but also because there was pressure there
So this is dope things up
It's like watching a ping game, ping stomping on your backpack, stealing your phone's backpack.
Except now that these teams are gonna go 0-3.
Oh
Boom roasted
I'll be scrambled downstairs real quick. They've got a few tools for the job, but utility dries up pretty quickly
When the economy is against you this hard
Wonderful, leans back and it feels like Navi just kind of waiting for the Mongols to tiptoe into crosshairs.
And they'll do that now with the flash around the outside corner. Wonderful does find his angle.
Can't fully stop the main challenge. And MC Nyo's Kalil gonna tear through one.
Recovering the spray is the 5-7, and Pina pops up behind them.
And so vent control here with bomb possession, only momentary.
Yet again, the Mongols will tear through one, and that is their 12th round secured 10 map points on Navi's map pick.
And it's a double forest investment. Already three MP9s being bought right here. It's Grim.
He's got a Lexi V on 2600.
I don't even say about this. Mongols, they've got an easier round than the last coming up.
How do you do something right while you're here?
Four MP9s to defend their map, and they're getting completely pieced up.
He goes back at least for the MP9s.
Bobby refuses to go down without a fight, but instead maybe just dying to the 3v5.
We'll see how this one pans out as the FOMAS goes for a peek outside, and E-MAT looks to
get his SMG into the action as well.
It's a bit of a risk here for Emo because if you get spotted outside then they'll know.
They could really lean towards Ram.
Oh, he wants to get this.
What smoke are they gunned?
What's up here?
Oh, he's actually going to go off Mini as well.
Interesting.
He's looking through the bins.
Suddenly it's three on three.
Oh, the loam right now on the ramp, find by him. He'll drop the bomb at his feet.
Blitz has given up on the treasure hunt.
Yeah, that's a bit of a metaphor, huh? It's when you give up on something that gets delivered to you.
All that effort trying to find the gun.
It's only when he walked away that he got what he wanted.
The car keys.
They were in your hand the whole time.
Well, Navi will, at least,
win a round on both halves.
Silver linings. Right. That's the
what they just got a steam achievement for that? Yeah. No, this game only has one steam achievement.
What's up with that?
get less hackers Steve achievement. Oh yeah, the notorious group. There's achievement hunters.
Never trust them. Still looking. What did he, what was he looking for? Is there an AK over there? I
don't know. I thought it would be the galil that fell off, but scratch my head as well.
really needed that you know flashbang looking for Navi but they fell off so
hard
is it only one round you'd think not with the advantage that Navi hold on to
right now two AKs and a little given over to them
Longos having to do with three rifles here in around 60.
But it's when it feels more possible that maybe Navi start to shell up slightly.
Give this space back over to the Mongols outside. Deep wall of smokes.
Wood let the cross occur. Nobody popping it open here for Navi.
Kaze is stepping forward, finds the instant kill to Blitz.
Beautiful sequence with the double kill.
Operating on his own there.
We get EMS standing on the ladder, he flies out,
can't 180 over to CobraZero,
who's now put his pause on an AK,
eats the headshot out of him.
And a 2v2 is where we're left.
And a drop out of bit down to the bomb site,
as the bongos want to play options,
but their bomb currently sits outside.
So this is gonna be a weird slow burn of a round,
and they ought to go ramp in the middle of all this.
I threw a bat and a copicers are also watching this end of the smoke.
Okay, barely misses a lexie key for him.
Techno's only got this P250, but the wraparound to many.
That's interesting. I mean, Alexi's timing is going to go off in his head soon.
It's a gun and it's the bomb playing opposite. So it should be okay.
That's what he's coming for. Yeah, this is just a perfect cross still thinking
about having no way.
Whoa, Alexi, careful, almost stepped forward into his death, and a break behind you is bit.
So, good thing he's there to trade it before the vent drop can truly come through, but, uh,
I felt like these needs have to be more cost-effective. These rounds need to be.
Or else, Na'Vi, they're gonna be on the brink of defeat every single time. One survivor, still an AWP on a wonderful.
It's queued up by Mikaze's double.
That's really all that's left of me right now.
Counter-terrorists win.
Money and everything like that, it only matters so much.
You just round that knob, you've seen all game.
Full on antico, no intestines for the Mongols.
That should just be able to farm.
On his own versus blocks?
Oh my gosh.
Eesh, A1S though?
He'll bring them down into the lower site, he'll pop two of them in the process,
pass flank around through the ramp, and E-MAT already on the control,
Enforce swings into it, catches another kill at least here for the Mongols,
and E-MAT trying to jump down into the bomb site to figure out where the hell Techno got off to.
Cobra's Enros got bomb possession this entire time, he'll find an additional kill and they just keep on charging.
E-MAT never hit the brakes in this one, and at the very least, we find Navi with a fifth round so far.
Yeah, it's great that he ran after it, if not, like, maybe it gets crazy.
Uh, we... I was gonna say, like, Bitt is there, in the couple of the last nuke games that we've seen from Bitt, he has had a weird struggle inside of Grant, like, he's died a little bit too easily.
He's let a team jump through a smobile, five and not get a single kill, so I'm not sure if he's not feeling super confident in this position these days, but if I'm the bonkers, I'm thinking about that.
They didn't watch any of the recent games.
Oh, it caused it down early.
They try to push it into the ramp peak as well, and now Wonderful's in for a world of hurt and less to shots connect, but then they are breaking down his neck.
The man advantage re-established as Navi takes it back over with this Ema rotate down into B, and Ema is fighting tooth and nail for these rounds right now, although he loses his head to the Anzino fights.
And so a slow burn 1v1 queued up. He's anticipating the vent rotate, but it's actually alexi walking around down ramp
alexi with gunouts gonna find this element of surprise and so a clutch the way of Navi keeps this comeback rolling
Yeah, runs right into him. I think it's wonderful who saves it
Just being the second guy there on ramp, but it is bit dying instantly. No kill
That's one way to supplant his presence just have him have some assistance there early
I think comeback of the day has already happened.
I was just thinking the same thought.
This is technically just a 10 round, so.
And after how flat the first half was, I feel like it'd be even more packed, yeah.
I don't know if he would have preferred to not have to make comebacks, but this one would
be a doozy.
A gap in the smoke.
Respectfully not ideal.
This whole round's not ideal for the Mongols, with what they come to the table with.
Cobra Zera, 20 and 10, a.k.a. in hand.
If anybody could win this round, it's meant to be him.
Opening frag goes Navi's way, Ramp will be found for free as Bit was off his position.
He doesn't die this time immediately, but he does give over a bunch of space and then
when he finds his duel, it's that one rifle that shines.
Singledore swung wide, Ema has been very aggressive with his willingness to get into these holds,
to just deal with the Mongols and he'll do it again.
Instantly on the angle, finds the kill, goes wide every time.
There's a certain confidence here for Ema as he is fighting tooth and nail to make this comeback happen.
Yeah, like mentioning that, like him keeping pace with this team and showing off that he can, he obviously can frag as hard as they can.
Still very impressed by Kroberzera, the opening kills. He's getting a gun here, getting a kill.
He did such a great job in that first half, but the fact that he can be a two-way player as well.
Now it's not that the many rounds so far.
Naviar walking they keep walking forward
Mongols making bit look like a bit of a chump
Yeah
Yeah, he's not feeling it right now seven and eighteen off of another
They keep going with again like that's just the way that's the way you do it now
There are no more bully hunters. You're allowed to pick on somebody in a site. That's the new meta.
Kick them while they're down.
The bomb has come back full force with guns. Here in round 20, a 20th round, I don't think many of us
thought we'd ever get to get Navi a fight on.
Four smokes.
A city of uncertainty here for Naughty to have to handle.
You'd think such a heavy commitment really leads to the Mongols using that to cross over
C-Grip, but they're not going to play it whatsoever.
They want to go into this A-Splint, and the main test comes to Macaulay's way.
A lot to be desired on that one.
This could be the final moments of the Mongols as wonderful comes out with the Heaven Peak.
No targets to shoot at.
Vent is being challenged as Ena pops back up.
Blitz is going to best him.
It's triple kill.
No quad.
Traits needed and they shut this one down.
You've got Na'Vi leaving us scratching our heads, but luckily for us we pay expert analysts to unpack this one.
Well, I don't know what we're gonna say. I haven't seen a veto messed up this bad since the Sopranos
Jacob when I haven't seen them around. No, yeah, it's just you know a little bit puzzling from
When we were seeing the veto is I've already some curveballs are happening here trying to punish perhaps and and fight some gaps
But really wasn't the case this time
The game plan from Navi and this one for the T side felt a little bit one note and towards the tail end of the first half
They started flirting with the idea going be a little bit more changing the case a little bit much
I would just say that I feel like in it. I don't really like the way that Navi went about some of the starters for the rounds
I just don't think that they masked what their true intention was and
To Mongols's credit they had the players in the right positions more often than not
I just felt like so often Navi they're running to where they wanted to go. They were all literally just sprinting three guys four guys
Mongols are able to communicate those numbers effectively and that's why so frequently they just got demolished at every foot first choke point
I mean, that's one of the worst new tea sites. It's certainly the worst new tea side of the year
It's one of the worst I've seen in a long time very surprised given that you know
We talk about the blade system and the the kind of game plan they had in drafting this one
You know, they weren't even getting kills. It was like, crazy.
The first guys just keyed into the guy's position every time, because I would say,
like, look at how Mongols played that round 20 to finish the game. They threw four smokes outside,
and it looks a little bit repetitive, or it looks a little superfluous. The way that you're just
layering smokes on top of each other, that's what a lot of teams do now. They throw diagonal smokes,
they throw the old version of the cross smokes, they sometimes even throw that unbreakable smoke
to just kind of mask what they're doing. You don't know if they're walking through big garage,
you don't know if they're walking through the unbreakable smoke or into credit card,
or they're even wrapping in a mini, but every single time Mongols knew, well, one guy got down
secret. Okay, we're going to barely have to rotate, you know, keep an eye on that. But then we know
that the primary hit is going to be going either ramp or towards A. Yeah, credit where it's due.
Obviously, we did point out that this is Copa Zero's kind of his weakest map, particularly on
on that CT side and he came up this time around.
You can see how well he played, he looked at the heat map,
really solid lockdown.
Yeah, definitely.
And I think also after now one season with the team,
you can definitely tell with Makaze,
he's super solid on some maps, like Ancient, Mirage,
that's true, very strong on those,
but the rest, it's been a bit hit and miss, right?
And he has the most important role on the T side,
on this map being the main yard player and just couldn't really, as Marlon was pointing
out, it's a little bit up to him to apply the pressure, deny that information, create
space for his team and it felt like Blitz and the rest of the Mongols sort of always
knew whether it was going to be just Makazi, whether the rest of the team was there, even
if he was supposed to be lurking, couldn't find any impact here, he only had two kills
up until they called that fast A-Split and he could just again use his mechanics and
his aim and he got the triple kill or a quad kill, right? And Navi being a team that plays
just a ton of default and generally a slower style, like you're dependent on those players
doing well and executing their roles and it just wasn't there on you.
The thing that unlocked for Mikaze in maybe halfway through his first season with Navi,
when I was watching him at least, was that on ancient, on Mirage, he learned when to
pump the brakes. Don't just keep following the strat till you die or hit a wall or someone's
there to fight you, sometimes peel away, peel back. And then it felt like those maps really
opened up for Navi. Nuke's still a map where he's just sending it every single time. If
he gets the cross smokes outside, you could see that he's just walking into the first
defender towards lower. I think 9-10 was trained on the angle one time at Secret, for example.
And that was supposed to be a play disguising an A hit. And so when he just dies Secret
by himself, then the whole plan falls apart because then 9-10 can relay that, that he's
He's like, there's nobody else here.
That was the one guy that got down.
And then everybody's locked and loaded, ready to go.
And yeah, we highlighted Cobra's error there
because that dude was just a turret.
I mean, he planted it in his flag around that door position.
I would say that maybe nearly a dozen kills
were just kind of mowing people down
as they're trying to breach that squeaky door, that hut.
So all in all, great job as an anchor there.
He was throat singing all over the A-bomb site.
Yeah, it definitely was.
So, I mean, look, obviously we now go to Mirage.
I want to talk a little bit about this.
We got plenty of time to set this up
because we were a little bit surprised
that Mongols didn't pick this one
because obviously it's been one of their better maps.
So I said it yesterday.
I think at one point, you know, in the Senzu era,
they probably were the best Mirage team in the world.
They were right up there.
And, you know, now we have to kind of see
how solid this is going to be.
Obviously, beaten Vitality on it at this tournament.
So slight favorites or not?
I still feel like the game plan for Navi
is a lot more ironed out on this one,
where it felt like maybe they were a little bit half-baked
on the ideas there on Nuke.
Mirage is a map that, comprehensively,
they're just so much stronger at.
I mean, the lurks that come out from Bit are great.
Their mid control is so constricting
when they're on the T side there.
And for Mongols, a lot of that Vitality win
was the CT side comeback.
Because if I watched that one back to,
It's just that vitality kind of moseyed into bombsites a little too lackadaisically for me
They weren't doing these set finishers as neatly as you normally would expect
They would get a kill in middle or they'd be in a four-on-four
And then they would kind of just walk into a crossfire and they wouldn't even sometimes throw all of the utility that they had like they were
Sometimes reaching bombsites and rops had all four of his nades
So I was a little confused by how how weird and kind of raw vitality look
But yeah, no, I guess that that is a bright sign for Mongols like they still were able to capitalize on those kinds of moments
So it should be an even bow here feels good for the series right enough of the funny business
Let's now get to a map where we know we're both really good on it
Hopefully we get a bit of a closer affair early on with
Cobra, you know in some of the games Mongols T side I would see sometimes that they would drag the round on you know Mongols
The round has to end, or they have to go for their killing blow at 50 seconds at the latest.
They're not a team that can drag around until the end, throw a bunch of fakes or anything along those lines.
That's not their strong suit, and they struggle when they try to play in that sort of a fashion.
You know, it's some small deception perhaps with the opening smokes, right?
Second wave comes in, we hit them and that's the style that I think now we can expect
coming from the models. Yeah, me while over on Navi. I mean, we've highlighted Maccazzi
on Nuke. We feel he's a bit unrefined there. Here he's obviously on that T side got a fair
bit to do, but one of his better maps definitely in his wheelhouse, right? Without a doubt.
I mean, it just looks way more comfortable on the mid control in particular. One thing
I did note though from watching them earlier at this tournament that I was concerned about
is that I don't know what clay they were running or why, but one time bit was going mid Maccazzi
went palace and they lost that round pretty spectacularly. I don't know if they should
ever run that again. So if I ever see Mikaze in palace, I'm probably gonna say this is
a bad round before it even gets started.
I think it's all about the names. You know, once you kill Bit on middle, it's like, oh,
that's the A anchor, A lurk, or death, right? And then Mikaze starts playing because they
don't expect him to show up at that moment. But yeah, I think we'll see a better performance
from him here definitely compared to you can not be on this map kind of the opposite of the
mongols like the longer the round goes on the better they get on the t-side they just have
this suffocating style where they take map control from you they deny you information and then you
have to play in the dark a bit and take some risks and that's when they come in with the punish
you know the extremity players being really good at that i mean oh sorry i'm just gonna say jump in
environment. I mean, the one guy I just say that I'd have to highlight here is,
is Ema for a variety. Right. Yes.
So I feel like it just goes without saying one,
he looks extra motivated now that he's playing on Romanian soil. And two,
he's just been fantastic at this tournament on Mirage. I mean,
I really think that it's no secret that when he comes up underpass,
when he's fighting into connector,
he has just been such a ridiculous force in terms of just taking sharp
I mean being being wise about his approaches making sure that he also
Can go dead silent in the middle of the round to make him guess about whether he's there or not like he he'll he's like an assassin
On this one like he'll just he'll just strike and then in the night just gone like without a trace
So he's been he's been excellent for for Navi in this one and definitely can be the guy for me to watch out for
So I mean you've definitely your Navi is kind of the favorites and your life favorites
I like favorite like favorite favorites. You agree with that
I'm gonna go with the Mongols with the surprise right like they're just a team
That's a tough not to crack really when they're on and I don't know just coming in off of the back of that dominant
Map when perhaps they have slightly more confidence going into Mirage than how it does. All right
Thanks a lot gentlemen. We will be going to a break when we come back
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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-Side, 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 model
from the T side can take both the right next angle and the box at the same time. I feel like it's
takes a little bit of the power on that addition because one model can still do the job during
the executions. So maybe the box is still too close to the to the entrance there. But other than
that, I think it's a it's good thing. And we need to try it out more. It has helped and it's not
like a huge change, but I think it does help a little bit in terms of the retakes. Just 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 afterpants
It was easy for them to like 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 gives you a little bit more cover and something to play around in the clutch situations
If enemies are going out there or something and we are close to do some chaos like fighting or something
I think it's easier for CT to go out through Camry, it's a bit easier because we 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 T can just play around it and pick in some good timing and I think it's hard.
But I like the changes, but he had to show a good game.
You get that, you grow with it.
like maybe 2-3% of advantage for CT, but it's like useless box at the moment.
It's like you can use only one wall, obviously you can smoke the modder and hide there, but
it's not that big of an advantage. I'd say nothing changed on Anubis except for middle.
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 T's
on the after plants, I think it does do its job at least.
What we will get in this third map, nobody quite knows.
Just because of the nature of that first and second back and forth affair,
we thought the Mongols were dead on a rival here in this 2-1 matchup,
but Nuke changed everything and Mirage is where this party ends, or begins for one.
Again, qualification for the BT Arena on the other side of this best of three,
and we have landed at the three.
The decider map about to begin between Navi and the Mongols.
I want to call it maybe a T side struggle.
It's just the first half starting CT really well for Na'Vi and then the Mongols, barrages.
I mean, everything's out the window.
It's two map picks getting taken in a matchup where these teams are not liable to have their map picks get stolen that often.
So, I mean, the only new element is the fact that we've got Cobra, CobraZera in here, who was fantastic again on Nuke.
It's got to be his best map at this point between yesterday and today.
It's just all kind of a big debut. We don't know how long it's going to take for him to...
How far he can go, how much better he can get, and, you know...
Yeah, another guy that...
When are we going to stop being surprised at the Mongols, bringing in the new talent, making them look like superstars?
Get utility over the top. That's a decoy for the market window.
They're ready for view.
If you think it's meant to get anything out of them and I'll be hold strong. We've got a frag grenade from a cause a primed
And the veredas go for the rip. Oh, techno gets stuck on the windowsill
It's the frag grenade headshots out for two
Blitz has got the answer back as he pushes one but because he's last bullet kills emzino and then off the reload
You'll find himself a quad kill here in the pistol
Great stuff from the cause a that shot on benches everything because he's had the big disadvantage
His whole body is able to be spotted. He's low on HP. He knows he has a must-hit headshot situation.
Or he dips back into the smoke and is kind of used for a while, but he's not looking for that option.
He wants to be involved.
So Grape between his HP and these frags.
He's also just so well supported. There was players everywhere.
He had a teammate on the balcony. He rotators there quickly.
A third player already ready to fight.
It always blows me away how teams can call out which pistol their opponents will pick
with these stacks.
I feel like that's one element of Counter-Strike as we've gotten more and more professional
over time.
It's just like the ability to parse information.
these tools, you know, that can just crunch big amounts of vods instantly.
Yeah.
The answer's gotta be out there in the numbers, you know?
For sure, yeah.
That's one for math, guys.
Yeah, we'll let them have this one.
Wonderful, trying to pepper away towards top middle, but we do get a little connector
challenge momentarily, not that it nets the much.
Jim Zinho down for the count.
Maui Snake alluding to Ema's impact on Mirage like an assassin, he said.
Back on the desk, and I do think that is an apt description.
Sometimes Ema just in a split second peek into the window sill,
an instant rotate over to connector, he'll be a nuisance for the Mongols approach
if mid is to be weaponized.
His opening game at Cluj was him being just that.
An assassin, for sure.
So we'll find out in this app, I guess, if there's any patterns available for us to think about, it's that the CT Scarts are not going to stop.
Because when it felt like all hope was lost back on Duke for Navi, I feel like E-mail was still kind of stepping up into the chaotic game.
He's going to have a chance right here, top mid as a first rifle round to go for it once more, and in that moment,
he's still at least able to drop a body when you're facing three players in the open like that, props for getting one, because they also a singular frag.
It's pretty good though, you can hack down. Yeah, they know that there's three players up there,
they stumble around to nothing and Xeno gets caught off guard.
Techno, he's still alive and at this point of the round, yes he's low, but it is just a 1v2.
Bomb is back in T spawn, he's on 40 HP.
Yeah, very awkward man, because if he goes to, he wants to kind of go forward, maybe get that 1v1, but without the bomb.
Sometimes you might take this, go back to Palace, they wouldn't expect you to go, you
know, to have left the ramp in the first place.
See what he tries to do.
It's like just right back to the ramp.
Just picked up a smoke in the middle of this as well.
I could wind up making a difference. We'll see what sort of a duel he gets versus Bitt.
Bitt just kind of floating next to Ticket at the moment. We can see his POV here.
A picture and picture.
He's not really watching this the safest way. No, not at all. He is considering Palace.
His gun was sticking out. No one called that for it.
Nobody saw that? Guess not.
His barrel was completely out.
Ooh, that's a little risky from Bitten, actually.
Little antenna.
Yeah.
If it doesn't get called, Navi go up 3-0 off the back of that one,
and a lot of trade attempts going down in middle right now for Navi,
and I think as much as you want to describe him as the assassin,
I will say there's kind of a pack of them at times,
with the way that Navi just roll around in middle,
because they're always rearing to get a fight going off Catwalk.
Three smokes thrown out mid by the Mongols out of spawn,
and an instant move over towards the A-Ramp.
He's jumbled up over towards the ramp.
Palace player will be met by a smoke that's going to neutralize Mzinho's threat for the
time being.
Him as timing's the key one.
Like, he's going to try to find this sliver angle versus the ramp, but they're all grouped
up to peek.
This happened, but it's necktied in the face by CobraZera.
Mzinho's able to get out Palace, but not for long.
right back at it. Long range headshot keeps it clean as he goes for the triple kill.
And Mikaze collects the fourth frag versus the Mongols. But an AK picked up at least gives
Techno a little more hope that he can pull off a clutch. You're going to find one top stairs
blindsided and Techno to the sidearm. It's a little awkward. I mean, bomb isn't in his possession,
so it's going to be weird. Make him sweat a little bit, you know, if you're Techno,
they're going to be just to reload. No pinpoint his position for the time being.
He's gonna take to the top rope wonderful right there. Oh
That is a Lexi B has inched into that smoke grenade
Techno leans back to the ticket booth and Lexi hoping to catch him with the element of surprise
No drops down wind of it for a second
But a Lexi still reacts and that is a 1v1 clutch for Navi's fourth round win
It's kind of a ridiculous mistake to be over there on stairs and not think that someone could jump up take it over
top of this jump. It's one of the Techno's only options. After this cleanup, I hope that
there was no chance for them to pull this off somehow, and unfortunately, for Techno
to first pull it through that box isn't enough.
Now that B rush coming in. Cat jump here and to push the top lane on something.
Cause it's very committed. So for a second, Alexi's going to be alone.
Cause I hear this barrel to the back of Blitz, that one's done for and so it's all in out
of the apartments for the Mongols. Cleaned up by Alexi instantly, opens the door for
He has multi-kill, never mind.
Alexi's actually got his hands on it instead.
And wow, it's flawless here for Navi.
Not just this fifth round, but the whole CT side so far.
It was a small thing, but Alexi's fallback flash
into B-Apps as they were exiting blinded.
Like three people full blinded.
It really slowed things down.
That one extra second or two, that really
is everything they needed to get the rotation in place.
For McCauze, they get it get his kill really easily.
Alexi was really great on the utility
in the fallback positions. They really didn't even shoot any bullets for those last few kills.
They were just kind of looking around.
I think I'll be easier by making sure Catwalk's not compromised. Full attention towards the apartments.
The defense rock solid so far. Not a bomb plant either for the Mongols.
five o' starts
uh... no no there was uh... was
we had a force by wind at one point
wrong
g-smoke dropped out today as we're coming to this one with ak for techno
Pistols on the rest.
Little boost here for Techno vs. Ema. Yeah, Ema.
Gonna get caught. Nope.
for a second to look like Ima's timing is going to cost him his life instead he
fights the 5v4 and on top of it AK dropped exchanges hands it'll now be
Blitz burden to be the one rifle and as he's caught climbing over towards
connector Cobra Zera's Deagle finds an opening kill here for the Mongols but
they are still very much jumbled up inside connector for the time being a
little awkward I think they wish they had something towards B to put a bit more
more pressure on Kat. Right now they got MZNU on the A ramp.
Brown gets momentarily scary, but Navi face their fears. They reclaim everything inside
of middle. They see that no one's here, in fact. But in the back of the mind they're
thinking B. And it's actually up here at triple, and he's dead.
Wow, leaves a little to be desired.
A lot to be desired, perhaps.
No kill on the hold.
Off shot, lands, but still my tech survives.
And Blitz takes two headshots right then and there.
Pistol puts up close.
Wall bang, finish.
Excuse me.
And so CobraZera setting it up.
Blitz waited a little while to get those rifle frags,
but he does land two critical headshots.
It's that CobraZera deagle kill in mid
that puts Navi on the back foot out the gate.
I hate to criticize a bit for just playing a position,
but he's having some struggles,
whether it was ramped back on Nuke,
or here playing triple and not getting a single kill
when he could just be playing Ticket.
I mean, he could just be playing it a little bit more safe,
and you don't want to have to say that
to somebody who is just playing versus pistols,
and it should be fine, and normally it would be doing good,
but it's kind of like,
Number one priority, winning the round.
There should be no sort of chance that this happens.
Really struggling at anchoring to be a good friend.
You say CobraZera gets better as the games go on, as the pressure gets higher?
Well, 5-0 down on a map Navi are known for.
You know what I take it back?
You should be playing triple. It's versus pistols. You're not going to get spammed down.
If you're playing triple on a full execute, they molly it.
You just got to get those kills.
Yeah. Just a blast sometimes.
There's that assassin-like moment for him, man.
Quick look through the smoke and a fast reposition towards connector instead.
But saw nothing. Despite the mongols certainly being out here, utility's going to get way of that.
We'll drop another wave of smoke grenades, cut LaCosé off for his support, and he's
still floating out here.
This is going to be a duel for Emsenio if he opts to jump up that bench.
Yeah, holding for the other side right now.
So he's not preparing himself for it, but maybe he takes it from connector instead.
Yeah, he sees LaCosé's barrel.
Oh, it gets dinked.
LaCosé up and down.
Finds the frag and opening kill here for Navi.
Meanwhile, the Mongols set themselves up for the A-Execute, 9-10, Clips, Bits, Wings.
He goes down again.
Eme's responsibility suddenly to hold this back, and he's gonna find CobraZera unprepared.
