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Good morning, please!
Great on down.
Now Jinnok does very well.
No, not the Vartanar!
Sway has an AK-47, reveals his presence with the grenades.
Flash to deal with, times it,
Sway put over, opens the site,
Testus straight to the risk,
Sway threw it, Sway's there to deny!
Loud about this, Game on crouches, he knows where you are.
Monosies works it out, can I have to throw the smokebox at a bomb?
Got a 10 seconder.
Surely he's a 10 man, surely this paramission has been all Sway!
And he secured it!
Yellow, hiding on the back of Scythe.
Yes they are. Baxter turn. He's the multi. Does he provide?
Combination is wet. It's all come down to Tess S.
Away back in from Power of Vision.
And he's just been flagged up by the USP.
Where the f**king people are? What the team should be? F**k sake!
And the Nights gonna blindside Mataze.
They wrap that down to the base of the ramp.
He has in the middle of it all.
A lot to be desired on some of these moments
is gonna tap that bomb and try to flush with him
to close down with nothing.
And so Maus's rebuttal comes through with tech Nights.
It's all in on Raph now for Maus.
And Boulton's gonna make it happen with the Goal.
At least a little more skills to fight for.
He will connect the double.
But 2 vs 5, 2 kills into it, make it a third.
No!
Mouses are in the middle of a robbery!
They will identify Kage's problem.
This moment tense!
They're going to hold this!
Mouses are going to have to come running out!
They can't do anything!
They need to run it down!
And they know!
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South on car control as well. They're gonna run at this on a he was extending outwards
He's got the gun advantage over Brolin, but we'll see if he really presses the issue in
Rolling tucked into the corner wonderful catches a kill. It's gonna work. Yeah
Effectively slicing through them one after another
I mean how do they get away with it? Or do they?
Roland still at 27 health.
Walking it out of Lexi, 76 health. Oh, but the head shot.
He doesn't think he's here. Oh my god. No idea.
Whoa, but he whips. Oh, and the jump right next to it.
Roland, it's heartbreak.
He's so crazy!
There's a chance that Mr. Gould hit.
Just in time, as he threw me.
He's not good, he's not very well.
What is really exciting?
There's no way he's ready for this position.
What is that from Ross?
That was the flash.
Must do it without now.
Oh, team shell from MacGardian.
Easy pick-ins, Lekaria 5-0!
Zai Wu, with the potential clutch close,
and Lekaria's looking the wrong way!
It's match up Varsity Zai Wu!
This is a mismatch.
Matcha has 30 points of health.
Zairu's not looking though.
Hey, come on down and across!
Two blows!
He's your jury's answerable.
Tagged by the wall, that's Nitek.
More!
He comes through with the tag as well, and Nitek puts the front runner's waist.
Easy pickups, come on!
Beautiful spray.
You're in back side.
Full-fault back rota-faults are hurting.
Sweet fly-on, ace-rotter supported.
Oh!
Oh, he's got him stuck into the platform. 2v5 demanded of him.
That was a ton of damage in an instant for the last two remaining Mungus players.
They thought the outwards push that they had hoped for,
but they also made a flashback left, right, and center.
Hold on. This one's not done yet.
Careful.
And Kino 2 kills into it.
Oh, it's not even a fake though. They're coming here.
And that's a great presence from 9-10.
He goes right back onto the bomb plant.
We'll get that bit of money.
But what work did he make of this?
Gives himself the flash to play with.
He's hitting the shoulder, hits the shot,
and now the smurfs are used as coverage.
Battle of the offers, but 9-10 brings out the sidearm.
Falling wins!
And now that off!
Oh my god!
I'm sensing this pressure, but the arc on the deep bang
is gonna break, we'll support it, and there it is!
The Earth's triples includes the polka!
Greetings, Counter-Strike fans and welcome back to PGL Collusion of Poker, the first
stop on PGL's global tour for 2020.
Thanks for the noise, we're all super delighted to be back here and obviously super delighted
to be in an arena where favorites seem to fall.
I'm your host Richard Lewis and joining me on the desk today.
Two of the finest minds in all of Counter-Strike.
Do you think it's fair to say a bunch of coaching experience bunch of playing experience and now you're here to break this down for us?
It is Maui snake. It is yanko. Welcome gentlemen excited for the semi-finals. Yeah, absolutely
We had a couple of games yesterday that went
The surprising way and a couple of pretty straightforward series
So I don't think anyone's surprised to see mouse and vitality play in the semi-finals, but for television and the Mongols
right they managed to take down two big names in Falcons and Furia.
And how can you not love a quarter final Friday brought to you by PGL where it's just four or four series of eight of the best teams in CS, back to back to back to back.
I mean, we don't get many quality marathons like that very often anymore.
And so to see some of these games go the distance to see new heroes arise to see some of the favorites fall.
It continues to bring so much excitement to a clues arena that truly has shown up and they did it at 9 a.m. Yesterday
At 10 a.m. Yesterday like like so you guys I'm glad that they have nothing better to do
Yeah, I'm gonna say this these are the real ones in here today. There was a lot of favorite support this yesterday
There was some booing there was some cheering but today I know that without the favorites if you turn up today
today, you are a real fan of great Counter-Strike, so we are super excited to see all of you
here today, Brighton Early. So, let's talk about it. Let's talk about what we've got coming
out today. We already said some of the finals, the quarter finals rather, a bit of a surprise.
Here we go. These are the semi-finals. Nobody expected this. Sure, Vitality are there,
but then the other teams, you're like, what's going on? Paravision vs. Malz to start us out.
Vitality versus Mongols, remember, Mongols are meant to be done in Dusted,
we're meant to not be talking about those guys,
whose cover is era, turns out just the perfect replacement for Sansu.
So I've been loving this, this is great,
and obviously we'll take a little bit of time now
and just talk about the game we're not going to be covering.
Vitality on their Imperius March, can anybody stop them guys?
I was surprised that the Mongols were able to take the win against Furia.
I don't know if I'm going to continue to be surprised at the end of today.
I do feel like Vitality are the clean favorites in that second matchup, that second building.
So for me, all I'm trying to take away from it is can CobraZera keep up that kind of form
versus a Vitality team that seems to be indomitable?
Yeah, especially how it went the last time they met in those quarterfinals over at Budapest,
but almost did beat them last season, you know, so it wouldn't be the first time that it happens,
but it does feel like, especially looking at some of the results from yesterday,
vitality, and then also Maus, they don't fumble, you know, against lower tier opposition,
they don't get upset very often, if at all, and it's going to be difficult seeing anyone else in that grand final.
Well, let's start setting the stage for the semi-final. We're preoccupied with, it is of course ParaVision vs. Maus.
I want to start by talking about ParaVision, I love talking about ParaVision, they're one of my favorite teams.
If not my favorite team currently another crowd might disagree. I don't care. I love these guys
I think what they've done in the past year going from 84th in the world
To winning trophies to being in semi-finals in big stages in front of hostile crowds
I don't know if I've seen that certainly not in CS2
I might not have seen it throughout the entirety of my count strike history
20 years deep so I am loving what they're achieving right now
It is truly impressive the way that Jayme has been able to rally these players around him to find a diamond in the rough in Cielo, the addition once he got there, and also to find the upgrade in Zwei.
I feel like that also, in terms of the story, I'm am continuing what they did at Budapest and how impressive they were in stages one and two, but to me, Zwei's just a shot in the arm.
He's brought in some veteran Savvy off of his season when he was playing with Spirit, and now he looks like he is so much sharper for it.
I feel like what he has done is he always had the force when he was on spirit, but it was in doses.
Now he's combined it with a bit more finesse, so now he can play back.
He understands how Jame wants to call. I feel like the system in general is a lot smoother.
And the guys around him too, I mean a lot of them are rookies to this kind of stage.
A couple of them only played their very first arena game yesterday, but they look well composed beyond their years.
I think it's also a matter of pressure and expectations.
It's much easier to be on parry vision than it is on team spirit, right?
every tournament that you go to obviously with Donk and Shiro on that roster, you're expected to
live the trophy, all the spotlight is on you, every little mistake that you made is going to be
analyzed to death and talked about in the CIS scene. And here in Paravision you join the team of
Upset, this is three rookies, you know when it comes to tier one counter strike and Jayman,
when you talk about Paravision I think it really has to be talked about what Jayman Dustin managed
to do, right? Look at what happened to Virtus Pro after they left, I mean it's a train wreck,
of a team for the last two years and I think in general in even in tier one
Counter-Strike we do not do a good enough job of developing talent and
developing players and coaching young players and and sort of teaching them and
and bringing them up right and I think Jame and Dustin do an incredibly good job
at that because it first happened with you know fame back in Virtus.pro obviously
Flit to some extent some of those guys now you have Xiello Nota Belchanoch right
in this Paravision roster. I mean, they're top three team in the world in VRS now. They took
Falcons down two times. They beat Spirit at Bounty. You know, they're taking some of the best teams
in the world and in big games, in playoffs, which is not something you would expect a team with
these names to be able to do. And this is why I think it's an interesting match at Yanko,
because ultimately, where Paravision are today, I kind of feel that's where Maus were like a few
years ago. They just come through the academy system, they were really fighting for their identity,
you know, crowds, audiences, fans, they were behind them because they were the plucky upstarts,
making names for themselves, and they caught a lot of people off guard. The interesting part now is
what Mao's don't seem to be able to cope with is the expectations of you've passed through that
system, now is your time to win trophies, and what we saw yesterday from, you know, people like
Torgy and the rest of the team coming into that hostile environment and saying we don't care,
cheer for who you want. We're ready in 2026 to realize what we can be. That's the interesting
mouse. That's the mouse I want to see for the rest of the tournament and the rest of the year.
I mean the problem isn't even that they have stage fright or anything like that. They have
vitality fright. That's it. They just turn back into a pumpkin, you know, when they go up against
Vitality and that's it and unfortunately a couple of times last season where Vitality was eliminated by someone else
or the one time Maus got rid of them in Cologne, you know, they would crumble at the next hurdle.
They wouldn't make the game competitive even and there were so many other teams in the meantime
that either managed to beat Vitality and managed to lift the trophy.
So then you're left standing there with Maus. It's like, okay, are you guys ever going to be able to do it?
On top of that, you added the rumors that other players have been also public about in their interviews,
that there were supposed to be changes in Maus, right, and it just didn't transpire in the end,
that they stuck together with the same team. That's not going to make you stronger as a team.
That's not going to improve your bond. If anything, that's going to weaken it,
and you're going to be even more susceptible to crumbling in some of these games.
I would say, though, that even though Maus obviously don't have all of the accolades,
They still play incredibly sharp counter strike. It's no mistake or no accident that they're getting into so as many
Semifinals as they do what missing two since they brought spings into the lineup
So the consistency is definitely on their side and it's just it's just incredibly refined counter strike
And it's just unfortunately the least gripping part of mouths is that they're just a bunch of guys
They're just a bunch of guys in their young 20s who are figuring themselves out as people who are
are un-retweeting maybe somewhat sketchy tweets
that they put out into the world.
They're the ones that are a little bit.
They're not sketchy about that.
He's a monocult.
How dare you?
They're the ones that in some ways,
they're gaining confidence as people,
and hopefully that transitions eventually
into being confident in their play style,
in trusting themselves.
Not trusting, I would say, the plan to too much of a tee,
because that's still my biggest complaint with Mao's
and some of their individuals, that it
feels like they're following the strat
and hoping that's going to carry them,
as opposed to exercising any sort of free will or volition in the middle of a round on their own.
Alright guys, a pin in the discussion. We're going to the stage for the player walkouts right now.
Clueeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Oh, we're back and we are ready to rock and roll!
Now yesterday, it was some fun. Your favorites may have fallen, but now great games continue.
So let me just ask you.
Are you ready?
Now our first game, it sees para vision that have proven themselves that they can fight with some of the best teams in the world.
Some young players led by a veteran looking to make his mark on Counter-Strike once again.
James finds himself back at the top of a league Counter-Strike.
We've already won trophy to his name this year, he wants to try and do it again.
again. So please welcome to the stage, Power and Vision!
and their opponent
is a team that consistently play to the highest level but the trophy does allude
them they are the previous champions of the Cluj-Napoca event that happened
last year and they know that they need to come in with a different energy and a
different belief in themselves in order to do it again because the very elite
teams are here so please welcome to the stage
Mouse!
stage and it's time for them to get themselves prepared and get ready. Guys
you can take your seats, get yourselves ready for the game. Go get
ready. Get your girls down, no problem. We're waiting for the coaches this time,
not the players with this one. Guys, you didn't like both of these teams last time
but now we seem a bit more split, we seem a little bit more even with it. Hello
Welcome, Dastan as well. Now Dastan, for you, your young team, these players, three of them, never played on a stage before.
Tell me what you saw, what you felt from them, were you impressed with how they were able to handle the situation?
Yesterday that win was unbelievable. The superstars, also they are from the same country, and I hope today we will continue to play good years.
Yes, Ajax.
You're always very well measured with how you talk about your team,
talk about your players.
Me and you talk in the past about improvements that this team is making.
So tell me, how much are they improving each game?
Like, how far have they come in such a short amount of time?
I don't know, I think we have a lot of mistakes,
but game by game, they become less.
And we don't care, we can have 10 mistakes per game and still winning.
And that's our little secret, I don't know.
It's a little secret that's working out for you.
Now, lastly, I want to ask, you faced against Malz in the group stage.
It's a tough team to go up against.
You said in a HLTV interview, you don't think these teams respect you.
So are you going to not respect them in the server this time around and get that win, make it to the grand final?
We are underdogs, we don't care, we will play 100%.
Nice.
Cyclo, but you guys right now, there's fond memories from Cluj,
but crowd has kind of turned on the opposite side with all of this.
I want to ask from the coach's perspective,
are you guys handling this event and yourselves
with a different mentality this time around
from the mouths we saw in the past?
I think you could tell from yesterday that some of the players
maybe a bit fed up with it. I think for me we still try and make a focus on the quality
counter strike. That's what we're about, we try and play Mausky in there, you go out there
and we try and put an exciting brand of counter strike and yeah you can love us, I hate us,
but you're still going to watch us. They are going to watch you and they're going to watch you see
the producers group damaging the server at the same time, Deci's over there clapping for you at the same time
as well, but I want to ask you this, when you're preparing for a team like Paravision, how do you
How difficult is it comparing to other teams?
I mean, we got to respect them like we do all other teams.
I think one clear difference in that team is that the game controls it quite well.
And you can see the style they had from way back then still stays.
They developed it a bit, of course, quite a bit.
I mean, we played them once earlier, right?
So now it's about thinking what conclusions will they draw and how can we stay a step ahead?
ahead. And how will you stay a step ahead? How will you find yourself in that
grand final mate? You will find out on the server. We will and I look forward to it.
Guys shake hands, go and join your teams. Respect is shown between both coaches in
here. Now clues, I need to try and work some of this out. It seems a little bit
more split inside this building today. So where are we going with it? I saw a
a mouse flag over there somewhere hold that up again you got it one of the
mouse guys there is you're a brave man but I respect it all right which way we
going guys but we got some paravision fans
And what about mouse?
There may still be boos, but I see the mouse flags, the mouse jerseys, so it's not all
one-sided.
Well, if you're going to be this loud, guys, I need all of you to make some noise.
Give it to me now!
It makes them nice!
I'll tell you what guys, no matter what happens now,
Mouses have already achieved what I thought was unachievable.
They've made ParaVision home favourite. They've done it.
Finally, it's incredible.
Now I'm loving this, I'm loving this atmosphere and I'm telling you guys,
I love the fact that the fans are behind ParaVision.
And I just adore this team and everything they're achieving, you know, with the one of the youngest teams
If not the youngest still in the tournament and what we've got now, of course is a very difficult veto ahead of us
Yeah, but one thing for us. I mean just regarding just the jame v. Yim pad
I mean you got one guy in Yim pad who blames his assistant coach for retweeting some some gooner activity
James owns it. James owns it and it's relatable. People like it. Yes, if you're gonna be a Guna owning.
100% Richard. And as per, as you mentioned the veto, right, I think it's just about the second
phase of the veto that I think will be a little bit different. That's where it will get interesting,
I think. Bands won't change, picks won't change. I think we'll see Paris and Gaube with us too. We'll
see Mouse, Gaube and Inferno. I think after that, Mouse will switch it up, right? Like last time,
it was overpass as the decider and mouse were able to win it.
Invincingly.
Yeah, I think in this one mouse, we told Mirage last time in the second phase,
I think they will get rid of ancient and that way leave it to Parivision to choose
between overpass and Mirage as the decider. I don't know what they'll do, I
think they would prefer overpass but they lost it to mouse. So I think that's
where it gets a little bit interesting up until that point. Yeah, I mean both teams
had pretty convincing wins on their respective map picks, so no really reason to change there,
and here's where I wonder what the approach will be. Okay, actually, ParaVision go with the
Ancient Vita again, or no, sorry, it's Maus that brought, bring that one out, so you're totally
spot on there, Yanco, they don't want to see that one again, and ParaVision, they don't want the
Nightmare run back, they don't want to actually have to face them on Overpass again where they
got nothing done, Mirage on the other hand, being the decider here, I would say even though at the
at the beginning of the tournament,
Mows were avoiding this one.
It was their second phase ban.
They'd now beat Navi twice in a row on it.
That's one of the world-class teams on Mirage.
Even if Navi's form has fallen,
they were convincing wins in the direction of Mows.
Yeah, no need that.
I think Paribas should have lost it now
quite a few times in a row.
What would be on like four, five, something like that?
Yeah, something like that, definitely.
And you know, after they've been against Falcons
yesterday on Ancient, their confidence
is probably going to be up on that map.
But just in general, these are two teams
that are very similar to each other, right?
These are two teams that have a really high floor, that don't make too many glaring mistakes,
they don't give you rounds, they're both very frugal with their economy, right?
Like there's going to be a lot of saving. This is going to be a war of attrition,
this is going to be a trench warfare. We're going to be here for a while,
because Paribasian, every single series they've played here has been the three mapper.
I was going to say, I hope the fans have already been and got their beers,
because this is going to be thirsty work, nothing short about a Paribasian game.
So, let's start setting up this first map, guys.
I mean, obviously, we've seen Paravision play this quite a bit.
We've seen Paravision go to overtime on this quite a bit.
So, how do we rate it?
Well, the thing of that's so exciting about watching Paravision play
is that it really does feel like four zealots as Jame is controlling them,
that he is really laying the law down.
This is around from the previous time these two teams matched up off against each other,
and it's going to kick off with an opening pick in the side of Paravision.
Now that they have this sort of 5v4 advantage,
I mean, they just get to toy with Maus, but what you'll notice is that they make a split second read based off of how Jane reads utility.
They throw a little bit of a mid to b fake themselves.
They're going to prod outside through the double doors for a little bit here, make their way back up the catwalk.
And you can see that paravision right now, they're probably between a couple decisions.
They have a couple guys outside long.
This is generally going to set up for some kind of a split.
But in just a moment right here, this smoke that is thrown all the way from A, Jane immediately reads that.
He takes his gun back out, drops the bomb, and just says we're going through this.
You know, this could have been an A split, but as soon as he sees that it's a smoke flying all the way over from A,
he just makes that instant mid-round decision to just hightail it to B to an empty bomb site.
So that's what you get when you get ParaVision.
You get a team that is willing to live and die by the instant reads that Jay makes.
They're absolutely, and maybe something Miles can use to bait them this time around.
But the problem for Miles was their T side, right?
Like they couldn't have been a single round on the T side.
They open with trying to do the B-split first two gun rounds, get shot down, then it's easy for them to read and going A.
So this is where they need to make some adjustments.
Alright then guys, it's time for the game.
Maus might be in the building, but there is nothing meek or mild about our two commentators for this one.
Please make some noise for Sponge and Machine!
I am really excited about this clash today.
Semi-final Saturday and I mean the desk has set the scene chat.
this is an exciting clash defending champs versus this meteoric rise that is para vision. One of them is going to be in that
ground final tomorrow. And it's a rematch right. The only difference this time round is the setting and the stakes.
Right. Did have any issues yesterday, para vision, especially with the rookies. And mouse, we know that was the conversation once upon a time, but not anymore.
They eat teams like this for breakfast. That's what I'm starting to feel. I feel like mouse do come into this one as the favorite. However, as we've seen in the arena,
I look at the polls online. It seems the majority are siding with para vision. Is that right, Cluj?
Para vision?
I mean, Richard's right. That is unusual. Para vision actually have a crowd advantage coming into this one.
The mouse criticisms, the mouse crowd. Hard to win over. Hard to win over, but this is a process.
Let's see what happens across the course of these maps. I think as a fan, you've got to cheer for good CS,
and mouse certainly play a lot of that.
Yeah, just pointing that out. We're gonna get an awful lot of that here and a long series, right?
It's been three maps every single time for ParaVision, and I think that's gonna happen again with the way the video has gone down.
Let's get this party start, Cluj! Let's get these semi-finals going!
That's two home turf for ParaVision.
Now it's deciding to start on the defense CT side for them.
The conditioning early from Paravision with these B-Pops looking to do the same against
Maus. Fast rotation available from Toji and exertion playing forward, a little short
and middle. Spinks to assist Jimmy and he's back a plant. And there's a molly for this.
Belchinock lines up the Util. It's going to have to be Jimmy's first test already.
Bell Rahn working with low HP does did back in for the opening headshot now burnt to a crisp
Nothing nothing from spring. So there's a man on the scene
There was a man on the scene switched about past tense by the Glock of Ziello
Ball and exertion are here could play disruptive for the bombers allowed to go down
Now, there goes the smoke from Brawland.
No one occupies the tunnels.
Are they just going to go for a cheeky boost?
Is there anything visible?
Kalchenog spotted it.
Info for Ziello.
He adjusts.
Walking on in.
They'll give it their best shot of things,
but they're a strain from Power of Vision.
Look how perfectly they play the close.
Yeah, beautiful stuff. There was a U2 prepared for that, a HE and a flash for Skings to assist Jimmy,
and he does well for back-a-plat, the young Fin.
To get one, but the Flames...
They work, and that'll be a pistol round.
And if you've been paying attention to Paravision and their run throughout Cluj,
they've been the second at lowest rated team as far as pistols are concerned, 30%.
We saw the win-zero in our last series.
But if you reflect on the head-to-head against Maus, it was three-to-three.
So, this is a little bit more part of the course, at least in the head-to-head matchup.
This will be the four-spy for Maus.
He can lower early in for Torgy.
Played off a cat and they're trundling up. There'll be a bit here.
Looks like Torgy is trying to play for that early pick-off, of course, with the support for the lower.
Tags on to Ziella.
Denzier, she will profit.
Solid work. SMG converts where the scouts started.
The trade from Belginock denied. He's got two.
Impactable output and he's been baited in.
Brolin, trooping to the overlook to Spinks, just snaps into the fight.
A double kill, swinging out the short side with the 5-7,
and Miles have immediately rectified their shortcomings in the pistol.
Okay, Zwei, well, you've had some good moments in the MP7,
but the 1v4 is likely asking a bit too much.
Sminer's fallen flat immediately, and Torgie is the man tasked with locking this down.
There's a cross, short, but they know exactly where he is.
I'm able to now re-jig the defence to deal with this.
The fact that they've been able to scavenge these rifles into their hands, this one is all over in a moment's time.
I mean, this is a whole lot better than the pistol, isn't it?
You get three AK-47s, four of you alive.
What's the best outcome here for Sway?
Well, if he could do some damage, that'd be great, but hopefully he's not trying to save this.
He's not trying to save this we'll find out and it's starting to tick on down. It's starting to look like yeah
He might yeah, okay. Well, there you go. I'm thinking the really yeah, James thought process something's better than nothing
Mm-hmm, so they will like get the 1400 loss bonus going into the next he's gonna retain the
And I'm running the MP7 not the most glamorous and neither have the stat lines for
Paravision throughout as mentioned second-west pistol rate around 30% as way as their highest rate of play up these 30th in the tournament
the
Team doesn't stand out in any major stack category
Other than having the most maps played and despite all that they're here in the semi-finals
So this is a team that if they can take you into deep waters, that's where they do their best work when we have the
Push pull of the economy late in the game with the 10-10s
But a bunch of overtime games as well in the last few
What a set up very wrong very quickly
The fact that the back is turned
They are not ready for mouse to bring that level of aggression out of the game
and this is the amount that Maus struggled on, was that perma-band in the last season.
Now that I know this is back, this is how they have to play again.
I understand that they're forced by back for paravision.
See much value out of this, just a couple of smokes with the upgrades in play.
I've got a lot of smoke.
I've got a lot of smoke.
Two smokes. Can just deploy these.
I think the crisscross or short.
I want towards A, I want mid to B.
Trying to cause a little bit of misdirection.
I'm searching CT spawn towards you,
playing over towards the ramp,
on an anchoring long.
That's highlighting, hey,
some lesson tells if that...
Smoking mid to B, at least a blocked mouse from that A side, just saw a jammed exploit that gap in the last match.
Right now with Sphinx and Jimmy on a bit of an island,
it's mid to B, looking good.
I still feel like this B defense from mouse is incredibly intimidating,
even if it is just the two of them.
Ooh, I never mind, a contribution from the scout tag.
Jimmy and Spinks are hard to get past.
Waze MP7 finds a little output.
Spinks to the back of the site, getting fresher applied.
He's done very well, but Jane will enable a plant.
With the trade.
Quick flash over, Jane loses vision temporarily.
Two bullets, it's just not enough.
Goes for it, risks it.
No reaction out of mouse, concerned about the tunnel's side.
Window spotted out, fires off a shot from the side arm.
Torgy equipping that tech nine, and they're just trying to push, synchronize, push.
A first headshot's clean.
Removes exertion.
Is there really grounds for the clutch out of James Hurley?
He's making it look threatening.
Torgy runs at him down.
It's a mouse round, as you can tell.
Yeah, yep. Torgy, yeah.
I think there were any extra fans yesterday, but I understand the sentiment of Sikron
They've just fed up with it. This is a team that plays good counter-shy.
Hell, you can even say great. They just lack that spark to be considered an elite team to lift the silver.
Living in Vitality's era.
Living in Vitality's shadow.
Well, you're constantly making the playoffs. You're a top four team.
It's been 202 days since they last made a grand final
and almost a year to the day since they lifted the trophy here in Cluj,
but getting to run off any of that hard work once upon a time.
Okay, now for the Paravision.
to be able to get to the
top of the game.
He's prepared himself for a lot
of slow roles that these aren't
going to be quick rounds.
Does seem clear that now just
want to fight on these mid
approaches.
He's done well.
Get run down repositions nicely
and into the meat grinder.
Passages on the menu.
Five alive from that.
That's key.
So a little bit extra cashier.
Do they want to get rid of this
MP9 on sphinx towards the drops
of the AK and they can bring out
the all they know for sure.
I was not to see a dance time tactical time and he loves to call them early just to ensure
everybody's on the same page.
Jam does bring the AWP but not the best spawn for this so it'll be a late boost.
To lower tunnels they've already slipped they need to worry about this.
Yeah, Spinks definitely wants to use his MP9 up close and personal.
little bait and swish and a back time. You weren't ready for that one. Important from
Zwei. Remove spings before things spiral. Now this boost is meant to tend to that, right?
But they were just so late assembling it because of the spawns. The fact that they've gone
one for one is a chance. Brolin, deep long, no tap. Doesn't give away the shadow. Brolin's
activation for a push. This could be one way. With the paravision pack rolls, if they're
not watching the extremities when they're grouped up, looking for these pumps and finishes,
pushing through long, it's always risky.
It could be the gap required to give them all the information.
Jimmy back to the site on the jump spot.
Utahlin hands a block, has a smoke to work with as well,
and that right there is a bait smoke.
Rollins ahead.
He is far away from B, so Jimmy needs to hold up the door
for a moment longer.
That's what his utility serves to do.
Now this is, yeah, Rollins activating.
Look at the perfect timing.
Jimmy blocks B, Rollin activates.
Now they have info.
You have to wait this out if you're ParaVision, and that should free up the potential rotation.
Brolin calling mid-clear. Exertion tucked in Goose.
Torgy needs to get over there and help Jimmy now.
He's going to be in the right place.
35 seconds for the finish. ParaVision's to your side. The gun's back out.
Looking like...
This one's stacked against him now.
Has to be brute force. The flash is in a swing from Jimmy.
Doesn't find what he's looking for.
Fresh magazine. Torgy primed and ready.
Just one Jimmy goes down to James. Oh, hang on.
Belchinox hit, Brawler in rotation.
It's just Torji. They know he's around here somewhere.
A double swing, multiple elevations,
and it's Jane providing the covering fire.
They had all the answers.
They knew where you are and what you were doing,
and still power vision breakthrough.
Yeah, this is the output of the individual's ride.
Maybe not household names, but these kids can shoot.
Sure, they're from the streets.
The James Katz and they are delivering.
All right, there. A tough one.
The flash is to lay them constantly jarring, not getting caught and mowed down.
Yeah, I mean this...
Band of young talents under the time Lord's Cutilage are thriving.
Right, not gonna use the AWP on the boost.
T'Augie about to take it and peek is not gonna really garner anything.
He does this smoke and they're looking for a long pop.
Brolin pushes through to blue bin.
They've called...
It's off for a moment, so doors are smoked.
It'll be a different plan. It's yellow.
Down middle.
No, a long cap. The break. Timing.
Always exposed!
Textbook from Torgie!
He's got his timings all ironed out. A second break.
Jane wanted to try and get info off of that and he's been spotted. Spinks.
Loads the presence in middle and a yellow block on short.
No progress for him. Potentially a catch here.
Oh, he has!
Not the boots off of Spinks.
But his heart still beats.
We've got them split in the 2-3. The standard hold right now.
you're able to at least close down the ground for the tech nine rounds so do you
want to try and get away with more of the same exertion goos problem to take
the contact and towards your lockdown long
help me to be quiet undetected one of the keys holding on to you till late very
important versus a team like paravision so a couple of smokes that only now need
to be precious. Wait, should we get some space here?
Don't forget, James softened up Spinks.
Gonna make it harder for him to find defensive output.
How close he is.
At times, the biggest problem right now in the rotation,
it's not moving. They're staying in this setup.
Yeah, they're not falling for the smoke and mirror.
Game of paravision play.
Torgie's patience rewarded.
You might have to save.
Especially if you know James.
Wait, removing Jimmy.
It's just Spinks on B to the bottom.
Time to get it.
Could it? Make it?
He's gonna try.
He is going to try.
Ten seconds of Spinks falls.
Countdown needs to read 4!
They've got it down!
This is why he got the name!
The Lord of Time does it again.
Power of Vision pull it off and they've got Zwayta Vank.
That is crazy that they're able to pull that off.
And the output from Zwayta on his MP7, absolutely wild.
You feel that there, Jess? Not working with the time, all the numbers.
Koji no goes down long for free.
No, there was the kill on the break.
Koji, he gets two kills in the round.
He's sitting at nine and two and that's not enough. They have timed that one to absolute perfection that we've got six rounds of play
They won the pistol lost the force yet to get an opening kill and we're all tied up
This is the stubborn nature of PowerVision's playstyle. They can break through. I mean
Yeah, round of applause for that one
It's like a pun to mine inclusion of Bocca.
Well fun if you got someone to cheer for it.
You've got to have someone to cheer against.
That's for the time out.
Get this one in before they run out of money.
Those saves are through.
We're able to get M4s for everybody who went down.
So good for the purchasers.
In the earliest stages, they're happy to push in the lower fight off shore.
up and under the orbs around a bit of a different tussle. A couple of longsforms for Ziello and Belchnock.
Does James want him to run to the default? So this is how it starts. A minute 35 on the block,
opening incision. Long walkout, 24 seconds dead, and then we're sub 20. Jimmy goes for a little bit
of a look. It's way too exciting. Spinks leg backside, and that's it. So really, I guess if
you're pointing fingers, you're blaming Jimmy for leaving the side, but you're not thinking anything's
happening at that moment. Especially when Belchnock's going long. Yeah, you make him the assumption
that it's maybe just going to be a classic James save.
Alright, well it is the default.
And Zelo, tear up through the lower tunnel.
Erdra out top.
Oh!
Okay, instantaneous trade.
Toward his orb noted.
And Belchinoff's going to get away from that.
Some heavy damage was inflicted from the HEV.
He sees the yellow and Zwei operating off HP.
Torchy wants to make a sweep on short. He's playing with some confidence today.
Look at this. Pitch on in. Notes has booked him.
Exertion needs to first flash by space. Striding into the A site.
Concerned about that late long arrival, you know someone from ParaVision is going to be lingering.
The CT's want to approach this. If you find Zelo, maybe you give it a go.
A head-to-head clash here. It's Zelo half health.
I should look in the wrong way. That's gotta be round.
Well, no one knows the bunny manager better than ParaVision.
So do they want to send a couple of hounds off the leash
here to try and hunt these two rifles away?
You know, this is the B defenders.
So they're immediately sprinting over towards T spawn,
but the bomb already halfway gone.
I think they might just be allowed to hold on to this.
So Lost Bonus reads 2,400.
School line reads 4-3 in favor of ParaVision.
It's their first opening kill as well.
So able to make good on that.
But again, what is the convention?
Doesn't seem to be the way that Maravision get the job done.
It's always nice to watch you have a team who really drill in
in terms of the fundamentals.
That's the base of this squad.
They pumped onto the screens late last year.
Make some solid counter strike at the major,
but to start 2026 with the upgrade of Zwei coming in for AW.
Already been in the grand final.
pick that up in bounty. You look at the results in Krakow, it's nothing to turn your nose up at.
Now, but I do agree that this way, pick up does feel like the missing piece.
Head to head again.
Oh, what a flick!
Axe the Scala, Torji opening kill once more.
Surround's consecutive now for J.M. on the AWP.
And this time, no immediate response.
They have that man advantage as the round plays on.
Rollin' a Famas.
Just a Famas in this off angle.
How's coaching off positioning?
Well done for Rollin!
Exceptional!
Beautiful little...
And what?
Great output in the middle of the open.
Just has to stand and bang.
Long pressure now being applied.
All three players from Maus over towards A.
You can see grouped up, looking for some short space.
The way out of this is going to be these yellow and apple tunnels.
They don't want to send him to have a little bit of a look.
He's curious to me, the Spinks has equipped that orb.
And this long fight.
Are you gonna be assuming that it's still on the corpse of Torgie?
Smoke break.
Whoa, never mind, it was actually a bit too deep, but it landed right in the pocket of Zwei.
He always made a noise here.
Yeah, and that's gonna be the end of him.
Exertion profits from the misstep.
Looking set to collect now.
Mao spots the flash of flesh, just the tip of the head of Zwei, but he's allowed to get across.
Look how quickly they're rerouting here.
I think James clocked it. He knows what's up. The fact that they're sticking together like this, but also with an AWP.
Ah, look at this position he's holding.
It's hard to envision a world where he gets more than one.
Oh, my God.
Takes it.
Oh my god.
Takes it.
Spaceship.
Locked to the Glopkric style.
Game.
Unbelievable scenes.
Inclusion of Pokka.
How often are you getting dust down out of his chair?
And where in the eight rounds deep?
Put it on a show.
The coach loved that one.
Stunning.
All right. The openers and the closeders catch this one again.
I've got the goosebumps, man.
Let's have just walk on a bike
Statement from Jane money broken now mouse
Not to fumble. Oh
He's had another one
Jimmy Stonics and all bullets to his kev
I've still got chills I look at comfy on home turf on a let's see I have a six this one
There should be a certainty there's a Hero M4 in the mix on Sphinx.
What else, just with a couple of upgraded pistols.
We're going to be seeing Axe Lost bonus going for the next set.
Or we'll be back in the server.
Yellow has an inquisitive glance toward the A site.
Goose Molotov will force a reaction.
Or not.
It's the incendiary.
He borrowed one from miles in the previous round and it has not spread as he hoped
It's tough to see a team like power vision drop the ball in a round like this
They're the ones who stashed them away when you made a mistake. Just go to the Falcon series
You're gonna play with confidence. You want to play a setup that's not so fundamentally sound you can lose to glocks
Well, yeah, I mean that's you do talk about the power vision fundamentals being so aligned out if you lack them
If you can't keep up in that department
So, yeah, they just all expose it, the finish now, Chamber starts a head over and then you've got the net.
Belchnock has this long push, Zele has short and you're either just going to stay stark or look for some room and you'll be denied. Beautiful.
I've had one off day in the last 45 and grinding is the name of the game right getting back
into this and could discussing
Curtis Pro. It's an absolute train wreck now.
Then that was James home.
They didn't have faith in him to be the man.
Well, United with Dustin.
This team is top five in the VRS.
This year, they've beaten teams like Spirit,
Fury, Falcons, Aurora, G2, FaZe and Astralis.
That's teams in or around the top 10.
And there's only three names not on that list,
and they could all be on that run.
It's now's now.
It's Vitality or Mongols in the final.
I still think the ramifications of that incredible James sequence is going to be echoing around,
bouncing around the mouse player's heads.
That's really where they got broke.
And all the cash they earned in that third,
or at least three consecutive,
was removed there,
and that's why we just saw them down to the light up by.
But here it is.
Comes back out completely,
James with a good spawn to take the fight
over towards suicide once more.
Torji, he's attempted to challenge
a couple of times.
He's ready for the short play too.
He's anticipating that that's going to be the play and there are two players considering
their options towards an exertion though I'm going to overextend towards he fires off a
shot wrinkles his nose as he was unable to provide an opening kill for round ten.
standard hold from mouse they're not able to really disrupt the default if that
opening pick doesn't come in so space is going to be taken
about to hear that minute mark block smoke arrives towards the mid-door
The B-Plate though isn't any good too, after Zwei has taken a shot and thrown out a flash, and if anything, it's an invitation.
They're going to come looking. I think it's just feigning a presence and they'll be right.
This is a huge plate. The A-Site now should start to block to buy time.
And they will.
About 40 seconds can feel like a lifetime up against this.
Visual is not watching this looks like it's gonna get cool. Yeah easy find. It's gonna accelerate them
Feeling like a rock in a hard-play scenario for power into him. It's a be all
He's not sure in decision-visible for the first time. They're coming back Jimmy comes in for a second
Look a double dicks way. We'll put him down in the dirt
18 seconds needed to hit that did toji compulsory frag
Belchinock. Oh, he's not giving up
He's walking into the side, but the exertion has secured it.
Eight seconds as they try and run through.
It's just simply not enough times.
Wobbley, it's sort of playing that clock right down.
We've seen it pay off with the last seconds of the clock,
and now we've seen it cost them.
And map control taken away from you.
Well, it's way to the decent job to try and apply the pressure.
That's just the two round gaps.
the timeout from Sikrin, at least the second pays off and
this guy gets on the mic to try and do the same. They don't have great long sports to work with right
now, it's just weight. So don't expect the pace change just yet, we've only got two rounds left
in the half, we might not see one. I'd just be more of the same as that.
Could be touch and go for the final round if they do lose this one paravision financially,
but they should have enough to grab to go something relatively threatening. So,
is it going to be quite the leader or are you going to tie things up?
Double AWP CT side. Spinks is brought out the secondary.
We have seen Paravision's posh shot for six-six halves.
Angel going to go start over B with the pack of Zelo and Sway.
The post up. Maybe you can catch Spinks who has out the AWP. He's going to want to take a line with this.
Yeah, he is.
James would be peeking in though, because Spinks already posted.
Say that as he actually does disassemble.
James playing this super late.
He's not holding the line, he's waiting for a push and now he's starting to activate.
Oh, Spinks!
He had the advantage every day of the week there, James.
Wacky to be alive.
Look at Brolin, he did this earlier in the piece.
Super forward, long doors again, he's starting to activate.
These info plays, it's upper tunnels, now it's long, they're really exploiting the extremities.
It's a proactive move that could very well bear fruit.
It's like a T-Sport not clearing out top mid.
The opportunity for the flank.
Through suicide, this is going to be some tough shooting.
Notus holding for the potential long push, but probably not considering suicide.
It's just looked away.
He's going to line up for the... the nade.
It could be perfectly timed here.
Beautiful start!
Brolin removes Notus, and he saw nothing else.
Now attention drawn towards the Lurksmokon B.
Zwei, somewhat of a sight opener.
He can crack into these bomb sights.
He's demonstrated a proficiency to do so. Here comes the U-Tilt, Spinks and Jimmy. Their site is under scrutiny.
Jimmy will activate, overlooked by Sway. Beautiful start, Belchin off trying to change things. Belchin off!
Finding two. Opens up an avenue. James provide the covering fires. Yellow a safe plant.
They could do the job, but I think he gets it down, catches it, gives him the advantage.
Exertion, bowls them into the three on two.
So I've just got a couple of flashes set up here.
Oh, it's not Scott Vision.
Oh, it hasn't landed.
It didn't land at all.
Oh, this one did.
Oh, he just jumped straight over his head.
Exertion with a Goomba Stomp.
Impact from exertion.
Two with the AK-47 and the HE for number three.
And this is the thing with Mausraga.
Definitely not fan favorites, and that goes for anywhere.
But they do play class Counter-Strike.
And the game plan, they understand it better than anybody right now,
taking the space away.
And by doing so, giving themselves opening incisions, informing this,
and just getting exactly where the hit's coming from every single time.
That's off the back of the Cycrant timeout as well.
You get to see another glimpse of that proactivity.
That one there was called by Dastan, so it was back-to-back from Eva Coach,
but Cycrant's 30 seconds a whole lot more valuable.
Final round as mentioned, put a little bit of shake,
even the bomb going down does get them out of the AKs and the AWP.
We're going to tie things up.
Oh, Ron, I'm pushing.
Yeah, he's going to get punished for that one.
Overstep at your own risk.
Another game opening for the statistics.
Rewind in that department.
Being able to convert off the back of the other two,
himself up nicely and right now you're not going to be able to take the space in the same way
Torgy playing close
tries to risk it and Torgy perfectly positioned
You're gonna find middle here chain might be in trouble
Look at that team play jump straight onto his teammate head mantles up removes way. They are overcoming this early disadvantage
That's outrageous
Spinks just put his running shoes on charging up middle and Jane tracks it
To the front power of visions captain and this is just to try and have a little bit of an edge as we swap sides
Smoke breaks yellow should be a dead man
Zashan secures it now just for the close has Jane got any more
To offer a flash from no to have a look for the fight
It's the all-per-way, but it's that short side pressure James going to be under so much of the another boost. Look at them go
Using each other's head as a vantage point doesn't connect the spray onto Jimmy knows where he is those thoughts the tip of the head
Trying to beat him in the tight hit game. That's all he needs
Paral vision swap insights with the advantage and Jane put in a shift on this one 14 and 6 is the first half a whole lot of impact
They do get the ever slight lead
I did pick up that first pistol. It didn't come with the conversion, so we reflect upon if they're able to do it here going into the second half.
Remember, this is a rematch for the opening stage of the Swiss here in Cluj.
That's two, and that one was at 13. It's a seventh scoreline in Paravision's favour.
That was by picking up both pistols and having a flawless CT side. That's where they shift to now.
It's tough to see them do the same again.
Especially when you know Maus have picked apart that demo.
This is all about the adjustments, isn't it?
Since, uh, hopefully a few of them being made.
Remarkable to think if, uh, this PanVision team can make it all the way to the final with...
As mentioned before, they're a single play-up.
Deeper than 30.
All the players in the tournament turn to the stats.
This is testament to this, uh, unity.
That's team Counter-Strike, right? It's the fundamental base first, the flashiness second.
Make no mistake, that doesn't necessarily mean they don't have individuals who can be the hero.
It's just all of them.
We saw what the hero plays due to a team like Falcons, don't we? So, what?
We'll take the spurts of individualism built on the foundation of the fundamentals as we do get
heavy A start from paravision, but now they rotate back. Middles smoked off due to X-Box,
three to walk out long, exertion exping the middle pieces. It's just way on A for now.
That feels like kept paravision predicting the play. All the pressure on his way.
He gets a couple of parts shot. Hang around. He's ready for the fight. He's going to have his back
turned. Touching to elevator, but still susceptible to spam. All right, safety to smoke. Now,
Now this is where a retake on the pistol, you're lacking a lot of the pearls and whistles, don't have a kit?
You do have a smoke and a flash.
You need to be able to get in.
Two goose, one sight.
Torsion, Jimmy Long.
J-Match, you're leading.
A pack into this retake.
Tux on him.
Pelt, you're not trying to find the flinch in.
Looking good, mouse connected.
Multiple headshots on the glocks.
Last tune to find and it's looking like it's all shaping up.
10 second defuse ahead of these CTs and they can't get close to the site now so I've said no.
I'm not even going to wait for this one chasing him down, peppered away and they're going to keep on hunting.
There isn't a lot of strife right here.
I found the last one, he's not going to get that one down at all, exertion removes everything.
That makes this a one round game.
The stat is not great, but Panvision is second round breaks and that's because it didn't go for a lot of ecos.
There's another one for you right now, so tough to have a good second round break stat when you're always rocking out the starter pistols.
It's a smoke in the mix, where we use that to block the long doors and that's when miles are coming.
See what I'm for, you can find with just your USPs, you aren't immediately fainting.
If you had a flash, there's a chance, but go and dry.
Yeah, and Jane spotted on his initial jiggle, they know he's likely more.
So, he just won?
We're going to tie things up, seven apiece.
It's one of those tough situations where it's very unlikely we have a JM AWP within the early stages.
Oh, she should be finishing this one off in a moment.
And there you go. All right.
This one definitely go deep.
The only way there's no opposite, no, to drops one,
and he operates around with their Kevlar.
And we have seen that happen before, and it's one.
I'm not sure that happened again.
So they are happy to take the sacrifices to set up Jane with the AWP.
They understand the importance of this weapon.
You don't see an M4 no-care very often.
Noter's gonna be rocking it.
He's got his rifle, but he's in his underpants.
Now taking a gamble, we've seen...
...Pavish into this awful lot with his three-man leans.
It's a lot of pressure on...
...Jayman's way on A, and they've lost long already.
So you have to push up a tunnel.
Jimmy waiting for this.
Okay, this is where you'd expect to see Jimmy absolutely far
Not clearing Cielo's reaction makes it clear and he's even got support now
This might have to just be a full gamble from paravision that turns into a
But they're just taking every jewel no two noses gonna be overlooked tries to strike messy spray Spinks removes his head
James Alt now noted position
From the B side of the map as the bombs gonna slowly make its way to the unguarded A site
Well, you know, this way still alive. So you need to be a little bit cautious here just in case your spacing has to be on point
Still going to use your utility
It's got some sharp aim and could take away a couple
It's actually selling the hedge back over so mouths are in no hurry
No, they have this massive advantage
You be searching be again and James not looking
Yeah, he's been taking insertion checks
Beautiful from Jimmy out put on the four HP gets his second of the round and rotating
all the way back but Zwayze here. Zwayze's mission has changed. Zwayze's mission is trying
to recover that AWP and bring it through to the next.
Oh, the bomb's going back to B. Okay, they actually are heading in towards what they
consider to be the open, unguarded site. Zwayze pushes through, removing Jimmy. Now the bomb
kind of committed with 15 seconds left. One through mid. Flash connects from Brawland.
But the looks of things there, you were banged on. He was not worried about trying to win
that round. He was looking to retain the orb, just getting caught off guard. If he had only
We've had a chance there to just burrow down in the side and make that one really interesting.
So, seven miles take the lead.
Second time out from Dastan.
This will just be the partial with the guns coming out into the next.
Paravigian games tend to heat up about two or three rounds from now.
Now, it feels like we're going through the formality of these teams showing, yes, you
have very good understanding of the default, you can trade pistols, you can win the rounds
you should.
Now, when he gets deep in the game in the last couple of rounds with the pressure on the
line, needs to be won.
Tastan's own admission going up against the team, Mike Maus, or Na'Vi, when asked by
Magi Tiven yesterday, this is a tough task, he knows these aren't teams, they're easy
he beats, because he feels that he doesn't respect his squad.
Respect is earned and I think they've done a lot of that in the course of this start
in 2026.
You're getting what you need, right?
Exertion, sphinx and torch, you're all firing.
Jimmy, one of your standard anchors and then Brawling, you're a game leader, so right now
The import is looking great for mouse. Yeah, everyone showed up today. This is the
rest of the success. Jimmy will finish a belch knock and just one casualty.
It's hard to argue with the consistency of mouse. The first story just doesn't
resonate with the audience.
He's saying it's results driven, consistency is great, trophies are better so this could
be another opportunity at a grand final, still way before we get there but default spread.
Deviation from the norm and the setup for the CZs is Jane a bit of a war to beat, I
don't have to last for too long looking like Zelo and Jam are going to cross paths and
Back to their origin points here.
It's turning a bit of U-Tilt.
Slow and steady.
Now some of these CT moments with the light of pistols
and multi-kill opportunities for paravision.
They haven't been hitting maybe as hard
as we've seen in the past, so.
The weather split right now,
it feels like that's what needs to manifest.
Multi-kills from the individuals
to stall out the plays from Maus.
Three of them still, grouped outside long, juggling the U-Tilt. They do want to pressure this.
So they're going to plant pressure short, and then the long walkout.
Jame on the line.
CT smoke all the way from top of middle.
Test for Jame, flashed off and missed shot.
Starting to crunch in.
Exhaustion! Got Jame dead to right!
Right, that is a stunning opening manoeuvre.
Now set up to succeed.
Now Brolin surging forward.
Notar on the side with a lot of work to do, and he is doing it!
Putting in a shift.
Mission accomplished.
Despite exertion's best efforts,
Miss Shaw from Torgie between the wickets.
He's the ultimate price.
That is entirely premeditated for exactly that.
Right, that move is exactly designed to deal with the set up of the Paravision and running there.
James staying the wards long, he loses long, he has to drop back, exertion manifests the best way.
That's premeditated. That right there, when we talk about game plan, that is what now's what we're cooking when knowing they were coming into this semi-final today.
And the fact that they're unable to make good on it, that's extremely frustrating.
I was saying to the individuals need to multi-chill, and there we got a bit of that output, putting
their aim on display, shutting it down and getting themselves on the board.
The first CT side, round, paravision.
You're right, I think frustration is the best word for that when you're perfectly
curated anti-strap. Still doesn't bear fruit. The individuals from Power
Vision showing they can hang. Well you can run it again later in the piece.
Oh, Spinks lucky to get away with that. It's tagged up. Notes two players starting
on the B side of the map. No surprises there.
He's trying to get out, so he's using everything he can, or he needs to expend to just get
away from that fight.
Again, I'm going to put this up for a minute mark before anything is really taking shape
at short control.
It's Mausers.
I'm going to shift across, so feeling of a B or B split, 45, on short with Torgie.
Wait, doing his best brawling impression right now.
Gonna leave you a whole lot of pressure with this push.
Now he's forward, now he's asleep with the wheel.
Wasn't ready.
Now just one man, now zero, Jimmy puts Belgium up down.
B site lost and a 10th round imminent.
This has to be the save.
Are we giving this one a go's way and Jame are just gonna hold onto these and again.
Really just exploiting the core of the map there this time.
Most full avenues of assault out the mid to B, but looking at the radar, maybe the comms.
I'm not sure what happened there, but it's a little bit silly with that opening exchange.
As soon as one of the B players dies before you even get a kill, you're in a real tough
spot.
So 10 rounds now for Mouse.
I feel if they take Dust too, this series likely falls into, in the end of the Paravision
story. At least until tomorrow we get a third place to sign up.
James Mccain's at least got the certainty that it's an AWP in the mix.
Will always be playing against that.
On his fourth note, a Bolsheviks are going to end the other by themselves so they don't
need to get any drops in exertion.
from him, 17 kills him.
He didn't create it out there.
APPLAUSE
Now this is the point where it gets going.
We're deep in the game, handful of rounds required just to get across the line.
Dastan takes his third and final tactical timeout.
Sikrin has one left.
The battle back for PowerVision needs to start now with 7-5 first half to them,
I was only one round of the CT side and I was already putting up a hole.
Four straight.
I've been totaled.
Okay.
We'll all up on the CT side.
I've seen this one four on the Paravision campaign.
Rollin's solar taking space along right now.
He's gonna go for it, takes a look, didn't get spotted out by his way.
This has really got a different flavour hasn't it, they're gonna be going ahead of the mid-utile.
Does this subvert the expectation?
Do you catch?
vision off. God! Jay, quick on the flick!
Removes Brawlan. A crucial piece. Now removed. Exertion's been spotted.
Belchnok will relay the information and start to get active.
Creeping down the ramp could be in the blind spot.
Jay, I'm on to exertion. It already exacerbates things.
Can't be losing the bomb, especially now a smoke in your face.
Jimmy Hope is begging for an overextension from Belchnok,
but he's having absolutely none of that.
The dream start to round 19 for
Paravision. Jane doing Jane
things has found them too.
Doesn't look like Maus are going to be just bending the knee.
Yeah man, he's not great though.
The two players with over 4K,
Ross Bono spotting the barrel,
only 1400 into the next.
Who moves fast, long or short?
I know I didn't get a tough round to go for, I'm surprised we're even looking into this.
It is just two kills when you think about it, Shadow's away.
A lot, but look at Spinks!
Precision on display!
Paul's game away and that activates on A.
Blight!
Still good enough, gets vision in time.
Now get the bomb down.
Two on four though.
How's going for this?
Double name.
Ouch, that one leaves a mark and he's lost his teammates too!
Starting from Jayme, a quad kill and a crucial round of play.
Cairns in a moment. I thought Maus would likely continue to save there. They give it a go, they get the bomb down.
But Jayme with another massive quad kill in this one and is that the fire starter?
Is that going into CT half? They need consecutive to break the bank balance.
I think it's going to be remiss to not hit that first puller.
You can see it gets what, maybe two, three, off.
Just not expecting it to be stepped out of the open.
Understandable.
Yeah, James, all right, all right.
Well, this is it.
Sikrin's final tactical timer in regulation.
Both coaches, he's going to have to sit and watch.
And this one is before they lose money.
So if Maus are able to get back into it with this one,
they're likely to be able to find the close from here.
If they lose it, things are going to split open and Paravision in a position to tank the lead.
It still blows my mind when you see just how far they've climbed of the VRS, Paravision.
In that top five.
When you look at the teams, have they been beaten?
Yeah, it makes sense.
Yeah, this team is no joke.
Not one hit, one miss.
But they really are disruptive to the status quo.
So quickly they've become such a permanent mainstay in the conversation.
Throughout long, there's space. Wayne not going to contend this on his own.
He's playing passive chipping through to get some damages.
James needs to find a pick available.
Jimmy could trundle through long tunnels here.
Oh, he wants to go on, looking for answers middle as well.
And as Yellow might need to come and help from mid-doors, they need something.
In fact, you've lost long so early.
Brolin and Jimmy are waiting for an upper tunnel's reaction, very standard, so losing long. So plan through middle
Block
Something to play around this way ever so slightly, but it's better than nothing
Manufactures a gap dropped an additional smoke grenade. Okay, so they're not gonna keep these blocks running through
It's a nice adaptation
You can found now with a sweep of his way that no one's ahead of your block smoke a
A second one thrown out in the sky now. Belcher not confirms X-Box presence.
Will be noticed responsibility. Is there support?
And Sendier from Zway could... don't know any further.
Does so, confirms.
Just a tick of the flame.
Smoking an aid. Solid connection onto Jimmy.
It's Zway that will find the opening.
It's just 38 on the clock. Bomb across on the ramp on the back of Spinks.
It was on the back of Spinks.
Torchy's going to have to get crazy with this, picks up the bomb, does he want to be the hero?
Oh! Not a hit!
2A's Bullet just deletes him through the smoke, solid from Jimmy, but not able to piece together the second.
Brolin in the clutch, already removing Notic, does the Simit take the clutch?
He's been clutching, chap. We know this guy's capacity for the clutch when the pressure is at its highest.
from the semifinal stage, Brolin. Not ready, not looking.
Sway closes down for his triple, and we've got a tied up game.
I'm not saying like a lot, but if I'm going down there,
he's going to have some flotant effects down the stretch here.
This is where games tied up, and should be the eco.
Brolin could go for a hero, AK off the back of that, right?
He gets 3800 coming into this next one.
Everyone else said about the 3.8K mark.
It doesn't have to be a full eco by any means.
Remember the coaches can't get involved anymore. So this is where Brolin and
Jayman, I'll tell you who's got more experience in that department, made you
win at Jayme. He kills for him towering over the server at the moment.
The light on the investments a couple of digs, P250 smoke in the mix.
I was belching off replying to that lurk smoke and deep incendiary his first response.
The classic reaction when I play close to this, I'm allowed to par the inn and then
be able to...
It's a pretty cheeky moment through, the other also spam so it looks a little bit of
damage.
about this boost so it's not as the bullet whistles by. They're trying every trick you know.
So towards you go for an opening pick on the long side a boost now on the B side of the map and
nothing has bore fruit. This is one of those rounds though for Dastan with the fun of
entry to Druid boys I understand they're against the pistols but nobody in this moment can overstep.
If we're able to have it clean keep everybody alive we give us an extra buy and when we're at
this point in the game where every penny counts if you can get broken late in the piece you could
He could spell disaster, so a very important one.
Professional restraint up against the Ecos.
Easy for everyone, but easy for Noza.
Springs to action, clean.
Those, when he's ready to fight,
facilitate and support by his teammates.
So, Power-O-Vision get through that
without a single casualty.
Holland didn't bring in a hero, A.K.
They wanted to make sure that AWP could be dropped to Torgy.
for Silateta thanks to Grollen.
At least they're able to go toe-to-toe in that department.
And Jane had three opening kills that they were able to convert
in the first half of play.
Torji do the same.
It's not even starting suicide for the peak option.
Over the wards, up the tunnels.
And as it's way, Noda and Jane will
garner this long control early.
Or she's going to take the open to Lola.
So he's going to be ready for a short fight on a boost.
This pick secures nobody's home.
So getting the offering in that head to head.
Both teams allowing the T sides to go to the motion of the default.
Get the space short.
What are you gonna do once you've got it?
Rollin' avoids the brunt.
Half-down HE damage.
Swingin' on in.
No, it's a happy advantage in the fight, but it's just a little bit of damage onto exertion.
Polls out additional utility.
From the defense.
It held onto their smokes, though.
And it's back to this long maneuver, right? They think that they can pip this gap again, this time without the same misdirection play.
Yeah, Jane.
Primed and ready. Will it be that reaction speed test?
He's still adjusted to Brawland.
Yes, a lot of answers and endless way, standing his ground.
Flash connects onto Jane. They've got to accelerate now.
The entire squad have pivoted in towards the A-side, Bar 1.
James in the right place. Jimmy got to make a play.
Trying to find a way in. Spinks does well. Distracts, removes way.
14 seconds, now up the wrap with the bomb, down goes Spinks, uncomfortable photography,
has to go for the plumber, they've got a boost.
Five seconds, Bob goes now, no it doesn't!
A last second of Hail Mary and a flying F4!
Paravision 12, two opportunities to take their pick.
The Cluj crowd has filed a request.
See a Caravish in the honoris-
They're force-buying into this.
This is a miserable swan of course the last round of play and the money is-
Oh, Xerxian's gone across the blue bin.
He's really switched on enough to have considered that to have been a possibility.
Let them get out long in a couple of situations.
He's not ready.
Xerxian provides.
when Maus needed him most has given them an opening incision.
The response here, James at the top A, knows that he isn't going to have one to contend with on the other side.
Told you with the scout however, being ushered over.
Fuck the doors, they're already ahead.
He's going to flash with this. Told you he's only got the scout.
Crouches down, James, no info.
Not his first pier. Seize the smoke to the sky. Knows that they're putting pressure on now.
Make an additional U-Till.
Doing his very best, he knows he's got a standard deliver, exertion down, getting away from the spam of the Tech 9.
Pull on turns up the heat.
What one is backing across?
Paravision retooling.
Did he get past Spinks here?
He loves this position. James just going to be walking straight into this.
Oh, no, my God, a flying notice spotted as well.
Banks closed it down, ripping an additional two out of the round.
Those demonstrate their resilience.
Fumble on the flash, taking every member of the squad down.
Belgium are just trying to twist the knife, trying to find a little economical
down to something to celebrate.
But the first of their two map points in the bin.
Well, they've got plenty of cash to spend here.
the biggest problem is you've just given that AWP over. Now, James is playing out of his skin right now.
He is lighting up that scoreboard. He's going for audacious plays.
24, Frank's deep right now. He's a big stubble here. This one, make sure that there was to be a
conversation. Oh, now's his watch. You have overtime available now. Okay. Long pick.
Again, with that managed restraint, not giving anything over early.
Those days we're looking for Belchinoch, but he gets away just ahead of the bounce.
He's coming over with the AWP, they're applying pressure up the tunnels.
Oh, spot him on the jiggle there, Sphinx knows.
he's searching. They bring the fight to them they thought it was Maus puffing up
their chest to intimidate. Ziello says I ain't scared of you. Ziello and goodbye
to the hopes of now has taken this one to overtime
The ultra knock forward position brawlin caught out a
certainty now
Just Jimmy
Paravisions map pick
Just a couple of points of damage away the bomb under their control
Jimmy's giving it a damn good go
An ace clutch with 20 on the clock, an impossible request.
Still alive, still kicking, still fighting, but there he goes!
Paravision map, one in the back!
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And Paravision are doing it, took their map of Dust2 comfortably I'm gonna say, cause it didn't go to overtime, makes a change, but yes, I mean this story is just fantastic, wonderful to watch, this is the one map they definitely have in their locker, and honestly, I think any team in the world right now can have a hard time when you play in these guys.