He was playing with his utility as Eme starts to cross over.
Top stairs push goes wide. Eme gets found out next to the smoke.
Luckily, Alexi's even able to get one in the middle of all that.
This will turn the bomb back around at 30 seconds, and 9-10's looking to keep Nobby preoccupied.
Bomb going all the way over to B
There will be a little bit of delay here from 910 as one of those getting really snug under balcony with it off
He won't be rotating anytime soon actually goes wide whoa
Right into the a ramp and doesn't wait. This is so weird perfect
I feel has to go out to be and Alexi now has to respect that it's probably the A site now
He's got to be confused
I'm tense still I have no idea Alexi only now realizing that he was right about that rotation
but the kill towards the ramp drew him back. Well, timed by 9-10, he's darting for it.
Alexi just trying to find this 1v1 before the inevitable arrival of the Mongols off,
and Alexi reads it right, blitz those surviving the fight. He'll have his knees taken out from
beneath them. You know that ops gonna go catwalk, and of course 9-10 into the clutch will land his
shot. A second one added to the tally here for the Mongols. It's kind of perfect the way that, I mean,
He's lucky, 9-10's lucky that wonderful creeps out right into him at that moment, because Alexid already pre-moved.
To get to the window would have been able to stop that bomb.
But they know that now if you're going to play for information, it's really well done here for the Mongols.
They create a mess of situation and they win again. I think also it's like, they've died that last round.
He died right there in Ticket this time.
Now Mongols have most certainly found their opening into this game and there are some
positions like you're you know where you're anchoring where they'll get taken out.
But some sites where you may or may not die some sites you're gonna die, you know, you might you might get two kills
But you're definitely gonna die holding it
CT is not one of them on the rush
You can hide so easily
He chooses the path of the sword
I always find it fun to see bullets start taking over a game, isn't it?
Yeah.
Got another prime example of just an in-game leader that's got what it takes.
Yeah, we talk about new best-fragging IGLs all the time, but he was just, you know, you're
carrying for so long really.
Change without an awp some say.
It's back in hand for Na'Vi after that 5-0 start to the game.
9-10 fast and willing to punish if Lexi's not cautious.
You just push it a little to the left without showing himself
He'll see this and then I'll have a chance to really slowly walk into this fight, but yes
There it is. Yeah, now he's it. Okay. Alex is hot, too
That's a big chance
Lexi be playing dangerous games doesn't run the risk of checking again
Drops utility in the process offer in that moment takes the bomb back to T spawn
The Mongols looking like they're gonna set up for some kind of a later mid-moment, but
we hit the minute mark and at the same time, Navi feel like they want to carve control
of this part of the map.
Dangerous for Blitz now.
They're pushed out of middle.
Smoke pops in front of Bitt, but there's multiple bodies outside of this.
They take a duel on their terms and Mikaze's just straight up bested.
All while the Mongols set themselves up for this full-blown A-execute, which currently
has no Navi member within the bomb site.
E-Mass is going to get the trade kill back to bottom middle, bit under challenge here as players down beneath them in a flashbang that just interrupts everything.
Both sides of that dual pause, fire flies forward into Khan and Alexi, popped over top of the ticket burning.
Now wonderful at-back, missed opportunity, and we go 4 vs 1 on top of it as the Mongols find a bunch of successful duels and now four successful rounds in a row.
They're turning up with these miraculous trades, actually.
So many good fights there for Navi, and yet Mongols won them all.
That flash blitz stays alive, getting pushed.
All they did was throw that molly, so he'd have to strafe backwards instead of just hold there and be comfortable.
And he had no problem winning that duel over Mikaze.
Made them wish they used a flash.
Nice to finally get some parody in this series.
Terrorists win!
I'm sure Navi will be a little bit tilted. They were on pace to have like a 10-2-1 half.
They played their cards right now, but close losses now.
I'm trying to get away with that again, but 9-10 doesn't really take as time as the latter
at all.
He's laughing at all.
I mean, it's not that easy.
You know.
Yeah, the other chance he was looking for, but I couldn't hit it.
Just hoping Mara wasn't watching.
It's funny though.
It'll be insane if Alexi thinks he can start another round like that.
And that's why jump spotting you can die, but most of the time it's safe, even if they see you.
It's just not an easy shot to hit.
Ooh, jump out. Little distraction served up for the McCauze headshot.
And with less, they fight a couple kills, but still, again, how many times this mid-fight goes down and the mongos within it use it as a vacuum to take over the A site.
You're trying to bring something back to the table, but every single time you find success, it comes with a cost.
Another bomb plant for the mongos as they go for the 5-5 tie.
A 9-10, feeling fired up.
Sets and waits, sure enough, Naumi put themselves into a position to continue to get dropped.
It's a good trade-by-bit at least, Techno's got the insurance of the palace and as the bomb hits the halfway point
Ema's gonna try to fluster them by putting smoke on bomb
He sits on side of it, sticking it pitch from both sides, Mongols back at it again
This A bombsite now has their name stamped across it.
It's pretty sweet
I mean we are seeing that you know Bits getting kills so it's not like an overall
He also had that one round where it was the antique he was in CT got three kills
That kind of saved the day for sure, but it's not changing the fact that Mongols are spending all their attention trying to get into this place
And they're the most part it's working out
Tied as we near the end of the half
You know if he getting back on to another full buy
No, there's something someone we really haven't said a lot about in this game, it's probably wonderful
Considering how consistent he's been lately.
In the face of a bit of 9-10 impact as well, it feels like that op department continues
to skew one way as this game goes on.
Still a chance to revive the argument as he comes into this one with his op.
Kill is the wonderful's name so far on the decider. We get this boost, mantle top mid and
nobody's home as far as 9-10 can see for now.
And Bobby have gone for their mid-round, mid-fight moments. So the often lingers just in case
Techno takes up the responsibility of just putting on some pressure through the B-Affs,
Just keeping the Lexi V busy for the time being.
I'll be trying to get off there.
Bombsite has wonderful on a ramp angle at the moment.
The attention comes back to middle.
Kodarozara walking it out, looking to join forces with boots when needed.
Again, there's that poke that prod constant always from Emen to try to confirm what the hell is going on on the other side of these smokes
45 seconds and Cobra Zera has just inched his way ever closer to getting into this ladder room
Yeah, and he can just be a lurk now. He has some you know room to play with he's unspotted
He'll have the chance to get one free peek in
Ramp setup like this is not going to be too bad. It's a bit separated from this, but Wonderful has room to fall back.
Better than walking into the late lurk of 9-10, a very early angle held by Wonderful. He'll find a second, and then you do still get the answer back for the Mongols.
Down to 15 seconds, Wonderful trying to get out of position. Xeno tries to play with him, and just when we put Wonderful under the microscope, he delivers.
Still, will be gunned down by Techno, who'll just look to save the AWP.
No chance to win the round, because Alexi doesn't keep.
But a hell of a shot at Techno as well, still showing us that the Mongols are bringing the fight to the table.
For what it's worth, but yes, it's a great round out of Wonderful.
I mean, even that small tracking shot on the way back to under balcony, like, lots of pressure on,
he knows that the connector splits coming, and not falling for all those shenanigans on top of the balcony either.
Very solid on the balcony.
the
gotta give it credit to you really did everything you could to try to beat that
shot out
little lateral ladder wiggle
stuff dropped down on them now yeah
This exact is going to come in pretty hard.
Come out that wonderful off this ground.
That's not just too expensive.
The bot is confirmed as well. That would have been the bomb spotted.
So we get this scramble rotate over.
E-MAT trying to take over the ticket.
Holy blind, it was bit, but given a chance to regain vision and control the site.
Tim and E-MAT combined for two, but then they both get cleared.
It's the Tech 9 and the Flames of Cobra Cera.
The get them done for.
Macauze slipping the net out through the side of Smoke.
A layering over towards the ticket that could have been,
Micause, to make the difference at the tail end of this one,
is Navi will still add two more to the tally.
It's a five-round streak from both teams,
but Navi securing 11th and 12th.
It's got to feel nice to get the final word
and actually be able to say that.
We played well this half.
They had to give up a lead in there,
but it was well earned from the Mongols.
Well, we will say a lot of those rounds were a lot closer.
Navi had a lot of the most dominant victories here.
because they really showing us his value as this game went on.
Continue to rotate into this A site with just a priority to save it.
Wines up the top of the scoreboard for Nauvi at the end of the half.
Now we'll see what he can do once he's now in the attack.
Just felt worrying there for a bit for Navi. Felt like that dogfight on the A site was
just going to keep coming up Mongols time and time over, but wonderful with the critical
up hold once. Bit with that regained vision in this last round. Mikase is great to close
it, but that bit and Emech combination for two. It's a frantic hold with fire all around
them. We jump into the second pistol of map 3. We've got utility here for Novi, two smokes
primed, Molotov of the cause they thrown out. They're going to keep this one simple. Utility
in, blank at the site, try to flex the advantage, but 9-10-5 is the first headshot, MCO's Barrettas
from down beneath go up top and it is Novi finding nothing. Torn apart in their attempt
to exit. Finally a frag comes out for them, but it is that one and only kill of the Mongols
right back to winning ways.
They got to be excited now.
They get to start CT.
It's kind of like these guys just
swung to get the first two maps out of the way,
to really throw down here on Mirage.
But after that long talk from Blade on the halftime,
there's really a mountain watch.
This CT pistol round for a model is really sweet.
It's going to nullify the entire damage
with this small two-round gap that Na'Vi created for themselves.
In a game where they probably felt like they were on for a 9-3
or 10-2.
Now I'm starting to wonder if Navi can even win.
Because they freed to take a risk this round, Deagle at hand, and Mzino's got him. Real quick.
Body bagged.
Rest of Navi will come sprinting over.
Smoke lamps in Palace on the rotate from Mongols just to give Mzino a little help.
That sense that there's probably more behind this ramp play, but now that you've got the Desert Eagle, Navi's still time to reposition.
So they'll take their sweet time with this round
See if they can catch Mongols making mistakes.
It feels impossible to place the strength of the Mongols right now, this week, but clearly
I think we'll go to the top.
We'll get the series in the team-type struggle session.
That doesn't make me worry for you.
You know, the thought of Navi and...
It's also just me having empathy for the team that started out so well and thought,
today's our day.
Today we 2-0, today we crush.
They felt like a million bucks after Inferno.
You just know it.
It's kind of been a tale of hot and cold for Navi here in Cluj, day one looked phenomenal
and we got some worries, they kind of got owned by Maus at times, that was a great game
played by Maus, another team that can show us two sides of the same coin.
Alright, that T side struggle will be the tale of the tape tonight, if Navi aren't
able to solve that problem here on Mirage. So guns in hand, time to change the story.
And they're going to try to do it off of the back of a triple palace play. Utility flies
over from the ramp, 9-10 mows down the frontrunner, MC Nios, the guy that gets the multi-frag, and
it is another total shutdown of an attempt out from Navi. Looking to layer that with
connector, but individual moments here for the Mongols being found across the hold, and
Mikaze with far too much to do in round 15.
This is the A site defense that Navi were looking to be able to cultivate back in that first half.
There are lefts off the path here as Mongols just totally walk over them.
And that's going to be one of their best and strongest plays.
See every time that they play Mirage, this is what they lean on.
Not even when things get tough, just to show how good they are at the map.
Sometimes just saving their force buys, or their anti-force buys for B hits and everything
else towards ramp and mid.
You're one of those half-bodies...with bit lurking inside a palace he's got a molly and a smoke.
But now they get spotted, what are they going to do with that?
They're just getting spammed, the names are going to come out of them.
This becomes a nice part of having a strepular freeze, even if you was going to become, you
know, part of a double fake.
He's now a way to run back to the other side of the map. No, you have Palace cleared
Get you to speed up a little bit
You really want to test their metal on a again because they passed with flying colors last round
For on the exit MCM0, kind of pressured here
But again every time he's just jumping up and recovering the chance to low down bodies Navi
just like the gun rounds.
These ones with pistols find absolutely nothing
and the Mongols' defense is rock solid yet again.
What can you say about these guys?
I just impressed no matter what.
Standing up to the two first tests in a big way,
but another rifle.
Just like if there is ever a chance
for Navi to break through on the T side,
it's got to come from these rifle rounds.
Mongols aren't making any mistakes
in the face of the lesser weapons.
We just kind of sit here holding our breath, waiting for Navi to give us something to talk
about.
It eventually happened back on the CT side as well, right?
Round 11, round 12, they kind of got back into that groove, but so far, no rounds on
the attack.
Longos about to post their second five round streak on map 3 if they can shut down the
AK's of Navi here in the 17th round.
It's not even like Mongols are playing extremely brave and kinda
just messing with Navi's strategies. They're allowing Navi to do whatever the hell they want.
It's just once you try to step forward you get shut down.
They're not pushing everything. No, they're not pushing it to be apps really. They took one
Pretty shallow peak. They've got a very standard lay of the map at the moment
They're leaning maybe slightly a bit more towards a with a dedicated player ticket guy and one in connector
But nothing fancy
Another well-timed rotate here for Blitz the moment they start to test this ramp
This time though, Navi get that man advantage. This is what we've been waiting for an individual moment for Navi
As they crack it open Blitz though to the corner stop the answer back and Cobra is there a slam by wonderful
who just shoots down through the edge of that smoke.
Quickly into the 2v2, but Ima in mid.
How does this affect things?
20 seconds, so they can't be taking this bomb anywhere else.
And they don't waste the moment, right?
Tecno keeps this pressure on, walking all the while.
Ima's got to get this going back into the bomb site.
He announces himself, and you don't know about Tecno.
You still don't even know.
It's a moment here for Blitz to get the 2k.
It's a double-op pull through here for 9-10.
Mzinho finally stuffed by the Mikaze entry.
Do you think maybe now is your chance to get a little more, but Navi come up with nothing?
Man, the amount of moments in that first half where we saw either bit come up huge or just die untreated.
You know, versus this, where nobody in this setup is going untreated.
Even when Mataza gets this first kill, they've got Blitz here inside of Sandwich, who as you point out had that early rotation the other day.
Nothing fancy, no huge risks, but just little leans here and there that beat Navi on their timings.
That's all that Mongols need to be successful.
And no incorrect timings either, so far, for the Mongols.
You're not adding a third player to the wrong bomb site.
You're not falling victim to any mind games out of Navi.
You're allowing Navi to make moves on their terms and you're just shutting it down regardless.
Got that little back-and-back grenade to keep the smoke blown out then.
But no one's here to spot it. Let's actually knock down the tube.
from inside the windowsil must have did that
out here's a man losing teammates behind him but at least E-man could try to be
the hero they just keep poking in from every side but there's a gap left from
cobra he was just watching this cross I mean blitz surely does die here with the
amount of HP he has left over but he might it's not willing to get outside
of this.
CobraZera in the open, able to hold that angle, deal with the one rifle that Navi were hoping
to bank on.
This is the moment you play a spot like Jail, it's just easy.
And all of a sudden you've got CobraZera added back to this B defense, catching him on the
fall down, almost team flashing check note to his own death.
He flashed a bomb.
Make him laugh about it, all's good here for the Mongols, this is six consecutive CT rounds
with not even a Navi bomb plant.
Yeah.
I didn't think that this was going to happen, not after the 5-0 start, not after the map
one that we saw, but here we are, Mungus with a massive lead, doesn't even feel like they
can't even lose this game at this point.
Navi on their third time out, they haven't been able to get this opto wonderful in the
second half, they don't necessarily need it, but they do need something different.
We've got a sellback on the AKs right now, I'm not sure what they're going to do differently.
But they don't have an option to buy it off, really, like just figuring out the grenades.
One of each.
This game is going to end up as a discussion of how the T-sides have spoiled Navi's hopes
of progressing to the playoffs.
Yeah, it was supposed to be a problem for the Mongols too. They broke through in their own path.
And they did it late, you know. This is about when the Mongols started winning T rounds in that first half.
So, Navi you have to look to that as inspiration at this point.
Both CG sides start with at least 5-0 starts with no bomb plants, you're right.
There is a parallel to be drawn. Can Navi do it too?
He has found timing, so he thought, but then you get this catwalk peek, and again, it's
nobby taking fights on their terms, but every time they find themselves in a crosshair,
they die damn near instantaneous.
Little bit of stairs damage, you think would be enough to best co-presere, but once again,
he stands the test, a slaughter inside of A site, not one player falters, still no bomb
plants, the Mongols can do no wrong.
They actually can't.
I mean, I don't even know who the best player is right now.
I feel like Mzinho's kind of sneakily been stealing the show
with some of the clips that he's putting together but 9-10's not missing.
There's an op difference.
I think the setup so far blitzes, rotations have been the difference.
Everything's pretty much perfect.
An overtime guaranteed.
We find ourselves in the series where CobraZero will be referenced once more, showing a bit of resilience and the ability to come back after a tragedy of a first map.
Critical play, main back on Nuke, in back-to-back days, that map specifically looking like a great place for him, but now even within this game of mirage where everybody on the Mongols is bringing something to the table.
No hard carry needed in terms of shutting down Navi's attack.
Yeah, I mean even Techno. He's got rounds we remember.
The full court mid-press.
A sweet angle here for Techno. Shot miss slightly, but lets us here to catch a bait if they wanted to try to push into this.
Alexi should be able to see his feet soon though.
Oh, and he got spotted but he didn't peek too wide.
in P2 wide.
Alexi still just holding it, able to get the trade back,
hoping to Zera from the ladder room with another instant kill.
Trades still go back and forth.
There's a little bit of damage on Techno to have to handle.
I don't think Mikaze's going to be ready for him up here.
With that cat play, you think Techno will be more
back into the site.
It's a position that could catch him off.
Techno goes slightly further.
Get that.
Utilities thrown forward, and Techno
opposite just remain in the corner.
Mikaze is going to be able to figure this out,
But it takes a ton of damage in the process of clearing, and it's a long-range run here for the Mongols.
9-10, looking to join up on the cat retake. Makes the jump happen. Wonderful. Already on the angle.
AWP vs. AK up close. 9-10 wins the duel. You've got the low health Mikaze, caused by Techno,
and MZNyo freed up to start to make the retake. The galil wins the fight, and Navi will find their first.
When it is the playoff qualification on the line, the Mongols finally falter.
It was very nice for Mikaze to figure out Techno as he was minimizing his presence the entire time.
He started there at the beginning of the round. He didn't move at all. No Nades thrown whatsoever,
but it was just a little bit too quiet inside a B and two teammates coming up, Cat clearing things,
and he got a little suspicious. So, it's the first round.
But because Navi, you know, they got that seven rounds in the first half, they're not far away from actually bringing this into overtime.
It doesn't feel like they can, but, I mean, Navi have made harder comebacks than this.
It's just that, you know, the way that Mongols are playing, any one moment where you slip up slightly and Mongols are gonna get a multi-kill.
And you're gonna have your advantage taken.
And we see even in this round where they lost that Mongols are always playing to trade and
spit the scariest feature of the CT side.
No attempt at a duel goes unpunished.
I think it's a major that last round doesn't feel like the one that's going to take Mongos
confidence away.
It would be a little bit scary for now, but I think it's going to be a little bit more
early when they start this lead again towards A where the bomb is going, where the attack
is going.
Xenio allowed to just push this one a little bit closer.
Blitz is also quick to the scene if needed, dodging the fire for the moment.
Back turn to Tecno, he'll pick it up, but it is damage at least.
Oh, but the headshots are right there over top of the bricks.
Tecno's fighting pressure all around as Bit comes through with the headshot.
That's going to clear out the A site.
Incredibly close, Jules.
Look at the health left there for Bit and Wonderful.
You know that Mongols were on the brink of victory,
but it'll be consecutive rounds to Navi's T side.
We were watching it from the hero POV.
Techno underneath balcony, not dying, standing right beside him all the time, getting his 2K in.
But with his teammates going down without a frag, none of that really mattered.
So close to finding more frags over top of the bricks just there.
Techno scrambling to get away with an empty rifle just running for the hills.
And so good on Navi to deal with the support systems before pushing Techno over the edge.
Still, the Mongols economy can sustain a couple of losses.
That seven-round streak bodes well for their odds of still closing out Math 3.
Blitz, could he be spotted?
Nate doesn't go deep enough.
And so, Alexi from top middle is going to drop his utilities to try to soften that up.
Well landed.
Blitz is done for.
Alexi's got a second.
A chance at a third one as the Mongols go heavy in the mid-play,
but it is a 4v3 security kill.
Tecto steps forward off of the platform,
And that one is going to find that Navi's game plan, walking out a ramp while that mid-fight fades away.
But Mikazi goes into these more defensive protocols and they reset a little bit.
They're holding on to mid for the time being.
But a lot of this comes down to if 9-10 goes middle or not.
And it looks like he's about to. He's going to try to clear this top mid-play.
He's gone. He's got it. He's got it.
Figures it out, takes a bunch of damage in the process.
MCG is going to go for this ticket rotate in the meantime.
But while Navi try to play it quietly, this does open that door for MZinho to maybe split in between the two remaining Navi players.
9-10 just waiting for a shot, bomb thrown over towards default.
MZinho, does he peek off the plant?
Fake and tech, he gets the headshot!
And now 9-10's AWP is going to have to work this one over, it's him versus wonderful,
battle of the oppers, and in this window of opportunity, wonderful commits to the plant,
Scrammeling, looking for pieces, and uncertainness to the route that 9-10 takes,
who's slowly crawling this one up from ticket, clearing all the way.
As Wonderful gets back over to the Tetris, he'll find it, though,
catching him on the climb up, giving Navi two more rounds to push OT.
Yeah, now we're talking, Navi.
This round is just as hard as any of the other ones,
but there are shades of this Mongols come back inside of the first half.
Tough rounds, but consecutive here for Navi.
They're showing some fangs now. It's Alexi's 2k trade inside at middle or denial of trade
I should say that really kept this thing swimming
Round 23 everybody has what they want wonderful Scott that off sodas 910. I
Don't think anyone's smiling now
I'll be hanging on for dear life at one point, but now are undeniably doing it smooth reposition
from wonderful considering the options of that cross.
You know he felt the squeeze when he was looking for any U-Till, anything he could on default,
because he was worried that jungles stare, something like that could have been held by
9-10.
But he figures out the key walks away with a third consecutive
So where the pressure really goes on to a left right call. Oh, and it's perfect to catch 910 off
Because they just sit wide in the apartments every almost every single round up until this point
They haven't really tested B-Ax. 910's been able to sit there, no deep.
Saw Techno sit there for an entire round, no B had pushed up at all.
So a very nice change of pace here for Navi.
Quick unanswered 5v4.
This might be an interesting move, but Alexi's gonna be watching for us.
Everybody in the back.
Whoa, that's what I was gonna tell it with.
Lips is made, will finish off E-Met and wonderful, kills Cobra Zera in the middle of that engagement
out middle, so now what's left of the Mongols is incredibly split up.
Palace player looking to take a look towards Scythe, and Mzeno repositioning it as Sandwich
has been found, so everybody's here to deal with this, Navi go four rounds in a row.
When push comes to shove, they step it up a notch, and this game has been so difficult
to just get a read of.
The streakiness across maps, the blowout on map 1 that made you feel like this was Navi's day.
And so, they fight this back.
Morrow wants to just get this one over with, but overtime looms.
Overtime looms, except even despite this comeback, in all the buys we've seen take place, we've got to double off.
CobraZera is going to be doing his real Senzu impression now, picking up and off here on round 24 for the first time.
Mongol's CT side started with other dominance. It is what has afforded them this continuous buy.
Ever since Navi have been able to string these four rounds together, buy after buy, now double-op for the final hurdle.
They're gonna split that up into other guns.
Of course.
Like the Techno are here on an MP9, a FAMAS. There's not full grenades for everybody.
Yeah, the irony of that Senzu double-op is that he has like one of the lowest round-win
conversions off of it when he buys it.
What's crazy is there's no way Navi knows it's a double-op setup.
No way at all.
But O&B would be the perfect counterplay to the situation.
KobraZera's off, up, catwalk, blitz right now, alone towards the apartments.
Put pressure on the one Fommus there.
Yep.
Techno's MP9.
Cobra, he's got to go for some kind of pick to be honest.
He tries to take a look towards mid, but as he remains preoccupied with middle, here comes the hit.
Has it found it.
Techno bales out of the apartments, ready for the jump down onto him.
Op is now on the line, and it hits its first shot.
Cobra not going to waste the chance, but it's back.
Oh, 180!
Whips it over to the catwalk!
Swat ball for Cobra!
And we wondered whether he would be able to put it up.
Well he does, he tries to shut them up!
Round 24 for the Mongols!
Huge comeback after the blowout to kick off this series!
From dead last in Klackow to top 8 in Cluj!
Appropriately we end with a Cobra strike, but before we break down the game,
I want to say what was more interesting than the match for me,
was watching Mara visibly age before my eyes.
Like, he was put through the ringer in that one,
but Mongols emerge victorious.
And he's vindicated once again.
Random Mongolian pickup is able to bail them out
in a round where they didn't really have the best tools
to work with, but CobraZera,
I mean, the one thing about his game is just,
you put him in a spot, you present some targets to him,
and he just knocks him all down one by one.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, stepped up again.
Caster's measured it as well after a rough first map,
you know, did a great job on new from the CT side,
now here on Mirage as well man and kind of feel bad for Navi because they started finding some
ants, they started putting rounds together but honestly the dominance of the mongol in the first
five rounds of the second half they had 15-14k on all the players you know you win three, four
gun rounds if you're Navi and you go up against double lock and they weren't saving you know like
Navi was killing all five players on the mongol side it was maybe caught them a little bit off
guard and just put them really still all the way around, you know, get an empty coin there at some point.
I mean, what I love about what the Mongols did in this match, you keep man a big critical of them here at this tournament,
this was the adjustments. They were up against the ringer in that first half, they took some time,
changed their approach to the game. The Mara time out again. Yeah, another classic Mara time out.
And this is why, by the way, I personally rate you so highly as a coach. Now, when you've got
But, particularly younger players that feel overwhelmed,
just taking that time to say,
look, I've got a plan B, don't worry guys, do this,
and we're going to get back into this game.
Also man, I feel like in a lot of things in our scene,
we start taking things for granted really.
Like we're talking about the team,
all due respect for Montbolia being a contender in 2025,
right, and now in 2026 still being a force to be reckoned with.
Like imagine you told someone this three years ago,
Oh, yeah, I mean it would have been unbelievable.
What I love about it, Maui, is it just makes any excuses all the more hollow, right?
Yeah, it's this lazy.
Just lazy over there.
Correct.
We need 10k salaries before we can really commit to this game.
They do need that.
10 a.m. starts?
No, they do need that much to even have houses, to even have homes.
I mean, also true.
How about living with your parents for your 10k?
That's not an option for some of these guys.
I thought he was slipping the camera off, Blitz.
Me, listen.
I'm not.
After that performance he gets to, right? I mean, great stuff from him.