Absolutely and the reason for that is they're just so good at gun rounds, man
I mean parry vision comes into this game as the second worst team at the tournament in pistol rounds
They finally win a pistol round to start off the game and then they lose the second round
Right, so imagine how could they could be if they got better start sometimes it didn't always have to claw from behind
Right, but that's their MO
They've just done it so many times before that you can feel that there's no stress because they're off to a slow start
Because their opponents are in the lead
They know once they get the guns out is when they'll be able to come back into these games
And that's based off of the fact that they are so good at reading the
Opposing team and how they want to develop their plays so they can always have that extra body in whatever bomb site is being attacked
It's because they seem to take the right amount of risks
But also I mean hats off to James when you put it off in this guy's hand
He can win you practically any round when it comes to dust to it's one of the maps where he actually plays outside of himself
He's not just that they had baby passive offer. He gets into the fray
But he also has an incredible level of clutch that can elevate his team
Above as he himself kind of dawns the the superstar jersey when it comes to this map
I mean he had such a great game here individually. You heard Alex himself, and he got chills
You have to get the heat blanket out for him. It was like wild stuff
And it's easy to sleep on it. You know, you think it's just the IGL
He's got four young turns running around.
He's been statistically one of the best players on this team at this tournament.
Yeah, well, that's the thing. Statistically, they haven't been amazing this tournament.
The highest-rated player is Wei with a 105 rating, and he's the 30th highest-rated player in the tournament.
That's what makes the fact that they're in the semifinals so impressive, because they're doing it by committee.
You know, it's not convincing all the time because they have to come from behind because they don't have these good stars
But at the end they still managed to get back into games. They still managed to come out on top and
It's just been amazing to watch. He's just oppressive
I mean he is even though we see just the one kill that he got while picking the cross
I think at least twice actually if you include some of the times when he goes down mid
He tacked multiple mouse players as they were trying to get across mid
It weakens the B site defenders and I feel like the way that he was able in some of these moments to just
Still hold composure while making great mid-round reads
I mean the whole off IGL conversation is more or less died with the exception of him
He's really the only guy that could hold the mantle and carry it forward and show that it's still
Extremely possible as now people are catching up to the mechanics of CS2 offing. Yeah, and he shows with his style
You can see on the screen here. It is better to take that extra moment and hit the shot than it is to go for the fancy flick
I feel this is a trap a lot of the younger orbers are falling into he just takes that breath and look that's such
Maybe you should die there. Maybe you shouldn't but he makes sure if you don't kill me. I will kill you
Great stuff to see. Yeah, I mean, I think the the aiming style
There are a couple fast flicks in the in the mix there, but like you said, I mean, it's just target con for kill confirmation
That's what James so frequently does.
And I feel like that also synchronizes well with the way
that he likes to mid-round, the way that he likes to make sure
that he sniffs out the possibilities, the options
in a round.
I know that we have one from the first half
where they were able to just kind of extend,
feel out everything going on across the map
as his way was able to just kind of be James' right-hand man.
And that's kind of been the story for me.
When watching Caravision on Dust2,
that's way gets so much responsibility
As he is that lone B lurker this time around, he finds a little bit of space as he makes his way in what is kind of an awkward route.
You don't usually see people just kind of move up the left side that easily, but Jame is holding on to the window for him to protect that sort of space.
And he just sneaks right in.
Jame, the rest of Paravision, they start making their way back towards A, but as soon as Wei gets this kill, they pivot.
They turn on the dime.
The second part of the plant activates.
Zwei gets the further kill, which by the way, Jame tags Spinks earlier as he cross mid and then they're able to just win rounds that otherwise.
A lot of teams don't even put themselves in situations like this.
I don't remember ever seeing a player top where Zwei was, right?
Yeah.
Really, but I mean, this is another J Masterclass in the end with a lot of trades, you know, as they're going up towards long, they're going to be in a 2v3 position, and here's just one step ahead every single time.
Trigger.
I have I've waited quite a while at this tournament to use the phrase James time
You don't want to just throw it out to liberally, but this is totally jame time
I mean this moment to me didn't even make sense like this is but what it felt like when you were watching 2012
Counter strike where people just were like what's who bet that guy's behind me
It's almost comical the way that mouse just in that moment did not feel like there was any
possibility that James could have been there and let alone the fact he gets a
multi-frag on top of it it's simply absurd and he just he's just breaking our
minds on too consistent of a basis I want to say official petition to make
time Lord his official nickname at this point it is actually crazy what he's
been doing across this tournament and look just a few thoughts about mouse on
on this too obviously we know now playing paravision yanko it's a tall order but
Obviously we expect better from them. Remember, they are the season veterans in this equation.
Yes, some missed opportunities, I think especially in the first half, right?
We saw this way around, that was a reset round, but the round prior, you know,
they have all the information with Brolin pushing out long, they know that
Parisian is coming from B tunnels with everyone, and they sort of fumbled that defense.
And then in the second half, they had a couple of cool rounds, actually, some ideas,
but really the splits didn't work for them, you know, like they couldn't
deal with the defenders, even though sometimes it was just
Jayman's way on a against five miles players.
Jayman's way, the A defense was just so good at just
clipping off one of the pincers every single time,
whether that was a smoke at shore or the fact that they would deal with the long pressure,
but Jayman getting a couple kills there, I mean, I can't even count how many times he killed Spinks,
trying to approach him towards long. I mean, they did such a good job on that defense.
And a reminder, I mean, Daston, big part of this picture.
I mean, when it was 8-10, Mauser up, calls his very last time out,
They go on to just win the game from there.
So, I mean, I just feel like he deserves obviously a lot of credit,
whatever was said in that time out.
A very well-oiled machine at the moment, but we go on to Inferno.
And it's a very different prospect.
Honestly, we know Maus play this map.
They've already put up some great results on this map and Paravision.
You know, outside of this too, they have struggled on some of the other encounters.
Yeah, absolutely. It was an interesting pick for Maus,
because Paravision statistically are also good on the map,
map but they probably saw something in the game from Paris vision that they felt they match up
well against and also for mouse inferno has been one of the go-to maps when it comes to them
picking it right i think also interesting last time around Paris and started on the T side but
here's what it was a bit of a strange T side from Paris vision last time around they're so
stubborn like james is so stubborn you can see this is the reset round in the first half right
They're just going for that top banana control and it's always three defenders there for miles, right?
Like there's the third guy coming over with a flash makes it work really well. They win it. Okay mouse wins the round next round
Same thing just 10 seconds later from Paravision. We want that top banana control again
It's three mouse defenders there. They're fighting together
They come out on top one more time and you're expecting like at some point chain is gonna change. He's gonna go away
He's gonna do something faster towards a
Nothing changes. I mean here even in a 4v5 they blow up notes with the 8 chees,
132 we're gonna start flashing and like trying to take banana control. You can
see again on the radar there's three mouse players here in the mid-round like
they were just as stubborn as Jane was in terms of until you go away one time
and we lose because we have two players there we're just gonna play 3b every
single time so I wonder what the switch up is going to be here is. Jane gonna
stay in stubborn and expect the change from Maus or is he going to throw them
with some more faster A rounds to really make them play honest and play that
default. Well a follow-up question for both of you then obviously traditionally
that is the way you used to play in Furner but now the control was one of the
key components of the map. Is that an outdated thought process? No, no, no, it's
definitely not outdated one bit but a lot of teams nowadays are more
comfortable with just taking around the half wall not actually forcing the
issue to clear out sandbags to clear out car but I'm glad that mouse just stuck
to their guns and fought to the death there I feel like if anything if I'm
exertion the one guy I'm gonna think after that one is Spinks because almost
all of his kills were assisted by Spinks in some way whether it was Flash assist
Brolin did help with that aspect too but also the trading and one thing that I
love about mouse and why I feel like they love Inferno and why they keep
picking it is because they're the best trading team this year on T sides
especially when they actually have to switch the offense they are so
so frequently just bundled up in the right spot.
Brolin for one is supporting exertion on so many of those,
but the fact that they bring Spinks on top of that over
to just solidify that defense,
you could see that James kind of got into one of his funks
where he became a bit of a one note caller there.
And I mean, at that point, it actually was James
who probably should have adapted, not Maus.
And Spinks remains the closest thing they have to a star,
in my opinion.
I think he's so, so good, particularly in tough games.
I think Apex would have a different name for him,
but enough about that.
Yeah, we'll see. I mean, he's the guy who's the most experienced and who's won some trophies with fatality before coming on
Maus, right? But it just hasn't been really
Enough for them, you know, and we'll see here last time around they played
Maus also lost dust to and managed to come back on the final two Macs and win
Comfortably, right? So this is where you do expect them to bounce back
But there's gonna be a lot of pressure on Brolan, right? I mean they start on the T side
They're going to get paranoid about the stacks from Jayman parry vision, you know
How are you going to do in these mid rounds like that's gonna make or break in the game for them?
I just want to see a way in parry vision does switch to the defense if they understand how miles wants to go things be the
Double-edged sort of being a great trading team often is that you're very bundled up and if parry vision recognized that that gives
Opportunities for some of their extremity players to get a little bit more aggressive to prod those sort of
apartments areas through bracket to see if they can pull off any flanks.
Alright guys, we're gonna find out if this can turn around or whether it's gonna be
Mal stuck again in semi-final hell on Inferno bringing you this one, Spunk and Sheen.
Yeah, the question remains is just whether or not Inferno's gonna be the same as the last time they clash.
Yeah, well the change of signs this time round so likely to be a little bit different but for me it's
can Paravision win a series in two.
Good point, Matt.
And what's the first time be the semi-final, right?
So this is it on going into Inferno.
We know that there's going to be a lot of adjustments made.
We saw some of them on Dust2 right there,
but that one came down to the wire.
So if Paravision made the same level of adjustments
as what Maels did, maybe we can have a close one at least.
Let's find out the second map of this semi-final.
Going down, will it have the same result?
Will Paravision once again need all three?
Or will they buck the trend and slice through the defending champs in two?
Those gambles that were just being discussed by the desk is tough, right?
So, especially in Ferna, where you're a bit more shrouded in them,
and starting off on the pistol round four towards A, it's just not on that B defence.
And they do have a kit this time, unlike Dust2.
He's going to be harder for Jens to be able to insert himself into the game
in the same way we just saw on Dust2.
He was phenomenal on the AWP.
It's massive moments. It's a good calling.
Three in three apartments with the bomb on the back space taken for an apps pop belchock here is yellow in the pit
Zway site and Jane rotating back over to join them a bit of a b-fake lines up
Nade see to your pressure immediately James scanty's back through library, but the three-man stack remains. Yeah, they're not moving a muscle
Don't not car to tracks wait. I'm going to chip in from the pit side. There's yellow. There's way with number two
to get past. Testing the
waters on the long side, Jane
with intermittent g-goals.
Backs into the site now.
Gives space for exertion.
A manoeuvre forward.
How do I catch him on the timing?
Yeah, just rounding that corner,
exertion starts to try to clear
the site. Doesn't actually fully
commit now. James spots him out.
Quick to the head.
Good team play there to finish
this one.
We're going to go for the
second one.
We're going to go for the third
one. We're going to go for the
second one. We're going to go for
the third one. We're going to go
for the third one.
We're going to go for the third
one. We're going to go for the
to finish this one off. Now just orgy.
Enemy of the state here.
You get anything done.
I'm against him.
Let's come in and Ziello to remove him.
That's a little round there.
There are Franks his way and Ziello and Noda with one on top.
That's another pistol round.
So again against Maus, it was 50-50 for the series.
In line with what we saw this tournament long
for ParaVision with those woes.
That's a big one.
Pretty long.
I'm forced by four mouths with no plants, a couple of HGs, three of which.
Is it banana or is it for pit?
Looks like it's fighting banana.
Whoa, no time. Just committed to the spray there.
Even trades favors mouths.
They are just accelerating Belchanox.
It's going to be the first man on the scene, but the site already lost.
Head comes in.
Yeah, it's going to be one place.
Didn't nail it, actually.
Yeah, hurried there.
I've got kit for the retakes.
There's still a chance.
I'm going to give this one a look,
you're already leaping about in the right direction
for that second round of conversion now.
Mounting on Brawland to provide.
He's ready for the swing.
Doesn't track it perfectly.
Meltunov taking heavy lift, but Flays removed.
One, Flays removed, two.
The spring's down.
Oh, what can you do?
Attack nine versus three.
Trying to manipulate around the smokes.
Bomb being diffused, he's got to get on it now for the denial, James! Just pulls it off!
Cuts the wires in time before the smoke push.
A composed retake then, for the second round conversion.
But a lot of pressure, I'm curious if Maus will keep that on, right?
You've just rushed B, you get the bomb down, a lot of casualties, and you've got cash to smash again,
and it looks like they want to at least be liberal with it.
So this is a bomb and armor hold that at least go one for one.
I know CLO gets two, that's the trade game, and it makes the hold a lot easier.
That's a number of disadvantages, maybe they don't even give it a look.
Now, it's not a full investment from Mouse, but they do want to keep the pressure on.
0-AK, upgraded pistols, with armour.
That's why he really looks at home, paravision jersey.
Brawlin flushed out by the plate,
hopefully Fancy's chance is a little clear, backs away upon Brawlin contact.
You know there's one AK, but how much more level of investment is there from Mouse?
Is that with the nade at the ready?
Very passive set up over towards A at the moment, no brackets control.
Restrain here on the smoke from its way.
Yeah, I didn't pull it out, I didn't commute to it.
Despite the sound cue.
It's just the yellow here.
Given by Jimmy.
They'll block and as we're something extra laying in wait.
And now they've taken back brackets control.
So no to freed up to rotate back over.
You will.
So good work on the Info Game Power Elision.
With this level of investment, you get the bomb down again, you take a couple more guns, you're sitting pretty if you mouse.
You get nothing.
You're pretty.
Oh!
Hey, hard done by.
Just on the diss mouse.
Got a shot there.
Finds the head shot.
Speaks has picked it up.
Got a shot to pick that one up with these.
So coming apart of the seams right now, mouse, 35, need to find the finish.
You need that loss bonus.
30 seconds to die.
Ideally, with a bomb down.
Jimmy gonna try and leave the charge.
Very size centric, Sway, and Belch not to get past.
That's back for Crosstairs, but quickly found.
Sway, not so easy to put down, but there's Torgie, double on the P250, does secure that
bomb plant.
Hicks for caching the coffers upon round lost, but is it a guaranteed loss?
It's very tight now.
Jane wanting to play once the yellow arrives,
they'll double swing.
No two arriving, they get back here.
Oh!
What?
How's he done that?
Just deletes two of them with the spray of the recovered M4.
Torji, four kills deep.
It looked like a lost round until Torji had his way
with paravision now.
All up for debate.
Just notes it doesn't have the time to be messing around.
Gotta get spinks now.
Dancing around the side box, running like an ammo.
This one's down to the wire!
Getting away with that one.
That was more than pressure. That was more than a plant.
That was almost a robbery.
Thanks to Mr. Torsche.
Look at this, double. You think that's all over?
No, it has to dig deep for this one against the clock at the fact that he gets the kill here, right in front of the bomb.
Doesn't miss a frame between lethality and defusing.
Dustan takes that time out once he gets ahead of the money, knows it can be broken in one round's time.
Always wanting to be ahead of the cash flow, and that's what ParaVision do the best in the game.
management of the money. Again, if they take you deep, they break you late in the game.
It's at least overtime, if not the map in their pocket. Interesting choice coming in
from his way. Sure, he will be defending apps. What a shotgun. What a terrible weapon for
the job, but assuming they come your way.
I think that round there, Torchy must have been convinced he'd done enough.
Otak, using every single second.
Available to him in that clutch.
Okay, Swayne has to operate half health.
I made his landing square in the pocket of his paravision jersey.
Alright, back down Banana to soften up exertion and brawling on their crawl.
This one's got an Otak's name on it.
That's going either way right now.
How's your jiggles? Oh, he just crouches into it!
Spinks a lamb to the slaughter.
And it's way, he doesn't hang around.
Backs off immediately, now they play the number advantage.
Exertion, can you draw it back into a 4v4?
He's certainly going to give it a good shake at the stick.
big. That's nothing to report, but there are three members of the five man defence leaning
towards that B bomb site.
Right, so I'm playing for space right now. Burrows into the smoke, it's going to be called
clear, so rotation needs to be swift over towards A.
Yeah, and a higher lower is Jamin's way. You've got two completely opposite weaponry. A sniper
and a shotgun to defend the A site.
Belchnock and Zillow will be here just in time yet to hit the go our mouse 30 seconds on the clock now running this clock down
James ready for this reaction speed test util on motor
Easy crowd to be searching again same fate of Spinks and games not done
His first four frags and it's a shutdown of miles and the captain makes it look casual easy there the office
The crowd like that one four zero start asking what the difference is going to be. Well this time it's power vision on their opponent's map choice. Pick it to see T side. Desperate pilot in the shortcomings of their T side calling. Well if you could do the lion share of the work here on the defense, it's going to be a whole lot easier.
The money not broken, round established and a strong bet going forward as it will just have to be a partial from Maus.
Can't justify the full buy.
Definitely getting a little bit more.
Round number three coming down to the wire towards you finding so much output gives himself an AK for this.
Out plus two Galils.
Okay, it's definitely branding.
still got more than enough for the full by going into the next with the 3400 so
this is a round that might lack the you too sure but not the firepower
the opening salvo no one home on banana no early commitments from now's when we
get back into these guns they can't just be going dry into the all-point eight
they're gonna use YouTube or some trickery and push Jane off the lines
somebody doing this jiggle again belch on the same this is smoke molly jiggle
defense classic long smoked off and respect that
He's going for a smoke break, have to heat.
Gia, what is that?
Making a play.
Toshi accelerating to his death.
Zwei gets away on eight points of health.
They've dipped out of brackets control and returning to banana.
Now they've got open runway.
They only have flashes for the finish.
Ziello starts the transition.
Backside, Noda over towards CT.
Still got a smoke.
Noda's chipped away now.
He's far from this. His belch not clears up top here. They're gonna go. Here they come
AK primed and ready is another Seattle master class with a multi
Just brawland scavengers away dead man's gun
bomb plant
They're a bit of a consolation prize because there's still not a single round on the board for miles. Okay, five zero
When this seems to serve, I always say, the power of vision.
What about how quickly it gets to 13, just where it gets there first.
Now the fact that they've racked up five with that mentality in the back of the mind, actually
the front of the mind, this is the type of team that I think is hard to think of going
to let their foot off the gas.
They're still going to play every situation exactly the same regardless of this 5-0 lead.
goes down we already knew they were getting with the full by this no Torch
yeah WP
can't guess this luxury of take some pics not going up against an all but he
doesn't know that
What sticking around you ain't got the bullets for this
Punted by Brawl and spotted just a flash before his vision fades to white. We've got Jane posted on the line
Look at the price they've paid for that early skirmish and the hand down
Spanks hamstrung
It looks like they want to fight
James sweeping through, setting up his boy Nota.
Rollin forced to back away through the smoke.
A couple of bullets peppered through, no connection.
You're going to establish full control.
He just lingers around, failure of the smoke,
and he's just going to be able to hold on to this now.
That's going to free up Nota to be wherever he wants to be.
Well, Bolchenok is staying right now for Archside Jiggle.
Nota can head to library and then chip in towards site,
so they should have fought towards A quite comfortably.
Quite the opposite for now,
This is starting to get out of control now.
This isn't a gamble stack, this is a read.
They know exactly what's coming.
BELCHONOCK BLOCKS ROLAND.
Now it's keeping the smoke, bro.
It's just gonna take a rest.
You've got to try something.
Walks straight through into the headshot.
BELCHONOCK'S READY.
And it's all too easy.
Red like a book.
We take a look at the figure picture for Paraverson in Burno.
We played it seven times this year.
They're six and one with the one loss being to Maus.
And they opted to start on the T side where they got shut down in Banana
time and time and time again. Right. Now they're on the CT side.
In that head to head, it was the opening game for both these teams in the Swiss.
Maus won 14 to 6 in openings. We've had six rounds played. Maus don't have an opening
kill yet. So the differences keep on coming.
I was sitting there foolishly saying, you know, Mao's
would have learned as much as they could from the previous head to Hegel Paravision 2.
They have done their homework, and Jimmy does try and risk it through the flank down to 80.
Jim confirms the bedrooms now occupied.
No dust sweeps through brackets, relays the information.
Playing for mid control.
James joining this. Block smoke time very well. This will stall them out.
Such diligence with the U2. They get such value out of every piece.
But right now, James, they're telling you to join Yellow on B. No, he's not. Just donating U2.
Never mind. They're sticking.
There's 4A setup. Notar in side-sway.
to his usual antics on this balcony.
He's going to have company in a moment's time, 45 on the clock.
How's it going to try once more?
For this A site, this A site is closed.
No access.
Permission revoked.
Five alive!
And Paravision continue to thrive here, including the poker.
Well, we've got classic scenes of when mouths go wrong.
Now this time it's not against vitality. When exertion isn't firing, he's currently 0 and 7.
That tells you they aren't getting the space. They're not getting the room and they're not delivering the classic Mouses Counter-Strike.
They're looking to return to a grand final for the first time since Cologne. That's 202 days ago.
Phew.
Meanwhile, ParaVision feels like only yesterday they were in a final.
Ah, well, this is one intense boot camp.
Son of the year on the second of Jan, and they just keep on kicking.
My symbolic time chamber that is 20-26.
They gave themselves the opportunity by having a strong major run.
They put themselves on the map, and now they're in the conversation.
It's not a team.
Turn your nose up.
Total of 10 kills in seven rounds for Maus.
No opening, no pistol, nada, nothing.
This is an absolute statement.
Oh, they've got a double-nade pole that's going to be way too early.
Now, Cintasian's Q to start trying to cook.
They need an opening just to get something going on the mouse side.
This has happened so quick.
Distinct lack of frags across the entire board for mouse.
This is one of those gambles. Look at the setup right now.
Look how unorthodox this is for the CTs.
You've tried to come A, we have shut you down every single time.
Now it is literally Jay on A, short with it all on his own.
Zway's being tested. He's past them.
And now you're coming into this.
Noda and Zelo to play first.
Even if you kill them, there's a stack to get through that you don't know about.
That's if.
The emphasis on that.
Noda's a strong angle, but exertion bests him.
Yellow hoping to be overlooked turns the flash needs one can't do it. There you go
Exertions found his first two contributions in round eight is this
The mouse gets started
Not ready for Melchon. Oh, he wasn't ready for the spray's way saves the day double kill
Nathan does deep he does need another
Torches someone elsewhere because Jimmy's taken down the only defender on a
He's not going to do much with that.
Spinks can time this noose right now and push further up banana so his way likely to run into his eyes.
Spinks doesn't miss those and Maus are on the board.
Maus have won 100% of the rounds where exertion's got to kill.
And the opener. So he can continue to do that.
It's their way back into the game.
Now's have won 100% of the rounds where exertion's got to kill and the opener. So
You can continue to do that
It's their way back into this
Still four more rounds available five on the table
Taugie now brings out the AWP you're gonna have to win another one of those if you want to break
Balance a parry it could even be two assuming the saves
I'm a bit more traditional now that he's starting to soften up the banana progressions.
and it's waist on a and belch knock
right to the between those slides
oooohhh
jumps off from no to confirms
warp trained on his location backing away
and then ZL I still have a bunch of you tilt to lob through
to try and stall this out
this out. Minut 10 on the clock and keep up banana now with four.
Bomb down T stairs. That's a little bit of a problem if they do want to explode.
You don't have the bomb. Jimmy coming back now. They're contacting this.
Notice he's not prepared for this.
Gets cover and supports yellow down and the site open for business.
All right. Still a bunch of rounds left to be played. We might see them hold off here.
Maybe just play to contain on this ET side. Make sure they can't hunt you immediately.
But I don't think this is one worth going for.
and that will come down to timing just to contact walk in.
I could have seen Dastan call one
the conclusion of this round so Maus will now make it two.
Got Vitality versus the Mongols and our second semi-final coming up next.
So a contingent of Mongolian fans come all the way from Warsaw on a bus.
They made an insane amount of impact on the crowd energy last night.
They definitely brought the vibe on the bus.
Will this half get turned upside down?
There's a 7-0.
Things were flowing.
Now, as of yesteryear, would have crumbled under that.
Now, it didn't come with the opening, but it came with some good trade work.
You catch them by surprise, sure they get the first, but you're all in their face, so
it's nice to see no dust on time out, but those saves do give them another one, so maybe
not fearing the finances broken just yet.
again 14 stairs just give you second hit ahead of it this time
out of pushing down
he's tucked in, ahead of the brakes
he's in the smoke
Prota is playing with fire
Tielo is not even really supporting him
can I try and bait with the half wall smoke
the retake util that would imply this corner
corner. Yeah, get baited.
Look line and sinker, but now is way gone. Jimmy has to expect
another not planning boiler like that. So aggressively on your
own. James was with him backs off now. Butch not has this long
side number advantage for mouse.
It's their own way back in James. Sonny seems to think so. He's
gonna be in the right place to receive this.
How's your jiggle?
Crouch. Yep. Crouch at your own risk.
James punished, blocked on the apps with 50 seconds on the clock.
Have to go through this.
Spinks has to make it.
He's just going, certainly thinking about it.
Action on both sides.
At the same time, simultaneous still with Rollin' Gone,
and Ziello says nothing else.
James, shock on all three.
Can't believe he's going for this.
He's going to push down mid.
Gouchlock's going to call Banana clear.
They know what has to change.
James got company.
Host me.
Oh, no!
He's not going well!
Spinks at his back turn, presented,
and James through in the spanking.
He pulls out the pistol, Torgie hits it. Just in time.
Chance to reload 20 seconds.
Can Torgie...
Come up clutch.
Doesn't look likely. He's surrounded.
But there's a barnage! Somehow still alive!
The yellow can't find him. Torgie one shot!
Oh! God hit it! Wistles it past!
The yellow! Hold on!
I think they have lifted through the box there.
He saw his health go low.
Oh the crowd helped their breath with that one.
Oh, okay, eight now for the Paravision CT Hall.
James just stayed on the balcony, even as time to scope for that one.
It is outrageous.
Okay.
Good trade there from Torgie. You need to get the info.
James will put that one in and then this one takes the time scopes up and this is crazy.
By and time, Torgie.
It's a real good crack at it. Two rounds from Torgie.
Oh, man, it would be one hell of a clutch as well.
Yeah, well, he's had two of those now.
Chances that have just gone amiss.
That note's at 1, 2, 3, take early has really set the tone.
There's a huge difference between an 8-4 and a 10-2.
Yeah, well, just as caravans, as the scoreline I had last time.
Still a way to make this half respectable.
Ooh, spots the tip of the hand. Let's get away with it.
Jimmy alive and kicking. Not hell of a good HE there.
Oh, solid damage!
Sofened up, M4 headshots galore now.
Look at this setup there, all just around oranges. This is no good.
Who takes that first contact?
Tamsir now as well.
So that gets caught through the wall bang.
Flushed forward by the flame block, smoke thrown.
Oh, it's good now. New lockpicks down.
Jimmy needs to find you a way out.
Yep.
He needs to be active on this ALERK.
Gotta get past the way.
He's still got himself a smoke to work with.
There isn't.
Only for pigs.
They're hanging around.
There's a freebie!
Okay.
Absolutely guaranteed.
No to just walking through the grey screen.
I want the beef eight now.
Yeah, this could work brilliantly.
It's all on its way.
The food's planted, it is just one man.
He needs a multi.
He needs to go insane.
This way, finds the immediate headshot.
Caught the flash.
Does he get another chance?
Jimmy denies.
Sight taken.
Go fishing.
Give this one a little bit of a look.
Put the rod in the water.
You don't have to commit.
Find a round coming up next.
You got money.
but just see if they make an overstep.
There's still a way back in. Bomb has just gone down.
If Maus let this one slip, that is surely gonna be the end there.
Hopes and dreams of returning to the grand final a year on.
HG damage looks good. Perfect!
Lands in Jimmy's back pocket. Now clear from the elevation.
Beltenock finds exertion. Taught he's gone!
mouse, hopes the dreams go toppling down!
Deepview's just in time!
It's just beautiful to watch. How else can you put it?
To see the details, you understand the thought process.
James covers the line, take the space, there he comes in.
Sway does his job in pit and the fact that they pull this one off.
And they went fishing and they caught a big one.
Well, I'm now on the CT side.
You can get the guns out, sure, but we're not talking about the finances anymore, Maus.
It's about the rounds.
You're going to start converting and quick.
Normally, this is what happens against Vitality.
Only they're going up against the team to have the elite and they're making light work.
Well this, sure, is another top four for Maus, but it's the same old story.
Jelly legs on the big stage. That's a nice start from Jimmy. Quick from Zway though.
Catches, brawl, and walk in. The aggression in the apartment's rewarded,
but there's an easy pick up for Belchenok. He needs more though.
Oh, he's got help. Notus slips in for one.
He's to live.
Oh!
The shot!
Close lines, Jimmy.
Sashaan holds on and gives him a little something to summon
at the tail end of the half.
OK, well, sure, they get something consecutive
at the book end of that one, but all in all,
West Swap and sides.
And this is a run and a half for a paravision.
Inferno lost, they have to know.
To right now, they're looking to correct that column.
You're in themself everything they need and more to close this down in two
The only stat line that they have that is impressive
Includes is the fact that they have the most maps played every single series up into this point has been played and
So three maps now would be quite the time to make it a two zero
Yeah, semi-finals up against none other than the defending champs
That's when you buck the trend, that's when you find and maximize efficiency in this series.
Look at the round, 1-2 lost to mouse, 2-1 over G2, 2-1 over FaZe, a lost to Furia, win over Foot.
To get to this arena and the upset victory against Falcons, and this time there's no standing, there's no excuse.
There's no community dialogue, you did it with all the pieces.
A lot of util for this T-side pistol.
Three smokes, that means three players have invested in Nades without the kev.
I don't need to tell you how important this pistol is for miles and their hopes of seeing
that battle for the trophy tomorrow.
to get that early pick off.
Info play from Torchy. We saw this on Dust 2. The amount of space they're going to take
it frees up a rotation again. Rollin at Coffins has two HEs. He's got another one right behind
and he can pick up the moment and that's a big one.
There's another one where that came from.
It's definitely B, he tells you she's behind him.
I don't know what's up.
Jimmy's here now too.
If you can't win this one, you're not winning any of them.
They're going to go through the smoke.
He went ahead of the H-E, yellow exposed, brought low.
He's going to try and push on through off the flashes.
Exertion should be good for this, Jimmy.
Just tapping heads, brawling as well.
Everyone gyps in.
Belchenok bunny hopping try to get away, but it's totally ready to just escort Jane off of this pistol clean click
And they'll clear out Belchenok to try to keep the sheep clean. That's the most convincing round yet
And it is likely just to see
Niko now from Paravish and up to this point every time on these two sides
They're not getting the bomb down has been the Ecos
I'm looking at buck trends.
I'm going to try something a little bit different.
Well, this is what got you to this point.
So stick to the plan.
Stick to those fundamentals.
Give mouths this fit.
Quick game of Fruit Ninja.
Mid-Semi-Final.
No, no.
Oh man.
We got blood on his pants.
Oh, he missed it. That's level 3. Fail.
He missed one.
Yeah, he's missed 11.
Oh, he's losing points now. He's hammering points.
It's the new technique.
Come on, Spike, if you're gonna start something.
Yeah, do it.
Who won't tell anyone?
Oswey now knows he's the center of attention.
Probably the most funny he's had on an eco in a while.
Actually, no, I take that back.
The one on Ancient yesterday against Falcons, I think that one.
I think you're right, I think that one's gonna stand out.
That might be the tournament. Shout to Kiyosuke.
Well, 35 on the clock, and they're going to try their luck.
Water falling into A for the plant.
A little bit of extra cash to splash if they can get past Jimmy's A4.
Yeah, they've proven they can with the T-side.
He goes in the A.
We start with a yellow headshot.
They're going to keep you honest.
But Jimmy, honestly, has no problem.
Alright, two rounds, lot of casualty.
Now we get into the guns,
and this is where the desk discussed
the T-side woes for Jane.
So are they able to make an incision early,
and if so, that likely means things spill over quickly.
Are they gonna be a stubborn for this banana control
as previously highlighted?
Do they wanna try something over towards A
to at least soften things up, force them rotations,
they have a set piece.
You would have expected this to be the map choice
before coming into today.
Right.
This first gun round is something that you plan for.
This has to be part of the script.
It's around you've drilled, around that you've
come up with a strong understanding of what
you want to try and achieve.
Zealo already got some apartment control.
Yeah, he's just been flashed into Boiler, so already.
A nice bit of territory for them to plant their flag in.
It's early, now the announcement of presence by the T's, only smoke combo exertion committed,
and that smoke's missed.
Far from ideal, especially when it's a limited resource.
Defensive flash, available from Brolin here to help exertion if he gets pushed off the
line.
Shame joining this now is...
Very well timed, 50 seconds.
The bronze still has a smoke to block on B.
It's one of the problems with Inferno, if you don't apply enough pressure...
CTs can hold onto these maybes, that being juggled now.
This thing's tucked into trash, Jimmy on the balcony, towards you, floating mode of...
No info off of that for Sphinx, but now they're up.
Yeah, he knows now.
Penny drops.
Cielo likes it to go for a clear here. They've even flashed it, but no one's cleared it. No one's cleared it.
Sway just in time to save his comrade.
Jimmy, not the perfect angle for this kind of fight. He just crouches, commits.
Taught he stole it for two.
A side open.
Bromond, what? Straight through the smoke.
Alright, this round's back on.
Yeah, he has just given them a way back in.
Exertion was darting back over to B. Now it's fast down Bernaday. He'll be late to this shore, but he has the kit.
2v2 retake on A, Belchnock back of the pit, Jamie in the side.
This is a must win for nows as hopes and dreams of map 3.
Got Belchnock ready and bearing to go.
Change the pipe.
Now we'll force a decision out of Belchnock.
He chooses to fight. That's his plan.
Swings on in, Brolin receives.
What have you got, Jamie? The clutch! Has he got another one in him?
Rollin' denies!
Picks up the kit just enough time.
Just enough time?
Yeah, they got it.
Oh!
Now it's holding on.
Tastin looking a little bit discombobulated after that, one sign to see that there is not a guarantee.
Thank you very much.
You're a sweetheart.
A tough one there for Belchnock, right?
He wants to delay as much time, so he's playing the fundamental of the clock, but swings out left, maybe he has a better shot at getting something done.
So, three straight rounds. Make it four if you consider the last of the first half and
now conversation back on what was looking like domination is still going to be a hard
way back in.
Brolin's capacity to just find the necessary frag.
And look at the party there. The first player going, well, okay, yeah, if you're not going
to shoot, we're going to clear it on that second timing. You're not getting that for
three and when nows have had some of these tougher moments, Brolin does stand up and
deliver truly eight kills impact through and through is it's partial investment on
a K or tech nines and a load of you two. And if that comes down to a one be one, know that
the money's a little bit wonky for now. So you can get another close one, you keep them
right where you want them break point.
He's out, he's out.
Exertion starts heavy-nade damage.
Here comes Rollins.
Oh, so lucky.
Heading out some of this U2, and this one's all about it.
Such a layered game.
Wow. I'm sure it's just how stubborn he wants to be here for this control.
Alright, well they've used the flashes, they've used the HEs, they've used the incendries,
It's just problem with the Sniper.
The exertion went back expecting a little bit more.
It's going to be one of those late round pops.
This is tough.
They do need that third man.
Torgy coming over has these flashes.
These have to come in clutch.
Cam, they're highlighting that they're cleared out
over towards ace.
They're now going to be the B finish,
but this still won't be easy.
Especially with exertion low,
these pistols are going to take a lot of space.
Yeah, but you can see flash in front or above.
Double up one new box.
There's our oranges.
Safe.
Roll into play.
Exertion to be baited in.
Roll into Texas contact up the flash of Torgie.
Says they must be successful.
No to confirms with his location in the back of the site.
Jane back to Netflix.
Into it!
10 seconds!
They have to be planting!
Belcherock, they must be covering him.
He's going for the wall bang.
Torgie, no, on the face!
Catches Jane!
Pulls us into it.
Vartix from Malz, extended by Jimmy.
Just the yellow in the clutch and he can't find the head!
Doesn't have the bullet.
doesn't have the bullets.
Torchy can finish this on the pistol.
10 HP! Oh my god, he actually hit another!
Sketchy there, tense.
Didn't get a moment to plant their boots, getting picked apart on the fade of the smokes.
The B-Defense does a great job to get the seventh down for Maus.
This is what you want to see.
They're putting up a defense of their own.
So another one that's close, you keep the pressure on to stay alive.
What's the partial buyer now into the guns again?
Getting that down Jame will facilitate himself another AK. Otherwise it might have been something light up
See the momentum shift in this one now five consecutive
Something 3B toji to smoke deep banana Sphinx joins the control
Pace, boost, quick onto the half wall just to house keep that deep smoke.
Three of them quite aggressive here, wanting to really make sure that they have this spacename too.
It's Jimmy, and Torji posted on A. Jimmy under the porch, Torji here in apps trying to lock down the line on the crawl.
The only man here needs to think better about going for a swing, but also...
The nature he keeps on doing some damage, and that nades well placed.
Beautiful.
Just look at this tone from ParryVision. Never early in banana, right?
They're definitely feigning presence, but they're...
Now he's just going through all their U2 and then looking to take the space back late.
And they'll be able to change that up as long as they break through with one of these slower paces.
Then you can subvert that expectation.
Spinks, borrowed in, crossfire with Jimmy.
Spam to try and draw them in, hoping they overlook, Sping's tucked close, he's going
searching now, Belcher not holding the line!
Removes him, it's the A rotator, so a piece of information given.
Jimmy stays vigilant, Torgie sweeps on through with the AWP, prime angle for an equalizing
frag, 20 seconds!
They're coming for you, Tophie.
Exertion shuts them down.
The bottom of the mid.
No attack.
They're coming towards the A site.
It's looking too perfect.
Beautiful!
Oh, it's stunning from Jimmy!
Jimmy Salo solo mid.
And we've got a one-round game.
We've got a game.
Get on the terrorist's win.
I'm assuming after that spin step,
they're going to back out of mid as Jimmy.
It's like a smile, it's onto the Finn's face.
Time out called from Dastan.
Now they're in a bit of trouble, he's in space,
and they're just bruised up for the first two to the third.
It's that A4 transfer, and how's it feeling, comfy now?
What was the moment where they felt that pressure?
I don't think so anymore.
Round away from tying this up.
Osbonus obviously maxed out and in play for Parry,
and that's going to get them in with another buy.
So that's the easiest of the patch.
You had that problem and exertion retake.
You had the attempt with the Tech 9s pouncing on a B.
They were close. They were tough.
That one easy. Four stay in the life.
They were to extend a bit of a buffer now if things do get difficult.
I think they already have.
Now showing no signs of slowing.
Again, it's this pace, right?
vision up contesting early so is that gonna change or is it more the same
just with the lighter guns
noted middle
Timing spray doesn't find his mark.
Double nades towards the box, not a cone.
Giant smoke.
So this mode is slow run.
They want to flash through this.
Exertion completely blind.
He should be broke.
The brawl and holds the line.
They want to flash through this, Exertion completely, his line should be broke but Brolin holds the line!
It's his sight, gotta do it without the help of Exertion.
Backs away, Util not available, it's gonna be Torgie's belt that they have to rely upon to keep that B-side blocked.
Finds him some extras towards the spawn site.
45.
Don't you know I'm heading back over swiftly now to join this?
I have to go.
Way better have a hell of a smoke break here.
Sphinx is rotating too.
Torgy ready?
Doesn't quite spot him.
Covered by the smoke.
Here comes Wayne, leaping to his demise.
Yellow on top, Roland though.
Charging in.
Aware that the orb is still hanging out towards the back of the site.
Yellow's his next victim.
towards you doing everything you can to keep this flowing in the right direction for mouse James back turned exposed spinks
the right place at the right time
Bell schnock's gonna try and cheat the plant takes it up the instant headshot
There's a world where he hits that brings it into the 1v1, but we ain't living in it
Well, that was a force. I'm not sure if they take another
up. Both teams with that massive run of CT side rounds with the pistol, the conversions,
they keep flowing. Paravizion were able to get seven straight. Maus right now have six,
so just one more to tie that up and show the dominance on the defence. So there hasn't
been the shift in play in terms of pace and Dustin will take his final time out. Now,
the previous map, scoreline was 10 to eight, he took his last time out, they closed the
game from there. Are they able to do it again as both coaches completely out.
Nothing left. The same conversation is map number one. That's another opening
kill on the T side for ParaVision. It's not like they've been without those.
They've got three out of the six rounds played where they've been able to find
an opening pick. Not being able to convert off the back of those is starting
to become a little bit of a problem.
pace change that hasn't come yet. A little bit more conservative. It's not
getting caught overextending, but when you don't get offered that,
actually, they're falling forward with the sandbag and mouth of a banana.
Yeah, one difference is that the early HE did find
any damage onto exertion. Not going to deter him from an early, aggressive jaunt.
This thing has the brackets control, or at least most of it. Jimmy's still wary of
a potential boiler slip. That's a bit of a gap over there on A, but
being acknowledged with a smoke-equality fence.
Drops up, pays down, now they profit!
Soffered up by the Nade!
It's rolling out of bullets!
Gotta get back to the site, no to confirms, he's back on...
Tucked in the site with a crossfire now, spinks Jimmy, everyone!
Gallops over to lend a hand.
And in the meantime, space opens up for Jane.
He's lining up Nade.
He wants to sell that they're immediately pivoting, and look at that, immediately!
They turn, sprinting back to the site. Worried they've lost it. Worried they've given up.
An open run for the A finish and it puts it all on to Brolan.
The captain got to come up clutch. Does he go for the timing spam or does he simply walk through the smoke?
Oh! Both of them fall.
Beautiful output from Brolan. Pulse it into the three on three. Now the jig is up for Jane on the cheeky lurk.
She's still looking for him right now. She knew it would be late banana on this.
James got a timing he's gonna be on the flank Bell John's cannot afford to go down. He needs a gun. It's found one
She's coming city. He's coming into James. He's jumping straight into James yours, but no tech nine versus a cake Jimmy prevails
Comes out on top. It's up to Belgium on that first fight has to be lethal
Spinks on the fight yellows ready shoulder spotted yellow controls the spray
There are another time Jack headshot not there
You need to get on that defuse the yellow step nimble with the tech knife crossing the clock further
Oh, they get the kills and they've got the defuse mouse
Holding on pulling that defuse off again by the skin of their teeth
That's double digits ten rounds now for miles they handle that one and they've tied up the seven straight on the CT side
Another one that gets awfully close to us done
He's stressing out while watching these unfold.
Straight opener from Sway.
Brolin, this is such a crazy move.
Here's the only player there.
Jimmy doesn't win that round, though, but Zello kicks him across here, and then playing
early, not playing for the bomb, Belchinock.
He thinks he can help, he steps out, he gets nothing done.
Oh!
How's that for a difference maker?
Yeah, the AWP on the T side, we haven't seen this yet.
Oh, Jane, look, you heard the desk discuss these split-second decisions based off of the state of play.
And the state of play has just changed.
Told you went down early. Pressure applied to the exertion, keeping his boots planted and his information minimal.
Looks like nows have got an inkling as to what's going on. You can see the mass evacuation back towards the A site.
Long smoke in, motor to be deployed.
Spinks will be here in time.
Flash towards the shore site, Jimmy's going to swing on this.
He's looking for blood, he finds nothing but misery.
Galil brings him down, Belgium or Cairo, over.
Spinks only the two.
Looking set to collect their first taste.
A victory on the T side of Inferno.
They're crazy, the similarities between the halves right now.
Seven straight from both of these teams and now finally barked.
But I'll keep drawing attention to this is where ParaVision, once you're in deep waters
they break your money late.
You've been winning, you've had the success, but you have bottom of the barrel loss bonus.
Lucky you've got cash on a couple.
The tuition to give that opener up, getting a little bit comfy of no AWP, warding off
middle, goes down immediately and you can see that opening incision is a big way in.
short-lived lead as we tie things back up.
Very similar to that first half of play.
Remember, coaches have expended their timeouts as the investments start to come together.
He has the most money remaining at 2.3 with only 1,900 coming into the next.
If they lose a site, they have to save.
It's actually a positive for Paravision if this turns out into a labour trade game late
and you actually wipe the board and get away with the round.
Can Paravision pull miles into the mud?
Versions on to Ted.
The control.
The
early made exchange.
Now that one-minute mark, exertion.
Well, through all the smoke now, previously he's learned his lesson.
He ate a flashbang through that.
So what she was doing is banana hold now whether that's just to donate the utila whether that's to post the orp on the line
We're about to find out but paravisioner ahead of this
At least they were perfectly time there on the incendiary spinks done well with the timing that made
It's got the yellows name brand all over it
He's held on to it
Thank you that made cue spots them throws it for the hunt mistrode and now rounding the corner just in time saves himself
Ah, trap smokes.
Now, Stampeden, Spinks attention drawn.
Molotov might flush up, Rollin, he's got a reposition.
Quickly headshot, not found, Yellow's gone!
He's just handed out two headshots!
Number three as well on the menu!
And once again, late in the game, they are in control of the money.
You're gonna look to hold on to this belchnock a banana janko man to respond
Losing this all
What's you in the toughest the spots that you can't take that time out to have a breath and collect yourself
This is all by design
Sure, why I said I was gonna play so you're all I'm sure it would be nice. He doesn't he doesn't know
Oh, hold on. I thought Bertrand definitely saw him there.
Brings it through, something to work with, but still.
Tough call right now to make. You could play for overtime.
Oh, number two, so snappy, and the fact that he can adjust into exertion to stop that spray.
They're playing for overtime.
They are playing for overtime. Sure, I mean, you know, your arm at 5.7 can't be deadly.
Yeah, but this is not a full investment. This isn't a shot behind the awp.
So they're not conceding this round. They're not just rolling over, but they haven't fully invested.
Oh, he's positive with the head. You've got to dismount.
loses half HP from the flame and now HG could have been the end of him.
Orpus noted that pivoting quickly. Yeah they are. They know it's going to be constricted.
I think they stay mid-centric.
Crawling overlooked, goes across the cross every doesn't find anything on the pistol.
Jimmy hoping to buck the trend.
Does manage to hit a burst to the face of Belchunok.
George, you're playing around this for a crazy hell, Mary. He's so low.
He's playing a risky game, a single bullet, a straight.
He would have brought him down.
It's yellow, late arrival.
Sashik, distracts!
And Torgie, destructs!
Gales, one, Springston in the apartment.
It's a three on three.
Everything to play for now.
Paravision, you've got into the site.
Is there anything to be said about this one for Maus?
The grand scheme.
Paravision, just need to see that bomb explode.
There will be one round away on the ground in finals here, inclusion of Hocka.
Jimmy. Oh, nearly caught a bullet onto his way there.
No to the back, the side is low, but that doesn't stop him finding output.
Spinks is the last of four.
A smirk creeps onto the face of James.
He knows what he's done. He's given his team two opportunities.
Two golden opportunities to do what they haven't done once this tournament.
to win a series in two.
Remember, they've been slow on the banana roll.
Opportunity to mix things up. Well, it was James Orp. It's been James.
Dust 2, all about this man.
Looks like Maus gonna try gamble of their own for towards a just exertion on B
Jane brazen up mid no noise no sound cues no you till just posturing in the gut saying hey come and have a look
See who's home?
The way to the world right now when exertion shoulders, but all those needs it needs to be perfect with this
Just not beat, throw on the map, but the timing of these key pieces to Yuto can make all the difference.
I think it's clear that Jame is at home. Back on the big stage, taking down big names.
They're not playing for any info across the map right now, Mouse.
Tozhi's the only one long-sword. They're going!
This is just a part of it!
Exertion's alone! He is on an island! The Nades!
So many in the sky! Exertion throws out the flash to try and disrupt and is still all behind it.
Now they go for the smoke break, hiding out in the pool,
Straybull it finds it, Belcher not puts it down,
a push from Zwei, it's falling apart for Miles now.
Meek.
But it will end in a win for Miles.
Power of vision, I've got them right where they want them.
Boot on the neck.
Pulled apart, limb from limb.
Power of vision.
We've just got to take down Jimmy.
It's a certainty at this point, there will be a new champion, Inclusion Aboka.
Mouses first opponent here in Cluj was ParaVision.
And in the pursuit of defending that trophy, their last will be ParaVision.
Eliminated here in the semi-finals, and they saved the 2-0 for the Sennys.
What a performance, 3 tournaments in 2026.
and Paravision they booked himself a spot in another final. Another shot at
Silverware already. 20-26 is going to be their year and they've made it
abundantly clear to start it off. You don't want to go deep against this team do
you? Nobody has a better understanding of the finances late in the piece. You get
down to the 10-10s, funny on the line, you're making a comeback and they break
your heart. Paravision get it done.
Paravision have done it. They've taken down Maus. They got revenge and they're
through to the grand final.
James yesterday this crowd was not on your side right now they're on their feet
they're cheering for you. Anything you want to say to them?
I want to say thank you guys, it's very important for my team, it's the first crowd for them and thank you a lot. It's very important for them.
It's very important to them, it's very important to you. This is your journey back to the top of Counter-Strike.
It started in Blast Bounty, you looked really good while doing it. But taking this young team and doing it on a stage,
how much harder was it to keep your team in check and get them to do what you
needed to do? I guess it was unbelievable. It's happened not every day. It's so hard
guys. It's one year a lot of work and some stuff like that. And looking at this
you faced Mals back in the group stage when you played in Furno last time you
You decided to start on the T side.
This time you switched it up on the CT side.
Why was that?
When you change something I think, and I have four very individual skilled players and they
just crushed them, that's all.
They did crush them and they made it look really easy as well.
Now, you're going into the grand final tomorrow.
You leave the face vitality or mongols.
Either way for you, do you feel like you're maybe starting to feel some more pressure
Or is it still the same feeling when you're in the server, when you're on this stage?
I think it would be Vitality more precious than Mungles, because Vitality is like a right boss.
We want Vitality, I think.
Okay, you won by chance, you won a hard fight.
Well, I think the people in here would like to see it as well.
Jane, congratulations, you're through to the grand final!
Clues, make some noise!
Listen, Jayme is calling Vitality the Raid boss.
You do yourself a bit of a disservice right now because there's a lot of people out there
that when Paravision won the blast, they said it was a fluke, it was an anomaly, you weren't
going to see it again.
Now we're seeing them in a final again.
It's extremely impressive stuff from Jayme and company to show that level of composure
as mouths are mounting their own comeback as things are getting a little bit dicier.
Listen boys, I tell you all the time in the green room, the game starts at 10-10 for Paravision.
Go put on a cup of tea, relax, chill, at 10-10, come back. The game is real, then.
Yeah, certainly, he felt like it. And you know, it was just the fact that Maus was coming back in the second half.
It was Paravision. It didn't look too hot, right?
It seemed to be fairly easy for Maus to get a read on them. They weren't putting that much pressure on Maus,
but you know luckily they had a couple of timeouts up their sleeve had time for Dustin to chime in for him and
James to figure it out
What's the approach of the players stepped up a little bit we talked before the game about last time they played mouse on
Inferno, they were very stubborn in going be every time trying to take that banana control here
There is sort of conceded alright doesn't have to be that way after losing a couple around not being able to clutch over on the
V bomb site. They just switched their focus on a and it worked much better for them
C.L.O. and Zwei stepped up towards the tail end of that game,
finding entries, taking over that A bomb site,
and they managed to come out on top on small.
Also, the way that they were even execing onto the A bomb site,
as you can see here around 21, it's just smoking all the right places.
Fire, brimstone, ballies, what have you.
Everything is pretty much lit up for Malz.
There's so few places you can stand on top of that.
I mean, ParaVision, when they really got down to crunch time,
their trading was excellent too.
The players were just on top of each other.
Mouse could really never multi-track.
And then what happens?
Final round of the game, Mouse opens 4A.
They're playing retake B.
James goes B at the perfect time, right?
They just get all the kills, get the bombsite,
and then close out the game easily.
Yeah, and look, the redemption story.
Zwei has been the standout at this tournament
since joining from Spirit.
A lot of people thought he was going to be one and done.
You know, he was pulled out, brought up to the bigs.
Here he is, he gets to have one big tournament with Spirit,
everybody's kind of mocking him, he has that one life series
and then he's cast into oblivion,
where Jane was ready to receive him and bring him through.
The funny thing about Zway is that the first series
where he really caught people's eye
when he donned the Spirit jersey,
was probably versus Mao's at Cologne,
when they were actually,
when he was more or less the right-hand man's donk
in the victory there, so to see him do it again
after even having lost to Mao's earlier,
It's a bit of an extra redemption to a guy that's already had one.
Yeah, well, we'll put a pin in it for now.
We're going back to the stage for James Banks.
He's going to talk to Brolan.
Thank you very much, Richard.
I've got Brolan with me here standing by.
And Brolan, it's a tough loss to take for you guys for sure.
Looking at this game, say, starting with the Dust 2.
I would say the game, a lot of openings, some positives
within the game for you to take there,
but still unable to get the win.
What was happening from your side?
I think we got a little bit slower starting on CT Dust2, I think we should have won some retakes, especially.
I think they played a really good game and I think we could manage to win Dust2.
I think, of course, Info wasn't way slower than we thought it was going to be, but yeah, we managed to get a good comeback, but we couldn't really close it in end.
Why were you unable to close it? What is the hard part of playing against this ParaVision?
Were you maybe feeling some extra pressure, you know, the fact it's another semifinal game for Malz?
Yeah, I also feel like the Cityside really stack every team and on the T-side they like to play with rotations and it's a really unique style of playing.
You don't really see that often anymore and of course it's Jim, his own playstyle and I think it's really hard to play against him.
But I think we just need experience to play it more and then it's probably going to be better in the future versus now.
Certainly, all things get better with a bit more experience in there.
For you guys looking at this whole run right, it was very positive starting off with a win against Paravizion in the whole group.
to vitality up to that. Where are you putting yourselves at right now?
Because people expect so much of Maus to be making it further.
You yourselves want to be being able to be the title contenders, right?
But it still seems steps away when you lose even games like this.
Yeah, I mean, it's hard to, of course, we won the titles all the time when we were competing,
but you need to be realistic. That is everyone wants to do it.
It's a really strong group of teams at the moment.
I think we, it's not only us that are struggling and play us the games, but
But we just need to do our best and that's what we are capable of doing.
But maybe in the press situations, we are not playing the series we want to do.
But of course we are working on it and it will come.
We don't give up and we try to leave the pass in our backs and just move forward.
That's a really good and positive mentality as well.
And lastly, for the fans back home, I've even seen the mouse flag in the arena.
You're not completely outnumbered here, but any final words?
Anything you want to say to everyone?
I mean, thank you for the support. Of course, it's not always fun to be booed, but it is what it is.
But just remember that we are humours and we are one of us playing.
But yeah, thank you for the support and hopefully see you next year.
Couldn't agree more. Thank you very much, Paul. We should get back to that.
Listen, I guess I'm at a mad time. I'm going to call bullshit on some of that interview.
And I'm coming to you on it, Janko. You know, he's talking about one-and-a-gain experience.
does that start if not now, right?
If not at this stage, he says he always
wants to win championships.
Tell your team, because it's another semifinal,
eminently beatable opponents.
If Jamie's getting the finals with 18-year-olds
that he's had this limited amount of time to play with,
there are no excuses for Maus, I'm afraid.
I mean, after the first half of last year,
I said Maus, if they don't win a trophy
until the end of the year, they have to make a change, right?
And they didn't win a trophy and they didn't make a change.
And why would you expect anything
to be different this season, right?
like, magically things won't just happen out of the blue,
and it can be very well a case of these players
could be successful, some of them on another team, right?
Maybe they could be a part of a championship
winning roster elsewhere, but this group of five guys
just doesn't mesh well enough together.
People jokingly talk about Tora,
but you need to have some of that.
You need to have some of that bravado, you know,
championship sort of pedigree attitude,
and no one on their lineup has it.
No one is a proven winner. No one is done it on the big stage.
It could sort of show it to the rest of them
and lead the way for the rest of the players.
And I don't see how they are going to overcome that last...
And remember, Mali, reigning champions here.
Yeah, of course.
So you think they would have that in their back pocket,
a little bit of familiarity, some comfort with the arena.
Turns out, doesn't really seem to matter in the face of James,
who just really bodied Brolin in the head to head.
And that's why if you ask me about what change needs to come for them
or what you should really start looking into.
I've said it earlier in the tournament,
I'll say it again, Brolin.
I feel like all of the other players
have shown what they're capable of.
They have one of the best defenses out there in the world.
That's not by accident.
That's because they do actually have
some really strong role players per position.
I think Torsi's fine on that side.
I think also Yim Pad is great,
but really I think that the T sides
are where they're frequently let down.
And I don't see Brolin having made that much progress.
In fact, he would even really make the argument
he's regressed since the last time they were here,
They were able to lift the trophy.
I'll tell you, one thing they could try and do is attend more smaller events.
Like go to PGL Bucharest when some of these big names won't be,
and go lift the trophy there, see if that does something for you.
Look at if events clash, where's Vitality not going to be?
Go to the other tournament, try to do something where you see
that's going to be the catalyst for you.
Funnily enough, people forget,
Maus was at the semi-final of the Rio Major, right?
Obsertion, entorgy, just up, you know, graded from the academy team,
Cyclone is well part of that lineup.
That's where James handed them the business too,
you know, going all the way to lift the trophy there.
So I guess some things never change.
Don't want to end on a negative.
So let's talk some more about Paravish before we go to a break.
Have you seen anything that convinced you that they can hoist the trophy?
I mean, we don't know who they're playing yet.
Some people think it could be Vitality.
Who knows, Mongols could get the upset.
I'm scared more when it comes to Paravision against Vitality that, you know, there's like very good teams and then there's Vitality.
They're the final boss and also psychologically, right, for these players, once they get on the server against Ivo, against Rops,
like that's when you get more nervous than you usually do.
So I'm just concerned that the level for Paravision will drop off compared to some of these other games.
I mean, Jay wanted it. He asked for it.
Yeah, but if it doesn't, if it doesn't, then, you know, there's still this team that has a high floor doesn't make too many mistakes,
makes you work for every single round where you have to be concentrated all the time, right?
Give them an inch there, take a mile, and, you know, vitality is vitality, but I think they could make it competitive at the very least.
I definitely don't see them beating vitality in a best of five. If Mongols somehow pull off the upset as they continue to surprise us,
Well, then anything's actually possible there and maybe Jame and
Paravision could lift another tier one trophy in this season way before.
I thought they would actually be able to return to a stage like this.
However, I don't think that if it actually does come down to vitality,
I'm a little bit more tepid on my enthusiasm regarding how competitive
that'll be because Paravision, they like to just really hammer certain sites.
If they recognize a weakness, it feels like they always do need an adaptation
on their T side and I think vitality is just so well rounded.
I think there's so many people who are consistently just live problem solvers
Anybody on the team can step up at a moment to say that okay guys
Like they're all willing to recognize if there is a hole in their game that James trying to exploit and the key thing
They've spared us another mouse by talent. Yes, so
All thanks and all praise to Paravision guys and my thanks to you. It's been great hanging out
We're now gonna go and get a beer and sit in the bleachers and what's the second semi-final? It's gonna be awesome
So there we have it. Yeah, well, but you're not you're gonna stay and you're gonna watch the next semi-final here
It'll of course be techno him and just bring that one back so much for watching. Don't go anywhere
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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.
Do you like how middle can be played now? Does it give you an advantage on CT?
For Anibis, I think it's great. I can do more early picks, for example, from that window.
And I can have the control either they are taking from stairs or they are taking from carpet side to AC.
So, if I see that, nobody holding them, drop guys can push or something.
And we can do flash pick in mid with timing because I'm holding down and I'm really close to picking mid.
It's also more opportunistic for T-Side, so you can boost, for example, it's used Aurora,
like Xantharus liked to boost a lot towards this window from water, so you have opportunity
to kill city guys who are rotating, you know, it's one more opportunistic for T-Side.
Right now, when I play on T-Side in the middle, it's very hard to take it very fast and you
have to wait like for your teammates to group up somewhere and do something and then I can
take it all.
I think it helps a lot because now the T's have to worry about one more thing to admit
and it's easier for the T's to work that angle than going to the middle of the bridge and
try to do something you know and so it's definitely another grade from the city perspective.
The fact that the T's now have to also use a molotov kind of instantly, it removes a
molotov that's gonna come and gain later for the T site, can be helpful for the big guys
For example, they're always getting mulled a lot of places, so now you have to take an account that one or more times is going to be used.
There's no gap on the bridge, so it makes it easier for CTs to play aggressive on the bridge.
And also the gap with connection to water is the Connector player, K-flayer, and also playing aggressive into the water makes it easier for the CTs.
Then also it's opportunity for city to be behind so fast, you know?
Flanking, yes.
Flanking, so for me like A player, if you are stuck B, for example 3B, I just can block A, rotate to mid.
If I have mid control, I will be so fast behind him, so that we will be so strong around B, you know?
Yeah.
I will just drop down and kill Gavis.
But with these changes, our opera can be in front of everyone if you have a round to start with it.