He corralled their plays just so well. So on the CT side especially, the way he was connecting with the cat defender in CobraZera, I mean, I was building up some of the Navi players and just the way that they take me, control, but Blitz won up them.
I mean, so frequently he was able to understand where the next hit was going to be coming from, the prescience and understanding just where he needs to aim and just what's going to be, what Navi are doing.
you're doing it's just like he's seen this rodeo before that's okay and i think you know i've been
a bit critical of him lately i think he's thrown under the radar for the mongol yes it's great and
some of these losses couldn't do as much and became maybe a bit of a liability but in some of the games
at this tournament he's stepped up and was the the main contributor really because he's in those
key roles right like on mirage on t-side he's on that lurk where if he can just get one kill and
and sort of disrupt the defense, he can do a lot for his team.
Well guys, you know James Banks is multi-talented,
he's gonna add snake handling to his talent now
because he's with CobraZera.
Thank you very much, Rich.
I've been handling snakes all the time,
I've got Maui to deal with, but this is a new challenge,
a nicer, easier challenge, I think.
A challenge for you, Cobra, though.
This was a great showing from you and the Mongols.
You've now made it to your first ever arena.
What's the feeling from them?
Yeah, it feels nice, yeah.
I'm maybe nervous, but yeah, yeah, that's good you'll learn you will grow from that
I also saw you picked up the all are you doing your best Senzu impression?
Oh, since the sins of it, you know, yeah, yeah, but you're learning and you're looking good
Are you feeling more comfortable more confident as each game goes by?
Yeah, like I'm getting used to that my teammates and kind of just feeling myself and yeah
Yeah, that's it.
And how is it with your teammates now, do you feel like you are starting to understand
what Blitz is asking for you, what Mara is telling you to do, you know, the way they
expect you to play?
They let me play my playstyle and just try to support me and give me advice and yeah.
Okay, so, so far so good it's all going very well, is there anything you want to say to
the Mongols fans and the Mongolian supporters at home?
Can I speak in Mongolian?
Yes, you can speak in Mongolian.
You can speak in Mongolian.
You can speak in Mongolian.
You can speak in Mongolian.
You can speak in Mongolian.
Thank you very much.
Congratulations on making it through to the class.
Richard, there you go. I'll show you how it's done.
You certainly have, James.
Not for the first time.
No, I'll tell you.
First of all, I, yeah, exactly.
I approve this pickup now because it means
doing interviews from the Mongols. So that's great. But no, I mean, what a what a really cool
story. Obviously, he's going to get to play in front of this awesome crowd we always have when
we come to Cluj now. And this is where you really start to develop as a player because, you know,
stadium play is so different as a prospect to even studio land play, you know, when you've got the
crowd, you know, kind of chanting and making noise and the adrenaline's going. So I'm looking forward
to see how he does in that environment. Of course, and it's really impressive to see the way that
they are supporting him. I mean, he talks about that, but it's almost like they're molding their
game a little bit more to him because, I mean, still side by side, I feel like Senzu, much more
active player, more willing to toss himself into the fights. And I feel like from this series in
particular, some of the other ones, I feel like we're getting bliss, just moving all over the
map so frequently. We're getting Mazzinho even back on that new game against Navi. He was leaving
ramps so frequently. They were just so willing to drop whatever it is that they're doing
and react to the information as quickly as they could because I think they might also
recognize that Cobra's era doesn't always have the perfect next step to around if some
new information is given to him, like even though, for example, he was the door player
on new. I think he only went down the vent maybe once. It was just other people that
realized they need to step up in different ways and it's worked out fantastically because
through the group stage, Cobra's era highest rated player for the team. That's extremely
impressive against this level of opposition. Yeah, even that final round on Mirage, you know,
he turned at just the final second. If he dies to the Cat player, maybe that defense collapses
and we're in overtime right now. But I think also talked a little bit about the adjustment period
for him that's going to continue and everyone else has to pick up the slack in the meantime,
right? Sensus shoes are just too big to fill for anyone, so it has to be a team effort. They have
have to money ball it for a while. So, congrats to Mongols. One more chance for Navi and now
we go to a break. When we come back, we're going to have an IGL masterclass. Two major
winners, Buttinghead's Furia vs. Peavision. We'll see you in a moment.
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Alright, welcome back as promised, an epic encounter from two storied IGLs of the both
one majors, Furia are taking on ParaVision, it's Fallen vs. Jane and what we're going
to do for this segment guys, this is a segment called Why Richard Loves P-Vision and Jane's
team. It is Jane the Redeemer and his Disciples and I have been early on the uptake for this
team right from the moment it was put together and I've been loving watching them develop.
I think for me personally, one of the more exciting prospects in World Counter-Strike
right now. Yeah absolutely a team that's been under rise towards the tail end of 2025 and
started 2026 with lifting the trophy over at bounty over the likes of Falcons in the finals,
big inferior along the way as well so pretty impressive start of the year's way is the addition
the new addition in 2026 coming over from team spirit and yeah just for me it's about the sacrifice
man same first and foremost I mean a veteran player living with you know
these kids in Belgrade bootcamping through the year grinding tier three
online CS like so they could get more experience and learn their ways around
just competitive CS and then tier one CS eventually and you can see all that
work and let's be clear right he's vindicated because you look at where
Virtus Pro are right now I mean obviously I was critical of that
this pro team with Jay Moe. Watching them play Counter-Strike was diabolical. The victory in
Rio, the victory in Rio came at the expense of Counter-Strike as a sport. It was the worst thing
that could have happened to us at that time. And that style kind of became the norm, the min-maxing
the economy. It's why we got them our 12. Yeah, exactly. Just had to do away with it. So to stop
it ever happening again. I mean, I think that everybody loves a redemption arc. Even though he
came into the fray in the space with such a idiosyncratic style to try to squeeze the margins
in terms of the economy game, you know, saving more than other people to see him bounce back with
this younger group. And to me, it kind of reminds me of Gambit youngsters and kind of the rise that
they have where they were just grinding out all the online cups and how now in a way, I don't know
if it's a perfect one to one analogy, but this way is almost like when they bring Hobbit and a guy
with a little bit more experience, a little bit more tenure, been on some bigger stages,
and now they look like they're primed and ready to make playoffs a little more consistently.
Meanwhile, you talk about redemption arcs. We've got redemption arcs in the
furia lineup, several in a way. You kind of are the most obvious one that kind of like
leaps out, but I will say as well, you know, K. Serato is having a wonderful renaissance
this period and at this competition. I think he's just showing us what he's capable of when he has
a really strong team around them, you know, and when the roles on the team make sense,
so he can just focus on what he does best, which is some of that lurking, being a rock on the CT
side as well. And yeah, I mean, he's been great for Furia alongside the new additions.
And what happens when you have an entry in front of you, that's a bit more reliable than, say,
art. I feel like it goes without saying Yackindar achieving top 20.
Equally crazy at times. Yeah. Yeah, but but a guy that just shoots a little bit harder and sometimes it's a little bit more thoughtful as well
We're getting the veto here. Obviously these teams played at bounty
I say the notable exclusion from the veto last time for me. Yanko was actually overpassed despite that
Both teams liking the map. I think that they probably thought it could be decider
We get the dust suit which I think is a repeat from from last time in fact
I think both of these are was mirage inferno. Okay mirage inferno
Yeah, so it switched up a little bit from PVision. They had success on Dust2 in this tournament.
Overpasses, they're in the same spot. They were both good on the map, but recently didn't have as much success.
They won one of their last four games on the map, so not a huge surprise that it's not there.
And in the end, this is a bit of a punish because PVision didn't have a ton of time to practice.
this new anubis even had the bit from Jane when he was like,
just play it as a pug, you know, like, and all that. And
fury have definitely played it already. More times. All right.
It's without Maraji the decider.
Yeah, I feel like for, for para vision, I'm almost a little bit
surprised. I guess the thing is to know moving into how they like
to play that map and why they like to go for it. So frequently
they're just targeting extremity players a lot. I've seen them
want to hammer the B bomb site when they know the weakest guys
there. My money for this one would probably be that they're probably going to test fallen quite a bit
towards long air there. I just feel like they're not shy about making you adapt first after they
try to batter in whatever they deem your weakest site. Yeah, and this is going to be a game of
teams who play very similar on the T side, right? Slow taking map control away from you,
making you play in the dark of sorts. So the operas are going to have a huge role, right?
breaking that default on CT sides, being aggressive, trying to find openings as well.
Yeah, it's going to be super interesting to kind of see the student take on the master
in the Battle of the Opism. Really excited for that because, you know, Jane, no slouch,
but very different style of molotoy obviously. Well, it does too. He does get a little bit
crazy. I'd say this is the one map where Jane kind of sheds his sort of passive nature. You'll
see him sometimes push up mid, swing off of cat with the op. I mean, they're going to definitely
only try to set him up to and but Molo do he loves he relishes opportunities to go toe-to-toe with opposing operas
I mean in 25 in
Op head-to-heads he was simply just the best better than xayu better than monasy even in those kind of heads-to-heads
He was great versus them to right. I'm gonna bring in our commentators and get their opinion real quick before we get into the action
Guys who do you like for this one call me a toilet attendant because I've got p vision
Okay, yeah, not me, not me. I'm gonna side with Fury on this one, Richard.
I don't know what to go with that.
Yeah, I'm gonna go with Fury on this one. I think it's time to kind of get out of the
mud right now. We've seen them kind of push to their limits by some lesser opposition,
but I don't know, my read of Paravision is just not too positive at the moment.
My read at this event just hasn't been that good overall, so I'm losing confidence in
my predictions, but I'll go with the odds favorite and say Fury, that's two.
All right, listen, it's that attritional style.
It's so frustrating to play against because you try and rotate on them.
You try and take space on the map and they're still in spawn.
You know, just waiting for you.
It's really hard to play against, especially for an aggressive team like Fury.
I like this is a stylistic matchup.
I like what, you know, Maui just reminded us of all,
which is that the Molledoy off head to head stat line is so positive.
So I'm going to be excited to see Jane with his hands full tonight.
Yeah. And even to add to that, Lawns,
Yeah, a little bit of time still waiting to get in there just that and and because of dust to it is the one place
Jane will try to control mid doors with his op. It's kind of weird because
Even other teams aren't normally doing now with their opera right now
But he'll actually walk down mid make sure to keep an eye on the rotations himself
And there we are inside of the game. We're taking away guys. Have a great cast. Thank you
He's not starting T side so that's one thing para vision
But right now, Paravision are the team to watch on Dust2, besides the Spitalis, but they're actually...
They do it their own way, and they do it well.
On this pistol round, we're gonna have no contests for Fury, that's to get out the long doors immediately.
T-Side Smoke goes down on the gap, and with a flash into the ramp, they've already got themselves crossing yonder-gonder.
The Kindar, no duel! We've got no bloodshed by the time the bomb goes down in this first pistol.
the 5v5 in the post plant. We'll see what pair visions or P visions retake is made of.
Yeah, if it's do-do vision.
Two of Berettas on this side of the smoke and those Berettas ready to charge forward now,
but the gap here for Fallen still hanging on. CT's trying to move it up. Belcher not good head shot.
Trying to move forward with that momentum. They will catch another one on Yikinder.
So, Maladoyz, the spot starts to come through.
Uri's cleared off of Goose, and now No-Tuck into the jump over top of the smoke
to try and spot Kisarado. The Beretta's pulled through.
Oh, he jumps back on it. No time. No-Tuck to the damn near ace in this one.
The retake almost there, but time is what makes the difference,
and Furia will pick up round one.
Gave him a little scare. Tapped it at the end,
even though there wasn't any time left over.
So, Furia, obviously, they just did enough.
just slightly enough to make sure they could go ahead and pick up that round.
It's a good start for them here on T side. And I think that is the interesting
thing about this series is to call Fyria is to say that Fyria have, you know, a
chance or a likelihood of picking up Dust 2 even though it's just a strong place
for a pair of vision to go in.
Ten and two on the map. Their last three wins. T2 mouse Astralis. Like they are
right real heavy hitters right now on dust 2. Now it's interesting they haven't
even actually played Vitality. Now that would be a clash. Well fingers crossed we
get it here. Include. Fingers crossed we get it on a big stage. Both these teams can still make it. Only one will book their tickets tonight.
The stack inside of the B bomb site is not going to find out what it was hoping for.
Oh, yeah, anyways.
Fury, take the path of least resistance and you'll wind up on that A bomb site with a free plant in a moment.
Not his best flashbang, but that's fine. You kiddark and work without it.
Sizing up both bomb sites.
Wait, they're going B still, actually.
They're running into the stack?
Even though they threw a body up cow-off, they don't play off it.
Furia about to make a mistake. Assuming the pistols can make something happen.
There's still time to leave, gentlemen.
Zello comes through with the first kill.
Walidoy's trying to test the win.
Those three kills come through. It's with QSP, Steven.
Ya'kinder bested by Jame. That's the bomb drop down.
And so K. Serato's gonna move over to pick that up.
Twenty seconds. If he wants to run for the hills, he can still go for this.
Yeah, he's got to, but he wants to get through CT.
You know there's gonna challenge. Try to take this tool. This is just whittling down time.
He's only on 14 points of health and they'll nail the landing.
Unbelievable that with the cap play even you had somebody heading towards A with no resistance
You still decide to head towards B blind. That's obviously an error for Furios. They thought they were throwing some kind of fake
They were so sure about the setup. They ran into a full USP stack and lost.
You almost never see a round like this. How often does a team full stack and be with USPs on just two specifically?
And they pulled off this win and the main reason they did is no one freaked out even after the first kill happened
They still didn't shoulder peek swing pop up from are nothing ice-cold
No, it's okay to catch a kid. I'm making use of the new found guns holly-dois. Deagle's gonna say something about it
He goes after offers
The utility comes out from the catwalk, Molo is going to keep on charging you down but
Nohta survives that test, insta headshot on K Serato, low HP moment there for Nohta and
he's able to withstand the pressure of that charge his way.
Bomb possession secured as well with the door push so Fallen's going to have to come back
at this one versus three and his paravisions stack inside of that bomb site and his sent
Fallen's head spinning.
The charging with the pistol, Hail Mary push!
Ok, what are we going to get into tonight?
If plays like that are happening.
That's awesome.
How weird are we going to get?
That was absolutely insane.
He like threw the op away, but not really.
Then made so much noise in front of the smoke and jumped through anyways.
And then got the kill even though he had a full rifle on his back with the P250.
That had it all.
I think Noda might have really saved them by getting those next two kills.
Poladoi had him flashed and two body tags and he thought trade's imminent, no problem.
His way's let one out.
Let's see if he can clear it.
Feels like he's considering it, but Poladoi's Deagle still gets good damage in.
And that flash sets up the trade frag with the pack pushing through the doorway, so...
The other nice thing about buying weaker guns is like now they've got this gun, but they have it from so far away
It's not really that much of a threat
MP7 in this distance
The B-7 buff is real though.
So they've played at the bounty in the semi-finals in Paravision 1, but they didn't even have
to play Dust 2, which is interesting.
We're watching Inferno.
They've just made it harder for themselves, it feels like.
That was like the big legitimate win as well for Paravision back at the event.
You know, you could put the asterisks next to Falcons, Spirit, we're trying to onboard, but a Fury of Victory.
Real deal, Paravision performance.
And it's a mow down here towards Long, so it's going to be an early lead secured and extended by Paravision so far on Dust2.
3-1 over Furia I guess when that took place I mean it's it's counter strike
things move quickly but at the time Paravision haven't even really shown
their full strength on Dust2 yet so they went ahead and picked Mirage as their
first pick which is also fine but yeah it's really since Krakow got some of
their biggest wins. One both of them were down T2. They were undefeated on Dust2 at the major.
Wild spray for you, Kindar. Can't stop the climb towards the blue box, Zway.
Gonna tuck into that corner as they remain too long for only a second longer.
There's no contest for Furia taking over the start of Catwalk.
oof
We'll have to walk into James Crosshair. We'll see if anybody makes him uncomfortable, because right now...
Yeah, alright, he'll feel the way.
That mid-utility draws his attention instead. T's just leaving a smoke at the exit of tunnels too.
30 seconds and Fallen trying to get ahead of that smoke plume.
Oh, Belchin on great read of the positioning.
Jane even blindly shooting into the corner, catching what was left of Yuri.
And they just know exactly the path. They haven't seen anything.
They just keep standing in the corner.
There was no support here, there was no third CT throwing themselves towards middle, Zwei will get the long range gap kill through the doorway.
That's two players inside B between Belchanak and Jame, totally stopping Furia in their tracks.
The fact that that, you know, the lurk smoke comes out and everything and James first incident gets you going to the ring down for the first kill.
He knows exactly how that all is going to play out. They are looking very well prepared.
I can't believe this kicked off with that B-stack after Furio won the pistol and Paravision
have only done more impressing.
All it does is have a Galil in this round.
They won't put too much behind it.
Scary sign of things to comment.
That's how you win your first round of the game and you haven't looked in the rear view
since.
Weird things happening today.
But like fun weird.
Fun weird
Like pimp in a white turtleneck
Completing all his clothes and Copenhagen by accident
In front of all the do it for a moment. No, no besides not to chuck it out just yet
You know about the galeel now
The Molledoy is going to be forced to step back into the fight, but okay, timing their awkward, still that goes unclunish.
Maybe he's no luck.
Lucky to get away with it, AK is going to find one.
Seattle mows them down as the smoke pops.
That could have been disastrous, but ultimately it is still no footing inside of that B bomb site,
despite Furia's best efforts.
They've tried to hit it a few times, once with a ton of guns, and yet not able to actually step onto the plant zone yet.
You kind of are not long for this world, you're gonna have to fight his way out of CT spawnery. They'll kill you after time.
There are long ways from the clock expiring, so Paravision finding another one, Dust2 currently belongs to the underdogs.
And again, it raises the question. They're underdogs because of their overall ability and their...
I mean, when you base it off of Kaluj runs, they both had very difficult...
Everyone's had a difficult run, because the teams that are underrated are unreal, like
Bait and Foot and Paravision as one of them.
They're just certified top dogs at this point, but Furia, they only lost to Maus.
They still got a map there.
They beat FaZe, they beat G2 to get here.
From that front it's hard to say who's in better form per se.
But the fact that Dust 2 might be a gimme in the series, how can you really pick Furia?
They didn't even have that last time they played N-Peravision 1.
And notice doing that thing where it's like all headshots.
Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The rifle accuracy is unreal.
And to be fair to him, he doesn't like every other map, but it just happens to start now.
I like the chaining of the HE, they're chaining that more and more.
Because you hear the first one, then you start to walk out for the swing, now there's a
time zone too.
It really slows you down.
I haven't seen it getting you one killed yet, but it's coming.
Jane vs. Molledoy, here we go.
Let's see what James Willingness looks like when it comes to stepping into this door,
but...
CT's off for the smoke, Polaroid is gonna pop.
Oh, you kiddard!
Through the spam!
Finds not just damage, but a headshot!
So, we can address that, maybe.
Even if it becomes an A-play, it's just, oh my goodness, the CTs are going everybody
over towards the A-side now.
How are you thinking about here, Furia?
Are they even imagining that James left side mid and they've left their... oh my goodness,
they're running into the stack.
Perfectly positioned.
Furia.
Ergogen, pulling it off again.
Furia go wide, AWP missed.
It's just gonna bolster their confidence to follow through, but in a moment those rifles
are gonna pop right up.
And both of them die.
Utility well placed.
James AWP still on the ramp, but wounded.
They're going to stifle somewhat on the approach, but none of the riflers can really get it going fully, and so numbers strong, theory up, push the issue into the A bomb site, and nobody truly dies on that one.
Still four players strong, it's dangerous to walk into the stack like that, but at least they pull off the individual kills.
Yeah, a lot of things, they messed up right there. Belcher not died in the Mali, it feels like 100 to 0, or he swung off of it. They had good utility.
Through a molly meatballs and a molly goose, so two players that were over-building in the spot were completely countered where you think maybe one of those of every single player was connected to that molly.
Ramp, Goose, and D.I.T.E.
So it was actually a beautiful utility of the fury up.
The one thing that was truly an issue was James flashed his teammate on long.
He was helping him get kills on the cross.
And that didn't work out in his favor.
It takes until the 7th round to break back in since winning pistol, but Furia pull it
off with a convincing fashion.
Yeah, running into a stack is a little alarming, but also it's not like Paravision tricked
them with a super intricate, you know, fake set of grenades to get them into the stack.
They just kinda walked over there, and they were right.
I love how Valve tried to do everything to make it harder to just pick mid at the beginning of the round, and Counter-Strike Flair has just found a way to make it just as easy as before.
Yeah, it re-evolves.
Instant.
But there's a will, there's a way.
That tunnel smoke out, there's a bit of caution here from Paravision throwing a second player
dedicated to sight just in case.
Again, on the prowl through the big doors.
This one does feel a bit more like me.
I wonder if parabishion are just gonna...
Yeah, they're already pushing a little bit farther off of cat.
They haven't decided to try to flank long.
There's smoke now in Sendiary left here for the Paravision B players, so once that smoke
comes up, you know what fury are gonna do, smash themselves into it with the op coverage
of Molledoy in the backdrop, they'll set the site on fire, and Yukindar's the one to
pick up the headshot.
Belchinon eating flashbacks made awkward.
So good.
coming through not wasting a bullet with those frags and on top of it Kcerado drops
down beautifully into the CT spawn to guarantee Furia moved forward with a huge advantage
in the guns.
Four seconds left on the rounds when they get that bomb planted.
Any kills on that hold and they could have been slowed down too much and instead on the
finest margins everything falls together.
But they worked hard to get to that point they had Kcerado up there with two smokes
They're just waiting to throw a fake for himself, and it looks like no exits here.
Or no snake escape, way goes down, one for one.
Only death here for Puria.
It's a fantastic round outside of how close it gets, but they don't have to worry about that,
because their utility was pure perfection.
I can't start finding headshots on both the entries.
Two flashes at Belchanov. Two from the get-go.
So maybe now Furia's recovery underway, two rounds consecutive, putting the pressure
on Paravision's buys, still well-equipped, ooh, and Jane giving a damn near free chance
at Volodoy, but Bullet whizzes by, Kazak, AWPer, now you've given him a chance to go
hunting.
I do a running by with him with a knife out.
Well, it just goes to show that they were not anticipating James to put that up there.
He misses his chance to kill.
Takes it back towards his more passive and regular angle.
Molledoy still on the other side of this doorway.
Always ready for this fight.
Paravision's alien spent in this position for some time now already.
This double-op setup with Zello holding long A. Just frees up James to keep going for these
duels.
He's lucky to be alive now, four points of health, but again, number strong for Paravision
on this bombsite.
Second top moves over to the cross.
Zello's still concerned about doors, however, and it is his way to die to K-Sorado in the
meantime.
Go sliding by this these flashes fantastic so good that notice sits there for five seconds full blind before they can even see him
Sure, Jane will find a bit on the fallback of Maladoy who's going hunting already
But this is fury to find no real contest in taking over bombsites B or a
Some real beautiful sias out of fury
I honestly between this cat exact the one where they had they ran into four players and they mullied every single position
On the site.
Boots, Vsauce, and the ramp at the same time.
They called out everyone's spots.
Two to the nail for this one, but fully outnumbered.
Fury up. Continue to win these rounds.
Racking them up consecutive.
It's just a high level dust too, isn't it?
It is.
The stacks that Parabishna put out.
Yes.
The rounds that they got as well have been so impressive.
I think Furia are looking for a high-level game here in Cluj. You know being pushed to the absolute limits by foot yesterday
I like that they're not just running it down on scrimmy exacts or like last second mid-bees or anything
Everything is like full strength all the utility to the amount of time left over
It does make me think though that pair of it should be putting a little bit more emphasis on trying to get some utility out of the round early
to interfere with the plan today
See if they get into that once they're back to the gun rounds.
This round should be able to be tantamount with Curia much at all.
Just don't be dying to another USP stack of all things.
We're gonna see them, like, kinda carefully use every bit of utility they have to make
the attacks happen.
I guess this might be a leak, or however.
It'll be a series of pre-treats.
Nice.
Okay, Serato cleaning house.
Finds himself a triple kill.
And the Kindar punishes for the last one.
I'm sure that there are no victims in this round from their squad.
Four rounds in a row.
You know, maybe when you're punching down, you do play a little looser,
because you don't want to show everything, and then you can take it up a level when you need to.
I think here I come into this game with a lot of respect for the fact that Paravision have such amazing record on the map.
And it's refreshing, actually, to see full execs on Dust2, that everything's meaningful.
It's not just throwing a bunch of stuff and then running out.
Sometimes teams do that, and then the flash they use with Flash so long ago doesn't even matter.
That's not the case here, Ophiria. Everyone's blind. All in the molds for a fair vision, beginning to end.
This is curious. Double-op set up at Ophiria's T side.
To lower push.
G-Syrato fires one off.
We get...
This kind of ruined their plans a bit. They didn't throw much into it, though.
James sitting down in lower tunnels, still waiting.
Mollidoy missed opportunity at punishing that cross. No-tut dies on CAD.
Mollidoy remaining adamant about taking this duel into the bombsite.
Jame is still floating down here in the tunnels.
The kick-narr is going to fall victim to it,
and Yuri doesn't just go into the heart and swing wide,
so a good fallback for Jame to maintain for before.
Point of the round, it gets very difficult,
and if there's not early activity,
I think it ruins furious plans.
We're looking for a bit of space and time to get set up.
still just so cautious working their way around in the tunnels and commitment for
Peltianock in the face of that teeside smoke
got a pack play here by Furia everybody creeping out through the middoor as we've
got a smoke for the CT cross as well on Moledoy
He doesn't drop it, goes for the open smoke instead.
They're going to be able to cross by, but of course his way gets vision.
With Bombing Drop, that's going to take the trade possibility of Yuri out of the hat.
He'll get killed with no potential on that one, so awkward situation.
Still could be recovered if Yellow is covered.
He'll kill the AWPer, but now the Bomb Plant comes wide, and yeah, he's got it.
Falling, unable to get back into that.
Do a very awkward situation with the smoke.
The only reason I don't hate it is because if you smoke standard, if you're walking out
and you don't throw the one that lands on top of the box, covers everything, if you smoke
on the left, and it's a quick low telegraph one, at least when you run through it, if
they drop down on a CT, they can't see you getting to the door.
So you can go in quickly to it, they're going to be a little bit like, oh wait, what's happening?
And then once you're on the other side of the smoke, you're pretty safe.
But I feel like they just were very quick to try to check the left side of it, look for
for any kind of gap at all.
Final round of the half, then go back to the double-op out of the gate.
Falling in Molodoy.
Actually haven't had a lot of the op versus op battles that we kind of anticipated.
Yeah, Molodoy's come looking for him, but Jayme relays him.
Wide one from Nota, and that's an insta headshot out of Yakindar,
So we're going to tie this game up at the turn of a half.
Nades exchanged on the doorway.
Kidnar's going to challenge through, and yes, nicely done.
Back to back.
Headshots out of Kidnar.
Belchanov drawn off of the B bomb site.
Trying to set up the cross.
Kidnar's triple now.
He's on it.
Nothing but headshots blasts his way through mid.
14 frag T side.
Not afraid at all to get his hands dirty
and to do some heavy lifting.
Bomb is able to cross over into the B site for free
and Paravision have been wrapped around already here by Yuri.
He's going to find Bax turn 2 him down and see if he's fine.
So this 6th round, guaranteed.
Furia fighting tooth and nail after a very awkward move
towards that B bomb site in round 2, dying to majority USPs.
But they recover that half.
Five at last.
Six rounds come up.
Furia.
I love that half of Counter-Strike.
I mean, so many good rounds from both teams.
Mike, a lot of grit from Furia after getting really embarrassed on that second round.
And the fact that even when Paravision went for an entire stack on one side of the map, Furia could still win off the back of the utility.
Showed how prepared Paravision are, but also how prepared Furia are to try to challenge them.
Once right now, their favorite map, their best map by far, map their 10 and 2 on.
They've taken down virtually every single team except Vitality so far.
And they didn't even have to use it to beat them the last time they played against Furia.
back at the bounty in the semi-final.
So just really appreciating the effort that has come into today's game.
And also, Yikindar's form.
Yeah, I mean, what we're getting in the absence of maybe Mollitois-Keri
is a Yikindar that's 15 and 7 off of the back of the tee side.
And you saw all the confidence spilling over in that last round.
So right now, it feels like Yikindar's...
Him himself is feeling untouchable.
We'll see if that can carry you over to the defense now.
Furia with all the momentum you could ask for, towards the end of that half.
Moledoy quickly into the tunnels, we'll find nobody home,
as it's sitting outside of long for paravision at the moment.
A little duel towards the barrels, this flashbang is going to set up a big clash,
and a clash where the numbers advantage is that of Furia falling back to back headshots,
long control taken over by ParaVision and they won't waste a moment just trying to
make up for lost time with those deaths out middle bomb has a smoke to ensure the
cross and the spam here for Tacerado just not on the money.
They won't plant right away so they felt like they couldn't get a few extra second
shaved off this bomb but they're throwing a decent spot to give it an attempt.
Job's not finished here for the period. No kit for the retake.
No nades either but no kit no problem by the looks of it because it's already
coming in pretty swiftly. Everybody's here ready to go. Four players catch strong.
Flash is thrown out for long. Nobby dies while blind there, so now Paravision
losing their advantages, losing their bomb site control, and it is only Jame in
the middle of that post plant to post anything whatsoever. Furia's win ways
continue on the CT side. Yeah, right into the lead here. Sweet round out of
Fallen with that mid push
You know teammates everywhere got flashed in to ensure that he could get those frags, but he delivered on it
Looking like they really are the favorites
Oh, there it goes.
Oh, wow.
Okay. There she goes.
I mean, especially in a round like this, this is where Molodoy is 100% going to take that fight.
Every other round is about 95%, but these rounds are 100%.
That's right. If Molodoy senses blood in the water, he just starts swimming faster.
I do think Fury are kind of looking for that result that truly puts them back on to the
top of countershow.
I know what you mean.
You know, the nature of a victory, and you should need to be convincing for Fury as the
team we started to tout as maybe being the Vitality Killers, because they stopped just
severely trending upwards to the point that they were going to win everything, and I agree.
It's almost asking too much, but, um, you know what you mean?
Like, especially with Molleville.
Our newest Super Dupre star.
Obviously, they set our expectations for them.
Just so much higher at the end of 25.
2026 just hasn't kind of met that expectation just yet.
Which has been holes in the game at times, coming out of the player break.
I remember there was a post-game interview where Fallon said like,
you know, we lose a few games and all of a sudden people are asking,
are we back? Are we back? Just because we win a match.
But it's like that, that kind of plateau wasn't going anywhere.
And, you know, foot are the real deal as well.
We've got some real plucky underdogs punching upwards in 2026.
Being exposed versus the lesser opposition like that is something
Fury would definitely want to get away from.
And ParaVision are a comparable team to foot in that regard.
So let's just see a convinced victory, go down 5-1 to ParaVision and then don't look
back whatsoever.
Feels like that's what we could be on the brink of, but they've got to get through the gun
rounds and ParaVision well equipped here in round 15.
I'm going to go back to the base.
Yuria, man, we haven't mentioned a single time in this game. It's alone inside the B site.
the city's coming full force at him
currently fully alone
okay that the rotations are taking place
all in top of his head as well and yeah dooms flashing in the middle of the pack sure but smoked off and done for
there's a little slow to the play there on that one Furio they kinda stalled out towards the mid doors for the moment that Yuri really needed them
You're also kind of bummed it just by going over to Hummer like one second late, so that's the whole deal.
Good on paravision. First gun round coming through from the T side and they find...
You peek out Hummer and there's three guys on the wall on the left side all staring at you.
Oh, you're cooked.
You're done goofed.
You know, Jane will catch you on a bad day and just keep punching you.
So now, Uri 5 and 10, very successful first gun round for ParaVision.
You know, this is going to be that moment where James starts thinking,
oh, we can just exploit this.
We'll see if there is that continuation of pressure over towards the B site,
whether Uri gets more support earlier.
But I think this is a red flag moment for both teams.
This is ParaVision, they're the ones that are going to benefit from realizing it.
Fallen, moving like a grandfather clock right now, back and forth.
What was that?
Routing there by his way.
Makes it all the easier by spamming down the door.
You know that MP7 wanted to come charging in off of the utility to try to somehow scramble
back and to control the situation.
Three players cross over off the frag grenade, leaving Mollidoy on the mid-angle.
Jaymeen, see ya, thang.
Maladoy always nullified by these smokes in mid, so he's just going to quietly crawl over to the A site instead.
Rumblings of long play off the flash as Fallen pushes the MP9 in front of this and banks on Maladoy's rotation to help him out.
out and if they tiptoe into this doorway, Volodoy will most certainly collect some kills here.
First one's free, Jame posted on the same angle and P9 line-up here for Fallen, but still both
players at around half health will just escape. He thinks he's, you know, thinking both down to 10hp
and they are alone. Oh, Yuri dies trying to fight into this. That might have been a bit of a mistake.
This is actually a very strong-looking map. Now look at what happens. Who got your
The kinder trying to make up for this. He's worried they're gonna instantly mid-B.
Jello tries to jump on that utility usage, but good on Fallen to win that duel. Not an easy spot for Fallen to be in.
We need to watch that.
Important one.
James gonna pick up the headshot over towards Long with the AWP.
Bombs been able to push Cat, but it's timing here for you, Kindar.
An off-flank upcat. Turned just now.
Sway getting ahead of it, just in the nick of time, and Pacerato gets his head popped as the rifling comes through from
Paravision nicely done by Jane going back and forth to find impact and Yuri
Getting clipped on the corner of middle really allowed for that flood up cat. I guess because it was long pressure
His move is the first guy out was to get over but um, that's the thing was that
Like fallen knew they were falling back to mid
So there was a little bit of danger there if mid doors was open
Also, you know all that aside
It's kind of game burn, your kinder's playing so well with his rifle, you don't really want to see a round lost because he doesn't have one.
Smooth sailing there for a second.
I don't think the paratroopers are going to regain their confidence.
Tags go both ways, jamed down to 12 HP.
Molledoy through the door.
Hit for 56.
Just that fear you have nothing else to work with, so...
Pistols to try to make a play as that AWP just sits here on the angle.
The Paravision is slowly but surely avoiding this threat of Molledoy.
I would not want to be a Kindar right now.
Smoke in the USP versus what feels like five incoming terrorists.
Yeah, this will have to be play of the year.
Only for genius.
Lucky to get one, as that B-stack starts to unravel because they've taken over the tunnel's control.
While the damage is good, the coverage is enough.
James spotting that little frantic cross through the doorway.
25 seconds as Paravision play the clock to make sure that all is good.
You'd hate to run into a stack of USP's, you know, imagine that
Paravision to take back a lead
Tell the class what's nut vision go ahead explain
He's fast with the message vision?
Where'd you set P vision?
Oh, that's... look at the top of the screen.
Oh, it actually says it.
Yeah, we've shortened it. Paravision. Too long for the HUD.
We're all about efficiency around here at PGL.
Straight to the point.
After starting 5-1 on this map,
I think it's going to feel good for
ParaVision to start pulling back ahead.
Get through that last one, cost effective.
It feels like Paravision have been doing a good job of making sure Molotov can't go
off as the hard carry this game.
It feels like he's had a lot of utility to have to deal with, doors smoke more often
than not.
That was a really salient observation, but they're probably planning for that, absolutely.
It's fun for us to watch the AWP head to heads, but it's not maybe in their best interest.
See, there's a clean pick off on a rifle, Mollidoy, finding a way to get the impact,
and that's what makes him in.
This is a round where they really didn't burn any early utility right there.
It wasn't any kind of a mid smoke.
There wasn't any sort of a flash to get towards Catwalk Paravision.
Just tiptoe in, and it's an easy opening kill for Furia.
Mollidoy quick to the A ramp, but if Mollidoy's over towards that A site,
and maybe ParaVision are just gonna lean into this B-split,
swifter than Furio with life.
So A-topple down to half health, not ideal for him,
and FallenKilling's Yellow sets up this B-hold well enough.
In case Serrano to the back of Black gets his,
James gonna get the answer back, but it's a little too late.
His entire team has died around him.
Yeah, everyone's gone.
I mean, you can go peek back in the middle, but...
you get this kill. It's heard the footsteps.
Well, it really took us time with that, but I mean it's just an escape route it looks like, there's one off-cat.
I mean, it's like it should be impossible, just because the HP now, but time left over, obviously, Furia are scared that he'd give him one more mistake.
I don't know anything in CT, and he'll get an audio cue over.
There we go, USB from Molo to close.
Still two-player stand, but good on Yuri and good on Kcerado.
Yeah, I like the move inside of the smoke.
It's like Yuri never planned to stay in there forever.
Just enough time to draw some aggro.
Kcerado performing as he asked you to draw that aggression.
the first kill, make sure the others are fixated back flat. Really open the door for Yuri's
job to be all the easier, so tide game again this time at 9.
So far, our clues. This is already the biggest test for ParaVision. They won their last two
games versus G2 and Maus 13-4 and 13-7 respectively. That's how good they're got, they've got.
Furia can deny dust too, then it opens up the series.
For more convincing victory this evening, still feels like a big if though.
Anybody's first map, and Zelo into the CT smoke you'll go, setting up a B play while
Furia remained behind these smokes.
We just saw a solid B site hold between the riflers.
This time, Molledoy is going to be a part of it,
meaning back on platform, no K Serato on site just yet,
preoccupied with middle, but still getting close enough,
right?
He will put up a fight through the doorway when needed.
We'll see if Uri can get away with another close smoke play.
Molledoy pops back up, finds his burning in the meantime,
and no second frag from Molledoy.
Ham's busy here for Uri as he just wants to tuck into car.
In case Serato makes his move off that flashbang now,
Nades come back still from ParaVision. They stutter step on the exit here from Tunnels.
Kcerato does his job at Swimming Lane.
Wow, the way they work together.
And the kind are on scene to make sure all goes well.
Just the way that Kcerato and Harry and these last couple have done so good to complement each other
to make it feel like there's only one in that angle, there's actually a second...
It's all a big bruise and Molo-Doi's second shot is totally optional.
The fact that he's there, actually, is sharp.
He's down.
There must be a point from here.
Trying to avoid him.
He got the pick up on Cat.
He was the fill player now on the back of the B site when they want to hit it.
This is Furia taking a lead.
The money will be all dried up for Paravish if they don't win now.
They invest into this way only as a deagle.
A lot rests on Jame and his AWP.
tons of utility they must have a plan for this one
Molledoy eats the flash fully but yellow does too I can't get pounced on because
of that
one of those one-if moments as we get to frag grenade sailing off catwalk
Molledoy still continue to try to find an angle here in the middle of it
If you're going to scramble a second defender over into B, he's stuck in this position as
bullets sail through.
No one's going to charge in.
Free kill for Yukindar when he decides to take it.
Please take the kill while the smoke is about to come up.
As it does, that's when he's got to go for it.
I feel like take the kill.
Yeah, right?
Because if there's still a smoke that maybe Yellow doesn't get the trade, he's going to
spam through to try to get you, but this way you just give him a full duel.
might be enough.
Soaping somebody would come through and join, but not the case.
One is done, but Kinnar is yellow with the headshot he needed.
Pops fallen.
Molotoway's attention turned and we've got the support of Kasurado on the scene already.
Bombs go, however, moving towards that B site and Yuri is playing it from beyond the
mid-doors.
fallen victim to this fake, still hasn't even considered it.
By the time he sees the player jumping over with the bond,
there's actually a player down beneath the window,
Sway's Desert Eagle, gonna blindside him.
So Yori gives up space and a nice pump fake from Paravision
to tie the game again.
Totally, yeah, and they've done this with, again,
a forced down would have got real ugly.
Maybe the entire game, if they had lost this,
had to save on the next and lost all their players.
So nice flexible rounds here from Paravision,
way they make it over towards B. And we put pressure on one side and the other and you
can get some of the B site. Get CTs in the rotator spots, but that's when you have your
best chance.
You just know para vision never let an opportunity pass by so of course timeout now in round
21.
Dostan's last chance to put a pause on the game.
Oh, Furia. Fallen with a lot to say.
I think they recognize the opportunity at hand. You know, maybe they come into Dust2Humbly
and they say, we're going to give this a real attempt, but this is going to be a hard match.
It probably won't be one on Dust2 for us, but if we can, then we can really end this
We can really un-listen to it. We really have a chance to impress him.
Put together the match that you're just talking about.
The one that you're even looking for recently. My goodness, Molladoi is lucky to avoid that shot.
Right?
I don't know who's more lucky, actually, because he also got a bullet off, didn't he?
Straight out of the timeout, straight into the duel.
James hasn't been going for those all the time, but happy to sprinkle one in.
Yeah, that'll raise your hairs.
And Molladoi gets a second lease on life.
Desk mentioned, Jame likes to get a little crazy on Dust2. Well, a crazy Jame.
Is one worth watching. So watch as he joins the climb up from the Xbox,
Mollidway's reposition is queued up another potential off-duel.
But the utility unravels it before it can happen.
Shame.
Stolen from us. The chance to watch these two snipers go head to head for now.
There is still the chance at it.
But they got- Jame has successfully got the soft back.
There is a really... a lean, and Waldo is going to come to try to do some action.
Oh, and Jane goes a little high. This is going to activate the B-play.
He's going to force Paravision in on that timing, flashbangs by the player on-car, Cacerado solo-kill.
Yuri is going to step it up, and he will find one at the least.
Already with utility sailing over top, Yuki no longer wants to get into the action.
Yuri is not able to get the multi-frag, and then Noh-Tuk collects the headshot.
Smokes all over the place, Molly's burnt out, but still the stairs are blocked.
And so Fallen and Molledoy have to wait this out, and an additional smoke grenade thrown towards the doorway is really gonna cool off Fioria.
Yellow's making this real tricky. Just in front of the doors.
So low tucks down and beneath the window. Remember low health here for three of the players.
As Fallen is waiting for the chance, but nobody's moving the muscle. Nobody's stepping into Fallen's crosshair.
Bomb will be on the halfway point and as they stick around, it's gonna be a last second dive. Yet again, trying to play in those final dying seconds.
But not this time. Paravision breaks through that B bomb site. Yuri not even to do enough.
And the Echindar push, wild through the window, just offers up a freebie.
Echindar push could have been fine, but he kind of just had to take the duel. I think he caught a flash.
It looks like he got blinded when he came in.
The gifts that were given this round.
Volodoy stayed alive for a second shot,
Jame missed twice, which almost never happened.
They get a 5v4.
They could start to the B site hold,
and yet somehow still, ParaVision win.
But if you kind our dead get flashed,
I almost think it may have been his own.
We kind of switched to his perspective,
late as he's already jumping in,
but I know for a fact both those ParaVision players
are going for the car duel,
and Yuri didn't throw anything and the rotators weren't really close enough.
And all of a sudden, look at the reward that comes with it.
ParaVision's 12th round win will be over top of majority USPs, if all goes well.
And with the long control they've already secured on top of the 5v4, the audio of the flash,
they've got what they need to put this one to rest.
You'd think, fallen though, with a 5-7 is going to give us still something to think about.
The ParaVision will head towards that A bomb site with relative ease.
Missed chance for Kcerado to catch one.
Down goes that picked up AK, so ParaVision fighting tooth and nail for a B bomb site in round 21.
Net them a free 12th round win.
This game is going to be one and lost on a small distance micro in the second half.
In the first half it was a lot of macro, a lot of really great, grand overarching strategies, some good execution.
and teamwork, but you can see the pressures on now, decisions that are getting made, small shots getting missed, and a hit
that are tipping the scales slightly back in the other direction.
I'm thinking on that previous round, uh,
You kinder doesn't even need to dive the site.
You could stay up in the window and vision on the players.
Yeah, I don't know what happened with that flash situation.
Maybe you caught it from, I don't know, flash yourself and it would be crazy.
Because his teammates at car as well.
Yes, teammates at car.
Maybe there's a world where one of the Paravigents got a flash bang off for the car peak,
But I really didn't see anybody throw on.
On their way, let us hear.
Chance for Furia to push us into overtime.
They'll need two consecutive rounds.
The money's going to be good for Paravis and the whole time
through.
And Sid has also held a timeout for this moment.
World's number five versus world's number two.
Paravision of one all the right games this year.
Yeah, so much promise after the Budapest run.
We thought, damn, I hope we can do something with that in 2026.
Ever since they've earned these invites with the BRS,
No denying, they have seized the opportunities.
Hoist at the trophy.
Dry grenade beats no to a down and lower tunnels,
and that is good early damage for Furia to give themselves the best chances of extending play.
Furia left side, again.
Not quite Humvee.
Still a dangerous, committed spot.
Yellow looking to work his way up Catwalk, gets ahead of the utility.
Yeah, it's very dangerous, especially if you don't mid-control.
So once that split starts coming in, that spot just becomes a liability.
Split's gonna feel likely when you hear the utility popping all the while, CT's smoke goes down,
and we'll see what actually lingers around here to be a potential split.
Sometimes, James just floats on this side of the doors, and they go ahead strong from tunnels.
Which is exactly what they're setting up to do, but that's why I have a smoke grenade.
We're going to try to elicit a reaction here for Furia. It'll size up this beat defense at 40 seconds,
where there's still enough time for ParaVision to pivot if needed.
Keisarados got another Molotov to work with as well. ParaVision have been trying to draw out utility.
The re-remains locked into the corner, K. Serato's Molotov-priority back turn to him,
and he's gonna find that double. K. Serato from back-site collects a kill at 20 seconds,
and that bomb could still try to fight its way out in a 1 vs. 1.
James has got the rotate cut off. Nota knows that it's him vs. K. Serato,
and critical for the bomb plant, but denied.
Round 23 belongs to Furia.
Yeah.
Cacerado's not blowing a position like that.
It's the perfect angle with the most advantage and not
enough time to get planted.
That's a difficult hold to put together, but these two.
I mean, there's been moments where it doesn't work out
entirely, but it's almost never because of them.
Cacerado and Yuri, they're the real remnants of Furia.
They've been there since the very beginning.
and it's crazy how they've been relevance
every single year as individuals regardless of whatever roster they've been playing with
just when you feel like Yuri maybe out of his depth tonight
post a much needed ball to go with Baxter into him
I feel like with the amount that MeraVision was there for him in that last round, they were shocked at that Yuri was playing close-lap.
It was kind of a gimmick play by him, taking a huge risk, but it paid off and didn't actually split. It just cleared out.
Setting up to take a look at Long, this is going to be Fallen tested in a second.
He throws a flashbang out just ahead of them, taking the challenge.
Noted.
Long is in spawn for the time being, but not just a flash of Smoke Grenade lands, and this
is going to cool Paravision off for a moment.
Fallen.
Fallen, careful now.
There's maybe a lot more on the other side of that smoke that he anticipates, but he
wants that challenge to come this way now that Molledoy's on the angle.
35 seconds, and there is nobody to hold that catwalk as long as Molledoy's fixated on Long.
The bomb's gotta come this way.
Smokernade's gonna pop, but it's before the peek comes through.
So Molledoy's first frag connected.
Fallen's gonna lay down, lead to Zello, and now this bomb is entirely cut off.
Cut off, James pre-occupied towards mid.
No-tah's got to take the challenge into fall
in which he will, and now Molledoy up close on the smoke.
Difficult shot to hit, back turned over,
and that bomb's gotta somehow get thrown over top,
picked up in 10 seconds, and planted.
Up in the hands of No-tah,
he'll clip K Serato trying to challenge around,
and so Yuri, from the bottom of the board,
manages multi-frag last round,
but now somehow has to pull off his clutch,
Climbing up from CT spawn right there for the take!
Oh!
Yuri's climbed perfectly timed!
Yuri up, over time!
Ha ha, Yuri from the bottom of the board.
Putting together an important round previously over
and being overall not successful game,
the Rotator comes through for the one on two.
And hands of a lifeline.
No!
You are dead!
Fury and N0, they can win this map.
They've already shown enough things, enough rounds.
Some of these situations playing off the back foot, but you'll take what you can get.
Now the only...
Two...
Wow.
Four times.
Big, uh, caravansion have been pushed over time. They won every single map.
This 10-2 gusts two-streets.
So I'll see if they're even worried about it.
Zello gets away with the corner.
The kid never not thinking about this, cause it's Molotov.
Yeah, Zelo gets away with a robbery on that one.
Now we're already getting ParaVision committing into this B-bomb site split.
You've got Quesarado outside of the window.
Yuri's solo inside site, again, plays from a similar corner.
And the timing here for Zelo is going to make it all the more difficult for Yuri.
They'll swing out through the smoke.
They are not going to fall victim to him playing the same position.
And so this one looks free for the taking.
Yeah, it's a spot that gets Mollyed out.
I mean, the irony is like, you know, better off not mauling it and then just having to clear it.
But because Yellow doesn't get touched by it, doesn't have to escape.
It's a huge play that allows him to take down your kinder.
No friction whatsoever.
There haven't been many first kills that have happened outside of mid like that.
And so what we get as we enter OT, it's like the cleanest paravision T round yet.
Damn, really this conflict down, looking to take away guns, looking to get that off
off the ground, and so Sway sent in, and it's worth it!
Clearing Fury out of this one, cleanest T-Round yet, you say.
Always great to do that on the versus the CT side in overtime.
chances at Mollidoy to get an AWP and the third if they if they lose here.
Especially when they go with the double AWP to the follow-up. Lose your saved AWP
and just buy into the double AWP instead. Here you are going heavy into this round.
Already worth it with fallen opening. You haven't really seen AWP presence over
towards this tunnel peak and with him getting there they're probably confused
they're thinking are we running into two walks now but once the kill of the
damage has been done that's when it already becomes too difficult you really
want to find out while keeping five players alive options are way slimmer
now
I thought we were watching Maladoy for a split second.
Climbs up, slap shot on the catwalk, 5v3 made possible by Fallen.
What a genius.
Your saved op gets cancelled, so what do you do?
They'll never expect a double op buy.
Not an OT, not when money's on the line.
That's one thing to have the idea.
It's another for the execution and execute he does.
Molledoy's not even in a shot like that this game.
We'll be trying to find what now is the Kindar lines it up.
Challenge on the side of Kat.
There's the counterpart.
James still trying to find his off impact.
And he will be basket.
Molledoy coming through with one towards the end,
but Fallen setting it up wonderfully
for that five versus three.
That was a just like old time shot.
Floor bang.
Flick through the fire.
What was he even working with
in terms of what he could see there?
Sometimes it's not what you see, it's what you feel.
Locks on for it.
Gives Furia a real chance to still close out OT.
jumps over top. No trigger pull here by Jane.
Crazy heavy mid-bush here at lane 4B.
No more tunnels plays coming in.
In the office here.
But how frisky does it want to get?
There's a lot of action happening everywhere.
Fallen feels this.
Wow!
I'm so grateful to come out for this pick.
Running full speed as well.
On stand, Belchanoch.
Make sure long possession goes back.
Fury is way.
See, it's crazy the dynamics that change when you pull up that off, because you just don't know what kind of team you're playing against now.
Remaining unpredictable, remaining unstoppable.
AirVision remain leaning back off Catwalk, that NAV doesn't quite find its mark.
Bomb looking to come join now as well, James comes sprinting upwards, we're gonna go 4 players strong towards Catwalk.
Paravision of 40 seconds left in this overtime T side, and they get met by a smoke on arrival.
They could still just try to puncture through and the flashbangs find Maldor Doi, he will still collect.
Second shot, not his for the taking, but Fallen's found one off of a long control in case Serato and the Rotate over has found an additional kill, so Zway down to 9 health.
Hell of a clutch to ask of him, 1v4, flashbangs all over the place, and that Molodoy impact is from his follow-up shots, so Oper's making a huge difference here for Furia on the CT side of OT.
of OT. They really try to avoid the goat and go towards Molledoy on this round to get an
easier round, but Fallen was there too. Keeping both these ops on lock since that opening
pick to Belgium on. Double hop T side as well. Double hop T side and Quesarado, I guess he's,
Is he got a spawn to work with here?
Four ops off the play.
Yeah, he's gonna go for the B pick.
Four ops in the fourth round of overtime.
James is gonna come swinging into this.
Oh, there was his chance.
Mollidoi playing dangerous games.
James doesn't pull his trigger.
Oh my goodness, it worked.
Oh my goodness, it worked.
You never expected K. Serato with the spawn.
Mollidoi with the dangerous game.
But that's what sets up this false confidence.
What?
And K. Serato's found himself a second awk kill.
It takes James to put that down.
But that's three players confirmed inside of the B site here for ParaVision,
and a lot of back control still for period of play with not to mention time.
I feel like for sure you kinder wants to take it out mid,
and this bomb should be rerouting basically.
They've killed 2 and B and pulled the AWPer in this direction.
They're probably freaking out because the last time they tried to avoid a stack,
they ran right into one.
ParaVision, you never know when they're going to pull full guard on the open site.
And they're really expecting an overreaction.
They don't have vision on mid right now.
There is a chance that Feria blow this by just going back to B.
James just keeps checking the deeper angle, flashbites it, he'll click Fallen off the play.
3v3 from that one and no two's car position, catching him off.
Another player confirms.
And with that bomb thrown down into the dirt, James just gonna keep this on Molotov,
but he'll win the head-to-head team.
Kindar here to try to deal with Gar.
Cupbridge offered by Zway.
Everybody's hopping.
And now with the smoke into the doorway,
it's a chance for Molledoy to cross.
Utility to give him a window of opportunity
as Zway challenges it with the frag grenade.
Molledoy anticipates the challenge out through doors.
Commits to the plant.
There's the loud step.
Zway switch back to the rifle.
Molledoy missed opportunity
as Zway comes in through with the clutch
and ties us all at 14.