But now there are aunties for it, mollows, smokes, nades, so sometimes you are just wasting your health while you're making a move.
But overall is great. When the teams are starting to adapt something, it's getting much better.
So it will be in the future if the teams are playing a lot.
We'll see more different types of things.
It's mystery player time once again.
We've got Falcons Monastery joining us.
It's Ima from Na'Vi, Vroki.
Can we go up with me here?
Hey NQZ, we're going to be playing Mystery Players.
I'm going to show you some team logos
and then you're going to try and guess which player we're looking at.
So let's get the first one started.
And this player is from Gotzen Fanatic NIP.
Fanatic Gotzen Fanatic NIP?
Hmm, hmm, hmm.
I'm lost.
That's the first one.
I mean, I know it's Swedish player.
For sure he's from Sweden, right?
Good.
He's Swedish, for sure.
Wait, but Brolan didn't play for both fanatic and for sure he didn't play Goza, or?
How that can be any Swedish player? How goes Brolan?
First guess for me is Swedish player, Brolan 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.
Brawlin?
Brawlin?
Brawlin, there you go.
He's Brawlin because you...
Only because you were like...
Let's go for the second one.
Okay, TSM face clan team Liquid.
And right now he's on this tournament.
Yes.
I mean, it should be...
I won't say K again, first thought, but...
Yeah, but I'm not sure.
About TSM.
Because, like, TSM phase for me, I was thinking like...
Keegan, but he didn't play Liquid.
Exactly, you've got that one.
I can only have Keegan in my mind.
This is where he's at now.
Please.
Then it should be...
It should be Twizz then, I don't know.
Yes.
Oh, it's Twizz.
Yeah.
Trace gone, Liquid.
Twizz.
You are correct.
All right, this one.
This is even really obvious, or you're not gonna get it?
Endpoint OG, Cloud9, Mezzy.
No.
Oh, no.
Interesting.
I have it, no.
No, I don't.
I have it, no.
Okay.
Oh, play it in Endpoint.
I don't have it.
Who are you thinking?
No, I was thinking about LXP.
No.
Who went from Endpoint 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?
It's easy. It's always gonna be hard. I saw OG and Cloud9. It's my
I had no idea.
Heavy God.
Heavy God.
Yes, there we go.
It's me.
I don't know if there would be a world where I would be standing here telling you their
para-vision just made the grand finals for PGL Clues, but that is the world we are living
in.
Good evening, my name is Sam.
I'm going to be keeping you company as we move into our second semi-final of the night.
It is, of course, vitality up against Mongols.
And I'm joined on the desk by Dast and Pimp.
Boys, I bought you each a present today, and I really think you're going to like it.
I've got these great little Mongol masks for you that I think that you'll enjoy wearing
at the start of this, just to show your support for the horde who travelled all the way here.
I'm not gonna lie, we saw them yesterday and they are kind of cool.
The issue for me, Samus, and I guess it's the same for us, we wear glasses so anything
that we put on our head, you know, whether that is hats or whatever the hell this is,
it doesn't really fly so I think you should put it on, I think you should show us how
it's done.
What I'm gonna say is, I'm gonna put it on, but you know who else would have put it on?
Dupri.
Probably, probably would, but Yosa does not wear glasses and is not half blind like me in dust serve.
I remind little Mongols I'm willing to commit, okay boys.
Hey listen, listen, you know the last time I had a prop on an analyst's desk it didn't really go so well for me.
You want to try it?
Yeah, she doesn't have to talk about it.
I just got stuck.
Give it a shot, oh no, there we go, it's alright.
I'd actually just work, yeah.
I'm a scene player, pretty good, they need all the help they can get today, so.
Have you ever read the book Surrounded by Idiots?
That's just happened to you.
So you're the author?
That's what I feel right now, I'm not going to know.
This was a great idea I had.
This is awesome.
I have stuff on my head, so all good.
I tell you what, I do want to ask you a very important question first.
I know how much you love numbers, right?
So hear me out.
Mongolia has a population of 3.6 million people, and yet they can consistently find
superstars, they can help me with this.
Thanks, gents.
They can consistently find superstars to play in Counter-Strike.
And yet, in North America, I think it's more than 500 million people, and you all can't
find a top player.
What's that about?
Hey, you're just pretty good.
That's all right.
It used to be.
When was the last time we saw a leash on a playoff stage, Dast?
It's been a minute.
It's been a little minute.
Listen, that is one of the cool stars about the Mungles, the fact that they are a very
small community, a very small country overall, but a country that is really supporting that
team in a country that is, you know, in modern day in age Counter-Strike,
fostering great players, because let's be honest, 10 years ago you said Mongolian CS.
I said, what? You know, no one really knew about it. No one had any idea what kind of potential was
looming within. Mara, the Mongols, they've really done a great job. HTC, or whatever they're called
back in the day, first put them on the mark. And as of late, as you said, the Mongols, not only did
they emerge into top tier Counter-Strike, but they managed to stay here despite losing a guy like
sense to, despite losing, you know, what were the talisman of the team, their S8 or what were the X-Factor.
You can see the World Ranking Share, it's been going down a little bit and maybe we have to calibrate our expectations,
but they are in a semi-final. They're still part of the top talks. They're still getting into the playoffs consistently.
The Mongols coming out from a country with what, 3.2 million people, it is crazy.
It's absolutely crazy that they managed to continue to do it.
I think the Mongol story is one of the best ones that we've had in Counter-Strike,
And it's one of steady progression coming from a region with limited infrastructure and finding a way to make waves
You know two years ago
They're the first team from East Asia to make a major playoff and whatever they did at the Shanghai major
Then they took it a step further by making a grand final at a major not too long thereafter
And they became a consistent top five team in the world for some time and they showed us that
Explosive execute oriented counter strike could still be effective with the right team and a young team at that
They were the youngest teams to ever do what they were able to do right foot's now trying to follow those footsteps
But they did stumble a bit with a huge roster change yet
They have found a way to make this semi-final despite that and it is truly remarkable to see what they've done
I also just love the fans
I mean we were obviously playing around with the masks
But the reason I wanted to do that is because they've all traveled from Europe a bunch from Asia as well to follow this team around
They call themselves the horde that that's the masks that that we had we saw them yesterday
We're seeing them again today just incredible
Support for this team and I do think that that helps them a lot because it kind of just keeps amplifying their need to perform
Yeah, one thing is defense traveling here obviously and being I guess local or taking this long trip another one is to support the get at home
I said it yesterday referenced it yesterday, but when they were playing the major grand final you talked about in Austin
I believe local time in Mongolia. It was 2 a.m. 3 a.m. 4 a.m. And we saw
Thousands of people, you know fill up the stadiums. We saw them fill up squares outside
We saw them fill up movie theaters just to support what was the mongles in that major grand final
And so, yeah, I think they play under, I wouldn't even say pressure.
I think they play under a lot of love coming from their home country.
And I think it's also pretty evident that what we've seen on the circuit,
that they are universally loved.
It doesn't matter where we go, we could be in Cluj, we could be in America.
We can be pretty much anywhere in the world.
Everyone loves a bit of Mongols.
But they do have a hope and hope of beating Vitality,
who's playing near perfect CS right now.
Well, you don't have to be such a Debbie Downer, you know.
But yeah, sure, going over against the best team in the world
is not going to be an easy task at all for the Mongols.
Do they have a chance? Sure. I think history speaks for itself. It's been some close matchup. You know historically speaking
I'm sure we'll we'll get into that later
But but overall it's it's hard to find any team right now who can build a good case as why they should beat
There really isn't one right? I mean, I mean look when you look at vitality since this five came together at the beginning of last year
They've only had eight notable series losses
Period and think about all the different bl3s and bl5s they've played all the tournaments
they've been to and only have eight notable losses in that time frame is
absolutely absurd. Here is the numbers from last year and I mean it just speaks
for itself the win rates, how much they've played, how many events they've
attended, how many they've won. It's now become a situation where when we have
death segments like this it's not so much about vitality versus whoever's
across from the stage for them. It's about vitality versus the goat candidate
that's next to them which is Astralis and them trying to beat that ghost and
become the greatest team of all time. Yeah and I think that's what what epic
said yesterday as well before they took on into the quarter-final and I love the confidence
coming off of Vitality as well, but pretty much every time you ask them, they always
say if we play our game, nobody's going to beat us, you know, and that confidence that
is currently looming within the team, the confidence that's taken on with the stage,
the confidence that they're speaking with when we talk about this era, you know, the
new goal setting for Vitality, they pick Ciddi, like, it's no longer about winning trophies,
it's no longer about winning a lot of trophies, it's about establishing themselves as the
best team ever to play Counter-Strike.
We saw it earlier. 69 series played by Vitality.
Well, that was last year, but they are well on their way to being cemented as the first of all time.
Sponge said it yesterday. I stole the line earlier, but he said they are playing near perfect Counter-Strike.
That's what we get to watch when we tune into the server, is how this game is meant to be played, what that ceiling should be.
Can they keep that momentum going? Is this something that they can keep doing time and time again?
They're not doing it right now.
I mean, there's really been no signs of them stopping, right?
I mean, we thought, hmm, maybe they would have cooled down
after winning those seven tournaments in a row,
winning the Blastoffs in the Major.
Maybe the second season wouldn't go as well.
And truthfully, it didn't, right?
They didn't dominate and win a bunch of tournaments in a row,
but they never finished outside the top four.
They won two tournaments.
They won back-to-back majors.
And then people were like, well, wait a second.
Maybe there's going to be some big roster shake-ups
and some other teams are going to form coming into this year.
And that's going to be how we get to Vitality.
Didn't really happen.
It was kind of a quiet off season, for 100% honest, right?
Meanwhile, Vitality didn't have any ring rust.
still stay in the top four and they just won Iron Crack, a huge prestige event coming into this one.
So there's no signs of them stopping.
I mean, it's obviously a lot about vitality.
There's a lot about them doing well, but it's also about the competition.
And the competition right now is failing.
Let's be completely honest.
Furia, they were supposed to play today.
They were supposed to beat the Mangers yesterday.
They were supposed to give Vitality a go today.
And they were the team last year who pushed them all the way in a lot of those games
and obviously won a couple of trophies as well and stole it away from Vitality.
I feel like Furia have slowed down a little bit.
I'm not saying they're in a crisis or anything like that.
No watch the teams has calmed down, but it's a team that is not playing at the same high level falcons
Well, we can laugh, you know, because they're not even in the conversations
Here's the funny thing
Fossil actually has been vitality a couple times promise they can't freaking get further in the determinant
That should get a chance to play against them when it actually matters. So that's been a problem
But hey, I'll say one other thing one team is actually being vitality a couple of times
His models just want to let you know
Yeah, what's that?
Why Kool-Aid are you drink?
Listen, I gotta do something. All right. Otherwise, it's just gonna be a domination
But yeah, the history of this match-up still heavily favors Vitality.
They play each other in 10 different best of three series.
Vitality have won eight of those.
Now, Mongols has gotten some mass, but you can see it's still heavily in favor of Vitality.
And man, oh man, it's going to be an uphill battle.
Yeah, and most of those games were also with Senso on the lineup.
And if you, I guess if you bought at home or if you're warming up to this game,
you can go into HLTV and you can try to check out in the games
that the Mongols ended up winning against Vitality, even in the losses.
Guess who is by far, sorry, the highest rated players in those games.
Guess who is by far the detalisman behind those victories
and behind pushing mentality to the brink.
It was Senzu. Now, that leads us into the conversation I feel about Cobra Zero.
Like, we saw him yesterday do a fantastic job.
Is he Senzu? No.
Do we know if he has the capabilities to be as good as Senzu?
No, we haven't really seen this guy's peak yet, right?
Because it's been such a short time, he's been within the team.
But what he's done in this tournament so far has been nothing but...
I was going to say, I think he's spectacular for where he's come from yesterday was his stage debut, he was picked up out of nowhere, he looks great, but if I base this on the eye test of what I saw from Mongols yesterday against Furia, it was scruffy, I know they won, but it wasn't a pretty win and I feel like a team like Vitality is not going to let you make the same mistake.
Fallen is always a classic, whenever he's being interviewed.
He said they just played better, shot harder, and were the better seniors today.
I think if I've got to be completely honest, the Mongols' fans may close their ears right now,
but I think it was more so the case of Fuerre not stepping up.
It was more so the case of Fuerre not really playing well,
than it was the Mongols playing exceptional.
I think they did a great job and they took advantage of that situation.
They took advantage of all the players not showing up for Fuerre,
but overall I wouldn't say that it was the Mongols outplaying Fuerre.
It was more so through out. I'll play myself.
Okay, so now that we've both said that the Mongols didn't play that well yesterday,
I've just been told I need to go back to the fairs and give them their masks.
So that's going to be a little bit awkward for me.
While I do that, James has got someone special to chat to.
That's right. I have a very special guest with me here.
A man who needs no introduction to this arena.
It's Lance joining us from FUT.
I know it was crushing for you guys to not make it here, not make it in the arena
but after a couple of days to go over it, think about it, give me the feeling now, give me the update.
Well, I mean, to be honest, I mean, even going back home, I was just looking at the games, looking at the stats
and I was actually asking myself how did we actually do it, but again and again I was thinking that it comes down to that experience we have, right?
We were such a young squad, but again we had such a good run and it's kind of
Hit a bit because it was my hometown right because not hometown, but home crowd. Yeah home country and
Yeah, it was a bit emotional
But in the end it was a good run and we still have Fijian Bucharest coming up and I'm going there to do the damage also
So I like that to do the damage as well
These guys want to see that these guys want to see the success you can have and you guys are really just so close to the
success you want so oh so this this is without you even playing so does this
like help you visualize the dream visualize what you want to see in the
future I mean for sure like I think next year it will be amazing and I know for
sure next year next year I will be here like there is no way I'm not going to qualify
And this arena wants to see that. Now give me one last thing on this. The next game coming up, Vitality taking on Mongols.
We know Vitality are favourites in it, but do you think Mongols might have a way to upset?
I mean yes, especially in CS2, I think there is always a chance to upset, right? But I think on stage, especially against Vitality is a bit tough.
And you know, I cheer for them, so yeah.
You're going to be cheering for them, you're going to be watching the games with us here.
And lastly, to all of the Romanians in the arena right now, everyone across the world,
what do you want to say?
I mean, first I was eight in Romanian because it's the home crowd, so...
Yes, I'm really proud to be the Roman official in the first place, but I'm very proud of the support.
I'm very proud of the support of the individual, and I'm very proud of the support of the team.
I think that the importance of some bridge of the lineage to keep a match is good in the future.
You will do good in the future. I believe in you guys. I love your words. I love doing the interviews with you, man. Thank you very much for joining us.
Sam, go back to you.
Us, as this crowd, supporting their own gang, this group just looked so incredible during the group stage.
It's a very exciting young prospect that we get to keep our eyes on. Maybe next year, here in Cruz, he'll be on the main stage.
very possible. I mean, remember, EMA last year, similar situation to this one.
He wasn't competing at this tournament, but he did get to experience what it was like
to be in front of his fans, in front of his home country, signing autographs, meeting,
greeting, interacting on co-streams. And then he did very well make the playoffs the next year.
And so I very much in the cards for Foot and Longs, in my opinion.
Team for the future. I think Longs is a player for the future. Foot is a team for the future,
and I'm excited to see them not only, you know, hopefully come back to this tournament next year,
but how they're going to progress throughout this season. I think it's a team that we have to
Consider could be a breakout team of the year together with paravision obviously doing as well as they are right now
Keep an eye out on foot. They're not gonna be an easy team to beat is the Mongols with this current lineup with the addition of
Cobra a team that we are gonna be talking about for the rest of the year that is gonna be in contention for playoff
So we're going to see the Mongols rise to the levels. They were at master with Senzu
See what you're asking now is setting expectations for the future for for Mongols
And I think that's a delicate thing to do because I think we have to recalibrate again
As you described last year, the Mongols were arguably a team that was constantly
circling around top 4, top 5, getting into a major grand final, winning a tournament at EVO EC.
Do I think that's going to be the same Mongols here for the vast majority of this season?
I'm going to be inclined to say no, mainly because I think that the opposition, the likes of,
you know, Falcons, the likes of Maus, the likes of Furia will continue to do well,
or at least sort out the shit that is going on right now.
So I do feel the Mongols are constantly going to be a team that is going to fight for the playoff
I think they're going to be more often than not in the playoff
Which means that they will be around six seven eight in the world, but expecting more than that
I don't think that's fair to a country that only poises three point two million people and and a team where if you do
Want to make a roster change like who do you pick up like it's such a limited player pool to have to wait with
Something like six seven I see what you did there, but look look
I do think one thing that's really good for Mongols is that they just have a steady backbone behind them
This combination of Blitz and Mara have proven time and time again that they can push this team to new limits
We've also seen other people rise to the occasion when Sims you stepped away, right?
9-10 has been fantastic these last couple of tournaments really proving that he can be the star player taking on a little bit more
Responsibility in that regard in the fragging department and look obviously cobers there had a tough debut
But he's done really well here so far
I think that it gives them enough firepower to certainly be dangerous as we take a look at 9-10 just you know a guy who can be
can be aggressive, can be a playmaker with the AWP.
We know how difficult that is in this day and age to find guys like that,
who can do it consistently.
And I've been really impressed with what I've been seeing from him,
particularly in the post-Sensu era of this team.
And I think that's the conversation that we pick up on.
If the Mongols were to be a team that is once again going deep into the playoffs,
that is perhaps winning a trophy or two throughout 2026,
then it needs to come from some of the old guard players,
like a 9-10 who needs to step it up a little bit,
who needs to deliver a bit more consistently on the server.
I'm sure Rob would so far this tournament he's been doing.
We're talking about him senior as well.
We're talking about Blitz Techno.
I feel like we can't expect Kogasewa to come in
and find the same amount of impact that he's been doing so far.
It needs to come from the entire team as a whole
if they want to exceed expectations.
Three playoffs, third, fourth place finishes.
Would that be enough for you to say,
okay, the Mongols is contesting?
I think they're doing a great job right now.
I'm surprised they're in the semi-final.
I was surprised they beat Furia yesterday.
I don't want to take anything away
because I think the Mongols, at least for a personal taste,
It's one of the most fun teams to watch.
I always enjoy covering the Mogniz games,
but if I got to be completely honest,
no, it's not a team that I expect to be a top four team
consistently in the world.
So yeah, if they make a couple of semi-finals,
if they go into a grand final,
hell, if they beat Vitality today
and get booked themselves a chance
of going up against Pirates in tomorrow,
outside they could win a trophy.
So I'm not going to rule that out.
All I'm saying is that I don't think it's fair
for people to expect it to.
Okay, now we have to get to the part where it sounds like
we're just Zywoo fangirls,
Because that's what Vitality, like the pre-shows before Vitality,
this is the conversation we're going to have.
We're going to talk about how good Zahru is.
We're going to talk about how good Flames is, Dust.
We're going to talk about all of the players and how good they are.
That seems to be the conversation we have to have, time and time again.
Those numbers are not true, Alan.
Is that the correct number, Stas?
It is correct.
Is he that good?
Yes.
Here's the crazy thing, it's like Zihu has been battling for number one player in the world for a very long time now.
There was a debate last year about whether it was Doc number one, whether it was him.
And you can go either way with that, but what you actually have to state is that Ziu has physically his best tournament at a tier one level in his entire career at Krakow earlier this year.
It was incredible. And if you look at the pace that he's on so far at this tournament, similar level of competition, similar level of maps played, and he's doing about the damn same thing, it's actually incredible that he finds a way to level up even more.
It is. It is. You know, it goes without saying. I don't know what more to add. Saibu is fantastic. If anything, I think it speaks into the storyline that is him versus Donk.
I think we can relate to probably football.
We had the Messi, we had the Ronaldo storyline going on from time to time,
and obviously they went out publicly saying that they push each other, right?
One guy is all of a sudden scoring 59 goals in a calendar year,
then the other guy wants to score 62.
I think we have the same scenario right here,
where we have two players who are so much better than everyone else,
that if Dunk didn't exist in this era,
then obviously Cywoo would just win every single year and vice versa.
But because we have both of them, two generational talents playing at the same time,
they managed to push each other to the absolute best.
What I love about Zaru is if you speak to him,
he doesn't really care about all of this.
He said it so many times.
I don't think that's true.
I think he said it.
I want to play Counter-Strike and I enjoy playing
Counter-Strike with my team.
You've seen that on the server.
I do think that he genuinely,
he doesn't get involved in,
he's not on social media,
he has a whole team doing that for him.
Miss Jarvis to come here,
he plagues in and he just loves this game so much.
That's what everyone behind the scenes in the team is saying about him as well.
He's the kind of guy that has the perfect level of ego in-game
and the perfect level of ego outside of it.
You know, this is a guy that isn't going to, you know,
shout at his teammates or get you down or, you know, call for too many resources.
In fact, you know, when you compare him to, like, some of the other star players,
he doesn't have a crazy, like, resource.
Like, yeah, he kind of gets to do what he wants.
Yeah, he's a hybrid player. He can rifle, he can hop,
he can fit in in a lot of different slots.
But, again, he's a guy who has total confidence on the server,
but a pure heart off of it.
You know, it's really cool to see the character that he's got.
He doesn't believe us.
No, but I think he's the perfect teammate as well.
I think if you were to craft a player from the bottom up,
you'd probably craft a mess, Saivou.
We can do pretty much anything in the game.
He's more of a rival than an up player sometimes.
He's a Glotcher. He's a pistol player.
He's the perfect teammate. Never causes any issues.
But one thing is what you say, Sam,
and another one is what you believe, Saivou.
And I also do think that for Saivou,
we've seen that change in attitude a little bit
over the last couple of years,
where he's even said it in a couple of interviews,
he's hinted at it as well,
that obviously he does care a little bit and obviously he wants to be the best and he wants to win trophies even spoke about
You know potential burnout in 2025 where it was getting to him where the pressure and the traveling etc
So portraying Saivou as not being a human being. I don't think that's fair
I have will also say this
And that's a fair point as well
You know but one thing is what you say another one is what you actually believe within just because he's saying it doesn't mean
That's necessarily the truth and that goes for every single player out there
And you guys watching at home as well if you believe all the words coming out of the mouth from me dust and the players
All your fools sometimes just say stuff just to
Hold on so you've just spent all this time on the days talking about these two teams setting the scene and you've done
But maybe you shouldn't really believe anything that comes out of our mouth. See that's very wrong again. I didn't say anything
You shouldn't believe everything everything. That's a big difference
So what should we not believe about what you've told us about Mongols vs fatality today?
I don't know we've listed them pretty much straight up at this point
It's really not a whole lot of wiggle room again
It models is one of the few teams that has been able to practice team a couple of times in important series
But that was back but since you that was some time ago. This is a different situation
But we'll see if they can do it. They are a streaky team
We saw that yesterday and first well even on dust to there's not their home map a map
They've been struggling on the first half they go up 9 to 3 they build on the momentum
They build on the individual firepower the team has everyone always describes them as a very tough team
to play because all five players can shoot back at any given moment.
I think that's where the best chances are for the moment.
Get off to a good start right at the momentum,
coming with the fact that there's no pressure.
Everyone, everyone, even including in this building,
probably the team themselves, even if they say that they believe they can win
Sam, they probably don't expect to win against Vitality.
So they come in with no pressure.
What's your?
It's time now for us to get these two teams on the stage.
Your semi-final, Fjera Kluj is underway.
Who is joining ParaVision in the finals?
Let's find out.
That's right, Sam. We are about to find out.
I can feel the temperature rising just a little bit in here, Cluj.
How are we all doing?
OK, Cluj, it's the last game.
The previous game went 2-0.
I know you've got a lot of energy.
It's not the same as what you had yesterday.
This is easier for you to give me so much more.
So when I give it to you, I want all of you to make as much noise as possible.
Are you ready?
CHEERING
All right, looking on the other side.
This game, it has history.
It has a back and forth again and again.
Beams continue to have great games between them.
Vitality, so many trophies, so much dominance from start to finish.
But the Mongols, they somehow always find a way, they find a way to at least get a map.
Can they push that a step further forward? Let's bring our first team on to the stage.
Let's give it up for Vitality!
And on the other side of things, a team that has proven that they can do anything they
put their mind to.
Changing players, finding themselves, having to have stand-ins, making deep runs at tournaments.
This team is a team that never gives up and always believes and I know the horde is going
to be loud for them today.
And it's going to be non-stop for them.
So please welcome to the stage, it's the Mongols!
our teams have taken to the stage to do battle once again techno come join me up
here messy you as well the rest of you can sit down take your seats and get
ready.
Mezzi you're in a nine win streak series a lot of good feelings in the
Vitality Camp right now even through sickness this team still delivering you're
still holding strong. Is Vitality back in its flow state again? I mean I
definitely don't think we're showing the best CS but I think it's just a matter
of time when we play our best CS there's no team that can come close to us so I
I think we'll be focusing ourselves today, we're in a good position.
In terms of trying to be in a good position, when you face the Mongols in group,
you're still able to drop a map against them.
They obviously bring a new player in and they did take down Fury yesterday.
What makes them a deadly team potentially for you guys?
Individually, I think they all shoot really hard.
They hit a lot of headshots, so it's important for us.
Even though you can't control it too much, unless you're over-upsed,
it's one of those things that we need to make sure we also headshot them as well.
So, I think fundamentally they play a good game,
But at the end of the day, it's, yes, we need to get heads.
You do need to hit heads, but you were doing a lot of headhitting last time in the series against Mongols.
So we're going to get a magic, mezzy performance today.
That's the plan. In front of this crowd, it'd be nice to get some highlights as well.
Some highlights. OK, I like what you're cooking with.
Techno, you guys have been getting more love, more support from the community.
We now have the horde over here cheering you guys on.
What does that mean for you?
The team for us, we love to see that.
I'm sure you do love to see it. We love to see it inside this arena.
Now, yesterday you took down Furia, a very impressive game.
What does that do to the confidence inside the team?
To be honest, after Sainser leaving, everyone is saying we are tier 2 or tier 3, something like that.
And I don't want to say anything about that, just to be able to see.
We will see and you seem to show that. I definitely do not think you guys are playing tier 2, tier 3 CS in here.
Do you have enough confidence and enough planning, strategy, understanding with Cobra to take down vitality, finally?
Maybe people are not expecting to win against them, but I don't understand why are they, why just, they think we can't win them, yeah?
And we will see again.
We will see again. I'm looking forward to seeing the game.
to see in the game guys shake hands take your seats thank you very much okay
it seems like you're ready and awake for this one but I think there's a lot of
Mongolian fans in the house right now so if you're cheering for the Mongols
Make some noise!
Alright, alright.
And what about vitality?
Morguls!
Vitality!
And now everyone, for Karnastra!
Did my ears deceive me? Did I hear a few booze in the crowd when the name Vitality was
shouted by James Banks?
I don't know, but I hope so. I would see some pressure applied to Vitality. I love when
Apex is the villain. I think he's loved universally as well and even when he is quotation the
villain. I think people respect him and love him regardless. I think the Mongols have a
sweet spot in a lot of people's heart, including my own. And I know over in the corner over
They have a pretty cool fan club going absolutely crazy.
So, you know, do everything you can to help the Mongols win
because they're going to need it.
And if anything, it makes the game more competitive.
OK, so how does the Mongols beat Vitality?
Yeah, just how?
Lock in that mat pick and find a way to get to victory.
And it really has been Mirage.
It's been kind of their go-to.
And that was the mat that they beat Vitality on early in the series.
The problem was they went absolutely absent
in the next two match that series on Nuke and Dust 2.
Blown out of the water completely.
Never were even competitive.
So get in that Mirage pick, lock it in,
and make sure you come out on top there.
And then after that, I don't really know.
Hope that the Hork can help you through because it's going to be a little bit dicey out there after that, what I think.
I agree. I think the Mongols have shown a great level of counter-strike on Mirage.
And we have seen Vitality. Obviously, they play very strong map pool, but they've been a little bit shaky at times on Mirage.
So I definitely see that as a way into this series.
Now, considering it's the first map as well, just applies a bit more pressure.
If the Mongols want a standard chance of winning this game, they need Mirage to be one.
Now, Vitality coming in with Dust2, it's a household map for them.
And we saw the Morguls yesterday versus Feria.
We've seen the Morguls throughout this time even with Kogor.
They were struggling a lot on Dust2.
So I'm favoring Vitality heavily on Dust2.
Inferno as a third deciding.
I think that's a fair handshake.
Okay, so if Vitality is slightly shaky on Mirage,
where would that be and what did the Morguls have to do?
Yeah, I mean, the thing is they've lost three of their four games so far this year by Vitality, actually.
One of them, of course, being the Morguls,
but they were such a strong team at the end of last year.
Meanwhile, even in the post-SinZoo era of Morguls,
7-3 record on Mirage, that's very respectful, especially with the opposition they played against.
And again, it comes down to moguls showing their force on the server,
the same way that they have for a long time. That is fast in-your-face counter-strike,
exciting CS for this whole crowd to cheer for, because there ain't going to be no slow
jane-time moments in this one. It's going to be in-your-face counter-strike at all times,
very brawly and very exciting to watch. I got bad news for you, Sam. I'm kind of sensing you
want the Mugmans to do well right here. Mirage obviously, I've met these two teams,
have already played against each other at this very tournament.
The caveat to that was that Robs had a stinger.
And why was it Robs had a stinger?
He's been sick throughout the entirety of the group stage.
We heard yesterday from Apex that he's 90% recovered.
Let's assume that he's maybe at 95 or 98% today.
If Robs is even playing remotely better than he did last time around on Mirage,
the Mongols will have to do even more and do even better.
And it's a lot to ask for, for still a very young team.
That's terrifying, because like Maisie said,
if we're playing our best, you can't touch us. No one can touch us.
And when you're saying that in an interview, it's probably because you know you're going to get on the stage and take post to your best.
I mean, here's the thing. We talked about Zaihu earlier, how he's playing career defining CS right now, somehow finding ways to hit new highs.
As he was already number one, he's finding ways to top himself, but he's had a great supporting past. Flames has been on point.
A lot of great players have been coming around him, and so it's so tough to get past them all.
The first part of my first win for him, I don't look at the vibe that the Mongols fans have,
that drop that you're hearing, that's them, they're going insane.
They like the sixth player in the server, hoping that they can carry their boys across the finish line.
That would be lovely, I wouldn't mind it to be completely honest, but I also did hear this arena go absolutely crazy for parrallations.
So regardless of what's going to happen in this game, I think tomorrow's final is going to be a bang out of anything.
Tush, they did it last year as well, the crowd is here for a good time, the crowd is here to play Counter-Strike,
What's kind of right and you know what same on the rise?
I think we're gonna have a very competitive game.
The crowd is not going to be disappointed on one hand.
You've got the underdogs who could make the grand finals
on the other.
You have the best team of our generation that could do it.
No matter what happens,
we're gonna bang a game on our hands.
Thank you so much, Desk.