Ooh, this one got hella messy.
I don't even remember what happened in this round.
So many crazy moments here,
and it ends up with Zwei hopping on a retake,
having to drop the gun and switch out,
but he blocks up the 1v1.
Caster Auto getting two,
but then still just going in for too much.
Shot to see Jane actually get changed in here.
Second chance to go for the pick,
but once he gets slashed off, peeks in again.
Molotovic's only chance to get back into this game,
and he finds a way to do this.
And swam by a couple of frames saves this round with that op shot
That trade was imminent
For the challenge you've got plenty of bodies here prepared somebody's gonna get mowed down at some point
There's too many players here on the mid-play falling strikes first. It's gonna be a bloodbath your kindar. Oh headshot instant
Oh, what's that?
Oh, even better!
Back at it with seconds, and a flashbang,
Bindsway, blind towards spawn, and roasted inside middle here.
Our ParaVision, as Furia, step up to the plate.
That round took all of 10 seconds.
The full court press from ParaVision
to get to the top of middle.
And you kinder with this little scream impression
coming into the quick burst.
That's all three.
Sends Paravision's economy spiraling in this one.
You said that every time Paravision get pushed into Dust 2, they close it in OT.
Well now having to extend to a second overtime with a pistol on Zwei with limited utility
with no double op.
And the same can be said for Furia.
Snipers fork on as we get closer to this one.
Phase 5-7, close smoke, could still prevail, but there's no guarantee the Fury would take the fight this direction.
They'll soften him up instead as he tries to tuck into the corner.
This is easily the best chance to win.
This way he's going to be real hungry for a better weapon, maybe looking for a push.
It's probably a nervous moment for Jayme. He knows he's got a half-off impact.
They've been very aggressive.
He's missed a couple of shots.
Don't let this be one.
This boost could cost them multiple players if he doesn't land this shot.
Tries to find timing on the secret peek and will quick fall into the backdrop.
They try to pounce on it, but no one is able to slip into the cover.
They'll drop Util and they find man advantage here in round 30.
I mean, there's only one guy here.
B players come out through the mid-doors.
Belchinox gonna play close wall right in front of Molotov.
Mincello trying to set up a crossfire.
Zway starts to get active on the flank,
but they're actually going back into the cap plate.
And Molledoy just sitting out here on his own.
Bombs been dropped.
5-7 re-confirms it.
Molledoy gets away.
Zelo's dead as well.
Everybody trying to take fights on their terms,
but instead it gives Furia an open route
to run this over towards B.
How did he hit that shot?
He was looking at the window.
Molledoy gives up the mid-play,
he does that, James giving a Hail Mary chance to try to press the issue in through the door.
And now, Jane popped, notes her towards the window sill, burning alive, five to the clock,
and the bomb's not needed, frags come through for Furia, and it's Paravision to falter in overtime,
tricked by the double ops.
Furia, strike first.
Yeah, what a great map of counter-strike that was. Furia emerging victorious, but Paravision pushing him all the way.
This is a classic way for Furia to end the game with a great mid-round off of players like Molletoy finding picks in awkward positions.
I mean, they have the star power, they have the ability to turn on a dime at a moment's notice, and I feel like Paravision, I mean, they definitely had their opportunities.
They played a great game with Dust2, they had a lot of tricks of their own, but push comes to shove and Furia are able to weather the storm.
Yeah, it was a very interesting tactical game, too, the approaches from different captains,
you know, on their T-sides, Furia in the first half, playing slow and just ending rounds
with a lot of utility, you know, and execute heavy style, so to speak, with Jame, we saw
still some of that focus towards the B bombsite, some good mid rounds when they had 4v4 situations
and so on, but a nice adjustment at the very end from Furia with that double up, you know,
to do some work and then just punishing the aggression from Peavision on that city side.
Great to see some highlight real plays as well from both Yukinda and Molodoy. This here from
Yukinda as we were on the back nine so to speak. Just nice, crisp. I loved also the fact that the
final round of regulation was won by Yuri who otherwise had a dead silent. I mean that was
That was heartbreak for Pirate Paribas. You know, you've got a 2-1-1, the one is Uri.
It really should have been closed out in regulation, unfortunately.
Because, you know, you leave it to overtime, anything can happen.
And, yeah, got to say, I mean, you know, some rough games from a couple of names that don't usually have them,
you know, Belchnock, got kind of caught out a number of times.
Yeah, this last round, they lost a little bit of patience in the end, right?
They got outplayed by Furia because he doesn't need to move in that final round yet.
Someone was just pressuring sort of faking the A bomb site and he goes right into Molo,
he's cross third and ZL, they could have double peaked me.
If ZL pushed at the same time, they would have gotten the trade, maybe extended the game,
but yeah, it's just also Furia.
There's a reason why they're the second best team in the world.
These are not necessarily unforced errors that P-Vision was making at certain times.
It's just what's furious us. Yeah, I mean this this is what Muller does to you
I mean you saw that from the heat map all over just to everywhere
Especially in overtime and fallen brought out the second orp. He felt like rolling back the years
For a little bit, but I mean some of these peaks are ridiculous
Like I said, this kid is so fast. He's really pushing the limits of what's possible as an aggressive operancy is to I feel like
Obviously you look at the people that have already made a name for themselves like Zaiwu and Shiro
And they're just a lot more static.
They make a lot of great moves in terms of the macro.
But in terms of just in an angle and being able to swing
into an angle as fast as possible,
hit the instant counter-strafe, flick shot,
Molledoy is the best right now for me.
I even think that versus monosy, monosy sometimes,
I think I remember a lot from CSGO.
But if I really think towards the last six months,
how they've been looking, Molledoy is the quickest.
I don't think you see an offer walk into another offer
Holding the angle and still get the better. Yeah, like that's what you feel more
Though it does to people more often than not it's like someone's holding that exact spot
He comes into it and he still just fastened his opponent. Yeah, I don't know if you want to one break down any of the rounds
I'm not gonna lose kind of interesting long game
I still think rounds who's interesting because we saw how this sort of composure that pair of vision showed in this kind of round
Vanishing over time. I feel like in this kind of round Jamie and pervision call for this full B stack and
and no one budges. This is a really well played discipline round where there's a
pressure from multiple angles as Furia start to put the, they start to constrict this B bomb site
and you could just see the discipline of people like Nota, the guy that whoever's playing Carr,
all of them just really hold the line so well until Furia just kind of spring the trap and once
they do you can see everybody activates at the exact same time you're not peeking out too wide at
like making sure that these
players are in positions where
multiple. Paravision guys
could fight them, and I just
think that this is a stark
contrast that in the beginning
of the game when there's very
little pressure, especially on
an eco, you don't expect to
really win anyways, and you're
just going to follow the plan
to a team, but then you go to
round. What was it? 27 or so
and the way that Paravision
kind of are unable to just hold
his steadfast. It just kind of
shows that these guys are still
more or less rookies. Yeah, I
mean, good. He's my guy, but
and maybe a bit case or other too, because they are faking an A, or I think case or other
actually jump CT, so they want to do the B split with the A smokes with a guy jumping
down CT, right?
But there was nothing going on on A, even as they were taking short control, so at some
point, especially since you're playing P vision, you need to take into account that there's
a stack going on.
So, send case or other all the way, let him die, you know, like let him get you that information,
the scout and then if he dies then you just proceed with the mid to b but if you don't encounter any
resistance you can just go back and there was a little bit you know fury was sort of patiently
trying to get him to be there's an aide coming in they see a player car it's like 45 seconds left
you can still go back to a and they just didn't abort didn't change the call at any point in time
luckily they ended up on top on dust two still one more round to look at i think it was was it
Was it round 26 we picked out?
No, it was an early round.
Things in regulation.
Yeah, it was also one of the details where it's like some of the smallest things can
matter in the game in the long run.
This is where previous is good enough for a B hit, Jame is going to try and do something
towards A. This is where Molde gets the best and send a 45, they just send it on B. This
This is where Yurid has a good job of staying alive, finding some kills, and this we're going to see Yikinda running in.
But what also happens if you pay attention to the radar is Molotov, who is in spawn, he flashes for the guy holding the rotation, right?
Instead of sending a flash over window for Yikinda to run in.
I feel like if he does that, then that blinds the P-Vision players and Yikinda's play doesn't look as ridiculous.
You know, he smokes the door to make them worry about a door and then was running in window.
It's only two players alive. I mean, I think they might have even had the info that both were in B already, but you know, you need to take that risk if you're Molotov, like if a guy is there and he kills you, well, then probably you have a good situation in B for your teammates to kill the players in the bomb site.
You still have one teammate behind you to take care of the lurker and that flash is just so powerful
Before the T's get full control of the bomb site
So sometimes it's those details really that can make the difference and perhaps help the kinder to not look as foolish
So we've got inferno coming up next obviously
Furious pick heads a map we they're increasingly, you know going to and have a mastery on
It's a map that obviously they have some history on they played at the bounty
a pair of vision got the better of fury it with a great CT side. And when looking back
at that match, what I noted was just the kind of fixation that fury had with doing these
halls pops. They did about three halls pops in one T side. All of them were completely
stomped out by his way by belchinock. And I just feel like when fury, they take their
time, they get map control, they're able to poke and prod on different sides of the map
and not just go for an all in play too early. To me, they're the better team. I feel I really
do believe that they're going to be able to work it and and work off of Fallon's mid
rounding ability because he's has so many great communicators on his team that can influence
his late round decision making. If they just kind of reel it in enough and even play it
down to 30 seconds, 20 seconds on the clock, feel out all of the advantages on the map,
I think that they're going to be able to close this into. And that's what it's going to come
down to the mid rounds for Furia on their T side because, you know, Jamie in general,
on this map, especially Inferno kind of plays to it, to the stack gambles and all of that
sort of stuff.
So you need to do a very good job of sort of getting as much info as you can to make
the correct read and try to figure out where the stack is.
And if there's one thing that is most similar to all Virtus.Pro of all of the game on it
is like, this team is so difficult to put away, just like the point of view of all,
like they're just never out of a game.
You always have to be on your toes, especially because of how James handles the economy.
You think they're on a USP E-Call, all of a sudden it has an op in the round, right?
So you have to be concentrated.
Your focus has to be really high throughout the game.
Not even just that, they're the most annoying team to play when they have a lead because
then they're so willing to just go for those kinds of gambles too.
They say, hey, we got three guys alive.
They're stacking a bomb site with no intel at all.
if you're not prodding perfectly, if you're not always sending scouts out, which could
also be to your own demise. You might send a scout out. He dies instantly. James calls
for a quick rotation and you're just left scratching your head. Like how are they always
stacking the wrong bomb site or we're going to the wrong bomb site that is. So yeah, just
a very, very frustrating, the frustrating team to try to come up with plans against.
Yeah. So looking forward to this one guys, but we must go to a break things heating up
in the series, Inferno, soon.
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It's mystery player time once again.
We got Falcons Munnesty joining us.
It's Ima from Na'Vi, Voki, heavy god with me here.
Payne's NQZ, all right, well, we're gonna be playing mystery players.
So I'm gonna show you some team logos,
and then you're gonna try and guess which player we're looking at.
So let's get the first one started.
And this player is from G2 Falcons Fnatic.
Wait, so from Fnatic, and he's changed the team.
So he was in G2, now after he was in Falcons,
he joined Fnatic for some reason.
He had some teams between G2 and Falcons, but they would not be considered Tier 1.
Okay, tell me too.
Tell you too. LDLC.
Okay, he's French.
And double pony.
He's French.
He's French.
French player.
Yes.
I have the body.
Let's have a look.
His body.
Maybe, I don't know, maybe body, but I'm not sure.
Oh, body.
Body?
Yes.
Wait, that's our body.
Yes, we're going on to the other side of the world.
It reminds me of the Zerzer Nation and Legacy.
Oh, it's... I already know it's an opera.
Okay, I don't know. I think it's The Assam?
No.
So he played for Legacy. Legacy played only in Brazilians or should be Brazilian?
No, I'm thinking... It could also be, of course, Argentinian or Chilean or whatever,
but I think it's Brazilian one because of Legacy.
Yes, and...
I need a clue, I don't know.
You need a clue?
Or like a hint or something.
A hint.
Because I don't have the pen.
Okay, now I can guess.
Pen, it's like big 0 and QC.
Like for example, okay, big 0 cannot be, snow cannot be.
Okay.
Okay, then it's either big 0 or QC.
Thank you, then?
Yeah, it's QC then.
There you go.
I don't know who plays it. I'll just guess because I don't know.
No!
And MQZ!
No!
Yes, MQZ!
Oh, this is me.
Yep.
Next one, let's go next one.
Oh my goodness.
I love the reactions. The facial reactions are great.
I mean, I didn't know already.
Yeah?
I was thinking Scandinavian, but I don't know if it's true.
No.
Okay, it's Xayu or not?
This is Xayu.
Yes.
Never mind.
I had Xayu.
Xayu or not?
It is Xayu.
I did not know.
I only know because of the...
Eiei.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
That's it.
That's what everyone gets from it.
Amazing.
Moving swiftly over to Inferno because now ParaVision are down a map, Mohana.
That means Fiora are one map away from securing themselves yet another playoffs.
When they beat Fiora the first time, it felt like actually that was where the run would
stop and that like, you know, it was impressive, but okay.
And then they two-odd them.
Well, I think that Fiora aren't going to be caught quite as off guard this time around.
Well, the proof is in the pudding. They've already taken out the strongest map of ParaVision.
They beat them on map one. That was harder than either of the maps that they were beating on the last time they played.
And I think they're looking forward much more now to trying to win this on Inferno.
Furia T-side kickoff to be met by three players at B out of the gate.
We've got a flashbang on Zelo, we've got Berettas for Zwei, but those Berettas are on the opposite
side of the map waiting for nobody.
There is no other option here played by Furia.
They are going for this B bomb site.
Belchinox smoke primed and waiting.
We'll see if they decide to dive through it, disrespect the smoke.
One gets through on Skafe, but then they both get popped.
Nice headshots coming up from the defense, here's the answer back though.
It is all Molledoy. Three kills from him in the middle of all of that.
Fast move into the church is going to get blindsided. Good on Jayne to play ahead of the timing.
And that'll be Yuri down, fallen low, and Molledoy potentially called on to ace.
Yeah, pretty awkward spot though, to try to pull that off.
There'll have to be a clean headshot or he's going to get bullied.
Cease both. Okay! Jayne is this close to death already.
Molodoy all five cocks straight up ace and that is from a 3v5 position as
Paravigions hold looked good enough he tore through that site like a piece of paper
Molodoy on any gun can be impressive
What a way to start in turn out
Oh, well, well.
Alright, so they're going to stack B again on the second round and pull off the full
ego and back to back maps.
Impossible that Furia doesn't scout this this time around.
There's no way that that scarred tissue from Dust2 doesn't remind you
that you better keep these damn options open, smoke in front of it to slow it all down.
Chokes aside, I think that seems like that is... well...
I think that is exactly what's gonna happen. They're gonna learn from it and not run headfirst into it.
No way.
But surely it doesn't matter anyways, they care for all these U.S.T.s, man.
All tops in, still with a smoke in front of them they will just dive on through, eat flashbangs
in the process.
Two USP kills because sure enough everybody's here but Fallen gets the kill in the background
with that first burst.
What was that?
Okay.
I almost feel like they should have lost it just for the sake of being punished for going
back to back maps with no scouting protocols after winning pistol.
One thing you can say, though, is on Inferno, if you've got, you've got your first and second
orange as Molly, you have a new boss, Molly, you have an emo Molly, all these things seem
to be Molly just from having car control, and that's what makes it so that, even if
you lose car control on a rifle, and you have five players in the stack in the site, unless
you have counter utility, there is no good place to hold from.
There aren't enough positions to be in their way, like a stack like that is really good
at catching something lighter.
a full exact like that it's gonna be still close to impossible or take a
series of mistakes to actually get enough opportunities to ego. So we've got the
maids lined up here that might land perfectly on the half wall.
Taking all the brackets in the meantime, smokes new to fade in front of Jame.
Veldtjinnok throwing himself towards the bombsite as well.
Smoke dropped in front of Valkyrie and they're gonna turn it back to Jame, this is gonna
be a casualty incoming. Two of them to James Nave. Spray down by Molledoy who's not able
to 180 over to the Belchernock trade attempt, so 42 earned by ParaVision here thanks to
Jane from inside the corner. And you kind of are just going to scoop up bomb at 30 seconds.
Interesting. Just got that back real quick, right? They heard like the last footstep or
something like that and Yuri has no opponents inside of the pit, so we're not in a spot
here. Stressed in between Moto, maybe there's a fight.
That's contact in sight, can focus a second, still worried about the pit. You'd understand
why. That opens the door for the bomb to jump over. We'll see if they try to just stop on
the cross. Missed it.
Oh, and missed it, surely.
The Kindar misses that by a half second. If even trying to scramble his way back over,
Yori was so sure somebody would be in pit and you'd understand why he'd be ready for that
fight but I know when it comes down to it it's all about jame from the corner
setting up paravision success in round three that's kind of a an unforced error
for real I mean they had time to clear it they didn't even have pressure or a
flash or anything like that it was just jame leading patiently
Not enough to deter you, Kindar, from taking a sniff at Banana first.
Say, Nades come down for Paravision.
The Tees keep the pressure on with U-Till of their own, but numbers here for Paravision.
That's a thing.
Finally one well placed.
You Kindar burnt down to 20 in the process.
and it's gonna be Furia to just walk away for the time being.
Waiting for the full retake utility to come out, but it's not there.
Paravisions just don't have the money to go for anything like that, so this round needs to be.
Modosmote comes down, I don't know how this affects their rotation.
James doesn't even think about watching it actually.
No too precious for smoke. Oh, that's crazy.
But the AK Rift, there's a bit of team damage in the middle of all that,
but it is still Paravision coming out with drags.
Flashbacks find their mark. No too dice into the orange.
Molliloy's tech 9 is out, but the CTs do a great job of just keeping their heads down
and not dying to the Furia on slot. Everybody dead here for Furia,
not one body dropped on their counterparts.
And this is a convincing B-hold in the face of an entire Furia team that wanted nothing,
but that bomb site it's a bit of a mess here for furia they have to go through a
smoke
uh... every time they try to do so peruvian and also they didn't
they try to influence james stay at eight
it feels like they only had a
speed up
so the rotation of the war has had so many people here waiting for this
jerry would be horrified to find out how obvious this seemed to peruvian
I'm not sure where the giveaway was.
Walks across the board in the face of the double arch side and it's nothing but easy to pick it.
As far as P-Vision are concerned, five up. It's going to build some economy here too for this defense.
So, underway is the comeback into this game by ParaVision.
Pistol, conversion, and three rounds straight now for the defense.
Limited in this one, Galil's for three.
Tech nine on all of the way, Yagi.
Certainly, certainly not ideal.
of that fire downrange from Paravision, there is just still this passiveness and furious
gate.
They'll get to it when the time needs, and they elicit a good reaction from the utility,
but that frag grenade's well placed out of P vision, so that's going to be Kcerado,
you kindar softened up.
Quarter health gone for each.
Oh, no, not moving the muscle.
Comfortably into this hunter spot, it got boost up on porch.
And he gets well timed!
What a spray transfer, so much info, bomb dropped!
Fantastic adjustment out of Belchanok for the second headshot, keeping that one clean as need be.
With so many sets of eyes staring back at him into that peek, it doesn't waste a bullet between the transfers.
There's still a slight chance Furia can make something happen, but you'd have to just break through brackets right now.
And Molledoy will find the headshot, but not expecting this spot here from Tzue.
And then as Yuri tries to go wide to trade it, the pit holds.
Good on P-Vision again.
Right positioning at the right timing and Furia starting to struggle to break through this defense
The beak was so good with the spray transfer they never even found out about
Surprise to see how comfortable paravision look here on inferno
Surprise but impressed
I mean they knew this was coming if we're gonna do dust you was coming
Charging down, check nine, keep this one simple.
Yellow is here though to rock and roll, and Furia, trying to simplify things.
Instead, just feeding rounds over to P-Vision is now they have so much money racked up as well.
I'm looking at $12,000 on Nota, Zelo, and Zwei.
Cash for days, and already a three round lead.
First time out taken before the eighth comes
live and P vision haven't even really given you much to kind of adapt to. You've just had some real
convincing stoppages. Maybe turning your back to jame inside of the corner is one of your bigger
mistakes if you're fury up but barring that tough to adapt everything seems to be going so right.
Flood into a B bomb site that was so occupied air vision haven't been out maneuvered just yet.
They've made strong inferno progress, too, man. They were getting wiped at the major.
Lost every game on this map.
Time to progress.
One-on-one lost since the bounty.
Lots of single-bit digit victories as well.
Okay, Serato, Yuri, Kinder, one kill apiece so far into round eight.
Ooh, Gendo, notice!
Gonna try to press this issue.
Always like the extra guy, so they're like, go for it.
As he does that, Kinder is going to be his first victim, but climbing over top of Warren
shows K. Serato that was a nice attempt in from him and Molledoy, and they will clear
the board.
All three dead.
Nota, once more, trying to press him at that pretty similar timing to where he's gotten
away with it in the past, however, this time, caught out scrambles to fall back into the
bomb site, and within that bomb site is where Furia do their work to catch a third round
win.
It's funny how they try to run it back, similar to the round that sort of fell on its face, back into Banana, Noda doing the exact same thing, pressing into the smoke to look for a spam.
You know, so again, because there's two players, two more teammates in the site, he just wants to sort of find a way to be useful.
Just go down, get a kill, go one for one, slow down the exact, make the flashes useless, and then have his teammates do the rest of the work.
Well, he gets a little bit of his distraction. He's shooting bullets through the smoke, and he can fall back to the site, but the trades are just tremendous here for Furia.
They said last time was lucky.
Still feels like they have their work set out for them, but nice to see progress within a B bomb site for Furia.
There's been dangerous games played by P-Vision with that note to play.
Works once, not twice.
The end utility attempts to deal with Yukimaru's inside of the smokes and spammed down.
Instead of sitting in the bomb site, flexing the advantage count through all these smokes.
Just off of the mark in terms of the case or auto, spray back the other way.
So 5v4.
Not long for this world.
James is done for.
Early days.
5v5, sometimes you see a CG team that's going to be advantage, but you see 4v4, it's totally
different.
One site is going to feel really weak, in this spot it's no doubt.
And he'll puff his chest up, he's got an AWP, he has used a lot of utility to make it look
like he's going for forward of control, and on the other side of the map they're still
making moves.
So he's carving out a bunch of information, but Yuri goes hyper-passive.
Yeah, he don't rotate down mid, and it favors paravision actually, because...
Oh, oh, a little bit, but they fear you have to come back.
Yeah, and they actually will.
They actually will.
So just seeing someone's back at URI.
See if you didn't clear that.
This is the bomb plant.
Yep.
The bomb, though, is actually still going to Banana.
They're trying to fake.
Every time they try to do this, it's only cost them rounds.
15 seconds.
And they're seeing no one's here.
We got to count the moments here.
We've already missed a bomb plant by a second.
He's got a run!
A sprint and a half here from K. Serato. Better not miss it.
Oh, he's on.
Wow, that was close.
Nothing like playing with fire, huh, Launders?
Every time Furia have tried to do that, like game the rotations, they always either overcook and run into a stack, or it's just to no point.
To be honest, Paravision, they're just going to stack sometimes.
You can try to make them rotate, but like, they're always confident about their read.
They don't even really respond to like those last second grenades.
They're just not the kind of team that, um, that play reactive, actually.
They just, they, they kind of set up, they make you do something.
They take a risk every once in a while.
So I'm happy we see, you know, Fury announced simply run into another stack.
But they damn near dead.
He's a lot of out of need that decision exactly when he did and not a moment later
Sometimes can feel like a pick your poison situation with fury right do you want to see them just jump into stacks?
Or do you want to see those kinds of moments boiled down to them split seconds?
At least this one's added to the board
If you're cutting a lead down to one as they start to string their answer together.
You kinder has been having a rough go at this map currently on the receiving end of four
opening deaths.
Fallen on the receiving end of three opening deaths.
versus Spores have been very rare for Furious so far in this game and we are only three
rounds away from the end of the first half.
Kinder just happened a little nap right now.
This wake till he has his pop off around before the end of this T half.
entry, open up the A site, walking out of halls or something crazy. Well here they are running up mid.
Already up through brackets. Already.
Trying to challenge Arch. Frags gonna pop that open there.
They're missing every side of the Arch. Dealing with CT spawn now is gonna be problematic.
Yellow on one side, Belcheron comes wide. And Molodoid's able to answer it pretty swiftly.
Bomb carrier sits behind Molodoid at the moment. Kacerotto finds the back of Jame and then the
CT player dies at the same time.
They've got him contained already.
They kinda just want to slowly go A here, surely.
They'll wait for that Moto Smoke to fade and now Zwei 40 health to try to stop all of Furia.
They're looking for him. They found him.
Looking for his dual tagged down low.
Last remaining player here for Paravision.
It's got him in the hand and you will find nothing more.
Very fast round coming out from Furia.
They just went max chaos right there.
The rush up mid into CT spawn.
The Paravision are dropping an HE to break up with a smoke. It seems like early, it's not. They're already in CT.
They're doubled up in CT and Belknock goes for this push. He thinks Max, I'm going to see one guy. No, everybody's there.
Now that's the speed that I remember in the Mold School period. You can still tap into it sometimes.
I have a game up off of that. Money back in the hands of Paravision.
Another big exchange of utile towards Banana. You're kidding, are we been saying?
Okay, maybe he's gonna find that moment. This could be the one.
No took face away around the corner. Very low. Dives into the site.
Poppin' players got the cover to Opry, though. Good on Zelo to keep his teammate standing.
All the way flirts with the idea of getting a trade back, but he also
Deterred.
Tragic.
That was clean though, he didn't feel a thing.
This rotation over to the A-side softens things up for B and Furia looking to sink their teeth into it sooner than later.
Again, you don't turn down by control.
Every time Paravision have found a way to stack in this situation, a retake down is the next fast step down.
He's still just going around the world this round.
Delta Knox gonna challenge the cross, and Fallen's got him dead to right.
Fast flank though, all the joy getting wind of it.
Ooh, a notice too low to really chase this hard.
He's got an AWP behind him and James hands.
Maladoy on 44 health if he peeks into this.
Ooh, doesn't even win the fight!
Notepad catches the headshot, Fallen now trying to go back in a beautiful pre-fire from Notepad.
We've got no bomb plant even at the moment.
Flashbangs find their mark and Paravision put that pressure on with the banana flank,
drawing Molotoy into the action, forcing Fallen's hands as well.
And so, they draw themselves back into the one round lead.
Molotoy not even flinching when they're throwing these grenades on the retake of Banana,
but not hitting a bullet either.
When Noda was so low on health.
And this exchange of utils is going to be better off for Furia than Paravision.
You can really try to make this happen, and it's so close to pushing either of these players over the edge,
but instead, Nota and Zelo will need support. You see that quick move from Belchinoch,
but then very swiftly they start to double back over to the A site instead.
Utility coming out of the pit softens up a bunch, very well-placed and well-timed here by Zwei,
causes a stall by Furia's standards, and a lot of bodies within this bombsite.
so many so that james freed up to get a little more aggressive
It's a turn back corner, it's almost so close, this is crazy
Yuri's got it, dead to right, Zwei returns the favor onto Fallen
All the fury you have to work with here is this challenge on brackets
and now james been dealt with, Zwei inside of the site, kind of on his own
as Deltunoc smoke fates in front of him and he'll put Keisarotto down
on the break of the 7th round as Zwei goes wide
Another impactful a-hold here by Zwei.
Seven rounds for ParaVision.
Stellar stuff for a CT side.
Totally.
I mean, they really stood up to a lot of different tests here.
And I mean, it was a really, really slow star for Furia
besides winning that pistol round.
So you could say it's a bit of a comeback for them.
I'm not sure who's happier with the half in the ends.
Maybe ParaVision felt like they should have won even more.
But when the death settles, anybody can win this map now.
7-5 is not an indomitable score line for either team.
And again, it's interesting for both of them to, you know, it's been a month.
They both kind of got different reps versus different teams are meeting again, head to head.
And while there's VRS on the line, there's also, I think, a little bit of pride.
And, you know, as a new challenger has emerged for Furia, where, you know, maybe they were the ones to have been in the first grand final
of the year, you know, no doubt, and instead it was ParaVision.
But that's counter strike.
You've got to keep proving yourself every day.
It's the T side that banks on Moldova's success, but it's also one that calls for the rest
of Furia to find success now individually.
A weak link here on Inferno will allow Paravision back into this game, no doubt.
Oh!
Beautiful shot.
The Kindar taps right between the eyes, down he goes, one bullet, one frag, and a one-man advantage.
No crowd speak here for Zella, just wants to get him shoved back a bit.
Again, giving you Kindar another chance to tap in, but he'll drop a smoke grenade in front of his pressure.
Elginot decides he wants to dive it.
They're gonna boost.
Flash comes over from Coffin, and Ballin's not been able to find one.
You can guard and K Serato, both fighting out from CT.
I was wondering, I was like, they were pushing through if no one was flashing from CT.
Who was the supporting that?
Maybe they just wanted to...
K Serato threw a flash from Coffin's.
Oh, he did.
Yeah.
Oh, okay, okay.
Just didn't... didn't blind anybody.
Didn't hit anybody.
Well.
That was a waste of your kinder's third kill.
It was so nice.
It was a nice one, Todd.
One bullet, one kill.
Wines up being the only death on the paravision squad here in the second pistol, so as they
exit towards CT spawn, Volodoy's got a shooting gallery ahead of him.
a little too long. When you're that good, people just miss, eh? It's a mental thing.
Yeah, they just, you know, when you know you're probably going to die, you have a hard-to-time
shooter. It's like people trying to clutch versus zip-axe back in the day. Yeah, exactly,
literally, the same thing. You just hope your teammates don't tell you who you're in the
the one you won with.
Just that flash.
He's nearly enough.
He got too cute with that one.
He didn't just blind many things.
It's anything at all.
Anything at all. Really.
Here he is, forced by features. A single MP9 leaves a lot to be desired.
That nade's gonna land on you, Kindar.
Oh, never mind, a little too deep.
Right on the corner, yeah.
Make sure to play it forward, good thing, because those three nades would have had him dead to right.
Yeah, it's definitely on purpose that he did that, so nice positioning.
He had died there. Maybe they end up going towards B.
Instead, it'll still leave paravision with a bit of work to do.
Fallen's 5-7, presses into the pack, and now they're just going to look to run rampant around into the A bomb sites.
Still got some looming threat here in Furia as Keisarado and Yakindar want to time this attack on Arch perfectly.
And P9 takes the take. Furi now moved it. Yakindar and Keisarado come through with their attempt at both players. Hit the ground instantly.
The only thing Furia still have is a bit of hit control and not for much longer.
Molledoy gonna f**k this way out with a triple. And because there's smoke, he still has cover. A chance for the reload.
What are you up to, Maladoy? That's the bomb on the graveyard steps.
He doesn't know where the fifth player is.
That's not a matter of ulti-nox on the recovery there.
Way too sketchy.
Tastad just tries to laugh it off, but uh...
Kind of still matters. That was such a clean round and he did a lot of damage.
There's a lot of good rifles out of the round where they were maybe not gonna get anything.
There's a very nice pause up from Terafusion on Arch.
Where there were so many CTs, you're looking at the minimap and you're like,
looks like something's about to go wrong, but no, they had everything watched.
There were no problems up until the last guy, the final boss, Molledoy.
HLTV Awards, best dressed.
Okay, Mac 10, we'll get that deagle out of the way this time around.
Let's see if they send out a scouting party to figure out whether things are stacked.
Knows you're back there somewhere
Is that a no about you and you?
It's not enough bullets to kill them all, but they double back up on the CT cross
Pressure on them, the smokes will just- There's no other site right now, right?
Alright, we'll wait things out, they'll pop open the smoke, try to dive in
Again, jumping back to 10 to the headshot and yeah, that goes about exactly how you think
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best rounds for furia on this map are when your kinder is going aggressive on banana
I don't know to respect this back of the leg, running right through that molly is unreal.
I'm trying to play in with that deep library smoke, but instead you're just shaving health
off and allowing that case rotto m4 headshot to get the job done.
They just don't have a lead over on b as well, so...
They're getting into a very awkward position.
Desperate to find anything this round, but deep push down from you, Kiddars got this one in the bag.
Low health. Sway with the bomb at 25 seconds, knows that this round has been already swiftly swept under the rug.
The kick out of comes back in. They've got a chance to run down this B bomb site now.
15 seconds, it's going to have to be fast, and you're going to have to hope that Fallen doesn't slow it down whatsoever, but a smoke in front of it.
Still enough time to stop it. He starts mag dumping. Now they've gotten the ult. Nope, there it is.
K. Serato stops it. Bomb hitting the ground. All means Paravision aren't able to win this one.
Still though, sketchy for your Kindar to give that peek. You see the way that they scramble in knowing that because he dies, they suddenly do have a chance even if it is a Hail Mary.
Yeah, it's like frogative right there. It's just kind of delay as long as possible, but it's kind of nuts.
So that one bullet doesn't catch a guy jumping over. We already know how that situation plays out
Bombs gets planets full on retake and actually a chance for para vision
This one goes into a timeout para vision will take their second
They're in a position where all they've got to do is close out a T side
but we haven't seen the full strength of a furia just yet and
Really going to keep an eye on your kinder score because he's the most important player on this half of a map
He's going to get lots of action, like essentially his frags are going to dictate whether or not they have man advantage and whether or not they win.
As good as Molo-Doy is this game, none of his teammates have over 10 kills.
We had a struggle from Yuri back on Dust2, but it really was just the one struggle.
And even he still had those clutches, or at least singular.
A couple moments of brilliance.
Go to Halfway Dead off that HE, bomb laced.
It's more where the first one came from, but there's nobody home to receive it.
Okandar takes up position with the extension down banana.
He's still got Fallen to work beyond him, but these are the two players that are both struggling. Four kills to their names.
He's waiting up by a smoke, he's going to get cooled off for now, you can't know what
are you up to.
Yeah, try to find a lineup on that terrorist ramp, but off the mark.
It's like a flex when you do that, it's like Noda pushing into the smoke over on B. I mounted
to nothing but just kind of show the other team that you're not scared.
So this is the kind of work I feel like
Paravision were missing a little bit, trying to get up and in when it gets taken from them.
This is much earlier, makes way more sense.
Now if they go and try to take A, it actually means they can score some rotations, which
they have.
Still, we've got K. Serato working with Yuri inside the site.
Getting late too, they're going for an arch-rap, they have to do this fast.
Sendiary pulled, 20 seconds, trying to dodge the flames, flash, well-placed.
Interrupted, flashbang, 15 to the clock.
15?
Yuri head down over towards the pit, Kaserado's off angle, good for one.
Library push is about to come through.
Yakindar considers it, goes wide, catches the graveyard, kill, bomb scooped up,
and he's gonna just try to gun this down.
Bomb plant on tall box, denied!
And Furia gonna win this.
Wait!
What?
Wait, what's happening?
Time's ticking!
What?
Bomb planted after time.
It was?
Yeah, after time.
Oh my goodness.
Sick, buddy.
Let's go.
Start.
I thought we just entered like a different realm.
The Matrix.
Yeah.
You missed it by like a fraction of a second.
Yeah, exactly.
And it didn't die until you at least planted it, but still died the moment he planted it,
which was half a second after the round expired.
I thought the HUD was wrong, Launders, I thought I was losing my mind.
When I heard the audio, I thought I was...
That's what I had lost it.
Okay, well, that leads nicely into a conversation about how paravid took way too long.
I think that happened.
Well, wasting no time for the fight before this round.
I got the kinder, but they're gonna jump through this.
What you up to, James?
What you up to?
A one gun you have, brother.
That's what you're up to.
You're gonna go ahead and offer that gun back over.
Oh my goodness.
Uh, you need to...
They need to get that...
Get that off.
Get that off.
Wait, did they blow it back in the middle, or no?
No, I'm pretty sure CT's controlled it.
I saw CT throwing weapons, so they jumped back.
That means it makes sure it doesn't get
naded back out of the smoke, because that's the only thing
they have to worry about on this round.
I was crazy, Jane.
I was crazy.
That's normally not what you see from him.
I mean, to be fair, there have been rounds where it is only.
You can't are down extending into B.
I feel like this is the one change up where Furia actually
put a second player there, but.
Yeah, yeah, for sure, it's still a little crazy.
Yeah, yeah, and it's not even being critical.
It's awesome, let's get crazy, James.
Pop on thousand, set up by three,
but they lose their arch play,
and so they'll lose the chance at continuing forward
with any round wins for the time being.
It is Furia coming up again with a victory,
eight to the score line.
We get two round gap, that's no problem for them,
and they're starting to get opening duels now as well, right?
That was one of those damning stats, back in the first half.
They just didn't have those first frags.
Well, you know what's actually crazy is when Jane peeks that and gets the kill,
she sees the second player still close.
That makes it crazier.
When he opens that smoke and that replay, he sees two CTs along the wall
and he still decides to walk through it.
That makes it a little bit crazier.
So, the excuse is out the window now. I tried to give him an out.
Turns out he's just crazy.
On Dust 2, we know it.
Well placed, Nate. Nodes are dropped down to 34 health.
This game's about to be not very fun for Paravision. I think they can't pull this out.
One more save and this is tied up. So much money Furia could make.
It's a tantalizing opportunity for the CTs on the comeback.
It's the Wasp's nest with that one. They all start to spray it back.
I don't know about this.
He's got to try to dive out of it. Yellow goes climbing over to try to get it.
He was right there at the front site, but you can start connecting with the headshot.
Still tons of damage done.
Sway's on the Galil reload. They're going to think,
Never would you kind of come back to this position because it's crazy.
He decides to jump up and over and he'll pay the ultimate price.
He was the overfill player. They have fallen here. Ready?
Ready? Another player as well they wanted to be B.
Oh boy.
Oh, they're never gonna expect it.
Nice late game draw of the double off setup and K. Serato, 26 HP. Not a lot to work with.
Oh, don't you know it though.
He's found out by a fallen holding for the close smoke play and so this one goes up in smoke.
Paravision trying to get their extension going but never finding footing in this round.
from Yakindar's aggression to the duel from Zyelo over top of the front of B bombsite.
There was chances, but there was chances more so seized by Furia.
I wonder if Furia's going to see this AK get intaken and get a little suspicious.
Yes he is.
Oh man, that's a death after time.
I think, I think that's because he took the AK.
I'm pretty sure Yuri had seen that.
I mean, he got the kill, just didn't actually pick up the gun.
Greed is a small upgrade here, and now you're on ZERO dollars.
Not even a hundred schmucks!
Zero dollars in this economy?
No one's gonna be asking for handouts in a couple rounds here.
The cameras decided to meet him half way, he's downgraded to an MP9 just for funsies.
Smoking the library fast to run around on the arch side and again these flashbangs just
blinding paravision on their approach.
They're trying to rush the issue and these kinds of aggressive moves.
I mean, Furia have been pretty good at stepping up to the plate in those moments.
Getting frazzled all too badly, Fallen steps that stove forward, and it's five alive for Furia.
Tied a game at ten all.
And five rounds consecutive here for Furia.
You think your kinder's gonna now upgrade the MP9? Have the extra money?
yes he will yes he will I'm already the server I knew he didn't show us three
rounds time out one bomb plant this half for para vision what is the vision
fair it feels like it's getting into a bar aggressive through a bit of repetition
here to these earlier threats and Fallen,
looks up his angle, leaves you kindar on his own for a second in this first corner.
There's plenty of players coming because he's been down here so consistently.
Of course, the jumping Mach 10 clear, but he at least gets his one.
A whole cache of utility waiting for Fallen and a bunch of utility exchanging hands back on the bottom of Banana.
Slowly, but surely Kcerato will make his way up Speedway.
Fire in the middle of the pack.
They're in front of this.
They're in front of this.
He's gonna swing wide, pop, fall, and snog it.
K. Serato, letting them know where he's at.
Comes through with the coffin attack, but has to retreat back into cover.
And that is gonna be Karavish taking over the bomb site in its entirety.
So much utility damage and spams actually.
They're trying to figure out what he should do with that HE.
There is a real chance of this retake.
It would take some coordination, but apparently they're probably a little bit worried.
Smoke's coming down on Banana.
Molotov is just moving in so slowly.
Slow health on everybody here for Paravision.
Oh my god.
Man, you two.
Making up maids here.
Holy moly, because honestly a Molotov and a Frag grenade well placed there, that could've
legitimately just killed two players.
But the other thing is three people killed, I think that's all there.
They're just trying to make it back.
It's gonna be costly for Paravision, sure.
Yeah, I think that's actually all they wanted to do.
Everybody swept away, but on the 11th round, given over to Paravision, and although they have everybody die, it is still that one step closer to a 12th round secured.
James trying to figure his way out of this problem.
Still Galilz, Mack Tens.
Yeah, that's after a round win.
and they, they, that was the right plan.
They weren't even going,
they weren't even actually trying to go for a retake.
So that's, that was as good as it gets.
It's a distinct advantage here for Furia.
Their main issue was just, you know,
giving up a lead earlier,
but in terms of the last few rounds,
they've become a 3B star.
You rush, another challenge straight into it,
fallen down with one and K Serato's angles,
the one that makes the difference.
Doesn't want to swing out for that.
Look how low they are, what in the world?
Paravision knew what they wanted and that was to smash themselves against the banana control
and they were making it work until Case Serato was on the scene.
Already Molledoy, bottom of middle bomb delivered to him, that'll be cut off by Util and Jame is frantic.
How the hell does he get back into this? Knowing that the money is going to be bottomed out as well after this round,
Furia setting themselves up for success by just making sure last round was cost effective.
Yeah, this is overall just so smart by them and then the the play is you know
Their hand is forced a bit to do something quickly because they don't have enough money for utility
You have Mac 10s. Those aren't going into a default. So
You know, Fiora really took all the power out of their wins. Win. Win made it a Pyrrhic victory
Played 3b had the extra guy to get all those trades
Forest para vision into a very difficult decision
into a fourth. It's kind of a force, right? They won the last round, but they don't have enough money for a real threatening buy.
Funnily enough, this will be better than the last.
Got what you need to make this successful, but it's just felt so long gone.
That pistol and its conversion, the only reason Paravision have much success on this T side
to even speak of, that all that matters is they are one round away from at least a sigh
of relief to try to play beyond.
I feel like in these last couple of rounds, they have been finding success versus you,
Kinder.
They really allow a lot of control to go out of the gate, clean dive onto the ramp to make
sure they don't take damage.
Still, those frag grenades find them.
No such as eating it.
Almost every single round, smoke meets them, and they try to take it to the half wall.
That's the thing about Inferno.
No matter how bad of a game you're having, you can always fall back on the perfect utility.
And even on your worst day
I can create an advantage for you and you're right.
Tinder has not even got that many kills, but yes, got the right nap control.
He has got the kills when they mattered.
I'm falling into them. See a lot again.
I'm gonna try to chase them.
I'm so hungry for any kind of lead.
They're willing to run through all this utility.
The little Calhoun organized they are right now.
Dropped in front, fallen, just relegated to the back of the bomb site.
Ah, look more perfect counter flashes.
This keeps feeling like they're uncertain about whether they do or do not dive into this.
Ya'kinder are catching this way, that shot will help.
Seeing as Fallen goes down with nothing.
Bomb plant, safely tucked in for the time being.
Spam wasn't far off, but again you've got two low health bars on the side of ParaVision.
It's a 4v4 retake, it is all in from CT.
Jane trying to chuck out Util to help this.
Everybody's got kits, but they don't have.
There's too much utility to burn players out of positions.
One fire bomb on Molotov, but he gets killed trying to chuck it out.
What?
A deep peek.
Zello comes through with a double headshot.
K. Serato's answer starts to come alive.
They've got themselves a second, but tucked down in the little pit is Jane.
And that one makes the difference.
Oh, it's that move from Zello.
That quick headshot in the CT when they're setting up all this utility,
they were a caged animal at this point.
They had to make something happen, and on very low health, he finds the timing to make it.
That one frag into CT, a second on another guy setting up utility, two detailed, two organized.
They really left those on the speed site. They ate every kind of flash.
But they got in and they got the one guy who was on site without a crack and I was falling.
This round comes in off for Jane as well.
Oh, the first time.
It's a seamless cash of utility coming out of these B players.
There's another one for you.
It's fired towards the wood.
It gets swayed, no touch to the other corner.
Yeah, they're getting outclass on utility, that's for sure.
Frank's got him through the last one though.
There we go, that helps.
All the door lets the off rims and now they'll no damn well.
It's here in position.
James does have an HE as well.
This could be really cute, I don't know if he's going to use this.
Oh, they're going to use it to blow the smoke open, huh?
The kind are not too far behind it, it's going to have a handful.
Oh, he's gone huge with this position!
At least enough to get the one!
for a moment, it doesn't get nothing.
Flash to himself in, Fallen finds that last bullet
on to Belchenok.
Molledoy looking to find the shot through,
and he dies.
Bomb denied.
35 health for what's left of ParaVision.
And overtime, we are on the brink of it.
Yet again, the Flashbacks find their marks.
The frags come through, and Furious CT side is a rebound.
Back into this game, we go back and forth
for five rounds straight, and that is what leads us to OT.
They've made the full comeback happen to get to overtime,
second overtime of this match so far.
And it feels like just like on Dust 2,
which fear you who are gonna be happier to be here.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
Here we go.
on car. I thought that Fragger neighbor was gonna finish him off when he tried to push
it forward. Fallen, catching Belchin off to the last bullet. It's a difficult track
frack for him but he gets there. Now that really tested his old limbs eh?
Just take one, full A.G. square on the chin, and place a single round in there.
Two. Oh but that is a clean head shot from No-Tah at least. Still traded back by
You're trying to be the hero on banana
Struggled throughout the first half of the game angle has found impact since a sway lucky that that hit his shoulder
Had to be a wall bang my goodness
When they get here, you know that they have had success finding the entries but
Right now right here with K serato on the hold
That's a double kill, Furia about to pull back into the lead, 4v1 ahead, 4 is yellow.
Kendar stops it in its tracks with a 3-kick for the first round of overtime.
Furia dug deep for this, some double comeback that they pulled off in this series.
Another lead, there's nothing more embittering than that.
know if your paravision you could have won on both maps. You know how close you were,
you also put a first to get to map point both times. Actually that's gotta be tough, but
to be honest I'm still seeing so much more depth from Fury on inferno than I am from
paravision. I'm seeing that they're able to fall back into their entry pack in their aim,
which is a great weapon to have, absolutely. But it's not that impressive when Fury also have
that but then they've got the perfect HE's every single round setups that they know they can fall
back into that don't even require that much good aim and they're not leaning on egos they're not
leaning on pistol rounds really showing that their overall quality of play is higher even though
Both maps have been excellent from both teams.
It goes right back to it now.
They're going to give him this space.
He is willing to take it every time.
You're having a lot of trouble dealing with it.
And it's very old school to be down here trying to hold bottom banana.
It ain't broken. You're even trying to bait for him. I'm only on the half ball.
Oh, it works? Wait, you gotta...
He doesn't pull the trigger.
It looks like for a little while nobody else joins them.
Surprise that they don't clear.
You started to see that jumping mag tent clear and whatnot.
They were putting attention to this corner because the cinder's got so much value at this spot.
They just didn't...
But enough rounds go by, they forget about it, he doesn't occupy it for a few rounds and lo and behold, he's right back at it.
He's getting ours having a hell of a recovery in this map.
And not just the kind of recovery that's like...
See, this is it. Like, you're starting battered and bruised, you're losing a player, you don't have any banana control.
And you know what, you have to go A versus 4 guys, or you run up B.
It's two bad options, they need one big mistake.
Kindre won't give him that kill not yet. Oh, that would have been huge as well
They could have really followed through with momentum now
They've got to go through the process you get this case or auto kill over towards the A site you kid
Are all tries to time it with a killer
Weird move over the orange there for sway difficult track with fallen still finds it this upshot from all the do it
Bomb planted in the meantime and with Jane having caught that case or auto kill. Oh my god
He gets away with the push through insanity to go for that. I'm not even sure what's happening here
Delchanock obviously gonna catch that kind of a push from all the boys so pair of vision still somehow find themselves sitting
Tied on 13 rounds. It's genuinely the only way they can win a round
They can always conjure up the situation though where they like they lose the beginning and middle of the round
Then they just go be and win
It was kind of the only option they had so
Well, you can't fault them for it. It's more like Furia.
Furia is the winner.
They just kind of, I think Furia just don't believe that if it's 40 seconds and a team
doesn't have bottom B control, that they'll ever hit Banana.
It's just that they've got a tailor to their current opponent who have done that at least
35 times.
Believe it or not, it keeps happening, and you should be able to read into that.
At least just get one more guy over or something.
Or honestly, I feel like it's like taking a place on site and taking a message about it on top of Hannah.
This is the route.
Feels like that's been impossible.
If anything broke, don't fix it.
But if they don't clear him again, I'm done.
That's on that one.
Oh, there it is. That utility damage lands to perfection.
No way.
Jump straight through!
No way!
I can't believe it.
They actually...
Actually, okay, I don't know
No, and then what now they're gonna fall and dies over towards car that makes it very weird because your kindars locked into this
We still see paravision taking a look at the A site though and they've got the half lead off here in case or auto
Round ago Jane found this kill though. That's the thing. He walked up and clipped case or auto
So of course he's gonna try to take a look at it again and that flash comes from pit
So he's gonna be on high alert for this peak from Yuri. Don't do it. No, it does
Takes into that step gives over the frag
Molodoy into the middle of the bomb site has no support at the moment
And while that smoke goes down on moto the bombs worried about getting flank
This gives fury a time to get in position over on a you kind of are trying to take an angle here through library
He gives himself a flash to get out with, but now that Modo smokes soon to fade.
Jane collects another kill, and it's nothing that the CTs can do about this.
Bomb planted tall box, ParaVision with the slow squeeze into the A-play off of Jane's AWP.
It's what opened up the door for this round.
Now, Case Serato, hoping somebody's gonna give him something to shoot at,
but a far more disciplined ParaVision offer nothing over.
If you want this retake to happen, you got it, come get it.
Jayme takes damage and return, but it's worth it.
K. Serato's dead, and Ykindar wounded from the get-go.
As ParaVision's T-side in overtime,
next to two of the three round wins,
Yuri should have never peaked that.
He's got some slain into it.
I mean, all he had to do was hold the cross onto the site,
and he's locked off.
They had a 3v5.
Q up the only chance for ParaVision to be able to come back.
Right there.
It's already 37 seconds, you kinder caught away with getting those two kills at the bottom of B again.
The molotov puts it on himself, but it really is. The problem starts well before that.
Try it happens.
All three rounds, here we go, on the beginning and middle portions of the round, and then lost to the serious thing.
This can't do a like.
We're still going to go in for the swing, farm off to five, the Kindar commits to the
mow down and Yellow's going to best him.
We did not fight Hopper on the angle, Jane ready to go.
just punishing as this follow-through from Furios put on ice smoke grenade in
front of it falling still gonna remain out of it about this dive and that's why
Offer misses his shot and will not escape.
Jane thinking he could get wild with it instead offers Furia the bomb site.
Yeah, he took that shot maybe he could have gone out I don't know.
Don't feel your only chance to lose the round again Furios.
He sits there on the angle, holding a smoker, and putting your face on full display for the spam.
I mean, even him blowing it open by himself.
Belchanoch takes damage on the fire.
Why wouldn't Zwei try it again?
Sends fire in the feed of Yuri.
Now, he's gonna get flushed out wide to the left side.
Zwei picks up a second kill for this retake.
Fallen's the reason that you're here, but they're thinking this has to be banana.
Fallen, stop the defuse!
Does exactly that, and wins the round with it, surely.
Zwei's gonna take his chance, but no serve.
They're times on Fall inside all the time.
Oh my goodness.
And Furia tie up off of that.
I mean they had to try to lose to lose that round.
And they gave it a shot.
They did give it their best shot.
It's a full round of OT or Furia could win if they wanted to, I think.
And at least for them they pulled out two of those wins.
But it feels like they're just kind of playing with their food right now.
but almost to the point where their food is reanimating.
They're choking on it.
They're trying to eat a lot live octopus,
and such intups are still moving.
Choking.
Come on boys, spit it out.
Ooh, tough one for James to have to stomach,
damage like that out of the gate.
You've got a lot of bodies here through paravision.
Belchinov thinking maybe he can do something about it,
the utility trickles back through.
Yellow's got the Kindar kill,
as he just tries to walk into that B site on his own.
Can you see that, actually?
Fallen sticks around, dies out to Sway.
Oh, through the wall. Oh my gosh.
Okay, Serato.
Sway, Zello couldn't find the AK?
Oh my gosh.
He left his gun back on the site.
Now he has a USP.
It's okay, the CT site holds strong,
and the cross is good.
Paravision will win another one,
thus securing a 15th,
at a second OT at least, they are laughing their way through this because Yellow almost just threw away his gun.
Oh, big time, yeah.
He would have died with a USP.
Lucky there's just that big, fast smoke right there, providing him cover.
As they were coming.
Kindar had sort of hoped that that smoke was even thicker, because Yellow finds the angle around the side of it.
Yeah.
We'll stick with an Ebola oatmeal.
Small into the tech nine. Furious still playing catch up.
We have the option to win. Why would you choose to lose? That's what Furia would be asking
themselves if this round goes wrong, because somehow, someway, even with full control throughout
This overtime, Fyria, are a round out.
It's not the worst that may could have been.