And as you can see in the arena,
the atmosphere absolutely speaks for itself.
A very stacked event up until this point
and resulted in two incredible semifinals.
We saw yesterday when the Mongols played, how exciting every round was.
I can only hope the same will be said today.
I just hope that they're able to hang on to the Counter Strike
because at times it kind of got away from them, right?
And that's the beauty of this game. It gets electric.
And not just in the server, but in here as well.
I remember last year we all came to Cluj and we were excited
because we had high expectations.
You guys here met that expectation.
PGL is a Romanian company that is very proud of this event.
This is a crowd that is proud of Counter Strike
and should be proud of itself.
So as we go into the second semi-final,
one more time, Cluj.
Let's hear what you've got!
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With the first one, Apex traits that down for beneath him.
We get this top middle hold, and so Vitality suddenly take it that much further.
They don't want just these frags. They want the space.
Mongols want the counter plate out through the palace to take a glimpse over.
There's options open here. Mongols don't have to rush either side.
The bomb does float this direction, and that's a really critical gush to land on Mezzi.
That shoves Mezzi back, and there's actually a little pressure on the other side of the map.
This is not a bad move for the Mongols. They've got an open site.
Apex is actually a little confused as to what has just happened.
But the Mongols, they're wondering why there's been no reaction.
You know, they got shoved back out of mid. Apex is split.
And it looked like him waiting here.
Might have resulted in a rotation back, but it's possible that that's avoided all together.
The power might have exchanged hands.
No, Robs finds this one.
That's clean. Now it's full focus. Back to the A-bomb site.
That one takes the edge off, surely.
three players full health for vitality and nice comfortable bit of connector control for them.
Still some time for the Mongols to try to slow burn, but it's riddled down HP on Blitz and this
flank out of Apex is going to find that bomb plant. Total denial. 9-10 gets squeezed and so in that
slow burn moment it is indeed vitality that grasp control the situation and will kick off the CT
side with a pistol round win. Apex would have had you think that. He was almost confused about what
to do. Well he had everything under control. He had the fallback point locked in. He knew
eventually time would allow him to flank the ramp, deny the bomb plant, which is huge in a
situation where it looked like Mongols had an opportunity to win the round. Rob's chimes in
with that underpass kill just to confirm that it's going to be over.
We know how important Mirage can be in the series. Oh for sure. We saw Mongols play Dust2,
their cheese side was unfortunately abysmal. They ran it every round. It's not like they believed
in their rushes, but it was so easily handled by Peria.
You look back at some of their losses on Dust2.
It's not a map they're going to look forward to,
unless a lot of preparation happened last night.
When we put that importance here on Mirage as well,
and we go back to the earlier head-to-head between these teams
this event, you know, Vitality are a team.
They're so world-class.
There's no doubt in my mind that they're going to have evolved
and changed things and really kind of put a fine-tooth comb
through the Mongols' gameplay.
So I wouldn't even expect things to maybe be as smooth this time around for the Mongols.
And that was a close affair back on Mirage.
But then you add to that, right? This evolution from the Mongols.
The amount of comfort that Cobra Zera has now found after his first stage performance.
How does all this come together? Time will tell.
Right now, they've burned a bit of time off that clock.
You've got two defenders here ready to hold back these glocks.
And just a question is whether does the FAMAS kind of betray Mezzi in this moment?
They'll run by, you'll collect his two, make it a third.
All too easy. Short good footing down for Blitz on the bomb site, but that goes perfectly for Vitality.
Full conversion, not one casualty for the Worlds number one.
It's scary to think that we've had, you know, drops being sick at this event and Vitality might come into this match.
Rejuvenated, more energetic than before, could be shooting even harder.
So that E-Pax came on overpass versus Aurora, starting 0 in his kill counts.
He has really been a setting this year. I mean, it's the already referenced that crackout was the best event that he's ever played as an individual.
If you could really see it, ended that event with back-to-back 4Ks.
Derek Kluj also flexing.
He's fast on the move in Catwalk.
Tries to figure out where the Mongols are at, but they'll take to the corners they've earned top middle.
Still getting this float out of Robsburg an extra moment beyond that timing that Zywu was there with him.
So Vitality showing a willingness to play a bit of a dangerous game out of the gate in these gun rounds.
But then the smoke spade and so does all the control.
At least over towards middle it does.
We get this alternative move from Vitality flexing off of the A site.
Constantly in transition, right?
Making things happen.
Carving away Info.
And I'll speak of Info.
CobraZera getting just singed by the flames there.
It's an important bit of information.
Flamesy's got one above him.
Oh, come on.
Almost, almost catches the guy with the native hand.
Oh, Techno jumps down into the ramp, we get a 5 vs 3 for the Mongols in the opening gun round.
Fast move out through Palace, doesn't get the better of Apex, so barely still standing on that 18 health.
They'll go for that bomb plant, but in the middle of that utility, Mezzy dives the bomb site.
Oh, what could have been? Another great moment of cover this time offered up by Blitz, and so this gun round does indeed belong to the Mongols.
They will strike early.
massive shout out to techno and you could see one guy turn around and think well
that's a timing towards vitality but that guy can turn around because they've got a mongol
up top as well they did have it covered techno all day getting through the ramp that's as clean
as ever we're already getting a very slow paced mongols like these it's not even that slow of
around doesn't come down the last few seconds yeah but compared to the rounds that we saw yesterday
they're really thinking a little bit extra right now feels like that will be the
the nature of the beast when you go up against a team like Vitality.
A lovely part about Cobra's era is that playing with this lineup,
he's already referenced in the interview with James, that he feels that he has such a good team,
he can do what he wants.
They've already set him up to be the same too, they've already given him a lot of space,
he plays all the important positions, he knows when he can take risks,
but getting away with tons of things that you would want to see from a star player
In a fashion that is so shocking because it's here in Playoffs, it's here versus Pray teams.
Well, here comes the Raid Boss.
Again, that may be even harder than their match tomorrow if they make it there.
We want to see if guys like CobraZera are gonna leave it all on the table.
There's a mate with his name on it.
Vitality just keep chucking these utilities out, really keeping Mongols on their toes.
More shift damage down in the underpass as well, so so far good value out of the frag grenades here from Vitality, throwing them liberally.
So we're gonna give a boost over, operating inside of the smokes, but the comfort zone that is the window.
It's kinda interesting, there's no catwalk up, and no info is still info, yeah they're worried about underpass, they've been taking over.
over. Just take one look at that. All the C's are still here, however.
Apex from over top of it. Very low health for the player. Lower 9-10's coverage is
good. Blitz catching Nezzy. And so it felt like Apex was going to have to get his hands
even dirtier than this. But ultimately now they're going to go sprinting over to that
B site. Quick transition off the cap plate. Another headshot.
That's a message. And so the Mongols, it's a slow burn, right? You were already saying
it in the first gun round. Maybe somewhat slower than what we're used to compared to
to say yesterday, but also, Vitality is an opponent that is different than Yuri, and
so Zahru takes a look at this, loses a bunch of his HP, and Mongols are going to find themselves
back to back gun rounds, but one that didn't come for free.
There was a ton of utility in middle, chipping away at them, smokes in their faces, fire
at their feet, and then that crunch from Vitality, trying to play off of the Apex connector
hold.
In that moment, Mezzi comes in.
He thinks he's helping out.
What he ends up doing is opening up the catwalk and giving Mongols this route to a second
You can both over complicate counter strike and you can oversimplify it.
But sometimes you do have to remind yourself.
We get that interview from Mezzi and he says that this game is about shooting heads and moguls shoot really hard.
And it sounds like it's too simple, but at the end of the day they kind of have all the other tools they know they can be consistent.
They know that they'll land their nades when they're not feeling it.
They know that they can get the communication back with a quick reminder.
But sometimes the aim, no matter what you do that day, your aim is not in place.
in place. And he said for guys like Zaiwu and Crocs, the reference is two strongest individual
players in the team, the biggest talents in the team, they don't have an issue with that.
But the rest of them do need to just make sure they're on form, because look over at Mongols,
that's one of their strong suits. They hit every shot. Look at all these headshots. Three of them
are instantaneous when you see the CTs, and then that kill through the wallbang onto Mezi as well.
So what Mezi's talking about on full display in that moment,
So I was single M4 here trying to get the round back, and he'll try his damn distelt
middle on his own.
That was really nice.
Taking out CobraZera.
He's always peeking the left side of the box in mid.
He already kind of alluded to a right-seeing of CobraZera, he's going to leave it all
out there.
There was a lot of moments yesterday, particularly on Mirage, where CobraZera was just kind of
allowed to do his thing on mid 4-3, Furya.
When you think about it, Furya, we said they kind of started slowly.
Oh, that's one-way information. They did not see him holding this. That's two players that were pushing.
And it's gonna be MZeno to put some extra pressure back while the timing's been created.
I don't think anyone's gonna be watching this.
Crom's just tucked in.
Nice slow crawl by MZeno.
Information like that, it's just, you know, there's no counter to it.
You go for the push, you know you've got at least five or six seconds before anybody was gonna do anything about it.
You didn't see him at all.
It's still quite lurky in this position.
Just trying to dodge these USPs.
Really shouldn't have much to be worried about, but still going through all the protocols.
Eventually, Messi's hand is forced.
Oh, sandwich hold for a moment.
Not bad for Robson, a pressure there.
But the B250 dealt with.
That single M4 gets the opening kill, but instant rebuttal back from the 4 vs 5.
All's good for the Mongols as they go three rounds straight crazy that this is an Austin, you know rematch
it's the semi-final and
Them playing in that major final first place already
Just continues slowly trending upwards lose to the Mongols who replace their star player and still somehow immediately
Wouldn't expect this the window smoke here. It's problematic with the op here is
It's gonna get broken open
So down he goes he was relying on this window smoke. Yep, kind of fed to the wolves
Two in five will be his start. He's faced utility. He's faced this zaiwu op
Even in the one M4 round, he's the first duel
So there's this consistency in CobraZera taking out top middle that Vitality are starting to get the better of.
Nice shots from Flameseed just catching Blitz on a slight timing.
It's unreal how fast that happened.
No chance of getting anything back there for Blitz.
So this is a good one for Vitality as they'll collect another headshot and Flamesee remaining mobile.
Just making sure that there's nothing for the Mongols to kind of strike him down with.
Mist opportunity is the frag grenade camp finish with the OpGon started.
Second aid will get that job done at least.
But you've got Rob still comfortable in the bomb site.
Mongols trying to break down this door,
and they are effectively doing it until Apex is on the scene.
Now he's got the best of 9-10,
and Apex sprinkles in some impact here to tie our game nice and early to rerounds the piece.
9-10's obviously been an excellent player this event,
an excellent offer for the Mongols.
But one of his, I mean, it's such a big moment.
Again, it's a major final, so it's just a moment there.
But he knows that.
He didn't leave it all on the table in that Austin final,
when he played against Vitality, their big rival,
and he was having a frame in that time.
I think he's coming into this match
with something more individual-y.
Trying to carry forward heading for the next assistant seat.
Through the flames though, here we go.
Through the flames, into the flames.
That's that faster pace.
And the Mongols are gonna lose two bodies
for their efforts, but there's still this
Enzenio recovery underway.
Takes a ton of damage, both him and 9-10,
uncomfortably low.
Fragg, your names will finish that off.
He's not given a chance to extend beyond tickets, so now it's get what you can.
Blitz, plant bomb, retreats with 40 health, now down to 8.
Such great value coming out of Vitality's utility.
Let's see if the smoke grenades can somehow bring the Mongols back into this.
This is an interesting risk, actually.
You've got to take risks.
It's not spotted.
Oh, there we go.
Such little HP, something had to be done here.
And as you'd anticipate, those low health players can't really get much fight going.
So they'll charge out through the flames.
That's the choice.
but it's the fire damage, the frag grenades that seemingly just lock in on them,
never letting them Xenio take over ticket control as well.
Great utile from behind those smokes from Vitality to really suffocate the bomb site despite losing Flameseed.
Got that smoke out, which is really important to slow it down,
but him being an extra body in a moment where Flameseed gets the opening
and then the CTs are all rotating and quickly that matter, so...
Good attempts.
Not surprised Vitality can keep up.
Ha ha ha ha!
And I think that round a nice willing.
How can you be that cute and that good?
It's also really funny, a damn bold package.
But I like that round in the pace, right?
Shows a willingness for the Mongols to kind of get back into a more aggressive look after
if you slowed down some rounds, now they're going to try it once more.
Oh, tap down with nothing.
Oh, Flames is ready.
Let's talk about Flames, you man.
You want the heat, come get it.
He's been dishing it out now, multiple rounds, so elusive with the latter play previously.
Part of setting up that 5 vs 3 advantage in the last round, and now a stellar shut-down
of the ramp attempt here for the Mongols, 9-10, 100 health, 1v5.
Place your bets.
He's got all the time in the world to try to work this, but it would also take a vitality
mistake, and they're grouping up even within this T spawn, just making sure that the trade
potential is that high but still he gets at least a second and a seconds all
he's gonna get another moment here where vitality find momentum with
majority alive. Love what we're getting out of flames here right now we have
Jacob tweeted about him showing off how his forms improved year over year and
you know between him and Nezzy when we come when we talked about last year was
like you had one guy taking over and one half another guy taking over another
half obviously the most unreal players I would Robb's are consistent throughout
But they're a part of the runs that Vitality had in such a massive way.
They can do streaks and tournaments with great form overall, really punching above their weight.
The fact that Flamesee's still improving kinda speaks to the talent that showed us early on.
I thought it was funny too, in that pre-game interview, when Mezzie said,
you know, we have to make sure we're on our best game because it's not easy getting headshots unless you're sidewool or rops.
Yeah.
And he left himself and Flamesee and Apex out of that conversation.
Like you're saying, Flamesee's evolution, I think, is putting in closer and closer and closer to being at the tip of this sphere as well with those other two absolute phenomenal stars.
Yeah, I think there's just a reality about the game.
Oh, you don't want to do that.
2v5?
What?
Keep yapping.
There's a reality about the game that, you know, some players are just, they are built differently.
Like, some players, you couldn't teach them.
There's nothing you could, no amount of work you could put in to suddenly unlock that sort of level and
that's the talent that Vitality are working with.
How you spelling for no?
Minus nuke is crazy.
But hey, to each their own.
Some people still play Office.
Yeah.
Local somehow.
So 6-3, I think this is what Vitality are hoping.
They knew this game was going to be tough.
There would be rounds in here for Mongols,
but they still, they retained control.
They retained control, they put up a strong CT side.
Overall, game plan's good, and even on the rounds
that Mongols won, it's not like Vitality didn't have
the right guys in the right spots.
They just couldn't keep up slightly with the trades.
It's felt like since Vitality started winning rounds,
though Mongols have just kind of began thrashing, right?
They're being pinned down slowly by vitality with these rounds and so they start playing a little more frantically a bit faster out of the gate
I'm curious to see how they kind of close out this half now with three rounds to go
Shots this is the robs off folks
We kind of shoulders it a little bit and that allows robs to live
Secondary off pulled out. Oh, and he didn't know what it was him. Mm-hmm. They will so okay
You'll miss a second shot with that AWP
Go to an Olympus, A-Rops has never missed two easy top shots like that back to back.
It's a new day, my boy.
It's only 90% healthy. He was just sick.
Oh, that's what it is now.
You know, taking a glance over top, seeing if anybody else in this A-Site wants to dance with him.
Nice tight feet from Zywoo, but it's gonna cost him.
Phobra has that small window of opportunity to catch the up-on cycle and on the fallback,
and he strikes within it.
huge pin on jungle Apex and a hard time moving out of this. A lot of effort from Flamesee now.
They're trying to look back also while dealing with that looming threat of the palace swing.
Flamesee's not able to get the multi as he looks to spray it over and sure enough out through palace
comes Amzenio knowing this site is his for the taking. We haven't seen a lot of these B2A rotates for Mezee.
A clutch attempt in round 10 for the Brit as Cobra takes the wide angle right on top of it.
Make sure this one goes down the way of the Mongols.
It's such a small moment, but the fact that his teammate is walking up those first few stairs of connector
and CobraZera is right there, guaranteed to trace IW.
He will get that kill, and it's all because of his spacing, not even his aim.
It's just him being an excellent teammate already showing us that he's ready to truly try to win this game.
That's kind of like an instant headshot needed.
We know stranger to the quick hop away, so as I recognize the date he was out of there
100% you knew what he was up to you knew what he was doing
Very good round close round
And another one that's a bit slower again
We go back to the mid-play, but there was less pressure from vitality through the utility right we've seen tons of frag grenades landing on
The mongols on their approach. They go for a try challenge into rocks
It's a worthwhile duel from the T side, you know
You open up you might want to take a 50-50 on T-side on Ct side you're looking for 60 40s
You're looking for shots in the back
But it's it gets a bit scary for ops comes down to a miss bullet obviously, but it does leave
It's his team a bit more tricky position and just one around
He controls a lot less threatening when the Ct's feel like they need to get a kill
God
Just trying to hang on now. He's got a lot of attention on him and in that moment. It's actually Robbs who gets taken down
Over to Zera. Oh, he's off the only one to find a pick
That's nine ten snips flames he off connector control and the Mongols putting themselves in a great man advantage
Missy floating in the apartment nearly caught and he will be good aggression from MZ
No early rotation from a back
Out the open tries to fight it techno bests in Mongols gunning for a tied half off this D side now
Oh, it is electric coming out from the Mongols.
It's another slow burn moment, but that one actually hinges on Apex, right?
Getting into the corner, it felt like Vitality had both their hands on a situation.
But then it all got wobbly.
They all wanted to try to get him out of window or get the kills.
And props ended up going for the push.
They already had a smoke to get him out of that position.
They could have done that a little bit more safely.
It's not often Vitality will lose a 45.
That's going to be one of those rare situations.
It's a formidable half.
When you get five rounds here on T side versus Vitality,
you're still going to be pretty proud of yourself so far.
They have also taken a win.
He's trying to tap you to the repeat performance.
That was a win versus Vitality on Mirage.
Before CobraZera kind of had again that built up confidence on the stage.
It's the perfect play. The smoke's crashing up playing inside of window.
Jungle players coming back into this timing is everything.
Oncals finding the golden moment to chase down that MP9.
Cobra comes through with a headshot on 20.
Your B-Rotate will be given no chance.
And so the models slow the game down only momentarily.
Forced by Vitality to kind of look themselves in the mirror, find a solution,
and the evolution there for the Mongols going back into middle
and nabbing those last three rounds of the half.
It's actually, it's simple, it's pretty quick.
And off the end, you can slow fading the window
while they're backing up the takeout.
Kat, as well as kill the jungle guy,
you think maybe one guy trades in that situation.
They found timing, it was about one second ago.
I mean, capitalizing the kills off of him.
Very, very good stop here for the team that did not win the pistol.
That's a couple of rounds consecutive in the mid, uh-oh, uh-oh, yeah, that's how good that round was.
Man can be destroyed, but he cannot be defeated.
The team that needs to work.
The ability to close those last three rounds is pretty strong fundamentals from the Mongols and I'd like those rounds because there was also a lack of hesitation.
Apex created a weird moment for everybody.
Mongols come out on top of it.
Follow-up round, they were so confident about their move.
How often do you see a halfler?
Nobody has over 10 kills.
Traits right coming through from everybody on both sides.
good point especially one where as I lose in the server right you have a
superstar trying to be that carry
blinded they'll recover triple kill for techno bolstered by the bomb site
players ladies and gentlemen mongols have their lead back
Second time this game.
An important moment as he decided to look forward to.
And they were piecing staff here on the barrage.
So Techno's very slept on, but you see the mechanics? They're undeniable.
He's really like that sometimes.
Ouch.
That's going to make you feel any more desperate.
That's the block.
Clock entry.
Patty tried to force the issue.
A couple more nades to just make sure this one goes down smooth.
I think that's a word that's actually quite good to describe the mongo so far in these last five rounds or so.
You know, kind of recovering from the vitality streak.
Things have been very smooth.
Nothing awkward nothing jumbled up even techno. I think he eats that flash in arch
Well, they're beating this push in the song now, but he's not gonna go farther for now
The thing is if they think he pushes they know that he's gonna rest here and that everyone else will leave so I
Don't want to over-hype this round, but maybe there's a chance he could get challenged. Come on launder sell it
All these blocks
That's all you got
Yeah, that's your best pick!
Vitality, maybe.
That'll be tough.
You know, it's almost a moment where if he has an M4, I'm almost a little forward.
Right, okay, short, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Also just with what they could grab off of him, but if you're going to lose an MP9, let
him have it.
And even then, still able to get away from him.
So we'll see if any kills can come out.
The Mongols will give themselves a margin of error off of this CT pistol.
Hearing what Vitality did on their defense, kicking it off with the pistol win,
going ahead and converting, making sure to not give up a bomb plant in either of those rounds.
It's identical so far, and we know what happened as well for the Mongols.
They waited for the first gun round.
It's a bunch of machine-on-the-pack.
Yeah, yeah.
Hey, good taste.
So can the first gun round breakthrough, that's the question.
How aggressive are we making this?
Oh man, a lot of ammo.
Brother, a little crazy from the top rope, goes for the mag dump.
And then he's got an awkwardly cock jumping back, right?
Let's take that word smooth away from this one.
I mean, I'm actually still almost nuts for the health.
Kind of impressive for the amount of bullets that Coopers ever had left over.
As you'd expect, right? Zaiwu the first to hit double digits on the side of Vitality.
Mongols got there previously off of these last two rounds.
Now we're getting a pretty quick transition from Vitality into the Cat Blank.
It's a good challenge for Blitz from the bench, just whittling down these health bars
and setting up Technos SMG. Perfectly. Zaiwu operating on low health
is right here to take back control of the situation.
It's a fairly held on to man advantage bomb plant comes out from Zywil Meski posted up
They lost them CEO he tries to make this happen
Well, nice and high there, Brantinho.
And straight off the flying form,
how frequently this turns into a capillation.
They were clasping their hands and bringing it,
and there was only going to be one site.
Yeah, solid.
Got that slagger about it as well,
so first gun round for vitality doesn't break through.
Sets them up.
Pretty heavy utility, half-pistoled by.
We've got Cache, Aldon, too. They're just gonna go in, blanket this A bomb site, see if they can take a bit.
And Scythe was gonna offer us that X-Factor early.
Oh, is that shot? That CT open, they know it.
A ton of space taken off of it. Bomb is in tow.
That was a massive big con. They could land a default. They have a smoke down in CT.
This is huge. They've got all the tools for the job. It's just a matter of hanging on with the lesser guns.
They'll go for the boost. Maulville's trying to get creative.
And it's basically ready for that one to that picked up AK.
Moving it in, catching frags as Rops is still on the side of the smoke,
flames he gets a T-Kill, oh no!
Suddenly things feel like they could get unraveled, retakes underway,
Kopa's got another, caught on his reload as he presses,
the Techknife back in with the double, and the bench player cleared.
Techno, putting smoke on top of off, added pressure, knives down,
he got out of the hole.
The fight and challenge, the hold on, kicks it off to the default headshot, and it's good for the night.
A little in the middle of this, an extra $1,500 and no win after it.
Saibou opened and closed the round. What a shot.
Great call, bringing a weapon into the round.
Flames you getting the most of it, didn't have to set them up, but make sure that he's
a part of closing it down.
T-Kill be damned, by the way, things getting weird on the side of that smoke, Robs trying
to make a play through smoke, right?
I'm sure playing something just mows him down on the back as he's coming through.
It was a choked up take, he's been that spot for a second.
Fight's out, and that fight works out. Fourth round of their attack.
The importance of that moment, it totally changes what this happens, it looks like, because you have the answer.
Before that, now all their money's gone because they've lost to an eco.
They're going to invest, sell back their techno, it's just going to be the 9-10 up.
You saw the power of ringing one gun, so low and behold.
Instinctly opens up the palace push as well to go and retrieve that weapon.
Now that's...
Had all that protocol, also opening pick play, a tough shot hits for 9-10.
In the very stressful situation.
He's already back into the recovery though, a little bit of space burned.
That's gonna call the op back into the action. 9-10's got this cross covered.
If they write off the threat of Palace though, there's a world where Senio still leaps his mark on this round.
He side-explains, 9-10, forced back, barely alive!
And so M. Senio tries to strike with the element of surprise, but that still eludes him.
And Vitality constantly left.
It didn't feel like there was a gap at all towards A, especially not with someone on stairs,
not after the Palace push taking took place, and yet Vitality still all in and walked out.
No names, no telegraph, no time to rotate over, and then you can add a thigh walk in.
After the complete display, they basically do this trap even more than ever.
They really wanted to make sure they had Palace, but they didn't have to be too concerned about it.
Where that round gets out of hand is when 9-10 can rotate off to a new spot.
They go back into a full default and the CTs start roaming around.
9-10 is definitely in danger now.
Umber goes down, spots the player market, that's going to get flanky early warning,
but still Techno.
Yeah, he's going to be afforded this one.
One and four for the road.
Techno's been amazing.
For what it's worth playing for the Mongols.
Just got to appreciate how well Vitality moved.
That's about the time we got away with the Cunadir.
Look at the Longos fans, they've just been standing the entire time.
Again, it's got to build momentum.
There we go, full effects.
Now you've got to wait for the round to end.
It's going to be a slow burn gun round though.
They spent a lot of money on that off, and they didn't protect it safe.
They don't say that this time.
They're not there yet.
Slow squeeze, we hit the minute mark, still a lot of runway to make.
They've dressed it up a little bit differently, but it looks like the formation is still taking
place.
No one on cat, slowdown apex.
45 seconds to spare now.
If you're Mongols, you really don't have to move that much.
This will not be a problem of firepower, but it's a very atypical spot.
9-10, kind of out in the open to A ramp. How does he adjust?
You can go up to the side of G-Falt and fight in the connector.
Smoke at 30.
Oh, it's a pretty massive block.
9-10 is going to put that barrel next to it to get that mid-dual coming through from Colberto Zera.
9-10's waiting. Oh! It's Blitz is nade to finish off what 9-10 started.
Flamesy the only one to strike in the middle of that.
Emzino rock solid again considering he's playing with the MP9.
But still enough space, still enough time.
Somebody's going to have to cover or they fake it and Blitz or he doesn't bite right away.
Now they have to stick it and it's not covered.
It's his for the taking.
Blitz just poised with time!
Comes in with a multi-kill, sets up a 9-10, finishes that ramp hold with the Nade,
and then makes sure to mow down Vitality the moment they earn that post-plant.
This is around where we see that. Mongols aren't just all-ame.
They had really great awareness about always taking place.
CobraZera takes his timing, peeks out of the window, catches Apex.
And when you catch someone in a late-round position, like at the bottom of connector, now you know.
Let's worry about ramp, let's worry about Palace.
This A-split is taking formation.
There's a couple of critical triggers in this round as well, right?
That just quick clip on the player bottom con.
It's really well timed from the window peek.
Missed that, you've got big issues.
Jumping out through the window is the smoke's fault.
This is where it gets very serious for vitality.
That win brings it off to 9-10, and he'll see this.
It doesn't get hyperfix-aid on it, but he's just going to give that information over.
Also doesn't know that a second one took the same route.
Could assume.
Drag grenade, that's good.
Yep.
That'll land perfectly.
It's done on both the players still apex comes out with his though
Pick that on the skies apex still though this a bombsite feeling likely that it won't be able to hold unless M
Xenia was able to go big on his own
Jungle rotate a bit late to the party, but now still maybe it's moved forward to kill out through rocks
It's a wild spray down to try to stop bomb not gonna connect flames
He's taken the long road back around towards over to the ramp. It's not a fun retake, but it is possible
There is a kid on Cobra. It's also not one of those retakes where vitality have deep positioning right?
You've got one hiding in the corner and then this heavy emphasis towards the ramp
Corporate Sarah is going to be worried about his flank the entire time because they lost vision of ticket
Insta kill on Messi
And now Tybel under pressure, but the wall bang right back when it opens the door for techno
Nine pence on the height to the top of the box goes to T flames he strikes trades through bombs planted and he needs that kit
He's got the smoke the crosses cover vitality's answer right now
Yeah, and that's robbed from the bottom the board with really big impact on this round
No consecutive CT round wins either Mongols suddenly back under pressure
And it's expensive round though we look at this even for vitality they come in with two pillows no off of them
This is the moment where you take a pause to think about the money
They paid their decision already Mongols come in
with most of a buy, you know, they force down, they get an up and play.
Two pistols on the board, they're sending it.
Oh, thought he would have the timing, but Blitz instead on a pedestal ready for the taking.
Good trade back by Cobra, hit the dink.
That Nade's gonna miss Flamesey because he doesn't fall back towards Top Mid instead,
just getting into the safety of underpass.
Cobra in such important spots he delivers.
He comes up huge.
Literally sends Lamesy back around the map.
Again, this time it'll take even longer for him to go and join them.
We get this pistol inching closer.
Desert Eagle, the limitation of this AD fence.
CTs though, they don't know what's happening exactly.
No vision on mid.
Pistols holding versus Messi.
Comes out wide with the Galil,
but the AWPer is going to give him cover.
There's the Palace B.
Drops sees this frantic move from MZeno.
Glock out to try to finish, and Zywu's here, ready to combine.
I know there's one in jungle.
All the top goes beyond CobraZera.
Chance to be the hero denied.
Zywu bests him.
And now Flamesey late to the party,
but still able to just work his way up through the connector.
Vitality go back to back.
And this time, it's economy bottomed out for the Mongols.
So honestly, just pure classic recoveries.
Highlighted the fact that the mongos were able to win, you know, a low by round
Versus vitality because it doesn't often after sorry it board me five
Here's another moment for vitality. They show us how deep their game is
Come back in any spot
Razor thin margins in a lot of these situations so I was impact has been undeniable as this game's gone on he keeps going
I think everybody wants his consistency. That's the thing he has. Every day he wakes up.
And his consistency has always been one of his best tools, but coming off of crack out
these new ratings he's finding, this new ceiling he's finding. I remember after Doc's
debut year I kind of jokingly ask you at the start of the next one what if he
gets better and we laughed it off and we've never actually had that
conversation about sidewind and yet lo and behold 2026 starts it red hot
you've got flanky right into the pistols but quick into the corner clear
all is good for vitality gonna take that lead back from the Mongols this T side
and that one off CT round win it's bottom to mouth it's cost them now
multiple rounds because of it. We've got guns coming in the next one presumably
but it's gonna still have limitations for the Mongols. This is vitality, putting the
economic pressure on this game.
The props in these last couple rounds started to climb up the scoreboard now.
Totally recovering as before of it's here on T side.
Sittin' high coming into the Fed against Map Point.
Vitality starting to impose their will onto the Mongols.
Final timeout from them.
Some credit due to the Mongols as this game went on, that T-side got back to the things that worked right. They showed us evolution.
One thing we haven't seen from these games is a lot of mistakes.