Five players strong to try to test the waters in this A site, Belchnock on BALX, way to
the pit, and then that third layer in Jame over towards Modo.
Trying to stuff this balcony play with the M4 point blank, and Uri will be bested first
and foremost to dive down into the pit, it's Jame defying position within the site, while
Molotov starts to unravel this, and Jay is just looking for a target, but gets nothing as Molotov goes huge!
Triple kill from him!
Clears out every position he had to, and they will find that bomb plant with 15 seconds to spare.
What a bear vision that's been performing some miracles.
They need a 2v3 retake on the A site to close this map out now.
Molotov trying to drag them over the line, kicking and screaming. He's up to 25 frags at the moment.
It's K-Sorado with the AWP. All three players for Fury are jumbled up inside this bomb site.
Zelo gets the first one on the retake. And then K-Sorado misses the flick, and down they go.
Retake comes through for ParaVision. They will extend the series to Mirage, we shall go.
And there is no denying there was chances there for Fury, but they left it on the table, and ParaVision sees the opportunity.
And this is why you can never write this team off what they do they put you on the wheel and they break you
It's just so crazy to do this consistently time and time again. They'll take it to OT
They'll take you to deep waters
You know what I mean? It's totally agonizing if you're fury of their man up situation post plant on the a-bomb site
I. Molly's were even not even connecting with where their personnel were felt like everything
was shaping up to at least push it to double overtime there. But no, Paravision, hold on.
Great, great retake there from from shallow. I mean, that guy was everywhere he needed
to be in this one. I feel like Paravision also just I like how longers characterize it
throughout some of the game that it was the lot of great early need utility being dealt
by the side of fury. But I think numbers wise, I think more often than not, Paravision had
that extra guy in the right spot.
Yeah, they were also doing a great job
of finding openings early on.
I mean, they had a massive advantage,
even out towards the end,
but at some point,
you think there was like one seven in opening deal, right?
I think actually ended up in the plus,
by the end of it was involved in something
around 20 opening deals on this map.
It's just insane to think about that.
Yeah, we talked about how against P-Vision,
you have to be concentrated throughout the game,
And there were a couple of lapses of that for the side of Fiora players, you know, Yuri with that peak from 30% necessarily,
he just wanted to shoulder-free kit, but didn't do it correctly.
And even this final round, your kinder has the bomb and he's running into the side of the plant instead of maybe just tossing it to a teammate and staying in position.
He has some sort of a crossfire, you know, in the 3v2 division just made that retake look way too easy.
Yeah.
And I've got to say guys, we'll probably start a dialogue at some point.
I have watched Yuri kind of struggle a bit this tournament and then obviously gave
away a critical round here with a mistake, even though his statistically had a better performance.
He was all right, statistically played in terms of this year that for Yuri so far, I mean, towards
the tail end of 2025. He was definitely on the cusp of being a top 20 player by HLTV's
numbers. In fact, actually the ADR doesn't look good for him. It's just the KD looked
all right. I mean, if you look at, I mean, also the impact of some of his deaths, they
were massive. So yeah.
Well, the, the one, the one he gave away on, on site was, I mean, also I'm, I'm just seared
into my brain is him on anubis versus Falcons yesterday too. He totally sold that one. So
it's been a bad tournament for him so far. We'll see if he's able to turn it around.
Yeah, we can see as well over on the other side and one of these young players that James is nurturing under his wing.
Veltranoc having a big one and I mean, I thought probably impact impact why Jello could have easily been a standout as well.
Yeah, definitely. I think shallow as well had some very impactful kills in the second half right when they were struggling to get rounds on the board on T side when it came to gun rounds.
have that mass. The round where your kinder is down banana and gets two entry kills, it's a 5v3
shell, just kills fallen in-car through the smoke on a random spam, then Yuri peeks in the 4v3 and
dies in the round, sort of falls apart for them. So yeah, just I think this is what Jame and Dustin
do really well when it comes to instilling belief in their teammates, you know, that they just need
You need to keep at it, just keep at it, you know, that they will wear the opponent down
eventually, that no game is out of reach.
Doesn't matter what's going on if you lose three, four rounds in a row.
You need to believe that you will come up with a solution.
You need to keep trying your hardest, right?
Not lose faith, execute with resolve.
And, you know, that's what they did on Inferno and managed to extend the series.
Well, I feel like there are great moments from practically every member of ParaVision
in this one too.
I mean, also thinking down the stretch, the way Wei was able to, despite the Molly not
He gets the important kill on to Yekendar on the bomb site another retake
He gets that perfect spam as the guys playing side triple to
Honestly, I think that paravision right now. They have a really strong squad
I mean, I think Belchanoch was the worst performer on the previous map
But then immediate bounce back from him that happens a lot with that team
Yeah, you know because you know they are just young rookies, you know
It's like very hard for them to kind of like stay phased and get in their own head and have an underperformance
there is one player obviously that you know I won't name them everybody knows
at home anyway that's like a little bit worse than the other the other three but
I mean I think these are incredible finds and the way James regimented them is
like really something he can be very proud of I think. We see the discipline in
so many of the rounds and the willingness to buy you into any idea that
James has I mean throughout every single tournament that I've been seen
Paravision now especially since the major there's always a few rounds per half where the only way a plan can work out perfectly
Is if it's just if it's just executed to a tee and this round 27 here is one where obviously they were in a pickle
They're in a they're in a horrible or three versus five yellow just gets a kill out of nowhere
So that helps even the situation up enough you can see the defense from furious splits up to two
There was a flash that Yuri throws here actually
That actually in my eyes it kind of preempts Jane to think okay
Why was there no push towards the short side? And so James just kind of goes hunting a little bit there
Gifted a kill very early on to Yuri
That's the pivotal frag that we said kind of open things up for paravision in this game and then obviously it's an impossible
Retake here for yet and are so finest margins and also I think James great
Understanding of what it means for when a team throws kind of a fake flash because usually if you're throwing a short side flash
It's to set up somebody to clear from either the yard side or from the porch side to push with it instead
he just probably eat to me he's calling out the fact that you're just throwing
this trend and bait us into the idea that the strong side is towards a that
smoke spam was absolutely monumental in this round because your kinders playing
close so he's calling case her out to help him get out of that tight spot now
so now the a defense is weaker you really maybe feels a little bit pressure
once he dies it just more of the indecide so yeah an important round obviously in
overtime that MP vision nice to convert the 3v5 and now obviously we go to the
decided you saw it at home, you know, over the course of the game, Furia getting more
and more frustrated with themselves and Molovoy going from all smiles to tablebangs, which
not a great sign. And they're probably already thinking, we should be done and dusted by
now. Like that should have been our map. It should be over. And now you've got a Mirage.
It's so open. And, you know, Pyrovision, they can definitely play this map.
the last time they faced off against each other was Paravision that had a great CT side. They only lost a couple rounds on it.
Looking back, I mean, Zello on this one was just fantastic. I mean, in terms of where he's going to be playing once they swap over to the defense,
he was so instrumental playing on the short side and just pushing. I think there were a lot of setups that Paravision liked to run where it was a big group up towards middle.
And if they were just set in that for a little too long,
they would just play flanks all the time.
And so, Fury just have to watch their back
once they switch the offense here for me.
One thing that bothers me a little bit about Fury
is maps where they live and die by a Kindar,
which is inferno, which is overpassed to some extent
because he's always fighting, he's always in it.
And sure, when he's having a great game
and he's finding openings all the time,
yeah, they're going to go and stomp the opposition.
But when he's not, it becomes a bit of a liability, right?
and you don't want your rounds to always in your game
to just depend on one player.
That's why I like Mirage,
and Furia decided because that's not the case
as much on Mirage, right?
It's more of a team-based map.
You're gonna fight for me,
you're gonna probably do it together.
T-Side 2, they had a great game against Falcons yesterday,
managed to win in overtime, I believe, or 13-11,
in a closed series.
So I think this as a team is going to be sort of a better fit
for Furia compared to some of the other maps.
The scary thing is that James just does a good job of isolating the weak spots.
I mean, again, last time they played this, they were targeting falling on that B side
a bit much. A lot of B side hits. Sometimes they are coming up the short side to do a
crunch onto it as well, but they're not afraid of seeing that the guy that's bottom fragging
in the server, which today, honestly, if I'm, James, there's feels like there's two options.
Jerry's having a really bad tournament right now. We've fallen generally just not the strongest
anchor on that B site. So I would expect that they might move away from trying to play
into the strong team of Kcerato, Molodoy, Yackindar.
If they don't want to isolate the extremities,
they could do that today.
And just to keep tapping into this, right?
Because obviously, it doesn't feel that long ago,
we were talking about Kcerato and Yuri.
He's one of the greatest rifling duos, you know,
at that moment in time.
And Yuri is now so far away from where he was.
What's changed? What's happened?
Positions, roles, unfortunately,
to become a role cell in this moment.
I mean oftentimes he was able to trade frag art. I mean when we were having those conversations about them to being the best
It was usually an incredibly selfless entry in art running on forward and then Yuri always gets to pick up the scraps
He always got to work with that space that was made for him
And now that he has to be a bit more of a self-sufficient anchor
You can see sometimes doesn't always play to his strong suits
I in fact even going back to fury a maybe a handful of years ago
I felt like case Arato was anchoring a little bit more than Yuri was and now
Jury's just kind of taken up these roles probably just because they they realized that case or others the better player
Yeah, I mean look, you know, I'll ask yanko because obviously someone always has to be at the bottom
And if you've got someone popping off like Molodoy need just kills everybody, you know, you're not gonna have a great rating
You're gonna have great numbers, but that doesn't feel like what's happening. Yeah, it's more about like taking advantage of your
Opportunities when they present themselves or when people come to your ward your bomb site as an anchor, you know
know what your job is, you know, get a kill, stay alive, buy time, don't let them get deep
space, for example, get into CT here on Mirage towards that.
Hey, Bomsae, and the reason why Furia was able to win trophies is also largely due to
Yuri.
I mean, his CT side play, especially on Inferno, you know, in some of those games has been stellar,
right?
And he has fallen off at the start of this year.
He just needs some more time to warm up, right?
Or something along those lines.
But Fira is absolutely going to need him if they're going to lift trophies in 2026 as well.
All right, then, guys, thanks a lot.
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of play, Mohan.
There was, how do we put this?
A lot to be desired back on Inferno when it came to some of those rounds of Counter-Strike,
but alas, they went the way they did.
ParaVision fought on.
Furia had their opportunities and instead they've got to try to now rebound back into
this game within map three.
Over times on both maps, by God, we just keep on going, don't we?
Yeah, they had full control. They just kind of decided not to win. Maybe they really loved CS. They just wanted to keep playing
And but we go on to Mirage is another great map for Furia
Paravision yet to win on this map two single-digit losses
It's kind of been a stain on the record actually because before that they were super strong on it
so
What happens now they know how to play at both these team tons of reps on the map lots of good teams in the rear view
We're going to the execute with smokes over, fallen.
Thought he was going to get caught off guard there, but he still gets one headshot out before dropping.
And it's the palace player that's going to wound K Serato down to a single point of health.
You kind of are incredibly fast on this flank, already starting to compromise palace.
We get a little bit of footing over towards jungle though for paravision. That's what makes this interesting.
Are they through the connector scaling?
Why'd they throw that?
I'll take it from C and connector, but there's no lurk, give me a little bit of the bait
there.
Taking our merges from Palace.
Oh, it's okay, you'll get there through the wallbang instead, and K Serato, that one point
of health, still worth it as he comes back around.
How do you get away with that?
Executes a player in the backdrop, and the retake, all good, Furio will take the CT pistol.
They got on it, right?
Yeah, okay.
They're not...things aren't back crazy for one.
They're really choosing to win.
Four players on the retake, yeah.
Yeah, in case you're out of hit to one health, ran...instantly walked out of connector.
So quickly they just forgot he ever existed.
Well, you know, so far back as well they couldn't clear out.
That was a close call.
That was a close call.
That was a pretty good shot.
We'll get that bomb plant, a couple of tools to work with,
but it's no all in for the vision.
Go ahead, try to rinse and repeat.
Smoke's over top, in case a Rado plays bench, we're gonna just keep him stuck within that
ramp.
Take damage and return, Uriel's spam through off the A4, and he's spam through that smoke.
Kikindar collapsed.
Stairs pushed from the tech dyno, attempts to overwhelm while the players were blind,
but it's just not gonna happen.
stand tall here for Furia, make quick work of the Paravision attack, who will now bounce
back in the next one with real guns.
Yeah, and no kills, no plans, so it's actually really solid here for Furia, there was some
invested there, just a few bells and whistles for Paravision on the A attack.
Two kills and two rides and two rounds right now for Paravision, that's a trend they like to block here if they can make this round interesting.
Now I brought up that they tried to pick on Fallen inside B last time.
Kcerado floating bottom middle, is that Nade? Finds a mark.
Kcerado a little low on ammo now, he's gotta be careful with this.
Luckily for him, second T jumps back.
James sticks around in the smoke, though.
Doesn't feel like Keisarado's considering this.
No.
James, off of that audio, is going to decide to pounce.
So, lo and behold, Keisarado's surprised by that setup.
And then, you get the notes of frag from top middle,
dealing with you, Kindar.
5v3 for ParaVision with their first set of guns.
Yeah, just a little laxadaisical.
The full push came in.
I mean, it's just very smart from James, I guess,
recognizing his patterns, but it didn't show him anything.
Some of these footsteps heard.
Oh, probably not.
Surely not.
Pretty far removed.
Fallen watching us flank, but they're going back to A which is interesting.
It's prime for the taking, barring this ramp extension.
Yuri into the corner.
We'll see what Molledoy can draw away in terms of a distraction.
Not enough.
Yuri gonna be locked in. Three players staring at him as he dives back to find the force to emerge from palace.
And while he puts the flames to the feet, it is going to be fallen on the scene.
I'm not able to stop the six health for one, a single point for another.
Very close to losing additional bodies there, but it's still paravision with majority alive at the end of their first gun round and first round win.
Yeah, very careful on the approach. That one's a bit of...
I'm just thinking Furio we're going to try to push down the ramp or like fully stack A or one of those.
Anyways, this one comes down to this mid control setup.
Oh, game.
People to basically hide there just by being still, not relying on nades or a teammate to draw aggro away from him.
Not moving at all.
Back to underpass we go though.
A lot of nades.
Pushing into it, fully.
Caught point blank like that.
Caserados.
Guns about to go dry.
Jane keeps it clean.
Catching him in back to back rounds now.
And it's pistols for the majority of what remains of Furia, three players up, only one
of them leaning towards this B site where you think Paravision won't waste much time.
Gun advantage will be real here for Fallen to have to stomach.
And Molodo is life-valuable, you can save his inbound for him, Molodo trying to dodge
these threats. Ooh, he finds the 5-7 kill. Can't get the second one, although definitely
had the chance. And unfortunately with his teammate so far removed, that is simply not
enough. Paravision planting for the 2-2 score.
And the guns? Easily secured. Take it from underpants.
Where's the exit going to be here for Paravision?
Yeah, if they headmark it, you've got Mollidoy waiting for you.
We'll see if there's any additional costs racked up on this one.
Sure enough, catch him off guard.
Double kill here for Mollidoy, in fact.
I'm going to Mollie to slow this down, wants to go for the last kill.
Could have stayed alive with that gun.
feel like lucky to get the two frags. Nice from Jane to get out with this kill, but you
know, he's the one who's sitting on a pretty hefty chunk of change.
into the AIDF. The kinder's already on cat at the moment, so it's time to go A, even
though there's a lot of players here. Oh, that's a pretty decent block. So desperate to get
Anything done, the USP charges through.
AirVision aren't going to fall victims to such silly games.
It would have to be the Echindar AK, if anything,
and it's the furthest removed piece of this AD fence.
So he goes up and over.
Echindar given a chance to at least get back into position.
There's so many utilities coming forward here for KeraVision that it creates the space they need to move this one onwards.
It's all about Yikindar and he spams away, lets him know where this rifle's at.
It's a matter of getting a little bit lucky.
As that ticket challenge comes around, Mollidoi gets dropped and now these players over towards stairs really don't have much to shoot at.
And certainly not much to work with.
Okay, so, see how much it takes to get that bomb planted, but once it is, you're in a pretty good spot.
Two USPs are quite low here. Oh my goodness, he came here.
Yep, he's taking another route.
He's got that other one. Again, you could just cause chaos here. You find frags and...
Really just looking for kills.
A little down some of Paravision's money, sure, but they keep that pressure on.
You can get out when they love to keep the AK at the end of it, but that one's not gonna be allowed.
majority up by the end of this round here, Paravision. They felt the squeeze for a second,
and then decide, wait, why don't we just take control of this situation?
Yeah, there are a couple of gauntlets, like, you know, your kinder holding onto an AWP,
it's like, or sorry, an AK, why not? If he can get out of there, back and up through connector,
all the same thing in CT that previous round, especially when you've already got a killer,
too. It's not like you contributed nothing this round and wanted to use it.
So the full bye comes in. There'll be almost no spirit change after that.
and said calmly delivering his message about what to try for this T-side.
That's not the way those two kids are.
Flashbang maybe makes it hesitant for a second, but it's not too shy about still testing
this edge when in reality it's a very quick move from Paravision to just go overstack
that ramp and it's going to tell us that they're coming forward with the execute in
a second. You see a scrambled through connector from the two fury of mid players, but in terms
of the defense, Molledoy just keeps that scope on the angle, waits for the exit to come out.
And there's no block off that rotation view with the wall of smokes. Belchin off to Uri first
and foremost, another struggle for Uri so far. And as Molledoy gets burned off his original
position, nobody actually emerges out through that ramp just yet. They're going to send the
the flashbangs wide, damage dealt through the smokes, and yet Moldedway is still able
to deliver one before the T's hit the bomb site itself. More interruptive utility offered
here by Furia to just try to create a bit of space, and at 40 seconds, Jayme takes a look
towards the B site in contrast.
This is so crazy. I mean, Fallen's here with his utility, and the later the skats, the
The easier it is for him to get one kill and simply win, and the bomb is walking in slowly.
See if anybody activates over on A. No two tries to make that contact.
Okay, now they're looking for a mistake, but Fallen's just getting more nervous actually. Nobody's coming to help them, however.
As in second guess that they hit the ground, Fallen ready for the pop-up. Looks the wrong way, and James gonna find the better of it.
That peek on his own terms instead. They all jump out safely.
Fast to the move though, you kindar up Catwalk already, Pelchenok to tuck in, low HP, Bench player not wanting to go for this duel, just keeps his head down, doesn't want to be confirmed, right?
James really trying to play this small, and that is enough to deter them, and so good call by James to just sense that B could have been the opening, it boils down to having to find Fallen for free like that, but they do.
They do, absolutely.
I mean, the two-spy could have been, like, sitting on the side of default there, I think
it's actually totally fine if he finds that right timing to catch them jumping out of
the window.
But once they're out, you know, then it's too late.
Then at that point, you should have just been on the get-away, holding that second window
the whole time or playing empty pillar to score the bomb, or at least call him for help,
you know.
It was a very active position that he was in, which, again, can totally be a great thing,
But it's like he didn't really believe they would go B and I can understand that.
Paravision had an opening to plant on the A site if they wanted to.
They could have been causing it sandwiched and Tetris and waiting for a chance just
to walk into the site.
And I guess that's just true power from their position because either opportunity looked
good.
Hello?
Alright.
Hello? Alright.
I'm just thinking he was going to get away with something fancy, but he kindred with the barrel stuff and the fight before that comes with it.
Yeah. Now, Miss Molotov over the top of Ram.
This is not Paravision's prettiest of rounds.
It's like the most uncomfortable way to walk through a smoke where first all your legs are showing.
Right.
You can't see anything, you're just like an ostrich with your head in the sand.
That's great imagery.
three inside a palace though do you really think this will work
I didn't think the last round would work. Now I'm ready for their vision to win every round, honestly.
Also, let's not forget about Inferno. They find a way.
Converter just keeps going for the occasional check while Yuri's allowed to tuck down beneath it.
Converter's got a teammate next to him in case Serato as well, but we get this connector walk-up chain.
Oh, just sliding into it, and they go wide out through the palace.
You really will be able to hang on from down beneath.
And things get crazy in a matter of seconds, but Keisarado and Yokindar hanging onto their positions stuffed Jame on his approach.
And then you just see the panics sink in for the rest of Paravision.
I was ready to feel really bad for Yokindar when he was crack-spotting that for about 15 to 20 seconds.
Only to turn around and a guide of walkout of Connector and nearly kill him.
But he got the frag, his teammates got alerted, everyone got the kills they were supposed to,
and the round that you were thinking about actually happened.
They had their eyes on Palace, they watched it, they got their kills, they stopped the plant.
Uri also stopping things from getting insane as they dropped down the ladder too.
Could be awkward from down there, but Uri doing his job well enough.
And trying to find an uptick in individual level, I think back from Inferno,
He would have probably been disappointed with himself.
Yeah.
A couple of those moments.
Yeah.
You know, this important moment getting the gun on DOS.
But weird, like, seeing Yuri play the same spot.
You know, that imposed left position outside of the Tunnel's exit.
It's just looking a little bit one-dimensional.
Richard brought him up, how, you know, it's been a,
he's a far cry from himself in the earlier days of FURIA.
You know, last year, I mean, last year,
He's definitely had some good moments, but that's true, there was a point where people
would debate about whether or not Yuri was lowkey better than Keisarotto.
That's where it was at one point.
Smokes go up and over and we get Keisarotto dropping his nades in response.
Trying to get this going with a Mach 10 in the front of it, noted down at 58 health.
Feels like this guy's been playing with less than 100 health in every round since the start
of Inferno.
And that trend continues as it's going to be Uri to try to plop open the gap, serve
up a distraction, and then also get in some wallbang damage as Fallen is there to pick
up on the opening.
But Bomb goes down in the middle of all that.
You stop the planter after the fact.
Not before he punches in the digits, Fallen coming through with another one.
Notus, limited health, has him down for the count, and James going for the slow burn wrap up through Khan.
Oh, my, you kindar. Great presence of mind.
And no bomb plant for Zwei means the retake truly underway, and Furia tie this game up with a very strong retake,
fueled by Fallen as he comes out through that ticket with the 2k.
Yeah, excellent frags. They've got the lineup spams. I was very impressed by some of those,
even on back on inferno of Maladoy hitting that offshot through the coffin smoke.
Those little details can make a world of difference. So,
give the material advantage up. It's so important how to retake and make sure you can move with speed.
4-4.
You never really know what pair of vision they're going to try.
They've got the off and under pass.
They've got this double Grand Flurk setup.
That's how they make their bread, though.
It's impossible to prepare for them sometimes.
Jane here once in a while.
Usually it's walking rifles up to sit back on an AWP like this, ready for some kind of a challenge.
And also the fact that they're willing to walk out of underpass without the
turret. So they're going to see this and go for it again.
That's crazy.
Offer couldn't really help out from the depths, but posting on the vector angle.
Ooh, missed chance for Jayne.
Takes one upside the head, dropped down to 22.
Belginock's gonna find his exit out through a ramp, and that puts A-side under question.
Bob still sits back and spawns, so Jayne's still just playing with all options,
has to be aware of the map control that Furia could have grabbed off that.
It's like, what even happened this round? They played it so different, and everything worked out really well.
Glad to see Belginock have these back-to-back strong performances.
He has been shooting lasers today.
Okay, Serato, just deliver us the kilts as yellow.
Everyone's gotten smoked on their trades here.
Notifying Maldoy, it's the T-Mace.
Oh, man, they're not going to let Molo do his save this.
We're going to try.
He came sequence from here.
He's got health.
I don't know where he is.
See ya.
Here's the stopping aside of the market.
Can't do anything about that one.
So five alive, but four paravision as they head back into the lead.
What I like about that round is like, I don't see anybody else trying something like that.
and then they executed perfectly.
Like, I know Furia are sitting there, pissed off.
They're like, ah!
Every single frag that happened on that round.
Jayman underpass goes back up to upper
with his AWP, gets his kill.
Two guys come out of the ramp at the same time.
Never any plan to really execute in any of these moments.
They just wanted to kill everybody one at a time.
Just ready to catch Furia as if they could
leave them from the get-go.
And all their mid-round decisions,
Just slapped away.
No tough, hoping that Ykinder would have been flashed, but he plays it a little more forward.
And now we get the Mollinoy counterpeak down into underpass.
There we go.
Won't find his counter parts.
James still out there somewhere, but nobody really knows where.
And Yuri, in the meantime, sitting on top of the staircase.
Happen to just take these duels today.
He's bolstered by the teammates behind him, so a very confident look at a fury of this round.
Steps ahead, top middle.
steps ahead with the AWP taking that fight down underpass and so Furia have a bit of a change-up in this round as well, Mohan.
But here they come, father and son.
And within that shake-up, Furia find a ton of success flipping the script and up-ending Paravision's hope for momentum.
It's nothing but a one-off round win this time around and a real chance for Furia to end this half with a bit of a streak.
I'm wondering how much it means for Furia to have any kind of lead. Again, we're already seeing like,
I think Paravish know that they just got away with like a miracle back on Inferno.
They're like, okay, let's make everything even more uncomfortable for fear.
Let's play even more strange back to what we know, what people expect of us, and it's actually been working pretty well.
It's good to see those guys in the back.
Then like, take it over mid, everything around, that might just be a good place to start.
Worst case, what happens?
They rush A and you have to retake.
Three pallets locked up here.
Paravision getting really creative.
Consistently been difficult to read for Furia.
But again, with mid-control, you've got gas rotates today.
It's also true that, um...
I'm sure it hasn't really been good on retakes.
Wow, he's really gonna make this into a game.
Look how weird he's making this, James.
They're all set up for everything.
It's 40 seconds.
It's, he's one guy with no utility.
Like, surely he's not gonna commit to something,
except just be alert.
Okay, he's just gonna go underpass.
This makes sense.
Just making sure no one's pushed.
If you're fully prepared for an A-play to come out, right?
Fully.
They couldn't have their eyes wider open right here for this.
We've seen these attempts from Palace just get absolutely crushed.
This time around, Zwei is going to find the quick trick right back and a headshot onto
Yuri.
So it gets opened up wide, but Malditoi still has a chance to challenge.
Smoke covers the plant.
And that is Zwei deltonades on the operas feet a triple kill from Zwei on the exit.
They had everything in place to at least get 3 kills.
The trade down pretty well right here, they're watching it, Paravision are coming in with
almost no utility, they aren't throwing in any kind of fake over towards B. All they're
doing is playing with like, at timing, you might not be ready for.
They're giving you nothing to react to.
They just instantly hit their trays and you miss your shots.
So he rocks them with the headshots this round.
I felt like the last time we saw that play happen it got stuff so portally that I'm
surprised to see Paravision trying to revert back to it.
It's way reminding us of what it looks like when things go well.
Paravision pulled back to that lead.
Merage right now is feeling like a CSGO VP James style calling adventure at the moment.