We haven't pointed out what a club called those really silly of them. Why wouldn't we think about that?
Everybody can bring in ideas every round and follow through to the huge.
Biggest issue is that round they lose to the Zairu Desert Eagle and 9th kill on the diffuser.
That's the one round that the Mongols should have.
Should have, instead.
Now we're going to get this ramp push from Emsinho trying to play with some interruption to the Vitality game.
What is on the other side of that wall? He doesn't know, but I promise you Emsinho, it's numbers.
Vitality bringing the fight to this bomb site. The 9-10 brings the fight to the ramp.
and sitting on a ramp and flash per se.
So it's going to go into Clear this.
He stopped shot to strike down one.
They saw the spot.
This actually has been a big 9-10 there.
This doesn't go a little wider.
Could also give an idea to Vitality as to what's up.
And like you said, weren't looking to flash it.
So the Clear feels like it's still coming in.
Flames the hard to it.
A4, oh, oh, what?
That's fine because that was a huge gouch and cover.
It felt like he had felled through back to the bomb site
for a second, returns over to the ramp
to try to continue his success.
but it's Roxx to bail them out with that kill from Palace,
still scouring the field.
It's Apex, low health, dives connector.
He's got it out.
The kill on Cobra's air rep,
returns back to the bomb site.
Now the ticket peak.
Jekyll is the saving grace.
As Apex, 10 HP, rocks on,
so he then torments the ticket.
Time game 11 all.
They do not doubt themselves.
And Xenia comes back to the ramp to go for the fight.
Nineteenth there, still at the corner.
One kill from him, aggro-drawn, two kills back.
You drowned out for Xenia?
Sorry, transfer as well.
Drops killed the reason?
Well, I'll give credit. Apex diving smoke there confidently with 10 HP.
But drop some of these palace larks, man. He has been tormenting.
Critical.
Zai Wuzak?
Oh, what could have been?
Still, Xenia would have jumped out. He's dangerous.
Here comes Kobrazera.
This full passive setup now for the T side, they're waiting for this mid control flash is coming.
What's as posted, eats the flash, dies on the fallback, over Zera, awkward.
And so the Vitality squad roar through middle, 9-10, needs to be the hero.
They'll be given a chance to die to the connector, but the A site already belongs to Vitality.
And now connector falls with it. It's a confidence setup from the Mongols,
but it's one that banks on them have in vision.
And those flashbangs take total control of the situation.
It was a long flashbang. You see Blitz was trying to get the kill, turn as late as possible.
But, this time, didn't make the flash, died.
And it was a great move for the long list.
That's the fight?
Yeah.
I mean, that's the...
So in any world, this goes wrong.
He finds the bomb in C spawn, working with an MP9, trying to give himself a chance with the flashbangs.
No, okay.
Woo!
With the way technology has been playing,
we'll leave the door open to the chance.
But for Vitality, they had a 3-1 situation.
They were still well-coordinated and, you know,
maybe if you go back to that situation,
Mongols say, let's just get Pogba's era backup connector.
Let's abandon Kat.
We have just revealed to Zairu that we've jumped out.
And so now there's an advantage to the T-Swar.
We're cutely aware of our positions,
but that's not the Mongols.
They play brave every round.
Unfortunately now we'll have to play without really good guns and they need to keep their chin up in this one
Put your brain face on in the face of worlds number one because you are working with MP9s
But you have positioned them on the right half of this map totally ignoring this B bomb site throughout the T side vitality
My running after the Mali
It's not gonna un it's not gonna dislodge anybody. They are still just right here on this angle waiting for the exit
Go Rezera in the corner now, turns his attention, gets that Apex frag.
Flames, he's looking to bail them out. He will find a double kill.
Robs once more out from Palace, but that SMG chews through.
It might not be enough. Tees are going to leave this.
They've got to go back at the bomb. It's a reset a little bit.
By Emsinho, he's stressed. He's wondering where to go next.
If they split this up one-to-one then, you can't assume they're going to win.
Emsinho starting to make a connection with Techno. Bomb is going deep.
This is playing for the victory from the Mongols.
It's a hard commitment from Techno. 4K's smoke on his belt.
teammate in the marketplace. Flashbang sales by.
Flames, he hits the ground. Bombs still trying to approach.
By clearing corners and he strikes, fights it.
Techno purposely positioned, draws the bow.
Back down, pushes us to overtime.
It's the A setup that ends up getting in the initial trades,
and it's playing to win, doubling up on B with the pre-move.
That seals the overtime.
This was an excellent nap of counter-strike for both teams.
So many solid rounds back and forth.
So many great ideas.
Just one thing, Mongols are starting to make a mistake. They come back with nothing.
A round of bravery.
Just the right amount of gamble.
Now, all units, it's going to miss it entirely.
Lamesy's covering this. I was going to pop up. He goes down.
And that's a big pick up, but the jungle peek goes deep.
Gets traded, Flamesee ready to just replace his captain.
And you've got them launched in, stuck within the jungle fight.
Blitz able to get to the corner, wins the duel to Flamesee.
Open space, bomb nowhere to be found.
It's so far away.
This round slows down.
It's so awkwardly far away that they might not
think now that it's going to be the A-side.
CT's going in mid to try to cut this off.
Messi's going to come up the ramp.
Robs has CT control.
This could create an interesting plan situation.
You've got the smoke down on Jungle, it can be planted open for Robs late rounds.
Mongols are gonna be re-taking from the wrong place entirely.
But it's still not a bomb flank. We still got Mezzi keeping an eye on this flank.
Ooh, Vitality hit the pause button and Mongols don't.
They hit fast forward on that flank.
But surely they have to walk now.
But what about the timing here? Because obviously Mezzi considers it, doesn't see anything.
And this bomb flank is not gonna be for Flanksy whatsoever.
Oh, they are worried about the right-
Or Robs, excuse me.
You don't see anything, so...
Messi's gonna be able to tuck in, but if Robs is still thinking about this B to A rotation,
and Messi goes down, now what the hell is Robs gonna do about this?
Blitz is found out in the open, and they can make this cross if Robs can't hold!
Oh, of course he died!
What a decision from Robs.
Two frags.
He finds himself at the top of the board in overtime.
Just pixel-perfect play out of Robs.
Sits on the cross and like Bezzi said in that free game interview, for them, him and Zywu, sometimes headshots come easy.
Mis-timing inter-connector that really opened the door for vitality to scramble all of the Mongols and they damn near recovered this, but it's an awkward retake.
It was awkward 30 seconds ago when they went for that T spawn flank. It was awkward when they arrived to the bomb site and had to deal with Robs.
9-10 did not need this fight.
9-10 had one Mollied in jungle with the bomb planted defaults
and they knew it.
They could have stuck that.
It would have been very difficult for Ross
to deal with having to wait that entire thing out.
He had to stand there and burn.
This time you won't get away with it.
Don't.
A couple of those shots that were close from Saewoo, this time it connects.
I'll give them a glimpse.
A man advantage for vitality is a dangerous thing to give away.
Drops will remain adamant on this angle.
They don't see an object inside the middle.
It could be in between the fire and the smoke as well, right?
Oh my goodness, yeah. I mean, 9-10 should be...
That would be such a crazy thing to do.
But now you're locking up, you know, this side of the map in favor of the T side.
especially with bad advantage, it's a battle of patience.
But it's not like Mongols just go off of that 9-10 play and stop.
They're also looking to push the issue here on ramp as well.
Usually this is that 9-10 and MCNEO combo.
Flashbang's gotta be dodged.
Awkward moment.
Another incision within this A site comes in an instant and rocks.
Of course, with this slow burn plate towards B, it's gonna catch 9-10's back turn.
The Mongols getting mopped up here in the second round of OT.
Kicks off with the Zywoo, kill towards middle,
and it's vitality the entire round long.
Sometimes perfect is the only word they do to this.
Honestly.
And the fact that Zywoo has tried that opening kill
so many times, this time he grabs it.
He almost knows he's going to eat that flash.
And he has one frame to see somebody and get the flick.
There he is delivering again.
Again, every round of the night set, the night sets, they know they could have won.
They've gone for one trade.
The money limits the buy this time for the Mongols, FAMAS, MP9 in the middle of it.
They looked for Zywoo.
Vitality really putting the heat on.
Oh, Zywoo could have taken his teammate's head off, but that waits for the second and
Zio down early.
Crazy composure.
Drops off the boost, still hits the shot.
They see two on A-Ramp push.
He's coming interesting avenue of attack.
It's going to take somebody to throw it down.
Right now, Vitality...
They cancel it down, but they know that it's mid.
They can slow it down if they're able to hold bottom con,
but 9-10 just kind of giving space over.
Here comes that crawl up from Apex.
They have the nades.
This is perfect.
9-10 pulls the trigger.
Two players emerge from smoke,
smoke and at least Cobra Zera can take off that catwalk support and if Cywoo's dead you've got yourself a better chance
Here's Roth moving back out of a but there's the bombs going this way still looking to get back around middle
I mean Cobra Zera will never suspect this is this the move?
Roth is gonna flank mid never in a million years would you anticipate this wrap around from Roth?
But he misses a shot. Oh
He misses his shots
Cobra shows his fangs
Another player's coming back
Cobra's got the head shot hanging on for further impact
And now you've got Messi a single kill into this 1v3 awkward amount of time not enough time to walk this the entire way
Has to make the right read on this move to him though. The only place he can go is B
They don't have the info on him. They're worried about some kind of work taking place
Messebo start to speed up now
Let's not second-guessing this the Mondos bravery has paid off in spades as this game has gone on
And so they fast rotate over there is no the spite for messy
He's got a flight off the Molly six seconds camp plan. They've simply won it with the pressure a single round
Decide over time
Be enough. I hate to look at a cerebral move like the one we saw it's an A play where he's the ramp learner
And he goes back to me huge. It's amazing move to me. He gets a scope is there a completely off guard
He gets dead, or you're giving over a zero on the credit because it gets his reaction, right?
And then a second.
The plan goes to perfection for Ross, but the plan isn't the execution.
A lifeline for the Mongols as they will take back to the attack.
CT side vitality back in the driver seat.
He's not going for the swing here and they're actually going back to an A plate without
even a midler taking place.
Oops.
You tie who was on purpose though.
There's actually a missed window smoke in the last round too we didn't talk about.
And here comes that A-Play.
Flames he keeps his head down but they've already got this fast extension to the sandwich. Clean kill man.
So fast. He has been sharp tonight.
So sharp.
Pobrezera is able to find his 20th frag of the game.
It's a chance to get back into this A site with the deep wall of smokes and then that follow-up jungle Molotov
But do the Mongols want to take the position with it?
Bomb is planted in the open of the site. You've got 9-10s coverage from the ramp and Cobra actually hasn't gone deep, right?
He's stuck alongside the bench.
The must-hit position for 9-10.
If he doesn't hit this then suddenly maybe Cobra's gonna have to pick up the mantle, but they've already gotten out into the bomb site.
He will slice A-packs off the retake, but they are going to cover that bomb with smoke over the top of box.
catch another and he's already opened up the smoke once with that frag now he's
gonna have to find the spray down coverage offered and he can't make it
happen. Vitality already with the CT round win. I mean very good read the
situation going right back to the top of deep vault to look for the guy covering
a nice attempt from the rookie here.
And this could be a curtain call for the Mongols on Mirage.
Everywhere you look, Vitality players and Christine Korm.
Zairu doing it as he does with two different guns.
Flainty, electric impact, wastes, not even a millisecond in those moments.
Mezzi's utility goes over top and the Mongols are trying to run this down.
Already getting past it, but you're not ready for Robs down and underpass.
Man, advantage here for Vitality, 9-10 for Covery under way.
Well-time peek at Mezzi.
It's a hard-fought battle, back and forth with this up in the perfect position.
And when Mezzi gets called on to help Zairu, eventually he could have his chance.
But right now, Hazem Zinio gone unnoticed.
For a chance to get Zairu off, I mean, are you gonna get Robs to peek?
He is ahead of the utility. Yeah, they're not ready.
MZeno just lets this round breathe.
And Mezzy's there to take it back.
9-10 dead to the shot in the back of the head.
Vitality survived the test.
And this semi-final has Vitality written all over it.
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They have gone toe to toe with the best team in the world and yes they might not have won
the map but damn did they end to save us.
They absolutely did Sam and when we talked about it pre-series that if Mongols were going
to have a hope and win the series they're going to have to strike first, they're going
to have to strike hard.
And Cobra's there and company certainly did a fantastic job throughout that first half.
Living up to the identity that Muckles has built for themselves.
Which is one that is ferocious, one that is fearless and decisive.
And they played a great game of Counter-Strike.
But unfortunately for them, it was Vitality in the end who showed no mercy.
They were able to come in here and despite this map being a, you know, vulnerability for Vitality throughout a lot of this year.
And despite the fact that Muckles did take this map off them in the group stages.
Vitality rose to the occasion and they matched Muckles' pacing.
They weren't able to come out on top.
This was a quality game of Counter-Strike.
The best game of Counter-Strike, I've seen all tournament long, you know.
Every round had a nerve, every round had something going on.
Every round came down to a 2v2, to a 3v3, to one player making one decision
that would change the course of the game, change the course of the round.
I said it coming into it yesterday, I think the Muggles played a good game of Counter-Strike
and they beat Furia.
Today they played significantly better.
The Muggles performance we saw right here was much, much better than anything they delivered
against Furia yesterday and it took Vitality and all the Vitality players to step it up.
We're talking about a side rule in top form.
We're talking about a Flamesee who found endless of impact,
both on the T side, but also on the CT side.
We're talking about a Raps as I said,
who during the group stage was sick,
bottom of the scoreboard, this time around,
top of the scoreboard, you know, helping out.
We're talking about a Vitality that actually played
up to the A game, and as Apex said yesterday,
if we play our A game, nobody can beat us.
The Muggles team, very, very close to author that statement.
Every time a fan was out, I don't like the Vitality.
It's boring, they win everything.
What's so cool about this is exactly what Prince just described.
The Mongols have completely founded Luthia.
They've lifted their ceilings there because when you know you're going up against this team,
you can arrive on the stage and you can go,
oh, we have to perform even better than what we did in the game.
That's exactly what they did.
The attitude that Mongols delivered in this game is what made ways for Mongols in the past.
It was what made, you know, people love this game, what captivated everyone.
and they will watch them play just as, you know, again,
super rapid pace in your face, confident counter strike
that they would work you.
They would test your limits.
They would push you to the absolute max
throughout the entire time of the half.
They never give you a moment to think.
They're just so good at packing up and trading you
and taking space and just being unorthodox
in some of their timings and just getting great performances
out of young players who seem to play well more experienced
than the years would indicate whenever you look at their age.
But Vitality is a team that will rise to the occasion.
And I will say, credit work credits too for Mongols for making this game come out of Vibetality,
making them have to work for it.
But this shows you how impressive Vibetality is, even when they're on the Mongols' whole map with Mirage,
a map that they've been a bit shaky on lately, they don't give a damn.
They go out there and they show you why they're the best team in the world,
and why they might be the greatest of all time.
And Zewu, I mean, are we even surprised at this point?
I mean, he's just been putting up career-defining numbers these last couple of years.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, fantastic show on once more, Mirage.
Again, you know, like it's been with Cyro throughout this time throughout the entirety of the tournament
Sorry that he's kind of warming up into it
The first couple of rounds is is alright and then slowly but surely he gets going and then he takes over the game at a certain point
Well done by Cyro. I just want to add one comment to what you described here when it comes to the Monkeys as well
Is that yes, they are playing hip-hop counter-strike. They are playing in your face counter-strike
Especially on the CT side very proactive trying to take away ramp control a lot of the time with MCMU etc
etc. But Mohan also referred to it during the cast. I think what impressed me the most in this game
is that Muckles added another layer. It was more than just aim counters right. It was more than just
in your face counters right. It was good rotations. It was good understanding. It was
forcing Vitality to make hard decisions in the middle of the round when they had a 3v3.
It wasn't just, you know, picking a bomb side and then hoping you'd win the duels. It was so
much more to this game and so much more to the Muckles performance. Alaya, I haven't seen them
showcase that often, but a layer that I would love to see more.
I love the way we're talking, because it sounds like Mongols took the snap.
Unfortunately, they didn't. They did go down to Vitality, but they made Vitality work.
We're taking it into OT.
And part of the reason why they didn't win, you know, was round 11.
Part of the reason why Vitality won was because they did a good job, you know,
doing what Vitality do. And I have been describing that throughout the entirety of the tournament.
They find different avenues to victory every single game.
At this point, you know, a very, very aggressive round coming in right here for the Mongols.
Again, I love the fact that they go down a man, they still find a way to even out the round, even out the scoreline.
And look at the timer right here, there's still 50 seconds to play.
Another kill goes to where the Mongols put their sensing a bit of a weakness.
Finding a player towards the B bombsite, and then no hesitation whatsoever, power, go for it.
Get the second kill as well here. A pick goes down.
So yeah, we're almost like describing this game as the Mongols were the better team.
I would say in the first half, and the best video of the game, they played as good as Vitality.
They matched him. Unfortunately, there were a couple of wins in this game, just that didn't go their way.
Absolutely. I mean, I think that's kind of what speaks to how great Vitality is.
You mentioned it, you've mentioned it now too. It's like we're talking about as if Mongols won this game
because of how well they played, but Vitality's just better and they still have no way to win the game.
That's just how good they are. And I think it was a situation where they just didn't lose their nerve.
Yeah, they kind of lost the first few rounds of the first, last rounds of the first half.
Yeah, they kind of stumbled a bit, but they were able to lock in and be able to find critical moments flames
Just had so much impact with entries you as you said came online
That's like a half in a big big way showing you his full range of talent, you know
Even guys that were maybe a little bit quiet. We're still finding moments. Mezzie even had a couple of big moments
I mean, that's just why this team so good. They're so complete you can get it from anywhere
Let's move into the second half. Yeah continue to talk about how great vitality is calling them
Yeah, cuz now we we stopped the glacing off of the mongers and now we look at the fact of the matter
is that Vitality won this game and they did that thanks to round 16 partly.
A Deagle coming in right here from Saibu, absolutely nasty shot, you're not supposed to do that.
And then we get into this very, very, very interesting retake attempt coming in for the Mongols.
Tough situation, stuck behind a smoke. Again, you have a 5v3, you think to yourself,
alright, this is going to be incredible jump for the Mongols to find their way back into this round.
Got some good shooting, Flamesee helping out a little bit, you know, a 3v3 all of a sudden
and then Messi has to come into play. We talked about it, Vitality.
It's not Flamesy, if it's not Raps then all of a sudden, well it's just Messi.
Putting up this stuff with the Tech 9, getting the kills and making sure they win this round.
Now unfortunately for the Mongols, as you can see in the scoreline as well,
this was supposed to be 10 to 6.
Vitality ended up winning the following, I think 5 of the following 6 rounds after this moment
and that's a big part of the reason as to why we have to stop the glazing of Mongols
and start focusing on Vitality because as you said, he did end up winning the map.
What I love most about that round is just showing you how crafty Vitality is.
You know, look, we know that they have a complete playbook and they have a good game plan.
But hey, when the goal gets tough and you got to find a way to make some magic happen
out of nowhere, around like that one, they knew that they had technons.
They knew that they didn't be able to fight that range.
And so they spoke EZT spawn, they get that technon up close and they really forced Mongols
to think about how are you going to approach this retake?
They keep Nezzy in dangerous territory with the technon by being able to play up close
on silos and then catch a guy off guard who's up close inside the site.
That's just making the most of what you got.
That's what this team just does all the time.
Let's just set the scene. Right now we have Vitality, the best team in the world, the best team of our generation, on the stage looking like they're firing on all cylinders.
We're going to Dust2, they've just taken the Mongols map pick. The Mongols have looked shaky on Dust2. It's where you can potentially punish them.
What does Mongols have to do here? What do they have to change to try and find a way to equalize the series out?
Well, I hate to say it, Sam, but they had to win Mirage in order to keep this series alive.
I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, and I don't want to downplay the fact that obviously there's always a chance when you're playing Counter-Strike
for the Mongols to make a big surprise here, but Dust2, as you said, it's been very strong for them.
For the people watching yesterday as well, they got off to a 9-2 lead versus Furia, and you think to yourself,
okay, where did that come from, Mongols? Very streaky, very decisive, aggressive on Dust2 as well,
And then they still end up losing the map because at the end of the day when it comes to the nitty gritty
When it comes to the foundation of paying dust to the monkeys is not a great team
Look, Vitality has only lost dust to twice in the last 25 games
They have played on it. They are so so dominant because they're just so well
They can hit you at the lab or high utility set pieces when they need to and I think this is one of the maps where their full roster
really shines because he who shows you how good he is as an X-Tree wifeler on
the T side would need be how great the anchoring is from Mezzi and Robs and
just you know they can run the full gambit on you they feel so comfortable
doing it and that's why they're perhaps one of the greatest teams we've ever
seen played us to. I just my heart is breaking because the emotional side of
me thinking about all of these fans and how badly they want this it doesn't feel
like it's gonna happen because of just how good what's happening. No it's gonna
It's going to be incredible tough for the Morgans now.
As I said, I think Mirage was the best chance they had.
Again, I'm not going to say they don't stand a chance on Dust2,
but there's nothing really that points in that direction.
It's hard for me to make a case as to why Vitality all of a sudden should not win Dust2.
It does sit. They won an awful lot in 20-25 and in 20-26.
I believe we're looking at an overall scoreline with Robson in line-up,
that is 35 wins out of 39 games on Dust2,
which easily is the best streak any team has ever had on a map.
I know as far as other time whether one nuke or is it 18 times or 20 times in a row or something like that
But over the course of more than one candidate here playing dust 2 at that level is absolutely insanity
Now one of the most underrated things about my telekin dust 2 is the double-op setup
They can always pull out under CT side rubs doesn't get enough credit for how good he is and anchoring that B bomb side
And how efficient he is with the AWP we saw yesterday from three as well fallen and no leather
Sure, they're great at it. I think the best double-op setup I've seen on any map from any team from any
I guess counter strike in the world right now is when rups and side route does it at the same time and does two seats
Yeah, I mean look we're obviously have been really building this up that this should be about Tali's map
And it really should be but I was gonna give you some win conditions some hopes for Mongols
It's this Cobra's era have been playing some really good counter strike
And he has a lot of responsibility on him because he used to be a B bombsite
He's now been moved to be born a roadtaker the playboy was our role. It's a similar position to what rocks does where he's second
Sometimes sends you with the second off from that same spot.
You wonder if Cobra's era has that in him or not.
But either way, he's playing really good.
What I want to see from models is just keep playing with that pace.
Keep playing with that confidence.
And this is a moment where 9-10 can cash in again.
He has had so much impact from models since he left.
He is the one who stepped up to the occasion when need be to give this team a star player
who could show some flair, put up some big numbers.
And this is an offers paradise map.
If they want to find a way to steal this one and keep the series going,
9-10 absolutely must show us the same awkward.
He showed us all tournament law and be able to go toe-toe with Zilu and the rest of my town
I agree with you and that's why they're not going to win. That's true. I'm afraid because I had to try
Yeah, that's the thing 19 is the second best performer from the mortgages when it comes specifically to dust 2 in his map pool as well
That's two is one of the few maps where he doesn't exceed expectations
That's one of the few maps where he doesn't get the best out of it
So in terms of that it will require something extraordinary from 9 10 it will require something extraordinary from Copa Sierra in general as of right now
Now, of course, it goes without saying.
To beat Vitality on any matter, it requires something extraordinary.
We're going to see if they can do the extraordinary.
That is what is on the way.
I'll be honest, you guys were talking a lot about the game.
I was very impressed with that very big board can.
What do you feel about that?
Melissa, a couple of monsters in there, Melissa, I'm sorry.
That's absolutely cheating.
They're building a bridge between the upper deck and the lower deck.
That is absolutely incredible.
You know what else is incredible is the horn who is still over there in the corner, not wavering a bit from the result of this they seem.
They broke their drum and they're still beating the other side of it. They want to try to give Mongols some hope, and man they're doing a great job.
It's quite fitting because this name is the most popular brand on Dust2. We're going to see if you can play it out.
Nice to play. I like that. Let's get into games, going in, and Ronda's happy.
Yes, thank you very much. Again, the analysis and launderers, it's feeling a little bleak coming out of pimp for this one.
Dust 2 is where this series could end.
I think at the moment it's one half of a broken drum per map in this series.
Yeah, I mean Dust 2 is tough. We saw them play against Vitality.
We saw the problems that are going to be on T side and I mean, hope is where it begins.
And we know that no matter what, Mongols never give that up.
So they're going to run at the problem. They're going to play very aggressive.
They're Dust 2's fun to watch no matter what happens.
I mean, that's just kind of the Mongols, isn't it? Always fun.
But Funneling gets you so far in the face of greatness, and that is what sits across the server from them this evening.
Team Vitality on the brink of yet another Grand Finals here in Cluj-Napoca.
Mongol CT side immediately through the doorway though, they're going to be looking for these fights nice and early on their terms.
But it is Zairu, who else could put a quick end to the MZ-Nyop.
9-10 though recovering it through the smoke spam headshot. You take that if you get lucky.
Let's gonna keep some info here through the door. Cobra's are right behind him. We saw how good he was
in this position. Spamming and looking for fights.
Showing a willingness to try to take these duels. Smokernade comes over top.
At the fact that he's not leaving. That's unnerving for vitality but they don't care. They run at the
problem too. It's that flashbang. They fall back for a second but there's actually no follow through
from Vitality and there's also only one A player right now.
Vitality of other plans, crazy to see Cobra's era immediately expand back out through mid.
Now he can join up towards A. No one defending what could be a bomb plan here, so still a big issue.
Especially with a late play from Robson, middle right, you know your catwalk flight's clear for now.
Beretta's just come flying through the doorway though.
And suddenly things do feel compromised. 9-10, nice long range head shot.
Trying to catch another one, Messi's got him back.
Is this a 2v4 in the post plant?
Messi's got to go massive, and it gets denied.
Oh, hey, well done.
Double kill up from the bottom of the ramp.
And we've got Mongols with first blood on map 2.
Yeah, just have got to love this kid, man.
I mean, the fact that he's disrespecting
space versus vitality, he's throwing deep ball grenades.
His team already got a trade back.
They don't necessarily need him to be really aggressive,
but he makes the call.
It's back out of mid.
Catch them going up, Pat.
What a shot that is out of 9-10.
What a pure away.
Here from techno 4k. He wasn't even the one supposed to get the kill. He's jumping out backwards, you know
He's the support player that he is
But we saw how good he was playing on mirage, he's looking to have a good series today
There's a couple moments of style within that pistol for the Mongols
And last time they played on Mongols on the pistol, CPSide, and then dot ecode
And they won three, they won four rounds in the first half
and hope this one before damage is going to reset the round. No problem. No problem at all.
But the fact is that they, you know, they pummeled Feria in their last game.
Oh my god.
It's that 2024 player of the year.
It's nice watching Romanian Counter-Strike grow.
and blocks on stage earlier as well and a flagship event back on Romanian soil with Fuzhnipo.
I think if we give them enough time on that, that beer snake is going to make it to the other side of the room.
Maybe they'll make it back to Bucharest.
Yeah, the specific issue with this is that it's like not even those CTs side are safe
right now, so at least they kick off with a pistol.
Let's see for the message there, two ends of the spectrum really in terms of their
personalities.
Nice guy, Mzinho.
There's been a lot of talk this week about you know, Mav's trying to become the village
or whatever or not.
We need to make that support.
Use this block.
I'm proud of them. I'm proud of my hands. Back to back years as well. I know it just
gets getting better. It's hand brought it up. It's winter losing. You see sometimes you
have fair weather fans that they cheer for the team when they're winning, but they're
not really there when they're losing. Ironically, the moments that you need them the most, but
with the Mongols, they're there for every single round.
We always talk about how important that is, right?
Even from, I think, within the server,
outside of the server, you've just always
got to be able to ride the highs and also ride out the lows.
I think that's something that's really fun about the Mongols
game plan and their strategy is, like we say,
sometimes you play aggressive and you can't stop it.
And sometimes they play aggressive,
they kind of trip over their own two feet.
But they don't give up on it.
They never have that identity crisis.
to get that energy out of them after we just put up a series of CS2, that's a good volume
about the kind of team that's just running.
I think it's a second reality that we all end up facing in Counter Strike, but none of this is forever.
Whether you're a player, whether you're a server, whether you're in the crowd tonight, none of this is forever, so soak it up, enjoy the moment.
We've got Counter-Strike on the menu tomorrow, we've got still this semi-final at hand.
Yeah, we're here for the memories. Let's make it as strong as possible.
Although I say that at the same time, what, 20 years strong now?
Yeah, Counter-Strike's not going anywhere.
I don't know, yeah.
Since I started playing this game,
I mean, we never believed how big that it could get.
Yeah, year over year, it just keeps on growing.
We have new regions joining us,
new talents coming out of thin air constantly,
and it feels like somehow at an accelerated rate.
Yeah.
You might get as I move and don, you know,
We feel the last to get one each year.
I mean, my favorite story still when it comes to counter-trick
is when we start waving flags that most of us have never seen before,
until it's time for the game to go live.
Right.
Think about how different the world is on the other side of the planet,
and yet still sitting in those smoky land cafes.
Mara.
This kid's got it.
who on the guitar hold this capital of the world.
Always a good time to get cozy in the internet cafe.
And that's where the culture started.
We're talking about even back in Toronto, where I'm from.
And as much as this game can be played online
and played and enjoyed with friends on a server
over the internet, as we know, is so much better online.
Oh, oh, you're not the only one getting this right.
To you, boys.
Cheers, boys.
Cheers, it's been a pleasure.
It's a dream to do this job, to share these moments with you guys.
What are you going to do about it, Zai Wu?
Down to 5 HP.
You know he's fired up, right?
Fueled to try to find a way to just crack down the Mongols early.
Because we know what can happen. We know that you can get stomped out.
Risky position here for CobraZare gets tagged actually.
He's going to be careful with his presence right now. He's going to send some bolts back.
Play this headshot angle as much as he can.
And the God Echo the last time they played on the second round.
No one better than Vitality on Dust2.
Call of a timing, Techno, good support.
On the brink of a third kill here, we do start to get that little bit of a tunnels test,
but it's tough for Apex to get out with the scout.
He was waiting for the window challenge instead.
Yeah, M4 is going to make quick work of that.
Techno 4K, it's in the name.
Slays them and goes one better.
Off of the pause, it's vitality to get put on ice and that force by finds barely anything to be proud of.
Yeah, they're here to build back better into this match.
They've got a lot to prove. I think they can only free themselves up by playing well on CT this is where it starts.
You've got to believe that they can get comfortable if they could chose to show this yesterday. That was just to improvements.
It's weird to use the phrase lack of depth on a map like this that's, you know,
overall one of the more simple maps in the pool, but long will show us that they
think there is room to grow.
No challenge, I tried to cover his error this round, so that space gets taken up by
vitality like a vacuum. Taking control of the situation, getting closer to the A-tests.
9-10 leaning back with an M-port, so it's not even going to boil down to missed
off shots.
Oh, not like this.
And Mezzi, running a Desert Eagle headshot,
frag grenades sail in,
when you get that quick peek out from CT spawn
for a second, but still,
it feels like the Mongols are a little bit worried
about losing another player here.
And the fact that Robs is still watching.
And force-crabbed, that's a big pick up.
Oh, Mezzi got two.
That's MC Neo down,
that's now just this retake up from CT.
The Mongols, they thought they had it.
Oh!
They're kidding!
Oh, Eagles!
Headshots across the board!
But he didn't back on a missed off shot, that was utility damage found, that was all the
bongos ready to go.
And for once, that part of the crowd is silenced.
You just have to be in awe.
As he said today that he wanted to put highlights on the match page, well there is his.
Desert Eagle kills in a round that we thought vitality could be written off within. Oh, man
This is crazy night and comes back into this with an off as a fire starter economically for vitality's T side
Nightsence push this gets dangerous. We need to be able to get him out of here and stuck for a second goes back off lands down
But Flameseek survives the damage. They're looking to hold on this nice name. Let's just finish it off
And now still those two players extending off of the cap plate. Do they want to go once to all?
These kills!
Yeah, and CobraZera, you know, doesn't stand there if you go spam.
That's fair.
That's fair. Actually, he got away with a lot of those
frags in yesterday's match doing the same thing.
And then we saw, you know, the change-up.
Kacerado once given a chance, shoots back on CobraZera.
So maybe that is one of those more predictable moments from CobraZera.
One of those tough lessons you have to learn when you start to play versus the best.
And we'll see if it mounts to anything for them another chance to learn.
They want to protect us off, they want to use it,
They pilot themselves through a victory right here.
Flash, Rob strives the bounce on it.
He's going to drop.
This is going to really speed him up, I think, over Kat.
This doesn't waste the second MP9 on the rock up.
We get the T's crouching.
So they pop up and find him unprepared.
Now this time it is 9-10 top.
And he'll strike Apex off the play.
And Zairu looking for the return as we get this climb up from Xbox pretty quickly,
pretty swiftly, moving behind that smoke.
to quickly swap over the AK. We know his depth and ability.
We've got this into a 2v3.
That smoke's not going to last forever.
I don't think their plan is...
You know, they've got to push forward eventually.
All it's off comes out. Offward getting closer.
Dodging the flashes. 19-5 hits. Smoke fake.
There's one! And it's MCO to play back coverage perfectly.
Gamambo's right back on track.
Right back on track. 9-10. The risky off-investment.
where you know that the other team probably is going to have one, you might get one for free, they go for it, they send it in.
They come up and kill the right away.
I love that 9-10 action, it's a lot of practice though.
But that advantage, that advantage.
Sometimes it's hard to talk about the 1-9-9.
It's hard to talk about the 1-9-9.
It's hard to talk about the 1-9-9.
Really dang it.
It's over.
The Mongols continue to evolve.
They know another guy's coming.
Kobra's there, picks up a second off.
This has been a fun evolution for the Mongols,
seeing him kind of have that parallel to Senzu, who used
to also pick up this role.
It's like nobody else from the rest of the Mongols
wanted to kind of step into it.
So that way, I thought I'd want to work this through the scratch.
They just make sure no one goes to the lower push.
They take the Connells control over.
Here he comes.
There's a beast on the other side of this door.
He packs it and walks into it.
He's a good job of just keeping his head down long enough.
Can't get counter pipped, even because I did want to take that look again, right?
Should I hunt him down?
I mean, the fact that you can't be sure if you agree with utility when Cobra's there is there is huge patience.
Oh, not.
Oh, no.
Senior crawls out into that angle.
Leslie was just sitting there, waiting.
Trying to be an honest guy.
Doesn't waste any ammo.
So 5v3 looked like a comfortable spot for the model.
CT side to pull further ahead from Vitality.
That one off, 5-deagle kill round.
All they got to be proud of, so far, 5 rounds into the game.
It's going to take up the responsibility of that, and if he can somehow figure out where
exactly M.E.
M.E.
M.E.
M.E.
Offer gets pressured in 9-10.
We get that utility coming out of the cap lock.
Eventually those rules are going to go down, but this door fold is going to be critical
to M.E.
M.E.
M.E.
Oh, what a reaction.
Big adjustment out of Robs to just slap shot onto the head shot of M.E.
M.E.
M.E.
M.E.
M.E.
M.E.
M.E.
M.E.
As it pops back up with it, we get this desperate attempt from Pobuzera to retake from Long.
You've already caught Rocks, walking it in.
Vitality squeals away, back around, and don't lose a player beyond that 3v5.
I was just picturing Rocks inside of Palace, back of Mirage.
Doing the exact same thing for Vitality.
A personary for this team and his musicians always fight solo.
And he reacts to this sooo beautifully.
I really thought that Xinho had that guess.
Trying to come join Long's here again, you know, inch by inch doing it correctly.
He could have asked for a better advantage into that fight. He made the right push.
And he knows, I mean, he didn't do anything wrong.
And it's that headshot that Nezzi was talking about, the ones that come easy to a guy like Robbs.
Let's sign him to carry over the ledge with him up.
As Claire's been walking up from CPS 1,
he had something like 20 health with the LVCQ rule.
Best player in the world?
He's going to take it back to the drums.
Seth really doing everything he can.
This is Seth, by the way, our producer of BPL.
We got a quick round of applause for Zed.
Yeah, I'm gonna get you back there.
Ha ha ha ha!
Alright guys, I'm gonna say I think you're gonna have a problem with this fight.
It's not a damage, way more than you should.
Way more than you should, if you ask me.
That goes from like a level of comfort and vitality,
thought they would have guaranteed to a certain fit of sketchiness.
Apex is still happy to go on the chase.
Sometimes Apex becomes the guy to bail you out in these moments.
Individually looking sharp, but I see it.
Now he's got Flakes here on the scene to really help him out,
so as Apex gets maybe a little over-sell-less, that's fine.
Flakes is here to make sure it's all fine for Vitality.
Let me look at the next round, and it's a bit expensive, right?
We've got the driver's score.
And then the jury here.
And each player will be given a little back shot.
That's the bongos' mantra at the moment, right?
And this guy, he sends you seed.
But seriously, they've double-op set ups into losing all their money into this buy.
They've got two F4s, two Fommaces.
This could get very grim for the bongos.
Superly heavily on the CT side.
If they can't make some magic happen right now.
The thing is, when you see bongos, they switch over.
They don't play the defaults as much. They go very quick, very aggressive. Vitality can slow it down.
They know how to get the most out of every T-Round on Dust2.
Provers their role. Never give up on the aggression.
Well, the timing is perfect.
The Cat's play attempts to find the head turn to Flancy. That's an easy trade.
Oh, and Syrups gonna flip their wings around the edge of Cat's box. His cross-pads!
Look at this situation unfolding!
What's going on now?
Suddenly they start to consider it, right?
If they walk back into this, Robs does not see anything.
It's not all suspicious of the right thing.
He knows something's up. They both understand.
Something's astray.
And so Robs will get the better of it.
Open up the B site.
And when the models were able to hold you back from catwalk,
it felt like maybe they could do enough.
But another answer in the middle of the round.
First, Zywu off the side of the cat kill.
And then this Robs lured through the smoke.
Like the head of the demo played straight up.
Like he knew for a fact that the tunnels push was coming.
was coming. Took what looked like a big risk in a moment like that. Now they
established inside of the...
Oh, excuse me!
I'm not even sure he could have done that in one bullet. That was...
Oh, my God.
Is that what it's like to play against Robson?
I think so, yeah.
You know, what's crazier is if you watch the demo and you take off back,
it's even worse.
Right, it's just absolutely ridiculous.
When he's on form, and what's also amazing is how he bounced back.
We look back at Mirage in that first half,
it was just the bare minimum for him,
who again, he's just been kind of recovering all tournament.
But when we got to the sec, he actually went from the lot of Fragger in the first half
to the top frag on the server by the end of overtime.
Pure impact out of his alerts.
I'd really like to see him roll back.
Instructions were clear.
Not so clear for the Mongols because they're doing things right,
but they're not hanging on to their advantageous spots.
That's a nice end of us, and this gets a little bit too quick.
It's like moving them, because Epo is spinning that that way.
Apex is making a mark.
Welcome to the cap play, and nobody to stop them.
Vitality just once more finding all of this space,
space, we're no longer getting that kind of CobraZera pressure through the mid-doors.
Why not? Because there's no guns to work with here for the Mongols.
The walk-ups are our killer. I mean, when they see that there's no one pushing back on Caprich,
they just walk the first third of it.
Here's that eagle. Looks good for Ebzinho, maybe another, though.
He's given a little too many chances there for Vitality's liking, but...
they hang on to the situation with both hands.
CobraZera nullified, thanks to the utility just sent back into his spawn.
Rops has got this angle from the car all should be good
They've kind of got these two modes that they go into it's like when they establish on it
This is what long as are given them the most trouble getting actually a kill taken over lower control
Even when vitality are looking for it. That's great. It's it's it's a solid start
The fact is as soon as vitality push back and get you to give up on that pressure and they get up cat
It's mongols don't have they're not hopping off of cat bricks
They're not having a player ready to swing off a flash
They basically have they give that up and they really rely on their mid-b rotation to come back just in time
But if they're not gonna throw a set up smoke if they're not gonna throw a scaling flash and they are just gonna walk
You have nothing to react to you just have to be there already
And that part of the game plan has been golden for vitality
On camera
We've got three rounds on the board for the Mongols, that's the pistol, the conversion,
and round number four, that wonky, desert eagle situation.
I mean, I love that he's being set up for moves like he is taking first contact going for open
Still the wrong key. It's not easy this job.
Christ coming in for 9-10 AWP again.
It's going to be on the microscope on this match, and I mean, I love that he's being set up for moves.
Like, he is taking first contact, going for opening kills, and starting off with cat control.
It's an immediate remedy to the problems that we've been seeing.
Now this position set to dodge flashes. They take over all of this space on a default. They'll drop one in
But because there's no one in top mid, there's no reason to take over lower
This is gonna be a full B take and now you just have two CTs tied up on cat
This is material that you can't use to defend. Techno, you've got to come up huge.
Tough spot, just dropped smoke, gets the car added to him and he can't really rack up too much damage
Maybe CobraZera can, goes back into the repeat, dropped, empty-handed.
This is the B-split that Mongols have been trying to figure out on tournament.
Like, when Mongols go full tunnels, they go a little bit faster than this,
they aren't getting utility in place, they obviously catch a timing,
they've actually fully conditioned the Mongols here.
They got them focusing on the problem of the past, which is Kat.
For a guy like Techno who kind of wanted to be the hero of the day with his playback on Mirage,
You know, sometimes you spam that smoke, you get three kills.
Sometimes you spam that smoke and with the utility pressure, bam, Zywu on the hunt.
Okay, get away with that.
Good.
You missed that shot, you deserve to die, at least in this round.
And so the parting gifts offered to Vitality as their sniper goes down.
So could the rifles exiting middle.
I'm seeing how it's gonna fight for this, but Robs makes sure to find the headshot.
time Rob's dies to a bomb, but still two stand tall for the Mongols, a 6-3 lead at Vitality.
And this is where a minute where you know, Apex almost can't get enough credit as a caller,
because here's like the stylistic round that's perfect for the game we just saw.
He doesn't even really have to do with how good his players are.
This is the moment where Mongols set up to deal with a problem, Vitality know it,
don't have to see it, and then fall to avoid it entirely.
Silver linings, the gun rounds keep on rolling through for the bongos.
It's a slim silver lining but it's something.
I'm a fan of using what hasn't been seen, absolutely, and also I'm likely to try that
same play again.
This time it's actually going out towards Long.
My question is how much telegraph are they going to give to Long?
Like we've seen them walk up cat.
It's obviously being watched from Zeno.
It's huge risk, not spotted.
Apex, he jumps up, he has to double jump, looking down, and then scrolls over.
Oh, he pulls.
9-10 doesn't hesitate, tries to go for the tough shot, and well, you're going to let him get away with his head.
It really hurts the structure at this time.
But it's a quick reposition at least here from 9-10.
He's gonna try to throw it towards the doors instead, and he does flash his counterpart.
And Xeno comes up with a kill in the middle of that.
Still worried about the repeat from the offer, and then simultaneous off of the cap play comes Apex.
Out, and with a chance for a second, 9-10's just trying both sides to hold this,
and he's gotten away with it for now.
He turns it, and Apex dead, and Zywu shows hesitation.
Mid play, and that's where 9-10's ended.
Zywu almost letting Apex die in vain.
That was very close, absolutely, but they had a third piece to work with.
So it's a streak at two rounds now. Six in a row here for vitality.
Difficult trade.
And Rock's got that kill walking into B. No way.
I mean, like, we haven't even really seen him B this aggressive.
Like normally as an upper player, you're spending like almost every round waiting for the full attack to come with you
and then you might walk out and otherwise just holding pushes.
You're not really just walking out less out of upper tunnels by yourself than you are on Mirage out of Palace.
Try to go back into the capway, but it costs you after life if your 9-10 Flamesy is so sharp.
Instant couple headshots. You've got the challenge. Still trying to step forward.
Oh my god! They could do no... wrong!
Vitality. Dual after, dual headshot after headshot.
And that's the kind of nature of the counter strike that the Volkles were able to tap into.
Back on Mirage. But Flingsy hunts them down.
And right now Vitality haven't looked in the rear view mirror once.
From the moment that those Deegan Desert Eagles find their headshots.
There's been no space for the Mongols to catch their breath. Seriously.
That's just fantastic.
Rob's having an incredible series right now. I love the audacious beats. I love the brazen.
I like the plays. I don't know what's gotten into him today, but he's going for everything by himself.
Another one. 5v4 earned from Vitality. This double-op setup.
Robs throws it to the ground, you've got money to play with here in the last round of the half, so options open.
Something played against Dunlun Dust 2 is the same score line.
Vitality just flexing their edge.
That's why the Analyst Desk was dead on. It really required Mirage to extend this series into another potential upset for the Mongols on one of the other two maps, but...
Mirage winds up being a nail biter. You miss that opportunity and now you're dealing with the reality that is vitality.
The world-class counter-strike. They don't fall off individually in between the maps. They don't look uncomfortable.
They might even get better.
That's the scary thought, right?
For Mongols and for every other team in attendance, in this event and every event for the rest of the year,
Vitality's goals just continue to grow.
Truly is a joy to watch because again like what mongo's did the furia showed us like a level of CT side thus to that it feels like
Could work versus anybody and here's here's the one team that actually has the answers
So double pit they're only down one player
See if the cap pressure kind of alleviates this though techno starts to cross back over yeah, and that's one player down
But it could also stir up up as the distraction.
If only Blitz had more than 16 health,
because even if he catches them off guard, somebody's,
ah!
Dude.
Well, that's a big even hit.
Oh, my goodness.
Oh, my goodness.
What a half vitality.
9-3 T-side.
What was once a 3-1 lead until those eight rounds go straight.
You know, what's most impressive,
they come into Mongols arena in this game.
They kind of fight them exactly where Mongols want
to take every duel.
You want to be aggressive inside of mid?
We'll kill three guys on the left side of the doors.
You want to come at the lower tunnels?
We'll fight you there.
Yep.
I mean, they avoided them a single round that half.
Mongols with a pistol, a conversion,
and only one more round after that.
And everyone's still having fun over here.
And for a team like the Mongols genuinely,
They're still new, they're one of our newest stories.
You can't stomach a loss.
They've already overachieved in the last year.
They've already shown so much
that you're excited to see what they do next.
Won't be the first team to lose to Vitality.
Won't be the last team either.
But Apex wants to start to hear
that transition in the BT arena.
Vitality are looking to turn Cluj-Napoca
into yet another location
that they can add to the list of trophy hoists.
Yeah, and with nine out of the top ten teams in attendance.
It's a big event.
And the Mongols, obviously coming in at number 11,
which shows how thick this field really was.
There was no guarantee a team like Vitality would make it.
They survived it all, it looks like.
Including that first best of three versus the Mongols, right?
Dragornate finds MC, you know, you've got a strong stack.
B-bombsite here for Vitality feels like they can yet again do no wrong. It is headshots across the board a
Single attempt here from Techno 4k's got an ace already in the game, but not gonna happen this time
Vitality making quick work of the Mongols challenge here on map 2. Yeah, it's the B-place. They want to make it happen
They start off with this pistol. This is gonna be around where you've got, you know, the least bearings
There's not a lot of utility to defend
It can be raw, come down to one guy getting a malty, but by talent they drop a nade in
there, they have the rotations in there, they're ready for that.
Normally by Mongols, like the hammer their favorite option, on this round they'll actually
take it a lot slower.
It looks like they're assuming vitality are full of confidence, they're going to be swinging
everything.
That's not the case.
Vitality still showing respect.
It got a standard default.
Vanilla positions, a slight lead towards B.
And it looks like no decisions yet made for the Mongols.
Take a look at the catwalk.
And if you knew, it's going to be Zywoo on the ramp trying to hold this one back.
As far as numbers go, Mongols aren't in the worst position here.
Take a highlight from Zywoo to really mow down everybody on his own.
And he takes a dink to the head.
Tech 9's closing the gap.
Mongols have found the right avenue of attack.
Zywoo trying to get away from the threat though, survives.
Very slick moves from Zywoo into the MP9.
Unable to get that third one.
Here comes the retake out of CT spawn already.
And it is with lightning that Vitality will make this happen. Just no hesitation since Dust2 has begun
No reservations in the way they played this game
They leave nothing on the table
So I will somehow manage it to get to a position where you can get two kills out of it. So elusive
Yeah, but he's got teammates in this one
They finish the job
Another question just becomes how many style points could vitality end this game with?
That is their 10th consecutive round win in a row.
Respect where it's due. Mongols brought fight to the table back on Mirage. Mongols brought fight to the playoffs.
They've proved that CobraZera is here to stay.
His comfort back in that quarter-finals clearly seen versus Worlds number one short. Players go absent.
And add them to the long list of vitality victims on the big stage.
And like you mentioned, one of the fresher rosters mow down here from Robson to the tunnels.
Gonna give Mongols another uphill battle to have to handle.
Mid players scorned down and that bomb known to be towards the tunnels exit.
It's got a little bit of space to work around the smoke.
9-10 playing through the clips now, but vitality are just putting the squeeze on this second semifinal.
Nine map and match points here in clue. Yeah, and this could be curtains
So well coordinated there for every single player rotations communication clearly is on point
What else could we expect
So it was nine and six right now at the end of the game
Just humbly waiting until he's needed
Opening off shot, and Zairu takes damage, so if he is needed late, we'll flash this.
God comes in.
James, he's not able to hold them back.
Mongols have enough to work with.
Just get a little respect.
Show us some evolution in the T side before we've got to wait a little while to get them back in the server.
that can't count against them is they don't really fake. You know, you see him in a moment like this,
you know they might fully commit and so Vitality will do the same. They're here to cut him off on the way out.
They've already cleared out tunnels. Don't see any rotations. Right. So long. It's take too long inside of long.
This hesitation now for the Mongols, they're gonna double back into apex.
Oh, he's caught them on the door. Did he see apex? No, man. I don't know if he did.
I felt like he was right there to spot him. Either way, we still get this rotation for the other two Vitality players.
Saewoo's left a little out there, missing that shot towards the long plat.
He's going to set them on fire. They still come through with four kills though.
It's a Robs triple. And so, playing within Robs' shadow is Saewoo on the second map.
19 frags for Robs on the rotation. Tecto, who could have killed Apex on that flank,
is looking like the last player to fall.
The Mongols had high hopes to bring a challenge to vitality, hoping still to get revenge
for this earlier game in Cluj, for still in Austin,
Techno dead, the last defulter, and it is greatness
that will stand on the stage in Grand Finals tomorrow.
Tech Girl said it, the best of our generation.
And there is no signs of slowing down,
no signs of stomping, no choke in the dictionary
that is team vitality.
And we don't-
This is Counter-Strike.
And we don't know if they'll get better.
somehow looking towards year two, keeping their ambitions as high as ever. It seems it possible.
Teams dream of putting on a six months like they did at the beginning of 2025.
Well, now they've got their sights set on breaking every single record and they're off to the right start.
Back to back years of domination. That's the big question and it's a massive goal
to put on that pedestal but surely after 2025 these five players feel invincible
but after dispatching of a challenger like the mongos who most certainly
deserve a round of applause it's nice to see them back in the top 10 but top 10
isn't number one
Vitality have done it once again another grand final for this legendary team
and a legendary player as well to do it, the 11th Dust2 win in a row.
Nice streak to have there, but what makes the Vitality's Dust2 so special, mate?
When you play together, in JLW, you play good together,
and nothing can stop us, as we can see.
When we know what we're going to do on the game,
no one can stop us when we play like this.
And you know what's crazy? You say no one can stop us.
Well, even your own team can't stop you by being sick.
Robs is having a rough time and you can still go forward with it.
What is it like when you guys aren't going through this,
when someone has maybe a bit of a drop down?
Is it just about picking each other up?
I mean, we know the capacity of this team,
like we can do everything we want.
Even though, like you said, Robs will add someiveness
before the tournament.
We know, like, all of us, we can do a great job.
And that's what we are doing right now in the division.
You really are. You're in a good position right now.
And you find yourself going into a grand final now against Paravision in that.
What do you make of this team and the way they play?
It's like, is that dangerous? I mean, it's amazing, the final again.
And it's always dangerous to play against this kind of team.
Thank you guys for this.
That's... we need to play care.
Is that dangerous, there? Is that young player that's angry to win?
So we need to play care of that and just play our game.
That's all we can do.
And for you individually, your form, your all-ping again a bit more,
you're playing a bit more aggressive at the same time.
Are you just enjoying, flexing a little bit, playing in a different way?
Of course, I mean, that's the goal of this game, just to enjoy it.
That's how it will be for the world.
So we need to enjoy this time to play on behalf of the fans,
in front of the concert.
That's the main goal for us.
And anything you want to say to this glorious crowd before we go into tomorrow.
Thank you for this, guys.
It's been amazing to play for the world.
We can hear your follow-up sets, so keep it up and see you tomorrow, guys.
Thank you very much, Zahrae.
Zahrae, back to you.
I love what we've just seen, but what I also love is that just before Zahrae finished,
a bunch of jents ran to the stage and put beers in front of us.
I don't know who's responsible for this, but damn, I love Pooche.
You're welcome, Sam.
Nasa, you're taking credit for Barmanian's work, Mom.
No, I'm taking credit for telling Seth to get his beers because I saw that the casters had beers and I was just, I don't want to do it.
Fair enough. The crowd is having their grits up. I'm going to jerk my bit.
Can you tell us a little bit about how Montalegy swatted?
I think we all saw it, to be completely honest. We saw a world-class team do what they do best, you know, play Counter-Strike at an incredible high level.
Want to give it to the Monkles for giving us one of the best maps we've had all tournament on Mirage.
Unfortunately, we kind of prefaced us as well, heading into us two.
nothing point in the direction that Marbles was going to be able to be competitive and I guess
they were the first four, five rounds and then that was pretty much it. So that's off to Valtellini,
best team in the world right now, but out of doubt. I personally think if you want to open
that conversation, if you want to you know spend your Saturday night wondering whether I'm right
or wrong, I think there's no doubt at this point. Valtellini is the best team to ever grace
in the history of Counter-Strike. I think as far as had a case for himself with having you know
14 months of being very very good, but we're talking about a team that is about to win the
a third-ranked lane, we're talking about a team that's about to add a new TOA to the
name in roughly 24 hours, we're talking about the best team to exist.
You just literally worked pair of visionals.
Is that a chance and a vision?
Yeah, well, that's my prediction.
I mean, it's a prediction that any other time I would be calling you out for and saying
you're insane, but this is my time, and I'm kind of meeting with you.
I don't see them getting stopped in the next six games.
Much like this is fantastic fear that we were given.
Vitality's game is just crisp.
It just goes down smooth.
You love every moment of it.
You watch it and you want more.
I mean, what can I tell you?
I mean, this is a game where models really did
try to take it to them.
I have to respect models for at least trying to be disruptive,
trying to go for aggressive plays,
trying to get Vitality's face, not let them, you know,
just do their standard run of the mill plays
without some disturbance.
But the problem is that Vitality is just so calculated.
Their team play is just so good.
You're never going to catch them not checking the stone on turn.
You're never going to catch them not hearing a corner or not, you know,
watching out for a flank. There was that one round that was like stone mitt where
they're all rushing along. You see Blitz and Pitt hiding.
He'd think maybe Blitz is going to be able to come up here. Nope.
Flint just wanted to pop some of the diamonds over with. I mean,
they were able to just, you know, absorb all the pressure that models were
levying their way, take it into their own and give it right back in spades
and just play beautiful textbook counter strike. And I guess when the man on your
screen is not sick anymore, Sam, as well, he contributes in a big
fashion. Rob said a great series tonight, both on Mirage, even more so on Dust2.
There's the scary thing about Vitality and that's why it may get a bit boring to
continue to talk about it, but the victory comes from all avenues. Whether it is Messi
showing up with a deagle in round three doing some nasty stuff. Saivou taking over on Mirage
together with Flamesee and now all of a sudden Rob's playing at his best again after no longer
being sick. It's a joy to watch, Vitality. Obviously Mongols, they're not done in the
We'll see them in a third place playoff tomorrow, but they are finished with their road to the grand finals.
Let's find out how they're feeling.
Thank you very much, Sam. We've got Mozzini here with me here from the Mongols.
And they are giving you that applause. It's always tough for you guys, right?
Going up against Vitality, looking at your mirage.
Sometimes you can work in your favour. This time, go to overtime.
time there was a lot of guessing and gambles and crazy moments. How difficult was it to
get a read on that game and understand what was happening?
About Mirage, I think we had that map, but we lost in the first round and they just, like,
And I executed, and that's how the guy instantly shot me and they won the round.
That's how I passed the map, like, after that I got nervous on myself, so yeah, and yeah,
that's about the nearest game.
On that Mirage map, we were so confident, and yeah, like, we just lost in the first
round, they lost the map so yeah.
You're taking a lot of that responsibility on yourself but it is a team game I will remind
you my friend. Looking at Dust2 for example, it's always been a map that Vitality can win
over you guys. What do you feel like is the struggles that you guys have, the problems
on Dust2 as a map for the Monde?
I think they are the world's best lurker and cyborg, like this guy, we cannot cross the B side without getting tagged, so that's one of the reasons.
It can be very hard. Now tomorrow you still got one more game to play, you'll be facing off against Maus. For you going into a third place decider, how important is it for the Mongols to win that game,
game to get more experience more confidence with Cobra. Yeah we're getting
stage experience with Cobra so it's an important game also about the VRS we
needed that so yeah we try our best. You confident you can get the win?
Miles. Yeah I think so.
The crowds agree with you as well and these guys they've been supporting you
beating their drums having so much fun anything you want to say to them quickly
Thank you for coming and cheering for us, so tomorrow we'll be third this either or not.
I'm in the game, so yeah, come tomorrow.
Come tomorrow, cheer for the Mongols, cheer for Great Counter-Strike, that's what we want to do.
Zinnia, thank you very much. Sam, we'll head back to you on the desk.
We've spoken a lot about how Vitality will probably dominate this event, let's talk a little bit about how we think Mongols' mouse is going to go down tomorrow. Do you think Mongols has the ability to take them down?
Yeah, without that. I think the way Mongols played on Murass is definitely a team that mouse is going to struggle with. I think it goes without saying that mouse are still the favorites, but then it comes into the fact that, you know, how motivated are mouse to play for that third place desire.
I think for the Mongols, when you look at the DIS situation,
whenever the points they can gain from being third,
I think it's a mega important game.
So they're going to come in with everything they got tomorrow.
But on paper, Miles are the favorites.
In terms of setting up the scene,
I think MCM used pretty spot on some 50-50.
Yeah, it's pretty hard to argue against a mouse team who
has just been so consistent for so long up in the top five
rankings and having the same roster the entire time
and doing really well to remain an elite team.
But you had to respect Mongols and how dangerous
they can look whenever they're on point.
You saw it on Mirage in this series where they are sharp.
They are confident.
They're going to get in your face.
They're going to unsettle you.
And look, we know that mouse has their discrepancies, right?
We know that their T-sides lack across a lot of their map pool.
We know that this Mongols team under Mara and Blitz
are always going to be pretty well fleshed out
on how they want to approach the game.
So I certainly think that that is a series that is winnable.
I definitely think it's a three-mapper series, in my opinion.
And we'll just have to see how it shakes out.
It should be a good time.
It's going to be the curtain raises tomorrow.
Of course if you're coming to the arena this will warm you up a little bit if you're watching from home as well
That third place decided miles up against Mongols and then force the big one the grand final
best of five
Vitality up against power vision who would have thought we would be saying that name well
Not a lot of people to be completely honest, but I just got to give it to paravision
We obviously winning the first event of the year at last bounty
Taking down spirit taking down Falcons admittedly where they're standing
taking down Furious, well I believe in the Brussels, right?
They took down all the big dogs.
Now they go up against Vitality in a best-of-five Grand Final.
All I'm saying is if they somehow, some way,
find a way to win that Grand Final tomorrow,
then we have to start to have a conversation, I guess,
about Paravision being more than just, you know,
a once-in-a-while upset potential team,
you know, just the top eight team.
I think Paravision so far has done a great job,
but it's hard to see how in a best-of-five.
Yeah, I mean, I think Paravision is on a mission
to prove that they're not someone hit wonder.
that last one was in the food.
I think so.
I mean, I think, yeah, you can put the asterisk on, oh, yeah, with Spear with Magix just becoming
an IGL and roster changes, and oh, yeah, Falcons had, you know, a stand situation.
But they didn't have a stand at this time.
Paravision won that game.
Paravision goes against Mouse Sports, the semi-final sports, take care of them, and now they're
another grand final.
So all of a sudden, there's some stink by there.
And here's the craziest part.
I mean, I don't know this for certain, but I don't think I've ever seen a team, and
like Paravision, make a grand final of a tier one tournament, beating elite teams, doing
it.
players are really in the top-ranked pool. I think their highest-ranked players
barely above a 1 rating. It's just the team play, it's just finding ways to
drag teams into the mud with them and find a way to win. And so you have to
respect the craftiness of the squad to be able to secure themselves a grand
final spot. We'll need to see how this play is out tomorrow. Thank you to everyone
for watching and also there is still people hanging around her in the crowd.
Kluge has been incredible today. The games have been bangers. We're gonna see
Tomorrow but for now I'm gonna drink with the boys. Have a good evening. Cheers boys. Yes
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