Last month there was a lot more rushing, but now it's about the confusion tactics.
They're conjuring the dark energy for these rounds.
That kind of slow burn.
Never seen before, no one else tries it.
Which really takes a full focus from every member of Paravision.
James is going to be found out by Yakindar stuck in now.
They're going to chuck utility to try to get him out of here.
He's got a couple tools to try to get out.
And he does find refuge behind the top midboxes.
I really don't even think his plan is to get op kills this half. It's just to make sure you can't go places
He's just like a security guard, anti-fun on this map right now. Control mid, go up, upper B, see if they push
Just make sure nothing is happening
Challenge up from the balcony, but this real emphasis is going to be coming in from the ramp while the smokes are hearing their half lay point
Think Paravision's gotta get a go on, and as they do emerge, they get slain by Fallen.
His gun's about to be dry, but he's got the Kindar to work with, and on top of the balcony,
plus Fury with a double kill as well.
Paravision kinda stall out there for a second, a bit of a delay to the follow through,
and Fury a thrive within it.
James got 15 seconds to 1v5, I wouldn't put the house on it.
He peeks around the corner, he's done, so it's five up for Fury at the tail end,
and we still can't separate these teams.
Is it six rounds each, the end of the half?
I was going to ask like, who do you feel had a better half?
I don't know.
It's hard to say.
No.
I feel like, particularly after the first two maps,
we're just out here waiting to see who can win this series.
Because it just feels like we can't separate the two.
It's like black and magic.
Okay, paravision... It's like paravisions, like Fury, every time they casted a spell, they took two damage.
Like, their wins didn't even feel that good, because they made it painful every step of the way.
No counterspell, so they can't take it back.
No more mollusks inside here.
We're playing strict CS here, with playoffs on the line.
That's right.
Nobody's really kind of reinventing the wheel. There was that one round that was like a real
oddball moment, you know, that made me think, okay, James, you're really thinking, but that
was one round. And then beyond it, we just kind of revert back to this norm that has
quietly led us to a tied up half and day to day paravision. I think six rounds on a T
side of mirage you're gonna be content with that but here comes the execute
from furia into the a bomb site not wasting time to come out with the
grenades they're not gonna find anybody in sight nobody over towards ticket
now honestly furia struggle far more on the attack I think it's a little bit
more done a lot so a lot of their early losses are laying around
this bomb gets planted swiftly his way with the kit
walk up from Belchenok, but he's lost his teammate out middle.
And now all this connector emphasis is going to serve up an issue for Paravision.
Yuri can just sit here, afford him a little bit of space until that ramp flank comes around.
He doesn't want to give himself over to the ticket players, but he feels the squeeze.
And Jane connects the headshot.
You got a smoke on top of the bomb.
You're going to need Suede to get on top of it.
Even with his low HP, he is still on the DQs.
Kacerados got him.
Okay.
And with that kill from Connector, it's going to stop the retake.
They scramble Furia for a second there, causing panic by getting on the bomb, but it will
be Furia to follow through nonetheless.
Yeah, that could be a key pistol win.
Really, shouldn't have even come close.
Furia got that bomb down so quickly, had full control.
Yuri did a fantastic job of delaying that whole situation, and a third timeout is going
to get called here from Paravision.
They don't have enough money to spend on this round to really scare them, I think, but...
Now we'll see what they're gonna be talking about here.
Half-Armor MP9 for his way.
How freaky are we gonna get, Paravision?
I'm gonna play for the early momentum.
Scout on, Jame. A couple of Desert Eagles. That's about as weird as it gets. M4 for Belchinox.
Not a bad place to be in. I like giving him the M4, man, because he's actually an excellent
ass. He has shots on paravision today. It's been a bit of a shame as this third map's
gone on to watch no to kind of go up in smoke
true been relevant throughout the series but it feels like the further we get
into the game the further that is from the truth
we've seen fury of fall victim to some weird light buys some weird bomb stacks
maybe it's pronounced not a
not a killing site
slowly
the bomb will get planted
seven kill in this moment
they've every intended to just save right away to be honest like are you gonna
been a winner retaking this spot
However, the bomb is not getting planted.
They just want to be extra cautious.
The bomb has been planted.
Makes sense with how close paravision were to the bomb site.
Sure, Furia, for a second there felt like they were under attack,
but very swiftly just peeling away from this,
knowing that there wouldn't have been much to work with in the next one.
They didn't really have to fight fully to get that M4 back either,
so poor Belchanoch, the only one that hits the ground.
Furya in 8-6 lead off this round.
One kill, enough to secure this.
Belchnock bested, and Furya pull ahead.
That is always a nice thing about forcing CT side.
You can take those guns and all of them right around as you want and still collect your
lost bonus.
Yeah, especially when the first kill comes in so swiftly.
Yeah.
You know, it's better to just write it off.
Move it forward.
Take a swing at it in the next one.
So that's exactly what they'll do.
And Belchunok will hand that over to Canoda, actually.
The guy who's three in ten?
Yeah, I don't know exactly why.
Let's see what the plan is.
Went for the cat hold, that's why.
So about the spawns.
Oh, that's the guy that took out your kinder as well.
Wanted to stir heads up.
Make it 4 and 10.
What could be a key kill
in trying to upend this early momentum.
Unfortunately, Belchinoff, feeling the pressure.
Yeah, if you go up, you get shot.
If you go down, you burn to death.
Desperate to find some sanctuary and he's not afforded the luxury
Yeah, she was probably so scared in that moment
Flashbang at blinds at no tot who will just sit here for a second. Does Furia also you see Furia are trying to do
They're kind of trying to do a pair of vision of done
I try to just like really grind these out because a pair of vision want to make weird decisions. They're gonna be careful
But right now they sit on no smokes actually.
So this could be a ticket molly and a flash.
And they can molly cat, they probably should.
Not even to rush it down fast enough, but they still do discharge in real spontaneous
push.
Out of the ParaVision ticket control and with that you kind of get Furia scrambled.
Didn't see anything, Yuri, that was a chance. He's so low though, he's scared.
Stairs player keeps his head touched, Kcerado's moving up.
Scout is going to hit him in the background.
And yeah, he'll follow up on this. This retakes suddenly. Very real.
Molo-Due goes running back in, dies out to Jane.
They're going to get on top of that bomb. It's a long 10 second defuse, but they've got this.
ParaVision out of nowhere with that ticket push.
push, just catch Furia unprepared to hold off their bomb sites.
Wow.
Shocking!
Retake at the end of the round.
It looked like it was just not really going to happen and that Furia had so many options
to play at however they wanted to.
Again, the only thing they were really missing that was critical was maybe a smoke, but they
didn't die planting.
They died falling back and then it got real sloppy.
even right here.
Oh my god, any retakers, I guess they didn't see them off of cat ever, so I just assumed they were all grouped up in CT.
That's a good type of error mission, but they kept that option open.
That was the easiest way that Fury would get to 9, and I really think they're in danger in this game, man,
because their T side far overshadows their CT.
Or the opposite. Their CT side is usually where they make their bread.
I think with just how fast they lost control of that situation, that's a real red flag.
Kinda caught half asleep at the wheel.
Occasional utility just popping inside a connector in the off chance, somebody is attempting
to split.
have you, Kindar, and we're towards the B apartments, but a smoke meets Furia at
ramp. Just as they start throwing utility over top, Belchanov wants to play far
in front of it, a back turn to the Tetris, and Fallen's able to get that
opening kill going. Molledoy lands a pop shot, and Furia will have a real chance to
get again, find success here, but it only notes up, had pushed the limit. That bomb would be down.
Quick scope comes through from Molledoy. Kindar takes his time to strike down from
Underpass and Yellow is going to use this as a chance to just run off for the save.
Oh, geez, man, that smoke, what a huge gap if he had peeked on the other side of that.
Could have been tragedy striking again, but then you've got Molledoy running down the
stairs after jumping across, taking things into his own hands.
So Fury put up a harder round, actually.
Molledoy felt like Paravision could have most certainly staged a retake from that
stairs position that's why I'm all the way just goes all in on it right head
into the quick scope
it's a good thing no that doesn't know how close he came to being able to stop
that because he had the intuition right he looked into that gap just didn't go
wide enough to the plant spot it's like he didn't hear exactly where the bomb went
down exactly believe that it was on default and there was no point but that
That was, yeah, clearly a smoke he could have seen over.
At least Yuri don't have to think about that now.
The grind continues for them.
50 for their 10th here.
Their vision will be out of money.
I mean, they've got head armor on one guy right now.
This is going to be a turning point.
They're floating out.
Oh, this would be all they saw at 9, 10 traps.
Oh, perfect!
By Molledoy.
Zway is not going to get away with that one, punished for the constant jumping up and down.
It's yellow worried that there's something behind all of this, but it's a very quick reposition from Furia just peeling away from that opening kill, or are they?
That's just excellence on that free aim.
I feel like there's a bit of hesitation as to what's going on with Furia.
Kindar for a second, just going back and forth.
Oh man, VeroVision said forget about it. We're going to go all A.
There's Lincoln into position.
This thork is so slow, so all the way essentially.
There's clearly things out though.
They're trying to keep their line falling, oh hell of a head shot!
Belchernauk's done a good job of keeping himself hidden in the back of sight.
Jayme is the guy that's serving up distractions, but you know that bomb's just heading towards
B. So Belchernauk reveals himself, has to make sure that Fallen can't get away for free,
and unfortunately there is no bomb to follow through there otherwise, ParaVision would've
had a real chance at winning this round.
Maldoy's ankle pays off deep through the marketplace, and Furia playing with options is why this one can be added to their stack.
10-7 their lead now. This T-side is just overwhelming paravis.
It is. I mean, they're actually kind of copying a round that was used against them.
It was Jame that was perusing up through upper B with his off about 40 seconds in, just like Maldoy did just now.
Except in this case, Maldoy really does everything.
His three kills, it totally oppresses the map. They don't even get near the site off the back of this round from him.
Taking over, just as he tried to do and did on Inferno.
There goes the money for Paravision.
They're not going to blow up in the smoke and connector.
already surpassed it. James doesn't have the tool for that.
James is going to re-smoke it in fact, so this is a freebie.
Would have just applied a thicker cover for this Furia excavation of the B site.
They'll find nothing for their efforts.
Note a very desperate final line of defense.
Just throws flashbangs out the window's tux tail and gives away an 11th round to Furia.
This T side has only given up one round win to ParaVision so far.
The hard work is done now.
They've really sat down and grinded these out and made up for the tragic way that Inferno
ended.
They were the driving seat of that game too, but just letting things slip, man, now since
they've taken the attack on Mirage, they have not slowed down whatsoever.
Dodging ParaVision's threats.
Bracket up a ton of money in the process.
Another moment here where five players survive for Furia.
They can most certainly feel their control tightening on this game.
As mentioned, they were in control on Inferno as well,
but that one just kind of slipped out of their hands.
Things got wild and weird,
and we haven't really kind of seen that from ParaVision here on the decider.
On the one hand, it's like you watch it from our perspective and there's just no excuse
But on the other you see Paravision and Jane do that to everybody. So you're like, I
Also, I also get you know, what's coming can't stop it
They've been acutely aware of that thinking about that hero mirage. Yes, and it's worked out
I mean Paravision are just simply slippery
There's a kinder on this team saying I know exactly why this is going wrong
Let's just be a little extra focused.
You know, you kind of had a pretty rough half in the first one, back on Inferno.
We saw him kind of taking over within the second regulation, getting away with a lot of banana control.
But I mean, here on Mirage, he has been excellent.
16 and 9, surpassing Molledoy, who has also been pretty omnipresent in the successful moments of fury up.
Fortunately for Paravision, it's really been the rifling department that's kind of gone absent here once we hit Mirage.
Particularly once we hit their CT side.
Ex-Q comes over top again. We got a Molotov sent over towards Palace to try to slow that down.
Bell-Genon go get the fight before.
Slow burn plays through middle, but extension of the advantage added is Sway-Tess O'Raut is on the side of Bench.
He is a beast.
Molotov under pressure, still lands the shots. Sway's hands busy. K-Sorado knows that this is probably going to go unchecked.
But the problem is Molotov's low health. He doesn't want to go for the bomb site yet.
He has to plant. K-Sorado has to peek this and he has to plant backtrip.
Got a clear connector, Sway's going to survive that challenge and now with Molledoy going for this bomb plant, you think James got this under wraps.
Molledoy not given a chance to put his hands back on to the off and so Paravision's eighth will be secured.
Everybody doing enough and most notably Sway testing the limits with that bench peek,
taking it back because that was a 3v5 from Furia that was starting to be pieced together.
Molledoy under pressure hitting off shots, but Sway gets back into connector, forces K Sarato's hand
and even wins that duel, despite having a health disadvantage.
True. I think that's something that would be bad.
Case Rattle, I wouldn't you just peek, but he has to walk out a little bit of a shot too soon,
and might even have a different force than that, I guess.
But the fact is he didn't have a super clean shot, per se.
There's no way to peek out a little bit without also getting spotted.
So, tough shot. Tough shot and tough spot.
It's a little bit of a health issue in a way.
They gave themselves outs on the A site last round, even though that's why I came down this way.
They put a lot of people in place to make sure they could stop it.
Damn, Fallen's already out. Three going down the connector. Is this the golden move?
It's going to be no time to have to take this fight into the pack, and he'll be dropped with nothing. His struggles continue.
Belchnok dives into default. He's got a teammate right behind him. They're going to just try to bolster within the bomb site.
Smokes fade over towards jungle, and the bomb disengages from ramp.
Yeah, and Belchnok has no idea there could be a second player here. They believe it's just a fallen lurk solo.
Meanwhile, Furia, I think they've given up too much data, but the rotations for Paravision are going to be very difficult.
They have to get around through CT, but they don't have jungle control. They don't technically have window.
This is the worst nightmare for Jame.
Connector no longer smokes. Somebody could try to test the waters with a deep peek towards Cat.
You can see the worried look from Furia as they inch Maladoy closer towards the B site.
We've got an AWP on both sides of this pinch.
Let's see if he walks into it. Molledoy, are you holding this line?
25 to the clock. Molledoy still holds the flank towards A instead.
And so James gonna pick off one, catches the bomb with damage.
K. Serato, lucky to still be standing, so he throws himself at the site.
He's gonna somehow try to get away with this plant.
James swaps into the sidearm clip by K. Serato, who goes hunting for it
before the plant is needed. And Molledoy's coverage is perfection.
But you kicked on 19 frags off of that 3k sequence from Jungle, holds off window and takes Furious 12.
That's just pure impact and that was not an easy round to synthesize and it was also not an easy situation for Jame.
Nearly getting both kills on that hold.
He could sense the danger looming, couldn't really see it from any of his teammates' perspectives.
But that was so hard to call for Furia. They got a lot of map control. They really wanted it to be an A-play.
But they recognized the fact that they controlled all the rotations and used it against ParaVision.
Cielo's not getting away with anything this round.
Two SMGs and the four players that remain for ParaVision.
This T-side from Furia has taken over the series.
And it's a Kingdom who's really left his mark on the game.
Him and Molledoy, top of the charts for Furia.
Not wanting to waste this opportunity to squander the 2-1 game, but rather qualify for the BT Arena off this round here and now, off this 5v4.
Zwei is currently ill-equipped. Last piece of utility goes down. That smoke dropped at a minute 15.
As Furia are not being tested elsewhere on the map, and yet Paravision still start to get ahead of this hit.
How do they even know here it's a feeling? It's a full stack a is completely open
We do have belts not going back to ticket, okay, no, they're actually doubting themselves entirely
As confident as that stack was for a second comes the slight fake and now it's about timing her period
They go quickly they have totally won this off the call
Paravision are gonna be thinking that they got ahead of it when in reality the first idea was the golden call caught on the
Climubs Jame. This is gonna cut off Fallen. It's preoccupies two players one per team
It's also got the apartments player in Molledoy considering his offense. Belchinov tries to push through A. Fallen from inside his own spawn
Offers up the couple of kills that truly put this one back into Furious favor
And so a bit of sloppiness creeps through back on inferno
But this retake forcing forward is swayed through the marketplace and no touch us cannot get his game going
Here on this decider, Matt the MP7 swam
Curia step up to the test surpassing paravision and qualifying for playoffs
And you can see a big sigh of relief for Curia having done it
Yeah, I mean, the very important game, great game for Curia, I mean it's a long series, staying focused at great transferable CT and T side, you know, and we talked about the kinder, he had a great map here, and I'm curious how this handshake will go considering some of the drama we had over at Bounty, I think you could tell how much he wanted to secure this win.
Yeah, that's a bike, forgot about that.
Apparently it's been smoothed over.
Apparently?
I mean, we'll see.
We don't have real big fans at the moment, I feel like, in CS.
We should just react.
Yeah.
We need to react to this one.
Yeah.
I'm waiting.
Let's go.
I need you to react a little harder, Rich.
Yeah, okay.
Oh, he's making sure.
That's good.
If he doesn't miss him.
Oh, there it was.
All there it was.
I was hoping for like a no-tail TI moment all the time, which is like the Death Stare,
but it didn't quite happen.
All mates, of course.
All still mates, you know.
Well, it's good to see.
Big win for Furia, you know, getting the revenge for the bounty game, but also parry using a
team on the rise, right?
And I think also two more reasons.
This way you avoid Falcons and Vitality, at least in the final.
And more so, man, that 2-2 bracket tomorrow, that's going to be a slaughterhouse.
I mean, there's a lot of good teams over there, like we're going to have some bangers tomorrow.
It's going to be tough to get out, you know, of that bracket and to make it into the playoffs.
Good on Fury I had to get it done earlier.
Why I used the word released because it's not so much about, you know, Fury probably could go to that too too.
It still feel relatively confident.
It's just in a series like this it is so grueling.
The way Paravision play Counter-Strike, it's so attritional, so maximizing, it takes a lot out of you.
I figured out the way you need to think about it though, right?
You don't probably go up against Vitality and then Zybel distracts you on it, like this is the Zybel round.
This is the dog round.
like you need to go against para vision have the same mentality. Like this is the jayma in terms of
Right, and you were just wrong and like it's gonna happen and and I think if you look at it that way
Playing against them. I think you'll deal with it much better
I mean even the way that a bit para vision in the final round there
They went on a feeling there just a hunch that it was going to be an a hit
hook line in sinker fallen gets a couple kills in t spawn practically
And Furia walk into a completely empty bomb site as soon as they got that bomb planted they knew the game was over
I don't know production. Can we switch it up to you kind of is that possible mr. Production?
There it is I want to talk about this cat right it's not that I know Molladoy had the best rate and etc
And blah blah blah that's pretty good a dr
Yeah, you said before we went into it like the on this map they live and die by your kinder now
No, no on this or another map
Well, they definitely lived in that, but you can now understand.
No, he definitely did great here, right? They're not necessarily like reliant on him,
a ton to always be, the guy who's gonna go for fights, sometimes it works out that way,
like he did on this map, but yeah, he obviously had a really, really good map here
to see some of the more aggressive fights that he was taking,
and this seemed to be the approach from Furia, right, to try and disrupt the vision,
I'm getting to too many of late rounds, uh, five refines.
I mean, he did just such a great job of being a discrepancy.
I don't think he, in the last game that ParaVision played against Fiora,
oftentimes a point of concern.
If they weren't hitting B and taking down fallen, it was the con splits.
It was the A splits.
And when yet Kandar is putting up a performance like this, especially on the
defense, not as many options nearly, that being said, ParaVision still actually
had a pretty good first half.
was just to me in the second half, I think that there was good calling and also sometimes
the individuals from ParaVision got a little excited there, which again, I think a little
bit of that inexperience and the, I guess the moments of transition, they get a little
hot headed.
Alright, we'll come back and wrap it up in a minute, but for now, if you're here through
to the playoffs, you can take that to the banks.
That we will indeed, thank you very much, Richard, and we are live on PGL and we will
be on KSVRO's vlog at the same time so we're doing a double different in here. KSVRO tell
me, against Paravision, what energy does it take, how hard are these games because it's
long, it's drawn out, there's a lot of guessing as well.
Yeah, this game is always bro like this against Jame, I think they play really like unique
style so it's hard to counter them and also they play, they hit hard so it's kind of hard
but I think we lost some situations that we went for stacks and on this mix but I think
I think it was a misunderstanding between us, some rounds, but I think they gave me a lost plate.
It was not easy, it was not easy. It was the hardest playoff matches we ever played against Falcos in the last game
because we went through OT, like 13-11, all this shit, so it was hard, sorry.
In terms of it being hard, does it also force you to make more mistakes than what you normally would make?
you guys like on Inferno you're aiming to go B then you run back and you try and do a last minute
plant sometimes working out sometimes you're running into stacks like how are you guys trying
to work this out in the team who's saying to do what what happens in these situations can you explain
yeah it's kind of crazy bro it's it's based on feeling because depends how they play they they
like to fake it so so they like to think that uh one guy they're blocking like the B that they're
stacking, the side there is stacking so we never know. It's hard to play against them, it's really hard to play.
But then I noticed on Mirage, you were trying to play their game against them, was that kind of what you wanted to do, fake them out a bit?
Yeah, it was kind of like this because we know they like to stack and we got some first kills so it helps a lot to do the call.
You know, so we fix some spiritual things that we are missing in our game, so I think that, yeah, it works.
Now you've made it through the playoffs, which is huge again, right, especially off the back of Cracko, how well you guys are playing now.
How good does it feel to be Paravision? How much confidence do you think that just gives you now to go into playoffs and try and do well here in Clusenapoca?
Yeah, we'll see. I think we'll see. I'm not speaking like to not bring some Jojo, but let's focus up and fix our mistakes and do our best in the playoffs.
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I'm sure it's awesome.
And you heard there, like this is what I'm talking about.
I think that was a real tough test for Furia, because, you know,
Jame teams, they're just hard to play against.
They just do fundamentally make you have to play in a different way.
And I thought it was really cool of him to address that.
I think you start doubting everything.
That's the problem, right?
Because with these stacks, sometimes, you know, from the outside,
Maybe they don't make too much sense.
But if you think about it from the aspect of, well, now if you have to take that into account,
when you go up against them, it makes it way more difficult or really to call the game,
right? Because things step by step that usually makes sense might not against them.
And just throwing that thought into your opponent's head might be enough to throw them off their game.
You know?
Yeah, if some of the veteran like fallen, of course.
I mean, some of the protocols that even Yekendar used to run when he was with VP back
of the day just felt completely off meta. I mean, if they got two picks, they would
just send one guy to each bomb site to walk in because they were so used to playing against
Eastern European teams also like Gambit and VP both did this back in the day where they
were just, they were just always three man stacked. They would never play like a two
one setup. They would never even push. They would just say, if you make the wrong choice
of going all in on our bomb site, well, at least all of our defenders in the right spot.
So you kind of just have to call a little bit differently than you normally would.
So congrats to fury they overcome a tough test. Why don't we take look so many other results that have the day and what it does to this?
Swiss bracket so you see we're getting at the tail end of it now guys. We have more teams eliminated today
I guess we should talk a little bit about that phase is the big one
They're gonna be adding a new start to the jersey because of their success certainly not encounter
Obviously the the rainbow six game
team, or championship is barely
flawless for the face CS fans.
This was an incredibly disappointing
tournament for them losing.
I'd say if you look at all of these on paper,
you can give them a pass for losing to Falcons,
maybe even a pair of vision.
But once you're losing to an Astralis team that's just
finding its footing with a new roster,
when do we pull the plug on a team that just seems to be
on its last life?
Astralis is not a bad team.
They're a little bit on the rise themselves.
But still, if your phase, you want to do better,
you need to do better at this point.
This roster has been together for six months now.
They have formed like yesterday,
and they need time to get up to speed.
The core of that team has been together for years now,
especially with the previous familiarity
that Twists has with Kerrigan and Brokey.
So the loss is in itself,
but you look at the manner in which they lost.
P-Vision, they had that lead that they throw away.
Can't win a map.
Even against the Strelts, it was pretty one-sided today.
And look at the teams that are also eliminated alongside it.
I mean, it's all teams that you would expect to be eliminated.
And then they are also in that group.
So very disappointing.
And unfortunately, it feels like there's major changes
incoming for FaZe Clan, or that they are at least necessary
in order for them to have different results at these tournaments.
Just to wrap that up, I feel like the mistake we make
when we talk about FaZe is we treat them
like they're a normal CS team.
They're not really.
They are essentially Carrigan's pet project
that he is allowed to do under the auspices of FaZe.
And it can go away at any time, but let's be clear,
as big an August FaZe are,
they've made it clear by their actions,
they're not gonna necessarily invest into this CS team.
Then they're not gonna go out
and spend a million dollars to bring a player in, right?
They sold the Hollywood Hills home.
They don't have that.
I mean, the phase team also had the separation as an e-sports division from the entire clan,
dare I say.
I mean, they're not really, I don't think they're even funded by the same things anymore.
No, they've made it clear they're very separate.
So I don't even know how they can fix the problems they've got, because people might
say, well, you know, you cut Brokie or you cut Jacob, but then who do I bring in?
I would have to be a free transfer or a loan deal or something like that.
You'd have to find somebody somewhere, right?
You're talking about phase clan here, right?
Like you can't be just thinking about free free transfers and and things like that you probably have to do a little bit of a better job
It's counting talent and seeing who you bring
I mean comparing Jacob to a lot of these other young players who have been picked up by different organizations or that are
You know as a group in different teams
I think you can see that there's a lot left to be desired in that pickup
Why don't we take a look at what we've got coming up tomorrow? Remember? There's just gonna be one screen
Tomorrow, I'm so sad because PGL obviously usually has to we will have to watch these games because these are the last ones
That we've got going in the two twos. Oh, this is diabolical
then I mean, okay, we'll work our way backwards
Navi versus G2
very
Unimpressed with what I saw that's tough to call Navi today G2 haven't looked great either
Pretty brutal
I see Navi with team I write who really wants to play in front of the home crowd
G2 who was in the O2 bracket after losing to vitality and then he vision right for able to bounce back and
Both of these teams like this is a hugely important game for them. Oh sure
Most of them now we missed playoffs in Krakow G2 just made them, but they need to keep building on that
Right foot P version two teams that are the most on the ride. It feels like I know
I don't know why they have to get each of them. I know. I know. Some of these stories just feel like they're they're too similar. There's too much symmetry in some of these matchups here. On the other hand, though, Aurora Stroll is at least you got one team that seems to be struggling to recapture the form that they had from last year.
Whereas a Strolls are actually the team that's on the rise now, the one that seems more promising in the long run. Talk about the clash of styles in that second game with foot and P vision, right? Right.
aggressive, you know fast-paced foot
Against the slow suffocating style of James. That's gonna be an interesting. Yeah, any battle thoughts?
Just a phase need to make a move
But it's up to them to find out who it is right. We'll save it for one of the many podcasts
We're all off to record now with that said thanks so much for joining us. Make sure you tune in tomorrow
It's judgment day. We're gonna find out which teams go to the playoffs and which ones go home. We'll see you then
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